Wang Jiawei is a very compelling director in the eyes of many writers.
People who generally don't like "In the Mood for Love" will disdain to say that it is a movie with broken shoes. Why are so many people addicted to it, and regard it as the best film in their minds.
But those who like Wong Kar Wai's style will say that they like the ambiguity, restraint, and the beauty and detail of the old Shanghai style that Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung showed in the film.
In short, Wong Kar-wai's movies sometimes have stories, sometimes no stories. Even if there are stories, they are mostly ordinary stories. However, he uses actors' movements, demeanors, and costumes in the stories to convey a fascinating temperament. What is this thing like
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In the words of Wang Jing, who often laughs at Wong Kar-wai, Wang Jing and Wong Kar-wai are selling movies. The difference is that Wang Jing sells vulgarity, while Wong Kar-wai sells elegance.
And in Wang Jing's eyes, the success of a film is not measured by the number of awards the film has won, and the reputation in the society. It's whether this film is a hit, and whether it allows investors to earn back investment costs.
Take Wang Jing as an example. Most of his own films are relatively successful commercial films. Although the reputation is not very good, most of the box office champions in the market at that time.
Everyone may be wondering, Wong Kar-wai's "The Story of A Fei", "In the Mood for Love" and "Evil West Tox" are all films with an investment of tens of millions and only a few million in return. Since he has lost so much, he will always have movies. Shoot?
In his early days, Wong Kar-wai worked as a screenwriter in a number of film and television works. However, because Wong Kar-wai, who worked for others, was not very comfortable with screenwriters, discussing and creating together, he needed to write slowly when he was alone, plus several times. It was due to delays in handing over the script, and everyone else had already filmed a sequel, so Wong Kar-wai handed over his script.
So Wong Kar-wai, who started working at the beginning, was laid off several times. The reason was either that others felt that he could not keep up with the pace, or others felt that he was writing something that others could not understand.
But it couldn't stand the prosperity of the entire Hong Kong film market at that time. The money of various Southeast Asian countries was invested in the Hong Kong film market, so whenever you tell the story that others think it is good, you can invest money in you.
is in this era of hot money expansion. After Wang Jiawei moved through several film and television companies, he came to Deng Guangrong's newly established film company. At that time, Deng Guangrong actually didn't know if Wang Jiawei would do it. He just had money in his hands, so he wanted people who seemed able to try.
Unexpectedly, Wong Kar-wai's "Carmen Mong Kok", which was a small test, suddenly became the box office champion, so later Wong Kar-wai wanted to make a movie, and Tang Guangrong supported it.
But with success in commercial films, Wong Kar-wai seems dissatisfied, or is not interested in how to get high box office, but to shoot what he wants to shoot.
So some movies that the public couldn't understand at the time appeared, but they were not accepted. Several box office failures in succession caused serious losses to those who invested in him. It is said that Deng Guangrong's company finally went bankrupt.
This is why Wang Jing always laughs at Wong Kar-wai, and the film editor's salary cannot be paid, and even the investors are bankrupt.
When Wong Kar-wai was filming, he only cared about his ideas and never considered what the audience wanted to see.
Hong Kong foodie Chua Lam is very dissatisfied with Wong Kar-wai's act of making a film that only cares about himself and then let the participating stars win awards.
Chua Lam felt that before Wong Kar-wai became Wong Kar-wai, he actually sacrificed many people, including investors and many celebrities. Investors cannot recover the costs and suffer serious damage. Although many of the stars who participated have reserved enough time for Wong Kar Wai's film and spent a lot of energy on shooting, they found that they didn't have any shots when the film was completed, or that the scenes that were filmed desperately didn't have to be cut at the end.
As for the people who followed Wong Kar Wai, many of them are poor.
In other words, Wong Kar-wai pursues art by himself, or so-called so-called so-called literary youth, celebrities think he is powerful, he can't do it alone, but he has to draw back many people who just want to support their families.
Wong Kar-wai likes to make movies. In the words of the director, he is looking for feeling, so he didn't find the feeling himself. Even if the actor thinks he has acted very well, he still can't do it.
performance is a kind of noWhat standard things are dominated by the director’s nodding, which makes people feel that making movies with Wong Kar-wai is very hard.
Someone was curious that Wong Kar-wai's films are so easy to win awards. Why do big stars like Wong Cho-hsien, Zhang Jia-hui, Gong Li, and Wong Cho-hsien never cooperate after cooperating once? After all, many celebrities are already well-known in Hong Kong. The only thing they lack is the recognition of themselves by professional awards.
Gong Li once bluntly said that Wang Jiawei did not respect the results of other people's labor and let others participate in it, but in the end he didn't use it all because of his own preferences.
Zhang Jiahui also bluntly said that there was no script at the time of filming, only telling you what to act, and then he didn't know the other outlines.
In addition, the Hong Kong film market was relatively prosperous at that time. In fact, not only Wong Kar-wai was talented, many directors also have their own expertise. Not everyone is rare to cooperate with Wong Kar-wai, of course.
Wong Kar-wai's fame is not only touching after many years of his own films, but also his own growth experience has also helped him a lot.
Wang Jiawei is from Shanghai and his father is a seaman. At that time, Wang Jiawei's father was not very good in the mainland, so his parents chose to immigrate to Hong Kong, but originally there were three children in the family, but he was only allowed to bring one.
was 5 years old at the time, and it was Wong Kar Wai, the youngest in the family, who followed his parents. After
arrived in Hong Kong, Wong Kar-wai's mother had nothing to do and watched movies every day. Therefore, Wong Kar-wai had the opportunity and precipitation to watch various films in theaters since he was a child.
and his father’s stricter education allowed him to finish the world’s famous books before going to university. So even if Wong Kar-wai studied design at university, he himself is still a person with a wealth of knowledge.
's efforts and precipitation during his youth gave him a lot of support for his later career as a screenwriter and director.
It can be said that Wong Kar-wai is self-willed as a director. He often does not care about others, but he is also very fortunate to have a good family to protect his knowledge reserves. When the Hong Kong movie blowout period, Wong Kar-wai, who has been fired by others 30 There is a chance to be a director in his early years.
But sometimes the greatness of a person may really have a lot of sad tears behind it, and Wang Jiawei seems to not care about it.
