Kar Wai from box office bomb to office numberone film Yeung Tak Sang 53087121 Final Project GE1127 Intro People always say that its hard to understand a Wong KarWais films They say that its not a entertainment to watch his films ID: 298311
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Slide1
the Legend of Wong Kar-Wai
from box office bomb to office number-one film
Yeung
Tak
Sang, 53087121
Final Project GE1127Slide2
Intro People always say that, it’s hard to understand a Wong
Kar-Wai’s films. They say that it’s not a entertainment to watch his films.Actually, Wong Kar-Wai’s films are always some box office bombs. His films are always unprofitable in Hong Kong. A typical example is
Days of Being Wild
, which received HK $9,751,942 with budget $39,000,000 for filming.
Auteur films, Wong
Kar
-
Wai
reflected his vision in his movies. He won’t put cliché element in his movies to attract audience.
He won’t make kitsch. He is not aiming on the success at the box office.Slide3
CHART of the box office
MoviesHong
Kong
Box office
Days of Being Wild (1990)
HK $9,751,942.00
Chungking Express (1994)HK $7,678,549.00Ashes of Time (1994)HK $9,023,583.00Fallen Angels (1995)HK $7,476,025.00Happy Together (1997) * IIIHK $8,600,141.002046 (2004)HK $6,036,757.00The Grandmaster (2013)HK $21,156,949.00
The Grandmaster ranked no.1 in Hong Kong Box office from January 10 to January 20.
It’s first time to see a Wong
Kar
-
Wai
’ film that profitable. Slide4
As you can see, the HK box office of Wong’s films were around 7 to 8 millions HK$.
His movies were kind of box office bomb. Especially the movies with famous actors like Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung and even Andy Lau.They receive very high salaries.The Grandmaster (2013), is a very special one. The box office of this film is doubled, compared to Wong’s previous movies.
Why?Slide5
Martial Arts
Gong Er
tries to defeat Gong
YutianSlide6
SLOW MOTIONSlide7
SCENES
Epic scenes in snowfield
Wong shot some beautiful landscape in far northeast of China.
This kind of scenes of nature are thrilling. But this is rare to see in Wong’s previous films.
These scenes are making
The Grandmaster
attractiveSlide8
SCENES
Wong used to shot some beautiful landscape in the movie.
Ashes of Time (1994)
However, Ashes of Time is more disjointed than The Grandmaster. It is kind of experimental for me. The plot is not that clear.Slide9
SCENESlide10
Wong portraits
Ip Man’s life on a grand scale. The film is mixed with different historical events.
Compare to
wong’s
previous films, this movie is rather ‘epic’.
PO-YI
STORYSlide11
The plot of his previous films are rather ‘small scale’.
The stories happened in a short period of time.Slide12
Thus, the story of
Ip Man in this film is rather astonishing and attractive. People should be curious to know how Wong portrait the epic history of this great person.Slide13
They were shot with films. Not high-tech digital cameras. Thus, the quality of the images are not that astonishing.
IMAGES QUALITYSlide14
With advanced technology in lighting and filming. The image of the motion pictures has thrilling quality.
The quality of camera is high. It can surely produce images and scenes with great details.
The budget for filming is rather high too.Slide15
LIGHTINGSlide16Slide17
IP MANSlide18
10Slide19
ConclusionNo doubt, Wong
Kar-Wai is a great director. His movies are visually astonishing. However, he is out of his comfort zone to produce the grandmaster
. Thus, this film is not flawless. It’s rather disjointed and look unfinished.
The new theme, new elements, new story of
the grandmaster
, made this film generate a high amount of profit.
We should have more amount of people to understand how to appreciate the art of Wong’s movies.Slide20
REFERENCE
Andrew Chan(2013). The Grandmaster 一代宗師 (2013) – Hong Kong / China. Retrieved fromhttp://thehkneo.com/blog/?p=3450Hoberman,J
.(2013). Wong
Kar
-
Wai
is “The Grandmaster”. Retrieved fromhttp://blogs.artinfo.com/moviejournal/2013/08/27/wong-kar-wai-is-the-grandmaster/