The TV series “The World of Two People” has officially ended recently. In an interview recently, director Meng Ji said that after three years of creation of the play, he finally decided not to shoot “Shanghai in the Pictorial”, but to film the steaming alleys under the high-rise buildings in Shanghai. Fireworks in the world.
Based on Zhou Yifei’s novel “Shanghai for Two People”, the play tells the story of a generation of “Shanghai drifters” represented by Xu Dongyang and Li Wenjia who went to Shanghai to pursue their dreams. The director Meng Ji has directed many classic TV series such as “Spring Bright Pig Bajie” and “38th Line”. This time, he will focus on Shanghai and put the main creator’s understanding of the city in the play, “Shanghai, backed by the Yangtze River and facing the Pacific Ocean, has been leading the way in China for a long time. The character of openness, innovation and tolerance also contributes to the whole The young people of the world bring beauty and yearning.”
Director Meng Ji is a native of Beijing. Before that, his impression of Shanghai was mostly in film and television works. When he was in college, he watched the film “Old Things in the South” made by Wu Yigong, an artist who had worked in Shanghai for a long time. “The director filmed the life of the old Beijingers’full of human fireworks, but not half of fame and fortune’.” Later, Meng Ji has come into contact with many outstanding Shanghai-style works, “A Family in Shanghai,” “The Girl Who Sells Flatbread”, “Under the Bridge”, etc., which are still fresh in the memory.” Meng Ji has always had a dream in his heart-shooting a reflection Realistic works on the lives of ordinary people in Shanghai.
Meng Ji said that it is difficult to shoot scenes that dilute the narrative and live life, and take greater risks: “The premise of desalination is that the splendor is returned to the ordinary, it is the stormy sea under the ordinary, not the boiled water.”
The play was starred by Guo Jingfei and Wang Luodan. They liked the script and completed this artistic creation very carefully. In the end, with the stories of Xu Dongyang and Li Wenjia as the axis, “The World of Two People” presents Shanghai’s urban changes and people’s livelihood trajectory in the past two decades. The play includes pyrotechnic lanes, Shikumen, plane trees, and old houses. , There are also the laughter of getting along with the neighbors, the tears of the separation of relatives, the vicissitudes of the road of struggle, and the aftertaste of the waves of love. (Reporter Liang Yanfen)
Source: New Express
Article source: New Express
Author: Liang Yanfen | Editor in Charge: Yu Ying