Research On TV Works Of Director Guo Jingyu

Recently,the period legends directed by Guo Jingyu played well on screens,thus the audience rating running at record levels.Therefore,the craze of legends spreads and the influence of directors greatly advances,which has caught the attention and research of Chinese scholars.The creative process of director Guo Jingyu can be understood from a general view by presenting the TV works directed by Guo Jingyu in each phase,taking the concrete teleplays as the main research object and dividing the process of creation into exploration stage of the development,stage of police spy drama and stage of the period legends according to the time nodes in which the TV works reflected different characteristics in each phase.All of these can help people understand and master the creative process of Guo Jingyu’s works from a general view and Guo Jingyu has formed his specific artistic mode.In terms of the time of the stories,Guo Jingyu prefers to set the stories in the tottering and turbulent ages,especially from the end of the Qing dynasty to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.Under the environments of families,nations and the whole society,he has regarded the traditional culture like the patriotism,loyalty and filial piety,and chivalry and magnanimity as the topics ofthe stories.In shaping the characters,he prefers to shape the growing characters.In the stories,as a nobody,the protagonist must experience setbacks and ups and downs of the life and finally can become a folk hero.In storytelling,he does well in establishing complicated character relationship and setting the suspense and sharp conflicts under multiple contradictions.Therefore,the plots are always inviting with lots of twists and turns.In scene-setting,he prefers the scenes,such as the courtyard,the ancestral temple,the Buddhist temple,the execution ground,the jail and the cave,which appear the most in his works.What’s more,the fixed actor team and production team are gradually founded during his career of filming.All of those important factors contribute to Guo Jingyu’s success.