Has there ever been a line in your memory that says:
"I don't know when it started, there's a date on everything, Autumn Swordfish expires, canned meat expires, even clingfilm expires , and I started to wonder, what else in this world doesn't expire! , I'm beginning to wonder what else in the world doesn't expire?"
This is a classic line from "Chongqing Forest", which came out 26 years ago starring Tony Leung, Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Faye Wong*** in the same lead role as directed by Wong Kar-wai, and wowed a crowd of moviegoers.
Now, Wong Kar-wai has decided to shoot a sequel, which is called Chongqing Forest 2020, and has already been filed and approved for filming.
The plot will continue the development of the story line of "Chongqing Forest": in Hong Kong in the 90's, the love-stricken policeman 223 coincidentally meets a blonde female assassin, and the two people *** with a short and cozy night; and in Chongqing in 2036, the same experience of love-struck policeman 663, life is gradually being changed by a dreamer ... ...
Last December, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the release of "Chongqing Forest", a netizen witnessed Wong Kar-wai appearing in Chongqing on a local inspection, respectively, clocked Chongqing Daxigou subway station, Guanyinqiao, Electronic City and so on. On that day, Wong Kar-wai posted a blog with the text "25-25", which is suspected to be a classic remake.
When the "Chongqing Forest" location is not in Chongqing, but in Hong Kong, "Chongqing Mansion" and the nearby Lan Kwai Fong fast-food restaurant, which is also the place where Wong Kar-wai lived when he first immigrated to Hong Kong.
During the filming, the crew was blocked by security guards, so it was in this real-life situation that all the scenes in the interior of the building were filmed.
Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Mid-levels Escalator, Central
Lan Kwai Fong Express
Currently, the filming location for Chungking Forest 2020 has been set in the real foggy city of Chongqing.
In addition, "Chongqing Forest 2020" will add new characters Siu Chien and May, who are unwilling to be genetically paired up and hold hands in Chongqing in the year 2036 and decide to find their own destiny.
Netizens are on two sides of the fence about the remake of a classic.
Some netizens said they are still looking forward to the new "King of Sunglasses" movie, but there are still a lot of fans who feel that remaking the classics is unnecessary, and that expired forests should be left in the past, rather than destroying the classics themselves.
Some have even questioned Wong Kar-wai's lack of money, and have begun to speculate on his own.
The remake of Chungking Forest was refused to be bought because it was so classic, so classic that audiences thought it could never be surpassed, even by the King of Shades himself.
The sweet romance of Wang's movie, the one-two punch, it told the story of the sourness of lost love like a can of pineapple and the warmth of love like a California sunshine.
It has also been said that what is missing from Chungking Forest 2020 is not the director Wong Kar-wai, but the actors of that entire era.
That era has gone away, along with the year's Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Faye Wong.
Instead of saying that Chungking Forest made them, it is better to say that they made Chungking Forest.
Now that 26 years have passed, the feelings, careers and appearances of the four have changed so much compared to the past that it is saddening.
Lin Ching-hsia's blonde hair and sunglasses in the movie have become one of her classic images.
She was 40 years old at the time of the filming, but was in great shape, playing a female outlaw with a heavily camouflaged appearance, blonde wig, sunglasses, and raincoat, looking cool and mysterious.
Lin Qingxia's relationship is more difficult, she fell in love with a family Qin Han, can only go abroad to avoid this contrary to the moral feelings, but was just divorced Qin Xianglin pursuit, the two were engaged; but later met with the divorced Qin Han, she could not resist, before and after falling into the relationship entanglement up to 20 years.
The two were engaged.
Lin Qingxia Qin Han
Lin Qingxia Qin Xianglin
In the end, the goddess married a rich businessman Xing Li? and gave birth to two daughters. Unfortunately, after 1994, Lin Qingxia completely faded out of the acting circle and stopped acting.
Lin Qingxia Xing Li?
Takeshi Kaneshiro plays a plainclothes policeman, No. 223, who has a one-night stand with a female fugitive, and is constantly on the phone, trying to get away from the edge, but still lonely.
His best feature is that he likes to eat expired canned food and looks forward to love and memories that never expire.
Takeshi Kaneshiro is also Song Hye Kyo's idol and ideal lover. With his good looks, he has made a name for himself in film and television, starring in movies such as Ambush on Ten Fronts, The Casting Call, City of Night, and The Hurt City.
Now Takeshi Kaneshiro is 47 years old, and although he is still handsome in middle age, he is obviously a bit fat, and his face is no longer as delicate as it was back then, and he has a bit more mature charm.
Tony Leung played a disheartened police officer, No. 663, who likes to talk to himself with towels and soaps, in Chungking Forest. After meeting Faye from a fast food restaurant, it opens up a pure and beautiful relationship.
Tony Leung won a double movie star with this film and became a recognized acting talent. He has a pair of eyes that can talk, and many people say that he is the "eye skill" to convince people. His masterpieces are countless, such as the well-known "Lust, Caution", "Infernal Affairs", "The Grandmaster" and so on, all of them are word-of-mouth movies.
Tony Leung is relatively simple in terms of feelings, TVB period and a small rich woman Tsang Wah Sin fell in love, the two were divided and entangled in 5 years; later shot "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" with Lai Mei Hsien for the love of the play, a short period of time after the relationship separated; and finally and Carina Lau love run 20 years, married in 2008 to fix the fruit, so far, no children.
Remember the short-haired, big-eyed conch girl Fei? This is one of the few movies that Faye Wong has appeared in, but she has performed the most dynamic and playful look of 25 years old, listening to the music and bobbing her head like a deer in the woods.
Queen Wang Fei's love history over the years has been for the netizens to talk about: and the first love of the Black Panther band keyboardist Luan Shu after the breakup, she married with the band's lead singer, Dou Wei, and gave birth to a daughter. After the divorce and Nicholas Tse began a sensational sibling love, and then break up with Li Yapeng knot into the marriage hall, and then divorced with Nicholas Tse back to date.
Faye Wong Dou Wei
Faye Wong Nicholas Tse
Over the years, the actors have changed a lot, the sunglasses king of the "Chongqing Forest 2020" will also use the original cast?
The information released so far does not have a list of the cast, but due to the limitations of the pay, schedule, willingness, age and many other factors, the previous luxury 4F lineup is afraid that it is difficult to get together.
The cans of okonomiyaki and pineapple will expire, and the former male gods and goddesses will eventually grow old, but we will always remember them at their best in film memory, and that CD era of listening to California Dreaming and bobbing their heads.
Are you looking forward to the continuation of the story of Wong Kar-Wai's Chongqing Forest?
Written by Sedimentary Rock Lin Er