The stills of "A Master" 1936, Foshan Wulin was in an uproar. Gong Yutian (Wang Qingxiang), the master of Eight Diagrams Boxing, is old and promised to retire. However, as the president of China samurai club, he naturally attracted the attention and covet of martial arts experts. Including Ma San (Max Zhang), Ding Lianshan (Zhao Benshan), Ghost of the Kanto, and Ye Wen Wing Chun, all focused on Gong Yutian. Boxing has north and south, state-owned north and south? The most virtuous person deserves the heavy responsibility, but this wandering name has attracted countless confused people to get drunk and run around. Children born in troubled times are buried in their hearts and crushed into mud by cold wheels.
Voice Notes of Actors Ye Wen Tony Leung Chiu Wai zhaowei Wang Kai Wing Chun Boxing Master Gong Ernv Zhang Zhang Ziyi Ziyi Baguazhang Descendants First Line Zhang zhen Zhang zhen Baji Boxing Master Zhang Yongcheng Song Hye Kyo-Ye Wen's wife Gong Yutian Wang Qingxiang Wang Qingxiang merged Xingyi Boxing and gossip to become a northern boxer who spread his skills to the south, three gold Zhang Jin Xingyi Boxing Masters, Gong Erxiong with seven inches of music-Chen Huashun, Yuan Heping, Tian Zhuangzhuang-Tie Qiaoyong, and Xiao Ming. Zhao Benshan-Sanjiang Little Shenyang Little Shenyang-Jiang Shang Tielong Shang Tielong-Black-faced God Luo Mang-Producer: Wu Siyuan; Wong Kar-wai; Esther Wang; Wei Song; Megan Ellison; Jacky Pang Yee Wah; Michael J. Werner directed by Wong Kar-wai and written by Wong Kar-wai; Zou Jingzhi; Xu Haofeng Photography: Philippe Lesourd; Song Xiaofei soundtrack: Chen Xunqi; Shigeru Umebayashi clip: Zhang Shuping dubbing director: Cheng Yu action director: Yuan Heping costume design: Zhang Shuping's music score serial number track performance 1 theme 1-opening Shigeru Umebayashi 2 theme 2-dreaming of 64 hands Shigeru Umebayashi 3 love theme. I Shigeru Umebayashi 4 Love Theme II Shigeru Umebayashi 5 Peking Opera-Shiro Sandalwood-(Traditional) Shigeru Umebayashi 6 Jin Ge Ba Shigeru Umebayashi 7 Manzhouli Express Shigeru Umebayashi 8 Action 150 Shigeru Umebayashi. 9 The Episode of Sore Kara I- Kokuhak Shigeru Umebayashi 10 Mo You Shigeru Umebayashi1KLOC-0/Opium Shigeru Umebayashi 12 Casta Diva (from the opera Norma) Venanzo Beligni 13. Theme 4-Sacrificing Shigeru Umebayashi 14 Donna Romanika ennio morricone 15 Once upon a time in America, Deborah's Theme ennio morricone 6543. 8+06 Manchuria Bolero Shigeru Umebayashi Movie Trailer ● The master has four versions: the "domestic version" released in the mainland, with a duration of 130 minutes; International Edition shown at Berlin Film Festival 1 15 minutes; North American version 108 minutes; Mainland 3D edition 1 1 1 min? .
During filming, Tony Leung Chiu Wai was taken to Kaiping by Wong Kar-wai. He shut his room for nine months in order to get into the role. Besides filming, he stayed at home, meditating, diving and reading in his room.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai revealed that Stephen Chow, a good friend during filming, volunteered to give him advice (because Stephen Chow studied Wing Chun Boxing, which is Bruce Lee's winter powder), but Tony Leung Chiu Wai declined.
● Although Wong Kar-wai has always been very picky about the details of the film, he still mispronounced a sentence in the film line: 1 hour 55 minutes, and pronounced the executioner (ghost four tones) as fast (four tones).
● There is a strange goof shot in the film: in about 48 minutes, IP Man's son was photographed sitting in a chair separated from his mother by an empty chair, but after the photo was taken, IP Man's son sat in another chair, missing a chair.
I don't know who Zhao Benshan is after filming. At first, she thought she was playing Zhang Ziyi's father, but later she found out that she wasn't.
Creative background of film and television production
Wong Kar-wai came across a video taken by Ip Man three days before his death. A pause in boxing aroused Wong Kar-wai's interest in martial arts. After learning a lot about martial arts schools, Wong Kar-wai wanted to reproduce the ecology of Wulin in the Republic of China by preparing a master. In order to obtain more historical materials, he spent three years visiting more than 0/00 folk kungfu masters from all over the country, including famous martial arts schools such as Wing Chun, Xingyiquan and Taiji, and little-known martial arts schools such as Bagua, Bajiquan and Tongbei. Some masters were moved by the director's sincerity, broke the restrictions of sects and told them all the stunts that disciples had reserved. During the visit, there were other touching stories, which greatly inspired Wong Kar-wai and injected various essences into the film.
The original intention of Wong Kar-wai's "A Generation of Masters" began with "Wing Chun" and "Ip Man". During the journey of "Master Road", Wong Kar-wai's imagination of this film is no longer limited to the genre of "Wing Chun", but changed from "a street" to "an era". The Grand Master not only talks about Ip Man, but also brings all the contemporary masters from China into the mirror for panoramic master scanning.
Wong Kar-wai's "The Road to Masters" originated in Hongkong, spread in the mainland, and was found among a generation of masters. Under the main line of "Four Boxing Schools", through the group image design of ten boxers in number of periods in the Republic of China, tens of thousands of times details are displayed, trying to restore the scenery and details of the times and reproduce the group image and character of the times.
Shooting preparation
The film took 10 years from preparation to official shooting in 2006.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai did his best to shoot The Grandmaster. Tony Leung Chiu Wai is not a born martial artist, unlike Donnie Yen who has a kung fu background. He is like a blank sheet of paper. Before starting the machine, he worked hard with Edwin Leong, a close disciple of Ip Man, and finally laid a solid foundation for Wing Chun. To this end, he even pushed off a number of movies. ? In order to play the kung fu master IP Man, he was "devastated" mentally and physically. During filming, his arm was accidentally kicked off by a martial artist. The picture of a fierce battle in the rain shown in the protagonist's poster is just a short play, but Wong Kar-wai filmed it for a whole month.
In fact, not only Tony Leung Chiu Wai, but also other leading actors in the film, including Zhang Ziyi and Song Hye Kyo Jing, have done a lot of training in the early stage as long as it involves kung fu. ? Zhang zhen also practiced octupole boxing for this film for three years.
Although Zhao Benshan didn't play many roles in The Master, in order to keep improving, Wong Kar-wai often recreated some good parts. Zhao Benshan went to the crew 10 times and filmed a scene.
When Wong Kar-wai went to Shenyang to cast the role of Master Generation, Xiao Shenyang was not among the cast members. Later, Zhao Benshan secretly joined this group with Xiao Shenyang to create more learning opportunities for his disciples.
Shooting process
During the period of 1997, Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai prepared the script of "The Grand Master", but it was finally stopped because of the financial problems of the film company. In 2002, the title and starring role were announced. June 5438+February 12 to April 2009 18, 20 10 "The Master of the Generation" was filmed in Kaiping Chikan Film and Television City, Guangdong Province, and also in Shenyang and Changchun.
The Grand Master involves eight martial arts masters. The scene of the northern Wulin master was shot in Tieling Steam Engine Museum. According to a crew member, Wong Kar-wai's films are still shot without a script, and the shooting speed is extremely slow in pursuit of the perfection of the picture. Wong Kar-wai enters the set every day and only takes a piece of paper with more than 20 lines on it. At the end of the day, he shoots about two lines at most, and spends most of his time remaking.
In order to prevent * * *, Wong Kar-wai set up a cordon about 50 meters away from the shooting scene, and arranged a staff member to patrol 30 meters away, with other titles written on the car of the film crew. In addition, his filming time is not fixed, and he often likes to rest during the day and catch up after midnight. The crew also chose body double for each leading actor, so even if a reporter mixed into the scene, he might not be able to see the true face of the actor.
3D version
The 3D version of the movie is scheduled to be released in China on October 8th, 20 15, and is adapted from the North American version? .
When a master was filming, Wong Kar-wai planned to do both action design and character setting according to 3D standards, but the limited conditions were not realized at that time. Later, the American team of more than 200 people spent nearly a year making a 3D version. In addition to ensuring the smooth transformation of technology, movement and function, Wong Kar-wai is in control of many artistic conception and abstract things. When talking about the original intention of 3D transformation, Wong Kar-wai quoted the line "Never forget, there will be repercussions" in A Generation of Masters as an explanation, and thought it was one of his dreams.
There are two differences between the converted 3D and the previously released version. First of all, it turned out that Ip Man told Gong Er that he hoped to see Sixty-four hands again, and this time he realized this wish. It turns out that the 2D version of Zhao Benshan played Ding Lianshan in many scenes, and Zhao Benshan's scenes were originally sequel materials, but later I was worried that everyone would wait too long? .
Release date/national release/release date: China October 20 15 18 (3D version), China October 20 13 18, and Taiwan Province Province, China October 20 13 18. 3 1 Germany 20 13 February 7 (Berlin International Film Festival) Korea 2013 June 16 USA 2013 August 22 Italy 2013 September 19 UK. The box office broke through 1 100 million yuan four days after it was released in Chinese mainland, reaching 65.438+0.8 billion yuan in the first week, 220 million yuan after it was released 65.438+00 days, and the cumulative box office reached 2.865438+0 million by10.30.
2065438+200365438+1October 10 was released in Hongkong, China, with a box office of HK$ 8.06 million in the first week. ? 65438+1October 18 was released in Taiwan Province province, China. As of165438+ on October 22nd, the box office in Taipei was about 70140,000 Taiwan dollars. ? It was released in North America on August 30th, and by September 1 1, the box office was 4.96 million dollars.
Award-winning records Award-winning works Name of the 50th Golden Horse Awards Award-winning works Best Actress Zhang Ziyi/Best Visual Effects Master Pierre Buffon/Best Art Design Master Zhang Shuping, Alfred Yau's "The Grand Master" Best Modeling Design Zhang Shuping's "The Grand Master" Best Photography Philip Saude's "The Grand Master" Best Film Award "The Grand Master" 20 14 Asian Film Awards Award-winning works, best director Wong Kar-wai (the first generation Best actress Zhang Ziyi (Grandmaster) Best styling design: Zhang Shuping's Grandmaster, best photography, Philip Saude's Grandmaster, best original music, Nathaniel mikkeli and Mo Linmao's Grandmaster, best Zhang Shuping and best production designer. Alfred Yau's The Grandmaster won the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards. The winners are Xu Haofeng, Zou Jingzhi, Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, best costume design, Zhang Shuping's The Grandmaster, best photography, Philippe Lesourd's The Grandmaster, best editing, Zhang Shuping, Benjamin Courtines' best supporting actor, Max Zhang's best sound effect and Robert Mackenzie. Traithep Wongpaiboon's best original music Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Migali's best action design, Yuan Heping's best actress, Zhang Ziyi's best director and Wong Kar-wai's best film "The Grandmaster" have positive comments.
In 20 13 of the whole China film industry, The Grandmaster is an outstanding film. Wong Kar-wai is doing his old job with his trademark slow kung fu. Master looks good because it has flavor. It shoots history through time. The fighting in the Wulin shows nostalgia and nostalgia for the past. His films always like to talk about time, and "The Grandmaster" also has many pictures of people taking pictures. The small group photo is actually freezing the history and setting a monument for an era and a person at that time. This is Wong Kar-wai's feelings, because this kind of feelings, he can last for several years, make all kinds of preparations, and make this film remarkable in photography, editing, art, performance and other aspects. Such a film swept the Academy Awards, which is a respect for the film itself. (Sina Entertainment Review)
A generation of masters passed on real kung fu.
Inheriting China's chivalrous spirit is the creative idea of a generation of masters. Wong Kar-wai directly cut this concept into the story of the film and the artistic design of the studio, including the image positioning of different stars, which is also based on the characteristics of different martial arts schools. The four schools of traditional martial arts in China, namely, Wing Chun, Eight Diagrams, Eight Extremes and Xingyiquan, are all under the "door" of a generation of masters. Let the authentic China Wushu spirit and the expression mechanism of commercial films be integrated. (Tencent Entertainment Review)
Visual feast
Scenes such as Tony Leung Chiu Wai in the rain, Zhang Ziyi and Max Zhang platform duel, visual effects, action design, martial arts sound effects, etc. They are all excellent China movies. (Netease Entertainment Review) We see more elegance in movies. Every game is like a ceremony. We felt the mutual respect between the two sides, which cast a sacred color on the fight. Coupled with Guangdong folk music, romantic homesickness is even worse. The Grand Master is a visual feast, and the film presents a nostalgic Wulin legend to the audience with the most gorgeous lens. (American film website Indiewire) The film is full of poetic artistic conception in terms of the massage decision of the characters, the laying and creation of the environmental atmosphere, and the details of the fighting scenes, which makes this martial arts film of the Republic of China full of poetic artistic conception. (People's Daily Review)
The opposing point of view is that the whole martial arts drama is wonderful, and photography and art are also textbook level, but the literary drama is too weak, and the lines are more like chicken soup for the soul and confidant. (Screenwriter Cai Shenning) The rhythm is inconsistent. The first half is fast and then slow, and the second half is sleepy. However, the performance style of Zhao Benshan's mentoring is incompatible with the whole drama, and Zhang zhen's drama is out of touch with the whole drama. (Beijing Morning Post Review)