The first TV series directed by Wong Kar-wai, adapted from the writer Jin Yucheng's "Flowers" of the same name, finally came out after 6 years of preparation and 3 years of shooting, and landed on CCTV8** on December 27.
In less than 10 minutes after the broadcast, the ratings broke 2, and with it, there was a flood of discussions and controversies. For example, Wong Kar-wai's 1:1 reproduction of the Yellow River Road built by the lights, some viewers criticized it as fake as if it reproduced the ** era, and at the same time, a large number of locals spoke out to support the prosperous appearance in memory.
The beginning of the "Flowers" TV series can be described as "Shanghainese doing business", grasping the "panache, gimmick, and sprouts".
3 days after the premiere, that is, on the evening of December 30, Hu Ge, the actor of Bao, Ma Yili, the actor of Lingzi, and Chen Long, the actor of Tao Tao, three actors who were also born and raised in Shanghai, walked out of the TV series and entered the Reading Theater of Shanghai Library.
One of the elements of the TV series "Flowers" is the launch of the Shanghainese version, a large number of local dialect dialogues in the original version**, which have been greatly retained and restored in the play. Hu Ge once said that Mandarin and Shanghainese give the characters a different atmosphere and feeling from the series, such as Lingzi played by Ma Yili who looks spicy and crisp when she speaks Shanghainese, and is more gentle when she speaks Shanghainese. The host Mr. Mao Jian vividly compared Ma Yili's performance to "glutinous rice", "It is very hard when it is hard, and it is very soft when it is soft, which is both a lace edge and a blade".
Ma Yili explained: "Shanghainese itself has a kind of soft and hard effect. My grandmother gave birth to 7 children, the first 6 were daughters and the last one was a son. Because my grandmother is very patriarchal, the women in my grandmother's family are full of vitality like Reiko, and their voices are louder than the other, and it is effortless to teach children or husbands a lesson. Therefore, every time I reprimand Hu Ge's Bao, I have a little bit of the shadow of my family or the Shanghai women I saw in that era - Shanghai women are knife-mouthed tofu hearts, their mouths are very hard, but their hearts are very soft, and they must come against you. ”
Ma Yili's analysis was then used by Hu Ge to make fun of it. When talking about how the TV series presents "no sound" thousands of times and a different meaning each time, Hu Ge laughed: "Most of Bao's 'non-sound' may be 'silent' in front of Reiko." I just listened to Mr. Ma's background information, and I knew why Reiko has such a overwhelming momentum - because every time Po faces Reiko, he is not facing one person, but a group of people. ”
Many viewers watch dramas, "love is greater than the sky", no matter what type of film and television drama, they often give priority to the protagonist's love direction. The same is true for "Flowers", which has just been released. Ah Bao is surrounded by Lingzi, Miss Wang, and Li Li, three outstanding women who have "Jianghu righteousness", who will Ah Bao end up with, this question makes the audience who likes to take CP, especially those who don't want to buy the wrong stock and eat the wrong CP, scratch their ears and cheeks.
When the host threw this question to the actors, Ma Yili thought that Ah Bao and Lingzi were like Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong, who "cooperated to learn from experience", but were full of righteousnessHu Ge admitted that he was also "scared" about this question during filming, and asked the director countless times, but Wong Kar-wai never gave him an answer, so he didn't know which direction to work in, but maybe this kind of performance with uncertainty can in turn achieve the role - those who are familiar with director Wong Kar-wai should know that most of his plays do not have complete scripts, and Hu Ge has obtained the same shooting experience as Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Takuya Kimura, Lin Qingxia and other people.
What if Bao has to choose a fixed "partner"?Chen Long, who has known Hu Ge for many years outside the play and is heart-to-heart in the play, took over the words: "And me!."The owner once again stamped the "Tao Bao CP".
Filming Wong Kar-wai's scenes is very hard, which has become a consensus in the industry. Carina Lau has to wipe the floor 27 times;Jacky Cheung wants to shoot a simple expression more than 60 times;Tony Leung ate 27 pears in a row, but the released version deleted this scene;Andy Lau stayed on the set of "The True Story of A Fei" for 3 months, and finally the scene was reduced to a cameo ......The crew of "Flowers" naturally cannot be "spared".
Ma Yili shared that she had a camera from 11 o'clock at night to 2 o'clock in the morning, going up and down thirty or forty times in high heels, but Wong Kar-wai was still not satisfied, and told her, "Don't be competitive, I'll shoot here today." This experience made her very frustrated, and Wong Kar-wai comforted her: "You didn't even enter the top 10 in my country, aren't they all alive and well?"”
The host Li Weichang also took this opportunity to share a behind-the-scenes story with the audience and readers: once the author Jin Yucheng went to visit the class, and happened to catch a scene of Wong Kar-wai filming a revisit to Bao's hometown. The 42nd time it was filmed, it was already more than two o'clock in the night, Jin Yucheng couldn't help it, and said that it could be over, Wong Kar-wai and Hu Ge turned their heads at the same time and asked, "Why can it be over?".Jin Yucheng activated the skills of the ** family and explained, "I think this time, the overall expression, eyes and movements at the corners of the mouth all indicate a strong signal: at this time, Ah Bao's heart is not thinking of a woman, not a man, or an uncle." Wong Kar-wai was either moved by Jin Yucheng's remarks, so he took another one, and it was over.
participated in "Flowers" and helped Hu Ge complete the "puzzle" of his parents' memories;The on-site sharing of Hu Ge, Ma Yili, and Chen Long also gave the audience a more complete understanding of the play and out of "Flowers". At the end of the lecture, because it was the New Year's Eve, the three actors also presented their New Year's greetings: Chen Long hoped that "flowers are in full bloom, wealth and auspiciousness", Ma Yili wished everyone "health and peace", and Hu Ge wished the world "away from war and world peace".
God does not speak, as if all things are determined by me. "Flowers" is getting better, "The good show is all behind." ”
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