Later, Deng Guangrong's shadow hero invested heavily in filming The True Story of Teddy Boy, with Andy Lau as the main line. Wong Kar-wai also invited Leslie Cheung, whom he admired more, to make a guest appearance in several plays. During this period, Andy Lau was in full swing, and there was no time to co-film with Wong Kar-wai for several years. Because Zhang Guohua was very close to Wong Kar-wai in the cast, and constantly added drama to Leslie Cheung, the film was promoted to the leading role, and Andy Lau finally appeared in several plays as a guest.
Deng Guangrong named Andy Lau as the leading role before he dared to spend a lot of money to shoot it. Later, the film suffered huge losses, and Deng Guangrong flew into a rage and parted ways with Wong Kar-wai.
Rather than saying that Wong Kar-wai doesn't use Andy Lau, it's better to say that Andy Lau doesn't make movies about Sunglasses King. Andy Lau once said, when you have the script, you can come to me again. Wong Kar-wai's first film can't find investment. Investor Zheng Guangrong said that if you don't look for Andy Lau, I won't invest. Andy Lau is a business idol, and Wong Kar-wai is a literary film. No common goal, no common goal. No one is tall or low. I am a person who knows right from wrong.
Wong Kar-wai and Andy Lau have only cooperated twice, one is Tears streaming down her face, and the other is The Story of Teddy Boy.
Since then, the two have no cooperation, which has made countless fans regret it. They think that if Andy Lau cooperated more with Wong Kar-wai, he would win the Oscar for Best Actor, and there would be no Tony Leung Chiu Wai coming from behind.
In fact, regarding the difference between himself and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and the reasons for not cooperating with Wong Kar-wai, Andy Lau once said: Tony Leung Chiu Wai is an actor, and I am a star. Tony Leung Chiu Wai can wait, but I can't.
As we all know, Wong Kar-wai's slow motion not only made the actors crazy, but also made his boss Deng Guangrong angry and hospitalized. Moreover, he will delete it and start all over again, making the actors miserable.
In the prime time of Hong Kong films, a director like Jing Wong can finish a film in a week or two from shooting to release. In Wong Kar-wai, a movie can be made for a year or two.
For example, Zhang zhen was originally one of the main actors in The Master. In order to play this film well, Zhang zhen specially learned octupole boxing in advance. As a result, Zhang zhen became the national champion of octupole boxing, and the film has not been finished.
What made him even more angry was that all his scenes in the film were finally deleted.
When Tony Leung Chiu Wai filmed "The Master", it was because it took too long to shoot and it was a huge loss. In the meantime, I made another film "The Magician", and the result was not delayed.
Andy Lau is the most popular star in Hongkong. There are many movies and TV series, and she has to make a record to prepare for a concert and fly around the world to shoot advertisements. Time is money to him. How can he spend a year or two making movies?
The resulting losses are astronomical.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai. He is a professional actor. In his early days, he was far less popular than Andy Lau, so he could wait.
In addition, Wong Kar-wai's films are basically popular in major film festivals, and winning international awards is a high probability event. When you win an international prize, your value and popularity will naturally increase.
So Tony Leung Chiu Wai is more like a long-term investment. He can put up with Wong Kar-wai's lack of scripts, extend his time indefinitely, delete everything and start over, and even reduce his salary.
He knows that once he wins the winner, all the losses can be made up.
So there is a very strange phenomenon in Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Every time he demeans himself to make a Wong Kar-wai film, he wins the best actor, that is, he gets a raise and makes some bad commercial films to make up for his losses.
Not to my taste! Wong Kar-wai's films are implicit and melancholy, which requires the actor's temperament to conform to the theme, and his eyes and brow should reveal the artistic conception he wants to express. Andy Lau is handsome, and Joey Wong is beautiful, but the depth of his acting doesn't appeal to Wong Kar-wai. Wong Kar-wai is slow, slow, slow ... It's not appropriate to measure Wong Kar-wai's films by the cost performance of business rules, but many actors can't escape this secular rule. Therefore, being an actor in Wong Kar-wai requires both artistic strength and artistic accomplishment and values.
It took years to make a movie! No script, no lines, where you want to shoot, who has time to waste his youth on him? Go and see how long Wong Kar-wai made the movie "Ashes of Time"! ! ! In the middle of making this movie, I also made a movie "Chongqing Forest"! So whether to cooperate or not depends on the investors and the big coffee schedule. Generally, the schedules of superstars are fully booked by brokers. Do you think a superstar like Andy Lau will have a schedule to cooperate with Wong Kar-wai?
Never use it? No, because Wang Dao's first film was Andy Lau's Tears Running, and the first film was nominated for the best director in the Hong Kong Academy Awards. Andy Lau was also nominated for Best Actor and Jacky Cheung for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Ahua.
Moreover, the performance of the role of Wu Fei in the play is excellent, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the peak of Jacky Cheung's acting skills.
With the cooperation of With Tears Flowing, 1990, when filming The True Story of Teddy Boy again, Wong Kar-wai continued to look for Andy Lau. At this time, the popularity of Andy Lau, in the current buzzwords, is the popular fried chicken, huge traffic and box office appeal. At that time, Deng Guangrong, the boss, gave Wong Kar-wai 40 million yuan for filming, and appointed Andy Lau as the leading role, but Wong Kar-wai had his own ideas and asked Leslie Cheung to play together. More and more scenes are added, while the scenes in Andy Lau are reduced again and again. Most people went to Andy Lau to see a movie, but found that there were not many scenes, and it was still a literary film. Later, Andy Lau and Wong Kar-wai stopped cooperating.
The True Story of Teddy Boy shined brilliantly in Hong Kong that year, and won five awards, including Best Film and Best Director, at the 10 Hong Kong Film Awards. Leslie Cheung won the Academy Award and the Best Actor Award for this film.
It is a very classic art theater in Leslie Cheung, and this film won several awards at the awards ceremony of the Hong Kong Academy Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, but the box office of this film was less than 10 million, which won the word of mouth and lost the box office.
At that time, Wong Kar-wai's Tears streaming down her face brought good benefits to Deng Guangrong. Deng was full of confidence in Wong Kar-wai, so he took out 40 million clips and asked him to make two gangster films similar to Jianghu.
However, Wong Kar-wai, together with six superstars, including Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung, and tens of millions of investors, churned out a movie called The True Story of Teddy Boy.
Finally, Deng Guangrong was admitted to the hospital with a box office of less than10 million. However, although the box office is not satisfactory, it is still a little comforting in terms of awards.
Tears streaming down her face and The True Story of Teddy Boy are still classics.
Joey Wong also cooperated with Ashes of Time, but the mainland version of the play was deleted. Among the many versions released, one version may have Joey Wong.
However, the film was released at a loss. Fortunately, it was completed 27 days before the Lunar New Year's Eve, and the comedy "Going East and Going West" won the box office, making up for the deficit of "Time has passed".
Many big-name stars have broken with Wong Kar-wai one by one, and only Tony Leung Chiu Wai can endure Wong Kar-wai's torture.
Acting is king.
Wong Kar-wai's long-term cooperation actors (known as royal actors) are all actors who have been softened by the best actresses, such as Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung and Leslie Cheung. Moreover, he not only requires the other party to perform well, but also requires the other party to accept his filming mode! Even actors like Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung, who have worked together for a long time, complain that Wong Kar-wai is too abrasive. I remember Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai also said that some scenes they thought were perfect. As a result, Wong Kar-wai repeatedly asked for a remake. Many dramas with a budget of several months can be filmed for several years, which is probably unacceptable to ordinary actors, especially those who think they are great!
No script
There is basically no fixed script for Wong Kar-wai's filming. He can shoot anywhere he wants. Sometimes he shoots well. A whim directly overthrew the previous remake. The film Ashes of Time is the best example. The movie "Ashes of Time" begins with Joey Wong's drama and has many scenes. Because it was shot and revised at the same time, Joey Wong's play was finally lost after editing. According to the Internet, the last flash shot was Joey Wong, but after I watched it several times, it was still ambiguous. This is a pity for fans who like Joey Wong. At that time, Joey Wong was in its heyday!
Because there is no script, many actors are worried about affecting their reputation for years of hard work. Tony Leung Ka Fai, the best actor, has been filming Ashes of Time for more than a year, but he doesn't know what he filmed. In fact, fans who like this movie many years later will find that the reason why this movie became a classic is because the director is attentive and the actors are dedicated, and they can find different resonance every time they revisit it!
ticket office
Wong Kar-wai is a wizard of Chinese movies, and one of the most award-winning directors of Chinese movies, including some international awards, but the tickets are a fiasco! At that time, there was no plan for the classic New Year movie "Going East and Going West". Just because investors saw Wong Kar-wai's filming "Ashes of Time" dragged on for too long and were afraid of losing money, they directly filmed "Going East and Going West", but the effect exceeded expectations!
The actors in Time Has Changed are all outstanding in China movies, including Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and Carina Lau, as well as action director Hong Jinbao (who also made a guest appearance). It is also a big expense for this group of people to get together! As a result, the box office was a fiasco, with an investment of more than 40 million. As a result, the box office was less than 10 million, and the underwear was gone. However, the improvisation of "Going East and Going West" in that year was more than 20 million. It means that a group of actors made two films, one made money and the other won a prize, otherwise the investor Da Jian broke up with Wong Kar-wai! Although "Ashes of Time" swept all the film festival awards, it was listed as a real bad film that year and was praised as a classic by fans more than ten years later. But even now, people who like it are super fond of it, and people who don't like it are still called bad movies!
The Four Kings and Wong Kar-wai
In fact, Andy Lau cooperated with Wong Kar-wai a long time ago, which should belong to the first film really directed by Wong Kar-wai. 1988' s Tears Run stars Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung, and Jacky Cheung's Wan Ziliang. As a result, Jacky Cheung won the best supporting role! Two years later, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau and Leslie Cheung also starred in The True Story of Teddy Boy, and Leslie Cheung won the best actor!
Actually, I think Jacky Cheung's acting skills are really good. And Jacky Cheung in Ashes of Time, and Dawn in fallen angels released in 1995. That is to say, Aaron Kwok seems to have never cooperated with Wong Kar-wai!
In addition to changing the script, change the script.
Andy Lau no longer cooperates with Wong Kar-wai. After all, although Wong Kar-wai's movies are not good at the box office, it is unambiguous to win the prize. Neither of Andy Lau's films won the prize. There is also the difference between a leading role and a supporting role. Because the script has been changed too much, it may have been delineated who is the protagonist and who is the supporting role. In actual shooting, it has changed. Some media said that Andy Lau was supposed to be the proper protagonist in The True Story of Teddy Boy, but it turned out to be Leslie Cheung, and Leslie Cheung won the Best Actor Award!
Needless to say, Wang Haoer, when Joey Wong overtook Maggie Cheung, was directly deleted as a result. The most important thing is that they don't have much cooperation, and it is estimated that they can't accept this neglect. Therefore, Wong Kar-wai, Joey Wong and Andy Lau have never cooperated before, but the cooperation is unpleasant!
You shouldn't have seen many of Wong Kar-wai's movies, at least not all of them. Who starred in Wong Kar-wai's famous work Tears Running? Don't you know the policeman who compensated Maggie Cheung for walking in The True Story of Teddy Boy? The Ashes of Time was originally written by Joey Wong, but it was finally deleted ... The reason is still a mystery.
The list of films directed by Wong Kar-wai is as follows:
Feature film:
1. With the passage of tears
Starring: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung and Wan Ziliang.
2. The True Story of Teddy Boy
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Pan Dihua.
3. ashes of time
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung, Yang Caini and Li Bai.
(Specially starred in version 94): Joey Wong.
4. Chongqing Forest
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong.
5. fallen angels
Starring: Dawn, Michelle monique Rice, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yang Caini and Karen Mok.
6. Spring is Coming
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung and Zhang zhen.
7. In the Mood for Love
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Pan Dihua and Xiao Binglin.
Dubbing Starring: Sun Jiajun and Roy Cheung
8.《2046》
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Kimura Takuya, Carina Lau, Angel and Zhang zhen.
Special appearance: Maggie Cheung
9.blueberry night
Starring: norah jones, Lao Denuo
10.master
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Song Hye Kyo, Beijing, Max Zhang, Zhang zhen and so on.
1 1. Flowers bloom in Shanghai (to be photographed)
Starring: Hugh, unknown actress.
Short film:
1. Cupid's hand
Starring: Zhang zhen, Gong Li
2. "Crossing 9000 kilometers for you"
Starring: Zhang
Ashes of Time refers to the original version of 1994, because there was a 2-second silhouette of Joey Wong in the fighting scene at the end of the original version of 1994, but in the final version of 2009, this scene of Joey Wong was deleted.
It is said that in the 1994 Taiwan version of Ashes of Time, there was an 8-second front shot of Joey Wong. However, the publicly circulated version is a two-second silhouette of Joey Wong. It is said that there were other versions without Joey Wong lens.
At the Hong Kong Film Festival in April this year, Wong Kar-wai and Guan's films all participated in the exhibition, including the scene of "Spring is bursting", followed by a promotional film of "Zedong 30", including fixed makeup photos.
According to Wong Kar-wai, at that time, investors were investing in movies, and Joey Wong's filming schedule arrived, so he didn't participate in the filming of feature films.
So in the title, I asked Wong Kar-wai why he didn't use Joey Wong all the time, not that Wong Kar-wai didn't want to use Joey Wong, but because the shooting schedule affected the shooting time of Ashes of Time, and Joey Wong's energy was more spent on filming East and West, which led to Joey Wong's lack of time to participate in the shooting. Wong Kar-wai only used Joey Wong to shoot flowers, not Joey Wong to shoot feature films. Since Joey Wong left the crew, Wong Kar-wai found it at that time.
As for Andy Lau, as can be seen from the film list, Andy Lau is Wong Kar-wai's imperial actor in the excellent period of the film. Wong Kar-wai's first feature film was a popular Jianghu film at that time. Andy Lau's appearance is very suitable for making Jianghu films, and there is a schedule. In Tears, Andy Lau was chosen as the leading actor.
When it comes to The Story of Teddy Boy, it's still uncertain who the hero is, because Leslie Cheung has retired from the music scene and something has happened to Carina Lau. Tony Leung Chiu Wai accompanied Carina Lau to continue filming, while Andy Lau made several films at the same time, which distracted him. Wong Kar-wai and others focused on Leslie Cheung, and Leslie Cheung eventually became the hero of The True Story of Teddy Boy, while Andy Lau became the second man.
Wong Kar-wai's style was formally established from The True Story of Teddy Boy. Different from Tears Running, in The Story of Teddy Boy, all the other actors are in harmony, but Andy Lau's temperament is a bit out of place with this movie. Wong Kar-wai specially found a hat for Andy Lau to wear to relieve this discomfort. Wong Kar-wai and Andy Lau haven't cooperated since the story of punk.
According to Wong Kar-wai, the reason why we didn't cooperate in the later period was that the two sides didn't get along. Andy Lau makes many movies a year, but he makes them very slowly. In fact, Andy Lau has appeared in about 140 films, while Wong Kar-wai has only made 10, and1is still in preparation.
According to film critics Shu Kei, Wong Kar-wai and Andy Lau, Wong Kar-wai thought of Andy Lau before filming Spring Break. Wong Kar-wai said that Andy Lau had no schedule and found other actors. Andy Lau himself said that he could not accept the same-sex theme in his early years. Later, Lu Yu said that he was ready to sign a contract, and Wong Kar-wai replaced him with Leslie Cheung.
Maybe Wong Kar-wai claimed that Andy Lau had no date to show his affection for each other. Of course, it is also possible that Wong Kar-wai only casually mentioned Huang (Yao Ming) and Liu (Dehua) at the beginning, but he was not 100% interested. Wong Kar-wai once mentioned that he joked in front of Zhang () and Liang () that Zhang and Liang would play a couple. Zhang and Liang both laughed. Perhaps, from the beginning, Wong Kar-wai had thought about Zhang Heliang's acting skills, but he was not sure at that time. Anyway, I finally chose Zhang Heliang to play Spring in Spring, and Zhang Heliang was also very touching.
Wong Kar-wai made his own film, but he wanted the audience to pay for it. Ha ha. In the film circle, in fact, many traffic actors are reluctant to play Wang's films, which have no box office and a long cycle. Japanese Kimura Takuya has publicly complained.