Screenwriter Zhou Meisen: The TV series “Breakout” explores the complexity of the characters more deeply than “The Name of the People”
“Breakout” script has been revised in 1000 places and has undergone 2 remakes
Recently, the TV series “Breakthrough” is being broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV. The screenwriter Zhou Mason felt like a big rock fell in his heart. This work, which he referred to as the “Tour of the River on Qingming Festival”, shows the changes of an 80-year-old state-owned enterprise within 80 days to portray the relationship between government and enterprise, the ecology of the enterprise, and to shape the leadership of state-owned enterprises and ordinary grassroots cadres. A variety of complex and three-dimensional characters.
However, as Zhou Meisen’s relay work after “The Name of the People”, many viewers still use “The Name of the People” as the benchmark. For example, some viewers believe that its slowly laid-out plot is far inferior to the opening side of “The Name of the People”. The renminbi on the wall is shocking. However, Zhou Meisen has repeatedly emphasized that “Breakthrough” is not the second part of “In the Name of the People”. Although its story still takes place in Jingzhou and the Dakang Secretary still exists, it is only for narrative coherence. “Breakthrough” is a work of stability, but the characters are more ups and downs. “After “The Name of the People” was broadcast, I did have a certain amount of pressure, but I can’t just make a copy of it to make money and fool the audience because of this pressure. This is something I will never do.”
The novel “Breakthrough” became Zhou Meisen’s most wanted work
Zhou Meisen, born in the 1950s, grew up in a poor family. When he was in school, he always went to work-study, part-time study, smashed stones in a quarry, and worked as a small worker in a construction team. At the age of eleven, he began to work in a local mining machinery factory until he was assigned to work in the Hanqiao Coal Mine of the Xuzhou Mining Bureau after graduating from high school in 1974. He once experienced more than ten years of state-owned enterprise changes.
Most of the people and things in “Breakout” were personally experienced by Zhou Meisen. One year, a mine disaster occurred in a coal mine. Seven or eight workers died in this disaster, and their children became orphans. These children are 15 years old and 17 years old. The organization arranges for someone to raise them and send them to the workshop to learn their skills. These children were all friends of Zhou Meisen at the time. Later, some of them became model workers and some became leaders of state-owned enterprises. In the ups and downs of the world, nowadays, some people are arrested and imprisoned because of management mistakes, and some people commit suicide by jumping off the building for some reason…
“These things are very distressing. Where did our state-owned enterprisers come from? Where did they go? Where did the people’s property go?” The complex emotions that have been entrenched in Zhou Meisen’s heart for nearly 30 years have made the novel “Breakthrough” become his The work I want to write most in my life.
Until 2017, “In the Name of the People” shocked the film and television industry like a thunder, and Yaoke Media invited Zhou Meisen to film and television “Breakthrough”. Everything seems right. However, compared with “The Name of the People”, which is almost “over and over”, the gradual tightening of the review process has allowed “Breakthrough” to undergo repeated polishing for nearly five years. The script has been revised in more than 1,000 places, has undergone two remakes, and finally adjusted from 60 episodes to 45 episodes. “The main creative team has taken on huge investment risks. Jin Dong, Yan Ni, Huang Zhizhong and other outstanding actors are also very professional and wonderful. So this drama is now aired, and I am really very pleased.”
The characters in Breakthrough are more complicated than Gao Yuliang and Qi Tongwei
In many external interviews, Zhou Meisen has always emphasized that he is not an industry screenwriter, but a writer, with strong creative characteristics of a writer-dislikes typology, dislikes industrial production, prefers to create completely different but interesting Characters, and through the characters, run through a series of stories.
This is the case in “The Name of the People”. Hou Liangping, who adheres to the axioms, the righteous and honest secretary of Dakang; Qi Tongwei, who has transformed from an anti-drug hero to a corrupt official, from being an example of a teacher to a fascinating Gao Yuliang… The description and ingenious analysis of the good and evil and gray areas of human nature are multi-dimensional. , Multi-layered complexity, a little bit of the fog of corruption in Handong Province is pulled away.
The same is true of “Breakthrough”, only to break away from the suspenseful promotion of the case and focus the story on the changes of state-owned enterprises in the past 80 years. Zhou Meisen digs deeper into the complexity of the characters. In the story, Qi Ben’an, Lin Manjiang, and Shi Hongxing are all orphans of the mining disaster and were adopted together under the arrangement of the organization. After growing up, the “three brothers and sisters” each became the leaders of state-owned enterprises, but the changes in the past 30 years have allowed them to show different values, so that in the ups and downs of the world, each went to a different destination.
According to Zhou Meisen, the complexity of Qi Ben’an, Lin Manjiang and Shi Hongxing is completely different from that of Gao Yuliang and Qi Tongwei. The intimacy that is better than brother and sister, but you have to fight to death in the enterprise, “The depth of kind humanity, the multi-faceted complexity of the role, and the tragic and tragic ending of the three people after the complete separation of the three people are absolutely not in “The Name of the People”. “Zhou Meisen revealed.
Beijing News reporter Zhang He
Article source: Beijing News
Author: Zhang He | Responsible Editor: Zhang Zhuhua