After 29 years, when you revisit the stories of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography", you may not know where "can't understand" come from? "Taiwan version" has another mystery? Where is Liang Chaowei, the mystery of Hua Tsai's identity? Was the midnight scene of the disappeared "sister" and "horror" "ten million box office" achieved? Jia Ling "collapsed on the spot"? Xueyou "Geng Geng Yu Huai" Zhang Guorong "move the real character"?

Twenty-nine years ago (December 15, 1990), the film "The Legend of Ah Fei" was released in Hong Kong, China, and one of Wong Kar-wai's masterpieces caused a lot of controversy that year. When "The Legend of Ah Fei" was officially released in the mainland last year, we wrote a special article reviewing the 10 behind-the-scenes stories behind the film, and revisiting it at this time of year is still full of classics and memories.

For mainland audience fans, being able to really enter the theater after a gap of 28 years to watch "The Legend of Ah Fei" is undoubtedly another opportunity to satisfy their feelings.

Over the past 28 years, no matter wong Kar-wai's style, a series of classic film lines, the excellent acting skills of the actors collectively hung up, the excellent cooperation of the photography art editing soundtrack, and even the nostalgia for his brother Zhang Guorong, they have repeatedly reproduced the audience's repeated appreciation and taste of the film.

To this day, its classic status has long been unshakable.

But in addition, what mysteries have been left to the audience in the past 28 years, or what "unforgettable" memories have been left for the creators, here may as well be done one by one:

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > where does "I can't understand" come from? </h1>

Today, "The Legend of Ah Fei" is a recognized Chinese film classic, but in that year, it was a "mysterious" work that once plunged the entire film circle into tension, and see what Wong Kar-wai's "old enemy" Wang Jing said-

Everyone is very nervous, constantly "collecting the wind" to know how "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" was made, but everyone came back to say that the version is different, even the photography team who finally went to the Philippines can't say what he (Wong Kar-wai) shot, it is really mysterious, only to know that it is overspended and overspended to be extremely terrible... I heard that before the first midnight show, even the boss Deng Guangrong had not seen the whole movie, and my boss Xiang Huasheng did not go to see his own midnight show, but went to see "The Legend of Ah Fei". But after the midnight show, the mystery is still not solved, and everyone still does not know the plot, because no one can understand it!

From this moment on, "can't understand" officially became one of Wong Kar-wai's film symbols for 28 years, after all, it was his peers and the audience who "gave" him.

But 28 years later, this has never prevented "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" from becoming a classic masterpiece in the history of famous films!

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "desktop version" has another mystery? </h1>

When the film was released in Taiwan that year, there was another version, the main changes were concentrated in the last ten minutes, the plot content was basically the same, but the editing changed slightly, and some fragments were also added.

For example, Zhang Guorong and Andy Lau evaded the Filipinos, the Hong Kong version only escaped to the roof of the two people, and the Taiwan version had two more people jumping off the train:

The two talk on the train, and the Hong Kong version begins with Zhang Guorong's dialogue that "every minute will die" and becomes a front-and-back shot between him and Andy Lau:

The desktop version becomes a long overhead shot of more than 1 minute:

In the jungle empty mirror in the back, the Hong Kong version immediately appeared Zhang Guorong's voiceover monologue, but the monologue appeared after the empty mirror was placed for 30 seconds in the Taiwan version:

Next, the Hong Kong version is a long shot of Andy Lau, Zhang Guorong is all voice-over, and finally a shot showing "Xu Zai is dead":

In the Taiwanese version, Andy Lau's lens becomes a medium shot, followed by Zhang Guorong's long shot, and Andy Lau is all voice-over. The Hong Kong version of "Asahi Boy Died", the Taiwan version becomes the two people began to talk:

The Taiwanese version cut this section and turned into a picture of two people, Xu Zai is still not dead, and the classic soundtrack is gone, and even the final train vision is different:

Then Liu Jialing came to the Philippines, and the Hong Kong version was that she was in the room, "inquiring about a person" with the landlord, obviously to find Zhang Guorong:

The Taiwanese version is that she came to the hotel lobby to ask if there was a room, and also met the girl who had previously talked to Andy Lau:

In short, there is no essential change in the two versions of Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it unveils the secret of "one and two looks" of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography".

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the mystery of Hua Tsai's identity</h1>

In terms of all the exposed versions, the character of Andy Lau in "The Legend of Ah Fei" is undoubtedly a policeman, but in a certain trailer, there is a clip of him dressed as a "Gu Qiu Boy" dressed up as a smoker and walking through the Kowloon City Walled City with a knife, which adds testimony to his original statement that he played Ah Fei - "Hua Tsai is a person from the city wall, who filmed him gambling money in the big stall, there is a woman who only wears bust bottoms, wrapped around the big python dancing next to him, and he holds a knife, scraping against the wall..."

Later, when Liu Zhenwei made wong Kar-wai's unused story into "Heaven and Earth Long", the essence also continued Andy Lau's "Ah Fei" style:

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Where is Liang Chaowei? </h1>

In the version of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" released that year, there was a version that saw Liang Chaowei combing his hair and dressing up at the beginning, but it was finally put to the end of the film.

But before that, it almost couldn't be put into the main film: the reason is that after Wong Kar-wai finished filming, he felt that liang Chaowei's role had no head and no tail, and it was not appropriate to put it anywhere, so he planned to use this scene as a promotional screen, but Tan Jiaming, who was responsible for editing, said that "directly at the end of the play", and also specifically found a piece of music to match, Wong Kar-wai shouted "good and right", so that this scene could be made public.

Unfortunately, Liang Chaowei will have more emotional scenes with Maggie Cheung in the next episode, especially "in a very narrow, cramped space, not much to say, two people lazily look at each other and hand over teacups, the tension is very good." ”

But unexpectedly, Liang Chaowei filmed in the walled city for three months before and after this story, but in the end it was useless, and the "tension" between him and Maggie Cheung finally had to continue until "Fancy Years", but at that time he was not Zhou Muyun, and she was not Su Lizhen when she was young.

<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > disappeared "sister"</h1>

In Wong Kar Wai's films, more than once a character has been "disappeared".

Such as Wang Zuxian of "East Evil and West Poison", Guan Shuyi of "Spring Breaks", Zhang Yaoyang Sun Jiajun of "Fancy Years", etc.; and even if the scenes have not all disappeared, they have reached the level of "semi-disappearance", except for "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" Liang Chaowei's repeated three months of drama basically disappeared, and later "2046" Kimura Takuya, "Generation Grandmaster" Song Huiqiao are also unable to escape the "doom"...

But many people may not know that "The Legend of Ah Fei" also has a completely disappeared role, that is, Li Dianlang, who plays Liang Chaowei's sister, seems to have a bad reputation, but the essence is very large - the daughter of the big director Li Hanxiang.

According to Liang Chaowei, the character herself was a prostitute, who tricked his younger brother into working in a big stall (casino) when he was young, making him a gambler from then on. So if not all of them are deleted, this should be another wonderful performance.

By the way, Lee Dian-lang's first nomination for the Academy Awards after the film "The Last Victory" is a script written by Wong Kar-wai.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the midnight field of "horror"</h1>

In the past, Hong Kong movies often liked to hold a premiere around 11 p.m., after the main creator appeared, the audience entered the movie before 12 o'clock, or before the film was officially released, the street randomly invited a group of audiences to the theater at 12 o'clock one night to see a movie (the specific title will not be disclosed in advance) to observe their evaluation and reaction, which is the legendary "midnight field".

Not to mention, the midnight audience, as the first audience to watch the film, can often accurately predict the future of the film: if the audience cheers and applauds, it is difficult for the film to sell or not, and on the contrary, if it is rude, throwing popcorn or corn cobs at the screen, scraping the back of the theater chair, or even greeting the director, it is difficult for the film to sell.

Therefore, after midnight, the filmmakers often re-cut the film according to the audience's reaction, and the result is usually that the "public version" and the "midnight version" have different degrees of difference.

Seeing this, you can also imagine the midnight scene of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography": halfway through the film, some viewers stood up and scolded "Who is Wong Kar-wai?!" After the end of the show, the voices of "returning water (refund)", "uh (cheating) money", and "I don't know what to shoot" came and went, and the audience competed to spread "Don't go to see "Ah Fei Zheng Biography"! ”

In the end, the film was released just two weeks after its release, and the cumulative box office was only 9.75 million Hong Kong dollars! Compared with the film's investment of up to 20 million Hong Kong dollars, it is no wonder that the boss Deng Guangrong went to the hospital to drip, and it was even rumored that he burned the remaining film in anger!

<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "10 million box office" achieved? </h1>

The first round of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" was released less than 10 million at the box office, and the loss is a foregone conclusion, but is it still not more than 10 million in the end?

That is not necessarily, because the film won five awards at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards, and then arranged a round of re-screenings, resulting in more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars box office under the topic of awards, plus the original more than 9 million, finally survived to the "ten million box office". It can be seen that even the basic box office revenue is confirming the difficulty of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography".

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jialing "collapsed on the spot"? </h1>

Over the years, many people have always believed that the film queen of that Academy Awards did not give Liu Jialing the biggest "lost pearl".

Liu Jialing was also not modest in this regard, describing the unveiling moment with "collapse on the spot": "At that time, I was young, and the whole environment pushed me to the point of 'I must have taken it', and I also felt that I didn't guess correctly with the award, even all the magazines were out of my cover, wasn't I taking it?" And when I went to the Academy Awards, three of the four nominations (after the film) didn't come, so they must have been scared of me! Not me yet? Even Lin Qingxia and Zhou Runfa, who presented the award, felt that it must be me, and I was ready to come up and say the award testimonials... In short, after 'going to heaven', it turned out that it was not me, and that kind of blow was very big. ”

"If it were now, I would think so what? What does it matter? But at that time I really needed an award to give myself a recognition, so if it was given to me at that time, I felt that it would have a big boost to my career. "No, this regret actually made Liu Jialing wait for 20 years before winning the award with "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", how many cold and warm hearts were there during the period, only the parties can really understand...

<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Xueyou "Grumpy"</h1>

It was not Liu Jialing who was worried about "The True Biography of Ah Fei" at that time, but also Jacky Cheung, who was not yet the god of song.

At that time, after filming a look-up action, Wong Kar-wai only gave him a "forget it" after more than 60 times, which made him "very uncomfortable, at least tell me which take can it?" Not only that, in the first scene after the boot, Wong Kar-wai actually NG Jacky Cheung more than 20 times, completely without giving face!

In the end, after "East Evil and West Poison", Jacky Cheung no longer refused to cooperate with Wong Kar-wai.

Behind this, the essence is Jacky Cheung's feelings about Wong Kar-wai's "love and hate": in 1988, Jacky Cheung's singing career fell into a low ebb, the album only sold 20,000 copies, and he made some movies that he did not like, every day was either drinking or going to play pool, drinking unsteadily and going to the field to take the stage, the heart of the bitterness can be imagined.

But this year, by participating in "Carmen in Mong Kok", he actually changed his acting skills from being criticized for his skills to winning the Hong Kong Academy Awards "Best Supporting Actor" - in other words, Wong Kar-wai found the confidence to be an actor for him!

The next year, by participating in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", and letting Jacky Cheung win the Golden Horse Award for "Best Supporting Actor", at this time, the singing career has not yet recovered, and the two acting awards made him want to focus his career on movies for a while, so he also had the courage to take over such a big production as "Blood Street" (and finally won his first film emperor nomination) ...

At this point, Wong Kar-wai's 60-odd NG and a "forget it" are a lot of cold water for him!

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Zhang Guorong "moving the real grid"? </h1>

"Ah Fei Zheng Biography" is actually an "abuse" play, the fate of each character in the play is very sadistic, not to mention, the actors outside the play are either abused by the director, abused by the awards, or abused other actors - this is not, the brother Zhang Guorong staged a "full martial act"!

According to the film planner Chen Shanzhi revealed, in the scene where the brother beats his adoptive mother's boyfriend in the film, "the other party is a musician, not a professional actor, and leslie specially explained to me before filming: 'Please help me talk to him, there is no personal target, because it is not me, it is the role in the play, I will not 'just' force when I am officially, he is the person I want to chase.' The house guard let him play freely, he picked up a real hammer, smashed the whole wash plate, and really hit the man to the bone! ”

After filming, the brother who was too deep into the scene had to stand aside, and the whole person trembled for a long time before calming down.

But when he found his state, he also immediately cared about the injury of his opponent, and said bluntly that if the film company did not pay the medical expenses, he was willing to bear all of it - this is the brother, as good as ever.