The photographer's experience

Opening of Chongqing Forest Wu Shuo: "Every day, you have a chance to pass by others. You may know nothing about her (him), but maybe one day she (he) will become your friend or confidant. "

The first is Wong Kar-wai and writer Zhang Jiajia.

Wong Kar-wai is the best storyteller in Hong Kong movies. By telling stories, he made Deng Guangrong invest more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot The True Story of Teddy Boy, and finally the box office was less than10 million. Thanks to Deng Guangrong's eagerness to get an intravenous drip, Wong Kar-wai became famous in World War I and became the king of Hong Kong films.

Zhang Jiajia is the best storyteller in Weibo. At that time, Passing Through Your World had not been published. After being recommended by insiders, Wong Kar-wai saw these stories and called Zhang Jiajia. Soon they met in Shanghai and talked about life from the script. They were drunk for two or three days.

So there was The Ferry Man, which was produced by Wong Kar-wai, written and directed by Zhang Jiajia. The film was shot on July 9th, 20061May-May1KLOC-0/,which is the fastest film in Wong Kar-wai.

The Ferry Man is adapted from Zhang Jiajia's novel Passing Through Your World. The original text is only a few thousand words. Zhang Jiajia was born a novelist. When he first wrote the script, he didn't put the role first. There were many protagonists in it. Later, 1 18 rewrote the script, and finally the script came out with hundreds of thousands of words. What's more, he put in all his life experiences for more than ten years.

During filming, Wong Kar-wai sometimes shed tears on the set. He said that Zhang Jiajia was afraid to direct some plays himself because he was too emotional.

However, Zhang Jiajia started shooting a version. After Wong Kar-wai saw it, there were many materials that could not be edited and watched, so Wong Kar-wai made a remake himself.

Therefore, The Ferry Man is actually a work co-produced by Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Jiajia, but the evaluation is still very low. Is it because The Ferry Man is the king of sunglasses and the shooting speed is too fast?

Some viewers think that the story of the film is chaotic, and the second half is even more incomprehensible.

Words can leave more room for imagination, while images are directly presented to people. There is a big difference between the two, and the audience is different, so there are directors and screenwriters.

Not every writer and screenwriter can be a director.

Second, Wong Kar-wai and photographer Xia Yongkang.

Those Wong Kar-wai movies that caught a glimpse on the Internet, and these strong and ambiguous stills with strong Wong Kar-wai flavor, are mostly from the same person Xia Yongkang.

1996 at the beginning, Wong Kar-wai, 38, met Xia Yongkang, 32.

Xia Yongkang once told the media, "At first, I was asked to take photos, but the photos I took were all' weird' and few people liked them. But suddenly one day, Wong Kar-wai came to the studio to look at my photos and asked me,' Does your work seem different from others?' I said,' Yeah, nobody likes it', and he smiled,' Nobody likes it, I like it.' "

"Spring is the first time that Xia Yongkang took stills with the crew. At that time, he only knew how to use automatic gear, and he didn't know how to install a silencer box for the camera. After being scolded by the live recording engineer because the shutter sound was too loud, I had to wait until the director called "action" to take pictures.

Who knows, this just encourages Xia Yonghang's subconscious idea that he must take a wonderful moment immediately. He pressed the shutter immediately after Wong Kar-wai called "action", which just captured the actor's half-play state and created a unique atmosphere and style.

After that, Xia Yongkang followed Wong Kar-wai and participated in the shooting and design of In the Mood for Love and 2046.

Xia Yonghang: I dare not argue with him. He is the boss and he is my teacher, so I mostly listen to him. But what he wanted (photos), he never gave me the answer. I said, what do you think of this? He returned it to me after reading it, and then walked away. I said, what do you think? He said he didn't know and left. He will never give me an answer. But after all these years, it's good for me that he didn't give me the answer, which gave me a lot of creative space.

Third, the story of Wong Kar-wai and Acheng.

Acheng is a famous writer and screenwriter. His representative works include Chess King, Spring in a Small Town, furong town and Nie Yinniang the Assassin.

Wong Kar-wai filmed "2046" and asked Acheng to write a script for him. Acheng flatly refused: no script is needed. You don't want to do it here. All you have to do is delete the screenwriter column from your movie.

Hearing that Wong Kar-wai was filming Flowers in Shanghai, Acheng bluntly said: Laojin (the original author of Flowers in Shanghai, Jin Yucheng) is finally going to be angry. Such a director who doesn't need a screenplay must not be serious.

In July, 2020, Flowers in Shanghai was launched, directed by Wong Kar-wai, written by Wong Kar-wai and Jin Yucheng, and starring Hugh and Ma Yili. The film tells the story of Shanghai, and the dialogue is in Shanghai dialect.

Jin Yucheng believes that Shanghai needs a film that can represent the spirit and culture of the city. I hope I can make this "Shanghai password" known to the whole world. Wong Kar-wai believes that there are not many high-quality films set in Shanghai.

Because of cooperation, human beings have become the top existence of the earth's ecosystem, but in human beings, there is a saying that "there is no gentleman."

It's never easy to work with people like Wong Kar-wai.