God, what kind of wealth makes a drama become a hot search topic from 2023 to 2024?
The lineup of this drama is hard to say whether it is the year-end masterpiece of 2023 or the new year's masterpiece of 2024. It is rare for domestic TV dramas to have such a big lineup. After airing 20 episodes, the score is finally 8.1.
Shanghai people are crazy. Some people say this is Shanghai in the 1990s. Some people say that they have lived in Shanghai for decades and have never seen a few women on the Yellow River Road.
The top film director, Sunglasses King, is finally renovating the TV drama industry.
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In Shanghai in 1992, some people took advantage of the wind, while others returned to zero in half a day.
htmlIn the 1990s, Huanghe Road in Shanghai was filled with big figures in the business world. It's no exaggeration. Except for Shanghainese, this is the information exchange point for almost half of China's business circles.The male protagonist A Bao (played by Hu Ge) relied on noble people and courage step by step to become a well-known Mr. Bao on the Yellow River Road.
Some people say that anyone who pulled a rickshaw in Shanghai in the 1990s could earn a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan.
Shanghai at that time was full of opportunities and hopes. When the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew through this land, it brought a bloody storm of business.
Shanghai's famous "top" prison, Tilanqiao Prison, walked out of an old man, Uncle Ye (played by You Benchang). The first time Abao and his uncle met, he was taught a lesson by him: capital operation. .
The old mage leads the way, and it is naturally soaring with the east wind. And this also became the key moment for him to become Mr. Bao in the next few years.
If there is only one male lead in this drama, it is undoubtedly our boss.
Under the careful layout of Sunglasses King, Bao is always a person who values friendship. Therefore, three women appeared who helped him a lot in business planning.
The first one is Wang Mingzhu (played by Tang Yan), an export salesperson of a foreign trade company.
When the two first met, Po was still a Hong Kong business representative, a young man in charge of running business. At that time, Miss Wang was still doing the hardest work of moving bricks in a foreign trade company.
The second one is Lingzi (played by Ma Yili).
Reiko is a restaurant handyman whom Po met by chance when he was pursuing business in Japan. However, this handyman is not simple. On the night they first met, she lent her luck to Mr. Bao.
The third place is Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei), a businesswoman from Shenzhen.
The restaurants on Huanghe Road were full, and as soon as Golden Phoenix closed down, Li Li suddenly appeared with a restaurant named Zhizhenyuan, causing rumors to spread all over the place.
The emergence of Zhizhenyuan seems to have stirred up the layout of restaurants along Huanghe Road. But behind the scenes, Mr. Bao's originally decisive career has become turbulent and shocking.
The relationship between Mr. Bao and the people around him has also begun an unprecedented test since the emergence of Zhizhenyuan. This is a story about Shanghai on a new night of revelry and feasting.
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When the show was officially announced, some netizens made wonderful predictions: Will "Flowers" be a big hit or a flop?
At present, it seems that the polarization is very serious.
As we all know, Wong Kar-wai has always maintained a superb level in his previous film works.
Among the top 250 movies on Douban, "Happy Together" (no.89), "Chungking Express" (no.110), "In the Mood for Love" (no.154), "Days of Being Wild" (no.246), Wang The director alone owns 4 films.
The only director who can surpass him on this list is probably Ang Lee.
But as a TV series, can a top film director make it good?
I have to say that when the book appears in the first scene, the classic flavor returns.
light and shadow transformation, classic frame extraction, almost perfect composition, no nonsense scene scheduling, TV series can also be shot at the pace of movies, right? ?
Shanghai's wealthy and revelers are perfectly captured in his shots.
I have to say that Xin Zhilei in Wong Kar-wai's lens once again made her mark with her hairstyle.
I used to want to get a haircut of the same style as Xin Zhilei, but now I want to get a perm of the same style as Xin Zhilei.
The moment Reiko received the ticket and the BGM sounded in episode 16, this TV series reminded people of the classic "Chungking Express" 30 years ago.
Hong Kong has a California dream one night.
There is a night in Tokyo in Shanghai.
The dream linkage goes far beyond that. In the episode 14 recalling Abao and his first love Xuezhi (played by Du Juan), the background music is "Jungle Drums" from "Days of Being Wild".
Whether it was the original Xuezhi or the later Beidi, she was also a woman that Mr. Bao couldn't get enough of in his life.
In addition to the wonderful cast of this drama, the soundtrack is also top-notch.
And every part of the music perfectly fits the plot at that moment.
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In the original work "Flowers", there are actually three male story lines, but in the changes in the drama version, only Po's line is left.
Moreover, the story of Po and the settings of the characters related to him have been greatly adapted. This is also what makes many original writers dissatisfied.
To be honest, when I watched the first few episodes, I was a little disappointed with the progress of the plot. It seems that one thing has been talked about over and over again for several days, but it still hasn't been explained clearly.
At that time, I whispered: I don’t really like it.
On the one hand, there are too many interior scenes and concentrated mid- and close-range characterizations. This method is rare in the creation of TV series.
On the other hand, it is because there are fewer and fewer TV series that need to be enjoyed at a slow pace, and there is a slight burden on the pace. It can be seen that Director Wang is working very hard to guide the audience to adapt to a new movie-style melodrama layout.
Until the 10th episode, what I thought was a small climax appeared, and the relationship between people in the plot officially entered a confusing stage.
all said that the Shanghai version is more exciting than the Mandarin version. It was also from this part that I started watching the Shanghai version.
Everyone knows that this is a plot that was officially announced to be filmed three years ago, and many new actors have joined the Wong Kar-Wai Victim Alliance.
There are some Easter eggs in this drama, but in the official Weibo of "Flowers", they were seriously sharing stories about Shanghai during that period three years ago.
I have to say that Wong Kar-wai’s understanding of Shanghai in the 1990s is really a bit like that of Director Guo’s childhood, but this is not a derogatory sense.
After all, only today do we realize that our childhood was really the life of the upper class in Shanghai.
In Mr. Bao and his business story, it was not a small era, but a blossoming of flowers in the context of a big era.
