Changsha Evening News, Changsha, January 10 (All** Reporter Ning Shaou) On the evening of the 9th, the first TV series "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai officially ended. As the first hit drama at the beginning of the year, "Flowers" successfully "went out of the circle", not only contributed more than 140 hot searches on Weibo, making many of the golden songs of the era selected in the film popular, but also bringing fire to Shanghai food and city walk.
Wong Kar-wai's first drama "dimensionality reduction strike" on the popular drama
It can be said that "Flowers" has attracted much attention since the beginning of preparation. The internationally renowned director Wong Kar-wai directed a drama series for the first time, adapted from the same name that won the Mao Dun Literature Award**, with an investment of 500 million yuan to create. It's a topic to bring out alone, not to mention the superposition of so many elements.
After 3 years of production, at the end of last year, "Flowers" released its first trailer, and the cast of Shanghainese all-stars is even more exciting. Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Chen Long, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei played the main roles, and even "Jigong" You Benchang, who had not appeared for a long time, also joined the play. Netizens laughed: "British actors are proud to participate in "Harry Potter", "Flowers" is the "Harry Potter" of Shanghai actors, if you are a Shanghai star and do not appear in "Flowers", you are embarrassed to say hello when you go out." ”
Not only are the starring stars star-studded, but even the guest stars are very outstanding. Football star Fan Zhiyi played a strong workshop director in the film, and successfully appeared on the hot search. The long-lost singer Dai Jun, actor Lin Xilei and others tried their skills, and also let the young audience "reacquaint" their charm.
Some film critics said that Wong Kar-wai's intensive cultivation, Oscar-winning cinematographer Bao Dexi was in charge, all-star actors performed brilliantly, and Shanghai in the first decade of the last century was rebuilt with 500 million yuan.
Whether to see the Mandarin version or the Shanghainese version is a question.
Of course, many viewers praised "Flowers", and some people said "not the right appetite". With the rise in ratings, the controversy accompanying the series has not stopped. First of all, it is a question of whether to respect the original work, the reporter learned that the ** version of "Flowers" has three protagonists: Husheng, A Bao, and Tao Tao, and it is a group drama of Shanghainese. The plot is also relatively light, and most of them are told through dialogue. In addition to the original work, the drama version of "Flowers" also integrates three other literary works, choosing the business war drama of "Bao" transformed into "Mr. Bao" as the main line, and also drastically cutting off many characters and branches. Some film critics said, "As a business war drama, I give 8 points to "Flowers", and as a fan of the original book, I give it a failing grade" and "Wong Kar-wai filmed "Flowers", but he didn't shoot it completely.
Most of the actors who starred in the series spoke in Shanghainese, and the production was recorded at the same time, so there were two versions of "Flowers" when it was broadcast - a Mandarin version and a Shanghainese version. Which version to see has become a big controversy again. Some fans think that listening to dialects is the "right way to open". Some drama fans feel that a full screen of Shanghainese is a threshold for audiences in other regions.
The related peripherals are on fire, and orders for "pork rib rice cakes" have skyrocketed.
In any case, "Flowers" became popular, and it also brought fire to Shanghai food, old Shanghai buildings, filming prototypes and city walk. After the broadcast, the search volume of "Miss Wang", played by Tang Yan in the film, and the search volume of "pork rib rice cake", which is played by Tang Yan, soared by 937% on a takeaway platform, and the number of takeaway orders increased by 300% week-on-week. The soaked rice and dry-fried beef river mentioned in the film have also become hits.
In the early 90s of the last century, more than 30 restaurants gathered on the Yellow River Road, which was less than 500 meters long, and was the "top stream" of Shanghai's catering at that time. After the series started, it was lively again, and the prototype of "Zhizhen Garden" in the play, Moss Shengyuan Restaurant, was hard to find, and the store manager said that reservations are hot now, and reservations have begun in February. Every day, countless tourists go to Huanghe Road to check in, and some citizens who live nearby appeal on the Internet: "People here follow the crowd, don't come", which still can't affect the enthusiasm of drama fans. The British suite of the Peace Hotel, which has a very high drama rate, has now become a "hot product", and the staff said that their reservations and consultations are exploded almost every day.
How popular "Flowers" is, it can also be seen from the treatment of the stage play of the same name. As soon as the tickets for the stage version were opened, the audience was rushed, and the server was paralyzed in a second.