Jing Wong's shooting tidbits

"Excuse me, where is the hero?" Reporter Wang Jing: I am from Xiangxi. Whenever and wherever, he always pretends to be a Xiangxi person, indomitable, fearless and never giving up-

It's hard to guess Jing Wong's occupation when he appears before your eyes. Dark blue suit, white shirt and V-neck sweater, he stood in the crowd, looking simple, easy-going, not cool and not procrastinating. When an authentic Xiangxi dialect popped out of his mouth, you were completely confused. This middle-aged man is obviously a civil servant of a department in western Hunan.

However, the powerful aura of director Jing Wong appeared in the shooting scene of the large-scale TV series "Where is the hero?" in furong town, Yongshun County. The giant hair dryer blew the national flag into the air. He was holding a horn in his right hand and gesticulating with his left hand, commanding more than 100 people in front of him. "The hair dryer should blow left and right, not in the same direction." "Photographers should pay attention to the fact that when pushing the lens, it must be related to the content expressed, not externally imposed subjectively." "The sun is running out. Let's get ready quickly. Five, four, three, two, 1, let's go-"

In an instant, black smoke billowed from the shooting scene, flags fluttered and a handful of soybeans splashed on the ground. Tang Guoqiang, a big shot in film and television, was full of grief, lifted his blue gown and knelt down slowly. The dutiful sons wearing white mourning clothes beside them also knelt on the ground with spirit tablets; With blue soldiers, black guns and villagers dressed in local Miao costumes, the square in furong town seems to have returned to the war-torn anti-Japanese era.

Thirty-three years ago, Wang Jing, a native of Yongshun, was a student of the Mathematics Department of Jishou University. If he had come step by step, he might have been a well-paid senior engineer or a math teacher all over the world, but he chose the industry of directing and is now a national first-class director.

In the past 30 years, he has directed more than 400 episodes of TV series with various themes, such as Shen Guang, Wildfire, Girls' Class and Past in Xiangxi. He has won many national awards, such as 1994 Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China "Five One Project" Award, the second national "Striving for Civilization" Gold Award, the seventh national "Horse Award" and the first national TV prose exhibition and broadcast gold award. The Window directed by him, together with furong town by Xie Jin and Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum by Zhang Yimou, was selected as the professional teaching material of Beijing Broadcasting Institute, and it was used from 1988.

In fact, apart from these, Jing Wong is no different from your friends in Xiangxi. He is foaming at the mouth when talking to his friends, and his rich language and quick thinking catch your attention. He drank your beer generously; He doesn't smoke, but he politely takes out his cigarette and sends it to you first. When his hometown friends praised his ability by investing tens of millions of TV series "Where is the hero?", he came to throw cold water on himself-oh, it's really nothing, just writing a script, gathering outsiders here and doing something together, and my task was completed.

But when the reporter talked to him alone about the intention of the TV series "Excuse me, where is the hero?", Wang Jing became serious. "I think there is a serious crisis in the current social beliefs and spiritual pursuits! The phenomenon that "Mama Jia asks you to go home for dinner" and the malicious hype about "Sister Feng" and "Brother Sharp" on the Internet all reflect a national sentiment. Contemporary youth's outlook on life and values lack the spirit of honesty, upward, enterprising and hard work, as well as the warm feelings of family, heroism and patriotism ... "

"At present, these missing spirits can be found in our western Hunan." Jing Wong cited two examples. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, Xiangxi Tusi and Peng each led the Xiang army with 3,000 troops, captured the king of the enemy's lair in Hangzhou Bay, and beheaded the enemy's head 1900. 1937, the Battle of Songhu was still in Hangzhou Bay. The newly compiled 128 Division, a minority armed force composed of Xiangxi people, fought bloody battles with the Japanese 6th and 8th divisions128 with broadswords and earth guns for seven days and seven nights, so that more than 700,000 China troops withdrew from the encirclement and saved their strength for the next eight years.

"When the country is in danger, Xiangxi people often stand up. Xiangxi people keep their word, are honest, hardworking, brave and never give up. Isn't this the spirit that the current society needs? "

This is also the original intention of Jing Wong's play "Excuse me, where is the hero?". . Based on true stories and characters, the play, starring famous actors Tang Guoqiang and Sun, tells the heroic deeds of three brothers in Xiangxi who defected to the Red Army, the Kuomintang army and the "Knife Bandits" respectively in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, from fighting to defending their country and dedicating themselves to the war of resistance. He wants others to know that Xiangxi people stood up in the hot water of the country. The film does not write about Tujia and Miao people, but only about the concept of Xiangxi people, which is to convey the simple temperament and heroism of Xiangxi people who attach importance to faith, despise wealth, love the country and forget life and death.

"These spirits are the wealth that we Xiangxi people should never give up, and they are also the spiritual qualities that need to be strengthened in the current society. When I discussed with Tang Guoqiang, I said that if everyone in Xiangxi dares to clap his chest and say' I am from Xiangxi' when facing other people's inquiries outside, then the purpose of making this film will be achieved. When I was in Beijing, many people asked me where I came from, and I replied loudly, Xiangxi! In the field, when I was present, others said that Xiangxi bandits, I knew it was me, haha. "

In this play, Jing Wong made a deep excavation of Xiangxi, and made a popular and meaningful story expression, such as the folk culture of "My elder sister needs her brother's back when she gets married". In the dialogue, he also used many original Xiangxi proverbs, and even his own theme song "beheading song" was full of Xiangxi charm: "My name is Tian, and I live in the deep mountains; Eat a thousand meals and smoke a hundred cigarettes; The emperor is afraid of me and the bodhisattva hates me; I am happy and beheaded during the Chinese New Year; I won't die for ten thousand years. "

From "Wildfire" in the 1990s to "The Past of Xiangxi" in 2006, and today's "Excuse me, where are the heroes", it has always been the theme of Jing Wong's works to praise Xiangxi people and carry forward Xiangxi spirit. At this point, he never gives in. "Excuse me, where is the hero?" There was an episode before the investors were determined. A Zhejiang investor is very interested in Jing Wong's plays and has made a lot of investments, but there are two conditions. One is to change Xiangxi people to Hangzhou people, and the other is to change the shooting location from Xiangxi to Hengdian Film and Television City in Zhejiang. Faced with the tough attitude of investors, Jing Wong refused on the spot and left.

"In the face of life, sometimes I will compromise, but in the face of the feelings that blood is thicker than water in my hometown, I will not bend over for a few barrels of rice." Talking about his hometown of Xiangxi, Wang Jing said with emotion, "In fact, the biggest highlight of Xiangxi is not the natural scenery, but the human landscape. Natural landscape is endowed by God, while human landscape is inexhaustible. Taking the tourist route in Xiangxi, we should attach importance to the development of local cultural landscape, establish Xiangxi character and praise Xiangxi people. Beautiful scenery makes people more beautiful. People are not beautiful, mountains and rivers are not beautiful. Our reporter: Xiang, correspondent: Qu,; Originally published "Tuanjiebao"