Recently, the documentary Li Bai was broadcast on Mianyang TV Station. Prior to the "May Day" holiday, this documentary was rebroadcast on the CCTV record channel. The large historical celebrity documentary Li Bai, jointly produced by the Publicity Department of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, the Publicity Department of Jiangyou Municipal Party Committee and Sichuan Radio and Television Station, and undertaken by the Documentary Center of Sichuan Radio and Television Tation and CCTV Record International Media Co., Ltd., has attracted wide public attention since its debut on CCTV record channel and Sichuan Satellite TV in early December 2021. It is evaluated that this work has created a "Li Bai completely different from the past", But this is also Li Bai who is "rich and diverse and closest to the truth". It took three years to make an innovative interpretation of the new poetic immortal.
The documentary Li Bai is one of the important contents of the cultural heritage and innovation project of Sichuan historical celebrities, which took three years to complete. Zhang Xinyue, the executive producer of the documentary "Li Bai", introduced that the freshness of historical figures lies in whether they can reflect the times, convey the rich connotation in line with the times, and make the core values that still contain strong vitality come down in one continuous line and become new for a long time. Li Bai is a typical representative with such strong vitality and great influence, which is also the original intention of creating the documentary "Li Bai". However, there have been many documentaries about Li Bai. Those works almost analyze and display Li Bai and his influential literary works incisively and vividly. The character and image of poet Li Bai have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through the expression of literary works, film and television dramas and literature records. "Only by making innovations and breakthroughs, jumping out of the inherent cognition and breaking the traditional definition, can we interpret a new Li Bai for the audience.".
Zhang Xinyue introduced that Li Bai had too many stories in his life. From the content selection to the script structure, the main creative team made many different attempts and repeated adjustments, and even "spent a lot of energy pondering over" every detail. After the shooting start ed, in order to more truly show Li Bai's life, the film crew set out from Jiangyou, where Li Bai was born, and successively went to Chengdu, Yangzhou, Jiyuan, Anlu, Dangtu, Xi'an and other places. They also went to Britain and Japan to collect a large number of historical materials. In combination with the latest achievements of Li Bai's cultural research, they gathered the views of experts and scholars in various fields at home and abroad to interpret Li Bai. From December 1 to 4, 2021, the documentary "Li Bai" was premiered on CCTV Record Channel and Sichuan Satellite TV, attracting attention from all walks of life and sketching the complete life of poetic immortal in 100 minutes. The large-scale documentary Li Bai has four episodes, with a total length of 100 minutes. Taking Li Bai's life chronology as the sequence, it selects his important nodes at different stages of life, integrates his most important poems, and gives a complete and clear outline of his life.
The first episode of "The Journey of Youth" begins with the famous poem "Thinking In The Quiet Night". Each poem is read out in different local dialects, which leads to "in the hearts of every Chinese, there will always be a moment when they will meet Li Bai and read his poems". This episode mainly focuses on Li Bai's youth, presents the heritage of his hometown in Shu and the impact of his hometown on Li Bai's growth, and tells that he had the political ambition of governing the country and the world and fought for it in his youth.
The second episode, “The Meaning Of The World”, takes Li Bai's two visits to Chang'an as the main clue to show Li Bai's pursuit of political ideals, but it is inevitable to avoid the contradiction between life ideals and reality. In this episode, a large number of pictures show the scene of Chang'an in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, so as to show the temperament of the Tang Dynasty.
The third episode, “The Tour Of Forgetting Love", tells about Li Bai's ten-year wandering after his political career was frustrated. Li Bai, who advocated freedom, broke free from shackles, wandered among the mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty, releasing his heart with poems. This episode also highlights the friendship between Li Bai and Du Fu, and tells about the impact of Li Bai's poems on the history of Chinese literature and even the world.
The fourth episode, "Going Back", focuses on the last stage of Li Bai's life, mainly showing his patriotic enthusiasm and lofty feelings of family and country, as well as the regret and immortality of a generation of poetic immortals, and finally expressing the precious wealth left by Li Bai's spirit to future generations.
Ordinary poetic immortal can make you understand him better.
From December, 2021, when it was broadcast on CCTV Record Channel and Sichuan Satellite TV, to the "May Day" holiday in 2022, the large-scale documentary "Li Bai" was sought after and praised by the audience every time it was broadcast.
According to Zhang Xinyue, through the labels of "romance, chivalry, heroism and freedom", the poet Li Bai is also a mortal. He will also be lonely and sad when encountering difficulties in life, but he will soon be able to come out of the trough with full confidence. This confidence is still a valuable spirit in the current era. The novel perspective of "the brightest star in the sky of Tang poetry is also an ordinary person struggling upward all his life" makes Li Bai's character image more three-dimensional and authentic, which is one of the reasons why his works attract attention.
In the documentary Li Bai, the audience was deeply impressed by the magnificent scenery of the Tang Dynasty. This visual effect was brought about by the combination of freehand brushwork and CG special effects. In addition to the creation of artistic conception by lens language, the main creative team used CG animation to show the scenes of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty and the major historical moments experienced by Li Bai. The costumes and props of the characters in the film are designed on the basis of ancient paintings and museum relics, which are as close to the reality of history as possible. At the same time, a large number of experts' narration and scene reproduction are crossed, which shortens the distance between the audience and the works, and makes it easier for the audience to understand Li Bai and Li Bai's poems.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Publicity Department of Jiangyou Municipal Party Committee, the documentary "Li Bai" has attracted the attention of all walks of life. It is a successful expression to carry forward Li Bai culture, a useful attempt to develop and spread local characteristic culture, and a vivid practical example to promote the benign interaction between literary and artistic undertakings and the cultural industry. It is of great significance to further carry forward Li Bai culture.