On September 25, the table tennis competition of the 14th National Games entered the final period. On this day, the first “National Ball” era drama “Golden Gold” directed by Zhang Qian, director of “Bright Sword”, landed on the top CCTV-8 golden stage, which can be described as the right time and extraordinary significance.
The TV series “Win the Gold” reproduces the pioneering legend of China’s “national football”. It is starred by a group of young actors such as Zheng Kai, Zhang Doudou, Xia Xing, Bai En, Wang Lu, and many others such as Wu Gang, Cheng Yu, and Wu Liansheng. The old opera bones joined in love. The play traces the history of ping-pong and pays tribute to sports heroes. It shows the precious qualities of the older generation of ping-pong people who still adhere to the dream of being a strong country in sports with flesh-and-blood, full-image character stories, and boost domestic sports dramas to new heights. This “Golden Gold” peak, which is shining on CCTV screens, has the following three particularly obvious labels.
The first label: always focus on the topic of competitive sports
“Winning the Gold” was set in the 1950s and 1960s, taking the Rong Guotuan championship in 1959 as the starting point, telling the story of Liu Erga (later renamed Liu Zhengguang) who loves to play table tennis. From the county to the province and finally being selected for the national team, he went through ups and downs but never gave up his dream of ping-pong, from “playing wild ball” to going abroad to win glory for the country. Cultivate a new generation of young athletes.
In order to achieve the greatest degree of “fidelity” in table tennis competition, “Golden Medal” invited Xu Shaofa, a veteran figure in the Chinese table tennis industry and former head coach of the national table tennis team, as the general technical guidance consultant, and invited the World Table Tennis Championship champion Wang Jun as technical guidance. The permanent crew also coordinated the three-month intensive training of the main actors in Beijing Sport University, and organized experts to discuss scripts for many times. Xia Xing, one of the heroines in the play, played by Xu Qian, has practiced table tennis for ten years. He is a national first-class athlete and won the national youth table tennis competition. She said in the interview: “I feel like I’m not acting at all. A good performance is not acting.” At the same time, there are more than 30 players who have won the table tennis world championship in the show to cheer, Xu Yinsheng, Li Furong, Ma Lin, etc. The famous “national player” appeared in friendship. The domestic gold directors, first-class creative team, high-quality scripts, and professional sports directors have laid a quality guarantee for the “fineness” of “Golden Gold”.
Taking a look at it, you will find that in recent years, many sports-themed film and television creations in China have been “buying cubits and returning beads”, and their drama often obscures the competitive and cruel nature of competitive sports. Sports has become the “beauty background board” of love idol dramas. . In contrast, the drama “Capture the Gold” is solid and rigorous in structure. It abandons sports drama routines such as preaching and youth idols. The struggle history of professional players unfolds. The main story focuses on the table tennis arena, which truly and concretely depicts the ecological characteristics of competitive sports, so that the audience can deeply understand the history and professional knowledge of table tennis through watching the drama.
Dramatic conflict revolves around the arena, and sports has become a narrative engine, not a combustion aid. In the play, even the protagonist’s progress in love is closely related and closely linked to the competitive story. Although other secondary lines such as friendship and family are advancing simultaneously, they have always been the foil for the main line. Such a detailed and proper arrangement creates an interesting contrast. Although “sky full of stars” does not compete with “a round of bright moon”, it also shines with its own light. It can be seen that “Winning the Gold” has matured and mastered the only way to tell the story of competitive sports.
The second label: focus on highlighting the spirit of Chinese sports
The dazzling jewel of the anti-Japanese “phenomenal” film and television drama “The Bright Sword” is in front, and “Golden Gold” directed by the same director has attracted much attention. Like “Bright Sword”, it not only realizes the “same director”, but also embodies the “same spirit”-the brave wins when we meet on a narrow road. To some extent, this happens to be the core connotation of Chinese sportsmanship. In the play, Du Jianhua worried that Liu Zhengguang would be asked to retire. He suggested that he talk to the coach and express his love for table tennis. Liu Zhengguang blurted out a golden sentence, “It goes without saying that you love table tennis. It’s best to practice hard and win. The proof.” This is quite similar to the sentence Li Yunlong said in “Bright Sword”, “Bright Sword, it shows momentum, courage, and the spirit of a man.” It has the same effect.
Zhang Qian, the director of this work, has devoted himself to eight years and has the ambition to create the “Sports Version of “Bright Sword”. He invites table tennis celebrities, world champions, gold medalists, young actors, etc. to participate, combining table tennis skills and the current best Advanced shooting methods have done a lot of useful exploration in lens processing, character performance, etc., and established a monument to the Chinese sports spirit in the form of film and television dramas. The transformation from “Liu Erga” to “Liu Zhengguang” is also an excellent “metaphor” for this theme to a certain extent. After entering the provincial Miaozi training team, the wild boy who is good at “playing wild ball” and created his own “chopping ball” has doubts about coach Xu’s basic skills training. , Ye Luzi lost to the regular play. Since then, he has become convinced of the formal scientific training. He replaced the racket with dumbbells and practiced hard swinging movements. After experiencing various stages of competition, changes in the times and spiritual growth, Liu Erga finally became a glory for the country.” Liu Zhengguang”.
The brave and fearless character of the protagonist and the super-burning inspirational plot make the protagonist Liu Zhengguang’s character image vaguely “Li Yunlong in the table tennis world“. “Dare to fight and not afraid to lose” Liu Zhengguang, after every loss, can get stronger and stronger and successfully counterattack. “If the speed is slow, increase the speed, if the technique is poor, then practice more. If there is a gap, you will be desperately chasing. Worrying about not solving the problem is the only way.” Liu Zhengguang said when he encountered setbacks, simple but powerful and simple. But it is full of philosophy, isn’t it the best interpretation and vivid interpretation of the Chinese sports spirit?
“The ball will not fall, never give up, fight to the end, and win glory for the country!” It is this kind of sportsmanship and the existence of many “Liu Zhengguang” that make table tennis the “national ball” loved by the Chinese people. The portrayal of this spirit also gave the TV series “Win the Gold” an extraordinary spiritual character.
The third label: meticulously portray sports figures
For Chinese people, table tennis is not only a sport with a broad and deep mass base, it is also a “time ruler” that records the changes of the times and inherits the memories of the parents.
In 1959, at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships held in Dortmund, West Germany, Rong Guotuan passed the test and won the first world championship for China in a world sports competition; in 1961, the 26th World Table Tennis Championships was held in Beijing. Table tennis has become a widely loved sport in China. In 1965, in the 28th World Table Tennis Championships, Chinese athletes won five championships, four runners-ups and seven thirds in seven events in the 28th World Table Tennis Championships. Celebrating; in 1971, China and the United States started “ping-pong diplomacy”; in 1981, the 36th World Table Tennis Championships was held. The Chinese team won 7 championships, creating an unprecedented record of 55 years in the world table tennis that one country has won all championships…
The TV series “Golden Gold” used the “scale” of video data to express to the audience the fact that Glory always accompanies the Chinese table tennis team.
In addition to showing exciting competitions in the arena, “Winning the Gold” also delicately portrays the relationship between characters and times, spirit and heritage, passion and inspiration. It controls from the dual perspectives of life and art, and carries out a group portrait of Chinese table tennis players. The collective portrayal fully shows the destiny and character of many characters: Wang Binghui, deputy director of the Yong’an Sports Committee, who rushed to discover and recruit table tennis talents, and Xu Zhipeng, the stern and warm provincial men’s team coach, and Liu Zhengguang ran in the rain to steal eggs. Du Jianhua and Sun Shaojie have formed a friendship, Xu Qian, a women’s singles athlete who has worked hard to win the world championship, Sun Haoning, a new generation of table tennis player who loves table tennis since childhood, international table tennis friends Tiana, Ben Gesen, and don’t ask for gold in order to win gold. Mother Xu and Ma Cuicui who paid back and paid silently…
These exquisite and vivid portrayals vividly show the ups and downs of the personal fortunes of these distinctive table tennis players in the great age, and demonstrate the precious qualities of the older generation of table tennis players who still adhere to the dream of a strong sports nation in a difficult environment. The brilliance and glory of Chinese table tennis has never been the recurrence of individual heroism, but tacit cooperation, collective unity, and persistence for decades.
In more than 100 days, we will usher in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the sportsmanship will shine and shine continuously over the land of China. I hope that every one of us in China can realize this spirit from the hit drama “Winning the Gold” from the Yangtze Eighth drama, unite and cooperate, fight tenaciously, and run one stick after another in this “relay run” of the Chinese nation’s rejuvenation. Go ahead and run a good result for the next generation.