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Who can win the title of the king of domestic dramas this year?
There are two dramas with fierce competition, one is a Douban score of 94 points for "The Long Season".
The other is the period drama "Flowers", which has just started.
Although the TV series "Flowers" has just been launched, platform data shows that more than 60,000 people have scored this drama, and the score is as high as 95 points.
"Flowers", which has a brilliant configuration and a surprise lineup, started with Wang Bang, but with the launch of this drama, related controversies have also continued.
The theme of "Flowers", commercial elements, and even the literary style directed by Wong Kar-wai all make "Flowers" have a compelling style, and at the same time, it is difficult to gain the popularity of popular models.
Fortunately, the ratings of "Flowers" gave viewers a reassurance, and the TV series premiered two episodes on CCTV, and the ratings soared to 19. The market share is close to 10%, winning the first place in the country.
It is this kind of achievement that gives "Flowers" the opportunity and potential to be as famous as "The Long Season", which has excellent discussion and reputation.
So where is the dark horse potential of "Flowers"?
In fact, from the perspective of the background of the painting style, "Flowers" does not look like the 90s, it has almost lost the characteristics of the 90s, and there is no appearance of reform and opening up, but I have to say that "Flowers" under the lens of Wong Kar-wai is the Shanghai in the general public's impression.
It stays in the twenties and thirties, drunk and golden, and the ten-mile foreign field can be called the Paris of the East, it is a mixture of charm and evil, which discourages the poor and makes the rich covetous.
The boundless night of Shanghai is dissipated into brilliant fireworks in Wong Kar-wai's lens, and portrayed as a woman's flaming lips.
It's very suspended, very literary, and very out of line with the background of the times, but it is very charming and eye-catching.
I'm afraid this is also the first time that most viewers feel the difference between movie-level shots and TV series shots.
After watching the premiere of "Flowers", I can only say that the foreign work of "Flowers" for three years is really worth it.
"Flowers" is a story that integrates the times and fate, the flowers fall and the rain does not stop, the people in the story, the times in the story, are like flowers, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, but they will always wither.
And the plot at the beginning of "Flowers" is that in such a leafy era, there is such a male protagonist who is waiting to bloom.
The protagonist of the story, Ah Bao (played by Hu Ge), attaches great importance to love and righteousness, has business acumen, has an excellent relationship with women, has a strong sense of responsibility, and is very emotionally stable.
The era that has been changing in the main line, the fragmented plot, in fact, it is difficult for the audience to concentrate, but the excellent main line setting and the wonderful charm of the protagonist can connect the fragmented plot and interspersed timeline together, so that the audience can watch more and more.
In the plots that have been launched, at least the first two episodes are confusing, "What is this playing?".What are you going to do?That's how most viewers feel when they watch the first two episodes.
And from the third episode, the plot of the TV series is on the right track, Po's ups and downs of life officially began, he met many people, there are nobles, there are villains, he has an emotional and commercial connection with them, under Wong Kar-wai's aesthetics, the audience is like watching a film movie, watching the colorful memories of the old dreams of teenagers, and feeling the end of the era and the life of alternating time and space.
In the first episode, Po completed the transformation of Mr. Bao.
In the second episode, Mr. Bao appeared on the Yellow River Road.
After that, Bao always made a move with foreign trade business in the difficult shopping mall, and Bao's fate quickly spread out in front of the audience, and his every step and every decision was an absolute victory, but the lens aesthetics and rhythm texture seemed to tell the audience that ability and luck are indispensable.
The ups and downs of fate are in a moment, and many momentary decisions lead to the end of fate. This kind of plot texture often reminds me of the work "The Long Season", which also has a sense of time and space fate.
The characters in Blossoming Flowers give the impression of being given an emotional gaze by the director.
In most domestic dramas, there will be strange camera show-offs, and the director walks from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and while watching the drama, the audience complains.
Why is there so much work?”
But Wong Kar-wai is different, his style is obvious, but the camera is gentle, when the camera falls on Hu Ge's face, Wong Kar-wai is a bystander, his shots are emotional, with love for the character.
There are two scenes in the second episode, both of which have an all-round gaze at Hu Ge, and under the objective camera angle, Wong Kar-wai desperately adds to Hu Ge's charm.
The audience's first feeling is that Hu Ge is really handsome, but a careful analysis will find that Hu Ge is not as handsome as himself in "Flowers", he is Bao, and he is a character created under Wong Kar-wai's aesthetics.
Except for the male protagonist Ah Bao, every actor in "Flowers" is outstanding.
Li Li played by Xin Zhilei is beautiful like a painting every minute and every second, her charm and arrogance do not conflict, and her appearance in the camera is a miracle.
Lingzi played by Ma Yili is simple, straightforward, and poisonous, but righteous, she is shrewd but not philistine, loves money but is not selfish, Ma Yili's authentic Shanghainese makes the character have a stronger sense of region, and the blessing that Wong Kar-wai brings to the actor is not the appearance, but the inner sense of strength.
As for Miss Wang played by Tang Yan, it is really worrying, Tang Yan's idol drama acting skills are obvious to all, and she is not on the same track as Hu Ge and Xin Zhilei at all, but Tang Yan in "Flowers" is not abrupt at all, Miss Wang played by her is busy like a cow in the era of drunkenness, she has to go to work to do business, and she has to cope with work while eating.
I can't say how brilliant Tang Yan's portrayal of Miss Wang is, but the character presented in the end is indeed charming.
The actors and characters in "Flowers" have all been polished by Wong Kar-wai, and they have an obvious Wong Kar-wai style, which is in line with Wong Kar-wai's aesthetic tonality, but the only actor in the whole drama who makes me feel in the atmosphere is You Benchang.
The uncle played by You Benchang is not inferior to Ah Bao as the protagonist, he is full of tone, and his style is different.
In a TV series lamenting fate, You Benchang's existence is like opening the Eye of God, he looks at Ah Bao's eyes, who knows, stern and profound, he seems to be looking at his past self, as if he is talking to the times.
All in all, the work "Flowers" has a certain threshold for chasing dramas, but in the plots that have been launched, the plot highlights of "Flowers", the texture and rhythm, and the shaping of actors, are all **, and none of them pull the crotch.
As for where the "flowers" fall?
Wait for the flowers to bloom for the time being, and when the story ends, you can stand at the end and look down on the past, and mourn is like a tide.