Qualified actors create the most beautiful youth.

　　The list of winners of the 15th "Five-One Project" for spiritual civilization construction was recently announced, and 10 works in Beijing won the Excellent Works Award. They are: the movie The Wandering Earth and Operation Red Sea Zhou Enlai Back to Yan ‘an, the TV series The Most Beautiful Youth, Rivers, the song We Are All Dreamcatchers, the Power of Rejuvenation, the radio drama the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Xiangshan, the book Going North and A Story in the Clouds. Beijing Youth Daily and Beijing Headline APP launched the column "Jingpin Boutique: Five Behind the Scenes", and today continue to tell you the behind-the-scenes stories of 10 literary and artistic masterpieces.

　　Guo Jingyu, a screenwriter and director who has created many excellent works such as Blade 1937 and Iron Pear Flower, is recognized as "viewing guarantee" in the industry. After the TV series "The Most Beautiful Youth" won the "Five One Project" award, Guo Jingyu, as the producer, admitted that this honor is of great significance: "This drama has made me re-recognize the true value of a literary and art worker."

　　Six screenwriters

　　Spend seven years writing plays.

　　The Most Beautiful Youth is a youth drama produced by Guo Jingyu, directed by Xing Mao Ju and starring Liu Zhiyang, He Yuhong, Zhao Hengxuan and Jia Hongwei. The TV series tells the story that in the 1960s, 18 graduates from all over China, represented by Feng Cheng and Qin Xuemei, and Chengde Weichang Forestry Department formed a pioneering team and actively responded to the call of the motherland for afforestation.

　　The script creation of "The Most Beautiful Youth" lasted for 7 years, with a total of 6 screenwriters of different ages, 32 entrepreneurs of the older generation and hundreds of forestry workers in Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm interviewed, and several drafts were changed, and the lines were constantly revised and optimized until the broadcast. Therefore, Guo Jing called it "a creation rooted in life, but also a persistent creation".

　　"The Most Beautiful Youth" was launched in Saihanba, Chengde on September 8, 2017. After 162 days, it traveled to Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou and Saihanba, Chengde, as well as Wulagai, Duolun, Hexigten Banner and wudan, Inner Mongolia. All of them were shot in real scenes, and only 36 episodes were finally broadcast. After conversion, only 6 episodes were shot every month on average — — This is very rare and extravagant in today’s industrialized TV drama assembly line. In Guo Jingyu’s words, this shooting speed is equivalent to The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and A Dream of Red Mansions many years ago.

　　40℃ below zero

　　Fighting for more than a month

　　There are no flow stars in The Most Beautiful Youth, but everyone is a qualified actor with superb acting skills and hard work, and the details that left a deep impression on Guo Jingyu abound in the creation process. Guo Jingyu recalled that in today’s relatively developed computer post-production, in order to restore the real scenes in the 1960s, post-80s director Xing Mao Ju decided to shoot the whole drama in real scenes. "Only in real scenes can actors express sincere feelings."

　　It didn’t snow in Hebei in the winter of the filming year. In order to restore the heavy snow to close the mountain, the crew moved the set scene to the north for nearly 1000 kilometers, and fought continuously for more than a month in the environment of-25℃ during the day and-40℃ at night. No one of the more than 200 young people of different jobs retreated. Among them, Guo Jingyu was very moved by two things: "There is a scene in the script, in which Zhao Tianshan, the captain, rubs his body with snow during the first snow. The script is not difficult to write, but the temperature is too low, so I really dare not let them shoot it, so when I read the script, I suggested that they move the scene into the studio and shoot it locally. But the actor insisted on being serious, and the director agreed. In another scene, the script wrote that Ji Xiurong was emotionally stimulated and danced in a thin red skirt in the ice and snow. The actors also insisted on real-life shooting, and the beautiful dance was supported by a strong will. "

　　"The Most Beautiful Youth" received a lot of praise after its broadcast. Guo Jingyu said that among all the comments and praises, he liked this sentence best: "The Most Beautiful Youth" interpreted the story that happened in Saihanba with the spirit of Saihanba.

　　Make good use of works

　　Cultivate a good team

　　In recent years, the focus of Guo Jingyu’s work has gradually shifted from screenwriter and director to producer. In his view, the broadcast effect of a good work is of course important, and it is equally important to train the team.

　　Xing Mao Ju, the director of the play, is Guo Jingyu’s "apprentice", and he has already made a name for himself in online drama before. Guo Jingyu said frankly that when he gave him The Most Beautiful Youth to shoot, many leaders were worried that he was too young to complete the task. "After six months of shooting, he reported to me. I am relieved at first sight, because he has gone from a lovely ‘ Children’s director ’ Became a ‘ Little old man ’ 。” Guo Jingyu said with a smile.

　　He Yuhong, an actress born in 1996, is a leading actress for the first time. She is very hardworking and under great pressure. In the later stage of filming, she actually shouted out in her dream, "We must plant living trees, and we should dedicate our youth to Saihanba and to the great motherland … …” Guo Jingyu said that it is really rare to talk clearly in a dream and speak so comprehensively. "Others told me this as a joke, but I burst into tears."

　　In Guo Jingyu’s view, it is these young artists who dedicated their youth in their best years, thus creating the most beautiful youth.

　　Text/reporter Yang Wenjie

　　Coordinator/Liu Jianghua