"Maybe when the audience watches our show, they think that some scenes are too bustling. That's because what we want to restore is what people felt at that time. ”Is Shanghai in the TV series "Flowers" the same as in your memory?In a recent special, director Wong Kar-wai interpreted the show's presentation of Shanghai in the 1990s. Outside the play, there are constantly audiences joining the discussion, looking for the distance between memory and reality, film and television and imagination.
On December 30, Hu Ge, Ma Yili, and Chen Long were interviewed for Dragon TV's Shanghainese version of "Flowers". In the face of the question of "how to look at Shanghai in the drama "Flowers" and Shanghai in memory" raised by the reporter of the Morning News, they gave their own answers.
As the core character of the series, Hu Ge, who plays Po, admits that everyone's memory is subjective, and the current presentation of "Flowers" is just "one of the pieces of the memory cake" as director Wong Kar-wai said, "What Shanghai was like at that time, only those who have really experienced it can know". He specifically mentioned the audience's discussion of the Yellow River Road in the 1990s, and bluntly said that the brilliant lights in his impression were similar to the feelings brought to him by the series, "When I was a child, I didn't go to the Yellow River Road to eat, but when I visited Nanjing Road, I once passed by the Yellow River Road, and my impression was that the lights were brilliant and neon."
Therefore, Hu Ge, who is now chasing the drama synchronously with the audience, sighed that from the perspective of his personal understanding, the color and rhythm presented by the drama "Flowers" are consistent with the mental state of the people of that era. For example, when he was a child, he would often see his father, uncle and other family members "busy", which is the same as the "excitement" of people about new opportunities shown in the series. "I was in elementary school in the 90s, and from my point of view, the feeling of the city was very superficial. But I remember that many of my father's friends were very busy, and they seemed to talk about business all day long, what kind of opportunities they had, and what friends from other places they had. From a child's point of view, I didn't know what kind of changes had taken place in the outside world, and now "Flowers" has made up for my memories of this era. ”
Ma Yili, who plays "Lingzi", was a backup dancer in the dance team of Shanghai TV Station when she was in high school, and Qinghai Road and Huanghe Road are places she is quite familiar with. Therefore, the first time she saw the scene restored 1 to 1 by the crew of "Flowers", she felt that everything was "undoubted", "It is 1 to 1 restoration, even a door panel, so what is there to question?".”
In Ma Yili's view, the significance of film and television works is not to discuss whether a certain scene or a certain story is real, "Its role is not to let everyone argue whether this is what it is in memory, and the scenes in each of our memories will be deviated, for me, it is not worth taking time to discuss." ”
Chen Long said that he tried four plays in "Flowers", each time in the real scene built in the film and television base, "Even the trial scenes are like real shooting, the photography is still Bao (Dexi) teacher, and the director is also a director of Jiawei." In terms of the historical details of the characters, he thinks the crew has put in a lot of effort. Tao Tao, who he played, was the first to do fruit business, and then slowly opened up a seafood stall, for which the crew specially found a businessman who was engaged in the seafood business in Shanghai in the 1990s to explain the "business experience" of the year. "The seafood merchants of those days probably sold some fish, including the king snake was very popular at that time, and they told me about the species that everyone liked back then. ”
At the same time, Chen Long also remembers the appearance of adults who are busy and energetic. "My uncle was almost in his thirties back then, which was the same age as Ah Bao and Tao Tao in the play, and then he really left the unit and went into business. What he remembered even more was that when he was a child, his home was near the famous Liulin Road Small Commodities Market, and people from all over the country flocked to it as far as he could see. "At that time, Liulin Road was the hottest street in Shanghai, and people from all over the country came to wholesale clothing there. I look out of the window every day, and everyone drags their luggage to this street, which is very prosperous. ”
is also because of this, after entering the crew of "Flowers", Chen Long was repeatedly reminded of those memories, "My grandmother's house is at the intersection of Yan'an Road and Maoming Road, where there are also great changes, but the Jinxian Road restored by us in the play 1 to 1, everyone can still see that its structure is exactly the same as the original, and the old houses and buildings at the intersection are the same." It is recommended that everyone go for a walk and have a look. ”