If you want to say that the most popular work in the film and television industry recently, it must be the TV series "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring several well-known actors such as Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei, etc.
01 "Flowers" has a polarizing reputation. The actor said that no one believed that he was going to finish filming.
"Flowers" is also Wong Kar-wai's first TV series. At present, the show has aired 18 episodes, but the reputation of this show is polarized. People who don't like it think it's incomprehensible, but people who like it regard it as a masterpiece.
On January 4, the drama "Flowers" became a hot search again. The hotly searched term for this drama this time is "No one believes it is going to be finished." Regarding this hot search, netizens have ridiculed that this is Director Wang's style.
Speaking of this, we have to mention Wong Kar-wai, a master-level existence among literary film directors. Speaking of which, the reason why Wong Kar-wai filmed "Flowers" may also be related to his ancestral home and birthplace in Shanghai.
Wong Kar-wai was born in Shanghai in 1958. When he was 5 years old, he followed his parents to Hong Kong to develop. At that time, his father was a sailor and often wandered at sea, leaving Wong Kar-wai and his mother in Hong Kong to depend on each other.
At that time, Wong Kar-wai’s mother loved watching movies and would often take her young son with her, which left an indissoluble bond between Wong Kar-wai and movies. After growing up, Wong Kar-wai was admitted to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, majoring in graphic design.
However, at that time, Wong Kar-wai was crazy about photography. After graduation, he did not work in this major for long. He soon chose to join TVB and became a screenwriter. After learning the skills required for screenwriting Then he chose to leave.
Perhaps because of his extraordinary talent, Wong Kar-wai served as the screenwriter for the film "Colorful Clouds" for the first time, and this was also his first official entry into the film industry. Later, with his superb screenwriting skills, he collaborated with more and more big names, and also met his good friend Liu Zhenwei.
Lau Chun-wai is also a well-known director in Hong Kong. He has produced many well-known films such as "The Gambler", "Black Rose vs. Black Rose", and "Westward Journey". He was also Wong Kar-wai's first talent, and even saved Wong Kar-wai's life.
At that time, Hong Kong film tycoon Tang Guangrong invited Liu Zhenwei to join his film and television company. At that time, Liu Zhenwei immediately recommended his good friend Wong Kar-wai. At the beginning, Deng Guangrong was also very optimistic about Wong Kar-wai, the future film master.
It’s just that Wong Kar-wai is famous for his procrastination in making movies. He once made the famous movie "Carmen". Although it won many awards and had a good box office, Deng Guangrong suffered a loss. Later, Deng Guangrong invested 4,000,000 in Wong Kar-Wai's "Days of Being Wild" and even went to the hospital out of anger.
The most interesting thing is that when Wong Kar-wai was filming "Ashes of Time", the investors were Taiwanese gang members. This movie invited Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong, Brigitte Lin and many other big names, and it took three years to shoot.
When investors saw this situation, they didn't know that they were losing money. If this loss happened, Wong Kar-wai would be in trouble. So in order to save Wong Kar-wai's life, Liu Zhenwei immediately came to the rescue and spent 27 days filming the comedy "East and West", but it turned out to be a dark horse at the box office that year.
02Investors and actors who were cheated by Wong Kar-wai in those years
can say that Liu Zhenwei saved Wong Kar-wai's life in disguise. However, this incident also made Wong Kar-wai's reputation among Hong Kong investors notoriously bad. In addition to the investors who were deceived, the actors were also deceived.
It is said that when Wong Kar-wai is filming a movie, he often does not give the actors scripts or tell them how to act. Just let the actors keep acting and then not give them a pass. Over and over again, this almost drove the big-name actors crazy.
What’s interesting is that once Wong Kar-wai shot more than a dozen pictures in a row, saying that he wanted to find the actor in his best condition. When the actor was exhausted, he finally adopted the first one, which almost made the person involved angry. cry. However, it is precisely this kind of excellence that made him a generation of film masters.
all say that Wong Kar-wai made Tony Leung Chiu-wai a success. Although this sentence is true, Tony Leung Chiu-wai also resented him deeply. Tony Leung's acting skills were not honed, but forced out by Wong Kar-wai. Once in "In the Mood for Love", Tony Leung was forced to eat 26 bowls of noodles in a row.
"Wong Kar-wai doesn't seem to like me?" This is what Tony Leung once cried and complained to his wife Carina Lau, which shows how deeply he resents Wong Kar-wai. It was not until Tony Leung evolved later that when filming "The Grandmaster", Zhang Ziyi, who was working with him for the first time, was very scared.
After all, Wong Kar-wai's filming was really difficult to understand. Then Tony Leung smiled and said to Zhang Ziyi, "Don't be nervous. We have all done it fifty or sixty times. This made Zhang Ziyi relax. Later, Zhang Ziyi also relied on this movie to make a comeback. Won multiple movie queen positions.
In addition, Jacky Cheung was also beaten to death by Wong Kar Wai. At that time, investors hired Jacky Cheung, one of the Four Kings, to star in "Days of Being Wild" for the sake of box office. At that time, Jacky Cheung ate dozens of plates of pasta in a row, and in the end Wong Kar-wai didn't spare a single scene.
When filming "Happy Together", Leslie Cheung originally rejected Wong Kar-wai because he had a concert. Unexpectedly, Wong Kar-wai said it didn't matter and he could leave if he wanted. As a result, after Leslie Cheung arrived in Argentina, his passport was detained by Wong Kar-wai, and he had no time to rest at all, which caused Leslie Cheung to become seriously ill.
03 The score of "Flowers" is as high as 8.1, it is worth watching
In addition, there are countless actors who have been tricked by Wong Kar-wai, such as Brigitte Lin, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, etc., Carina Lau, Chang Chen and other acting schools, who are continuously known as the most beautiful women in Hong Kong Li Jiaxin is no exception. Director Wang is so "scheming" but makes people flock to him.
It can be said that the reason why no one on the crew of "Flowers" dared to believe that they had finished filming this time was because Wong Kar-wai himself had tricked the actors in the past. Of course, this is not to criticize Wong Kar-wai, but to praise Wong Kar-wai's meticulous filming in disguise.
At present, the TV series "Flowers" is still very classic. If nothing else, it is worth watching for so many big names. Not to mention that there is Mr. You Benchang, a ceiling-level veteran actor in it.
Mr. You Benchang is 90 years old this year, and this may be his last screen work. Currently, "Flowers" has a rating of 8.1 on a rating website. Although the reputation is polarized, it is indeed worth watching.
Compared with the current impetuous film and television industry, Wong Kar-wai's filming habits are out of place, but only by working carefully can he produce high-quality films. Compared with those film and television dramas with crude costumes, poor acting skills, and exaggerated plots, isn't "Flowers" worth watching?
I don’t know what you guys think about the fact that no one in the cast of "Flowers" believes that they have finished filming?
