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Editor | Wine Sauce Purple
Film director Wong Kar-wai, when filming a TV series, what is the effect of this "dimensionality reduction attack"?
is awesome!
The creators of the entire Chinese drama market are probably sweating profusely at this moment.
There is no way, Wong Kar-wai single-handedly raised the standard of dramas.
The stories under his lens have a soul, the characters have a heart, and the pictures also have an atmosphere.
Watching "Flowers" is equivalent to watching a 30-episode movie, artistic and aesthetic, pleasing to the eye.
Li Li, played by Xin Zhilei, is cool and noble, and her every move is full of aura. Miss Wang, played by Tang Yan, is full of vitality and plays the role of a charming and cute Shanghai girl.
It is said that the entire drama was shot with a single camera, just to capture better light and shadow effects.
But with the update of the plot, I found that Wong Kar-wai is not only good at photographing beauties, but also secretly "driving". As soon as the sexually suggestive scenes in the play come out, you will understand what high-end is.
Abao went to Zhizhenyuan to pick up Li Li in the evening. The latter did not sit in the passenger seat, but opened the door of the back seat, full of exhaustion.
Abao asked her: "Do you want to eat?"
Li Li replied: "I just want to have a good sleep now."
She took off her shoes, and the camera captured Li Li's long legs in black stockings. A face with eyes closed and defenseless.
For a woman who has worked hard outside for a long time, the fact that she can sleep peacefully in Abao's car shows her trust and dependence on him.
It is also from here that the shots become intriguing.
Li Li kept changing his posture in the car.
Sometimes he raised his head, confused and lost, sometimes he turned over and twisted uneasily.
This is not a sleeping state, right? It's more like doing some indescribable "exercise".
Abao’s scenes also make male hormones rush to his face.
The camera scanned his arms while driving, his clear jawline, and his action of slamming on the accelerator.
Logically speaking, if Li Li was sleeping in the car, he should drive the car slower and more steadily. Why was he driving so fast?
Seeing this, it is estimated that many viewers will understand.
This person drives, not that person.
Po and Li Li had a substantial relationship that night, and driving was just Wong Kar-wai's subtle and advanced "sexual suggestion".
Moreover, the plot also hides three small details.
1. This is the first time in the whole series that Abao drives for a woman.
Because his relationship with Miss Wang and Lingzi was more than friendship, not lovers.
But he is different from Li Li. They really have a relationship.
2. Abao glanced at Li Li after getting off the car.
It's like the passion has passed, and the man looks at his woman out of care.
At this time, Li Li had lost the domineering female boss she used to be in front of others.
's eyes were moist, and his eyes were filled with emotion, which was obviously the expression of a little woman.
3. Abao got out of the car and smoked a cigarette.
In fact, in this drama, he rarely has scenes of smoking, and this time smoking was photographed by Wong Kar-Wai in such a "sexually tense" way.
Abao leaned on the car, took a deep breath from the cigarette, and then exhaled it. The smoke was lingering. Suddenly he raised his head, feeling a sense of relaxation after his desire was satisfied.
At this time, the narration sounded, and it was Abao’s voice.
He said: "I have been in and out of sorrow and joy since I was a child."
But looking at such a sentence, it seems to be nothing, but combined with everything that just happened, the sentence "in and out" seems quite ambiguous.
In fact, it is not only this scene, there was a line between Abao and Li Li before, but now that I think about it, it is also full of hints.
Li Li thanked him and said bluntly: "I originally wanted to repay Baozong's favor, but I didn't want you to waste money on both ends."
But Mr. Bao said: "Favors are owed back and forth, just like painting a wall, brush it here and there. "
Especially in the Shanghai version, the tone of the two people in this scene is provocative, just like flirting, and even their eyes are drawn.
It turns out that inadvertently, Wong Kar-wai used his clever camera language to drive so many times!
However, Li Li is not the only woman who shows mercy to men like A Bao.
Back then, he and his first love, Xuezhi, also had a lingering and pathos love story.
They secretly played with the ambiguity to the extreme on the bus. Then As the car swayed, Xuezhi kept swaying against his body, either face to face or back to back.
They were obviously wearing clothes and hugging each other, why did it look like they were naked, making people blush and heartbeat?
The reason why Wong Kar-wai makes other creators sweat is because every scene in "Flowers" is shot too high-end.
The same sexually suggestive scenes, if placed on other directors, might not even be broadcast.
Even if It was finally broadcast after deletions and deletions, and the final film must have given people an embarrassing and vulgar feeling.
For example, Zhang Han's greasy lines in "The Gentlemen of East Eighth District" are still unbearable.
There is also the passionate scene between Yang Yang and Wang Churan in "My World of Fireworks". Watching it again, it is still like a fight, making people get goosebumps all over.
It is not just this kind of "driving scene" that is well shot, Wong Kar-wai's camera language is undoubtedly textbook level, and every frame is worthy of repeated appreciation.
There is a scene in the play. After a quarrel in Tokyo at night, Reiko left, and Abao came to her home and found water leaking on the roof again.
He said This roof has been repaired for three years, and over and over again, it still leaks when it is fixed.
Because it is not the house leaking, but Reiko's heart crying.
If a woman's heart has a hole, it needs the love of a man. Repaired.
Unfortunately, Po can never be repaired.
There is also the background music in the play, everything is so appropriate.
Miss Wang is waiting for Po in the shop of pork ribs and rice cakes, bgm is Jacky Cheung's "Stealing the Heart" . When Ling Hong left Ye Tokyo and said goodbye to Reiko, played "Looking Back Again" by Jiang Yuheng.
I can only say, Wong Kar-wai, domestic dramas are blessed to have you in the audience.
A good TV series must not only work hard on the script, but also work on the details to convince the audience.
The drama "Flowers" allows people to see Wong Kar-wai's ability. He transferred the film techniques to the TV series.
is straightforward where it should be straightforward, and obscure where it should be obscure. I didn’t expect that Chinese dramas can also be filmed with an artistic sense.
Whether it is the sexual hints of Li Li and Bao or the characterization of other scenes and language, the audience's aesthetic standards have been raised again and again. It will not be easy for Chinese dramas to fool everyone in the future, but they will still be "rolled" to the level of Wong Kar Wai's selection. Bar!
So what other shots in this drama do you think are particularly eye-catching?
