"Flowers" is so awesome. The ratings of
exceeded 2 on the first day it was launched, ranking first in the popularity list and creating a wave of excitement across the country.
has been online for 10 days today and has won 10 daily crowns. It has become the fourth drama in history to have a platform popularity of over 3,000. This trend has even reached reality.
The search rate for "Spare Ribs Rice Cake" has soared 7 times, and even the same version of "Flowers" is available in the city walk.
Not to mention word of mouth.
8.1 opened out of the crowd, but a few days later it rose instead of falling and reached 8.2.
The 20-year-old Hu Ge has "Fairy Sword", the 30-year-old Hu Ge has "Nirvana in Fire", and the 40-year-old Hu Ge has "Flowers".
works great!
As for the reason for the success of "Flowers", in addition to Hu Ge's personal charm, the other half of the credit is of course the helmsman Wong Kar-wai.
This top boss in the film industry is now in the TV series, which is a proper dimensionality reduction attack.
"Flowers" took 3 years to prepare and shoot for 3 years. It was completed 4 times. Xin Zhilei was afraid that she would have to shoot it for the rest of her life.
How many people are waiting to see Wong Kar-Wai's jokes? Within minutes of the show being released, they were busy posting negative reviews and sensationalizing it.
But the truth is often such a slap in the face.
Wong Kar-wai achieved "Flowers", achieved Hu Ge, and proved his absolute ability to be glorious.
The light and shadow are beautiful, the picture is harmonious and elegant, the characters are vivid and surging, and the narrative is exquisite.
This is the last hit movie of 2023 and the first drama of 2024.
Yesterday, Fanhua was updated to episode 22. Halfway through the process of
, changes have taken place in the lives of Li Li, Miss Wang, and Lingzi, and the stock war between Mr. Bao and the Shenzhen Gang has also begun, becoming more and more exciting.
A big battle, three lines of narrative, it is dizzying to watch.
After watching the last ten minutes of episode 22, I was fascinated by Wong Kar-wai's "little fun" -
No wonder you are a director from Hong Kong, you are so good at filming romance.
In these two episodes, Mr. Bao has to face off against Qiang Mujie from the Shenzhen Gang.
The latter came to Shanghai with 200 million to play the game. Mr. Bao thought hard and didn't know what medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he could only ask Li Li to find out.
At this time, Qiang Mujie had already greeted Li Li when he first arrived in Shanghai, but Li Li still told Mr. Bao about the news of "buying the company".
Mr. Bao reached an agreement with Li Li in order to express gratitude and benefit, and bought Li Li's information at an 18% commission.
Later, Mr. Bao deduced two targets, 601 and 603, but did not know which one was the main attacker and which one was the cover. Qiang Mujie also noticed that Li Li was secretly communicating and ran to Zhizhenyuan to threaten them.
Li Li chose the latter between friendship and love.
Li Li told Mr. Bao the information about 601. Mr. Ke Bao was suspicious by nature and actually chose 603 in the opposite direction.
As a result, 601 increased, and 603 lost more than 2 million.
Then, Mr. Bao immediately changed his investment in 601. Although he was locked up with 800,000 shares, Li Li told him the final price through the message "Dry Roasted Niuhe 40 yuan/share".
Bao always vomited while eating from 37 yuan. He vomited before 42 yuan and escaped, making a lot of money.
But on the other side, the police became aware of the behind-the-scenes operation and summoned Li Li and Qiang Mujie in the name of "manipulating the stock market" and detained them in a cold interrogation room for 24 hours.
At the same time that Li Li was summoned, Zhizhenyuan employees made a big fuss because it happened to be a payday. The whole restaurant was in chaos. Not a single customer came to the huge Zhizhenyuan.
Just when the time came, Mr. Bao strode into the hotel from the main entrance. Instead of going to the private room, he ate a meal of hot vegetables and white rice in the most obvious place.
Mr. Bao's appearance was like a ballast stone, and the noise suddenly subsided a bit.
Then Li Li was released. Mr. Bao greeted him respectfully and then opened the trunk and took out several suitcases filled with banknotes.
settled the salaries of employees in piles of piles, which made Lu Meilin across the way so angry that she was so angry.
escaped, and Li Li was exhausted both physically and mentally.
She got into Mr. Bao's car and leaned lazily on the door:
"I just want to have a good sleep now."
Li Li took off all his guard and fell asleep peacefully in Mr. Bao's back seat.
At this time, Wang Jie's "You Are the Forever Pain in My Chest" sounded, and the strong drumbeats and heroic singing resounded through the streets of Shanghai. Mr. Bao carried Li Li's dream through the rainy night.
Obviously there are no large-scale emotional scenes, but when I saw the comments here, they all said , "I hit you" and "It's so horny!"
Some people even said that Wong Kar-wai drove in . Why is this?
First of all, we must know what happened between Mr. Bao and Li Li.
In the previous episodes, Mr. Bao had several contacts with Li Li, either to test or to help, but they were all limited to business cooperation without any personal feelings.
But Li Li, as a woman working alone in Shanghai, gradually developed feelings for Mr. Bao.
Even his friend Qiang Mujie can tell that Li Li has fallen into love.
For this reason, Qiang Mujie repeatedly prevented Li Li from defecting.
He first threatened with words, and then revealed the stock information of 601, just to let Li Li get a small advantage and hold his position.
But Li Li, who has fallen in love, has completely fallen.
As soon as Qiang Mujie left, she immediately told Mr. Bao the information.
Mr. Kebao’s ideas are completely different from Li Li’s.
He knew that Li Li was a strong woman with strong abilities and a sharp mind, so when he got the information, he became suspicious and actually bet 603, causing him to lose more than 2 million.
He never expected that Li Li would come with him for real.
Later, even if he lost money, Mr. Bao still sent the commission to Li Li based on the amount of winnings.
If she loses, I will give her a commission.
Firstly, this is Mr. Bao’s change of attitude toward Li Li. Secondly, this is also Mr. Bao’s pledge:
What happened before was that I didn’t trust you. It was my fault. Now let’s start over.
Then according to Li Li's second instruction, Mr. Bao won a great victory, so when Zhizhen Garden was in crisis, he deliberately walked in from the main entrance to suppress the situation -
just to tell Huanghe Road that Mr. Bao was now with Li Li officially stood together.
From a personal emotional point of view, if the two people were business partners before, then this time they have become an emotional fit.
Another person lives in Mr. Bao’s heart.
And Li Li has long admired Mr. Bao, and secretly admires him.
After the disaster, the charming lover, according to the general plot development, what will happen when two adults develop to this point?
is naturally playing poker.
And Wong Kar-wai is firing on all cylinders in this scene.
Li Li was curled up in the back seat, her black stockings coiled up, and the camera swept over Xin Zhilei's feet and all over her body many times.
Then, through the dense neon outside the window, Xin Zhilei took a deep breath, lazily raised her head, and the light shone on her long and white neck.
Hu Ge on the other end understood and stepped on the accelerator. The black car passed through the wet street, the lights became brighter and brighter...
After the silence, Mr. Bao gently closed the car door, lit up a cigarette, and the man behind him Li Li's mood was waning and he looked at Mr. Bao with interest.
Don’t be too naked in this shot!
Wang Del said:
"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex itself, which is about power."
From this moment on, Li Li and Mr. Bao have achieved the binding of social identity and power through the imprint of their bodies.
Some people may have said that you are clearly over-interpreting it. Do you understand driving a car as "driving a car"?
But there are a lot of sexual descriptions in the original book "Flowers". How can a man control so many women around him?
Reiko was honest at the beginning, saying that she had slept with Bao Zong on this bed, and in the original work, Li Li and Bao Zong had spent one night as husband and wife.
Judging from the progress of the program, it is almost at this stage.
Of course, "Flowers" cannot be filmed according to the original work, because it would be too fierce, so it is not a bad idea for Wong Kar-wai to use this obscure method to depict the emotional sublimation of Li Li and Mr. Bao.
At least judging from the lens language, these ten minutes alone are enough to capture a large number of CP fans.
It turns out that "Flowers" is a very special work.
is not so much Mr. Bao’s personal growth history as it is the story of “Mr. Bao and three women”.
Li Li, Miss Wang, and Lingzi all have inextricable relationships with Mr. Bao, and each couple can make people proud.
One man and three women. If it were an ordinary drama, it would have been criticized by the "moral pacesetters".
Just like after the broadcast of "Flowers", many people criticized it for not having enough sense of age and only having a few people's small love.
But the original work of "Flowers" was never a reminiscence and praise of the flowery Shanghai in the 1990s.
It is the paper that is short and the love is long, and the flowers are falling under the huge waves of the times.
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