Directed by Wong Kar-wai, written by Qin Wen, and starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei, Zheng Kai, etc., the TV series "Flowers" finally started on the evening of December 27. The play has launched two versions, a Mandarin version and a Shanghainese version, which has aroused heated discussions among the audience. The data shows that the ratings of CCTV 8 exceeded 2 in only 10 minutes, and the number of related topic words on the Weibo hot search list also reached 7. According to the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, with the launch of the TV series, they have printed 100,000 copies of ** "Flowers".
Mao Jian, a professor at East China Normal University, told The Paper that Wong Kar-wai's emotional weights and measures have been the most popular expression of love in the past 30 years, but in the field of TV dramas, this method has long stayed at the rhetorical level and has not set foot in form. The launch of "Flowers" will be an upgrade of the TV drama version. He said that "Flowers" is completely suitable for viewing in the cinema, not because it resembles a movie, but because the theatrical version of the TV series has opened a new starting point, just like the Shanghai dialect often seems to be life-like in film and television works in the past, "But if you look at the Shanghainese spoken by Ma Yili in "Flowers", she appears in the background in a simple way, and the characters become a form of language. And language has also become the largest and most beautiful material image in the play, just like the expressions with Shanghainese characteristics in "Flowers" have become the stylistic style of the work. ”
On the evening of the 27th, Xu Jilin, a professor at East China Normal University, watched the first four episodes in one breath and bluntly said that it was "good-looking". He said: "This TV series has both Wong Kar-wai and not really. It was made into a Wong Kar-wai-style Hong Kong film, with colors, lighting, sets and props similar to "In the Mood for Love", very attentive, almost the pursuit of perfection. Xu Jilin told The Paper reporter that his deepest impression was the scene when his uncle and Po went to the Peace Hotel.
At the same time, he believes that Wong Kar-wai has once again transformed the original fragmented, montage-style dream style and become a veteran of suspense and storytelling. "This storyline only appeared vaguely in the original book, and now it has been excavated by Wong Kar-wai. I watched the Shanghainese version, and today's Shanghai actors and actresses are almost pouring out, and even papi sauce is also participating in it. Just because they are the only ones who can really tell Shanghai gossip. The wonderful performances between the stars of all walks of life make people want to stop. "
Xu Jilin believes that in the first four episodes, the most outstanding ones are Ma Yili and You Benchang. "With her original performance, Ma Yili interprets the female image of Shanghai Tang into a delicate and dazzling one, and she speaks the most authentic and close-to-life Shanghainese, and even the 'zatai type' can easily blurt out. And the veteran actor You Benchang overwhelmed everyone, using his textbook-like actual performance to tell the young actors what real artistic performance is. ”
* After four episodes, it seems that there are some insignificant differences between the TV series "Flowers" and the original book, and it feels plausible. Yes, Wong Kar-wai in this TV series is not surnamed Kim, but surnamed Wang, which makes people feel an emotion that is both familiar and unfamiliar.
Tongji University professor Tang Weijie ** the first four episodes of the TV series "Flowers" on the evening of the 27th, and he is quite satisfied with the degree of adaptation, especially after he has ** the Mandarin version and Shanghainese version of the first episode, the adaptation of the show is considered to be within a reasonable range. He said that he would continue to ** after that, because there are quite a few things in the show that attract him.
He told The Paper that the TV series "Flowers" is not strictly a documentary about Shanghai in the 1990s, and it is somewhat exaggerated in terms of visual presentation, and even has a flashy tone. He believes that film and television works are also the art of color, so he thinks it is acceptable to exaggerate this visually. Many friends said that the TV series "Flowers" is a bit similar to "The Great Gatsby", with a flashy atmosphere revealed in the prosperity, which fits the imagination of globalization, Shanghai and the future that began to grow in the 1990s.
He also noticed that the TV series "Flowers" invited many actors who are good at comedy, such as Papi-chan and Fan Xiangyan, and professional actors will also increase the exaggeration of language and action when playing roles, which goes beyond daily life. This is understandable, because the Chinese people were extremely excited during the booming economy of the 1990s, and the whole country was bathed in a pleasant spiritual atmosphere, and the memories of those years are still vivid. ”
In the first episode, Tang Weijie was deeply impressed by the part where Bao visited his uncle, although this plot was not in the original book. He believes that director Wong Kar-wai has strengthened his uncle's role as a guide on the road of Po's business. This part can be seen as a key episode in growing up**, similar to the story of Zhang Liang and the old man on the bridge in ancient China, or legends such as "Zhang Liang received the book". Therefore, in the play, the uncle asked Po to borrow money, and then learned to fail and succeed in the transaction, and finally waited under the customs building as agreed, these plots are quite interesting.
To some extent, China's economic boom in the 1990s was due to the return of the market economy and business models to our lives. What is the basis for this phenomenon?Why is Shanghai the best fit for this economic model?How did Shanghai differ from other cities in the economic tide of the 1990s?There's a lot of story in it.
Tang Weijie showed that a certain plot in the play is the story of the uncle telling Ah Bao that a man has three wallets, which are the actual wealth, the credit that can be transferred from others, and the worth in the eyes of others. He explained: "From this point of view, it can be said that Po is a protagonist in the growth of **, to a certain extent, in line with the revival of Shanghai's image in the 1990s, or in line with Shanghai's imagination of itself." ”