"Flowers" is now very popular, and there are the most heated discussions, and the most debated is about whether Shanghai was as prosperous as in the TV series in the early 90s, and even drunk and gold-obsessed, with tens of thousands of yuan for a meal at every turn, and the rich second generation drove a Ferrari.
The author lived in Shanghai for a long time in the early 90s, and took a ferry to Pudong every day, which was still a large construction site at that time.
I will not explore whether Shanghai was as prosperous as in the TV series at that time, but talk about the differences between Beijing and Shanghai from the hot discussion.
Many outsiders said about this, how can it be so good-looking, too fake, too exaggerated At this time, almost the vast majority of Shanghainese came out and said, yes, it's so good, so prosperous, outsiders have never seen the world, and so on.
Again, let's not explore the question itself, that is, people in Beijing and Shanghai have different attitudes towards similar things.
Think about some "Beijing flavor" TV series, which generally played some prosperous people or things in Beijing in the past era, most Beijingers will say, Hu made up and acted blindly, where was it so good at that time.
Compared with what some Shanghainese say in the early 90s, it was so good in "Flowers", it was so good, and outsiders had never seen the world, this is the cultural difference between Beijing and Shanghai.
Similarly, if I like the Premier League, Beijing fans say I only watch the Premier League, while Shanghai fans will say that other leagues are not good, I only watch the Premier League.
There is no difference between the different cultures of the two places, and it should be related to the history and culture of the two places, resulting in great differences in regional cultures.
People in Beijing, including Tianjin, especially like to take their own personal exams and expose their own shortcomings. If this Xi is elevated a little bit to cultural confidence, I don't need to say that I am good to be recognized by the other party.
The history of Shanghai is a little shorter, the formation of the city comes from the concession, and when it comes to this issue, some people will definitely say that Shanghai County and Songjiang Mansion have little to do with the current Shanghai city.
Therefore, in a sense, Shanghainese people lack a little cultural self-confidence, so no matter what they do, they care about other people's eyes and opinions, and I want everyone to admit that I am the best.
For example, when Griffith played in Beijing, Beijing fans called him Dage, and when Griffith played in Shenhua, Shanghai fans called him "Wrinkle", which is an English transliteration, and many Shanghainese dialects also come from English transliteration.
But it is precisely because of this lack of self-confidence that they are more willing to compete for the first place, so as to cover up their lack of self-confidence.
In terms of self-confidence, Beijingers have a 3,000-year history of city building and 800 years of capital history, so they have huge cultural self-confidence, so although they are outgoing, they do not need to be recognized by others.
Let's talk about the filming method and angle of the TV series, in fact, "Flowers" should be Shanghai in the eyes of Hong Kong people like Wong Kar-wai, and many Hong Kong riches have passed from the old Shanghai before the liberation, so they especially miss Shanghai in that era.
Look at the color of the TV series, it is clear that the early 90s were very prosperous, and the bright and upward Shanghai, the tone is black and black like the twenties and thirties of the Republic of China, a strong Republic of China style.
Looking at Bao's dress, temperament and demeanor are basically no different from the young master Ming in "The Pretender", the proprietress wearing cheongsam on the Yellow River Road is the same as the wife in the Republic of China.
In the early 90s, an old man who owed hundreds of thousands of debts actually took a group of brothers in suits and leather shoes to smash the largest hotel on the Yellow River Road, and really regarded Shanghai under the rule of law as Hong Kong!
Even uttered the language of "brothers sit with a glass of water for a day", which is too unsuccessful.
The most pleasing thing in the play is Miss Wang, which is too inspirational, and the background music songs in different scenes are well designed, especially like MTV in the past, the music songs are easy to touch the hearts of the audience, and can quickly pull the audience into the scene in the play and chant in it.
Of course, the Shanghainese version is the most enjoyable to watch, especially Ma Yili's soft Shanghainese, which makes you crispy and numb, but you can listen to a few words, and it will be annoying to twitter for a long time.
But for someone like me, who is particularly nostalgic for Shanghai in the 90s, it sounds like a lot of enjoyment.