Wong Kar Wai's films are a unique or nihilistic world.
Although the backgrounds in different time and space in the film are different, the world he depicts is always the same.
Works: Wong Kar-wai", "East Evil and West Poison", "2046", "Spring Breaking", "Fallen Angel", "Fancy Years", "Blueberry Night", "Generation Grandmaster", "Qiannu Ghost", "Huang Feihong", "Sword", "Seven Swords".
"Everyone has a time when I lose love, and every time I lose love, I will go running, because running can evaporate the water in my body, so that I don't cry so easily." 」 "I know that the best way not to be rejected is to reject others first." "One day, a guy pointed to his watch and said he would remember me forever for that minute. ...... Now I look at the clock and tell myself that I'm going to forget about this person from this minute. "If you had one more ticket, would you like to come with me?" "All encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence." ......
These lines from Wong Kar-wai's films still shape the love grammar of "literary and artistic youth". All the "people in love" since Wong Kar-wai, check their love letters, I am afraid that they are "having an affair with Wong Kar-wai".
Almost every film about Wong Kar-wai is a combination of praise and criticism.
Critics think that his plot is loose and sick, moaning and rhythmic, and liking him does not deny this, but it doesn't matter, I just like the emotions and feelings in his films, and one of the fascinating things in Wong Kar Wai's films is his uncertainty, this unoriented theme often causes the viewer to think independently about the movie, which is why Wong Kar Wai's movies are infinitely evocative.
All in all, Wong Kar-wai's films never need to be understood, and images and sounds become narrative tools, and it doesn't take much reason to like them.
Ang Lee, who won an Oscar, once said: In making movies, in my generation of directors, the real genius is Wong Kar-wai.
The best evaluation of him may come from his "nemesis" Wang Jing, "Wong Kar-wai's courage is very admirable, he is very insistent on taking his path, it is a very difficult road, let me go, I may not have so much courage."
Many of the scenes and characters in Wong Kar Wai's films have traces in his life.
In 1963, at the age of 5, Wong Kar-wai came to Hong Kong from Shanghai with his parents.
In the beginning, he didn't speak Cantonese, didn't like to communicate, but loved to observe. Downstairs lived a tailor who made suits, and many foreign seafarers would come to him to tailor his clothes. He found that the tailor would sometimes glue the cloth together in order to rush the deadline, but strangely, no one ever came to trouble for this. He speculated that perhaps the seafarers had never washed their clothes or had never encountered rain when they went out to sea. Since then, he has thought that he has kept a secret with the tailor downstairs. Later, in "The Hand of Eros", he made Zhang Zhen a tailor, fell in love with his customer Gong Li, and the two also kept a secret.
After arriving in Hong Kong, Wong Kar-wai's mother did not have many friends, but fortunately there were more than 100 theaters in Tsim Sha Tsui, allowing her to find sustenance. Wong Kar-wai, who was in elementary school at the time, only had half a day in the curriculum. Every afternoon, his mother would take him to the theater. From martial arts films, to comedies, to vampire films, he watched thousands of movies with his mother. After becoming famous, no matter how many times he was asked "the person who influenced your films the most," he would reply, "My mother was my film school." ”
Although obsessed with movies, Wong Kar-wai at that time was sensitive and introverted, and he had studied Cantonese for nearly 10 years alone, and he did not often talk to people. He originally had an older brother and a sister above him, but because there was only one place to follow his parents to Hong Kong, his parents chose him, so he was forced to separate from his siblings, and his heart was always desolate. His family's main business was design, and his grandfather was a famous garden designer in the French Concession in Shanghai. When he was in college, he obediently applied for the Graphic Design Department according to his family's wishes. To outsiders, there was no indication at the time that this young man with glasses and no love to talk would become a world-class director in the future.
Famous director Ang Lee: Wong Kar-wai is a person worthy of envy.
Feeling sorry for each other, Ang Lee teased Wong Kar-wai in various ways.
Wong Kar-wai: I've made 10 films, and that's one for me.
Films directed by Wong Kar-wai:
"Carmen Mong Kok" stars Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, and Wan Ziliang
"The True Biography of Ah Fei" starred Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung, Liu Jialing, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Pan Dihua, Liang Chaowei
"Chongqing Forest" stars Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei, Wang Fei, Jin Chengwu and Zhou Jialing
"East Evil and West Poison" starred Zhang Guorong, Liang Jiahui, Liang Chaowei, Jacky Cheung, Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Liu Jialing, Yang Caini "Fallen Angel" starred Li Ming, Jin Chengwu, Li Jiaxin, Yang Caini, Mo Wenwei
"Spring Breaks" stars Zhang Guorong, Liang Chaowei and Zhang Zhen
"Fancy Years" starred Liang Chaowei and Maggie Cheung
"2046" stars Liang Chaowei, Zhang Ziyi, Kimura Takuya, Wang Fei, Gong Li, Liu Jialing, Zhang Zhen
Blueberry Night stars Nora Jones, Jude Lowe, Rachel Wises, Natalie Portman, and David Stryson
"East Evil West Poison: Ultimate Edition" stars Zhang Guorong, Leung Ka Fai, Jacky Cheung, Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Liu Jialing, Yang Caini
Wong Kar-wai has always been a representative of in the film industry and in the directing industry.
From "Carmen in Mong Kok" to "Chongqing Forest", how many people's initial obsession with Hong Kong originated from Wong Kar-wai, even if the Hong Kong he sketched out was dark, lonely, noisy and confused. In "East Evil and West Poison", Wong Kar-wai's jianghu is also ambiguous, desolate, tragic, and at the same time fearless.
When I first came into contact with his films, I was always subconsciously full of fantasies about this man, and although I did not end up in the end, I still enjoyed it. After all, who, like Wong Kar-wai, can strip away the emotions that most human beings have become accustomed to, deconstruct them, and let the grasshoppers of the sea occupy the center and enjoy the pleasure of being born like a summer flower.
How many people know for the first time that Wong Kar-wai is just a very ordinary middle-aged man on the surface, except for the pair of sunglasses that have not been taken off for many years, really no difference between you and me, there will be a feeling of eating expired pineapple canned: not fatal, but it feels a little wrong. However, this kind of wrong will soon be dispelled by the unique temperament of his body.
Large black sunglasses should be one of Wong Kar-wai's most recognizable labels!
Some people even ridiculed that sunglasses are Wong Kar-wai's sixth view, under the sunglasses sealed some unknown secrets, those amazing masterpieces of time are Wong Kar-wai in the dead of night, open a dim lamp, take off the mysterious sunglasses to lift the seal, and then Wen Si gushed, a beautiful script was born (here to clarify, wong Kar-wai did not shoot a play without a script is purely misinformed). Wong Kar-wai has moved all the wind and snow moons into the movie, so many people think that he is like who xian'er, only Yangchun white snow. In fact, Wong Kar-wai, who is white in the spring and snow, also has short chai rice oil and salt in his parents, but he rarely brings out his life for everyone to see.
Few people know that Wong Kar-wai has been wearing sunglasses because of his wife Chen Yile.
At the first meeting, Chen Yile gave Wong Kar-wai a pair of sunglasses, and on the eve of his wedding, Chen Yile gave him a pair of sunglasses. Because Wong Kar-wai often stays up late, his eyes will not adapt to the strong light of the day, and Chen Yile does not want others to see his husband's tired eyes. And Wong Kar-wai also wore this promise object all the time, as he promised, and spoiled his wife and was crazy.
In 2017, Wong Kar-wai won the 9th Lumiere Awards, selected by 100 foreign journalists from 20 countries, a French film award equivalent to the Golden Globes in Hollywood.
When Wong Kar-wai took the stage to receive the award, he also sprinkled "dog food" rarely on the scene, thanked his wife on the stage, and invited Chen Eile to come to the stage to share this moment of honor with him.
In addition, he also said that the most attractive female characters in his films, each of whom has a shadow of his wife, called the other party his "muse", and finally, he gave Chen Yile a deep kiss in public.
I really didn't expect that the sunglasses king, who has always been mysterious and cold, had such a sweet side.
Wong Kar-wai pays great attention to personal privacy, and he has always been very low-key about his private life. How low-key is it? Searching for Chen Yile in the search engine, netizens can only see a short two-line introduction.
The more low-key it is, the more it will arouse the curiosity of the outside world.
Wong Kar-wai's wife, Chen Yijin, is a beautiful person and is a brilliant and intelligent talented woman. He is very virtuous at home and is also a helper to her husband in her career. For decades, the couple have been in love with each other, holding hands together to make good movies, enjoying high praise in the circle and in the hearts of the audience.
After a long time, everyone learned that Wong Kar-wai and his wife's love and acquaintance were full of dramatic romance.
Wong Kar-wai had two love histories in his life, and his first love girlfriend was named Lu Xiangran.
Lu Xiangran's ancestral home is Hangzhou, he studied in the United Kingdom, and his family is relatively wealthy. The two know each other legendarily, they met in the denim shop where Wong Kar-wai worked, when they were in love with each other at first sight, this relationship did not last long, for various reasons the girlfriend proposed to break up.
The feeling of first love is beautiful, and Wong Kar-wai later filmed it at the beginning of the movie "The Legend of Ah Fei".
Wong Kar-wai's second relationship was with his current wife, Chen Yijin, who worked as a TVB executive producer at TVB in the early 1980s.
Coincidentally, the two also met in the "cowboy shop" and fell in love.
At that time, they were very close to the same interests and hobbies, and they had a feeling of seeing each other and hating each other.
In Wong Kar Wai's words, she is very happy to find someone who understands her.
At that time, Chen Yile was working as a TV program supervisor at TVB, and the reason for wearing sunglasses was that she stayed up for several days and nights, her eyes were red, and she could not show people.
In the subsequent conversation with Wong Kar-wai, the two men's understanding of the film was very compatible.
Before leaving, Chen Yijin invited Wong Kar-wai to sign up for the TV station's director writing tutoring class and gave him his sunglasses. The two encouraged and supported each other in later years, and in 1985, Chen Yijin married Wong Kar-wai despite his family's opposition.
When purchasing gifts on the eve of their wedding, Chen Yijin gave Wong Kar-wai a pair of RAYBAN black sunglasses: "You often stay up late, your eyes will not adapt to the light of the day, I don't want others to see my husband's tired eyes." ”
Wong Kar-wai was very touched and promised: "Ah Jin, I will wear it for the rest of my life, it is our love keepsake." After the marriage, Wong Kar-wai began to prepare for the new film, Chen Yijin only said 7 words: "I am your producer", one is 30 years, the two are self-contained, unique, creating countless classics, and winning awards.
And it's not just you and me who use "Wong Kar-wai lines" to make sentences, but also one of their sons: "His eyes are only 0.01 cm away from the RAYBAN black sunglasses, and his heart is only 0.01 meters away from the woman, and that woman is my mommy."
The relationship between equal strength, mutual support, sharing the wind and rain, and sharing glory is enviable.
This sunglasses king is a wife-loving demon in the director's world!
The two of them sweetly take a picture of love.
Some time ago, some netizens came across the famous director Wong Kar-wai and his wife appearing in hong Kong's Spring Flower Market.
Wong Kar-wai rarely did not wear sunglasses, but chose reading glasses, his hair was gray, looking old, 62 years old he almost made people unrecognizable.
Wong Kar Wai and his wife are very serious in selecting potted plants, from time to time will also ask the clerk's opinion, after the clerk's careful answer, he continued to exchange ideas with his wife, during which he also quietly touched his wife's face, the painting style is very warm and sweet.
Wong Kar Wai once said that the very attractive female characters he created in the film, everyone has the shadow of a wife. It is enough to see Wong Kar-wai's deep friendship with his wife.
It turns out that this pair of "divine eagle heroes" in the film industry have such a pyrotechnic side in private, and it is really enviable that career and life can be so perfectly balanced.