Whose cheese did Wong Kar-wai blow up? CCTV couldn't stand it anymore, and it was really relieving to speak out for him
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"Flowers" is the most popular and controversial TV series in the current domestic drama market.
People who love to watch it will say: The texture of the play is rare to see, and every character is so vivid and three-dimensional.
People who don't watch it say: Wong Kar-wai is too good at showing off his skills, and the plot is pretended to be profound, which makes people feel bored.
As the saying goes: "There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people", and no work can be recognized by everyone.
But in my opinion, the drama "Flowers" has no other drama that can match it in the past five years, or even in the past ten years.
Because the quality of a drama cannot only look at the surface, but also go deep into the story itself, to experience the ups and downs of the characters in the play, the trajectory of fate, and feel the characteristics of the times behind it.
If I had to sum up the highlights of the show in three words, I think they would be: "People", "Love" and "Scenery".
1. "People"
Wong Kar-wai is the most proficient among directors.
Beauties such as Xin Zhilei, under his lens, are amazing.
But the people photographed by Wong Kar-wai are not only skins, but also souls.
Take the character of Miss Wang as an example, her laughter and sadness are appropriately captured by the camera.
But what I was even more surprised about was that Wong Kar-wai didn't let her follow Po all the time.
But when he was confused and helpless, he tied up his braids, ate cheap popsicles, and had tears in his eyes, but he raised his hand to the sky and shouted "Xiao Wang, come on!"
There is also the sentence when leaving the factory: "Don't call me Miss Wang, call me Xiao Wang, Hongkou Xiao Wang." ”
In just a few moments, the character walks out of the book and from the TV screen, and is completely alive.
2. "Love"
Po has met several women in her life.
He and Xuezhi, who were in love with each other at a young age, reunited again, and she stopped him.
"Do you have someone?"
"I'm still alone. ”
"I have. ”
How can a strong person admit defeat.
This kind of extreme pulling, the feeling of breaking the thread, is too poignant.
He and Miss Wang are more like comrades-in-arms.
It's just one person's heart, stolen by another.
When he slapped her, Miss Wang turned to leave, and turned around and hugged Bao fiercely.
Miss Wang hugged her former self and turned her head to run into the future. ”
This is regret and miss, sour and astringent, welling up in my heart.
As for him and Reiko, they are in a foreign country and warm each other.
He fulfilled her dream, and she was greedy again and again, proving her status in front of everyone.
But it is destined to be one with affection and one without love.
In the era when he is used to watching greasy idol dramas, Wong Kar-wai uses his understanding of the emotions of men and women to bring the audience a different sugar knocking experience.
3. "Scenery"
It's rare to see a drama that makes old Shanghai so real.
In this drama, you will feel that Shanghai in the 90s was very big and prosperous, drunk and golden, and full of people.
But sometimes you think that Shanghai is very small, shuttling through small alleys, you can't step away, surrounded by old neighborhoods that greet each other, and the smoke of fireworks is blowing in your face.
In order to restore the sense of the era more, the director and actors contributed the old objects at home to the crew.
Ding Yuming, who used to work as the head chef of a Cantonese restaurant on Huanghe Road, said bluntly after watching the play:
"Director Wang is difficult to express in words, it is absolutely possible, at that time, I felt like a great director's style, and the TV series restored more than 90% of the real scene at that time, and I was very excited, and we played our 'residual heat'. ”
A good drama made with heart should not be hacked without brains.
No, even CCTV can't stand it anymore, and speaks out for "Flowers" in person.
During the period when there was a lot of controversy about this drama on the Internet, the official account of CCTV Movie Channel commented on "Flowers", and the words in the article were entitled:
"You can always trust Wong Kar-wai's cinematic aesthetic. ”
How much weight this sentence has, I understand it, it seems to be a slap on the face of black fans, even louder than when Mr. Bao was slapped by Lu Meilin.
And what CCTV said is also true, under the lens of Wong Kar-wai, Xin Zhilei has a sense of beauty that has traveled through the times.
In order to shoot this drama, Xin Zhilei did work hard, learned dance for two years, including Latin and Tango, and practiced her figure Xi tall and elegant, which made Li Li's graceful posture and charm in the play.
What's more interesting is that Xin Zhilei finished four times during the filming, and when she finished the first time, the crew also prepared flowers and cakes for her.
As a result, she came back a few days later to continue filming, and no one believed that she was finished.
"I always feel like I have to shoot for a lifetime", it really makes people laugh.
In fact, the Wong Kar Wai Victims Alliance is not alone.
When Jacky Cheung played "The True Story of A Fei", he ate dozens of plates of pasta for more than three hours, and filmed over and over again, but I don't know what kind of scene he played.
Even a head-up action had to be filmed dozens of times, and in the end it was "cut off", which made him almost collapse.
and Tony Leung, a conversation was filmed 27 times, and he was so shocked that he went home crying bitterly, and even Carina Lau couldn't help but call to ask Wong Kar-wai if he was targeting her husband.
Of course, Carina Lau herself knows how "terrible" Wong Kar-wai is.
In the interview, she also revealed that a scene of cleaning the floor was filmed 27 times, and in the end, she was covered in sweat and panting, and Wong Kar-wai said "compassionately": "This feels right!"
The actor and actress have to be deducted by the director in the performance, not to mention Tang Yan, who has transformed from traffic.
Dong Yong revealed in the promotional event that Tang Yan had filmed a scene 86 times, and she had no patience and tenacity, so she really couldn't cooperate with Wong Kar-wai.
But it is such a meticulous creation that has made today's "Flowers".
This is Wong Kar-wai, and you can always trust the quality of his work.
Whose cheese did "Flowers" move?
is obviously a good drama, but it has to accept overwhelming controversy.
But this also proves that the show is really a hit, a big hit, and any hit drama will naturally face doubts while encountering affirmation.
After all, the audience's eyes are bright, whether the drama is good or not, everyone's hearts are like Spiegel.
The so-called "cinematic sense" should not become the shortcoming of a drama, on the contrary, domestic dramas need fresh blood such as "Wong Kar Wai aesthetics", and they also need Mr. Bao's story to break the convention.
No, the drama has a score of 8.1 points on Douban, which is among the best word-of-mouth data in the field of national dramas in 2023, and in 2024, it should also be the level of the king of dramas.
Now that more than half of the story of the show is played, can the follow-up word-of-mouth reach new peaks?