The TV series "Love for a Long Time" starring Yang Zi and Fan Chengcheng uses a dual-line narrative technique to show the collision between young ideals and cruel reality under the changing times, and depicts a group of youth portraits that are sincere, valuable and full of the weight of time. Since its broadcast, the series has been widely discussed for its unique warm and healing temperament and high degree of real resonance. Not only has the popularity on Youku exceeded 10,000 in the 10 days since its launch, the long-tail effect has also been significant. The number of effective views so far has exceeded 1.5 billion. .
"Long Time Love" Poster
On March 4, the TV series "Long Time Love" held a seminar at Peking University. The producer, broadcast platform, and series creators gathered together with industry scholars such as the librarians of the Central Research Institute of Literature and History, the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Literary Critics Association, and others. Multi-dimensional discussions were held around the story concept, artistic techniques, film and television creation mission, social value and other aspects of the series.
The TV series "Long Time Love" held a seminar at Peking University
Echoing the mood of the times, "sincerely shows the growth process of the post-90s generation"
Zhong Chengxiang, a researcher at the Central Research Institute of Literature and History and former vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, praised "Love for a Long Time" as a good work with a solid foundation in life, distinct aesthetic pursuits and value orientations. "It can be seen by the post-90s generation through a drama." My own shadow proves that this creative collective is truly fulfilling the proposition of the times - all our art must be a biography of the times, a portrait of the times, and a virtue for the times."
At the same time, he appreciated that the drama embodies a valuable philosophical consciousness - reflection: "The drama uses the time narrative of 17 and 30 years old, which is a very wise and far-sighted choice. Only through reflection and comparison can we see ourselves, 30 The protagonist, who is 17 years old, recalls how innocent he was when he was 17 years old, and reminds himself not to forget his original intention."
Yang Zi as Huang Yingzi
Zhang Dexiang, vice chairman and professor of the Chinese Literary Critics Association, believes that "Love for a Long Time" captures the social environment, social background and atmosphere of the times when the post-90s generation grew up. It sincerely shows the growth process of this generation and has a very special Strong contemporary character. He said that his child was born in 1988 and loved to play games when he was a child. When he saw it, he smashed the game console and said he was not allowed to play anymore. "But I later discovered that the generation born in the 1990s cannot grow up without these games, including the profession of the male protagonist in "Long Time Love", which is also a game designer." Zhang Dexiang was very emotional because of this, "This work will help us understand A window, a perspective for a generation.”
Stills of "Long Time Love"
Zhang Wei, executive vice president and researcher of the China Film Critics Society, elaborated on the artistic value of the drama from three perspectives: youth togetherness, triple narrative, and secret love aesthetics: Taking pure friendship without stakes as the writing theme is one of the few current TV dramas. Dual lines, suspense, and game narrative are all used to the extreme, and the creative characteristics are very distinctive; as for the narrative of secret love, the main creator quoted the narrative method of ancient Chinese classic traditional love-pure love of beauty and hazy beauty, and used Butterfly Lovers The beautiful emotions in the analogy play are also moving.
In the view of Kang Wei, editor-in-chief of China Art Newspaper, the upward, benevolent, and de-desired description of youth in the drama is something worth promoting in the youth genre. There is also a regrettable point that if the heroine Huang Yingzi's identity as a reporter can be used better, she can bring out more social issues.
Fan Chengcheng as Jiang Yi
Rooted in the context of reality, "little people trigger big thinking and reflect the big era"
Xie Ying, vice president of Youku, said that "Long Time Love" is Youku's first hit drama since the beginning of this year, and it is another step forward in Youku's layout of realistic youth themes. Xie Ying remembers that when she first received the script of "Long Time Love", she was moved by its in-depth description of the life of the post-90s generation and the core of growth and healing, and then quickly contacted the film studio, "We can't make it a simple youth idol drama. We need to increase its realism background and make it a period drama that embodies realistic youth portraits."
After the series was aired, singer Stefanie Sun acted as a witness of youth throughout, triggering a wave of recalling frenzy among post-90s users. They praised "Long Time Love" crazily, knowing what kind of audio-visual language the audience likes. At the same time, the series focused on the workplace dilemmas and personal struggles of small people, hitting the hearts of more viewers: "For example, reporter Huang Yingzi who had to bow to reality in the face of the truth, such as Jiang Yi who developed his own game but was pirated, such as Zhuang Yuan, who makes choices between academic research and human sophistication... In our creation, we will not deliberately downplay or avoid these practical issues. We want the audience to see themselves through these samples. Little people can trigger big thinking and reflect the big times."
Stills of "Long Time Love"
Producer Zhang Jun shared the creative vision and intention of "Long Time Love": "In the entire process of initiating and creating this project, we always wanted to present a group portrait work exclusive to the post-90s generation. We feel that the unique youthful growth of each generation should be Being recorded, you can regain your youthful look through dramas. There are many domestic TV dramas with excellent youth-themed works. The success of "Long Time Love" is because we have made a new extreme attempt to take niche themes. Please invite Stefanie Sun , He Jiong and other generations of youthful memories contribute to the drama, showing very distinct characteristics of the times, and also using a double-line comparison technique that is rarely seen in youth themes. It also introduces suspense and injects realism, all of which add to the The show has a heavy texture embedded in it.”
Producer Yang Chao looked back on the creative process and admitted that the huge response and discussion in the audience's feedback was exactly the difficulty he faced at the beginning. First of all, there are many difficulties in the process of telling the story. Due to the pain of losing a friend, I lost my memory and persisted paranoidly in my own illusory little world. Can this kind of hard-core realism be established in a youth drama? Although there were struggles, the main creator still insisted on injecting realistic and painful elements and put the support of word-of-mouth at the end. Secondly, how to clearly present the dual-line narrative? It took more than 100 time interfaces involved, and it took the post-production, director, and editor three days to stitch them all together, forming a perfect echo of the 17-year-old and the 30-year-old. "We are very happy that the audience understood our efforts, and some even guessed some of our designs in the first episode. We can be called the 'top audience', which is amazing!" mentioned that the male characters in the drama are all "pure" "God of Love", Yang Chao said, "I hope that "Love for a Long Time" can bring the inspiration that 'love can span time' to the audience."
Stills of "Long Time Love"
Screenwriter Li Yang and his mother Zixin shared the core of the creative concept of "Love for a Long Time": contrast and intersection. The most core way to deal with the characters is to compare them with each other. In the play, the contrast between hot and cold personalities, the comparison between the original family, the comparison between the life trajectories... How to draw strength from the memories of the 17-year-old to create a "Truman Show", everyone thinks Huang Yingzi is the promoter of the entire time and the cohesion of everyone. On the contrary, she is the biggest patient in order to achieve real cure. Deleting the original characters, adding dual narratives, and burying the deaths of important characters... Mu Zixin said bluntly that during the creation, everyone felt that these locations were very risky. Fortunately, everyone supported and persisted, " In addition to the various emotions just mentioned, the love in "Long Time Love" can also be understood as goodwill. Although there are many misfortunes in this society, goodwill can heal many things of friendship, allowing us to continue to draw the strength to move forward."
Wang Qianyue as Zhuang Yuan
Actor Wang Qianyue plays the role of Zhuang Yuan in the drama. After the drama was aired, he was given nicknames such as "Secret Brother", "Love Security Guard" and "Love Broker" by the audience, which made him extremely happy. Wang Qianyue said that the timeline of the character's youth is not coherent. How to reflect the development of the story in the character and the subtle relationship between the characters has become a difficulty in interpretation. He defined himself as a familiar image that appears in everyone's youth, and added the design of glasses and steel teeth to Zhuang Yuan, thus making the image of this cute academic master more vivid.
Experts attending the meeting unanimously affirmed that the good creative style of "Long Time Love" provides a reference case for the creation of future realistic drama series. "I hope our film and television industry workers can uphold the creative spirit and concept of ingenuity and bring more Excellent works will jointly promote the further development of the film, television and entertainment industry."
