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No. 1 in Weibo hot searches, No. 1 in the overall list of Maoyan hits, and No. 1 in Douban's real-time book and audio.
The ratings of the first broadcast of Central Channel 8 broke 2%, with a peak of 2.64%.
This is the row of the TV series "Flowers".
Wong Kar-wai's first TV series, Jin Yucheng won the original work of the Mao Dun Literature Award, starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei and others, almost all the actors in the Shanghai circle...... "Flowers" has whetted the audience's appetite before the broadcast.
If the word-of-mouth can explode and the ratings can continue, then Wong Kar-wai will undoubtedly be able to clear up the embarrassment of the all-star forwarding "I like" during the "Ferryman" period, and Hu Ge can also create the glory of the "Langya Bang" period.
It's a pity that "Flowers" has encountered polar reviews.
How many people think that "Flowers" is high-end and textured, how many people think that "Flowers" is too pretty, the story is poor, and some people even think that the full name of "Flowers" should be "Small Times 5: Flowers Era".
This time, has Wong Kar-wai really become a high-profile version of Guo Jingming?
"Go to the attic alone, preferably at night.
At the end of "The True Story of A Fei", Tony Leung rode a horse to find a horse, the hero was dark and old, counted the banknotes under the electric lamp, counted them, put them in the inner pocket of the suit, counted them again, took out a deck of playing cards, twisted them to take a closer look, and then found a pair.
Next, comb your hair, divide your hair into three or seven parts, comb it in the mirror, your whole body is straight, your bones are slow, and finally, turn off the lights.
No, this half a minute is the taste of Shanghai. ”
At the beginning of the original work of "Flowers", Jin Yucheng once praised Wong Kar-wai's grasp of the taste of Shanghai.
In past interviews, Wong Kar-wai has also mentioned his love for "Flowers" many times.
"After reading it, I feel like I've experienced a lifetime. ”
"Flowers gave me the feeling that it was not love at first sight, but at first sight. ”
A famous Shanghainese writer and a famous Shanghainese director go both ways.
But Wong Kar-wai's style, many people have known it over the years:
There is no script, flying paperboy, filming for several years at every turn, the shooting content far exceeds the duration of the feature film, the big coffee scenes are cut when they say they are cut, and it is also the norm to cut the original protagonist into a supporting role with only a few minutes of scenes, and it is even more impossible to follow the original work.
Leung Ka-fai said that filming "East Evil and West Poison" wasted his life
Regarding the adaptation, Jin Yucheng is very open, after all, whoever shoots is filmed, and it is already good to shoot Wong Kar-wai.
And no matter who it is filmed for, the drama version of "Flowers" is a new life.
Many fans of the original book have different attitudes from Jin Yucheng.
"Film and television must show the charm of "Flowers", this expectation is understandable.
But the logic of "if you don't follow the original work, you will get one star" inevitably slides to the other extreme.
After all, the movie is independent, and Wong Kar-wai's past works have never completely followed the original book.
"East Evil and West Poison" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" cannot be said to be exactly the same, but can only be said to be completely different.
However, it did not affect Wong Kar-wai to find another way to integrate martial arts, love dramas and life dramas into literary dramas, creating the success of "East Evil and West Poison".
Therefore, we might as well put down the magnifying glass of the original fans and start from the perspective of an ordinary audience-
Is "Flowers" good?
It is an indisputable fact that the production of "Flowers" is definitely top-notch, with photography, lighting, and art...... What is created is a real visual feast.
Today, when multi-camera shooting is commonplace, Wong Kar-wai has been shooting with a single camera for more than three years.
For the most ideal photogenic effect, a shot can be shot dozens or even hundreds of times, so that Hu Ge frequently reshoots, and Xin Zhilei finished four times.
Wong Kar-wai has always been in style
The results presented, four words: Yan Dog welfare.
Whether he is doing hairstyle, wearing a suit, or even walking on crutches, Hu Ge is so handsome that he looks like he is filming a luxury advertisement.
The smiles and smiles of the three heroines of Ma Yili, Tang Yan, and Xin Zhilei are also beautiful to a new height in the interplay of neon and makeup.
But for TV series, it is more important for the story to be good-looking.
In less than ten minutes after the opening, the protagonist Ah Bao (played by Hu Ge) had a car accident with the background music of "Friendship Lasts Forever", Ah Bao was admitted to the hospital, but the driver was hit and run.
What is the purpose of him or them? If one blow misses, will he commit murder in the street again? The story unfolds and the characters enter in turn.
Mr. Fan, Tao Tao, Stamp Li and others, who have an interest in Bao, are worried about his body, and even more worried about his fortune.
Night Tokyo boss Reiko (played by Ma Yili) and Miss Wang (played by Tang Yan) of the Foreign Trade Building also have a deep friendship with Po, and they came out to appease people's hearts.
Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei), who has only been in Shanghai for three months, has her eyes on Huanghe Road, and she took over the most profitable restaurant "Golden Phoenix" and renamed it "Zhizhen Garden", wanting to borrow Bao's name to take the position.
The old Shanghai Tang stock trading gang Kirin Club is even more ruthless, wanting to eat most of Bao's net worth.
It can be said that in order to adapt to the plot development of the TV series, Wong Kar-wai deliberately made changes and accelerated the pace of the narrative.
The relationship between the characters in "Flowers" is not specifically explained, but it is all shown from the story
Although the pace is fast, it is not difficult to see Wong Kar-wai's personal characteristics.
For example, there are many of Wang's "meaningless empty shots" and frame-drawn shots.
The picture of Ah Bao running away after "borrowing money" makes people visualize Takeshi Kaneshiro shuttling through the surging crowd in "Chongqing Forest" at a glance;
Po in a suit came out of the darkness, looking like Tony Leung in "In the Mood for Love".
For example, there are a lot of philosophical lines.
It takes 1 hour to run from the bottom of the Empire State Building to the top floor, but it only takes 8.8 seconds to jump from the top floor.
In the film, Uncle Gao used this passage to tell Bao, who came to learn his skills, that this is stocks, and if you want to make money from stocks, you must first learn to lose.
A man should have at least three wallets:
The first is how much money you actually have, the second is how much money you can take out of other people's pockets, and the third is how much money others think you have.
Uncle came out of Tilanqiao Prison (the most detained prisoners in Tilanqiao were economic prisoners), and it is not difficult to see from his all-round style, style of acting and interpersonal communication that Uncle was also a powerful man in Shanghai back then.
This character setting is a copy of Zhao Benshan in "The Grandmaster", and his relationship with Ah Bao is also somewhat similar to Ding Lianshan and Ip Man.
For example, the lens language is very exquisite.
Just take Po being taken by Commander Cai to meet with the Qilin Meeting as an example.
Commander Cai and the elders of the Kirin Club whispered in the background, Ah Bao in the foreground was very impatient, and his head happened to be crossed by a thin rope, and then Ah Bao did not agree to the request of the Kirin Club to speculate in stocks.
shows that he knows that this is a bureau, and the reason why he will go to the appointment is not to give Commander Cai face, but to return Commander Cai's favor:
In order to get Po to buy more subscription coupons, Commander Cai limped on one foot.
Ah Bao understands, and Commander Cai also understands, but they didn't say it, this is called "no sound".
Whether this style is pleasing varies from person to person, at least most of the viewers who go to see it like Wong Kar-wai.
But even fans have to admit -
The shortcomings of "Flowers" are also obvious.
It is known: "Flowers" and "In the Mood for Love" and other movies were all made by Wong Kar-wai, the heroes and heroines in the past were Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, and today's heroes and heroines are Hu Ge and Ma Yili.
Verification: Whose pot is bigger?
Hu Ge used Xiao Lizi's signature move, which made people laugh dumbly.
"Flowers" is not as exaggerated as "The Great Gatsby", and the madness of the characters is slightly inferior to "The Wolf of Wall Street".
The Mandarin version of the drama is easy to play, and the Shanghainese version requires the audience to keep an eye on the lines (the narration part is still in Mandarin), and the plot is almost entirely dependent on lines, narration, and transitions.
For many viewers, it's hard to immerse yourself in.
Under Wang's fast-paced and fragmented narrative, the audience was not deeply moved by Mr. You Benchang's performance, and they had to cut into the story of the next scene.
Even if the lines are engraved in the heart of Mr. You Benchang, it is difficult to flow in the audience's minds like Jigong.
During Po's car accident, the police asked everyone about the situation, and Wong Kar-wai used one by one to play the front and back shots and quick transitions to explain the story of the characters and the relationship between the characters.
makes people in a trance, is this Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers", or Chen Sicheng's "Flowers Detective"?
The word "no sound" appears more than a thousand times in the original book, and Wong Kar-wai once talked about his opinion on "no sound".
"No sound" does not mean silence, it is a kind of blank space, everything I don't want to say, what I can't say, what I say is embarrassing for myself and embarrassing for others, don't make a sound.
This is part of the meaning of "not ringing", and it is also consistent with Jin Yucheng's intention.
But Wong Kar-wai's focus is obviously in the second half of the sentence -
I only talk about what I can say, what I want to say, and what I can say well.
Lou Ye once went to Jin Yucheng to negotiate the adaptation rights of "Flowers", but when he learned that it had been won by Wong Kar-wai, he was quite annoyed and said that he would definitely be able to shoot him next year.
The reason why Wong Kar-wai was able to impress Kim Yucheng was of course because he had a considerable number of movie masterpieces.
But another reason why Kim Yucheng admitted it personally is that Wong Kar-wai said that "Flowers" is about his brother and sister.
Wong Kar-wai was born in Shanghai in 1958 and moved to Hong Kong with his parents when he was 5 years old.
In "In the Mood for Love", several gentlemen and wives gather in a few nearby buildings, everyone can speak a few words of Shanghainese, and many shots are shot from a low camera position.
In other words, that is the perspective of Wong Kar-wai when he was a child.
As Wong Kar-wai said, Pan Dihua's living room is what his home looks like.
Although the writer who inspired him changed from Liu Yifang to Jin Yucheng, Wong Kar-wai's attitude towards the expression of personal emotions and personal expression remained unchanged.
"In the Mood for Love" thanks to Liu Yifang
In the 90s in Shanghai, whether it was the neon-lit Yellow River Road or the Peace Hotel, they were all Wong Kar-wai's "home".
It doesn't have to be a realistic and comprehensive Shanghai, but it is the Shanghai that Wong Kar-wai sees as it is.
Wong Kar-wai: My interpretation is just my own words.
It's just that this time, Wong Kar-wai failed to grasp the synaesthesia with the audience.
Hu Ge is very handsome in the camera, Xin Zhilei is very beautiful in the camera, You Benchang is very charming in the camera, and he can hang the audience to watch several episodes in one go.
In the mixed cut, it is also touching with Leslie Cheung's "One Minute" and Tony Leung's "If there is more than one ticket".
But this kind of beauty is repetitive and singular, and deleting the other two protagonists in the original book except for Po will inevitably abandon some complexity and profundity.
In mourning for Liu Yifang, Wong Kar-wai once quoted what he wrote: "All memories are damp".
When the footless bird broke away from the warm rainforest in "The True Story of A Fei", from the melancholy desert in "East Evil and West Poison", and ran all the way in the great era of "Flowers", it also fell behind.
It can no longer evoke memories in people's minds, and it cannot make people willing to take out and show their inner vulnerability.
Many readers believe that "no sound" is the essence of the original work of "Flowers".
In the criticism of the drama version of "Flowers", a corresponding word also appears frequently:
"It's too loud. ”
However, although "Flowers" is not outstanding in Wong Kar-wai's work sequence, it would be biased to use only the content of the first two episodes to evaluate "not as good as Guo Jingming".
Although it is difficult to satisfy all audiences in terms of empathy, the amount of information in one episode of "Flowers" is almost enough for a "Cloud Feather".
Not to mention the specific audio-visual language, photography, lighting, and editing alone are enough for Guo Jingming.
To paraphrase today, Wong Kar-wai is very good at "closing the loop".
For example, Ouyang Feng's lines to Huang Yaoshi in "East Evil and West Poison", and Ah Fei (played by Leslie Cheung) and the gambler (played by Tony Leung) appeared at the beginning and end of "The True Story of A Fei".
"Flowers" has a feeling of getting better after the fourth episode, you sing and I appear, and the relationship between the characters and the story are established.
And the movie version of "Flowers", which will be released in 2025, may bring the king of sunglasses back to the comfort zone of the movie, and it has also made thousands of viewers look forward to it for a long time.
Today, "Flowers" is "too loud".
What about tomorrow? Will it be "silent"?
Wong Kar-wai, please answer.