Author of this article: Green Liu
Episode 1: Wang Glasses just has a name, and it also pays homage to "Days of Being Wild"
Episode 2: It all depends on You Benchang's magic needle, which is the style of old Shanghai.
Episode 3: Switched to the Shanghainese version, these actresses have quite an accent, Ma Yililing’s.
Episode 4: This plot is a trend-setter of the times that Noon Sunshine is good at, Shanghai version of "Mountains and Seas" + "The Pretender".
Episode 5: I saw the scene with Po in Section Chief Jin’s office and the lighting. Well, it feels a bit like Wong Kar Wai.
Episode 6: The bustling Shanghai beach, the sticky pull of favors, reform and opening up, the golden age, the good old days, retro filters. In the singing of Beyond and Fei Xiang, Cannes Best Director Kai Wai Wong arrived in front of the audience amidst the cheers of the crowd. Is
good looking?
is really beautiful. The pictures are beautiful, the people are beautiful, and the business war stock website is down to earth. What did
do?
I don’t know who will be more realistic about Wong Kar-wai’s story line. What
wants is the sense of atmosphere that makes you want to say something.
This TV series has been delayed for so long due to the producer or Wong Kar-wai himself that from the time it was announced to start filming until now, I have completely forgotten the story content in the original work. I only have a deep impression of the character Li Li. .
So watching the TV series is a completely new experience. The plot line of the TV series does not remind me of any plot in the original work. The story of the
TV series focuses on the reform and opening up trendsetters with Abao as the protagonist. They speculate in stocks, engage in foreign trade, introduce brands to the Shanghai market, and make a name for themselves in various ways. The story line of
follows the line of business war. The business war in the 1990s stirred people's hearts like the spring breeze blowing on the earth.
Behind A Bao, there is his uncle, a military advisor who can make decisions and make suggestions. He is a noble person in his life. Behind A Bao, there are many neighbors who followed him to make money by trading stocks, forming a social network with great characteristics of the times and regional style.
And Po is not the month where the stars are shining over the moon in the play. He just uses his own light to illuminate those flowers.
There are women with different postures in the play, including Lingzi played by Ma Yili, another shareholder of Abao's Hotel Night in Tokyo, who is shrewd and capable; the other is Miss Wang played by Tang Yan, an employee of a foreign trade company, lively and kind; and there is Li Li, the owner of Zhizhenyuan, is mysterious, beautiful and has extraordinary means. These women each have their own accents, charms, and blooming flowers. They are the real golden branches and jade leaves. Many characters in the original work of
have been drastically integrated, and of course there is no flavor of the original work.
However, this is not the first day you have met Wong Kar-Wai. He can make Jin Yong into "Ashes of Time", but you still expect him to make "Flowers" into Jin Yucheng's original appearance? Moreover, Jin Yucheng himself said that once the copyright is sold, it has nothing to do with him.
To say that this is a TV series that bears the imprint of Wong Kar Wai is not entirely true. The flowers bloomed in Shanghai at the beginning of the year, and the warm golden light was like the first half of Gong Er's life in "The Grandmaster". The night when Po went to Zhuji was as dark and dark as Ip Man's rainy night fight in "The Grandmaster". Is
a tribute to himself? Is it because he doesn't want to make progress? Is it because he has exhausted his talents?
After all, he is just the chief director, and his name is very high. He demonstrated how to shoot several iconic shots, and others followed suit, just like Andy Warhol's Pop paintings. Until the end of the copy, it looks like there are shadows of the original, but upon closer inspection, it becomes increasingly different. Like the original version, some are rough and some are too much.
There are also a lot of Wong Kar-wai style lines, maybe one or two in each episode. But today's actors can no longer recall the feeling of Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai's era. First, times have changed, and second, the actors' sense of belief. The same lines, when today's actors read them, seem to make a mockery of literature and art. He did not believe that the passage he read had any meaning.
Wong Kar-Wai's films are typical auteur films, with a strong personal style that maximizes the beauty of form and atmosphere, and also abuses a group of Hong Kong superstars who are at their peak acting and appearance to the extreme. At that time, European film festivals also welcomed such individual films. Even if the box office can drive investment bosses crazy, the international awards are soft.
"Flowers" is currently airing a TV series version. We don't know how much control Wong Kar-wai has as the chief director. "Flowers" is a big IP that is promoted every year, and it has big platforms on both the Internet and satellite TV. It also has a huge fan base of celebrities such as Hu Ge and Tang Yan. It is bound to have too many things to take into consideration. If you really want to watch "Wong Kar-Wai", you'd better wait for the movie version. (Be prepared to be disappointed first)
Putting aside "Wong Kar-wai", "Flowers" is still very good as a simple TV series. After all, period dramas with such exquisite and elegant settings are rare, and every character They are all shot to a new level of beauty, and the plot is not too disappointing. It’s lively and prosperous, just in time to welcome the New Year and celebrate the New Year.
