The warmer the wine is, the colder the water is.
The biggest trouble people have is that they have a good memory.
When you no longer have it, the only thing you can do is not to forget.
"Definitive Edition" is a new film for Wong Kar-wai. The 94 edition of "Evil in the East" has only been screened in Asia and France. In 2008, with more voice, he hoped to push it to more audiences. It's a theme of memory and forgetting, and around it, love and betrayal, this moment and this life. The narrative of the story is a strange circle, just like love, people can't get out of it if they go in. Smart people will not try this movie easily, but more people are obsessed with it so far - just as brave as facing love. Wong Kar-wai in "Dong Xie Xi Po Definitive Edition" was more confident and mature than fourteen years ago, but when it comes to this movie, he will also be irrevocably brought back to the memories of the yellow sand in the sky.
He was obsessed with staying in a small hotel with only one light bulb when he was filming in Yulin. The proprietress had a charming appearance like Carina Lau, and like Ouyang Feng, she ran the store by herself. At that time, they called her "Carina Lau in Yulin". "Dong Xie Xi Du" is Yang Cai Ni's first film. She played so hard at that time. She played a role that was actually dispensable but worked so hard, which was different from many idol dramas she acted in the future. In the past 14 years, Yang Caini sang, acted, filmed, fell out of love and made a comeback.
Someone said to Wong Kar Wai, "We all love this movie, and even the music. You must not lose the old things." So Wong Kar Wai brought in Yo-Yo Ma, who played the cello, and Wu Tong, who played Chinese folk music. . They composed two soulful pieces for the "Definitive Edition", with a mashup of cello and flute, and the wind and sand in the camera. For Du Kefeng, he couldn't understand it fourteen years ago, and today, he still can't understand the "Ultimate Edition" of "Dong Xie Xi Du". The person who took the most beautiful pictures for Wong Kar-wai, he can't tell who is "Dong Xie" and who is "Western Poison". Wong Kar Wai doesn't need him to understand, he just needs to "work hard". He tried hard to capture the lonely desert in people's hearts, people in long clothes fluttering with swords and screaming in the sky. He made it like a Hong Kong film, a martial arts film, a literary film, a romance film. He couldn't say anything more, but he was sure that what he had done was a job of "creating beauty", and this "beauty" movie was talking about "people-to-people care".
The new version of "Evil West Poison" - an unforgettable old dream The
new version of "Evil West Poison" is called "Evil West Poison Ultimate Edition". Wong Kar-wai added and deleted scenes, adapted music, and made the picture more colorful. He wanted to make this 14-year old dream There is a conclusion here. He said "Definitive Edition" was a whole new story. But he forgot the line he handwritten: The biggest trouble of people is that they have a good memory.
At the beginning of the "Ultimate Edition", the official script title was changed to "New Art Style", which is now commonly used in Wong Kar Wai's films. Girls who have not seen the 94 edition exclaimed, "It's like "In the Mood for Love"! However, there is still the saying of the Master at the beginning of the film: Buddha has clouds and flags that are not moved by the wind or moved by the human heart.
Although he explained his destiny for love right away, in order to make it easier for the audience to understand, Wong Kar-wai added subtitles made of time in front of each part: Beginning of Spring, Summer Solstice, Bailu, Jingzhe, Beginning of Spring. The most amorous titles in the twenty-four solar terms are selected to divide the film into festivals, which also means the passage of time. In fact, the story does not advance according to the four o'clock changes. Huang Yaoshi, who brought the "Drunken Life and Dreams of Death" wine in the first link, will get the "Drunken Life and Dreams of Death" wine from the woman he loves in the last link. Huang Yaoshi, who drank this unforgettable wine, did not tell Ouyang Feng that he and he were in love with the same woman.
The film subverts the influence of the 94 edition with visual effects. In 2008, the color of the picture of "Evil in the East and the Poison in the West" is fuller. Under the restoration of digital technology, every shot has a grainy feeling of yellow sand. At the beginning of the 94 edition, there is also a strong Hong Kong-made martial arts effect in the style of Hu Jinquan, and the art style is cold and the color of the picture is greenish. In the "Ultimate Edition", we saw two men under a golden setting sun, with yellow sand flying all over the sky, and an inexplicable sense of sadness surging in their hearts. Anyone who has seen this movie knows what kind of love and hatred the two men who are about to duel carry. Under such sensational artistic effect, people's feelings are immediately brought into memory.
The blind swordsman played by Tony Leung told Ouyang Feng that he wanted to go home to watch the peach blossoms before he was completely blind, but he was corpse in the desert and did not return to his hometown in the end. In fact, if you want to go back, why do you want to take over a business that will obviously kill you? Because he didn't dare to face that person - the woman he loved deeply but fell in love with his good friend, his wife named "Peach Blossom" in his hometown. In the "Definitive Edition", there are more subtle scenes about the death of the blind swordsman. Before he died, he looked at the sky with eyes that could no longer see things, and his throat was cut with blood. The camera closes up on his face from top to bottom, no soundtrack, no sound, almost still, only blood gushing out. Very cold and cold. Audiences who only watch Hollywood can find the "Kill Bill" feel.
Ouyang Feng, who didn't drink "Drunken Life and Dreaming of Death", couldn't help but think about the woman on White Camel Mountain. The woman who once stood on the mountain, watching and welcoming his every departure and return, looked forward to his promise of love, but he never mentioned it. She punished him by marrying his brother. On the wedding night, women in red wedding dresses went up and down to find and avoid him.
Wong Kar-wai cruelly added the footage that was useless back then. Maggie Cheung plays a woman who is deeply loved by Ouyang Feng. She holds a candle in one hand, searches up and down, and is at a loss in her marriage room. She was wearing a bridal gown, radiant and dark. Maggie Cheung's thin figure is better than a word without a word. Ouyang Feng reached out and took her away, but he could never take her away.
Years later, the woman asked Huang Yaoshi to bring him a jar of "Drunken Life and Dreaming of Death". In fact, she wanted to test whether Ouyang Feng had forgotten her. However, the woman did not realize that the man who came to visit her every year and brought her news of Ouyang Feng had fallen in love with her from a very early age. Huang Yaoshi drank the woman's wine by himself, and then forgot the news he wanted to bring to Ouyang Feng, and forgot the peach blossoms and Murong Yan who had been merciful to him. It's just that the woman he wants to forget the most, the woman he loves the most, he can never forget.
The film of children who grew up watching "Evil in the West" has
become a symbol and a boundary marker. This movie separates two generations and two types of people. Humans in this world have a new classification. And those who don't watch "Evil in the East and Poison in the West".
"Evil in the East and Poison in the West" first saw people in 1994. The child born in 1972 is 22 years old, and the child born in 1984 is only 10 years old. The children in this round will not forget it even after 14 years. How many people still have such a scene in their memory: one day when they passed the video hall of their hometown, the small blackboard said "Wuxia Classic - "Evil in the East", and the list of actors below included "Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Tony Leung Chiu Wai." , Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung, Yang Cai Ni", a group of teenagers swarmed in. They saw Ouyang Feng, a tragic, long-suffering western poison - but quite different from Jin Yong's novels. The boy who was waiting for the fight scene was bored to sleep before the fight scene started, and the child who persisted to the end will love it for the rest of his life.
Maybe all of this has been forgotten. However, in 1999, a warehouse for storing film negatives in Hong Kong was closing, and they notified Wong Kar-wai to take away his own negatives. So, Wong Kar-Wai suddenly got this movie from the warehouse that had been in the dust for 5 years, and he also recalled the scene of the yellow sand filling the sky one by one from his memory warehouse.
The negative before Wong Kar-wai had been flooded and he decided to fix it. And this restoration took him four years. In the past four years, some people have left, such as Brigitte Lin, who has been out of action for many years after giving birth to two daughters; some people have already died. Children who grew up watching "Evil in the West" began to emerge in this society, and Wong Kar-wai decided to bring this movie back to life. The last shot of "Ultimate Edition" is fixed on the handsome face, and Leslie Cheung's bearded face is also popular among women and men. Some children like this movie because of him. They may not be familiar with the language of the movie. They only understood the plot after watching it 4 or 5 times. Therefore, this movie has become a symbol and a boundary marker. This movie separates two generations and two types of people. Humans in this world have a new classification. Those who watch "Dong Xie Xi Du" and those who do not watch "Dong Xie Xi Du" .
In 1994, as children, they watched the people around them experience the first wave of China's stock market boom. Back then, there was a movie called "Stock Crazy", and the crazy expressions of people in the movie were no different from those of people who are deeply involved in the stock market today. Today, 14 years later, not only China, but the whole world is experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis. Countries go bankrupt, banks fail, and insurance companies that used to swear by them are nowhere to be found. Children who grew up watching "Evil in the East and the Poison in the West" found that they really needed a jar of "drunken life and dream of death", and maybe they could forget all this after waiting for time to turn into ashes - Ashes of time.
Wong Kar Wai's classic lines are still so cool, there are so many things in this world that you want to forget, and there are so many feelings that you can't hide and can't control. The music playing in the desert is so good, it is strange that the music from 14 years ago and Zhang Shuping from 14 years ago are not outdated at all. Wong Kar-wai said that when he rewatched "Dong Xie Xi Du" himself, he also felt that it was a movie without a sense of time and space - it can be played at any time, no matter when you watch it, it is like a movie that has just been shot. Yes, it's like the vicious circle of love that it can't get out of, like the emotions that can never be erased.
The movie is still here, and people have changed. The people who watched "Evil in the East and the Poison in the West" were still children, but now they are irreversibly growing old and growing up. The child born in 1972 is now 36 years old, and the child born in 1984 is 24 years old. It is strange that they are full of vicissitudes. They start to be nostalgic. Even if they don't like this movie so much, they will never forget "Chongqing Forest" or "The True Story of Ah Fei", and at least they will be obsessed with Maggie Cheong's cheongsam. At the peak of Hong Kong drama, their "brother", nonsensical lines, lingering music, and love full of laughter and tears. Yes, if these children have any "complex", they all come from Wong Kar Wai, whether they admit it or not. When they go to Hong Kong, they will definitely find the canned pineapple, and those who have no musical skills will also listen to "Happy together".
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