Wong Kar-wai's "Chongqing Forest" explanation + movie clips

Jalyn 2022-01-02 08:01:17

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/O9GIbq6yXbk/ After
watching the movie, please be sure to watch Wang Jiawei's explanation of Chongqing Forest and the footage.
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In addition, Quentin explained that
if you are not interested in watching Chongqing Forest , then Quentin said two main points in
summary : 1. If you are interested in the image of Brigitte Lin, please refer to "Female Shark Glory" again. It is said that this film inspired Wang Jiawei It is very deep, and uses Brigitte Lin's shape to pay tribute to it.

2. Chongqing Forest originally planned to be divided into three chapters to tell the story, but in the end it was edited into the current version, and the remaining story became the next movie "Fallen Angel" starring Li Jiaxin.
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Excluded segment 1: (Brilliant Brigitte and Takeshi Kaneshiro)

Wang Jiawei narration:
The beginning of the story is to say In Chungking Mansion, there is a group of Indians suspected to be drug dealers. The police took hostages if they wanted to be taken. They had to release the hostages unless they agreed to a request and handed over a newspaper clipping: it was a female celebrity.
This female celebrity, because she retired when she was the hottest, and became mysterious afterwards, so she couldn't get in touch.
The only way is to send a young policeman to persuade her to come out within 72 hours.
So the young policeman began to wait for her downstairs every day. I remember at that time we called the female star Wei Wenli.
(So ​​I originally said it was Vivien Leigh!!! I remember it was exactly the same as an interview I saw!! Said that even the celebrities who lived in the same neighborhood with her hadn't met her!)
In fact, after she retired, she lived a very long life. In a normal life, if you drink tea during the day and become addicted to drama at night, you will begin to pretend to be ghosts and horses, and go out in disguise.

Finally agreed, but in the end the female star still did not go.

The camera turns, Brigitte Lin is wearing a feather dancer costume, stroking the microphone, and singing:
When you see the stars in the sky, you think of me, but remember that my face used to smile for you more than the stars.
When you remember the past, what will happen to you. But I will sigh lightly, miss me shining in your heart.
I am like the stars of the Milky Way, let you love it silently. Let that soft and radiant light relieve your pain.

Cut 2: (Wang Jingwen and Tony Leung)

Faye Wong is worried that Tony Leung, who is broken in love, always drinks coffee late at night and secretly adds sleeping pills to his coffee.
Wang: "Zai coffee."
Liang: "Thank you. Why is there a white pill floating on it?"
Wang: "What white pill? (Stirring) Slimming candy."
Liang: "Slimming candy? "
King:" you do not like ah give you for a glass of slightly "?.
Liang:" Oh, okay, ah, a glass of this. "
Wang NARRATOR: lovelorn most people could not sleep, in fact, sleep is not necessarily fast drink Brown.
Narrator Liang: Some people say that if you fail to fall asleep at night, but I slept well, I began to wonder if I like her.

The next day
Liang: "Boss, a cup of coffee is troublesome, ah, add two weight-loss candy."
Boss: "Slimming candy?"
Wang: "The coffee is not fresh, drink something else."
Liang: "What to drink Huh?"
Wang: "Milk tea, milk tea is much fresher."
Narrator Wang: He drank this cup of coffee for an hour, and he never came again. The letter has been kept here, at first I thought he had forgotten, but then I realized that he didn't want to know what the letter said.

Camera switching.
Boss: "Return to the original owner." (letter)
Jialing Zhou: "Thank you."

Wang Jiawei commented:
Actually Wang Jingwen is the most special one of all the actresses I filmed, because she doesn't need to act hard, she is very talented. She is, what do you tell her to do, she has a way to make this character a part of herself. She does it without much effort, but when you look at it, you will feel that she is required to do it.

Before "Chongqing Forest", Tony Leung had a lot of knives in acting. He plays very well and he is very methodical. But when he played against Wang Jingwen, he found that it was useless, it was useless, and there was no trace to be found. He started to give up those knives completely, well, I'll see how you do it. I think Tony Leung's acting after "Chongqing Forest" is completely different from before.

Wang Jiawei summed up the theme of "Chongqing Forest":

Many people often say that I pass him by and how far is the distance between me and him. Just want to catch something all day long. My feeling is that, many times, we are human beings too fast, and you have not noticed many things. It turns out that being by your side may be important to you, but you didn't pay attention at that time.
In this drama, we play a lot of things about speed. We stretch one second very long, or draw a CM very close or very far. In fact, this story is about this.

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Extended Reading
  • Tiffany 2022-03-21 09:02:13

    Sunglasses and tigers are a perfect match. I can't tell whether the sunglasses made Wei Zai or Wei Zai made the sunglasses. Every film can resonate deeply. Some directors now should learn to learn about sunglasses and settle down and recognize them. Seriously shoot something.

  • Oma 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    [A+] The opening technique of hand-held camera and frame drawing creates an unparalleled fantasy: the city is ubiquitous, but it is deliberately blurred in the movement of the characters, the emotions are extracted from it, and it turns into a blurred and flowing medium existence. Time is also ambiguous, but under the complicated and trivial scheduling, an inescapable direction is still established. When the second "0.01" moment occurred, the movie burst into infinite charm, which was the moment that truly belonged to Wong Kar-wai. California Dreams and Dreamers add color to the images in the constant rotation of the soundtrack, and the narrative is extremely light, like a rebirth after a lovelorn. Cans will always expire, airline tickets will always fade, and instead of struggling with that deadline, it’s better to swallow it whole and point to a destinationless future (as the old saying goes: “make a movie about politics”).

Chungking Express quotes

  • [Faye is confronted by her boss]

    Faye: I'm not daydreaming.

    Manager of 'Midnight Express: Right. You're not daydreaming. You're sleepwalking.

  • [663 finds his apartment is flooded]

    Cop663: Did I leave the tap running, or is the apartment getting more tearful? I always thought it would cope okay. Didn't expect it to cry so much. When people cry, they can dry their eyes with tissues. But when an apartment cries, it takes a lot to mop it up.