Wong Kar-wai spent several years brewing and carefully crafting the martial arts movie "A Generation of Grandmasters". The film won the Best Director Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Director Wong Kar-wai had a wish in his heart earlier that he would also make a decent martial arts film. Wong Kar-wai, who has always been dedicated and meticulous in his work, began to brew and plan, and for this martial arts film "A Generation of Grandmasters", Wong Kar-wai prepared for six to seven years, which can be described as ten years of grinding a sword.
In order to create this high-quality martial arts movie "A Generation of Grandmasters", Wong Kar-wai almost searched for Chinese mainland, in order to find ge Chunyan, the queen of Chinese Bagua palms with footwork like a dragon, let him serve as Zhang Ziyi's Bagua palm training teacher. Later, Wong Kar-wai visited the two daughters of Li Ziming, the grandmaster of the Bagua Palm, and through their recommendation, he finally found Ge Chunyan, who was far away in Singapore.
Wong Kar-wai, a meticulous filmmaker, gave a death order to all the actors in martial arts before the filming of "A Generation of Grandmasters": before filming begins, he must learn his own martial arts routines. So the martial arts actors began to conduct surprise training for high-intensity practice, and many actors were injured in the process, and Liang Chaowei, who played Ip Man, also suffered injuries and fractures in training.
Miss Gong Er in "Generation Grandmaster" is a martial arts wizard with a bagua palm, a set of sixty-four hands of the Gong family, and she plays a big game. The actor who plays Miss Gong Er in the film is Zhang Ziyi. So under the strict requirements of the director, under the training of Ge Chunyan, the queen of the Bagua Palm of the Wuying Level, Zhang Ziyi began to practice the Bagua Palm suddenly, and the training process caused a great burden to the body of Zhang Ziyi, who had no martial arts skills. But Zhang Ziyi was very diligent, Ge Chunyan recalled: "Zhang Ziyi she was the hardest person I have ever seen practicing boxing. ”
Ge Chunyan introduced: The foot kung fu practice tips of the Bagua palm are: the inner foot is straight out, the outer foot is slightly buckled, the foot buckle should be small, the foot swing should be large, the foot is like a wading mud, and it is flat and flat. According to this recipe, an important training program of bagua palm is "wading through muddy water". So the crew specially found a low-lying mud field, in order to "go flat", Zhang Ziyi had to practice "mud" every day. The biggest stressors when wading through the mud are the knees and lumbar spine. Zhang Ziyi suffered knee and lumbar spine injuries while practicing. Ge Chunyan told reporters: "Fortunately, Zhang Ziyi has learned dance, otherwise she would have suffered more." ”
One day, when Zhang Ziyi was practicing the Bagua palm steps, her lower body suddenly lost consciousness, and Zhang Ziyi recalled: "It was like suddenly paralyzed!" At that time, the whole person fell head down and plunged into the mud. This scene really scared the crew present. “
When Ge Chunyan recalled a conversation with Wong Kar-wai, he revealed that the reason why director Wong Kar-wai was determined to shoot a martial arts movie was because of his trip to Africa. Wong Kar-wai once went to Africa, in a remote part of Africa, in a small newspaper and magazine stall, and he saw a tabloid report about Bruce Lee's martial arts. Wong Kar-wai was so shocked that he thought that he could see a report on Bruce Lee's martial arts in a tabloid in such a remote place as Africa, and bruce Lee still has so many people who appreciate his appreciation of Chinese martial arts.
It was wong Kar-wai's visit to Africa that made him determined to make a decent martial arts film, and he also wanted to carry forward the Chinese martial arts and the spirit of the people!