The original male lead of "Parents' Love" is not Guo Tao, Liu Jing: If you insist on using him, don't make it

In 2012, after director Kong Sheng finished filming "Battle of Changsha", he went to producer Hou Hongliang and said: "These scenes are very troublesome. Please find me a more relaxed scene."

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Not long after, Hou Hongliang met with the gold medal producer Cao Huayi, and then Kong Sheng got the script of "Parental Love".

However, you may not know that this drama was originally intended to be directed by Zheng Xiaolong, and the person who played the male lead was not Guo Tao but Jiang Wen.

When Hou Hongliang was negotiating cooperation with Cao Huayi, Cao Huayi specifically stated that the copyright for this TV series was given by Jiang Wen, and he must be the starring role. Later, because Jiang Wen had his own drama to film, the actor for the male lead was changed to Guo Tao.

Screenwriter Liu Jing was not very satisfied with Guo Tao's casting as the male protagonist Jiang Defu. She even threatened: If you insist on using him, then don't film it! So, why does Liu Jing object to Guo Tao playing Jiang Defu?

In addition, after the broadcast of "Parental Love", it was nominated for four awards at the 20th Magnolia Awards: Best Director Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress Award and Best Screenplay Award. But when the whole crew went to participate in great numbers, they didn't get a single award.

Sun Li won the TV show with "The Story of Hot Mom", which had an audience score of only 6.7, while "Parents' Love", which had an audience score of 9.5, failed to gain any success.

Such a result made Mei Ting angry on the spot. She wrote, "Oh~ It's really boring, I didn't get a single one." The ending sentence of "haha" is very meaningful.

This year’s Magnolia Award has also become the most noisy among the audience since the establishment of the Magnolia Award. What is going on?

Next, let’s talk about the behind-the-scenes story of “Parental Love”.

"Parental Love" tells the story of Liu Jing's parents, but Liu Jing's marriage is a mess. She and her husband have a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. At this time, she would always think of her parents' lifelong love for each other.

Perhaps because this kind of love has become a luxury wish, every time she quarreled with her husband, she always locked herself up and copied her parents' love on paper.

In 1993, Liu Jing published her short story "Parental Love" in a military art newspaper. Jiang Wen was extremely touched after reading it because An Jie in the novel reminded him of his mother. .

Soon after, Jiang Wen took the initiative to find Liu Jing to buy the copyright, saying that he wanted to make the novel into a movie.

Jiang Wen is Liu Jing’s favorite director and actor. She was naturally very happy that her work could be adapted into a film and television program, and the other person was her “idol”, so she sold him for 50,000 yuan. The film and television adaptation rights of the novel were sold to Jiang Wen.

After the copyright issue was negotiated, Jiang Wen took the initiative to invite Liu Jing to take full responsibility for the creation of the film script.

But at that time, Liu Jing had never written a film or television script, and her character was used to being free and loose. In addition to commuting to and from get off work, he usually plays mahjong, and the scripts he writes cannot catch Jiang Wen's eyes at all.

Liu Jing revised it twice, but Jiang Wen was not very satisfied. Therefore, plans to make "Parental Love" into a movie were shelved.

In 1996, after "Parental Love" won the first prize for new works in the army, Ni Ping also approached Liu Jing to buy the film and television adaptation rights of the novel, but unfortunately the rights had already been sold to Jiang Wen.

It was not until 2006 that Cao Huayi, the boss of Xinli Media, came to visit again, that Liu Jing realized that her novels were so popular. She told Cao Huayi that the copyright had been sold to Jiang Wen and asked him to negotiate with Jiang Wen.

After Cao Huayi went to Jiang Wen to explain the situation, Jiang Wen told Cao Huayi that his contract with Liu Jing had expired long ago, and he also offered to play the male lead in the play: I will be the starring role for you, and then Zheng Xiaolong Pull him over to be the director.

Cao Huayi is naturally very happy that Jiang Wen can come to participate in the show. Later, Jiang Wen informed Liu Jing that their contract had expired and she could sell the rights to the TV series. With Jiang Wen's permission, Cao Huayi bought the rights to the TV series from Liu Jing as he wished.

At this time, Liu Jing was already 45 years old. She had become much more mature over time. She was very serious when writing the script. Unfortunately, her favorite director and actor could not participate.

In 2012, preparations for the filming of "Parental Love" officially began. At that time, Jiang Wen was busy preparing for "One Step Away". For this, he called Cao Huayi very guiltily and said: I'm sorry, I really feel sorry for him. there is no time.

Cao Huayi on the other end of the phone was dumbfounded for a moment. How could something that was clearly agreed to be changed so easily? He knew that once Jiang Wen didn't come, Zheng Xiaolong would never come.

Finally, Cao Huayi found Hou Hongliang, the producer of Noon Sunshine, and that was how the scene at the beginning of the article came about.

After Jiang Wen resigned, Kong Sheng invited Guo Tao to be the leading actor. What he didn't expect was that Liu Jing would be furious.

Before the TV series started filming, Liu Jing came to visit the crew and asked casually: Who is the starring role? Kong Sheng said it was Guo Tao.

When Liu Jing heard that it was Guo Tao, she immediately became unhappy: "Guo Tao must be replaced. He is too ugly. He is not worthy of An Jie at all. If you insist on using him, Then don't film this movie."

Seeing Liu Jing's persistence, Kong Sheng had no choice but to tell Cao Huayi about the situation. In the end, Cao Huayi persuaded Liu Jing with all his heart, so that Guo Tao could continue to play Jiang Defu.

Why did Liu Jing say this?

"Parental Love" tells the story of Liu Jing's parents. She felt that Guo Tao's appearance was not perfect enough. Her impression of her father was a handsome and infatuated man, and this drama was a way for her to miss her parents, so she became furious.

It is worth mentioning that when "Parental Love" was adapted into a script for the "second time", everyone felt that it took her too long. Little did they know that she was already seriously ill, and these manuscripts were all It was written word for word by her own hand, and every word she poured her heart and soul into.

Although Guo Tao is not the "Jiang Defu" Liu Jing imagined, he has won the love of countless audiences with his superb acting skills.

Later, in the drama version of "Parental Love", Li Guangjie played the handsome version of Jiang Defu, which made up for the author's regret during his lifetime. However, Li Guangjie's acting skills were questioned by the audience, who instead thought that Jiang Defu, played by Guo Tao, was more It looks more pleasing to the eye.

The reason why Cao Huayi insisted on choosing Guo Tao was not only because of Guo Tao's excellent acting skills, but also because it was so difficult to find actors who fit the role.

For example, Mei Ting, who plays the heroine An Jie, is actually not her first choice in the director's mind, but Wang Qianhua, who plays Zhang Juxiang in the TV series "The Woman in Charge".

Wang Qianhua has dominated the screen for many years and can be called a sister in rural dramas. Whether it is Zhang Juxiang or Yang Shihong, she can portray the image of rural women vividly.

It is said that in order to be able to play the role of Anjie, Wang Qihua went to the crew to audition many times and received more than 200 injections on her face alone to maintain her beauty. Unfortunately, her figure was "out of shape". .

As early as 1997, Mei Ting and Wang Qianhua competed for the same role of Mei Duo in "Northern Story". Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, the two competed for the same role again, and Mei Ting won both times.

Of course, Mei Ting’s victory was not entirely due to her figure, but mainly because she fit the role of Anjie better.

Ever since Mei Ting saw the script "Parental Love", she felt that the script was very good and the characters were also very well designed.

She later recalled: "I have more than 1,000 scenes in this drama. Because it is a family drama, many of the scenes are similar. If the director wants to delete them, I will stop him and insist on them. I go through every scene again, because Anjie is my shadow."

In this regard, even director Kong Sheng said: Anjie is Mei Ting, and Mei Ting is Anjie.

After Mei Ting was confirmed to play An Jie, she also recommended her best friend Liu Lin to the crew to play her sister-in-law Jiang Dehua.

But when Liu Lin heard that she was playing a rural woman, she quickly shook her head and refused because she thought the character was too vulgar.

With no other choice, Mei Ting had no choice but to persuade her to read the script before making a decision. As a result, Liu Lin agreed to star after reading the script.

After all the actors were confirmed, even the opening ceremony was very simple due to tight funds. In order to save money on extras, Kong Sheng even asked the entire crew to perform as a small group, especially He leads the directing team.

For example, executive director Wang Yongquan plays political commissar Wang in the play, Wang Hong plays the selfish Jiang Changyi, Zhao Yilong plays the adult Jiang Weimin, and Jiang Weimin's wife Xu Hong are all staff members.

In addition, Kong Sheng also stars in the play as the photo studio owner who takes family photos of Jiang Defu's family.

In fact, the director's guest role in the play is not only to save money on extras, but mainly to ensure that the details are perfect.

The seemingly inconspicuous characters in the play are also crucial to the entire play, and they look down on the incompetent extras, so they can only go into battle themselves.

By the way, the same is true for "Nirvana in Fire", which was broadcast the following year. The show invested over 100 million and all ten directors made guest appearances, let alone "poor crews" like "Parents' Love" .

After "Parental Love" was broadcast on CCTV's comprehensive channel on February 2, 2014, it was widely recognized by the audience.

Not only was it nominated for four Magnolia Awards, it was also broadcast in more than 60 countries and regions around the world. In addition, the drama has been the most replayed drama on CCTV in the past ten years.

Regrettably, "Parental Love" did not win any of the four nominations for the Magnolia Awards. "Hot Mom", which only had a score of 6.7, won the Grand Prix, which is hard to accept!

But "Parental Love", which received the highest ratings and received the highest response, received nothing. Such a result made the Magnolia Award that year a complete joke.

Even Sun Li, who won the Best Actress Award, did not show up. Instead, she asked her husband Deng Chao to accept the award on her behalf. No wonder Mei Ting said that.

Many people say that the Magnolia Award that year was actually to supplement Sun Li's "The Legend of Zhen Huan". The failure of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" to win the award that year was also a big regret in the eyes of the audience. If you want to put it this way, "Parental Love" did not lose too badly.

But the awards for "The Legend of Zhen Huan" have been made up, so what about the awards for "Parents' Love"?

Later, Director Kong Sheng said in an interview that this was the most worry-free work for him. Firstly, the screenwriter was very skilled, secondly, the actors were all veteran actors, and thirdly, the director team and Zhongwu The post-production of Sunshine is elaborate.

It is precisely because of the screenwriter's careful creation and the actors and crew's careful attention to details that we are shown a classic story of "Once upon a time, the carriages and horses were slow, the letters were far, and there was only enough time to love one person in a lifetime." An emotional family drama.

In today's society, love like An Jie and Jiang Defu has become a luxury hope. Their love can't help but remind people of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. Their mutual companionship in difficult days makes love even more valuable.

If it were you, would you be willing to stay with each other for the rest of your life like An Jie and Jiang Defu?