"Flowers" can be called a movie series, can the intervention of Wong Kar-wai's film school elements open up a new way for TV dramas?
Recently, the famous Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai spent three years to launch the well-polished TV series "Flowers", which caused huge repercussions, and the government and the opposition received mixed reviews. Another Hong Kong filmmaker, Wang Jing, immediately gave high praise, believing that "Flowers" is a masterpiece, and the character creation and actors' acting skills are excellent. Mainland filmmakers are silent and silent, probably in view of Director Wang's status in the rivers and lakes, otherwise they will definitely kill and pursue this unnormal production method, maybe just like Daolang was treated back then, accusation and abuse are certain.
For ordinary audiences, most of them praise and praise, and many people don't buy it and give bad reviews, thinking that the picture is too "prosperous", there is a feeling of showing off the picture and creating a gimmick, impetuous, noisy, lively, the characters are busy, "I am tired to watch"!
For a famous knife who has been deeply involved in the film industry for a long time, the great director Wong Kar-wai launched the drama version of "Flowers", of course, after filming the film version, it may be that he feels that a movie is not enough to say that "Flowers" is still unfinished, or he may have shot so many good pictures and can't bear to give up, so another three years The drama version of "Flowers" was released, it is a "missing pearl" or a "remaining brick", of course, it should be evaluated as the former, the drama version is very exciting, and it has the value and significance of **.
"Flowers" is first different from ordinary TV dramas in terms of structure, rooted in the background of the tide of reform and opening up in the last century, breaking the old frame and pursuing new development as the main theme, the acceleration of the pace of life, the acceleration of the pace of development, many people are almost out of breath, and it is almost impossible to look back at the road they have walked, which is the characteristics of that era. "Flowers" is based on such a background of the times, and the whole story is carried out in a dynamic sense, interspersed with reality and retrospective, and the fragmented combination of plot and picture gives people a dizzying feeling.
In order to show the passionate sense of the times, "Flowers" is also ingenious in terms of picture design. Different from the gray light tones commonly used in TV dramas of the era, this drama completely adopts the concept of highlighting the light and lines in the movie, with side light, top light, and spotlight outline, clear and distinct light and dark, rich in movie texture, and a strong comparison effect.
"Flowers" abandons the concept of "** segmentation" of TV drama shooting, and the picture composition mostly adopts the front, back and foreground of the characters' positions, and the blockbuster "left black" behind is always dark and bright in front , a large number of emotional depictions are placed in the scenery environment, highlighting the delicate emotional portrayal of the characters' temperament, even the curtains and curtains always seem to have the wind blowing, strongly highlighting the uncertainty of that era, when people's desire to change their lives, the anxiety and confusion about the future in their hearts, and the supreme belief in the future, which is a very wonderful visual experience.
Director Wong Kar-wai's profound skills also lie in the fact that he can mobilize the potential of every actor, and the role arrangement is just right, no role is superfluous, every actor is appropriate, and every actor can explode brilliantly - not to mention the protagonists Hu Ge and Ma Yili, nor to mention Mr. You Benchang's explosive "uncle" , just take Fan Zhiyi, a football veteran who accidentally participated, as an example, his rivalry with Tang Yan in the play, a straightforward dock worker jumped out, which contrasted sharply with Tang Yan's innocent romance as Wang Mingzhu, and produced a strong comedic effect.
The female boss of "Jin Meilin" Lu Meilin (Fan Xiangyan) has a more exaggerated and overflowing performance, and even has the characteristics of nonsensical Hong Kong TV dramas, she and the female boss of "Zhizhenyuan" Li Li (Xin Zhilei) are contrasting with each other, and they are restrained and promoted, which adds to the comedic effect of this TV series.
That era was really an era of comedy, dazzling, dizzying, ever-changing, showing the shock and change of the times in strong contrast, no wonder it was difficult for people who didn't know that era to enter the play, "Flowers" is looking back at the origin of the comedy of that era.
In addition, the whole TV series uses a large number of pop song elements, and the constantly accompanied "classic era songs" are highly consistent with the plot lines, seemingly absent, hidden and appearing, from "I Am a Little Bird", "Love to Fight to Win" to "Looking Back Again", "Wordless Ending", "My Future Is Not a Dream", from beginning to end, it evokes people's deep memories, which is another unique and ingenious design feature in "Flowers".
Wong Kar-wai is a gold medal film director, and many of his works over the years, such as "East Evil and West Poison", "The True Story of A Fei", "In the Mood for Love", "The Grandmaster", "2046", etc., are all excellent and give people a different audio-visual experience. As a famous film director, Wong Kar-wai put down his body to work on a TV series, which sounds a bit strange. You must know that in the eyes of all film and television drama people outside of him, film and television have always been separated, compared with widely grounded TV dramas, movies have always been high-minded, and filmmakers have never looked down on TV dramas, thinking that making TV series is not high-end, only movies are real art.
Zhang Yimou has never been involved in TV dramas, and Jiang Wen has never made TV series, they have positioned their world on the screen of the movie theater, not on the TV screen of people's homes. They believe that only the sound, light and sound of the theater is the expressive tension of their pursuit of artistic ideals, the niche of the cinema is high-end and atmospheric, and the popularization in front of the TV is always the lower riba.
Is there no way out for making a movie?Since Feng Xiaogang's Chinese New Year films, mainland movies have never been downcast. Later, Xu Zheng's "People Are Embarrassed in Thailand", Shen Teng's "The Richest Man in Xihong City", and even Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" series and other movies, the box office income of billions of yuan at every turn, whether it is the origin of a TV drama person or a sketch actor, it is ultimately attributed to the pursuit of movies, it can be seen that movies have always been the first choice for everyone's lifelong pursuit of art. The famous director Wong Kar-wai put down his frame and came to shoot a TV series, which should be a new artistic attempt and ideal dream.
The stunning display of the TV series "Flowers" can be called a "movie series" production, which uses the artistic concept and expression techniques of the film to give the audience an audio-visual feast that has never been seen before. **Flowers" is moved throughout, thanks to Wong Kar-wai's new interpretation of the art of TV dramas, Wong Kar-wai is a real master, he filmed "Flowers" with the technique of making movies, and won extremely high ratings and high evaluations, he drifted the experience of making movies into the filming of TV series, which may be difficult for the average audience to understand and accept, but can it open up a new road to TV dramas?