Quentin Tarantino on Wong Kar-wai
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2024
- Quentin Tarantino reacts to the work of Hong Kong master Wong Kar-wai, whose films include Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, and In the Mood
For Love.
Source: Rolling Thunder
Lucky to be around in the mid-1990s when the quirky local video store was part of a living, breathing current (and past) film culture. The great video store in my town had a Quentin Tarantino AND a Wong-Kar Wai section, along with everything else and a staff that was passionate about movies of all kinds. Social interaction, physical media, and art and a vibe that made this a great time to be a film fan.
Imagine you're at Tarantino's video store he worked at and he's ten minutes into talking about Nightmare Alley and you're just trying to rent Ghostbusters
I get it man!
Man I miss my local mom&pop video stores and even Blockbuster Video. In the late 1990s weekends began with browsing the "bargain rentals" shelves full of European and Asian B-movies from the early 80s to early 90s. New Releases were too expensive to rent, but who needed them with so many obscure cinematic treasures to be found?
lol@@ScramJamJohnson
Oh yes, the Blockbuster age. I was like 11 or 12, watching this vhs tape from blockbuster, might have even been a hk action film, anyway, the tape broke for some reason so I opened it up, taped it back together, rolled it past the broken section and finished watching the film. It might have been the start of my ......engineering career.
Wong Kar-wai is woefully underappreciated by the UA-cam "talking heads" community. Not enough people gushing about his amazing films. So many lessons on framing and lighting, the cinematography not to mention how compelling (or revolting) he makes every character that appears in his films. Just masterclass stuff man. So underrated.
American Cinephiles are terrified of the thought of ever watching a movie where the characters don't speak english, Their film knowlegde ends at Tarantino, Scorsese, Fincher and Kubrick
@@Icedsobaka obviously you're being reductionist, but what you're describing is not a cinephile. the independent movie theater I go to (I'm in an American city) was packed when they showed Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love this year, and for foreign films generally. Your average American doesn't watch foreign film, but your average American isn't a cinephile, and neither is your average person living anywhere in the world.
@@Icedsobaka lol, the average american has more knowledge of film than any other people. The fact that you mistake the average movie goer as a "cinephile" is evidence of this. The true cinephiles however actually do know more than that, even more so than the average cinephile of other countries, it helps that most of these foreign indie movies wash up on american shores.
@@IcedsobakaThen that wouldn’t be a cinephile would it?
I agree with your comment 100%. My 2 cents' worth to add is that in terms of the cinematography, his collaborations with Christopher Doyle (likewise underappreciated master here on YT) during the '90s pretty much invented the whole moody, melancholy visual aesthetic that so many films borrowed from thereafter. The collaboration is kind of impressive in itself, considering how loopy and odd Doyle's sensibilities seem to be when he's worked independently or with directors other than wkw
In the mood for love is probably the best romantic movie ever made, and one of the masterpieces of cinema.
Yes.
I'll never forget my first introduction to WKW. I was teenage film buff and I was already a seasoned HK movie viewer. I went to the bootleg shop feeling like I want to pick up some John Woo-esque flick, and that's when I saw Fallen Angels. I looked at the DVD case cover and it's Leon Lai looking suave and pointing a gun at you. I look at the back of the case and I see images of him duel wielding some pistols and lighting some dude's up. I had to pick this up. I get home, pop it in the DVD player and what the fuck it's a goddamn arthouse flick- oh wait, this is mesmerizing. The cinematography, the camera work, the dialogue, the quirky characters and themes of longing, loneliness and isolation . It all almost perfectly matched my sensibilities. I was an instant life long fan.
This interview must be at least 15-20 years old. Tarantino describes Faye Wong as 'the biggest rock star in HK currently', but she has basically been retired for 20 years now. Still the greatest, though!
It's definitely old because he also says that Fallen Angels is Wai's latest film - so at this point he hasn't made In The Mood For Love or 2046.
It's definitely an old interview. I listened to it years ago, and it's what got me to watch chungking express
isn't this the audio from tarantino's introduction of the film on the Chungking Express DVD? But yeah it's definitely pretty old
I love Chungking Express and In The Mood. But both Fallen Angel and Days of Being Wild are just as good honestly. Wong Kar Wai is secretly your favorite directors underrated director.
Chungking Express is my all time fav HK movie . watched twice a year from age 16 to 25, now i am 43, i think i will rewatch again soon.
Wong Kar-wai's recent directing work "Blossom" is a milestone masterpiece in Chinese TV series, a masterful illustration of China's "Roaring 90s" in Shanghai.
So basically Chungking Express was Wong Kar-wai rubbing one out to get enough post-nut clarity to finish Ashes of Time?
Technically?
And Chungking turned out to be the better one. Funny, ha? Sometimes you have this darling epic you're working on that you think will be your big prestige work, and instead it's the small, lo-fi lark you cranked out in the meantime that becomes the defining moment.
the lesson ? always be nuttin
Between your idiot reddit lingo and people ruining letterboxd with weak and supposedly funny oneliners, it is getting harder and harder to see good, thoughtful comments with original points.
@@bmandrakeeee8378 Sorry mate. Oh well.
Anyone who watched Chunking Express can't listen to California Dreaming without seeing the scenes from the movie. Crazy that Quentin shares that experience!
I highly recommend seeing his trilogy of "Days of Being Wild", "In the Mood For Love" (his best, imo), and "2046". Three wonderful experiences watching cinema- vibrant, radiant, subtly intense, passionate, even funny. Movies for grown-ups.
2046 is amazing and I definitely need to see in the mood for love !
@@TheTraveler2046 Yes these are my three as well. Especially "In the mood" (of course). 2046 feels a little overdone in places, but I've never seen any film that could be paused and that sreenshot made into an amazing/huge poster. Basically the whole film is picture-perfect (IMHO).
I'm not surprised that QT knows this movie well, but I'm shocked that he not only knows who Brigette Lin and Fay Wong are, and he knows their story and cultural significance as well. He's actually knowledgeable in 80's-90's HK/TW pop culture (Brigette Lin is Taiwanese). That's pretty amazing and rare for any white guy, much less an acclaimed director.
Are you genuinely stupid? Out of every "white guy" Quentin Tarantino should be the first person to know about HK cinema. It's HIS JOB..Do you really think Scorsese has only ever watched American movies in his whole life???
So much respect for Quentin Tarantino for loving HK Cinema.
I love both WKW and QT.
Never heard of this director, but geez, the lighting and each frame is absolutely stunning.
Christopher doyle and Wong kar wai made magic
Definitely check out his stuff. He even directed a film with western actors called My Blueberry Nights, starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Racheal Weisz, David Strathairn, and Norah Jones (yes, the singer).
Oh, you're in for several treats! In The Mood For Love is one of the greatest films ever.
Just know they're not incredibly story-driven. Some of the most stylish films ever.
Chunking Express is one of the movies I watched in the 90s that stuck in my head till this date. I really loved it and it was totally different from the HK movie scene during the 80s and 90s. I watched more of Wong Kar Wai's work but Chunking just sticks.
God he was such a saint for going out of his way and putting people over with that rolling thunder collection
I recently watched In the mood for love on a KIA flight. It seemed better than I remember and Ive seen it at least 5 times before. So many facets in that film that you notice rewatching it. One of my favorites!
in the mood for love and the 2nd part of Chungking express are in my top 5 movies . Absolutely the best of the best director
In the mood for love was shown in my intro to cinema class and i loved it. Took a random class for my elective and ended up watching so many foreign movies that i had zero idea that existed
Another reason why Ashes of Times was so troubled for Wong was because he owned mob money to make it. After the movie taking forever to came out and the "investors" came asking for profits, he had to immediately spun out a parody of the movie (Eagle Shooting Heroes or something) within a month, using the same actors so it can recouped some money back during New Year. At the time, the cast simultaneously had to act in a funny spoof movie in the morning and a miserable drama in the afternoon which is absolutely wild.
Eagle Shooting Heroes is a Jeffrey Lau film. It was made by Lau and Wong's production company. Eagle Shooting Heroes is not outside of what the stars in Ashes of Times weren't doing at the time. It's in fact a very typical Lunar New Year Production. It's a silly family film. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_New_Year_films
Eagle Shooting Heroes is not a parody of Ashes of Time. Ashes of Time has very little to do with the source material. It's just one of several wuxia parodies made in Hong Kong.
Brigitte Lin Qingxia stared in The Three Swordsmen (terrible wuxia comedy of sort with Brigitte playing a male character), Fire Dragon (straight wuxia), The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains (straight wuxia), Deadly Melody (straight wuxia) in 1994. By "straight" I mean typical mass-appeal Hong Kong production.
Also, those films including Ashes of Time owe it to Swordsman II (1992), where Lin plays a man who castrates himself and transforms into a woman. Think androgyny. 1994 was the year Hong Kong cinema imploded. Virtually all the good stuff was made before that. Jeffrey Lau's A Chinese Odyssey Part 1 and 2 (both 1995) and Chinese Odyssey 2002 are notable exceptions.
Eagle shooting heroes is the funniest HK comedy imo. Super star cast that has never been rivaled.
"You think you are Joey Wong?" Tony LKF says to the character played by Joey Wong.
@@77bovi Indeed. Out of all wuxia comedies and parodies, and there are quite a few of them, Eagle Shooting Heroes is a standout. I credit Jeffrey Lau.
Back to my original point. Westerners tend to not understand Hong Kong cinema during its Golden Age. 1980s-1994. Roger Ebert called Maggie Cheung an action star, ffs. Maggie has 91 credits on IMDb. 20 of them are action films, and that's stretching the definition. She played the damsel in distress in more than half of them.
Further, Eagle Shooting Heroes used to be a fairly typical Lunar New Year production, but now is something of one of the last of its kind.
Hong Kong actors would average about half a dozen films a year. Using Maggie as an example. Two credits in 1994. 13 credits in 1993. 10 in 1992. 6 in 1987, 1990 and 1991. 9 in 1989. 12 in 1988. 3 in 1986. 4 in 1985. 2 in 1984, her first year. She also appeared in three TV series in 1984-1985.
@@grisflytHe did not transform into a woman. The cult leader was a castrated man with a sharp voice, fluid movements and fine skin. He also used sewing needles as weapons. Of course, the guy has some guy tendencies. At least, that’s according to the original novel. But since you can’t get that effect with actual actors, they casted a woman for the role. You see that in other HK movies and shows too. Most notable would be the role of Xu Xian in the 90’s TV show on the White Snake. It’s an actress playing a guy, not a case of gender reassignment.
@@junli6065 I'm talking the movie. In the movie, Asia and Lingwu have sex. Swordsman 2 is something of a "revisionist" take on the wuxia genre.
It is not uncommon for girls or women to play male roles in Hong Kong. Most famous, of course, is Yam Kim-fai. A girl plays the role of a young Wong Fei-hung in Iron Monkey (1993).
Gender confusion has a long history in China. Hua Mulan. If you are a woman, you wear male attire in order to be able to move around.
These are not all the same and in the case of Swordsman 2, it basically started a one-person genre. Asia died at the end. But because Swordsman 2 was such a success (#1 Lunar New Year film in Taiwan), they made a part 3 with Asia returning.
This is why Hong Kong cinema was so great. It was freewheeling. Anything could happen and often did. Nobody ever took Brigitte Lin Qingxia for a man, but it was fun watching her play one. Not when she plays it straight in 3 Swordsmen. Maybe it had worked if the movie wasn't so bad. Ultimately it's the job of the director to make it interesting, to captivate the viewers.
This was also what killed Hong Kong cinema. There was no real difference between "A" and "B" cinema. For every A Chinese Ghost Story, Once Upon a Time in China, Swordsman 2, etc. you had half a dozen or more imitations, sometimes with much of the same cast.
Check out Wang’s latest 30 episode TV series Blossom Shanghai that just came out at the end of 2023. Story is based on 90's Shanghai, Wang's birthplace. He considers himself Shanghainese. Dialogs are done in Shanghai dialect and dubbed in Mandarin. Simply beautiful. This series has gone viral in China.
Do you mean Wong Kar-wai?
@@kevinlakeman5043 Yes he means Wong, and this TV series also wakes up the self-identity lost in the bottom of majority shanghainese people who have been arbitrarily speaking Mandarin for at least 30yrs
Does anyone know if there is a version of Blossom Shanghai available with English subtitles? I just heard about this yesterday and would love to get access to a version with the English language subs
@@Eric-ff4bf it will be available in Netflix soon early this year
@shypxh is that confirmed? I'm relying on the random episodes people upload on UA-cam but they disappear pretty quickly.
Ashes of Time is GREAT.... unfortunately it's not easy to really understand... so the ones who love it will really love it, and the ones who dislike it will easily fall asleep after watching 10 min.
i love both these men
Thank you, master
This is a great video!
The best film to pair with CHUNGKING EXPRESS as double bill is Scorsese's AFTER HOURS because both films were a respite from the heavy projects they were working with: ASHES OF TIME for Wong and THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST for Scorsese. Both are light and quick but full of energy and inventiveness.
Wong Kai Wai just did possibly the best Chinese TV serial in Shanghai Blossoms. Check it out.
I Was born right around the time his films in the 90's were getting a lot of attention and I've seen some of them like Days Of Being Wild, Fallen Angels, Happy Together and In The Mood For Love.
I didn't know that movie had Faye Wong in it. I learned about her from the game Final Fantasy 8 actually. She sings the love theme from that game. Can't wait to check out Chunking Express.
The narration is all over the place
God imagine having the time energy and resources to make a film to recuperate from making a film
😂
These films were comparatively cheaply made by Hollywood standards and that is part of their ethos and charm.
Another fun thing is, while making Ashes of Time, Wong went over budget, and to sort of calm the producer, he produced the Eagle Shooting Heroes with the same crew, but it was a Lunar New Year ensemble comedy (= box office) and was made within only 27 days. It’s pretty crazy 😂
Wong's first tv series Blossoms Shanghai is just out in Jan 2024.
dude knows hong kong cinema better than Hong Kong movie goers nowadays. It's a joy listening to this.
Am from Hong Kong. It’s true.
Tarantino knows just about everything that has to do with cinema - he's practically a living, breathing encyclopaedia of films.
One of my all-time favorite directors. In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Days of Living Wild, Fallen Angels, all are fantastic. I literally haven't seen a film of his that I did not like. I also think he's willing to take chances, which I appreciate a lot.
I just found out he directed a TV series set in Shanghai in the 1990s called Blossom Shanghai, and I'm now on a mission to find a subtitled version.
And, did you end up finding subs? Please let us know!
Unfortunately not yet, I found one website that said it had English Subs, but the subs were actually Chinese.@@gecko7167
I finished the 30 episodes TV series in 4 days. It was wonderful. Good luck with the subtitle.
About the TV series…I watched 1.5 episodes and couldn’t continue…it didn’t look like his style at all……. The whole first episode looks More like a car commercial to me with the sudden slow mo sequences and odd orchestra music
wow Quentin know so much about HK movie!
Most people actually don't like "Ashes of Time" (most people I know think it sucks and stupid), ironically most people like "Chungking Express", all actors/actresses were just magnificent in that movie. Very entertaining at the same time (unusual for Wong's movies actually). Faye Wong is a singer (not exactly rock star, definitely not Madonna style). If you want to listen to her sing the cover version from cranberry in this movie, search 王菲 Faye Wong -《夢中人》(Official Music Video) [HD].
Other my favourate movies are 2046, and The Grandmaster 一代宗師 .
Wong (and all actors of Chungking express) proud of HK.
Faye Wong is the bomb. Love her music.
If people are into her, here are some other suggestions:
- 你给我的爱不是爱: the powerhouse that is Sandy Lam
- 熱情的沙漠: FeiFei Ou-Yang
I am surprised by the knowledge Quentin acquired about the actors in all these movies, I am local Hong-Kong Chinese...witnessed all these people from nobody to international stars... Quentin knows it all!
his “The Grandmaster” just so good.
Would love to listen to Wong reviewing Tarantino’s film.
Farewell My Concubine - best movie to come out of China, sadly never surpassed
In the Mood for Love still remains his most memorable - the theme song alone is just devastatingly beautiful, truly one of the all-time great cinematic theme songs, up there with Gone with the Wind and The Godfather. And Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung were probably two of the most beautiful actors in world cinema at the time the film was released. True movie star stuff. The reputation of the film continues to grow: In the Mood for Love placed 5th in Sight & Sound's "Greatest Films of All Time" '22 List. It's a masterpiece.
Wow. Tarantino is really a student of film, not just Hollywood!!
No dissection though of Hapoy Together and In The Mood For Love?!
In the Mood for Love is a near perfect romantic movie,
I gotta say.. Quentin knows his shit... in his lane.. he was spittin' truth.. only a shame he hasn't spoken on / given props to Zahler... who is undeniably the heir to the throne.. if he never makes another picture.. they were all Golden lights in the past decade.
wing kai-wei just launch the new TV drama in China and its a big hit now
Ashes of Time seems to be under appreciated by Tarantino. As a Wuxia adaptation, it brings a lot more depth to the martial arts world than Hollywood ever could.
The only other martial arts film that had me as invested in terms of story...is WKW's own The Grandmaster.
The fight scenes were really lacking though compared to other wing Chun movies(like IP man). Even some old random Shaw bro kung fu movie has better fight scenes. But I guess most people who watch WKW movies aren't into fight scenes or fight choreography.
it's really rare to find any white person who admires Wuxia, especially the ones they deemed "wire-fu". All I ever heard was mass dismissal as cartoonish.
tarantino packed a lot of info in 8 minutes lol
And doesn’t mention In The Mood For Love! That’s my favorite WKW!
Ashes of Time. 🚬🕶️✊
my favourite film.
I think I’ve watched Chung king express 50 times
The skinny short haired lady is so pretty.
She's Faye Wong. One of the greatest Asian Rock Stars ever, but now retired. Google her. Here is she singing a cover of Cranberries ua-cam.com/video/Z04S3wowUSo/v-deo.html . This one is later in her career. ua-cam.com/video/q_71ctU9MzI/v-deo.html
Yall should check out the funny version of Ashes of Times
Also stared by them, and some cameos.
He just released a TV series "Shanghai Blossom". Do check it out!
By the way, could you make another video of quentin tarantino criticizing directors, they are really entertaining!
Reminds me a little of Iñaritu prepping The Revenant and then doing Birdman as something he could do quickly to get out of his system before taking on the epic scale of The Revenant.
I didn't realize those were both inarritu. That's crazy Birdman was a quick one seeing as they committed to the looking like a one-take thing
And this was all before In The Mood For Love...
I promise you, this channel (and others like it on UA-cam) will be responsible for sparking another film renaissance/movement in the coming decade! The current Hollywood system is burning down......again! Good! The last time this happened (late '50s) we got the American New Wave (Taxi Driver, Easy Rider, Wanda, 2001 Space Odyssey). We should be excited and optimistic for what coming after this!!
Nothing because the next generation grew up with Marvel movies.
@@MaxP_88well a lot of teenagers love a24
@@MaxP_88 when I go to my local independent cinema to see foreign film, art film, small indie film, etc., the audience is like 75% kids in their 20s. Lots of cinephiles in the younger generations.
@@benjamindickerson1184 I can confirm that it's the same here in Germany - and probably everywhere else in Europe
That depends on whether the American economy can revive like it did back then
give us your top 10 of mid 80s-90s HK cinema!
Imagine what impact "Enter the Dragon" had on the global cultural landscape
Not comparable with the traditional kung fu movies at the time, coming from hong kong (asia)
Unseen in the Hollywood landscape (and the rest of the world) with an asian looking protagonist and a black fighter on his team/side
there is a scene how the protagonist deals with a cocky australian fighter (no fighting involved)
Despite all of the martial art movies that came out afterwards this one remains one of a kind
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Another epic movie in the martial arts landscape that became of global significance
"Way of the Dragon"
partly because it was a precursor for independent movie making
(although in the asian film industry)
The epic scene in the movie was the first and only martial art scene in the real colosseum in rome
Where the asian protagonist defeats the champion fighter from the west
In the heart of the cradle of the western fight and entertainment society (the colosseum in rome)
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Two films that single handedly broke through the Hollywood barriere of the stigma of being beneath the western supremacy at that time
I think i love Fallen Angels more than Chungking Express. It has darker vibes, mafia-esque 😎
For sure. Chungking Express was a fun watch but Fallen Angels was pure magic.
fallen angels was more seductive and dark somehow, loved it 🖤
Brigitte Lin continued making movies for a few years after Chungking Express before she quit the business, Chungking was NOT her last movie. C'mon, Quentin... and her first movie came out in 1973, when she became Taiwan's household sweetheart overnight.
It's odd, I've loved evey Wai film I've seen...except Chungking Express - his most beloved.
I even love Fallen Angels, which is quite obviously Chingking's companion.
Idk, guess I gotta give it another watch.
I'm the same way.
Am Amuse Bouch of a film!
To be accurated she was addressed as the bjork in hong kong back in th days
Even More accurately she’s the Dolores Riordan Chinese impersonator, at least for her breakout album and maybe 2-3 albums later.
Geez, no mention of In the Mood for Love and 2046. Everything he touches is brilliant, but those are also masterpieces.
In The Mood For Love is easily my favourite of his work. Absolutely stunning, and heartbreaking, in equal measures. It's the definition of masterpiece.
2046 is insanely gorgeous and melancholic. Incredible.
he mentioned newest film when talking about fallen angels, those two came after.
I'm pretty sure the original video was recorded in the 90s, before the Chow Mo-Wan movies were made. Tarantino was a major figure in bringing Asian cinema to the West.
This is a very old interview - before those two films were made.
nice tarantino impersonation buddy
Finally audio of this guy where hes not on coke
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Win winner 🐓🍛
Bridget Lin is not a Hong Kong Chinese. Hence, she is not fluent in Cantonese.
She is Taiwanese, meaning..she speaks mainly Mandarin.
And the height of her stardom was in the 70s as the hottest actress in the most popular form of Taiwanese cinema movies….love romantic movies. That was her forte and her heydays…in the 70s to the 80s.
Much later, she started appearing in HONG KONG movies (eg: the abovementioned ones).
"perky little nymphet" -- QT
Tarentino is right about Faye Wong. Hard not to have a crush on her after you watch it.
I prefer fallen angels to Chungking. It’s so raw. There’s not a movie like it.
Is it the voice of Quentin Tarantino?
Yes.
Opinion starts at 7:00
When China got Hong Kong back things went downhill fast for HK cinema.
Leslie cheung
The original author of the novels "Ashes of time" based on, hated Wong's movie adaptation. In the final edition of the novels, the author's foreword, while not naming Wong, stated that he nwas fine with most movie or series adaptations of his novels, he hated those who adapted it with egotistic interpretation that didn't make sense. I'm only paraphrasing here but it was obvious to me that he was referring to Wong and scoff at his attempt.
ITMFL is wonderful, but as a whole days of being wild is my fave. Ashes of time is his most underrated imo.
Think 2046 kinda spoilt itmfl for me.
fallen angels 1995
You dont get this in Bollywood films do you?
Tarantino found a kindred spirit of foot fetish directors in Wong Kar Wai, lol.
Oh is Wong one as well?
Nymphet?🤨
How can you talk about Wong Kai-Wai’s film and not mention Leslie Cheung? 😢
I lived in Hong Kong for 3 years and never saw any of these HK films Quentin talks about..............most of the films did NOT have English subtitles in the theater.... :(
Why should they? HK’s first language isn’t English
Do you enjoy eating pineapple?
Quentin got the time line wrong. The movie that was made together with Ashes Of Time was the comedy movie The Eagle Shooting Heroes, produced by Wong Kar Wei and directed by Jeffrey Lau. Both movies shared the same casts and sometime the actors moved between the two sets within the same day to rush for completion of The Eagle Shooting Heroes for the movie to be readied for release in time for 1993 Chinese New Year box office slot. The movie was a hit and the profit from the comedy was plowed back into the making of Ashes of Time, which was released one year later in 1994.
The movie that was made together with Chungking Express was Fallen Angel. Wong Kar Wei initially planned for one movie but discovered during editing that he has enough material for two movies: hence he broke the film that he made into two movies.
Are his movies pretty to look at and thats it? What about plot?
Why don't you find out for yourself?
@@MTMF.london lol nah
@@WhirlingMusic lol
WKW bastardized all of his films with directors cuts and Ashes of Time Redux. None of them are available in their original for any longer.
there is a foreign based film preservation site that hosts the Original Ashes for free .
I will try to find the link ..
and I like some aspects that were done for the redux.. but I agree it is a travesty to have one of the greatest films of the age only available in the west in this bizarre Remixed version ... I understand there were outside circumstances.. but yeah the original needs to be more widely available.
The original is on You Tube. Just search with the Chinese title.
For me his best film is In the Mood for love.
I actually don't think WKW gets good until Happy Together. I can see what was exciting about it at the time, but the self-consciously quirky characters and dialogue make me want to retch. All eras are visually gorgeous, however.
Every edgelord's favorite director. Either one.
lol
It always suprises me if QTs lack of knowledge about films and film making in general
?
??? What do you mean his "lack of knowledge" - he's has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of films!
Not only does he react, but he steals as well!
Referring to this as a reaction says everything we need to know about you. I don't disagree about your opinion on Quentin stealing. But the fact that you thought this conversation or interview was a "reaction", shows that you've basically spent your entire life on the internet. And if you can't see why your comment shows that, then I don't know what to tell ya.
@@Largentina. Why is that important?
Yes he steals & I think it's great that he admits it, because everybody does. Nothing is original.
@@shiven513 Because it shows you don't know the difference between an interview, a conversation, or a reaction. How would you know the difference between theft, recreation and homage?
Tarantino is a thief, stealing City on Fire to get his career started. He attempting to throw shade on Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time... (and even the title is a stolen, um, I mean, a homage to HK films) is no accident.
Wong Kar Wai is far better than Godard.
WKW made such superior work to Quentin’s. It made the American indie seem juvenile. And Hou Hsiao-hsien did him one better.
Apples and oranges. You are talking about two very different directors with very different creative expressions. Tarantino is a master of dialogue, genre blending and reintepreting film styles spanning many decades. His ability to create very specific atmospheres by mixing cinematic references with soundtracks is also, in my opinion, unmatched.
@@FantasticOttoNo matter how good Quentin is with dialogue, the English language itself isn’t very poetic. Nor does it have the thousand year poems that directors like WKW can draw on for inspiration. Name one Hollywood action movie that had a hit theme song like Swordsman 1.
@@junli6065 And what is the weather on your planet?
A language isn't poetic, people are through literature, depending on their mastery of their prespective language. And poetry in the English language does indeed go back farther than a thousand years.
Catch up on your Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Keats, Whitman, Eliot and Frost, and then we can talk about the value of poetry in the English language.
I have no idea of what Swordsman 1 is, nor its "hit theme song", but while "Hollywood action movies" isn't exactly my favorite genre, I'm sure there is plenty of great music made for them.
Oh, and just for your information: When Wong Kar Wai lists his inspirations and influences, they often include western books and films, including of English language.
@@junli6065 Your claim that "English language itself isn't very poetic" just shows you know nothing about the language.
The fact that he uses himself as a reference the last cool director to come up. The narcissism of this guy is 1 round draft level.
Narcissism or confidence in himself? I’d say he’s earned it
Definitely narcissism. Man is so into himself
It’s an introduction to the movie from his Rolling Thunder Pictures distribution label at Miramax from the ‘90s. That’s not narcissism. He’s selling the movie. He put his name on the movie so people would see it in the ‘90s, and he’s telling those people, mostly likely fans of him: Hey, I think this guy makes the coolest movies since I’ve been directing. And this is 1996, when Tarantino is seen as like the coolest director in America at that moment.
He’s garbage