"Pulse" and "Old Chinese Medicine"

How to accurately represent Chinese medicine is a difficult point in the filming process of Old Chinese Medicine.

On a stormy night, a bowl of Chinese medicine was sent from the kitchen to the patient, and there was a scream and the sound of the bowl being broken ... The opening of "Old Chinese Medicine" was a long shot of 2 minutes and 35 seconds, which was information-intensive and in one go, and also brought the audience into the atmosphere of the Republic of China. With the background of Shanghai 1927 to 1946, Old Chinese Medicine tells the story of Weng Quanhai, a descendant of Meng He Medical College in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, who devoted his life to protecting and inheriting Chinese medicine culture.

This TV series, written by and written by, assembled many powerful actors such as Chen, Chen and Chen, landed on CCTV- 1 on February 2. In an interview with Variety Daily, director Mao Weining said that Old Chinese Medicine tells the story of Chinese medicine practitioners and China people in that magnificent history, and he hopes to fill the current market vacancy of this kind of theme through this drama.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Stories under the Background of Industry Survival

Mao Weining introduced that the historical background of old Chinese medicine practitioners-1927-1946-is the stage when Chinese medicine faces the test of life and death. On the one hand, the government of the Republic of China wants to abolish Chinese medicine; On the other hand, the intensification of Japanese aggression has also greatly affected the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, a major feature of Old Chinese Medicine is to positively express the development of Chinese medicine in the most difficult period from 1920s to 1940s.

In order to create a good script, Gao Mantang and Li Zhou visited Changzhou for three times, interviewed the representative stories of doctors in Meng He Medical College in the past 300 years, and collected a lot of information on traditional Chinese medicine. On the basis of accumulating a lot of materials, they created the artistic image of Weng Quanhai, an old Chinese medicine doctor. At the same time, the plot, lines, prescriptions and instruments of Chinese medicine in the play are all checked and corrected by a special team of Chinese medicine consultants, striving to restore the true nature of Chinese medicine to the greatest extent. "The medical consultant of this drama took several graduate students and corrected all the medical records for us sentence by sentence. Without the guidance of the Chinese medicine team, the "old Chinese medicine" could not have completed today. However, Old Chinese Medicine is a story, not a documentary or textbook about Chinese medicine. We can only say that all the medical records and Chinese medicine knowledge in Old Chinese Medicine are clearly understood and have a clear conscience, but there may be a leak. " Gao Mantang said at the press conference of the play.

How to accurately represent Chinese medicine is a difficult point in the filming process of Old Chinese Medicine. Mao Weining said with a smile, the crew can really open a Chinese medicine shop, and the actors can also work in the Chinese medicine museum. The crew has prepared hundreds of Chinese herbal medicines involved in the play, and the characters in the play can catch whatever herbs they read by opening the drawer. The actors also made a lot of preparations in the early stage, including studying Chinese medicine and going to Meng He to experience life. "Chinese medicine is vital to health. We want to make sure that even if the audience takes medicine according to the prescription in our play, there will be no problem. Whether you can cure the disease is another matter, because every prescription and every treatment plan is different from person to person. " Mao Weining said.

Portrait building

While displaying seven wonderful medical records, Old Chinese Medicine has also created a group of people in the pharmaceutical industry.

Weng Quanhai, played by Chen, is a descendant of medical school. He saves lives, and his wonderful hands rejuvenate the doctor's heart. Zhao, played by Feng, went abroad to study in order to further study medical skills. In the play, he was familiar with Chinese and western medicine, arrogant and opportunistic, but in the end he died for the national justice. Bao Xiu, played by Summer Xu, was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine. She is generous, persistent and independent, risking her life for love and righteousness. Chen Yuemo plays the doctor who rings the bell (that is, in ancient times, doctors wore medicine boxes and shook the bell by hand). Gao Xiaopu is clever, but he is a Jianghu habit. ...

In the play, Zhao is a very contradictory person. Born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine, he was sent abroad by his father to study western medicine. After returning from school, he failed to open a western medicine clinic in Shanghai, and then turned to Chinese medicine. He is flexible and jealous, but he always maintains the kindness of a doctor. Feng revealed that he designed many details for this role that were not in the script. In the end, the fate of the role was that he changed his life after consulting with him.

"I happen to be this age, and this role can be said to come at the right time, or I have been preparing for such a role." In an interview with Variety, Chen said this. In order to prepare for the role of Weng Quanhai, Chen lost weight 13 Jin, which made her look more in line with the image of a doctor. During the four months and zero 120 days of filming, Chen never asked for leave or was late. "In four months, I went from the hotel room to the shooting scene at two o'clock and one line, and then returned to the hotel room at night. It is such a simple life trajectory that I can calm down and calm down, so that I can be closer to the doctor I play. "

Dialogue Chen: Weng Quanhai may let me enter another level of performance.

Variety Daily: What preparations have you made for Weng Quanhai?

Chen: Basically, I experience life and collect folk songs according to my past habits. This is essential, and I think it has been an effective method for so many years. Actors are not immortals. It is impossible to give birth to another character out of thin air and then live for decades in your few months. Without experiencing life, you can't find a seed of a character, a model of an image, where does the character come from and where does it go?

When I was young, I could live for 2-3 months for a role. The conditions were not good at that time, so I went by train myself. When I got there, I ate, lived and worked with others, and finally got back some tapes recorded with brick tape recorders. On the train back, I knew that this character was already with me. Although the pace of life is accelerating now, I think those are the reasons why actors create. There are many skills in film and television performance, but to come up with characters, you still have to experience life. How many generations have summed up this road?

Variety Daily: How did you experience life in this play?

Chen: The play started at the end of August 20 17. In April, we went to Meng He, Changzhou, with Mr. Mantang, and experienced for ourselves how so many Chinese medicine practitioners came out of Meng He, a small town built up, and what their deeds were. The role of Weng Quanhai is an artistic image extracted by the screenwriter from four famous local doctors. This role is different from many roles I have played before and provides me with a rare role type.

Variety Daily: What's so special about this role?

Chen: Weng Quanhai is a doctor. I think this role should be more stable and practical. I have played dozens of roles back and forth, and I have been exposed to many types of roles, but once I got this role, my first thought was to hide all external or internal skills and skills behind my back, so I just wanted to think about what he was thinking.

Over the past year, I have experienced it with my heart and let the characters flow out of my heart. At the moment when I call for preparation and departure, my mind and mood must be adjusted to be consistent with the role, that is, the "airport" that actors often say. If this air port is right, the later play will be smooth. When you are fully conceived and prepared, your skills will naturally help you. But if you deliberately use some technologies, you will be divorced from reality and role.

Acting is so profound that you need to think and ponder all the time, but you will never figure it out. I was very tired when I played this role. Once distracted, I will definitely feel tired, so I can't get out of the role for half a year after shooting. But "he" has brought me a huge emotional infection. I think this may be the best state of integration of people and drama-even if I finally rest and sit at the table for dinner, I will feel very comfortable today. This is the so-called happy performance, and I think this role may let me enter another level of performance.

I happen to be this age, and this role can be said to have come at the right time, or I have been preparing for such a role.

Variety Daily: Many of your roles reflect the feelings of home and country. What is the difference between Weng Quanhai and his previous role?

Chen: The forms of expression are different. For example, in The Old Farmer, Teacher Gao Mantang wrote about the old farmer and the 60 years that * * * lived with China. Obviously, "old Chinese medicine" is different from its life track, life age, personality and cultural background. But as far as his profession is concerned, such a doctor tried his best to protect the treasure of Chinese medicine for the sake of Chinese medicine, patients and his relatives when foreign invaders invaded. I think he's great. I am fortunate to let this role fall on me, and I have the responsibility to convey this feeling with the strongest signal.