Wong Kar-wai's past movies, every frame is very textured, and the first TV series "Flowers" directed by him is also exquisite, among which most of the shots of Hu Ge and Xin Zhilei are very poster-like.
But the tone was so high before the broadcast, once it did not meet the expectations of most viewers after the broadcast, it was inevitable that there would be a gap. If the story is not well told, then what is the use of beautiful pictures?After all, it's not a MV.
After watching the first few episodes of "Flowers", Mr. Eight couldn't help but think of "Little Times", both works pay great attention to the beauty of the lens, but the stories are quite suspended.
If Guo Jingming is accustomed to presenting naïve stories with beautiful pictures, then Wong Kar-wai's Shanghai business war under the lens of this time is really pretentious and lacks details.
Mr. Eight thought that "Flowers" was about the experience of the male protagonist (played by Hu Ge) in the nineties how to change from a small person to a big person, but he didn't expect to completely explain his family history in only one and a half episodes - under the guidance of a master (played by You Benchang), he borrowed money from his good brother (played by Chen Long) and succeeded in one fell swoop. Then, while doing foreign trade business, he became the celebrity "Mr. Bao" of Shanghai Tang.
In just a few years, the male protagonist has gained a firm foothold in the Shanghai circle and has become a top-notch existence. The Kirin Club, the largest fleet in Shanghai's ** market, threw an olive branch to him;Merchants inquired about his movements every day and wanted to meet him to discuss business.
I can see that the director has been rendering the atmosphere of the male protagonist being very powerful, many lines are in Kuabao is always a powerful character, and the status of the rivers and lakes is very high, Hu Ge also performed a cool and crazy and unfathomable look, but after watching a few episodes, Mr. Eight, as an audience, really can't feel how powerful he is. This is like some domestic dramas, the lines always emphasize how handsome and beautiful the protagonist is, but the audience can't feel a truth at all.
After explaining the history of the male protagonist's fortune, the plot will turn to show the male protagonist's skills in foreign trade business. This paragraph is also quite mysterious.
As a distributor, the male protagonist wants to win a batch of domestic products whose quality is on par with foreign brands but is four fifths lower, but it is not smooth.
Li Li, played by Xin Zhilei, wanted to make her luxury hotel on Huanghe Road in Shanghai an information exchange point for the big boss, and wanted to invite the male protagonist, that is, Mr. Bao, to come on the opening day, but Mr. Bao didn't appreciate it, so she wanted to match another boss to talk about business with the owner of the garment factory, trying to destroy Mr. Bao's business.
The so-called other boss is Mr. Wei played by Zheng Kai, who looks rich but brainless as soon as he appears. I didn't know what kind of business the owner of the garment factory was talking about with Mr. Bao, so I patted my chest and said that I wanted all the goods;After knowing what the goods were, I insisted on taking the goods without knowing the amount of goods, trying to hurt people with this, and finally found that I and my friends couldn't eat 800,000 goods at all.
The opponent is so intellectual, naturally to highlight that the male protagonist has a brain. Therefore, the male protagonist didn't worry at all when he knew that the factory owner was trying to sell the goods to others, and he drank foreign wine and delicious food in a luxury restaurant calmly, and didn't forget to take the time to stage a scene of eye contact with Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei).
In fact, there are only a few lines that really show the male protagonist talking about business, and the rest are all pictures of empty heads and pretentions. Maybe this is called white space?The general direction (the male protagonist is very powerful) has been filmed, and the details are all up to the audience's imagination.
Later, the male protagonist successfully signed a contract with the owner of the garment factory and sold the goods in a famous commercial building on Nanjing Road. At first, the clothes didn't sell well, but the male protagonist had already expected it, so he invited Fei Xiang, who was the hottest of the year, to perform in the commercial building in advance and bring the goods, so everyone rushed to buy it.
At this time, the male protagonist was drinking foreign wine in his luxury hotel for dozens of dollars a night, tasting the taste of his Nth success.
Except for the anxiety and discouragement of the male protagonist at the beginning, no matter what difficulties he encountered in the later stage, he looked confident and victorious, and he succeeded every time. This is no longer like a story of grassroots counterattack, more like "the coming of God".
is also a big male protagonist growth drama, and Mr. Eight appreciates "Big River" even more. Song Yunhui, the male protagonist played by Wang Kai, went from a college entrance examination student who almost couldn't even go to college to the position of the leader of the chemical plant step by step, not by hanging up. He also has the help of nobles on the way to promotion, but many plots can make the audience feel that he is diligent, intelligent, pure, and dares to fight, and such people are destined to succeed in that era. Although the styles of the two dramas are different, the difference is really big whether they fill in the details or not.
Wong Kar-wai's works, with their obvious personal style, are destined to be liked by some people and not appreciated by others. There is no right or wrong, it's just that individual aesthetics are different.