Starting from December 27, the highly anticipated New Year's Eve drama "Flowers" will be launched on CCTV8 prime time, exclusively broadcast on Tencent Video, and will be broadcast on Dragon TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV on January 2. The play is adapted from writer Jin Yucheng's "Five One Project" and the Mao Dun Literary Award-winning novel of the same name. It is produced and directed by Wong Kar-wai and stars Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan and Xin Zhilei. A grand premiere will be held in Shanghai at 17:30 tonight. Not only will all the actors appear, but Wong Kar-wai will also deliver surprises from afar. Viewers can watch the live broadcast simultaneously through Tencent Video.
The play focuses on Shanghai during the great changes of the times, with cross-narratives around A Bao, showing the ups and downs of life of the trend-setting children in Shanghai's prosperous business world in the early 1990s. The core of "Flowers" begins with people but does not end with them. The contemporary nature behind the characters has always been the creative theme of the play. In order to accurately present the sense of the times behind the story, director Wong Kar-wai has repeatedly refined the script, casting, costumes, lighting effects, etc. The crew has been preparing for six years, striving to bring the audience into the 1990s. Shanghai’s customs, customs and the atmosphere of the era of rapid economic development. The
TV series "Flowers" projects the story perspective to the early 1990s, when the great times began to emerge. As a frontier of economic development, Shanghai was at the forefront of economic development, and all walks of life showed a vigorous and upward vigor. Director Wong Kar-Wai said in the trailer that Po, who had nothing, turned around in ten years and became the all-powerful President Bao. "In addition to his personal struggle, he also needs the blessing of the times." The play begins with the fate of a small person in the context of a big era. , showing the vitality of countless Abao in the cross-section of the times, how will it finally fall back into the innovative expression of the times?
All curiosity and questions will be answered in the TV series "Flowers". It is reported that in addition to the Mandarin version, the Shanghai-language version of "Flowers" will also be launched on Tencent Video in the near future. The actors said in the latest trailer that using Shanghainese to present the story and characters makes them more approachable and realistic, and the language expression has more local expressiveness, and has a different flavor from the Mandarin version.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Yang Wenjie
editor/Gong Lifang
