On January 28, the tomato culture living room: "Flowers-- the Victory of Fiction and narrative Art" was held in Shanghai.
As a cultural talk program launched by tomato novels on digital reading platform, this discussion invited four guests, including Cheng Liang, co-director of TV series "Flower", Li Weichang, vice president of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, writer btr, and Zhang Pingjin, professor of Chinese Department of Humanities College of Tongji University, to discuss the charm of the works under different paths of literature and film and television narration.
In fact, "Flowers" had already set off a round of discussion in the literary world at that time, and this time, with the broadcast of the series "Flowers", Jin Yucheng's works once again entered everyone's line of sight. As the publisher of Flower, Li Weichang, vice president of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, said: "the promotion of a TV series to a book is inestimable." Less than 20 days after the launch of the "Flowers" series, nearly 300,000 copies were sold. And this number is still rushing forward, which can be said to be full of stamina. "
At the same time, the growth of "Flowers" in the field of digital reading is also very obvious, with more than one million people reading tomato novels on the digital reading platform.
When Mr. Jin Yucheng started writing on the forum, his ID name was'go to the attic alone'. Because I wrote it in Shanghainese, as soon as I wrote a paragraph or two, someone began to reply. Mr. Jin soon found that some paragraphs were constantly answered by readers, while others were not so good, so he began to make conscious adjustments, so he went back and forth until it was finally published. a total of more than 300,000 words were written-- this is the writing method of a very online novel. And the response and encouragement of those forum readers is also the most important point that he thought he could write in the first place. " Li Weichang introduced in the discussion, "so Mr. Jin later spent a long time re-structuring and personalizing that part of the forum network, adjusting the events and time." We will see that in his story, the two timelines have been interspersed, showing a chapter-by-chapter structure. "
Li Weichang, Vice President of Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing HouseCoincidentally, time is the most complex part of the work, and it is also the most frequently mentioned word in the discussion. Obviously, both the original work and the series, "Flowers" have succeeded in recreating the time that belongs to the memory of Shanghai in the 1990s.
"Things in the 1970s and 1980s were very stable, the brand of the times and the image of the world were stable. The 1990s was a time period of mixed elements, very complicated. Images from the 1990s will present an even more wonderful sense of conflict after time settles down." According to Cheng Liang's recollection, director Wang Jiawei spent a lot of thought in the shooting process to restore the scene of that year.
"for example, the office of 'Bund 27'. I don't think I've ever seen such a fine scene. All the stamps and replicas of everything in this scene are almost everything that could be found in the Bund financial institutions at that time. "
Cheng Liang, co-director of the TV series "Flower"He said that the director's work was very meticulous. He not only invited several of the five golden flowers from the Bund 27, but also hired many veteran workers from the Shanghai Film Studio as consultants at the scene, for the sake of the wooden handle of a spittoon, you can stop filming and ask the carpenter to reproduce it at the scene. It is through their continuous debugging and polishing of this work that such shots are presented. It can be said that this film and TV series also depends on the accumulation of time. "this kind of breath, this kind of texture is different."
"as a Shanghainese, this film touches a lot of our memories of the 1990s. The 1990s was a time of prosperity, and if many things were not said, written or recorded by film and television, we might have forgotten long ago. " Btr also says that books and dramas bring people back to the past in different ways. "there is a natural familiarity with the whole scene of life."
Author btrZhang Pingjin analyzed the works from the perspective of social changes in that period. She believes that the change from Po to Bao reflects the pace of Shanghai's urban civilization and our entire social transition in those years-- precisely in those years, society showed a blowout development. all kinds of things are entering, all kinds of memories are reviving, all kinds of dreams are beginning to fly. "Flowers" provides some new signs of that era. In this work, there are people looking down from the third floor of Zhenyuan, looking up from the third floor, and looking up from the bottom. Characters of all kinds of classes have appeared. For us to recall, imagine, and feel such an era.
Zhang Pingjin, Professor of Chinese Department, School of Humanities, Tongji UniversityAs Li Weichang commented, "Flower" 10 years ago is a story of "Flower", and "Flower" 10 years later is the combination of Wong Kar-wai and Jin Yucheng's two swords.
Today's "Flower" is like a universe, with rich imagination space, providing us with countless angles to go into it and talk about it. One turns around, the other looks back. Including the 57 classic songs interspersed with it, they are all talked about by people. Outside the series, when it comes back to this work, it should be a story worth telling and endowed with imagination.