"Flowers" came to an end, but the aftermath lingered and endured.
At the 2nd Annual Chinese TV Drama Ceremony of ** Radio and Television (CMG), the TV series "Flowers" won the only annual drama award, surpassing all TV dramas last year, including "Hurricane".
"Flowers" has become a phenomenal existence, which is related to Shanghai, the leap of the times, and the dream-chasing process of a generation. "Flowers" has been created for ten years and carefully polished, and it is a rare masterpiece. Don't use whether it conforms to the original work to evaluate, **yes**, the drama is a drama, the capacity is different, the angle is different, and the creative ideas and techniques are different. The TV series is an independent work, born from **, but grows into its own appearance. Unless you shoot books like "Dream of Red Mansions" and "The Siege of the City", the more similar the better, that's another matter.
I would like to thank Wong Kar-wai for bringing you such a lively and fragrant entertainment feast in the cold winter.
1. "Flowers" brought fire to Shanghai
"Flowers" is the story of Shanghai, showing the charm of Shanghai to the audience.
Blossom Flowers has brought fire to Shanghai's urban tourism. The Peace Hotel, the International Hotel, No. 27 on the Bund, and Huanghe Road have become landmarks for check-in, and Huanghe Road and the surrounding streets have become the top of the new Internet celebrities, and they have to install new traffic lights. The Shanghai Film and Television Base, located in Chedun, Songjiang, where "Flowers" was filmed, has also seen a sharp increase in the number of tourists.
The Yellow River Road in Flowers.
Shanghai snacks are also on fire. In the play, the pork rib rice cake eaten by Po and Miss Wang, the soaking rice that Po ate in Reiko's Night Tokyo, and the rice ball that Miss Wang ate for breakfast were all included in the traveler's list.
CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, "Flowers" actors Hu Ge, Tang Yan, Chen Long, and Xin Zhilei sang a small tune in Shanghainese to introduce Shanghai cuisine:
Yangchun noodles, vegetable pickled rice, plus a little raw fried, steamed buns, eight treasure rice, toppings are all the same, crystal shrimp pickled fresh, pork ribs rice cake, rice cake, the New Year's white phase is fierce. ”
It's really festive, and it's repeated in the small **. Tang Yan was dressed in red, and her voice and smiling face were as sweet as honey.
Ah Bao and Xue Zhi ate a big hot pot in Hong Shunxing in Caojiadu, if Caojiadu really had this shop, they would definitely be in the hall.
Even the dry fried beef river and mutton hot pot are also on fire. Li Li in the play is a native of Qingdao, Shandong, who came to Shanghai from Shenzhen, and is the only protagonist in the play who is not from Shanghai. Ah Bao ate dry fried beef river in Li Li's Zhizhen Garden, which is a special snack of Cantonese cuisine; The mutton hot pot that Ah Bao and Li Li ate at Xinlanju originated from the north and is the embodiment of Shanghai's absorption of northern and southern cuisine as a metropolis.
"Flowers" brought fire to Shanghainese. "Flowers" was filmed in Shanghainese, Shanghainese is the original version, Mandarin is the later dubbed version, and watching the Shanghainese version feels more original and more natural and appropriate. Dialect is an intangible cultural heritage, and in order to protect and inherit the history, culture, and folk customs of a place, it is necessary to protect dialects. Nowadays, many urban children do not speak dialects, in addition to the increasing number of immigrants in the city, people do not pay attention to dialects in their hearts is also a big reason. Film and television dramas are a good way to spread dialect culture, and after "Flowers", there should be more influential dialect film and television dramas.
2. "Flowers" and **
The story of the TV series "Flowers" is told from the late 70s to the 90s of the last century, which is the most vigorous era of China's reform and opening up. Everyone who has come from that era has a deep impression of many scenes and events in the play.
Bao did a small business, under the guidance of his uncle, he earned the first pot of gold in **, became Mr. Bao, and then started foreign trade, and later became a listing consultant of a clothing company, and Mr. Qiang carried out a thrilling contest on **, and finally retreated, held a piece of land, and waited for the arrival of China's real estate era.
The part about ** in "Flowers" is very exciting, which makes many people turn out the 1994 movie "Stock Crazy" for comparison. There is also a Shanghainese version of "Stock Crazy", in which Shanghainese actor Pan Hong plays the popular conductor Ali, who is very outstanding. Because of "Flowers", the topic of Pan Hong and "Stock Crazy" also became a hot search for a time.
Flowers" is adapted from Jin Yucheng's eponym**, and at the same time integrates the content of many other works. Ying Jianzhong, the ** consultant of the crew of "Flowers", began to intervene in the Chinese ** market in 1986, and began ** comment writing in 1991, and he also made a cameo appearance as a stock critic in the play. He is the author of "Red Men and Green Women in the Sea of Stocks", "Joys and Sorrows in *", "Stocks.
Sea Float and Sink Record" and other **theme length**.
The part about ** in "Flowers" can withstand scrutiny in terms of event background and data, which is also the rigor of this drama.
In the play, the Kirin Club is the largest non-governmental organization in Shanghai, and the prototype is the Shanghai Qichongtian Salon in the 90s of the last century, which is the financial salon of the old ** people in Shanghai. Some netizens found that the swimming pool in the play is the swimming pool in the sports building near Huanghe Road (formerly the Xiqiao YMCA Building completed in 1928), with diamond-shaped mosaics on the wall. The reason why the old mages talked about things in the swimming pool was explained by netizens because it was empty and the content of the conversation was not easy to leak.
3. The actors of "Flowers".
Unexpectedly, Qiu Bichang, the actor of the Qilin Club Witch Doctor, turned out to be the eldest son of the famous voice actor Qiu Yuefeng.
Qiu Bichang in "Flowers".
Qiu Yuefeng is the first generation of voice actor in Shanghai Translation Studio, known as "the first male voice in Shanghai translation", dubbing more than 400 Chinese and foreign films, representative works include Rochester in "Jane Eyre", Chaplin in "Monsieur Verdoux", Monkey King in "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", ......His dubbing works can be canonized as gods. Qiu Bichang has also worked as a voice actor and participated in many film and television dramas.
Commander Cai, who is with Ah Bao in the play, is played by Zhang Jianya, the director of Shanghai Film Studio, and he didn't recognize it at all. The audience in the past knew that Zhang Jianya once had a marriage with the famous actor Zhang Yu.
The big and small characters of "Flowers" are brilliant. Hu Ge's Ah Bao is another classic image after Mei Changsu in "Langya Bang". In comparison, the performance of the male characters in "Langya Bang" is stronger than that of the female characters as a whole, while the male and female roles in "Flowers" are equally divided in terms of character settings and actors' acting skills.
From the perspective of the scenes, the most central character is A Bao, the second layer is Lingzi, Miss Wang, Li Li, and Uncle, the third layer is Tao Tao, Mr. Fan, Mr. Wei, Jin Hua, Mr. Qiang, Mr. Ge, Ling Hong, Xuezhi, and the fourth layer is Lu Meilin, Manager Pan, Min Min, Mei Ping, Commander Cai, Jingxiu, Xiao Ningbo, Boss Jin, Du Honggen, Xiao Jiangxi, Ruth, Lin Tai ......
The three heroines, Ma Yili, Tang Yan, Xin Zhilei, and Du Juan, who is known as Bai Yueguang's professional household, have four very different styles, all of which are remarkable. Ma Yili, at the beginning, Luo Zijun who would be brought into "The First Half of My Life", was completely this Lingzi later. Reiko in the play is a crystal and exquisite person, shrewd, pungent, coquettish, and affectionate, from the "vexatious" in the early stage to the independence and transparency in the later stage, Reiko's psychological changes, Ma Yili handled it very well.
Tang Yan is enthusiastic and dazzling, and Xin Zhilei is mysterious and charming, each beautiful. Li Li played by Xin Zhilei combines charm and resourcefulness, and every time she appears, she shoots very carefully with light and angle. In "Celebrating More Than Years" broadcast a few years ago, Xin Zhilei played the role of the Northern Qi saint Begonia Blossom, who was still full of girlishness at that time, and she didn't think of it at all without anyone mentioning it.
Wu Yue's Jin section chief Jin Hua is very different from her previous roles, what she plays is what, and she deserves to be a powerful actor.
Zhang Zhihua became famous in the 80s, and her first husband was Guo Kaimin, and this time she played the daughter-in-law of Hair in the play. Yan Xiaopin also appeared once, as Mr. Wu of the Shanghai Union Commercial Building.
You Benchang's uncle is not acting, but integrated with the role, and his acting skills have been perfected, he is his uncle.
The big-name stars Wen Zhaolun, Zhong Zhentao, Lin Xilei who made cameos in the play, Fan Zhiyi, a former Shenhua player and captain of the national football team, Shi Yihong, a Meipai Daqingyi of the Shanghai Peking Opera Company, pianist Kong Xiangdong, and painter Chen Yiming, continue to surprise the audience.
Fourth, the sense of age of "Flowers".
"Flowers" is beautiful, the picture has the retro feeling of film film, the light and shadow, color, and composition of each shot are exquisite and exquisite, and the combination of virtual and real is quite toneful.
"Flowers" has a strong sense of age and nostalgia, in addition to the scenery and props, especially reflected in dozens of old songs.
Jacky Cheung's "Stealing the Heart": "It's loneliness, slowly occupying my heart, becoming more and more lonely in the long night, and becoming more and more lonely in my memories." It was regret that slowly eroded my heart, wiped away the last teardrops, and from now on, I will no longer cry for anyone......This song was released in 1994, and Jacky Cheung's singing voice is full of unwillingness, sadness, and helplessness. In the plot of Mr. Bao and Miss Wang, the atmosphere is also invincible.
Mr. Bao and Reiko met in Tokyo, and the background ** was "Meet Yurakucho" sung by Ishikawa Kobai, and later the theme song "Sudden Love" of "Tokyo Love Story" sounded, which was also very appropriate.
I Am a Little Bird" is a song for Tao Tao.
There are also "Looking Back Again", "Obsessed and Unrepentant", "My Future Is Not a Dream", "Annie", "Love Fights to Win", "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream", "Wordless Ending", "Like You", "Glorious Years", "A Fire in Winter", "Toast Song" and ......All of them were once popular hits. After the broadcast of "Flowers", the search volume and ** volume of many songs increased greatly, and they became popular again.
"Flowers" also uses excerpts from Peking Opera, Yue Opera, and Suzhou Pingtan to set off the atmosphere.
Shi Yihong plays Lingzi's downstairs neighbor Teacher Shi, and the ** she put one day is Xu Yulan's "Baoyu Crying Spirit" in the Yue Opera "Dream of Red Mansions": "Jin Yu Liangyuan deceived me ......."”
In the trailer of "Flowers", Ah Bao met Jin Yucheng, and the background was the "Island Ice Wheel Beginning Turning" of the Peking Opera "The Drunken Concubine", and the singer was Shi Yihong. In addition, Mr. Shi in the play also sang an excerpt from Cheng Pai's "Suo Lin Bag" "This is the unpredictable of life".
In "Flowers", Uncle Grandpa's radio is playing an excerpt from Shanghai Opera "Yanyan as a Matchmaker", and Lingzi, Teacher Ge and others are in Tokyo at night, singing Shanghai Opera "Last Night's Love: Opening a Window for You" together.