Research: Wong Kar-wai and Film - In the Mood for Love (2000)
Wong Kar-wai – a male film director who born in July 1956 in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in 1963. He graduated from the Department of Art and Design of Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1980. In 1981 he participate to a trainees program of a TV channel in script writing and video direct, and he began to write script for drama. He had nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best script writing. In 1988 he wrote and directed his first film called "As Tears Go By" and had won a lot of film awards and nomination. In Hong Kong, he had known as "extraordinary talented and new generation of directors”. Besides every film he made can be seem in any film awards ceremony around the world now.
Film research: In the Mood for Love (2000)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Writer: Kar Wai Wong
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu
Film story:
This is a story about the love and relationship. The story take place in Hong Kong at 1962. A newspaper editor Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and his wife moved into an apartment and at the same time another couple moved in next door to them, which are Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) and her husband. Su is a secretary in a trading company and her nusband often travel and away from home because of his job. Besides Chow Mo-Wan's wife is in the same saturation as Su’s husband. Since Su and Chow are lonely while their partner always travel away from home, they become a good friend and get to know each other. Gradually Chow and Su found they have many common interests and hobbies, such as reading novel etc... One day, they suddenly discovered that their partner have affair with each other of their partner. Therefore they get together to face this reality but after a while, they fall in love...
Film deconstruction (first 5 mins):
Use few sentence to give the audience a hint of story.
Use colourful frame to draw attention, the character look around to show she is not familiar with the place.
Use props and cloth to explain the time, background of characters.
Shot through a window to give a realistic 3rd person view.
Use a narrow stair and dim light to show the character’s loneliest.
Pinning camera from a bright light to the character’s face to attract audience to focus on his facial expression.
Use position to show the relationship and conversion.
Montage two scene and crossover the conversion to tell that they move in at the same time.
Use position of character to show a close relationship. (Use image to tell story)
But when Chow’s wife come, things change.
Su lean on the wall to reflect her sadness.
Chow come in, they are in the same track.
But at last he leave for good.
Finally, Su is with her husband and got a closer relationship.
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