Chao News reporter Shen Tingyu.
Following 2013's "The Grandmaster", Wong Kar-wai launched a new work after 10 years, which is also his TV series debut.
On the evening of December 27, "Flowers" was broadcast on CCTV's eight sets of ** files. From a set of data, you can see the layout of this drama-
It was only 10 minutes into the broadcast, and the ratings broke 2;On the Weibo hot search list, related topics account for 7. Tencent, as the exclusive broadcast platform of the whole network, gave a big topic, which was broadcast in Mandarin and Shanghainese, and was recommended at the top of the homepage.
Blossom Flowers is based on writer Kim Woo-cheng's eponymous **. **Flowers" tells the life of a group of Shanghai children in half a century with a large number of character dialogues and dense storylines, and won the "Five One Project" award and the Mao Dun Literature Award, which has been selling well for a long time.
This time, the TV series "Flowers" has made everyone wait for a long time. In September 2020, Wong Kar-wai posted a makeup photo of Hu Ge's "Flowers" on Weibo, and posted: "Ringing?Hu Ge** Weibo with the text: "No sound." ”
* "Flowers", produced by Wong Kar-wai, starring Hu Ge, with the addition of the three, even if there is only one poster, it is enough to make people look forward to and excited.
Since then, the TV series "Flowers" has appeared with the frequency of one trailer per year, but every brief appearance will spark heated discussions.
This time, "Flowers" is really here. premiered 4 episodes, Youfengjun asked the people around him and checked online reviews and found that the audience feedback was somewhat polarizing:
Some people call "Flowers" very "Wong Kar-wai", unique aesthetics + deep human nature + atmosphere ** + appropriate flashback, eating his love is miserable;
The opinion comes from Douban.
Some people also think that the TV series has nothing to do with the original **, and the drastic adaptation even expresses two completely different emotional backgrounds;
Some people also said that TV series and movies should be viewed separately, and TV series should pay more attention to reality and daily life, and ignore the ...... storytelling if they cannot emphasize a sense of luxury
The opinion comes from Douban.
You Fengjun also watched "Flowers" for the first time, and the pictures and ** in it do show Wong Kar-wai's unique taste as always, although it is different from **, but the foundation is still Shanghai temperament.
And the first four episodes are tightly paced, the plot jumps but is still tightly linked, and the confusing character relationships are in full swing-
For example, in addition to Ah Bao played by Hu Ge, the three Shanghai golden flowers in the play are also women who do not let their eyebrows go, with a distinct style of the times.
Lingzi, played by Ma Yili, co-opened a local restaurant "Night Tokyo" with Po, and between a few rounds of verbal pulling, you can see that the Shanghai proprietress is powerful, exquisite, bent and stretched, affectionate and righteous.
Miss Wang, played by Tang Yan, works in a foreign trade company and has a fiery personality, and her relationship with Ah Bao is like a minute hand and a second hand, going hand in hand in the torrent of the times.
Li Li, played by Xin Zhilei, "parachuted" into the Yellow River Road, owns the top restaurant Zhizhenyuan, as a mysterious outsider, she judges the situation and moves in all directions.
Of course, to understand "Flowers", you do need to do some homework.
On July 18, 2014, at the Hong Kong Book Fair, Wong Kar-wai and Jin Yucheng attended a lecture on ""Flowers" Writes Shanghai Stories". ”
Wong Kar-wai, who was born in Shanghai, has a soft spot for the city.
In 1963, at the age of five, he followed his father from Shanghai to Hong Kong. The two time periods told in the story of "Flowers" are the blank spaces of Wong Kar-wai's memories of Shanghai. Therefore, his "Flowers" is not only drunk with gold, but also full of fireworks, which may be the "Shanghai taste" in Wong Kar-wai's heart.
This time, the TV series "Flowers" also focuses on the Shanghainese version and the Mandarin version of "going hand in hand". The Shanghainese version retains the charm brought by the ** dialect writing, and many viewers strongly recommend it after the broadcast: the first look must be the Shanghainese version. Hu Ge, who plays Ah Bao in the play, also lamented that presenting "Flowers" in Shanghainese will have a classical taste.
In 2017, the TV series "Flowers" began to be filmed. But ** "Flowers" is not a coherent story, it revolves around the life and growth of Bao, Husheng, and Xiaomao, and the whole text is fragmented and gossipy. In Wong Kar-wai's words: "On the surface, there are men and women who eat and drink, but inside there are mountains and rivers and the changes of the times." ”
He chose to take Bao as the protagonist, and the first episode of the TV series opened with a car accident and scattered banknotes from Mr. Bao, which began to tell the story of how Mr. Bao became Mr. Bao through the Shanghai ** market. This is not actually mentioned in the original book.
In the end, it was the "silence" in more than 1,000 places in the original book that created the TV series "Flowers". Wong Kar-wai said in the special edition of "Flowers": "The original work is 'not loud', we can fill in the blank and complement each other." 'No ringing' is the password of the adaptation, and the creator only talks about what he wants to say, and he speaks well. ”
In his opinion, "We don't have the ability to restore the full version of "Flowers", but we can give a Shanghai Bao that can't be seen in the original book." ”
Therefore, his advice to book lovers is to take "Flowers" to watch "Flowers";For viewers who haven't read the original book, the episode is just a piece of the cake, and you can go to see the original book after watching it.
For the TV series "Flowers", Youfengjun hopes that everyone can show more patience.
So, have you watched this "Flowers"?Which one did you choose to watch the Shanghainese version or the Mandarin version?
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