The most popular film and television drama recently is none other than the Shanghainese urban drama "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai for the first time.
"Flowers" has countless topics and hot spots, including the star-studded cast, the ubiquitous advertising placement throughout the show, the seamless embedding of more than 50 classic golden songs of the era, and Wong Kar-wai's iconic beautiful shots, etc.
’s stylish and textured Wong Kar-Wai shots are undoubtedly the most iconic, because no matter how many advertisements there are, there are people who can accommodate them, no matter how many hits there are, there are people who can afford them, and no matter how brilliant the cast, there are people who can surpass them, but Not every drama can capture scenes like "Flowers".
Wong Kar-wai is an internationally renowned film director. Some people describe his TV series as dimensionality reduction. His past works and honors have proven his strength. The audience's impression of Wong Kar-Wai is relatively uniform: the sunglasses king of artistic films is good at slow work and meticulous work, and the first shot of every work is picturesque.
So, Wong Kar-wai can be summed up in one word: awesome.
[Some people say that Wong Kar-wai is very awesome and loves to pretend to be sexy. For example, the names of each of his movies have four characters. 】
Since the director's first film "Carmen in Mong Kok" in 1988, Wong Kar-wai has been the darling of major film awards, and almost every film has won an award.
"Carmen" won Jacky Cheung the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards;
"Days of Being Wild" won Leslie Cheung the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Award;
"Chungking Express" won Tony Leung Chiu-wai the Hong Kong Best Supporting Actor Award. Best Actor Award at the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards;
"Happy Together" won Tony Leung the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards;
"In the Mood for Love" won Tony Leung the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Cannes International Best Actor Award. In the Actor Award, Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards;
"2046" won Tony Leung Chiu-wai the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and Zhang Ziyi won the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards;
"Generation" "The Grandmaster" won Zhang Ziyi the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Zhang Jin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and so on.
Of course, we can also find that Wong Kar-wai's movies have always been full of superstars, and they are all actors with strong acting skills, such as Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Man Tsz-leung, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Zhen , etc., and it takes n times more time to polish than other directors.
Therefore, Wong Kar-Wai's success is inseparable from the support of this group of actor and actress-level superstars.
Similarly, is it just because Wong Kar-wai's movies are so beautiful that he is awesome?
is definitely not.
Wong Kar-wai's movies are also inseparable from the group of great behind-the-scenes heroes, including Zhang Shuping, Du Kefeng, Bao Dexi, Liu Weiqiang, etc.
Tony Leung has collaborated with Wong Kar-Wai for many years. Under his guidance, he won 6 Best Actor crowns, including an International Best Actor, and is known as Wong Kar-wai's Queen Actor. In fact, Wong Kar-wai used more than one Tony Leung, and even Tony Leung was not the one he used the most and for the longest time.
In 1988, when Wong Kar-wai became a director for the first time, he collaborated with Hong Kong's top film art master Zhang Shuping. It has been more than 30 years now. Although Zhang Shuping is not as famous as Wong Kar-Wai, he is more legendary than him because he is the person who has won the most awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He has been nominated 50 times and won 16 awards, including Best Art Director, Best Awards for Costume Design and Best Editing.
Of course, Wong Kar-wai is also Zhang Shuping’s nobleman. Before meeting Wong Kar-Wai, Zhang Shuping had been nominated for many times at the Academy Awards, but had never won. The first Best Art Director Award was for Wong Kar-wai's "Carmen".
Wong Kar-wai may not be called the number one director in the Chinese film industry, or even the number one director in the Hong Kong film industry, but when it comes to art direction and costume design, he is definitely Zhang Shuping.
In 1992, Zhang Shuping provided styling design for Tsui Hark's "The Swordsman 2: The Invincibles" and helped Brigitte Lin's "The Invincibles" become a hit. Not only did it become the target of imitation and plagiarism in the entire industry, it now seems to be an unsurpassed classic. .
Later, in "In the Mood for Love", Zhang Shuping designed more than 20 sets of cheongsam for Maggie Cheung. Not only did Maggie Cheung become the most beautiful woman in cheongsam, she also won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Editing and Best Art. It won three awards for guidance and best costume styling, setting an industry record. [In 2014, Zhang Shuping tied this record with "The Grandmaster". 】
Later, Zhang Shuping worked in the mainland film and television industry and did styling design for dramas such as "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling", "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", "Chen Xi Yuan", "Crane Huating", and "The Ming Dynasty". Some have received high praise, and some have been criticized, but the fault is not that Zhang Shuping's design is not good, but that these actors are not Brigitte Lin and Maggie Cheung, and they cannot support Zhang Shuping's design.
With a beauty master like Zhang Shuping, coupled with actors such as Leslie Cheung and Maggie Cheung who have excellent acting skills and good looks, Wong Kar-wai's movies will be good no matter how they are made.
However, this is not enough. Wong Kar-wai's movies will also be accompanied by the best cinematographers.
The photographer of "Carmen" and "Chungking Express" is Liu Weiqiang, a veteran of the Hong Kong Professional Cinematographers Society hksc, the director of the "Young and Dangerous" and "Infernal Affairs" series, hand-held photography is a masterpiece;
" The photographer of "Days of Being Wild", "Chungking Express", "Fallen Angels", "Happy Together", "Ashes of Time", "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" is Doyle , who has won the Best Cinematography Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards 7 times. He was also the photography director of Zhang Yimou's "Hero";
The photographer of "The Grandmaster" was Philippe Lesou, who won both the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography, and was also nominated for an Oscar;
With Ang Lee's Bao Dexi, who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", serves as the visual director of "Flowers" this time.
With such a great photographer, even an ordinary amateur can take photos like Miss World, let alone a group of one-in-a-million celebrities.
Therefore, many people will say that the scenes left in Wong Kar-wai's movies are the most beautiful moments in the lives of actors, such as Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and now Hu Ge and Xin Zhilei in "Flowers", etc.
In addition, Hong Kong film godfather Wu Siyuan worked as a producer for Wong Kar-wai, and martial arts director Xu Haofeng worked as a screenwriter for Wong Kar-wai;
The martial arts director used in "Ashes of Time" was Sammo Hung, and the martial arts director used in "The Grandmaster" was Yuen Woo-Ping. ;
Director Tam Kar-ming, who brought Wong Kar-wai into the industry, edited him in films such as "Days of Being Wild" and "Ashes of Time". The soundtracks of films such as "Ashes of Time" and "The Grandmaster" were mainly composed by Chen Xunqi, Mei Linmao, etc. ;
has worked with behind-the-scenes masters including Li Pingbin, Xi Jiewei, Zhang Shuping, Kwong Zhiliang, Qiu Weiming, Pan Xiongyao, Huang Minglin, Du Duzhi, Liang Zhida, etc.
It can be said that the front and backstage of Wong Kar-wai's movies are all top-notch equipment in the Chinese film industry. Can the movies produced not be beautiful?
