Fire Andy Lau, scold Tony Leung, why did Wong Kar-wai do this?

Fire Andy Lau, drive Jacky Cheung crazy, scold Tony Leung, why is he so crazy?

In addition to the profound meaning of the subject matter and the affectionate performance of the actors, the emergence of a classic film is definitely inseparable from the director, so today we are going to talk about a relatively "crazy" director, he is Wong Kar Wai.

In 1958, Wong Kar-wai was born into a relatively wealthy family in Shanghai. When he was 5 years old, his parents immigrated to Hong Kong with him, where he successfully spent more than ten years studying in college. I attended the Hong Kong Polytechnic and studied art and design. After graduation, Wong Kar-wai attended the first directing training class of TVB and began to work as a director after graduation.

However, such a director who is not a pure academic is very "terrible" and is even called the most "perverted" director in Hong Kong. His seriousness and pursuit of movies can be said to be the ultimate, even if Now that the domestic film industry is developing at such a rapid pace, he will also be strict with every detail of the actors, whether it is expressions or movements, which is almost perfect. This has also left him with such a legend: "Fire Andy Lau, force "Crazy Jacky Cheung, scolding Tony Leung" In this regard, many netizens asked: "Why is he so crazy?"

Speaking of Andy Lau, he has almost no bad reviews in the entertainment industry. Actors are praised by many for their character in life. However, during an interview with Lu Yu, such an outstanding actor actually revealed that he had been fired by director Wong Kar-Wai, who was preparing to film "Happy Together" at that time. , the original role was Andy Lau, and the two had already signed a contract, but when they arrived at the filming site, Andy found that his role had been changed to Leslie Cheung, just because Leslie Cheung's image was more relevant.

Later, when filming the movie "Days of Being Wild", Wong Kar-wai's requirements became even stricter, including two scenes with Jacky Cheung. The first Jacky Cheung repeated it over and over again more than 20 times before he passed it, and the second one repeated it more than 60 times before he passed it. What made him even more angry was that when Wong Kar-wai said the last thing, he said "forget it" helplessly. This made Jacky Cheung feel like he was going crazy and very helpless. Well, it was just over, but he just continued. This helpless "forget it" seemed to be the only thing he could do.

In this drama, Zhang Xuewei was still a supporting actor, and the protagonist Tony Leung was even more "miserable". At that time, Tony Leung could be said to be the most popular male star at the time, and the ratings of many works depended on him. But Wong Kar-wai was not merciful to him at all. Since Tony Leung's body language was very stiff when filming this movie, Wong Kar-wai asked him to keep filming this action. After returning to the room, Tony Leung burst into tears. The next day, he went to Wong Kar-wai and asked: "Is it really bad?" Wong Kar-wai replied: "You are not that bad, it's just that your body language is not good enough."

It can be seen from this that Wong Kar-wai never looks at the stars when looking for actors to film. No matter you are a superstar or an A-lister, as long as you can't meet his requirements, you will start over again and again, and if it doesn't work, you will change actors. In fact, this is also related to Wong Kar-wai's talent:

In 1997, he became the first Chinese director to win the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival in France with the film "Happy Together"; The magazine "Sight and Sound" dubbed him a "contemporary poet"; the American "New York Times" described him as an extremely authoritative and special director in Hong Kong.

On June 15, 2017, at the 9th Lyon Lumière Film Festival, Wong Kar-wai became the first Asian director to win the "Lumière Grand Prix" award.

He served as the chairman of the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival twice; he served as the chairman of the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival once; he has won countless domestic Golden Horse Awards and Academy Awards.

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