Unforgettable Wong Kar-wai —— Gao Jiangge's Hong Kong-style Literary Retro Aesthetics

Wong Kar-wai

? Last night, I revisited Wong Kar-wai's classic film In the Mood for Love.

? Listen to all his movies.

? Look at all the movie posters.

? Wang focused on the plane and was obsessed with thinking. ......

? Some people say that his films are highly abstract and realistic, and he can always create an intoxicating emotional atmosphere with fantastic emotional fragments combined with imaginative colors and lens combinations.

? Wong Kar-wai's films are always so personal that you can tell that they are his films at first sight. Thick Hong Kong-style retro colors are as easy to make people slightly drunk as mellow wine, and they are unforgettable.

With the passage of tears.

With the passage of tears (1988)

? "There is cooked rice in the kitchen, and I also bought some cups. I knew they would be broken soon, so I hid one secretly. When you need that cup one day, just call me and I'll tell you where to put it. "

? -"When the tears flow"

? Wong Kar-wai's screen debut-Tears flow. We can't find too many stylized images from it, and we can only experience the flavor of the times of Hong Kong movies by switching between cold and warm colors. Xueyou and Liang Zi fought fiercely. At that time, Andy was really handsome, and Maggie Cheung was really pure.

Wild days

Wild days (1990)

? "I heard that there is a kind of bird in the world that has no feet. It can only keep flying and flying. When it is tired of flying, it sleeps in the wind. This bird can only land once in its life, and that is when it dies. "

? -"The True Story of Teddy Boy"

? Many years after I first read The True Story of Teddy Boy, I finally found the true source of the legend of "sleeping in the wind". It is from The Fugitive, a classic by American director Sidney matt (1960).

? In that movie, Rumeite used "sleeping in the wind" as a metaphor for wandering exiles; Wong Kar-wai's Sleeping in the Wind has the physical meaning of wandering (Nanyang), but it is doomed to be inseparable from love in the end.

Chongqing express

Chongqing Express (1994)

? "In May 1, 1994, a woman said' Happy Birthday' to me, because of this sentence, I will always remember this woman. If memory is also a can, I hope this can will not expire; If I have to add one day, I hope she will be 10 thousand years. "

? -Chongqing Forest

? Wong Kar-wai's unique fetish has also undergone profound evolution here. The glass in The Past Like Smoke has evolved into a canned pineapple that Takeshi Kaneshiro is obsessed with. It is worth mentioning that the two "ifs" in this line were captured by Liu Zhenwei the following year and became famous sentences in Stephen Chow's A Chinese Odyssey.

The ashes of time.

The ashes of time (1994)

? "Everyone will go through this stage. When they see a mountain, they want to know what is behind it. I really want to tell him that if you climb over the back of the mountain, you will find nothing special. Looking back, you will feel that this side is better. "

? -"Ashes of Time"

? Apart from Maggie Cheung's exclamation of "winning or losing", the most classic sentence is that "everyone will stick to their own beliefs, which is a waste of time for others, but she thinks it is very important".

Of course, the best word of mouth is "beyond the mountain". To put it bluntly, Wong Kar-wai is still taking the opportunity to express that "a foreign land is home". The back of the mountain remains the same, and the back of the desert remains the same. It is better to settle down here and live a happy life.

Fallen angels.

Fallen angels?

( 1995)

"Look at the rubbish that a person throws away, and you can easily know what he has done recently ... Some people are not suitable for being too close, but they know too much and are not interested.

? -"fallen angels"

? There are five angels in fallen angels, but Takeshi Kaneshiro is destined to leave the deepest impression on me. I have always regarded fallen angels as a continuation of Chongqing forest, which is the most congenial continuation.

? As for the later blueberry night, it was diverted to the other direction.

Happy together

Have fun together (1997)

"1997 1 month, I finally came to the end of the world. This is the last lighthouse in southern South America, and then the South Pole. Suddenly I really want to go home. "

? -"Spring is bursting"

? Looking back at 1997, apart from the shocking and gay theme of the year, the most striking thing about this film is He Baorong's sentence "Why don't we start over" and the sad and unhappy "Let's have fun together" at the end of the film.

We are young 2

In the Mood for Love (2000)

"If there are any extra tickets, would you like to go with me?"

? -In the Mood for Love

? I think this creation, which has no suspense in China's new classic list, will not fade even after another hundred years. Cloud and forbearing love have long been a unique emotional stream in Wong Kar-wai's films.

《2046》

(2004)

"How long does it take for a person to leave 2046? Nobody knows. Some people can leave effortlessly, but for some people, it takes a long time, great efforts, and even bruises. "

? ——《2046》

There is a subtitle in 2046: "All memories are wet." When you watch Wong Kar-wai's movies, you should blend in with the weather. You should be late, hesitant, confused, chilly, rainy, empty, sad and serious, and fall asleep in this wet place.

My Blueberry Nights

My Blueberry Night (2007)

"One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange songs. Then one day, you will find that what you are trying to forget is really gone. "

? -"Blueberry Night"

? For many people, watching Blueberry Night is not only because of Wong Kar-wai, but also because of Jude Law, Natalie Portman and the talented norah jones.

? Director Wong Kar-wai's state of mind during his stay in a foreign country is more like that after Ang Lee tried his best to shoot Lust, Caution, he had to shoot With Woodstock to relax.

master

Grandmaster (20 13)

"There is an old saying in the north: people don't care about roads, and tigers don't care about mountains. These years, we are all from other places. I am really tired and want to go back to my hometown. "

? -"A Generation of Masters"

There are too many famous sayings of the master, such as "if you never forget, there will be repercussions", such as "the face in the lining", such as "see yourself, see the world and see all beings". There are the temporal and spatial context of Wong Kar-wai, as well as the Jianghu feelings of Zou Jingzhi and Xu Haofeng.

? However, after a year, when I finally saw the third edition of The Master, I began to see more things that only belonged to Wong Kar-wai, among which Gong Er's "foreign man" hit my heart the most.

? I heard: the fairy will forward it after reading it ~