Last night, the TV series "Flowers" premiered. It has been ten years since director Wong Kar-wai and writer Jin Yucheng first met. "At the end, he asked me: Director, you are famous for being a slow worker. Can you be successful in ten years? I told him that I will try my best." At the premiere of "Flowers", Wong Kar-wai recalled through the video During that meeting, "In the past ten years, we have been crossing the river by feeling for the stones just like Po in the TV series." He said that the TV series "Flowers" was about things between 1993 and 1994, " 1994 was a fruitful year. Thirty years have passed, and I hope that everyone’s 2024 will be as beautiful and full of flowers."
Caption: Official stills of "Flowers" (the same below)
"Flowers as full of flowers"
" "Blooming Flowers", after watching four episodes, it turns out that this is not only Wong Kar-wai's blessing to the audience, but also the most direct first impression we can give of this TV series.
It was one day in 2010 that Jin Yucheng decided to write "Flowers". That day, he passed by an intersection on his way to work and found an old woman setting up a stall. After a closer look, he discovered that he knew this woman. "She was a beauty from the Jing'an Temple area in the 1970s, just like "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" Marlena in "Flowers." Compared with the desolate meaning of the novel "Flowers" withered, Wong Kar-wai's TV series "Flowers" is like a brocade. From the pictures to the story, it is warm, gorgeous, vigorous, and high-spirited. In the rolling wave of reform and opening up, A Bao (played by Hu Ge) is versatile. After receiving the guidance from his uncle, he "focused on foreign trade with his right hand and stocks with his left hand" and became "Mr. Bao"; Lingzi (played by Ma Yili), the proprietress of "Night Tokyo" Sharp, business-like, and dazzling shrewdness lies behind a deep friendship; Miss Wang (played by Tang Yan), as the "first generation white-collar worker" in Shanghai in the play, has a big head, dares to think and work hard; Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei) is more He came to Shanghai alone and opened Zhizhenyuan, the premier luxury restaurant on the most prosperous Yellow River Road, with flaming red lips and ruthless skills... In the torrent of the times, they are all "flowers" one after another. ".
Fireworks in the World
From this point of view, apart from the gorgeous scenes shot by Oscar-winning best photographer Bao Dexi, "Flowers" also has its own commercial fireworks. No matter how big the business is, no matter how smart the suit is, no matter how noisy Huanghe Road is, Mr. Bao would rather go back to Jinxian Road late at night and eat a bowl of "stomach-sucking" rice at the somewhat old round table. There are also a lot of exquisite historical details: the pork ribs rice cake, braised water, turtle stewed chicken on the dinner table, the sewing machine, woolen sweaters, footcloth in the room, the stacks of subscription certificates symbolizing wealth, and the money from the Peace Hotel Looking out from the suite, there were not yet many high-rise buildings, but the Bund had already "grown" half of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Each of these distant yet familiar scenes brings the slightly older local viewers back to the past. In addition, there is the vivid scene of Tao Tao (played by Chen Long), a young boy, repeatedly handing over his belongings when Po needs it most and being chased and scolded by his family; the business experience of Mr. Ge (played by Chen Guoqing), the "renter", when renting a house, Tao Tao is a single woman. The attentive appearance of the tenants running around; Lingzi, who ran to Zhujiajiao early in the morning in bright clothes to hold a "shareholders meeting" with Mr. Bao, sometimes showing off her righteousness and sometimes pretending to be "turning her back", is a man and woman who eats and drinks. The trivial daily life is also a fireworks world unique to this city. Before
took root and blossomed
was released, many people worried that Wong Kar-wai had never made a TV series before and that the finished film would be too slow and the story too scattered. Now it seems that I have to worry too much. The dense information and abundant details of "Flowers" make people dizzy, and even if they are distracted even a little, they will not be able to follow the development of the plot. Before the broadcast, Wong Kar-wai said that words have the advantage of words, and images have the advantages of images. "As a drama, the most ups and downs and the most representative character should be Po. What makes Po become President Po?" , became the trend-setter of the times overnight, but it is not reflected in the book. We can "fill in the blanks" and complement each other."Thus, from a young man chasing dreams to a big businessman with a dent in his chest, Hu Ge presented the changes in the characters delicately, clearly, and plumply, including the scenes where he was dressed up by his "uncle" and washed up after a car accident and returned to the world. , some connotations of "Days of Being Wild" have already appeared in a trance.
For loyal readers of the novel "Flowers", we must admit that most of the characters in the play, even if they use the names in the novel, they have changed from The personality, temperament, and even the background of the characters are completely different from the original work. The TV series "Flowers" is the "word of the family" given by Wong Kar-wai. But we are also pleased to see that these names are now intensively unfolding the complicated and confusing character relationships and launching a new relationship. , a high-spirited and beautiful story about the struggles of ordinary people in Shanghai. In a moment of relaxation, the TV series "Flowers" has given birth to its own new branches and started its own new life. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Sun Jiayin)
