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"Flowers" has finally been broadcast, and this drama, which has been waiting for three years, has endured many expectations at the beginning of its release.
The director of this drama, Wong Kar-wai, is Wang Zhan, as long as there is a work presented, he will basically win the award, his lens has both beauty and texture, his content is full of life thoughts, and his works can be called a representative of the world-class film industry.
Therefore, when they learned that Wong Kar-wai was going to shoot a "Flowers" as a love letter to Shanghai, many viewers were full of excitement.
And this TV series that carries high expectations, it is even more exciting to open the cast list: Hu Ge , Ma Yili , Tang Yan , Xin Zhilei , You Benchang , Chen Long , Dong Yong , Wu Yue , Yu Entai , Zhong Zhentao , Wen Zhaolun and others are full of characters that are well known to the audience.
Although these characters have senior actors in the film and television industry, powerful national masters, and natives of Shanghai who are not engaged in acting, these people have a common characteristic, that is: under the lens of Wong Kar-wai, they are completely obedient to Wong Kar-wai's performance requirements.
Under Wong Kar-wai's lens, almost all of them have been discovered to be completely different from before, and the screen image is refreshing.
And this drama exploded on the day it was broadcast, with a market share of 12.8% for the first broadcast, and it broke 2 in the first episode, which can be said to be very gratifying.
Judging from the four episodes broadcast, Wong Kar-wai shows us the golden age of Shanghai, which is drunk with money, throwing thousands of dollars, and full of gold.
In this golden age, it is full of flowers and dreams in the ten-mile foreign field, full of night sheng songs of economic prosperity and development, full of the lights of the peaceful and prosperous world, and full of arrogance and lasciviousness that test human nature.
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The director built a Yellow River road 1:1, pulling time and space back to Shanghai in the 90s of the last century
In an interview, Wong Kar-wai said that he had gone to the Yellow River Road in Shanghai with Jin Yucheng, the author of the original book, but when the author Jin Yucheng, who had not been to the Yellow River Road for many years, saw the current Yellow River Road, he said to Wong Kar-wai very lonely: "How did the Yellow River Road become like this? It is not the same as in my memory."
Wong Kar-wai said: "It's not that the Yellow River Road has changed, it's you who have changed."
When people are young, they have different views than when they look at the same thing after they have experienced something. Our memories are distorted, but we are left with the truest feelings.
In order to restore the prosperity and drunkenness of Shanghai at that time, Wong Kar-wai and his team restored the Yellow River Road at that time 1:1: a 755-meter-long road and more than 100 restaurants.
After the director and the data team studied the materials at the time, the art team built a scene about 200 meters long, and this road condensed the most prosperous epitome of Shanghai in the 90s of the last century.
On this built Yellow River Road, a large number of gorgeous neon lights were used, and more than 30 restaurants of different styles were screened, and the streets were full of traffic and crowds.
Many actors who grew up in Shanghai were shocked when they saw the results of this construction, feeling that they were going back in time, and the feeling of their childhood came back all of a sudden, and they were very confused, whether they had traveled through time and space.
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A 1:1 presentation of Shanghai cuisine in the 90s, pulling the rows to the ceiling
At that time, business was not negotiated in the office, but was basically negotiated at the dinner table and between the staggered bargains.
Guests who come to the Yellow River Road usually spend a lot of money, after all, coming here is a status symbol.
Dong Yong, who played Mr. Fan, said in an interview that when he was young, he once went to Huanghe Road with his boss to entertain guests, and was shocked to see the money for a meal eaten on Huanghe Road, because the meal cost his salary for several months.
In order to cater to the needs of customers, when the restaurant on Huanghe Road opens, it will put off ultra-luxurious artillery battles, invite drum bands to be popular, and invite Hong Kong and Taiwan stars to come to the platform, and the appearance of Wen Zhaolun in the TV series also restores this scene.
According to the memories of the people who opened restaurants on this road back then: not to mention the food, king crab, Australian dragon, geoduck, and eastern star grouper are necessary on the table, because this momentum is a must.
In the TV series "Flowers", Mr. Wei, who thought that he had negotiated a business with Mr. Fan, boldly invited a farewell concubine to each table in the whole hotel, which basically completely restored the real situation of spending money in the business at that time.
The seafood that Xin Zhilei ate in the play, in order to restore the catering situation at that time, the prop master of the crew consulted a lot of information and visited many senior chefs to restore the specific situation at that time.
It can be said that the extravagance and prosperity in the Yellow River Road to the True Garden presented in this TV series can be said to be a reproduction of the year.
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Teacher You Benchang made a stunning appearance, and his business was deeply controlled
has done so much preparation, invested huge manpower and material resources, and filmed "Flowers" for three years, and after its release, it is really worthy of such a long evaluation.
Wong Kar-wai's lens language is too textured and tone-inspired, every frame of the picture is worth preserving, and every shot seems to let us experience the prosperity of Shanghai in the last century.
Mr. You Benchang plays the role of Mr. Bao's commercial military advisor played by Hu Ge in this drama, which can be said to be very eye-catching.
This paragraph of Uncle Uncle's explosion and change of Hu Ge can be written into a textbook, and it is a fight with Mnner makes man in "Ace Agent: Secret Service Academy".
For each suit, my uncle put forward his own suggestions: double-breasted, full in the clip, half a mile, patch pockets, insert pockets, shoulder pads should be all wool, cotton does not enter the door.
Wearing a suit requires people to wear clothes, not only to look good from afar, up close, and standing, but also to look good when walking, if one of them is not good-looking, then no.
And this attention is only the first step in the business field, because to take care of the façade, there will be the next prosperity, once the façade collapses, then the business can not be discussed.
In the business field, my uncle also said that a man should have three wallets: one is how much money he has in his wallet in his wallet, one is how much his company's credit is worth, and the last one is how much assets can be leveraged with this credit.
Uncle's words are all over the business level.
In business, reputation can also be spent as money. And the higher your credit limit, the larger the resources you can leverage, and the larger the resources you can leverage, the bigger the business empire you can build.
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It's not so much about business as it is about human nature
The whole drama is not so much about the history of A Bao to Mr. Bao, but about life.
In a person's life, if he wants to get ahead, it is nothing more than one life, two luck and three skills. As long as these three things account for two, they can generally be rich and expensive.
Ah Bao can get the guidance of his uncle, and he has caught up with the good times, and he has the ability, so he has become the most respected big name in Huanghe Road.
But the little brothers who followed him to beg for a living, after earning money, couldn't control their desires, and after making money, they wanted to make a stud, and together with their colleagues, they made up 20 million, but they were broken down and lost their fortune;
Commander Cai was old, the hero was sad about the beauty pass, and revealed the news of the Kirin Club to his good friend Golden Phoenix, and the Golden Phoenix revealed it to others, which indirectly led to the tragedy of the hair roots, betrayed his friends, and pulled Ah Bao to his back;
Because of the greed in his heart, when he was talking about business with Mr. Bao, Mr. Fan wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price, but it turned out that stealing chickens and rice would not be lost.
In this business field, those who can go to the end have all undergone various tests: the test of human nature, the test of desire, and those who can withstand layers of tests can go to the end.
The prosperity and withering of life, the deceit in the business field, and the darkness and highlights of human nature can be said to have been filmed in this drama.