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    This document provides background information on the 1995 Wong Kar-wai film Fallen Angels. It discusses Wong Kar-wai's origins and career in Hong Kong film. It also profiles his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The document outlines how Fallen Angels was originally conceived as part of Chungking Express and details its unconventional shooting style with wide-angle lenses. It also analyzes some of the film's visual and musical elements that portray Wong Kar-wai's vision of Hong Kong. Quotes from Wong Kar-wai provide insight into his themes and approach to filmmaking.

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    This document provides background information on the 1995 Wong Kar-wai film Fallen Angels. It discusses Wong Kar-wai's origins and career in Hong Kong film. It also profiles his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The document outlines how Fallen Angels was originally conceived as part of Chungking Express and details its unconventional shooting style with wide-angle lenses. It also analyzes some of the film's visual and musical elements that portray Wong Kar-wai's vision of Hong Kong. Quotes from Wong Kar-wai provide insight into his themes and approach to filmmaking.

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    This document provides background information on the 1995 Wong Kar-wai film Fallen Angels. It discusses Wong Kar-wai's origins and career in Hong Kong film. It also profiles his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The document outlines how Fallen Angels was originally conceived as part of Chungking Express and details its unconventional shooting style with wide-angle lenses. It also analyzes some of the film's visual and musical elements that portray Wong Kar-wai's vision of Hong Kong. Quotes from Wong Kar-wai provide insight into his themes and approach to filmmaking.

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    Fallen Angels

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    This document provides background information on the 1995 Wong Kar-wai film Fallen Angels. It discusses Wong Kar-wai's origins and career in Hong Kong film. It also profiles his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Christopher Doyle. The document outlines how Fallen Angels was originally conceived as part of Chungking Express and details its unconventional shooting style with wide-angle lenses. It also analyzes some of the film's visual and musical elements that portray Wong Kar-wai's vision of Hong Kong. Quotes from Wong Kar-wai provide insight into his themes and approach to filmmaking.

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    墮

    落
    天
    使
    Fallen Angels,
    looking at Hong Kong through Wong Kar-wai’s lens
    Wong Kar-wai; 王家衛

    Born: July 17, 1958, Shanghai

    moved to Hong Kong when he was 5

    his mom was a fan of movies so as a child he


    went to the cinema everyday

    he never attended film school, but has a


    graphic design diploma

    he first began his career as a screenwriter,


    by 1987 the Hong Kong film industry was
    at a peak and he debuted as a director for
    his first film As Tears Go By, which was a
    critical success & Wong was named “Hong
    Kong New Wave”
    Christopher Doyle; 杜可風
    Born: May 2, 1952, Sydney

    he left australia when he was 18 &


    travelled around Asia
    has no formal training in
    cinematography
    best known for his collaborations
    with Wong Kar-wai in films such as
    In The Mood For Love, Chungking
    Express, Happy Together, 2046…..
    Prequel
    Chungking Express 重慶森林 (1994)

    Fallen Angels was originally conceived by Wong as


    the third story for 1994's Chungking Express
    was cut after he decided to develop the story further
    into its own feature film and borrowed elements
    of Chungking Express
    Wong tried to differentiate it from Chungking, and
    along with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, they shoot
    mainly at night and used extreme wide-angle lenses,
    keeping the camera as close to the talents as possible
    to give a detached effect from the world around
    them.
    distance with long lenses, but the characters
    seems close to us.
    Fallen Angels 墮落天使 (1995)
    dir. wong kar-wai
    The movie is composed of two stories that have little to
    do with each other except for a few casual run-ins when
    some of the characters happen to be in the same place at
    the same time. Both stories take place in Hong Kong.

    Fallen Angels’ soundtrack features “Forget Him” sung


    by Shirley Kwan, its a reworking of the classic
    by Teresa Tang, and one of the very few
    "contemporary" Cantopop songs ever used by Wong
    Kar-wai in his films. This song is used as a message
    from the hitman to his partner.
    Other scores that were played in the film from scene to
    scene samples “Karmacoma” by Massive Attack &
    “Speak My Language” by Laurie Anderson.
    The Flying Picket’s version of the popular 80s Yazoo
    song “Only You” was played in the ending.
    Shooting
    with
    Wide-
    Angle
    Lenses
    Effects
    Doyle uses a lot of tilted camera angles, it
    makes the focus really shallow, making the
    characters seem more isolated from the world

    he also used handheld cameras in order to


    follow the characters’ movements closely, to
    increase tension, it also makes it easier for him
    to film in the narrow streets of Hong Kong,
    giving the viewer the sense of a compressed
    space.

    Wong liked to use green filtered light to denote


    a kind of social sickness in his loneliest
    characters, green is life, green is also
    representing a morbid state.
    the Hong
    Kong in
    Wong
    Kar-
    wai’s
    eyes
    “When I look at 'Fallen Angels,' I
    realize it is not a film that is truly about
    Hong Kong. It's more like my Hong
    Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be
    quiet, with less people.”
    Wong Kar-wai
    "
    Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes th
    em to break their routines and move on.

    "

    -Wong Kar-wai

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