As early as 2020, when the director of "Flowers" was officially announced, Wong Kar-wai, starring Hu Ge, it was destined that the pair of Wang Bang would deliver an extraordinary work.
Sure enough, after "Flowers" was launched, not only did the word-of-mouth explode, but the popularity and ratings were also far ahead, and Wong Kar-wai's unique image style captured the prosperity of the ten-mile foreign field.
And Hu Ge under his lens, every frame is full of texture.
In the past, it was often said that a TV series made a sense of cinema, but now that I have seen Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers", I know that this sentence is too early.
Earlier, it was not that there were no film directors who "went down" to make TV series, such as Wang Xiaoshuai, who filmed "The Earth is Long and the Sky is Long", and filmed a "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Mist", but the reputation failed and he was accused of being tricky.
And Feng Xiaogang's successive female group portrait drama "North and South" and the suspense drama "Echo" all pounced silently.
Only Wong Kar-wai, who polished for three whole years, made "Flowers" into a full and real group portrait work, which does not lose the sense of picture of the movie, and looks more exquisite and delicate than the TV series.
The key to the success of the play must be director Wong Kar-wai, but this drama is also inseparable from the wonderful performance of the actors. In such a group portrait drama, the supporting roles can also shine, borrowing Hu Ge's "East Wind", "Flowers" became popular with one man and three women, and good actors met wonderful roles.
Flowers" has shaped a lot of totals in this drama.
There is Mr. Bao played by Hu Ge, who is strategizing and shrewd, and there is also Mr. Wei played by Zheng Kai. The limbs are developed and the mind is simple, but if you want to say which one is the most real and funny, it must be Mr. Fan played by Dong Yong.
Judging from the character setting, Fan is always a person who likes to be in the limelight, greedy for money, and has less integrity, but is very practical.
Obviously, he has been favored by Mr. Bao and can do business with this influential figure in the Shanghai business community, but because of the appearance of Mr. Wei, various price increases, he was carried away for a while, and Mr. Bao was put aside.
Li Li (played by Xin Zhilei), the proprietress of Zhizhenyuan Hotel, gave Mr. Fan enough face and made him more and more impulsive, but the price of Mr. Wei was very high, but he couldn't eat 800,000 pieces of goods at all, so he could only run to Mr. Bao to cooperate and surrender himself.
Dong Yong deduced the pride and complacency of Mr. Fan being praised by Li Li to a high point, and also performed the humility of having to bow his head in front of Mr. Bao.
However, the most exciting scene of this character is before and after his Sanyang card is launched.
Because Mr. Bao only needed 10,000 pieces of goods at the beginning, and he never appeared, Mr. Fan was anxious and always felt that Mr. Bao wanted to pick on him. In fact, it was Mr. Bao who taught him a lesson and told him to be anxious first.
When he saw that Mr. Bao invited Fei Xiang to "a fire", which ignited the enthusiasm of the entire shopping mall and also brought the Sanyang brand to fire, Mr. Fan immediately changed his face.
From the angry accusation that Mr. Bao didn't do anything, to the flattering expression of his admiration for Mr. Bao's five-body throwing to the ground, Dong Yong's acting skills were directly displayed in an all-round way.
And when he had an argument with Miss Wang (played by Tang Yan), but learned that the other party was entertaining for him, the expression on his face was even more the same for a second, seeing him singing excitedly with the microphone, which was completely different from his previous aggressive appearance, which could be said to directly poke the audience's laughter.
If it weren't for the work "Flowers", I'm afraid Tang Yan wouldn't have had the opportunity to show her true acting skills.
Because she had played too many silly and sweet heroines in idol dramas before, it also made everyone mistakenly think that Tang Yan's acting skills would end here, but this time, she played a fierce, unyielding and stubborn Shanghai Xiaonan, which completely subverted everyone's perception of her.
When Miss Wang was still by Mr. Bao's side, she was in the limelight on the Yellow River Road, signed a list of Sanyang brand, and when everyone came to her to get the distribution rights, Miss Wang took the opportunity to tell everyone how honest she was and resolutely did not take kickbacks.
But the limelight was too strong, which also made Miss Wang jealous, and when she was reported to have an improper relationship with Mr. Bao, she changed from a delicate female white-collar worker to a rustic female warehouse employee overnight.
When I saw the grizzled Tang Yan, I almost didn't recognize it, and being able to interpret the role with an open image already shows that Tang Yan is amazing. But what's even more exciting is that she shows the strong background of this character vividly.
This role gives Tang Yan enough room to play, and she also uses every scene to stand the characters steadily, and even a few crying scenes in the play can be interpreted by her with a completely different taste.
When she saw Xin Zhilei, who was dressed as Hong Kong-style, appeared, she could be said to directly overwhelm the other female characters in the play, and the image of a boss lady with outstanding ability and turning clouds and rain was about to come out.
Wong Kar-wai took a very domineering picture of Xin Zhilei's beauty, and there was a feeling that other people lost color in an instant wherever he went. When the heroine Ma Yili and Xin Zhilei played against each other, they could clearly feel that Ma Yili not only had a weak aura, but also couldn't stand the comparison.
But the proprietress Li Li played by Xin Zhilei is not a flat character, she values love and righteousness, as long as others have helped her and treated her well, she will double it back. For example, Mr. Wei, who everyone looks down on, can't even take out the money for the hotel deposit, but Li Li is willing to let him empty the white wolf, just because when the hotel opened, Mr. Wei rushed to support him with great fanfare.
Xin Zhilei plays this role very strongly, it doesn't look so soft, but it is very in line with the character's disheartened silence after experiencing trauma.
Xin Zhilei is not only very eye-catching, but her atmospheric appearance makes people can't take their eyes off it, and her acting skills are becoming more and more dazzling.
At first glance, Mei Ping, played by Wang Ju, is a pitiful little person, because she is not beautiful enough and lacks means, it is difficult to gain a foothold on the Yellow River Road. But as the plot develops, this character finally reveals his scheming green tea side.
She was jealous that Miss Wang had the help of Mr. Bao, and she also regarded her failure to make a three-sheep brand as being stolen by Miss Wang, but in fact, it was just her own limited ability.
Mei Ping, who was in a hurry, pulled Miss Wang off the horse by spreading rumors, but she seemed to have everything about Miss Wang, but in fact it was just everyone killing her.
This role is destined to have no good results, betraying friends, rushing for quick success and unscrupulous means, and then it is very likely to lose completely.
But Wang Ju played such a negative image too really, every look, every expression can make the audience smell the tea on her.
When she pretends to be pitiful, her eyes are weak, and when she tears off the mask of hypocrisy, her eyes become extremely fierce again, and she plays the three words jealousy more concretely.
It can be said that the four roles themselves are very eye-catching, and the four actors, three men and four women, have shown superb acting skills, and they all rely on their strength to get out of the circle!