Starting from December 27, the TV series "Flowers" produced by CCTV, Tencent Video, Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Fanhuali, and produced by Zedong Film will be broadcast on cctv-8 prime time, and Tencent Video will be broadcast on the entire network It will be broadcast exclusively 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. The series focuses on Shanghai in the early 1990s. It tells the story of a small person represented by A Bao (played by Hu Ge) who seizes opportunities, displays his talents, and relies on the courage to face difficulties and down-to-earth determination to rewrite his destiny and grow up. .
"Flowers" uses a realistic and romantic approach to delicately depict the lively and lively urban scene of Shanghai in the 1990s. On the surface, there are men and women eating and drinking, but on the inside, there are the mountains and rivers, the years and the various changes of the times. The play uses the advantage of images to fill in the "silence" in the original text, and uses the blank space in the series to guide the audience to find the answer in the original work. The series and the original work complement and echo each other, comprehensively display and deeply analyze the courageous, tenacious, positive and optimistic spirit of the times in the 1990s, and resonate with the struggling contemporary young people.
Hu Ge plays the male protagonist Abao.
On the surface, they are men and women who eat and drink, but on the inside they are the various styles of the times.
As the author Jin Yucheng explained the title of the book "Flowers" - "Flowers are like tiny flowers with strong vitality, like small lights flashing on a tree. This bright It smells like that in the dark." In Shanghai in the 1990s, the air was full of opportunities and hope. A Bao, Lingzi (played by Ma Yili), Miss Wang (played by Tang Yan), and Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei) were striving for the top. Young people are the swaying flowers of that era. They have tasted the bitterness and sweetness of struggle, experienced the ups and downs and entanglements of career and emotions, and used their ups and downs of life to create a legendary group of Shanghai's trend-setting children. In that era when everyone was vying for the top spot, the protagonists of "Flowers" wrote their respective lives in Shanghai's Jinxian Road, No. 7 on the Bund, and Huanghe Road. The lives that intersect in these great eras tell not only the past of Shanghai, but also the story of an era.
The setting of Jinxian Road in the drama has an authentic Shanghai gang flavor. In the early 1990s, Abao and Reiko jointly opened a restaurant "Night Tokyo" full of urban smoke and smoke here. As a female boss, Reiko is versatile, capable, affectionate and righteous. Hu Ge joked: "Lingzi and Abao are like Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie. Sun Wukong is Lingzi, who has great supernatural powers and overcomes obstacles ahead." The foreign trade company at No. 27 on the Bund is where Miss Wang, played by Tang Yan, works. Ms. Wang represents the first group of female white-collar workers to enter society in the 1990s, who are fashionable and independent. In the play, her relationship with A Bao is like the minute hand and the second hand, moving hand in hand in the torrent of time; on the turbulent Yellow River Road, Li Li, who sits in the top restaurant "Zhi Zhen Yuan", has a strong aura and mysterious background. The relationship between Bao and Bao is like the sea and the blue sky. They seem far away, but they are mirror images of each other...
and the original work complement each other, showing the enterprising spirit of the times
As for how Bao became a trend-setter of the times overnight, the original work did not mention it. But the series can be filled with images. The blank space in the series will guide the audience to find the answer in the original work. Through this kind of mutual complementation and mutual support between the drama series and the original work, the spirit of the times of the 1990s is comprehensively displayed and deeply analyzed.
"Flowers" shows the struggle history of Abao and others.
In the play "Flowers", whether it is the main characters A Bao, Ling Zi, Miss Wang, Li Li, or group characters such as hotel waiters, retail store owners, factory owners, foreign trade agents, car drivers, etc., every ordinary person has different characteristics. The energy to admit defeat and not give up. They challenge business opponents, technological changes, and individual destiny without fear of failure and smile at life. According to director Wong Kar-wai, "Flowers" is about the times. Hu Ge said that the actors in "Flowers" were actually his fathers, and he learned more about that era through the stories of his fathers. “It was a time of great opportunity.As long as you are diligent enough, you can change your destiny through your hard work and sweat. ""Flowers" is based on the brave, tenacious, optimistic and positive spirit of the times. Through the life experiences of ordinary people such as Abao and Lingzi who face difficulties and work hard, it reaches spiritual resonance and empathy with the current audience.
new Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie
editor Tong Na
proofreading Zhai Yongjun
