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The era that belonged to Wong Kar-wai has finally passed.
As a top director, the name Wong Kar-wai has always been a double guarantee for word-of-mouth and box office in the hearts of the audience.
"The True Story of A Fei", "In the Mood for Love", "Springtime", and "The Grandmaster" have long become benchmark works, which is the standard that film art should have.
Moreover, the protagonist under Wong Kar-wai's lens is a portrayal of the times, marginal, absurd, sad, and heavy, and the audience who has seen it must have been deeply moved.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to describe this new work "Flowers" with a sentence of "all eyes on it".
The script is adapted from the award-winning novel of Mao Dun Literature of the same name, which can allow Wong Kar-wai to spend ten years on the layout and fill the audience's expectations.
However, after the feature film was released, it overturned!
The negative reviews of Douban Low Star can't be suppressed at all, and the audience's dissatisfaction with Wong Kar-wai has reached its peak, but I didn't expect it to become a laughing stock in the film and television industry in ten years, so what is the reason for this?
I believe that there are many book fans who come to chase the drama, and they were persuaded to quit after two episodes, right?
The story of the original book revolves around the growth and life experiences of three young people, A Bao, Hu Sheng, and Xiao Mao.
Parents are short, life is trivial, fate ups and downs, and entrepreneurial struggle.
You will find that this is the real Shanghai, the Shanghai with fireworks.
The drama version of "Flowers" is a big change in the characters, leaving only one Bao, and letting him incarnate as "Long Aotian" to fight the business world, and by the way, a few confidants.
Some people also say that Wong Kar-wai's restoration of the scene is in place, which is true.
But if you want to photograph Shanghai, then you should not only photograph the bustling Yellow River Road and the Peace Hotel, but also the old alleys where sewage flows, the prosaic Suzhou Creek and the workers' new village.
In the final analysis, what he photographed was not Shanghai's past, but the Yellow River Road's past.
In the play, whether it is Bao, Miss Wang, Li Li, or Lingzi and Mr. Wei, all of them can be described as "capitalists".
Intrigue is comparable to the spy war of the Republic of China.
Even the resale of woolen sweaters shows the feeling of reselling arms and D products, which is really ridiculous.
The ups and downs of the working class are the main tone of the original work, but in the new drama, it has become a battlefield for capitalists to fork each other.
As netizens said: Adaptations can't be learned and lose their souls.
Probably only the first episode in the whole drama, Po borrowed money to speculate in stocks, watching him ride through the alley, people on their backs, chickens flying and dogs jumping, that is interesting, full of life.
It's a pity that the plot passed in a hurry, and after three or two sentences, he became the dominant "Mr. Bao".
Surrounded by the crowd, calculated by the opponent, and back again after a car accident.
You sing, I'll take the stage.
The plot is like a big opera, suspended in the sky.
It seems that no matter which well-known director the domestic drama is put in, it still can't get rid of the problem of being high up and not eating the fireworks of the world.
Even the real Shanghai audience reluctantly commented after watching this drama: "It's okay now, outsiders can't understand it, and Shanghainese don't like it." ”
Viewers who have read the original work also said that Wong Kar-wai filmed the most boring and non-connotative part of the story.
You think it's another "In the Mood for Love", but after watching it, you only feel that your eyes are dazzled by the golden scenes, and nothing else is left.
Hu Ge is so handsome!
But that's all that's left is handsome.
What the audience wants to see is not the domineering president of Jack Sue who pretends to be a gesture, tilting his head to drink, staring and pretending to be fierce.
is also thanks to the thick filter of this drama, otherwise Hu Ge's greasy is estimated to be a fight with Jin Dongyou, and it can be oiled out of the screen.
The most outrageous thing is that he is in front of Xin Zhilei, but his aura is completely overpowered.
Mr. Bao's threat to Li Li was superficial, and there was no sense of oppression at all, but Li Li's response later made people shudder, as if they were being targeted by a femme fatale.
finally understood why the first person to come out of the circle in this drama was not the male and female protagonists, but the female No. 3 Xin Zhilei.
Speaking of the heroine, I really don't understand Ma Yili's performance in the play.
She is not playing Reiko, but the stereotype of most outsiders about Shanghainese.
Even pouring a cup of hot water has to twist the big crotch, and I can't wait to twist my body into a twist.
While talking to the guy, he rolled his eyes, and his eyeballs were about to fall into the water glass.
I know that this is the female boss of Shanghai, and I don't know where I think it is my mother Sang.
Ma Yili's move must have been carefully designed, lifting her chin, twisting her body, and pulling her hair, she won't think that she is not coquettish, right?
The most unbearable thing is that she is coquettish with Hu Ge with her throat, which is so tired that people are sick to their stomachs.
It's a good act, don't act next time.
Not only did the male and female protagonists pull their hips, but the second female Tang Yan was also complained by the audience.
Originally, it was outrageous for traffic actors to act in period dramas, when did Wong Kar-wai's vision become so bad?
Miss Wang, played by Tang Yan, is in a hurry every time she comes out, and when she speaks, it is like a dozen chicks calling, and the temples of those who listen to it jump suddenly.
And Tang Yan's state can't help but make people wonder if she has been taken away, her apple muscles are swollen, her chin is about to fly out, plus her European-style big eyelids, and she has a proper "plastic surgery face".
Let's just say that a modern face is not suitable for period dramas, no, even if Tang Yan has retro big waves and wears an old-fashioned red windbreaker, there is still no so-called sense of age.
It boils down to the pot of this face.
In addition, Zheng Kai's style is similar to that of a Northeast aunt, and Papi sauce can also act in Wong Kar-wai's movies as an Internet celebrity, and there is really no bottom line in the casting of this drama.
To be honest, I had high expectations for this "Flowers" at first.
Adapted from Wong Kar-wai + Hu Ge + Mao Dun's literary novel, this buff is all stacked.
However, the quality of a drama does not lie in these gimmicks, in the end, it still depends on whether the feature film can be filmed to the essence.
And the reason why the show's reputation has overturned is because the director has changed too much in the adaptation, and he has long lost the basic core of this story, maybe Wong Kar-wai didn't understand this novel at all.
The second is because the plot is suspended and not grounded enough. Even in Shanghai, which was once bustling and not decent, there are traces of people's lives, and they need to shoot fireworks, if they are all drunk fans, then the audience will not be able to substitute for them.
The third is the failure of casting, although the actors are very famous, but there is a lack of really powerful celebrities, and today's Hu Ge alone is not enough to be satisfied.
I just hope that there will be highlight moments in the follow-up plot, so do you think there is still a need for this drama to continue to chase?
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