Wong Kar-wai's direction changes while filming "Happy Together"

"Happy Together" synopsis

Win and Fai arrive in Argentina, South America. The two have broken up many times, and once again they break up over petty quarrels. They meet again at the tango bar where Fai works, but...

Index

• The works of the heyday shine beyond the times.
• A huge number of unused scenes
• Famous songs inherited from later works

The works of the heyday shine beyond the times.

Speaking of Wong Kar-wai, he is forever loved as a kind of legend among movie fans, but when you look back on his career, there is a "peak period", and to put it harshly, there is a period after the peak period. He is also a director whose work has clearly lost its luster. Its peak period was about 10 years, from 1990's `` Days of Being Wild '' to 2000's `` In the Mood for Love ''. His works, including his directorial debut in 1988, `` I Want to Hold You Now, '' include recurring cast members such as Maggie Cheung, Tony Léon: The Professional, and Leslie Cheung. It is clear that it has led me to a new world.

1997's ``Happy Together'' is a love story between Tony Léon: The Professional and Leslie Cheung, and it is a rare case in which a masterpiece is born from the development of a trusting relationship in a complicated direction. It is also unusual for Kar-Wai's work that he left Hong Kong and filmed for four months in Happy Together, exactly on the other side of the world. However, this four-month period is one of the shortest for a director. ``Days of Being Wild'' took about two years, `` The Flaws of Paradise '' (1994) took over two years, and ``In the Mood for Love'' also took over 15 months to film.

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On the other hand, `` Chungking Express '' (1994) was a short period of two and a half months. Moreover, Wong Kar-wai's filmmaking process is always in flux, even though he was able to work flexibly during the suspension of filming for ``The Flaws of Paradise,'' and of course, adjustments to the cast's schedules were also involved. It is true. The same goes for the story; a clear direction is avoided, ideas are added one after another while filming, and you don't know what the work will look like until editing is finished. It was during the ten years mentioned above that this fluidity led to masterpieces.

Tony Léon: The Professional was originally told to play the role of `` Happy Together ,'' a man who comes to pick up the body of his father who was killed in Argentina.He eventually learns that his father had a male lover and returns to Hong Kong. , she begins to feel that she loves the other man.'' However, when Tony Léon: The Professional arrived in Happy Together for filming, Kar-wai quickly changed the story to the love story between two men that he had previously envisioned. Since Tony was reluctant about the idea, it seems like they wanted to force him to come to Happy Together and get him involved.

Tony had been told that he would not film a love scene, but perhaps on the first day of filming, a scene involving him and Leslie Cheung was produced, and halfway through, he was suddenly instructed to be completely naked. How anxious were you? However, the fact that Tony's confused mental state affected Fai, who plays the role, becomes clear when you watch the finished film.

A huge number of unused scenes