□ Tao Yixuan
"Praise the New Era and Forge ahead to a new journey" - key projects for the 20 outstanding film and television drama exhibition activities of the Party, Zhejiang Satellite TV "New Era Drama Contribution" " Our Ten Years " is currently on the air. Based on China's brilliant achievements in the past ten years, the series tells the story of "we" in the form of 11 unit dramas, and rises up a real China from the perspective full of fireworks; reflects the big theme through small incisions, showing the cross-section of China's brilliant development in the past ten years.
The unit drama "Three Meals a Day" tells the story that happened on the tongue in the past decade through the rising fireworks. It enters life, is close to the people, has delicate techniques, but also has lofty ideas, broad vision, and is well portrayed. It fully stimulates the huge energy of reform and innovation in the historical process, constantly demonstrating unprecedented changes in China and the changes of the times.
Refracts the big era with small people
Climbing in the fifth update and getting up in the middle of the night - this is Cai Wuwei's day. Hand-grinding pearl rice for more than two years, washing it three times in water, soak it for two hours, Cai Wuwei wants to do his best to make the original flavor of the ingredients come into play. This is the original intention of ordinary craftsmen. Walking day and night, keeping this original intention, he just wants to bring warmth and fireworks to every ordinary person in the early morning. He used his old skills to make the ultimate taste brewed in the world, used a portion of rice noodles and to prove that his original intention remained unchanged, and used three meals a day to interpret the fireworks of the world.
A portion of rice noodles with good quality and low price is Cai Wuwei's persistence and the daily expectation of diners around him. The weather is getting colder, and I need a bowl of fireworks on earth the most to warm my heart and stomach. The great times with a huge atmosphere in the new era are mainly developed from Cai Wuwei's breakfast shop and are gradually presented through the ordinary stories of several representative little people. Here are retired cadre Yan Bo, retired worker Uncle Bai, retired actor Ding, and people's supervisor "Old Jealous". They each have different life experiences and all have a passion for a better life. People who love life may start with three meals a day. In daily life, they each have their own interests, but they share a hobby, that is, they like to eat rice noodles made by Uncle Wuwei. They eat them almost every day and never get tired of them.
Through this bowl of delicious rice noodles, we can chew out the taste of their lives, see their joys, angers, sorrows, and changes brought to them by the development of society. For example, when Ding encountered the problem of loud subwoofer in the karaoke hall downstairs disturbing the public, she initially asked for trouble. Later, with the help of Lao Ze, the hidden people's supervisor, the relevant departments took the initiative to solve the problem. It was precisely because "the people have something to say, and there must be something to respond." Therefore, when they get together every day, they can sweep away their sorrows, eat, talk and have fun, which fully reflects the people's sense of gain, happiness and security. "Three Meals a Day" also exudes a strong sense of life and the atmosphere of the times.
shows a large vision with a small structure
The structure of the TV series is not complicated. A main line runs through the whole process, which is to compare the different business philosophy of Uncle Wuwei and his daughter Cai Yun. One is aged by making rice noodles, and the other is a grown-up with rice noodles. They should have been full of affection for rice noodles, but they parted ways because of this. Cai Yun has been a director in a five-star hotel for many years. He has been used to seeing the sky-high dinners where high-ranking officials spend money and drink with wine. He has forgotten his original intention little by little and lost his nature. Uncle Wuwei insists on making affordable rice noodles with good quality and low price, but Cai Yun believes that he should do high-end consumption specifically for the leaders to enjoy themselves. The conflict between them is concentrated on changing the store name from "three meals a day" to "royal abalone wings". It is irreconcilable, so they go their own way. One is a street shop, the other is a high-end restaurant, which lives next to each other, but the business philosophy is very different: one is to focus on neighbors to meet the familiar tastes of new and old customers; the other is to treat the leaders who treat the meal as the God of Wealth, trying to make a fortune from the dinner.
With the fundamental change in social atmosphere, "Royal abalone" has become deserted, while "three meals a day" is still crowded.Compared to the fear of "Royal Abalone", three meals a day are down-to-earth. This is because the root of rice noodles is in the streets and alleys, and the soul of rice noodles is the people, and the needs of the people are the broadest market. Through the rise and fall of a restaurant, "Three Meals a Day" reflects the new atmosphere brought to China's political ecology by the "Eight Regulations" and presents a beautiful journey of the people's sense of gain, happiness and security in a panoramic way.
reflects the artistic conception with small details
"Three Meals a Day" makes the food part solid and thorough, and it seems to show "the rice noodles on the tip of the tongue", but gradually presents the changes brought by the "eight regulations" to social life. This down-to-earth expression makes the maximum artistic refinement and concentration of the stories to be told, eliminating preaching and squeezing out water, making the audience unconsciously impressed. This transformation of the development trend of smooth and historical transformation into delicate and vivid specific details is a strange and exquisite thing in ordinary places and a brilliant place. It is the biggest highlight of this unit.
There are three details in the play, which left a very deep impression on me: one is the scene where Uncle Wuwei keeps shaking rice paste. This is to prepare the ingredients for the rice noodle the next morning. He grind the rice noodle almost every night. Therefore, the picture repeatedly and many times, depicting the process from rice to rice in a vivid way. It seems that he wants to fulfill his promise to bring out the original flavor of the good ingredients, because many people's days start with a portion of rice noodle in the morning. If the original flavor of the ingredients is not only the greatest rude to the raw materials, but also the greatest disrespect to customers. In fact, this detail also has a metaphorical implication, which is what Wuwei Uncle said, "You must have a conscience in being a person, and rice noodles are conscience." He is determined and persevering to ensure that the ancestral rice noodles serve customers without deformation, taste, or out of tune. In his opinion, this is a habit, a sentiment, and a responsibility. The second is the pot of the very symbolic red mountain. This is a pot of flowers left by Lao Vinegar in Wuweishu's store. At the beginning, this pot was red in the mountains and lush with branches and leaves. After the opening of the "Royal Abalone" restaurant, in order to add vivid colors to the restaurant's private room, Cai Yun moved it to the high-end dining table, hoping to play the finishing touch, but unexpectedly, the leaves soon turned yellow and lost their energy. This also means that the red mountain was placed in the wrong position, and the extravagant style here is not suitable for its growth. After the implementation of the eight regulations, it was rescued by the old vinegar sprayed with vinegar. After a period of cultivation and conditioning, it reappeared with lush branches and leaves, and bloomed with bright red flowers. This represents the result of the eight regulations, and also shows that only by returning to the fireworks in the world can its vitality be restored. Through the fate of a pot of flowers, eight regulations have been reflected that change the party style, and then affect the political and folk styles, causing changes in the entire social atmosphere. This is a process of bacon cultivating souls. Third, the three important meals are the foundation-laying banquets in luxury restaurants, which means that corruption has destroyed the mass foundation of the Party and the country; the promotion banquets of leaders show the determination and original intentions needed by party members and cadres; the birthday banquets of the elderly symbolize the longevity of the country and the nation. Three meals took ten years to reflect the "Eight Regulations" that won the people's hearts and changes in the party's style and political style. In the play, there are many such details. Through this kind of excellence in the process of cutting stones and making the most of the craftsmanship, the director has plucked many shocking artistic strings.
In the delicious "three meals a day", a restaurant's several turns cleverly brought out the changes in the lives of the people over the past ten years of the "eight regulations" to the lives of the people. It is the drama's strong realistic attributes, ordinary people's perspectives and misty fireworks that give the work a deep resonance with the lives of the masses. "Three Meals a Day" opens up the extraordinary map of "our decade" with exquisite small incisions and fireworks.
The author is a student of the 21 electronic editing major of the School of Television Art, Zhejiang Media College. Instructor: Ding Lili
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