Directed by Wong Kar-wai, written by Qin Wen, and starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei, Zheng Kai and other actors, the TV series "Flowers" finally started tonight. This is also a new work launched by Wong Kar-wai after 10 years after "The Grandmaster" in 2013.
From preparation to start-up, from completion to broadcast, "Flowers", which has always attracted much attention, was broadcast on CCTV 8 for only 10 minutes, and the ratings broke 2. On the Weibo hot search list, related topic words account for 7! As a video platform that is broadcast exclusively on the whole network, Tencent directly gave a big topic, which is broadcast in two versions: Mandarin version and Shanghai dialect version, and all the homepages are recommended at the top, giving enough face.
The play is adapted from writer Jin Yucheng's "Five One Project" and Mao Dun Literature Award-winning novel of the same name, focusing on Shanghai during the great changes of the times, and revolving around A Bao (played by Hu Ge) to tell the ups and downs of the life of the trendy children in the business field of Shanghai in the early 90s of the last century.
Judging from the first episode, the camera movement, composition, color, soundtrack, set, props and trailer of "Flowers" can be called movie-level/commercial-level, except for Tang Yan, who is a little unexpected because of the role need to be shaped, most of the characters are extremely beautiful/handsome, including passers-by. Hangzhou people are familiar with the "Jigong" You Benchang, and at the age of 90, he also played the role of the master's uncle in the play. What also caught the reporter's attention was that Wong Kar-wai gave a large number of shots to unknown little people, and repeatedly explained the background of the story through dialogues between small people.
Wong Kar-wai also interspersed historical pictures in the play, which is full of texture. However, the director did not use the traditional linear narrative technique (neither a main narrative, nor a flashback, nor a parallel narrative), but added a lot of flashbacks and multi-line narrative techniques, such as the story starts with the car accident of Ah Bao, who has become the boss of Bao, as the starting point, flashes back to the opportunity of Ah Bao to bravely enter the stock market and become the boss of Bao, and then explains the important people one by one by verifying the cause of the car accident. The identity of the characters is not directly pointed out, but is shown through the characters' lines and flashbacks, and the threshold for watching the drama is a bit high.
Even if you have read the original book, you may not understand it, because Wong Kar-wai basically rewrote the story. Film critic "Luo Beibei" directly complained: "This play is the same as the original script, why do you want to buy Jin Yucheng's original work? You open another play yourself, the male protagonist is still called Bao, and everyone can't think of the degree of "Flowers" ......."
However, many netizens said that Wong Kar-wai is like this, "That's Wong Kar-wai, how can it be filmed according to the original book!" ""East Evil and West Poison" has nothing to do with Jin Yong, no one really thinks Wong Kar-wai will shoot according to the original book......
Overall, this "Flowers" can still clearly see Wong Kar-wai's deep affection for Shanghai and his ambition to show an era.
Wong Kar-wai once revealed in an interview that he was born in Shanghai and went to Hong Kong with his parents in 1963, "After decades, I kept coming and going, my sister and I have been in Shanghai, and I have more than 20 cousins and cousins, they are basically the same generation as the characters in "Flowers"." So in Wong Kar-wai's eyes, the novel is about his brother and sister, "I really want to know what they went through, so I decided to adapt this novel." ”
Wong Kar-wai also made it clear that it is impossible for him to copy the original work, "I only talk about what I can say, what I want to say, what I say well, words have the advantage of words, and images have the advantage of images." ”
Therefore, the TV series version of "Flowers" is mainly about how Po became the dominant boss in just ten years and the era behind it.
In Wong Kar-wai's view, "As a drama, the most up-and-down and representative character should be Po." In the original book, Ah Bao has two identities, one is Ah Bao, a worker in the 60s of the last century, and the other is Mr. Bao, who was in the 90s of the last century and did not stick to the leaves. Although the original book is 'not loud', the TV series can fill in the blanks. We don't have the ability to complete the full book of "Flowers", and we will definitely give a Shanghai Po that you can't see in the original book. ”
For book lovers, Wong Kar-wai's advice is, "Everyone has their own "Flowers" in their hearts, and I, like you, am just a reader, and my interpretation is just my words." For viewers who have not read the original work, this TV series is just a piece of the cake, and after watching it, I feel that I can't get enough of it, so I will go to see the original book again. ”
Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers", have you watched it?