"Flowers" poster
Before the broadcast of "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai, everyone knew that the drama was adapted from Jin Yucheng's novel "Flowers". Everyone also wanted to know how Jin Yucheng's novel "Flowers" was used to describe the Shanghai city and the changes of the times. Photography by Wong Kar-Wai. However, after the trailer for the drama version of "Flowers" was released, people discovered that this was not Jin Yucheng's "Flowers". As the series aired, people further discovered that apart from the name, there was no connection between the series and the novel.
Jin Yucheng's "Flowers" belongs to Jin Yucheng, and Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" belongs to Wong Kar-wai. If you forget Jin Yucheng's "Flowers", you will find that Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" is an excellent business war drama: since the series was broadcast, it has staged the Qilin Club 414 stock incident, the Sanyang T-shirt sales incident, and the Zhizhen Park is based on the Huanghe Road incident, etc. Judging from the follow-up forecasts, there should be incidents such as jeans order incidents and apparel company listing incidents. This back-and-forth business war reflects the ups and downs of a group of trend-setters in the 1990s. What's more important is that every confrontation is not a business war for the sake of business war. The director captured the various aspects of life in it.
For example, the Qilin Club 414 stock incident. In the early days of the stock market, Qilin Club was a mysterious existence that Shanghai investors looked up to. Abao also tried to join it under the recommendation of Commander Cai, but he "taken the blame" for Commander Cai in the test of the Qilin Club, and even suffered a car accident for this. This is the main line of this incident, and throughout the entire incident, Cai The cowardice of the commander and the singer Jin Fenghuang and Fagen's madness for wealth show people's uncontrollable greed in the tide of the times from both the emotional and financial aspects. However, Commander Cai and Fagen are not just paper figures. , Commander Cai feels ashamed of his family and A Bao, and Fa Gen just wants to make himself and the people around him rich, and leave the guarantee of food and clothing for his deaf-mute son.
In the Sanyang T-shirt sales incident, the absurdity between Mr. Fan, played by Dong Yong, and Mr. Wei, played by Zheng Kai, made the process twists and turns, and even full of jokes. Mr. Fan wanted to promote himself, and Mr. Wei wanted to be in the limelight. There were many misunderstandings between the two. In particular, Dong Yong's subversive performance makes Mr. Fan, a textile factory director who comes to Shanghai from a "small place" to look for business opportunities, vivid, a little serious and a little cunning, and has a soft figure, all for his own business. For the audience, this is also a wave of "memory killing". Abao used the star effect to let Fei Xiang ignite "a fire in the winter" in Shanghai United.
In the incident of Zhizhenyuan establishing its foothold on Huanghe Road, Li Li was very popular when he first arrived on Huanghe Road. The hotel he ran, Zhizhenyuan, was also boycotted by other restaurants on Huanghe Road. Lu Meilin, who runs Jin Meilin, led a group of proprietresses. He also made an appointment with his ex, Du Honggen, to stay in Zhizhen Garden, but because of an IOU for gambling money, they could only leave in despair. This IOU belongs to Du Honggen. In his subsequent quarrel with Lu Meilin, the audience has enough to understand their previous story. Lu Meilin worked hard, but was completely defeated by Du Honggen. Du Honggen, who just threatened Li Li with force, She also shed tears when this past incident was brought up, which included both regret for herself and guilt for Lu Meilin. In the
drama version of "Flowers", Wong Kar-wai's aesthetic shots immerse people in the light and shadow rarely seen in TV dramas, and the suspenseful business war also attracted the audience's attention. However, in addition to the protagonist, these supporting characters are also the details that make up the entire drama. Together with the plot description and the actors' wonderful performances, they make this business war drama richer and full of human touch.
There should be many viewers who saw "human feelings" in Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers". In the play, Abao values love and righteousness, whether it is Tao Tao, Commander Cai, Lingzi, etc. whom he has known since childhood, or Li Li, whom he has just met. But in fact, these friends have also treated him with love and righteousness. Tao Tao believed in Ah Bao time and time again and lent his property to Ah Bao for investment; Commander Cai held on to Ah Bao at the most critical moment without hesitation, and did not complain even when his feet became disabled; Lingzi reached out to help Ah Bao when he was trapped in Japan. Give him a handful. In the play, Po's love is not one-way, he has also received it from others.On the Yellow River Road, businessmen in Zhenyuan mingled with each other, and on Jinxian Road in Tokyo at night, there were also a group of old friends exchanging glasses of wine, sitting around the same table, but with completely different motives and emotions.
"Flowers" is currently airing amid controversy, and a large part of the controversy comes from the comparison between the drama version and the original work. But some viewers may have discovered in the process of watching the drama that Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" is actually not bad.
Reporter: Jiang Dan Editor: Xing Yuan Proofreader: Liu Tian
