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The documentary series, My Legacy, tells about the challenges and achievements of eight public figures — agronomist Yuan Longping (main picture), actor Wang Jingchun (from left), fourtime Olympic table tennis champion Deng Yaping, artist Zhang Xiaogang, actress Shu Qi, composer Chen Qigang, Chinese UFC champion Zhang Weili and pop idol Kris Wu. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Personal portrayals of superstars
A new documentary series takes an intimate look at eight largerthanlife public figures, Xu Fan reports.
gronomist Yuan Long restrained, bystanderstyle perspec ping received the Medal tive to document the lesserknown of the Republic, the high sides of those celebrities, producing est state honor, from Pres a truly human touch. identA Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of Some segments reveal how vul the People in Beijing on Sept 29, nerable and sensitive these celebri 2019. ties are outside of the limelight. Two days later, the country cele Shu Qi, who won best actress at brated the 70th anniversary of its the 10th Asian Film Awards for the founding with a grand parade, martial arts arthouse film, The which was one of the most antici Assassin, recalls one of the darkest pated events among Chinese peo chapters of her life, when she ran ple. away from home as a teenager. But Yuan didn’t stay in the capital Audiences can see the star trying to watch the parade. Instead, he to shake off these unpleasant child quickly returned to Hunan prov hood memories, including by writ ince’s capital, Changsha, on the ing the film script, The Girl, which night he received the award. reflects a young woman’s loneliness The documentary series, My Leg and suffering. acy, which was released on July 6, Movie fans may be surprised to follows Yuan to unravel the “mys discover that Wang Jingchun, who tery” as to why. won best actor at the 69th Berlin The answer is that the 90yearold International Film Festival for So scientist was eager to inspect his Long, My Son, is a fashionable experimental crops. gourmet with a passion for read The series also documents the ing. challenges and achievements of sev “Wang reads books every day and en other public figures — respective writes book reports twice a week. I ly, composer Chen Qigang; actress The camera crew couldn’t find too expensive, and he fed his wife a believe that helps him vividly por Shu Qi; actor Wang Jingchun; pop Yuan when they were set for the first hawthorn candy. tray different characters on film and idol Kris Wu; artist Zhang Xiao shoot with him. “Yuan’s children and grandchil TV,” says Yang Yueqiang, director of gang; fourtime Olympic table ten Fortunately, they stumbled upon dren usually gather for dinners at the episode about Wang. nis champion Deng Yaping; and Yuan when they came to a field to his home during weekends and holi Lin depicts Kris Wu, who has Chinese UFC champion Zhang film local farmers transplanting rice days,” says Lai Zhangping, another nearly 51 million followers on the Weili. seedlings. director, who was in charge of the Twitterlike Sina Weibo, as a “work It explores various facets of our “It was only a few days from the episode. aholic”. era through examining the lives of 2019 Lunar New Year, but he still “The three girls were a bit shy at Lin cites an instance in which Wu icons from different fields, the pro insisted on checking the rice with first. But they soon relaxed and gig sent a barrage of WeChat messages ducers say. out informing any of his assistants,” gled sometimes while recalling the at 2 am to his audio engineer to Yuan was the most difficult to get Lin says. interesting moments with their make tiny revisions to his record to agree. “You can see in his face how much grandfather. You can really sense ing. “We had spent a long time per he cares about it.” the family’s affection and connec Lin says the star clearly under suading Yuan,” producer Lin Jing The crew traveled with Yuan for tion.” stands the rapid changes in showbiz jing recalls. over half a year to catch some rarely The director was particularly circles, and has been working hard “He’s very busy. So, we needed to seen moments for the 40minute The documentary explores various facets of the era through impressed by a moment during to achieve breakthroughs amid follow his schedule and adjust our episode. examining the lives of icons from different fields. Yuan’s 90th birthday celebration, great stress. script with all the unpredictable The footage reveals Yuan is not which was attended by hundreds of “All the celebrities have a changes.” only a globally celebrated agricul people. unique influence in their own “The father of hybrid rice” has ture expert but also a romantic Yuan cut the first piece of cake fields, but they’re also affected devoted his life to the research, husband and a caring grandfa and immediately gave his wife the and reshaped by the era,” says Jin application and popularization of ther. The documentary adopts a restrained, first bite. Hui, director of the production hybridrice technology. In the opening scenes of the first Despite his hectic schedule, Yuan company, Haoyu Zhishi Studio of His greatest achievement enabled episode, which is devoted to Yuan, bystanderstyle perspective to document has developed an “exercise pro Tencent News. China to feed nearly a fifth of the his three granddaughters recall the lesserknown sides of those celebrities, gram” to train his brain. “The shooting allowed us to delve global population with less than 9 stories about their grandfather He plays mahjong with friends deep into (the celebrities’) hearts. percent of the world’s arable land. and say that he’s most concerned producing a truly human touch.” for an hour at 8 pm every evening. You see they are, in some respects, China is the world’s largest rice with their English and math stud And like ordinary Chinese, he like most of us. They face their own Zhu Linqing, executive producer producer, and the major staple for ies. laughs when he wins and doesn’t struggles and confusions, which res over 60 percent of Chinese is the The grandkids recall that when hide his disappointment when he onates with all of us.” “protagonist” that has dominated Yuan traveled to Hong Kong with loses. Yuan’s life for nearly seven dec his family, he tried to buy his wife a Executive producer Zhu Lingqing Contact the writer at ades. new watch but didn’t because it was says the documentary adopts a [email protected]
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