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Over the past ten years, film and television workers have promoted the main theme, advocated diversity, and adhered to the people-centered creative concept. On the one hand, it uses the Chinese spirit to build the soul and lead the cultural construction; on the other hand, it keeps trying refreshing expression methods, so that the audience can feel the vitality and creativity of advanced socialist culture, revolutionary culture, and excellent traditional Chinese culture in film and television appreciation. and shocking. Phenomenal masterpieces such as the movies "Changjin Lake" and "Sniper" and the TV series "The Awakening Age" and "The World" have emerged. Through artistic empathy, spiritual resonance has been aroused, and cultural inheritance and innovation have been stimulated and mutually achieved. In this process, the aesthetic character of boldness, vigorousness, abundance and profoundness has gradually formed, which not only enhances cultural self-confidence, but also enhances the spiritual strength of the people.
Keeping the Righteousness: The Chinese Spirit Ignites the Passion for Struggle
The Chinese spirit is the cultural gene of the Chinese nation that has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. It is the sum of the national character, national psychology and national consciousness formed in the historical accumulation. The soul of rejuvenating the country and the soul of strengthening the country are displayed.
New era film and television dramas promote the spiritual pedigree of the Chinese Communists with the great spirit of party building as the source. The TV series "The Age of Awakening" portrays a group of revolutionary pioneers who are youthful from a historical cross-sectional perspective. The "Poetry" in the movie "My Fathers and Me" focuses on the first generation of astronauts in New China and pays tribute to the spirit of "two bombs and one satellite". The movie "Changjin Lake" and the TV series "Crossing the Yalu River" show the iron will of volunteer soldiers who regard death as home for the safety and dignity of the country and the people and conquer the limit. There is also the movie "Win the Championship" that ignites the women's volleyball spirit of supremacy of the motherland, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle, and never give up. The movie "The Climber" engraves the sense of honor and mission of the Chinese mountaineering team climbing for the country. "Long", "Chinese Doctor", "Heroes of Fire", TV series "Bottom Line" and "Police Honor" reflect the valuable qualities of dedication, perseverance, and bravery in all walks of life.
The people include not only the people's heroes in the revolutionary history, but also the ordinary people in the peaceful years. Although they are ordinary, they radiate light. As shown in the movie "Ordinary Heroes", in order to rescue the injured boy in time, from the air force to the traffic police, market merchants, from the captain, flight attendant to medical staff, everyone sacrificed for the child.
New era film and television dramas gather the spirit of the times. Against the background of China's rise, the movie "Partners in China" outlines the pioneering dreams of private enterprises. The "Duck Prophet" unit of the movie "My Fathers and Me" revolves around the birth of China's first TV commercial, praising the innovative spirit of "dare to be the first". The TV series "Dajiang Dahe" and "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" look back at the pioneering spirit of the pioneers of reform and opening up. The movie "Get Home at One Point" uses key words such as returning home to start a business and e-commerce poverty alleviation to reproduce the great changes in the countryside driven by the spirit of the times. The movie "Miracle Stupid Kid" shows not only the miracle of Shenzhen and technological progress, but also the never-say-die fighting spirit of entrepreneurs.
New era film and television dramas also reflect the Chinese nation's generosity, benevolence, tenacity and unyielding national temperament. The movie "Send You A Little Red Flower" uses anti-cancer stories to convey a persevering and open-minded outlook on life. The movie "Life Events", TV series "The World" and "Installation" reproduce the calmness and optimism of ordinary people in the face of hardships. These works reflect real life with the spirit of realism and romanticism, responding to Bazin's famous judgment on film in "What is Film": film is a veritable art of love and poetry, containing a unique "love, Tender and sentimental".
Innovation: the "two-way rush" between creative ideas and audience expectations
In the new era, film and television dramas convey the core values of socialism by leading the mainstream market, which has contributed to the rise of mainstream film and television dramas. Mainstream film and television dramas integrate typified and commercialized creative methods, are good at grasping new themes, docking new entrances, making the works connect with the aesthetic orientation of the contemporary public, and achieving a "two-way rush" between works and audiences.
New era film and television dramas focus on new themes and new groups, and go deep into anti-epidemic, rescue, peacekeeping and other fields. For example, the first TV series "Light Chaser" with the theme of "private public welfare rescue" filled the gap in the theme of public welfare rescue in film and television works, and portrayed a group of volunteers with distinctive personalities. The movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" revealed the social problems of expensive medicine and expensive medical treatment, attracted the public's attention to life and health, and inspired all sectors of society to discuss related topics about China's medical system reform. These works are fast-paced and have different styles, directly hitting the hearts of the audience.
The performance techniques of film and television dramas in the new era are more down-to-earth, younger, and more enjoyable. The TV series "Meritorious Service" uses 8 short stories to pay tribute to 8 winners of the "Medal of the Republic", which is more in line with the fragmented communication context of the micro era, and the cumulative broadcast volume exceeds 100 million times. Each chapter of the play has its own way, surprises and accidents can be seen everywhere, such as "respect and trust are also fighting power" in the first unit "Neng Wen Neng Wu Li Yannian" are refreshing. The movies "Changjin Lake", "Sniper" and "Above the Cliff" fully draw on commercial elements such as action movies, youth movies, and spy movies, as well as the advantages of the film industry, and have achieved excellent narrative effects. The movie "Send You A Little Red Flower" borrows immersive game experiences, dreams, and parallel time and space to add poetry and romance to the heaviness of the anti-cancer story. The movie "Above the Sky" does not follow the traditional narrative mode of heroism, but shows the phantoms that appear in front of the eyes of the Red Army soldiers: poking apart the corpses of their comrades underwater to find themselves who have been sacrificed; It rained blood. These illusions allow the audience to better understand the meaning of life and the value of sacrifice.
Breakthrough: Discovering Effective Ways to Improve Mental Strength
The creation of film and television dramas should not only allow the audience to experience the vitality and creativity of Chinese culture during the appreciation process, enhance their sense of security and happiness, but also allow them to gain the spiritual power to improve and enhance their self-confidence and pride, so as to gather together A majestic force that promotes the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
In the past ten years, the new era of film and television creation has focused on the Chinese spirit, and has created many literary and artistic masterpieces full of spiritual power, which has greatly improved the cultural confidence of the audience. Cultural self-confidence is inseparable from the progress of material civilization and the penetration of scientific and technological innovation. "The Daughter of the Mountain", "The Love of Mountains and Seas", "So many beautiful mountains and rivers", "The Most Beautiful Village", "Blossoming Stones", "Flowers and Leaves", "Splendid Mountains and Rivers", "The Mountain and the Sea" and other dramas focus on poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. The theme depicts the precise poverty alleviation models such as technological poverty alleviation, relocation poverty alleviation, education poverty alleviation, e-commerce poverty alleviation, tourism poverty alleviation, etc., and reproduces the amazing miracles in the history of human poverty reduction with a subtle and magnificent epic picture scroll. Compared with the previous main theme film and television dramas, the characters created by mainstream film and television creations in the new era are more plump and three-dimensional. The creators try to show the self-confidence and self-improvement of the Chinese nation through the awe-inspiring righteousness of individual lives and the full national spirit, and then gather the power of the hearts of the people to promote the great cause of national rejuvenation. The movie "Wolf Warrior" series and "Operation Red Sea" show the Chinese soldiers' tenacious will and Chinese power to safeguard national security, national dignity and human peace under the background of the rise of a great power and national rejuvenation. Let all Chinese people be excited about it. Facing the threat of the rebels in the film, the five-star red flag and Chinese passports held high by Chinese overseas Chinese, the courage, belief, loyalty and wisdom shown by Chinese diplomats and heads of Chinese enterprises on their way back to the country, all made the audience fascinated. moved. In the "easter egg" at the end of the movie, Cheng Lang said to his father: "125 people, we don't have guns, so we brought them back." This easter egg has become the finishing touch to convey the Chinese spirit and enhance cultural self-confidence.
The Chinese spirit built by film and television dramas in the new era is not only of the Chinese nation, but also a grand value that transcends national interests, and has the radiating and appealing power to enhance the influence of Chinese culture. The plot of the Chinese people rescuing their foreign relatives in distress appeared in the movie "The Journey of Thousand Miles", which also shows the spiritual realm of the Chinese people's pursuit of helping each other and helping each other. In the movie "Lonely Walking on the Moon", Duguyue transformed her individual love into a great love for human beings and the earth, resolutely sacrificing her life for righteousness. These film and television works in line with the Chinese spirit show the grand vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, form an appealing charm to the world and all mankind, form a strong spiritual synergy, and inspire the audience's innovative power to promote national rejuvenation and social progress .
In the past ten years of the new era, China's film and television dramas have flourished according to the times. They not only uphold the tradition, but also have the courage to innovate. They have successfully realized the infiltration and transmission of the Chinese spirit, and contributed to the new normal of the mainstream culture's "both acclaimed and well-received". , deduced the majestic theme song of the era and the meaningful art concerto. These works try to write history for the country, leave images for the nation, and create biographies for the people. They strive to tell Chinese stories well, carry forward the Chinese spirit, and gather Chinese power. They are elegant, hidden, rich, magnificent, or novel. The unique aesthetic style meets the audience's "rigid demand" for high-quality content, and makes a unique contribution to the realization of Chinese-style modernization and the enrichment of the people's spiritual world.
(The article is a phased achievement of the National Social Science Foundation Art Science Key Project "Research on Chinese Internet Literary and Art Criticism from the Perspective of Event Theory", author: Hu Jiangfeng, professor of the School of Liberal Arts of Capital Normal University, signed critic of Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles)