"Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai has become a New Year's hit, with good traffic and word-of-mouth. It has been launched on CCTV and Dragon TV at the same time. The popularity on the webcast site can exceed 30,000. From the Peace Hotel, it has launched a two-person package and the same suite in the play, to merchants The citywalk route was launched and continued to dominate the hot search list. You sing and I will appear. The Douban score also rose to 8.2. Even CCTV published an article praising "Flowers" as "Shanghai accent, Abao accent, and Lingzi's female accent, a joint achievement." This TV series has an 'accent'."
After the drama was successful, the actors also followed suit. Hu Ge, Ma Yili, and Tang Yan became hot topics among the audience, and even the female lead Xin Zhilei also became popular.
To be fair, before the broadcast of "Flowers", Xin Zhilei was barely considered a second-tier actress. She was a late bloomer. She only gained some attention when she appeared in "Yangtze River Pictures" when she was 30 years old. After that, there were basically no leading female roles. Most of them were second or second-tier female actors. Female third. As an actor from Heilongjiang and unable to speak Shanghainese, how did she come into Wong Kar-Wai's attention? How about being chosen to play such an important role as the third female lead in "Flowers"?
Xin Zhilei revealed in an interview that when she was reading the original novel, she fell into the melancholy and tenderness of Li Li. After confirming to star in "Flowers", she did not meet the director's requirements at first. Suddenly one day Wong Kar-wai appeared on the set. He said, "Li Li, why did you act like this? I have watched your "Xiu Chun Knife", and I will always remember the look in your eyes when you cut off other people's knives. You can have this look." The director's words made Xin Zhilei instantly Suddenly she realized that at that time she knew why the director chose her. It was because she watched "Xiu Chun Dao 2".
So here comes the question. With Wong Kar-wai's status in the world and the gimmick of directing a TV series for the first time, "Flowers" is destined to become a hit. There is no doubt that the actors are photographed beautifully and their acting careers are enhanced. As long as Wong Kar-wai reaches out An olive branch that no actor can refuse.
This was confirmed by Xin Zhilei during the advance screening event before the broadcast of "Flowers". She revealed that she had to shoot "Flowers" four times before it was finally completed. The overruns and deadlines were very serious. All the actors in the crew allowed Wong Kar-wai to be "willful". During the filming process, she was also tortured by Wong Kar-wai. For example, Mr. Bao The scene of eating mutton was filmed many times. Wong Kar-Wai would feel that her eating was not beautiful and elegant enough and would do it again. Even her posture of standing against the window, Wong Kar-wai would personally demonstrate.
Normally, there are strict stipulations in the filming period contract. It will be more difficult for both parties to communicate over time, and reshoots will cost extra money. However, all actors in the "Flowers" crew who shoot beyond the contract period are voluntary labor. Everyone knows that "Flowers" is expected to become the most dazzling work in his acting career.
So, it is understandable that the dozen or so Shanghai-born actors represented by Hu Ge, Ma Yili, and Tang Yan in "Flowers" were selected by Wong Kar-Wai. After all, the prerequisite is that they are Shanghainese and can speak Shanghainese fluently. But the choice of other roles that do not require Shanghainese citizenship is worth pondering, especially Xin Zhilei. Wong Kar-wai obviously watched "Xiu Chun Dao" and "Xiu Chun Dao 2". The heroines of the two movies are Liu Shishi and Yang Mi, two people They are all top-notch actors, and both are leading female actors in the movie. Wong Kar-wai skipped the two and chose Xin Zhilei, who is not famous enough and has not strong appeal. He obviously recognized her appearance and acting skills. From another perspective , did they deny Liu Shishi and Yang Mi!
It’s no wonder that the look in Xin Zhilei’s eyes when she cut off Zhang Zhen’s knife in “Xiu Chun Dao 2” is indeed quite brilliant and catchy. In comparison, Liu Shishi and Yang Mi really can’t find anyone who can conquer the director like this An instant! There is no convincing representative work.
Looking back at Liu Shishi's previous works, except for "Xiu Chun Knife", there is almost no representative work with excellent reputation. "Xiu Chun Dao" received a score of 7.7 on Douban, which is already a high score. The following is the more popular "Female Doctor" "The Legend of the Concubine" has a rating of 6.3, "Drunken Linglong" has only a 5.7 on the passing line, "If You Can Love Like This" has received a huge reputation, with a rating of only 4.3, and "One Thought Guanshan", which has just been aired, has a mediocre rating, with a Douban rating of only 6.5.
Let’s talk about Yang Mi. “Spring Knife 2” scored 7.2 on Douban, which is already a relatively high score among her works. Not many of her subsequent movies and TV series have passed the passing mark, including the movie “Baby,” which strives to challenge her acting skills. ", the score is only 5.3, and the "Negotiator" with Huang Zitao only has a score of 3.5.
Yang Mi's appearance and acting skills have always been controversial. To reach her current status, Yang Mi obviously wants to cooperate with a good director and make some good works, so Chen Kexin's "Jiang Yuan Lane", even if it is to costar Zhang Ziyi , she is also willing to be ranked behind Zhao Liying.
However, past performance records and their own strength have made Liu Shishi and Yang Mi unable to catch the eye of Wong Kar-wai. It is useless to have traffic. After all, Wong Kar-wai does not need to borrow their traffic. Wong Kar-wai can create traffic through his works.
After all, film and television works are not only profitable commodities, but also artistic creations completed by directors and actors. After reaping fame and fortune, big stars also want to take on good works to add points to themselves, but they cannot have their cake and eat it too. If you make money by taking on too many films that have a bad reputation, the hope of taking on good works in the future will become increasingly slim.
