There are some things, and if you experience too much, you will see it away.
Source | Visual Journal (ID: iiidaily)
text | Grapefruit
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The much-anticipated TV series "Flowers" has released its first stills. In the photo of
, Hu Ge is sitting on the roof, looking into the distance.
Well, just a photo, it smells like a Wong Kar Wai movie.
(picture source: "Flowers")
Hu Ge and Wong Kar-wai get along quite happily. Before
Hu Ge was interviewed. Speaking of the cooperation with Wong Kar-wai, he said Wong Kar-wai looks aloof, but in fact he is kind and easy-going, and he sometimes joked.
Hu Ge's remarks make people wonder-
Wong Kar-wai, when did he become so "friendly"?
After all, in the Hong Kong film scene of the last century, Wong Kar-wai was notoriously "difficult". Countless Uranus superstars vomited bitterly after cooperating with him, and there were many people who threatened to no longer cooperate.
Until I flipped through the cast and crew list of "Fantastic Flowers", everything became clear-
Originally, "Fantastic Flowers" had a screenwriter, and the screenwriter was not Wong Kar Wai.
You must know that in the past, Wong Kar-wai made movies by himself.
What situation does this cause?
Wong Kar-wai likes to write while filming. Often the crew has been on for several months and the actor hasn’t got the script yet. What's more terrible about
is that after the filming, Wong Kar-wai still likes to cut and change the plot. Many actors worked so hard to film the scene for several months, and finally they were cut by Wong Kar Wai's scissors.
(picture source: "Archives")
, Wong Kar-wai's shot is cool, and is an actor.
And the stories of actors who have been "tortured" by him can last three days and three nights.
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Tony Leung is the actor who has been "tortured" by Wong Kar Wai for the longest time. The cooperation between the two of
began in 1989. At that time, Tony Leung followed Wang Jiawei to shoot "A Fei's True Story". Before
joined the group, Tony Leung played a lot of male No. 1 in terms of skills and professionalism, and he was outstanding in the same period.
But who would have thought that Tony Leung, who is in the limelight, would stumble at Wong Kar Wai.
Tony Leung spent more than 3 months in the crew of "A Fei Zheng Chuan" and filmed an unforgettable scene.
is not the famous three-minute lens, but the one with Maggie CheungA rival scene. The scene of
is very simple, just say a dialogue and then eat pears. But it was this eating pear that made Tony Leung doubt life. Because no matter how he eats, Wang Jiawei is not satisfied. In the end, he ate 27 times before Wang Jiawei stopped.
After Wong Kar-wai did not forget to "make up the knife" and said to Tony Leung, "Look at you."
The filming of eating pears was over, and Tony Leung's mentality collapsed.
He came home crying. He cried at home for many days, but his mood was not calm. While crying, he said to Carina Lau and , "I don't know how to act."
Carina Lau looked at Tony Leung dumbfounded, and did not know how to comfort him.
(picture source: "Archives")
I have to finish the filming of the scene I picked up by myself.
stayed at home for a few days, but Tony Leung returned to the set in a desperate manner and continued to shoot. Later, when Carina Lau had an accident, Tony Leung had to stop filming.
But the story is not over here. A year later, "A Fei's True Story" was released. Tony Leung went to see the premiere and realized that after more than three months of filming, Wong Kar-wai cut only the last three minutes.
And that part of the scene that made him want to die eating pears, did not appear from beginning to end.
Fortunately, the last three minutes reserved by Wong Kar-wai became the highlight moment of Tony Leung's acting career, and it can be regarded as a "lucky fortune in misfortune".
There are some things, and if you experience too much, you will see it away.
Later, Tony Leung and Wong Kar-wai cooperated many times, such as "Evil Evil and West Poison", "2046", "In the Mood for Love" and "The Great Master" of the previous years...
is figuring out After Wong Kar-wai's temperament and shooting routines, Tony Leung became more relaxed.
Liu Zhenwei went to visit the troupe when filming "Evil East and West Poison". During the first week, he went and saw Tony Leung playing the scene. He went the next week, and Tony Leung was still filming that scene. In the third week, the fourth week, when he went, Tony Leung was still filming that scene...
Needless to say, he must have not passed the level of Wang Jiawei. Letting a big name shoot the same scene for a month, it might have been a choice for someone else, but Tony Leung is very cooperative. It is precisely because of this trust and cooperation that
has that classic play scene.
Later, Tony Leung was able to enlighten others.
When filming "2046", Kimura Takuya was overwhelmed by Wong Kar-wai's "no script" model. Tony Leung walked to him and told him, "Relax and learn to enjoy the process"
Only after looking at Tony Leung did he realize that he was able to withstand the "torture".
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However, not everyone can endure Wong Kar Wai's "weirdness" like Tony Leung.
After cooperating with Wong Kar-wai, most of the actors chose not to cooperate because they could not stand his harshness.
such as Takuya Kimura mentioned above.
Who is Takuya Kimura, the king of Japan. But it is such a proud man of heaven, who was "forced" by Wong Kar-wai to say the phrase "I think I am a very useless man"
This "unbearable look back" memory happened in the filming of the movie "2046" on site.
In 1999, Wong Kar-wai's first science fiction film "2046" started shooting, and Takuya Kimura participated as the only foreigner.
originally thought that he would receive "preferential treatment" from Wong Kar Wai if he didn't understand the language, such as revealing a script or something. In fact, after shooting for a long time, Kimura Takuya didn't even know who he was acting.
He asked Wang Jiawei, Wang Jiawei did not know clearly, even if he did not know clearly, he kept filling Kimura Takuya with chicken soup: You are professional. (Too ruthless)
No role information, no specific script, Kimura Takuya's mentality collapsed. So on the set, Takuya Kimura spent most of his life with nothing to love.
But this is not the worst. The worst part is that the filming of "2046" stopped and took five years to complete. Takuya Kimura spent five years in the filming, but was cut by Wong Kar Wai to only 7 minutes left.
In Wong Kar-wai, even the Uranus superstar has no privileges. As long as it doesn't suit his wishes, he will click and cut it for you.
Takuya Kimura has cooperated with Wong Kar Wai once, and never wants to cooperate again. There are still many people in
. After cooperating with Wong Kar-wai many times, they can't bear it, and finally parted ways. Among them, there are two heavenly figures in Hong Kong film circles, Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau.
Let me talk about the story of Leslie Cheung and Wong Kar Wai.
Leslie Cheung once described his relationship with Wong Kar-wai like this-
I and Wong Kar-wai are incompatible.
Leslie Cheung’s words are not emptyComing wind. Every time he cooperates with Wong Kar Wai, he is full of painful memories.
was filming "A Fei's True Story" for the first time. The crew went to the Philippines for filming. Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau had a scene where they had to run at a railway station more than 60 feet high. The staff at the
train station told the crew that some places are dangerous, so don't go there. But in order to pursue the most realistic effect, Wang Jiawei asked Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau to run desperately.
Leslie Cheung said, that time was really desperate. The final movie of
came out, and the running shot only appeared for a few seconds.
was also filming "A Fei's True Story", Leslie Cheung and Maggie Cheung had an intimate scene close to the head.
is this scene, Leslie Cheung took 47 times. No matter how you shoot
, Wong Kar-wai is not satisfied. At the end of the filming, Leslie Cheung didn't know where he went wrong for the first 46 times.
When he asked Wong Kar-wai, the other party only said indifferently, "It feels wrong."
Andy Lau is the leading actor of Wong Kar-wai's film debut "Carmen in Mong Kok".
At that time, Wong Kar-wai had the habit of not writing scripts. Andy Lau clearly remembers that when he filmed the first scene, everything was ready on the scene, but the director and screenwriter Wong Kar Wai did not come because he had not finished writing the script for the scenes.
What else can I do if I meet such a "willful" director?
Later, the two collaborated on "A Fei's True Story", which was also an unpleasant experience.
Andy Lau was originally the protagonist.
For the role, Andy Lau really worked hard. He survived the harsh weather in the Philippines for several months, and finally came out in a film, which was cut into a supporting role by Wong Kar Wai.
Because Wong Kar-wai gave more shots to Leslie Cheung.
And the movie that really made Andy Lau and Wong Kar-wai "destined" is "Happy Together".
Maybe many people don't know that Leslie Cheung's role was originally Andy Lau.
At that time Andy Lau was ready to sign a contract with Wong Kar Wai.
Later, Wang Jiawei turned on the machine and did not notify Andy Lau. Andy Lau knew that he had been abandoned and the role of He Baorong was given to Leslie Cheung.
Wong Kar-wai explained to him that it was more appropriate for Leslie Cheung to change roles.
Later, Andy Lau appeared on the show and talked about Wong Kar-wai. He didn't talk about these grudges. He just joked about his harshness. He complained-
"There is no perfect world. Come again, Wong Kar-wai!"
Jacky Cheung was also a frequent guest in Wong Kar Wai's movies, but later, the two stopped cooperating.
Jacky Cheung said that when he was filming "The True Story of A Fei", he looked up and asked him to do it more than 60 times, but in the end he was still not satisfied. After shooting
, Wong Kar-wai only said to him, "Forget it," and walked away.
said "Forget it", which hurt Jacky Cheung very much. What's wrong, Wang Jiawei didn't say anything.
I can only say that filming Wong Kar Wai's movie is really hard.
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Over the years, I often hear the phrase, "talented people are more or less weird." The phrase
is applied to Wong Kar-wai, and it seems appropriate. But think about it, it's not appropriate. Because of Wong Kar-wai's "harsh" nature, in the final analysis, it is to keep improving.
He himself explained that he doesn't write scripts, because he doesn't want actors to be framed by scripts. He hopes that actors can perform in the most natural state, so that the best results are presented.
(picture source: "Archives")
He made a movie for three to five years, because he always overthrew himself, a line, a picture is not satisfied, he will remake it. Most of the cost of the remake of
is borne by him, even if it consumes a lot of manpower and financial resources, he does not care. For him, nothing is more important than a perfect work.
It is precisely because of this determination to smash to the end that Wong Kar-wai has achieved so many classics, such as "Evil and West Toxic", "2046", "Chongqing Forest", "A Grand Master", "In the Mood for Love"... ....
In the final analysis, Wong Kar-wai's "harshness" is responsible for his own movies and for the audience.
often thinks, if directors can pay half of Wong Kar-wai's attention to their films, how much less can we see bad films as audiences? Image and source of
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Beijing Satellite TV "Archives" / "A Date with Luyu" / TV series "Flowers" Weibo / and network
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