The screenplay seminar on "Barefoot Doctor Wanquan he" was successfully held and will be filmed in April.

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On March 22, 2023, the film signing ceremony of Jiangnan writers and the seminar on "Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe" was held in Suzhou. Writers such as Bi Feiyu, Fan Xiaoqing, Su Tong, Fan Xiaotian, Cheng Yongxin, Zhang carbon, Wang Yao, Ding Fan, Jiang Yimin, Zhu Wenying, Jing GE, Sun Xin, Ren Sha, and other writers, film and television industry experts and scholars gathered together to discuss the future development of the impressions of Jiangnan writers' films, and to conduct expert discussions on the script of the realistic film Barefoot Doctor Wan Quan he.

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At the signing ceremony Funar Film and Television signed copyright cooperation agreements with Bi Feiyu's "narrative", Fan Xiaoqing's "Barefoot Doctor Wanquan and"which Summer at the Seaside", Huang Beijia's "dangerous Game", Fan Xiaotian's "three sets of cars", Jiang Jiemin's "Heart robbery", Wang Yao's "Times and Portrait: past ceremony", Ye Mi's "Madrid Snow White shirt", Zhu Wenying's "someone coming" and Jing GE's "tears".

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Fan Xiaotian, director of Funa Film and Television, many experts and scholars in the United Nations have launched "impressions of Jiangnan Writers' Film". The first film, "Paper Cavalry", is based on Su Tong's novels "Cavalry" and "Paper". At present, it has won and been shortlisted for 72 individual awards in 37 international film festivals, including major countries and regions in the world. For example, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Argentina, Chile, Canada, Japan, India, as well as Hong Kong, China and Macao, China, such as the 55th Houston International Film Festival (2022), the highest prize-the jury Special Award (only if you get the highest score, the jury Special Award) The 13th Macau International Film Festival (2021) Best Screenplay Award; the 12th India Dada Saheb Falk Film Festival (2022) Film Festival specially mentioned awards.

After the film signing ceremony of Jiangnan writers, a screenplay seminar on "Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe" was held. The participants had a heated discussion on such topics as "warm realism creation from novel to film", "how to show Suzhou spirit and Jiangnan charm" and "how to write major social issues".

The play is adapted from the novel of the same name nominated by Fan Xiaoqing for Mao Dun Literature Award and won the Zijinshan Literature Award. It is the first work of the Grand Canal Rural Epic Trilogy being released by Funer Film and Television. It is mainly about the former rural barefoot doctor Wanquan and accompanying Wanlimei to the city to see a doctor, reunited 40 years later with Mary, who went to the countryside with her parents, urban and rural, now and in the past. A story about "love" slowly unfolds.

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*Bi Feiyu, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association, said: the Barefoot Doctor Wan Quan he is a famous piece of contemporary Chinese literature and a famous piece of Jiangsu literature. "I think this is Fan Xiaoqing's best work. When we think of Fan Xiaoqing, we will not ignore "Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe". Even when we go to the Wanquan River in Hainan, we will think of Fan Xiaoqing's Wanquan and, after the formation of the two concepts, not only represents the achievements of a writer. in a sense, it is also the glory of a writer. Director Xiaotian especially likes to use scores to measure a thing, how many points there are already, and can add another point, this spirit has affected me so far. Director Xiaotian is full of ambition, a person's continuous ambition, incessant burning, and his own pursuit of confirmed aesthetic ideas can be achieved in the end. His crazy, rational and persistent state makes my blood boil.

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**Honorary Chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association and Fan Xiaoqing, the original author of the Barefoot Doctor Wanquan and the novel, believes that the script fully embodies the warm realism of Wanquanhe. "Let us see how a not-so-smart or even stupid person has moved two generations, showing the spiritual predicament and way out of mankind through comedy, and the whole film is filled with a literary style of great emotion and compassion."

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*in the view of Su Tong, member of the presidium of the Chinese Writers Association, Fan Xiaoqing's novels have a strong regional color and style. "everything Xiaoqing writes is apricot flowers and misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, no matter it is intense or lyrical, all in this atmosphere. Xiaotian's creative label is also Jiangnan and Southern. The cooperation between brother and sister this time came naturally and flawlessly. The evaluation and reputation of Barefoot Doctor Wan Quan he in the professional circle is obvious to all. The film and television adaptation of such a novel may bring us classical meaning, or new aesthetic value, as well as image significance. "

Cheng Yongxin, editor-in-chief of Harvest magazine, pointed out that through this script, we can see that it is very real life, strong polysemy, distinctive regional culture, and distinctive characters.

**as the film style of the Jiangnan School, the long shot of the misty rain Jiangnan landscape poems in this film runs through the souls of history and characters, and highlights special aesthetic implications, said Ding Fan, director of the Chinese New Literature Research Center of Nanjing University.

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Wang Yao, a scholar and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association, believes that the screenplay has been recreated on the basis of respecting the original work, deleted and simplified, history and reality superimposed, Jiangnan amorous feelings and the spirit of the times surging, telling a touching story, warm and sad, it can be called the representative work of Jiangnan film.

Jiang Ximin, former editor of Yuhua magazine and president of Jiangsu Prose Society is very interested in this subject: "Wanquan and this character, I always think he is familiar. Wanquanhe has the human instinctive great goodness, great beauty, great truth, is a somewhat magical, deformed typical character. I love it. "

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Zhu Wenying, vice chairman of the Suzhou Writers Association, shared that in terms of texture, capacity and readability of the text, Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe is Xiaoqing's most advanced novel. Wan Quanhe is a small potato in the big world, this small potato determines the tone of the novel, is absurd, is a mixture of joys and sorrows. The script as a whole is very good, starting from the story of contemporary Suzhou, there are some plot treatment in the script, which is very real magical realism.

**Jing GE, a professional writer from Jiangsu Writers' Association, likes the script of "Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe" very much. He said that while watching it, he laughed while imagining himself sitting in the cinema. "the black humor in the script is very good. I think the movie will be a hit. There are a lot of things in the script that seem unreal and ridiculous, but are actually very advanced.

Ren Sha, a screenwriter and producer, said from the perspective of a producer, "this is a very meaningful film. My mother used to be a barefoot doctor. She cured a dysentery in the countryside, which is something she has always been proud of." Inside, there is the youth of our parents. I think this group of parents will go to see this movie in the future.

• Sun Xin, director of the boutique creation center of Suzhou Radio and Television Station, believes that "Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe" is a warm realistic work. "the script is a good script and has practical significance. The polysemy of the original works provides basic nourishment for the adaptation of films and TV dramas.

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scriptwriter and producer Zhang charcoal has read the novel "Barefoot Doctor Wan Quan he" a long time ago, and he likes it very much. "where to start with adaptation is very important. Director Xiaotian is very smart to grasp the core issue of emotion from the original work, because it is emotion that really moves people. Ling is a teacher of Xiaoqing and Soul is a director of Xiaotian. The script's views on life and the world are very moving, which can establish an emotional connection with the contemporary audience. Whether it is Wanquanhe, Mary, Wanlimei or Wang Lin, they all yearn for beauty. We grasp the core of beauty, and as an executive producer, I hope to work with the director to present it.

*Director Fan Xiaotian, vice president of the China Television production Industry Association, as the director and screenwriter of the film, said that he would seriously consider the opinions of the experts and share his creative experience with you: " on the issue of film and television adaptation, I have always felt that it is particularly important to be based on writers' works, just like the Paper Cavalry. The core is that the cross-legged teenager in Su Tong's novel wants to be a cavalry. The same is true of "Barefoot Doctor Wanquanhe". The most fundamental thing is that such a Wanquanhe has been created in Xiaoqing's novel, a Wanquanhe who has suffered from meningitis, has a low IQ, and is good to people from the bottom of his heart. he lives to now, old, still beautiful, still kind to people, so that the people around him warm up. This is a continuous line from the novel to the script. In the process of adaptation, Wanquan and his body really integrated into my own life. I think a good creator should be full of compassion and love for all living beings. In the handling of some plots, we do not like to write directly or give directly, some are deliberately implicit, and some deliberately create dislocation to give the audience room for thinking. we are also learning high-grossing films to find a balance between art and the box office.

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In addition, Director Fan Xiaotian also revealed: "now we have only selected some of the characters in the novel, as well as some characters and character relationships, and we can make a second, third or even fifth film in the future."

It is understood that the film "Barefoot Doctor Wanquan and" is currently in close preparation, photography, art and other departments have carried out a lot of work, is expected to start shooting in April this year. Participants said at the scene that they expected this authentic Suzhou film, which was adapted from Suzhou writers' novels, shot by Suzhou director and filmed in Suzhou, to shine again on the Chinese and world film stage.