Interview ｜ ＂Meng Hua Lu＂ caused controversy, and the director responded exclusively to behind-the-scenes creation.

Special feature of 1905 film network Meng Hua Lu started from 8.3 points, but it rose to 8.8 points in half a day, and now it gradually falls back to 8.6 points. This scoring trend is very rare in recent years.

From the time it was never shown, it began to go on the hot search, and directly "lived" on it during the broadcast period, and then many viewers who had lambasted the advance order begged to spend money to watch it in advance … …

Undoubtedly, Meng Hua Lu has become the hottest national drama at present.What comes with it is all kinds of doubts — — Is Meng Hua Lu really worth 8.8 points? Is it excessive marketing?

However, it is difficult to define success simply by marketing for the scores of over 440,000 people. The "Sweeping Black Storm", which exploded at the end of last year, has only 350,000 people so far.

From the director to the audience, Yang Yang, the director of Meng Hua Lu, followed the audience to chase the drama, some uneasy and some surprises.

In an exclusive interview with 1905 Film Network, she admitted that on the day of grading, "the first reaction was actually quite surprising. I am grateful to the audience for their love of our drama and have not failed so many people’s efforts."

Prior to this, Yang Yang was worried that he was not fully prepared. But now all kinds of feedback have already dispelled her worries. When we tried to dig deep into the behind-the-scenes story, we found all her worries or worries, and we made all the preparations when we clearly had the preparatory period long ago.

Nowadays, Meng Hua Lu is controversial, just starting from the creator himself. What kind of story is hidden behind it?

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"Only female directors knows women best".Shortly after the broadcast, this sentence was mentioned in relevant comments. Looking back at the real society, the topic of "girls help girls" has never stopped. Dream of China really shows the audience that few women support each other.

This perception is also true for director Yang Yang, who first got the script.

In the past few years, she filmed the drama series "The Night" with the theme of men’s ancient costumes. In "Meritorious Work", she manipulated the Huang Xuhua unit of "The Father of China’s Nuclear Submarine", and for many years, she has been spinning around in the works with the theme of men, waiting for the works with the theme of women, "making a work for ourselves (women)".

The drama "Dream of China" is based on Guan Hanqing’s zaju "Zhao Paner’s Romance to Save the Wind and Dust" in the Yuan Dynasty, but the content in the original is more concentrated in the previous episodes, while the later stories are more open and more in line with contemporary thinking.

"What we are telling is the epitome of a little person. She didn’t come up alone and cut through thorns. Her growth also experienced hardships. She was not strong from the beginning, and her mentality was sharpened more and more tough. No one can grow only by himself. Getting help is an opportunity and luck, and encountering setbacks is also a challenge and opportunity. "

Even in the process of creation, Yang Yang did not regard it as a costume drama. Instead, he saw in it that "there are many traces of modern girls who have worked hard from small cities or villages to big cities."

Therefore, Zhao Paner’s personality is very modern. "I believe that there were such women in ancient times, but today they are everywhere."

Looking back at the drama market in recent years, the heroine’s works or cool dramas have become the standard. Even at the beginning of Meng Hua Lu, many people predicted in the comment area whether it would be similar works, but in fact, director Yang Yang and the screenwriter team did not take this as the starting point of creation, but tried to highlight the "realism" as much as possible.

In addition to the psychological growth of the characters, even the atmosphere of life in the play, the team has always maintained this pursuit of truth.

But the more real it is, the more it becomes a challenge. Jumping out of the dramatic rhythm, the audience is naturally prone to substitution, which has great requirements for the scriptwriter’s line ability and the director’s scene scheduling.

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It is a challenge, but for Yang Yang, it is a summary of her past shooting experience.

In the director’s resume, she filmed Hand in Hand and Obstetrics and Gynecology of Love, which is an urban drama dominated by women’s emotions. Although Dream of China is the theme of ancient costumes, in Yang Yang’s view, the emotions between ancient and modern women are common. "The biggest difference from the past is to express modern life with ancient costumes."

At present, many dramas with costume themes focus on the palace background, or the protagonist frequently opens his golden finger. Dream of China Record puts more pen and ink in the fireworks of the city, and Yang Yang strives to be vivid while maintaining the sense of reality.

"First, this is an ancient background. I still hope to express it implicitly. I can leave the picture blank in the form of long shots and visions, so that the audience can have more room for imagination; Second, through some framing, such as the lively streets and the scenes of people coming and going, then the lines spoken by everyone are also vernacular and popular, and the audience is easier to understand. "

Although there is no lack of female expression, the male branch line, mainly played by Gu Qianfan, also has a strong sense of existence in Dream of China. This combination of two gender perspectives is not difficult for creators.

Just in the past few years, director Yang Yang has been deeply involved in the creation of male drama series, from which he has accumulated a lot of expressions and experiences. "Therefore, the expressions in some plots have also been well integrated and helped."

In addition, shooting and setting scenery is also another big problem in front of the creative staff.

After the series was broadcast, the audience pulled out the location of Alum House, which frequently appeared in many costume dramas recently. Indeed, at present, most film and television works are filmed in Hengdian Film and Television City.

In the process, the crews should be busy stealing the camera and thinking about how to broadcast it synchronously, so as to weaken the audience’s impression of the studio and let Yang Yang shout in Weibo, "Hengdian is the most headache to grab the scenery and the similarity is too high."

To this end, the landscape department transformed an ancient street for this purpose, and even visited the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, striving to restore the truth. And under the limit, it gave Yang Yang a lot of inspiration for generate’s moment.

In the county government where Gu Qian Fan vented his anger on Zhao Paner — — It has been photographed by countless works, but it is about to be the first time for the two to rub out the romantic atmosphere. During the preparation, Yang Yang paced back and forth, trying to find new possibilities. Suddenly, she found a group of screens on the scene, and suddenly she had a flash of light, "looking at each other through the yarn"!

At that time, there was a light rain on the scene, and Yang Yang quickly asked the staff to bring a yellow umbrella immediately. So, there was this "holding an umbrella in the rain" drama that made most viewers overhead.

Perhaps, this is also a gift from God to the crew.

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The potential inspired by pressure, the director spared no effort to emphasize, "The choice of these actors is really beautiful, and I want to show this beauty to the fullest, hoping to express it more artistically."

It is true that after the series was launched, there was almost no dispute about the fitness between the actors and the costumes in the hearts of the audience.

Yang Yang vaguely remembers that when they met for the first time and said goodbye, they gave each other a hug. "At that moment, I had a belief that this actor was right, and my sixth sense told me to love, protect and respect her well."

In the communication that lasted for several hours, Yang Yang felt that her inner desire for this role was much higher than many people’s cognition of this actor. "It may be said that the actor is here to act, but Yifei is not. She is going to live a life during this time."

Liu Yifei also issued his own confession, hoping to understand the characters’ hearts and souls.

It is true that through Dream of China, we can see that in the play, Liu Yifei is Zhao Paner and Chen Xiao is just Gu Qian Fan. "Naturally, the two characters have a sense of cp. The sense of cp is not a performance. It is to integrate into the role and understand his state of mind, so that there will be emotions and the audience will have empathy. "

In the drama series, Zhao Paner had a scene of being lynched. In the opposite play, Chen Xiao blurted out, "Don’t you know that you are my death hole?" The whole effect was directly filled, and Yang Yang was very moved by the calmness of the actor in the role body.

In fact, before the filming, she didn’t know each other or even met each other. However, Yang Yang explored his possibilities as much as possible through the lens, especially his eyes. "There are very complicated emotional changes, melancholy, dark, cold, naive and gentle."

If we say that Liu Yifei and Chen Xiao’s costumes have long been well-known, then their appearance is a surprise.

In the impression of most audiences, "sexy" and "glamorous" are Ada’s key words, but in "Dream of China", she plays the role of San Niang, which gives the audience more impressions of simplicity and fierceness.

In the process of casting, Yang Yang paid more attention to Ada’s eyes. "Her eyes are very talkative and can show San Niang’s kindness and chivalry, and I think she is very talented in comedy." Although San Niang speaks rashly, a person who is incisive is more in line with Ada’s side as a sister of Hunan.

Halfway through the series, director Yang Yang kept some suspense, but he couldn’t help revealing that there would be an episode reversal in the future. "In an instant, all the gains once turned into nothing."

So, what is real?People’s feelings and trust are real, and people’s beliefs about themselves are real.

Money, fame and fortune, these external things will disappear or easily pass away. "What is left behind and tempered in the end is our original heart."