2024-01-25 07:31:00
Original title: A good-looking red-themed drama should make the audience empathize
Su Rui
In recent years, a large number of red-themed works have emerged across the country, with various stories. Those successful cases are good at telling the shining points of human nature in tragic or passionate plots, making the audience empathize.
Take the Peking Opera “Yan Yi Tang” launched by the Shandong Peking Opera Theater as an example. This is a work that tells the story of how a feudal family gradually transformed into a supporter of the revolution. At the beginning of the creation, there were many discussions about whether this theme was suitable for presentation on the Peking Opera stage or even the Chinese opera stage. What everyone is generally worried about is whether there is a possibility of success in looking for a red story in the context of the era when red-themed creations are concentrated in the “Yimeng Old District where the creator has written countless times.”
The subsequent development of “Yan Yi Tang” was somewhat beyond the expectations of some people. Its success in the field of stage art across the country has been summarized by some experts as a “model of character creation”. Because the creative team accurately found “the patriarch of a feudal family” and used his change in attitude towards revolution to connect all the stories, triggering people to put themselves in the perspective of the revolutionary spirit. What kind of power can make a character who sticks to the golden mean change his creed?
“Yan Yi Tang” is usually classified as a red-themed work. Its main storyline is that the big family “Yan Yi Tang” in Yimeng Mountain District, under the leadership of its head Liu Hepu, has experienced various changes in troubled times. As the head of the family, Liu Hepu initially wanted to live a humble life and seek peace for the family, and even used strict family laws to prevent the younger members of the family from going out to participate in the revolution. However, the Japanese and puppet troops pressed forward step by step, and the heroic sacrifice of his precious daughter reminded him of the revolutionary scenes of young people in the clan who had no hesitation in the past. In the end, his thoughts achieved “Phoenix Nirvana”. After settling his neighbors, he blew up Yanyi Hall and died together with the enemy.
In the play, Yan Yitang is a family courtyard, which has more symbolic meaning. What it symbolizes is China’s traditional thought, or the thought of a considerable proportion of the people. Since the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921, countless revolutionary martyrs have made fearless sacrifices and used extraordinary wisdom, courage and perseverance to strive for national liberation and national rejuvenation. But the struggle of party members alone is far from enough. The magic weapon for the Chinese Communist Party to win is to mobilize the masses and awaken the people. The drama “Yan Yi Tang” selects the story of the awakening of the Yan Yi Tang family, which actually reflects the history of the awakening of hundreds of millions of Chinese people under the leadership of the party.
Figures like patriarchs still exist in some villages or some families today. Such a person usually makes a certain judgment not hastily, but is the result of careful consideration. In a certain sense, the public psychology has potential admiration for the “leader”. Therefore, the change of attitude of the “leader” on the stage will naturally bring a deeper impression to the audience, leading to further thinking.
Like “Yan Yi Tang”, there have been many red-themed works in Shandong Province in recent years that focus on human nature and can make the audience empathize. For example, the Lu Opera “Eternal Loyalty” produced by the Shandong Province Lu Theater, the national opera “Yimeng Mountain” produced by the Shandong Song and Dance Theater, the drama “Heroes Mountain” produced by the Jinan Children’s Art Theater, and the Lu Opera “Long Song is Perfect” created by the Jinan City Lu Theater. wait. After watching it, or during the process of watching the play, the audience will unconsciously become one with the characters on stage and experience the joys and sorrows of the characters.
Why is there such a sense of substitution? The key is that the creative staff captures the universal human emotions – family, friendship, love. These emotions that exist in every family and everywhere are the core elements of literary and artistic works that can move people.
On the contrary, some propositional composition-like creations have much worse effects. It seems to be a compliment to praise a character, but the character on the stage has no flesh and blood. In human history, there have been many lofty and great causes that promoted the development and progress of human civilization. The driving factors behind this are ordinary people, ordinary people. Making a character one-dimensional is often untenable. Or even after artificial “brief support”, such a role will be difficult to sustain in the future.
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