As the first science fiction film directed by Wong Kar-wai, "2046" is not inferior to the overall results of "Generation Grandmaster", but it is not inferior.
Wong Kar-wai spent five years shooting in many places, and even boiled Takuya Kimura, who participated in the film, from a bachelor to a father of two children, before finally completing this work.
And the story behind "2046" is far more exciting than you think.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, the characters of "2046" continue Wong Kar-wai's previous work "Fancy Years", but the film is not a sequel to "Fancy Years". </h1>
As Wong Kar-wai's old partner, Liang Chaowei was the first actor to be determined, and the earliest actress was Faye Wong. The film is also the third cooperation between Faye Wong and Liang Chaowei after "Chongqing Forest" and "The World Is Unmatched".
2, "2046" as Wong Kar-wai's first science fiction film, in the stunt cost he can be said to be willing to spend money, in order to make some of the shots in the film full of science fiction, he invited the "Matrix", "Invincible" to do stunts for the famous French BUFF company tailor-made for it, spending nearly 2 million US dollars, using more than 20 stunt employees.
In terms of shooting, Wong Kar-wai did achieve excellence, but his procrastination style and the style of daring to shoot without a script are well-known things and even continue to "2046".
For example, when filming "Fancy Years", a film that could have been completed in two or three months, Wong Kar-wai filmed for 15 months, which directly led to the heroine Maggie Cheung and her husband at the time getting together less and leaving more, which became the main reason for divorce.
When filming "East Evil and West Poison", it was also impossible to shoot halfway through the filming, and finally found Liu Zhenwei to help, pulled the original cast to shoot a "East into the West", and solved his investment crisis.
During the shooting process, Wong Kar-wai did not even have a script, basically thinking about where to shoot, and he may not be able to shoot several times a day.
This style of shooting made Takuya Kimura from Japan so unaccustomed that he had indicated that he did not want to cooperate with Wong Kar-wai anymore.
3. Although "2046" took five years to shoot, Wong Kar-wai did not spend all of this film in these five years. He also participated in the filming of the two works "Matchless in the World" and "Eros", which is why "2046" was stopped many times.
If you put aside factors other than film shooting, the actual shooting of "2046" is actually only about a year.
4. Although the actual shooting is only about a year, this year or so is not easy for actors. In every scene on the set, Wong Kar-wai personally went to the scene, and in terms of performance, it was very harsh, slightly wrong, it was reshooted, even if it was over, in a few days, the actors would still be notified to shoot again.
This can be referred to in "A Generation of Grandmasters" liang Chaowei filmed a scene in the rain for 30 nights.
In order to shoot Dong Jie's scene, Wong Kar-wai spared no expense to repaint the two sides of the Changshou Road Bridge and carry out blockade shooting, which was filmed from 6 pm to 4 am.
Because the actors did not have a script, the scene at that time was completely imagined by Wong Kar-wai, but after filming until four o'clock in the morning, Wong Kar-wai suddenly changed his mind and decided to give up filming. Dong Jie's scenes were all deleted as a result.
And Zhang Ziyi, who played Bai Ling in "2046", has up to six hours of makeup time every day, which is the longest makeup time for actresses in the film.
After five years of tempering and various overthrows, this "2046" full of Wong Kar-wai's own style was finally revealed to the audience. Although after the release of the lead actor Liang Chaowei can not understand the performance of the outside world, the film was made like this; Kimura Takuya also frankly said that he did not know what he was acting, but as an art film, it is not only ahead of the curve, but also explains the unique experience of personal emotions, is a realistic and most romantic masochistic love movie.
Wong Kar-wai used time and space to tell a wind and snow moon, and at the same time integrated "Fancy Years" into it.
The film is also a bit different from other films, because it is basically a medium and close-up shot throughout the film, and it is shot on a widescreen. Wong Kar-wai pushed the requirements for the aesthetic beauty of images and the persistent expression of emotions to the peak.
Looking back at "2046" now, we will understand how advanced Wong Kar-wai was at that time.