What is the significance of the film "Ashes of Time" to director Wong Kar-wai?

"Ashes of Time" 1994 was released in Hong Kong, and this film gathered many big-name stars. Bian Xiao felt that it was the personal charm of director Wong Kar-wai that brought so many big stars together to perform a super-literary martial arts film.

Let's take a look at the honors won by Ashes of Time.

Venice Film Festival (5 1): Awards, Golden Othello Award-Best Photography Award, Golden Lion Award-Best Director Award nomination.

Hong Kong Film Awards (14): Best Photography Award, Best Production Designer, Best Fashion Design. Oscar nominations include: best film, best director, best screenwriter, best editing, best film score and best action director.

Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award (3 1): Award-winning, Best Photography Award and Best Editing Award. Nominations for the Golden Horse Award include: Best Cross-media Adapted Screenplay Award, Best Art Direction and Best Fashion Design.

The ashes of time If you don't want to be rejected, the best way is to reject others first. -"Ashes of Time"

Director Wong Kar-wai said that his film "ashes of time" is opium, and what is even more frightening is its English name "Ashes of Time", which has the flavor of seeing all the vicissitudes of life. ?

In the overlap of time and space, every dialogue in the story seems to have been forged thousands of times. Wrapped in the desert, the empty and desolate voiceover often makes people wander in the sky. Here, there is no absolute love and no absolute hate. Everything is so unreal, vague and heartbreaking. What it seems to say is that even an earth-shattering story and a stirring life are actually just a big dream in the end. Refuse and not refuse, all in one thought. ?

Time can destroy many things, especially the memory of the public-it is always so inertia, slowly blurred, and then slowly reduced to ashes. I am a person who believes in "motivation", and I believe that finding "motivation" will make things clear. The best way to find motivation is to go back to the scene where things happened and the original time. Time ashes 1992 September 2 1 open. I want to go back to those years with you. ?

1992165438+10.2, eight superstars rarely gathered to shoot posters, from left: Jacky Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Carina Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Maggie Cheung, Joey Wong and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Their roles are totally different from what we saw in ashes of time today.

File 1: What role does Ye Yuqing play in the original character list? ?

Ashes of Time was reshuffled after shooting for more than a month, and now we can only see Ye Yuqing in Liu Zhenwei? Since Joey Wong appeared in "Ashes of Time" in only two seconds in 2005 and was dug up by Zhu Yuming, Wang Haoer has become a hot topic for netizens to discuss "Ashes of Time". Many people even hope that Wong Kar-wai can be restored when "Dong Xie Du: The Ultimate Edition" is restored. However, people forget that "ashes of time" began with another Hong Kong actress-a generation of porn star Ye Yuqing.

In the early 1990s, Ye Yuqing became an instant hit, and then signed a film contract with Zedong Company in Wong Kar-wai, which was to prepare to perform the first and second episodes of The Legend of the Condor Heroes with eight superstars. As a result, God played a trick on people. Wong Kar-wai denied himself, reshuffled his role, and threw away most of the shots he took for more than a month. We can only see Ye Yuqing in Liu Zhenwei's "Going East and Going West".

At the beginning of the filming of Ashes of Time, the starring roles were arranged as follows: playing a famous prostitute in Hang Cheng, playing an eagle girl, playing Zhou, playing Princess Jin Guosan, Jacky Cheung playing a red flag, Tony Leung Chiu Wai playing Duan Zhixing, Tony Leung Chiu Wai playing Ouyang Feng and Leslie Cheung playing Huang Yaoshi ... This list of roles was originally designed by Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai, but times have changed now.

Liu Zhenwei still inherited some original ideas in character setting. And gossip, because of Ye Yuqing's fame, has been excluded from the crew ...?

File 2: the mystery of deleting the opening and closing credits? In Wong Kar-wai, they imagined that Li and Bei Gai were good friends when they were children. "Xi Du: The Ultimate Edition" deleted all the wonderful scenes with Liu Shun and Jacky Cheung at the beginning and end of the film, which made many fans of the old version of "Time has passed" feel heartbroken. According to Wong Kar-wai, this is to set things right and restore the original state. At the beginning of the release, the producers lacked confidence in Ashes of Time. Not only did they cut all the plots into the trailer, but they also asked for a few minutes of plots at the beginning and end of the feature film. This passage did not appear at the beginning and end of the version that Wong Kar-wai took to foreign film festivals. But is this really the case? Let's see what the hero Leslie Cheung has to say.

My brother once said in the opening lecture of the University of Hong Kong that Wong Kar-wai asked him to play East Evil, and he went to Shaanxi to shoot it about a month after filming. One day, Wong Kar-wai told him, "I want you to be Du", because he thought Du should be the central figure, so he didn't want to shoot the previous one-month drama at all, except for the opening scene, which cost/kloc-0.5 million. Because Wong Kar-wai didn't want to waste it, he split it into two parts to make the opening and closing scenes.

Whether to set things right or not to waste, wait until you meet Wong Kar-wai.

File 3: The Mystery of Leslie Cheung's Beard and the Battle of Jacky Cheung? This white, elegant and unnecessary brother is actually the "evil" Leslie Cheung. Deleting the opening and closing credits of the old version has the advantage of unifying the image of Leslie Cheung as "Xi Du" Ouyang Feng. As long as you know that you originally played the role of "East Evil" Huang, you will vaguely feel that there is no beard at the beginning and end of the film, but it actually comes from earlier scenes. Generally speaking, these shots have nothing to do with the overall situation and need not be serious. But if someone is serious, is there a logical relationship between the change from beardless to beardless and the change from beardless to beardless? My brother Leslie Cheung explained it. He said, "You may forget that Wong Kar-wai is an excellent screenwriter. He knows how to defend himself. He easily turned the plot into Du's frustration in love, and a very sad fire destroyed the inn. At the same time, he will have to shave it off and return to the Jianghu. In the end, Hong Qigong died in the battlefield, so the plot passed. " On the other hand, Du played a beggar-beating game in the north, and both he and Jacky Cheung had a hard time, so they needed to go into battle in person. Weiya wandered around in the neighborhood early in the morning. It's just that even the old version is less than 20 seconds.

Archives 4: Ashes of Time is a mixture of two novels. As we all know, the characters in ashes of time are adapted from Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes. It is also well known that the content of the story has little to do with the legend of the condor heroes.

You may think that those emotional stories are all made up by Wong Kar-wai, but they are not, because as early as the beginning, he decided to blend in with his favorite novel-that novel is a half-life story. So in the movie, it becomes a half-life relationship between Dong Xie and Du and a woman () ...?

File 5: Why did the blind warrior played by Tony Leung Chiu Wai die? ? In Wong Kar-wai's design, blind soldiers can only wait for death? Those who are familiar with Ashes of Time know that Tony Leung Chiu Wai's Blind Warrior Kill the Horse Thief is a wonderful design, which can be regarded as the "most practical" part of the whole play. But in fact, the blind soldier is a mortal-including his heart.

Wong Kar-wai's film ideas always revolve around "rejection" and "fear of rejection". Even Wong Kar-wai thinks that Time Has Changed is the sum of his first three books: Tears Running and The Story of Teddy Boy and Chongqing Forest. Therefore, Wong Kar-wai said: "Time has passed" Brigitte Lin will become a schizophrenic and become two people, comforting himself with another person and making excuses for himself; Leslie Cheung, he has been hiding in the desert, because he has never taken the first step since he was rejected; Tony Leung Ka Fai's drinking to drown his sorrows is actually a way to escape ... while Tony Leung Chiu Wai refuses everything with death. He couldn't accept going back, but he couldn't help looking back because he liked his wife very much. Then he didn't give himself a chance or forgive himself. In the end, he can only solve the problem in a destructive way.

If it is established, we can imagine that if the blind warrior really wants to get back to his wife safely, why should he kill the horse thief with his own skills in exchange for the passage fee? On the other hand, it is no wonder that the blind warrior was so disappointed when he saw the sharp knife.

File 6: Who is the sharp knife? ? Because of the restoration, this shot clearly tells everyone who is the Knife Warrior and who plays the dialogue and scene between the Sunset Warrior and the Knife Warrior in Ashes of Time. Many movies have imitations, such as A Chinese Odyssey and My Wild Girlfriend. The sharp knife soldier didn't have a straight face at all. If we follow the logic of Wong Kar-wai's film-making-since he is a superstar in every role, maybe this short-lived sharp knife warrior is also a big shot.

If you can think like this, it's easy to get close to the answer. This sharp knife soldier is Zou Zhaolong (formerly known as Ni Xing), a bodyguard of Zhongnanhai and an old subordinate of Jet Li. The rapist in Jiupin Sesame Officer, the son of the prefect; Song Qingshu in Eternal Dragon Slayer; Prophet bodyguard in The Matrix; Huo Yuanjia, Jet Li's father ... Ashes of Time was directed by Hongjiaban of Sammo Hung, and Zou Zhaolong was the main force of Hongjiaban at that time. You can see this shot more clearly in Xi Du: The Ultimate Edition. ?

File 7: The Mystery of Joey Wong?

1992, Joey Wong was interviewed by Korean TV station when shooting the poster of "Ashes of Time". She said, "I don't usually take part in group plays. I completely trust the director in this play, so I will take it. " At that time, of course, she didn't expect Wong Kar-wai and Tan Jiaming to cut her so badly.

There are two versions of Joey Wong's appearance in the movie Ashes of Time. The popular version (such as DVD) appears at the end of the film, and the lens combination is sharp. Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka Fai and others appeared in close-ups one after another in the changeable situation, and Joey Wong appeared in less than two seconds! For Tony Leung Ka Fai, it's just a one-sided story. ? Joey Wong with only one side face? . The special edition, such as the Taiwan provincial edition broadcast by TV station, will have Joey Wong flying over with scissors and stabbing Tony Leung Ka Fai for 8 seconds, which is more conspicuous than the DVD close-up ... Tony Leung Ka Fai used scissors as a weapon to kill Joey Wong? This face is clear? .

At that time, Tony Leung Ka Fai did not play the arrogant East Evil, but Nandi; It's not Du's eldest sister-in-law, but Princess Murong. The story goes something like this: the two are accused of being married. Because Tony Leung Ka Fai didn't like Princess Murong, she chose to run away and hide in a brothel, so she met Joey Wong, the female eagle, and they fell in love. ...

There are two reasons why Joey Wong was not completely cut off at first: 1, these fragments of Joey Wong are suitable for Wong Kar-wai to express the characters in the film; 2. When Wong Kar-wai sells flowers, he has written Joey Wong's name. Without her, he and the filmmakers in Taiwan Province Province could not explain all this. This is similar to why there is Tony Leung Chiu Wai behind the story of Teddy boy.

File 8: How did Dong Xie and Xi Du shuffle their cards? On the day before Brigitte Lin's birthday, eight superstars took posters. Is Joey Wong in there? During Wong Kar-wai's pregnancy, "Dong Xie" and "Du" were two women. But this idea of cross-linking has not become an image. The reason is to talk about Jin Yong's royalties.

My brother Leslie Cheung doesn't seem to know about this situation. He once asked if she was the only one who played Dong Xie instead of Du Fu. Xia Qing said: "Every minute counts!" My brother made a "want to die" expression.

At first, Wong Kar-wai liked the name "Ashes of Time" and planned to buy the copyright of "Ashes of Time". Only after contact did I know that it was no different from buying the copyright of Legend of the Condor Heroes. So I bought the copyright of Legend of the Condor Heroes and came back. Shoot the stories of Dong Xie, Du, Nan Di, Bei Gai and Zhong prodigy when they were young, and then design the story of Ashes of Time as the beginning of Legend of the Condor Heroes. ...

After filming for more than a month, Wong Kar-wai's progress was slow, so he had to make up for it by filming "Going East and Going West" instead of "Liu Zhenwei". The filming of "Going East and Going West" gave Wong Kar-wai time to sit down and reconsider. His discovery of "East Evil" will not surprise the audience too much, because it has been very attractive in "The True Story of Teddy Boy" before, and the performance of "East Evil" can only be continued, while Du's character "inferiority, not wanting to be hurt" has never been tried and can be challenged. This is why "East Evil" became "Du". Everyone else started shuffling-that's what you see now.

In that year, two titles were exposed, the first episode "The Ashes of Time, Huashan on Sword" and the second episode "The Ashes of Time, Condor Heroes and Heroes Laugh". One for each of Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei. The last episode tells about the protagonist's decision to discuss swords in Huashan after becoming famous; The next episode is the story of Huashan's sword and its seven days before and after. ?

Document 9: Why did a Yang Caini suddenly appear? ? Who is the new Yang Caini?

"Ashes of Time" didn't have Yang Caini at first, but then Joey Wong's contract expired, and the plot needed to be supported by Yang Caini. Not to replace Joey Wong, of course. In Zhang Shuping's view, Yang Caini must be chosen because of the needs of the plot. They need a woman who looks like Maggie Cheung, but they think Yang Caini looks a bit like her, so they invite them to join the cast as the only newcomer. In that story, Du met an orphan girl, but didn't avenge her. He did this because he felt that there was a shadow of his eldest sister-in-law in the orphan girl. If she doesn't help, Ouyang Feng can stay with her.

File 10: The temporal context of Ashes of Time? More than one loneliness.

The English title of Ashes of Time is Ashes of Time, which is usually translated as "Ashes of Time"-a very touching name. In fact, this is also a movie full of time. From the old edition to the new edition, Vernal Equinox, Millennium, Frightened are telling us not to forget the time.

The ashes of past lives of time:

1992 September 2 1 Opening the mirror.

1992 1 1.2 poster shooting

199265438+Switch to "East Entry and West Exit" in February.

1June, 1993 to shoot in Yulin, Shaanxi.

65438+March 0993-65438+March 0994 Editing work

1September 99417-1994101October 12 Hong Kong box office 9.02 million 3583.

1995 won the best film, best director, best screenwriter and best actor awards of the first Hong Kong Film Critics Association.

1On April 23rd, 995, the Hong Kong Academy Awards won the Best Photography, Best Editing and Best Production Designer.

On April 1 day, 2003, Leslie Cheung, the hero of Ashes of Time, passed away.

In 2008, Ashes of Time was restored, and the world premiere of Evil Du: The Ultimate Edition was also announced in Cannes.

March 27th, 2009, Du: The final version will be fully released in the Mainland.