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我是第一次看到。。。有大图吗？
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Lee evidently liked what he heard. “When I saw Tang, I thought, ‘She has the face of the Southern Chinese lady,’ which we needed,” he said in production notes for the film. “When I met her, I could tell she had the temperament as well — which we also needed, to match the character of Wang Chia-chi that Eileen Chang had created. By the end of the audition, it was clear to me that she had great potential to play the many sides of the character. I looked at her, and I believed in her.” When news leaked out in July 2006 that Tang had beat out actresses like Ziyi Zhang for the part of the seductive but emotionally vulnerable spy, bloggers and many Lee fans were left scratching their heads. After all, she would be joining the stellar cast of Tony Leung; Joan Chen as the unsuspecting Mrs. Yee; and Asian pop star Wang Lee Hom as Kuang Yu Min, the leader of the student conspirators. But those who worked on the film knew that Lee’s decision was right on the mark. “We had searched for months and months for the right actress for this role, and Ang had come close a few times,” producer and co-screenwriter James Schamus writes in an email. “But each time we thought we needed to continue — we were looking for someone who just felt as if she could have lived in the 1930s. When Tang came in to the casting session in China, the team immediately put her into costume and makeup, and Ang sent me the photos via email right away. I could tell he was both nervous but very hopeful. “All I could say was that she absolutely struck me as the perfect ideal of what we were looking for — and that I sure did hope she knew how to act!” continues Schamus, who is also CEO of Focus Features, which is co-producing and distributing the film. “By the second day of dailies, that was no longer a worry. I remember Ang telling me, ‘Don’t tell Tang Wei yet how great she is!’”
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Filmed in Malaysia and China earlier this year, the 118-day shoot was a long, hard slog. Not only did Tang have to memorize her lines, she and the entire cast had to learn what it meant to be a Shanghai resident living under Japanese occupation. That meant lessons on everything from etiquette to culture. “Ang Lee gave me a lot of information, including books, films, music and lots of classes,” recalls Tang. “So we nicknamed him Principal. Sometimes he would give me classes by myself. So day by day, I prepared for the character. “During the lessons, Director and I would talk a lot about the background of the character,” Tang continues. “We talked in detail about when she was born, when she was young and how she grew up. When she woke up in the morning, how she would brush her teeth and what to wash. Slowly, slowly, I collected all these mannerisms and built the character in my head.” The preparation was so intense that Tang never really stepped out of character. “I almost forgot my life,” she recalls. “I never saw the newspaper, never turned on the TV. I stopped connecting with my friends.” It took her a month to recover from the shoot. She’s now hard at work promoting the movie, first at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, where the film premiered. The movie will open in New York on September 28, followed by select cities on October 5. While she and the other cast members immersed themselves in their characters, Lee and the crew were just as determined to recreate Shanghai as authentically as possible as it was under Japanese occupation in the early 1940s. According to Malaysia’s Strait Times, Lee spent $6 million to replicate the shops on Nanjing Road, where the assassination attempt would take place. His research team went so far as to contact descendents of those shop owners to find out what their shop logos looked like and what the English names were. (During that time, Nanjing Road catered to both English speakers and the Chinese elite, hence there were both English-language and Chinese-language signs.) What Lee and his cast and crew have created is a mesmerizing look at Shanghai torn between East and West even as it grappled with the effects of war. They have created a haunting love story as well as a thrilling spy story. The Mandarin-language movie is so provocative that it has earned an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Despite the NC-17 rating, Lee and Focus Features do not plan on making any changes to their version of Eileen Chang’s story. “Ang is the filmmaker, and he brought this adaptation to life,” Schamus told the Hollywood Reporter. “He knows exactly what he wants to realize and achieve in filming any given sequences, and he made the final decisions on how to stage, frame, shoot and edit them, much in the same way he did with Crouching Tiger [Hidden Dragon] or Brokeback [Mountain].”While familiar with Eileen Chang’s work, Tang had never read Lust, Caution until she was tapped to be the novella’s emotional fulcrum. “She has all the love a woman could want,” says Tang of her character. “And this very special assignment that she was thrust into — it’s so special. I envy her.” Indeed, since embodying Wang Chia-chi, Tang hopes that she can live a life similar to Chang’s heroine.
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“From my readings and research, women in Shanghai were living ahead of their time compared to other women in the world,” says Tang. “They were extremely bold and brave in going after what they believed in and the kind of life they wanted to lead. I have tremendous respect for those women. I would like to walk away having the courage to go after what I believe in and having the bravery to go after what I want. I hope that all women are like that.”
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