Hu Ge spent 500 million yuan to shoot a new drama for 3 years, and was scolded for turning the sky upside down: fraud!
Friends, our film and television industry is arguing again.
Do you dare to believe it, 500 million investment, 200 million publicity, 3 years.
Invite world-famous directors and top actors to shoot the past of Shanghai in the 90s of the last century.
I thought it was a five-star chef cooking rice, but when I got on the table, I found that it was all pre-made dishes.
"Scam of the Year!"
What I'm talking about is that the whole network is waiting, and there are 800 hot searches overnight, and finally the collective scolding -
"Flourishing Flowers".
Whether "Flowers" should be scolded or not, in fact, it is difficult to say, firstly, it is not a brainless drama that insults IQ, and secondly, it has a unique style.
What everyone is arguing about is actually "aesthetics". (Because there's nothing to say about the plot)
First of all, the production of "Flowers" is definitely the highest level of Chinese TV dramas.
The original work is a Shanghainese novel written by Shanghai writer Jin Yucheng, which has won the Mao Dun Literature Award.
Wong Kar-wai, who filmed "In the Mood for Love" and "Chongqing Forest", directed a TV series for the first time.
Even the cinematographer is Bao Dexi, who has won the Oscar, plus Chen Xunqi, a master of Hong Kong film soundtracks.
It's almost full.
The starring lineup is hidden and hidden, how many domestic entertainment Xiaosheng Xiaohua want to nibble on this cake.
But Director Wang: If you don't know how to speak Shanghainese, you don't need to talk.
As a result, Hu Ge, Tang Yan, Ma Yili and several other Shanghainese factions stood out.
Even the supporting role is the Shanghainese artist You Benchang ("Jigong" grandfather), the number one Internet celebrity papi sauce (?).
The only exception is the great beauty Xin Zhilei who is poured by Director Wang.
It can be seen that the director is filming the drama with the standards of the movie, 30 episodes have been filmed for 3 years, and Tang Yan does not hesitate to pretend to be ugly, and one shot is reshot 80 times......
finally filmed (in the director's heart) the lights of Shanghai in the 90s, which is like this-
All the pictures are golden, shiny, and have that kind of carefully carved beauty.
But you say that this is Shanghai in the era of reform and opening up, I don't dare to agree, it's more like the 30s and the decade.
Cut to the Yellow River Road, where there were many hotels back then, it was even more exaggerated, thinking that when I arrived at the scene of the Hong Kong film, my eyes were smeared with gold dust.
The male protagonist suffered a car accident, and all kinds of slow motion + "Friendship for a Long Time" slowly sounded, and I have no problem watching it with a song "Time to Cook Rain".
Gorgeous transitions, balls, staggered chips, and banknotes scattered all over the place.
Guo Jingming watched it and called it an expert: "The Flower Era of the Small Era".
It's beautiful, but it's not like a TV series anymore, like a super long commercial that has been built with a lot of money.
The scenes are misplaced, and so are the characters, and everyone only sees shots with "tone".
The male protagonist A Bao played by Hu Ge has made small achievements in Shanghai stocks and foreign trade circles, and has become the well-known Mr. Bao, appearing in suits, backs, wine glasses, smoking, various upgrades, slow motion.
It's not enough.
But don't you think this scene is familiar, director, how similar it is to Tony Leung that you filmed 30 years ago......
That's not all, when I watched Hu Ge, I always felt familiar, and then I thought, isn't this a little plum.
Hu Ge, known as Shanghai Gatsby.
Xin Zhilei plays the proprietress of a big hotel, with flaming red lips, big curly hair, and full aura.
is so beautiful that Director Wang has filmed her hundreds of times, becoming the only popular character in "Flowers".
Of course, Po's other two women, Ma Yili and Tang Yan, and even the cameo papi sauce, also enjoy the same courtesy as Estee Lauder.
Beauty is beautiful, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like a fashion magazine advertisement.
In addition, each actor's acting is very hard, Wong Kar-wai's signature desire to speak is still suspended, and he does not refrain from speaking, and he is gone in "Flowers", and everyone reads their lines as if they have fired a machine gun.
Tang Yan, who played hard before the broadcast, transformed her acting skills to burst, are you talking about this babbling little sister.
Some people say: Why are you talking about the picture and actors, but the plot is not mentioned at all.
Laughing to death, there is no plot at all.
As netizens said, the filming is a business war in Shanghai, but the music is played once every 3 minutes, and the narration starts once in 2 minutes, all relying on the concave shape of the characters to promote the story.
Everyone is saying inexplicable things under the carefully arranged light and shadow, and everyone can taste these lines.
In general, "Flowers" has a beautiful picture, can be used as wallpaper, is a gorgeous advertising film, starring in a photo album.
These are all excellent, and I would like to call it the Shanghai version of the Apocalypse.
There are only two words left: exaggeration.
It is conceivable that the scolding war around whether "Flowers" is good or not will continue.
Not only because it is a rare super-large-scale production, but also because of the gimmick packaging of "Wong Kar-wai's first TV series", and at the same time, everyone is full of concern about the evolution of a literary work into a video.
In fact, "Flowers" is also very ambitious.
Wong Kar-wai first wanted to photograph the city of Shanghai, the people living here, and their lives.
And in the TV series, it is difficult for you to see the imprints of ordinary people, and the high-profile of the imaginary upper class fills the whole picture.
It's true that the lights and wine can represent Shanghai, but it's not all.
Also filming the stories of this era, the 1994 movie "Stock Crazy" and the TV series "Debt" show a more realistic picture of the city.
The details of life in the urban transformation are more representative.
In comparison, "Flowers" went too far.
Some people will say that it is too harsh, how many bad dramas are produced by domestic entertainment every year, "Flowers" at least has a good picture.
Don't get it wrong.
Indeed, Wong Kar-wai is good at filming all kinds of people, all kinds of actors, and under his lens, they can be at the peak of beauty.
"Flowers" is no exception.
Take Xin Zhilei as an example, she was a female star when she was filming an advertisement, but under the lens of Wong Kar-wai, she was a glamorous beauty.
But skin alone is not enough.
The picture is good-looking and does not delay the storytelling, it is a big close-up at every turn, and it is very good-looking to shoot up and down, but this kind of good-looking is ineffective, what role does it play in the plot?
Take 10,000 steps back, isn't Guo Jingming good-looking when he shoots handsome guys and beauties?
Evaluating the "good-looking" of film and television dramas is a macro dimension, and the characters, plots, lines, music, and shots are comprehensively applied to the work.
And the reason why "Flowers" is suffocating is not only the lack of narrative, but also the serious degradation of Wong Kar-wai's style.
What is this saturation filter for?
Take Wong Kar-wai's own works as an example, his aesthetic used to be quite rebellious.
"In the Mood for Love" is full of characters, still lifes, light and shadow, slow motion, and atmospheric close-ups, but you clearly feel that these shots are in the service of the story itself.
For example, Su Lizhen and Zhou Muyun lived in an apartment in the 60s, and the camera showed the ambiguity of their extramarital affair, turning sideways to each other on the cramped stairs.
The flow of lust is about to come out.
And showing Maggie Cheung's posture in cheongsam, is swaying step by step, and the cheongsam is integrated with the environment and mood.
That kind of suppressed emotion, bound feelings, is shown in just a few shots.
At that time, Wong Kar-wai showed the soul of old-school Shanghai, not using all kinds of golden filters.
While filming beautifully, I haven't forgotten to tell the story, the pain of the affair between the two people, and the desire to talk is condensed in extremely concise lines.
Who doesn't find it profound?
In "Chongqing Forest", he used the method of drawing frames to capture the modern side of Hong Kong.
In the fast-paced Hong Kong, the protagonists who have lost their souls are even more confused in the camera.
Wong Kar-wai can best grasp everyone's characteristics, Tony Leung is melancholy, Faye Wong is smart, Takeshi Kaneshiro is cute, and Lin Qingxia is mysterious.
The leading actors play their own roles, but they are also so harmonious.
Back then, who didn't want to shoot his works as a big star, even Li Jiaxin had a lot of acting skills under his lens.
is not only extremely beautiful, but Wong Kar-wai, as a drag bottle, is likely to be able to polish each work into a classic, so even if the stars make a movie in three or five years, they must be hard-headed.
It is precisely because everyone has expectations for him, then comparing "Flowers", which has been filmed for 3 years, you will know how low the evaluation standard is today, and how much water is mixed with the so-called gold content.
Even if it is put into internal entertainment with expanding traffic, how many people are proud of filming Wong Kar-wai's works, Tang Yan sacrificed her image to be ugly, and she filmed this drama in 3 years, and now the effect is a matter of opinion.
In today's domestic entertainment, most filmmakers have gambled on their reputation for half a lifetime and flocked to the TV circle, but they are not adapted.
No one rests on their laurels forever, and in times like these, it's hard to spend years sharpening a sword, and not everyone has the tenacity.
But as long as it is a work, it must be scrutinized, and the audience has the final say.
Finally, Wong Kar-wai said in the movie, "There are shortcomings, there is progress." ”
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