Zhang Guimei’s deeds are adapted into film and television dramas to pay tribute to the model theme of the times.

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Rooted in frontier education for more than 40 years, he promoted the establishment of the first free high school for girls in China. Since its establishment in 2008, he has helped more than 2,000 girls to go out of the mountains and enter universities. Zhang Guimei, the "burning lamp principal", has been widely praised for his touching deeds of blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty through education.

Over the years, Zhang Guimei has successively won the title of "Model of the Times", "Touching the Person of the Year in China in 2020" and "July 1st Medal". Over the past two years, artists from all walks of life have created Zhang Guimei’s touching stories in various artistic forms, which has enabled the whole society to have a more comprehensive understanding and understanding of her.

Yunnan Theatre has launched a large-scale original drama "Teacher Gui Mei", which is developed in the form of modern drama of "repeating the past". Yunnan Yunnan Theatre integrates national characteristics, presents the Yunnan opera Zhang Guimei, and enters the stage of the National Grand Theatre. "Bloom" reproduces Zhang Guimei’s life as an original musical in the new era, starring singer Sitar tan, and successfully premiered in Beijing in September this year.

Picture musical "Bloom"

A few days ago, the drama series "Girls’ School in Dashan" based on Zhang Guimei’s true story released a poster to announce the boot plan. Similarly, the film "Great She" focusing on Zhang Guimei is also being produced.

What are the highlights of these works? At present, the film and television creation around the model of the times continues, and how to shoot and play the model characters well is also a challenge that the creators must face.

Are you looking forward to the movie "Zhang Guimei"?

"Girls’ School in Dashan" was filmed and put on record in May this year. It will tell the story of Zhang Guimei’s struggle and dedication on the education front from the establishment of a free high school for girls to attracting more and more children to apply for the exam. Later, her health went from bad to worse.

According to the summary, it can be seen that the drama truly follows Zhang Guimei’s real experience in the plot, and will comprehensively show the whole process of her hard work for mountain education from the past to the present.

Yang Fei is the director, Yuan Bullet, the screenwriter of Ode to Joy, Ding Han, the screenwriter of Island Keeper, and Yuan Keping, the screenwriter of Great Rivers, are the consultants. Judging from the screenwriter lineup, it has assembled the main behind-the-scenes creative forces of high-profile realistic film and television works in recent years.

Yang Fei has directed online dramas such as Angry Sunny Xiangxi, Longling Cave, Antique close encounter of mahjong Ⅱ: Looking for Porcelain by Looking for Ink, Splendid Stars and Splendid Moon Rising to the Sea, and is good at themes such as costume, suspense, fantasy and adventure. Girls’ School in the Mountains is a mainstream narrative drama featuring women, and it is an area he seldom touches. Such a director and screenwriter combination may collide with new sparks.

According to the true story of President Zhang Guimei, the cinema film "The Great She" released a casting group news some time ago.

According to public information, "Fuck off! Yuan Yuan, the screenwriter of tumor jun and Later Us, and Chen Qiling, a well-known writer, wrote the screenplay. Yuan Yuan was nominated for the Best Screenplay of Golden Rooster Award and Excellent Screenplay Award of China Film Watch Award, and Chen Qiling won the Excellent Screenplay Award of Xia Yanbei Film Screenplay Collection twice.

The film was directed by Dasheng Zheng and Yang Jin, and Dasheng Zheng was twice nominated for the Golden Rooster Award as the best director of Chinese film with 1921 and Village Drama. His works often draw on the reality from history to express his deep thinking on the development of China era. Yang Jin once directed films such as "Some people praise cleverness, others don’t", paying attention to rural theme creation.

This behind-the-scenes team includes two generations of directors who are deeply realistic films and two creators who are good at writing women’s emotional stories. The lineup is also worth looking forward to.

The film will focus on "the story of a determined woman and a group of teachers who have just graduated and are still immature, with more than 100 girls successfully changing their lives." It can be seen that the film not only has Zhang Guimei’s biography, but also shows many teachers’ roles with different characteristics and personalities.

The story of President Zhang Guimei in the creation of film and television works should follow the reality and also require new changes. The audience hopes to see a real Zhang Guimei in the light and shadow shaping, instead of routine, shouting slogans, deliberately sensational, exaggerated praise, and presenting this typical figure with different perspectives, structures and styles.

The theme creation of paying tribute to the model of the times is booming.

Since 2014, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China has organized and awarded a number of advanced typical "model of the times" titles every year, and film and television creators have shot a series of biographies around them, writing big feelings with short stories and showing big themes with small incisions.

There are Li Baoguo, Mao Fengmei and Huang Danian with their titles, and there are prototypes of Happiness Coming Soon (prototype: Ma Shanxiang), Border Guard (prototype: Wei Deyou), My Himalaya (prototype: Zhuoga, Sister Yang Zong), HUANG WENXIU (prototype: Huang Wenxiu), and.

The Islander, based on the true story of Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua, won the Best Feature Film Award in the 34th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award in 2021. The film shows the ordinary and great dedication story of Wang Jicai and his wife Wang Shihua who have been guarding the border island of the motherland for 32 years, which embodies the lofty character of "people’s model" and touches everyone.

The theme of the model of the times has become an important content in the creation of current film and television works, expanding the new pattern and new realm of mainstream realistic themes.

Especially in recent years, many commercial cinema blockbusters have also explored the different heroic model images of each era in terms of materials, and gained high box office and good reputation. For example, "My Father and I" depicts the astronauts, Chinese Doctors truly depicts the heroic group of frontline medical staff fighting against the epidemic, and The Battle at Lake Changjin reproduces the heroic feats of heroic soldiers fighting against US aggression and aiding Korea on the battlefield.

Last year’s hit TV series "Meritorious Work" used unit dramas to tell the wonderful stories of eight meritorious deeds, all of whom were model figures who made great contributions to New China, including Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, Shen Jilan, who initiated "equal pay for equal work for men and women", and Tu Youyou, the first Nobel Prize winner in medicine in China. There is also Zhang Fuqing, who suffered hardships in the War of Liberation. After retiring, he resolutely went to poor mountainous areas to dedicate his life. He was awarded the title of "Model of the Times" in 2019.

"Meritorious Work" won the Award of Excellent TV Series and Excellent Actor in the 33rd China TV Series Flying Award. Minning Town, who also won the Award of Excellent TV Series, Excellent Screenplay and Excellent Actress, also reflected the glorious story of the model of the times.

Since 1996, the people of Fujian and Ningxia have created the "Min-Ning model" of the counterpart poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west, which has become a much-told story in poverty alleviation work. The plot in Minning Town also reshaped the image and history of Fujian-Ningxia counterparts in poverty alleviation and cooperation.

Not long ago, during the China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in 2022 and the 35th Golden Rooster Award of China Film, Wanda Pictures released a new film "Shen Jilan", which was directed by Haas Chaolu and starred by Yue Hong, and will reproduce Shen Jilan’s unshakable revolutionary beliefs and enduring labor qualities.

The film and television creation for model figures is becoming more and more hot, and how to film them well is quite challenging.

Chen Li, director of Islander, once admitted in an interview that she was afraid of making a didactic film, fearing that the film was not as touching as a report. After filming, she concluded that the focus of filming a good English model film is to experience life, go deep into life and capture moving details. "Don’t shout slogans, and don’t be tall." "Don’t be arrogant, but give the audience a sincerity."

How to perform a good role model is also a big challenge for actors. Only when the role is established and performed well can the work have a solid foundation and stand firm.

Li Xuejian once won the Golden Rooster Award in Chinese Film and the Best Actor Award in Hundred Flowers Award in Popular Film for his Jiao Yulu. He vividly interpreted the image of Jiao Yulu as a model cadre who loved the people and loved the people and worked hard. It is reported that at that time, in order to be close to Jiao Yulu’s body shape, he experienced life during the day and stayed up late at night to slim himself down, losing more than 20 kilograms and feeling tired.

The director of Jiao Yulu once praised, "Li Xuejian’s performance is surprisingly good. He is performing with his heart and soul." "Similarity" was achieved, and Li Xuejian tried his best to be "spiritual".

I hope that every next work on the theme of the model of the times will be able to shoot their true deeds with heart, affection and hard work. Only when an actor learns from and respects the model figures and puts his heart and soul into them can he turn him into me, perform brilliantly and live up to expectations.