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Q:
It was kind of a lengthy process for you to film. I think you mentioned
in the notes that you were shooting this through the economic crisis
and there were some crew people that had to leave. Was this anymore
difficult than any of your other films?
Wong:
Yes, it was one of the most difficult things, because we have the
experience with the schedule and other difficulties in making a
film, but this time?you have to understand about this Asian Financial
Crisis, because it is coming out of nowhere suddenly. And it seems
to be the end of the world, because our finance is mostly from Asia,
and the investors in the film all have problems.
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So suddenly you
see, those people just disappear, and not only the film people, it's
about all the people in different business. And so we have a very
hard time to find new investors too, so we have to stop the productions,
and then when we have to stop the production, the finance of the film,
the schedule of actors become a problem, because Maggie [Cheung] has
to prepare for a [Steven] Spielberg film, "Memoirs of a Geisha," and
Tong [Leung] is going to make a film in Tokyo.
All sorts of
things, because we have to wait and wait, and at one point because
we have committed to make another film at the end of last year,
so we cannot postpone it; because there are different actors, and
the schedule is tight too, so we have to make two films back to
back at the same time. So it created a lot of problems.
But also we
would benefit from that, because we have to shoot two films at the
same time, we have to shoot "2046" in Bangkok and we are shooting
"2046" we look for the location, we realized there is something...so
we decided to move productions to Bangkok to shoot the rest of the
film. And so the film actually benefits from that.
Q:
"2046" takes place on the beach that you are shooting on location.
Is there costume designing?
Wong:
Yes, but don't expect "The Fifth Element."
Q:
How much control did you have over the final script of "2046?" How
much control did you have and how much did you have to deal with
the censors?
Wong:
If we are going to make the film in Hong Kong, we don't have any
censor problems, you can do any topic you like as long as you can
find the market, and I work as a writer, director, and also the
producer, so I take up all these dirty jobs. So it is my responsibility
to take care of this business.
Q:
Do you have an optimistic view of 50 years from now, or do you have
a pessimistic film?
Wong:
I always want to think in a very optimistic way.
Q:
Thank you so much.
Wong:
Thank you.
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