"East Evil West Poison" is wong Kar-wai's first work as the boss of the self-reliant portal.
Because the filming speed is too slow, the investor is impatient, threatening Wong Kar-wai, and if he can't finish filming, he will be cut.
This is the end of 1992.
Hong Kong gangster forces are still active.
On April 16 of that year, Cai Ziming, who had a background, was assassinated before he could sit firmly in the seat of Jet Li's agent.
Wong Kar-wai's partner Liu Zhenwei came out to fight the fire, pulled the original team of "East Evil and West Poison", and filmed a "East into the West".
Released in February 1993, "East becomes West" and earned HK$22.37 million, ranking in the top 10 of the Hong Kong box office that year.
Contrast hurts.
"East Evil west poison", which cost a lot of energy, was released in September 1994 and received 9.02 million Hong Kong dollars, less than half of "East becomes West".
"East Evil West Poison" is like a stuffy stick knocking the audience unconscious.
Huang Yaoshi didn't even blow the whistle, Ouyang Feng didn't even raise snakes, playing the undefeated Lin Qingxia in the East, how could he be a man for a while and a woman again?
The names are also particularly similar, Murong Yan, Murong Yan.
Lin Qingxia talked about her feelings after seeing "East Evil and West Poison" at the Venice Film Festival.
"Why doesn't everyone talk without eye contact? It seems that everyone is talking to the air, who loves whom? Who is good with whom? So many characters, who is not clear to anyone, how can it look good? ”
Lin Qingxia's idea is also the first impression of most viewers on "East Evil and West Poison".
In 2009, "East Evil and West Poison Ultimate Edition" was released in the mainland.
Time finally turned over the case for "East Evil and West Poison", and the Douban score was 8.8, better than 97% of romance films.
Compared with the original version, the "Ultimate Edition" uses different paragraphs with solar terms.
As a reminder, "The Ultimate Edition" is better understood than the original version, more reflects wong Kar-wai's own director's will, and is more worthy of recommendation (if anyone hates the intense tone, I did not say it).
Some people think that "East Evil and West Poison" is obscure and scolds Wang Jiawei for pretending to be a ghost, the main reason is that it disrupts the narrative order dominated by the timeline.
For example, I get up to brush my teeth and eat breakfast to work, and everyone understands as soon as I hear it, but "East Evil and West Poison" uses the order of eating breakfast and brushing my teeth to get up at work.
If you want to understand "East Evil and West Poison", you must understand its narrative line.
If we follow the normal narrative logic, "East Evil and West Poison" should present the story in this way.
1. On the White Camel Mountain, the woman Ouyang Feng loves deeply gambles and marries his brother. Ouyang Feng was not convinced, and proposed to his sister-in-law to elope, but was rejected.
Ouyang Feng lost his soul and came to the desert to open a company as a boss and help people solve their troubles.
2. The eldest sister-in-law is obsessed with Ouyang Feng and goes to live by the sea.
Huang Yaoshi became the eldest sister-in-law to lick the dog. He realized that his sister-in-law was still in love with Ouyang Feng. Every year, Huang Yaoshi would find his lover Ouyang Feng to drink.
Huang Yaoshi understood that the eldest sister-in-law missed Ouyang Feng very much. Later, Huang Yaoshi fell in love with Peach Blossom, the wife of a good brother blind samurai. When the blind samurai found out, he left.
3. Huang Yaoshi could not get the heart of the eldest sister-in-law, but it made Murong Yan, who was dressed as a man in Gusu City, feel moved.
Huang Yaoshi toyed with Murong Yan's feelings. Murong Yan's personality was split, one moment a man, the other a woman. She hated Huang Yaoshi so much that she asked Ouyang Feng to kill Huang Yaoshi.
Murong Yan and Ouyang Feng also had an emotional line, and that night, the two of them were drunk and fascinated, and regarded each other as their sweethearts.
4. In the autumn of another year, the eldest sister-in-law died, and before his death, he gave a pot of wine called Drunken Dream Death to Huang Yaoshi and asked him to give it to Ouyang Feng.
5. Sting.
In the second year after the death of his sister-in-law, Huang Yaoshi kept his promise and gave Ouyang Feng the drunken dream death wine.
Huang Yaoshi drank this altar wine, but Ouyang Feng did not drink it. Later, Huang Yaoshi went to see peach blossoms in the hometown of the blind swordsman.
He met the blind swordsman and Murong Yan, who was slashed by Murong Yan.
6. Lixia.
There was an orphan woman who sought out Ouyang Feng to solve his troubles and avenge his brother. Her chips were only a basket of eggs and a donkey, and Ouyang Feng refused her request.
The blind samurai worked for Ouyang Feng, earning some money to go home and see the peach blossoms.
Because of a failure of an operation, the blind samurai was killed.
7. White dew.
Hong Qiqi became Ouyang Feng's hitman. Hong Qiqi took the orphan girl's egg and helped her kill the enemy, so he lost a finger.
Hong Qi's hand healed and he took his daughter-in-law to the rivers and lakes. Years later, he became a nine-fingered god.
Hong Qi, living the life that Ouyang Feng envied, took his lover to the rivers and lakes.
8. Spring of the second year.
Ouyang Feng went to the hometown of the blind samurai and found that Peach Blossom was a woman.
Peach Blossom knew that her husband, the blind samurai, had died and cried bitterly. Seeing this scene, Ouyang Feng understood the reason why Huang Yaoshi stung him every year.
Huang Yaoshi was drunk and did not mean to drink, but cared about Ouyang Feng's sister-in-law.
9. Another year of stinging came, Ouyang Feng returned to the company set up in the desert area, but could not wait for Huang Yaoshi.
One day, he received a letter from White Camel Mountain, saying that his sister-in-law had died. Ouyang Feng burned down the inn and returned to Baituo Mountain.
Years later, he had a nickname— West Poison.
In order to facilitate the audience's understanding, "East Evil and West Poison Ultimate Edition" starts from the fifth link and marks it with solar terms.
Its narrative order in the film is 5, 3, 6, 7, 1, 8, 2, 4, 9.
"Final Edition" adopts a non-linear narrative, and some narrative lines are also put into different paragraphs in the form of flashbacks, making the film more obscure. For example, in the 5th paragraph of the narrative line is the beginning of the film, it is the sting, which is mixed with the narrative line of the third paragraph.
The emergence of different solar terms is the passage of time.
The film ends with a sting, which is a circular circular structure, implying the infinite reincarnation of the protagonist's fate.
Year after year, time will pass, and the world's best masters will decline, but the frustrated love story is always cyclical.
Lin Qingxia, who once said that "East Evil and West Poison" is not good, saw "Ultimate Edition" after 14 years, and she finally saw the signs.
"The whole play is about a word of love, everyone has a desire for love, everyone is lonely, whether you are loved or not loved, you can't escape that loneliness." 」
Lin Qingxia understood "East Evil and West Poison".
Wong Kar-wai just wants to use the love tragedy of the east and the west to describe the loneliness that is difficult to get rid of in the love of modern people.
Huang Yaoshi and Ouyang Feng are both frustrated people in love.
The people they love are never their lovers.
Ouyang Feng and his sister-in-law were in love, but they became his sister-in-law. Huang Yaoshi loves his sister-in-law and is afraid to get it, but he can only think of each other unrequitedly.
In front of the sister-in-law, Huang Yaoshi restrained himself, bowed his head in front of her, lowered to the dust, and blossomed a flower in the dust.
After the death of his sister-in-law, Huang Yaoshi handed over the drunken dream death wine to Ouyang Feng on the day of the sting, and from then on, Huang Yaoshi never looked for Ouyang Feng to drink.
Many years later, Huang Yaoshi became the Eastern Evil, known as the Lord of Peach Blossom Island, in honor of a woman named Peach Blossom.
And Ouyang Feng became a western poison, he did not dare to get drunk and dream of dead wine, that is, to preserve his memories of his sister-in-law.
"When you can't have it anymore, the only thing you can do is to let yourself not forget."
As we all know, the east is evil and the west is poisonous, and he is the king of martial arts. Wong Kar-wai filmed the story of "East Evil and West Poison", and the story was newly edited, telling everyone that they are also frustrated people in love.
After the release of "East Evil and West Poison", the box office fiasco failed, and most viewers liked to watch the story of the king.
I wrote the analysis of "East Evil and West Poison" today, not only because today is also a sting, it is the day that Huang Yaoshi looked for Ouyang Feng to drink, and I also wanted to give Wong Kar Wai a good call.
Good movies, tell the hearts of the people.