我們決定在曼谷一個破落的中心區，拍攝《花樣年華》部分鏡頭。那裏破敗的景象，跟片中沉默寡言的角色十分契合；其中的懷舊氣息，也令影片情緒更濃厚，主題更突出。
一盞街燈映照着這條後巷的牆壁，有些特別，讓它看上去有了豐富質感，疙疙瘩瘩的，像一張 「飽經風霜」的臉，帶些失落感。
我佈置了非常簡單的燈具，想重現那種氣氛。一旦演員開始走位，身影投在牆上，便會添上另一種張力、另一重孤寂，或隨你怎樣叫它好了。可是，這場面有點太「電影筆記」了，稍稍難以招架。
然後，不知怎的，我走進沿街一排破舊的公寓大廈。我踏入某人家中，其實是闖進了多戶人家，從他們朝後巷牆壁的窗子，往街上眺望。由內往外看，我感到更深一層的抽離，愈覺置身事外，愈可以將這場戲拍得更淒美、更孤寂。
於是我們從公寓走廊朝外街用推軌鏡頭，拍了這段戲的大部分。
燈光照明、攝影機擺位，演員之間互相配合，成了這部電影的動力。
可沒法解釋箇中原委。事前我們沒有精心部署，只是在那個空間，碰上那獨特的光，那特殊的機緣，創造了這一刻。
We decided to shoot part of In the Mood for Love in the rundown heart of Bangkok. There’s something about the way it is falling apart that is in tune with the reticence of the characters, and the nostalgia there amplifies the mood and themes of the film.
There was something about the way the single streetlight fell on this back alley wall… it gave it so much texture, a strong ‘craggy’ look, a sense of loss.
I placed very simple lamps to try to replicate that feel, and once the actors started to move through the space, they were throwing shadows on the wall which gave it another level of intensity, another level of loneliness, or whatever you are going to call it. And yet, it seemed to feel a bit too much “Cahiers du Cinema“, a bit too much ‘in your face’.
And then for some reason I walked into the battered apartment block that runs the length of the street. I went inside someone’s home, a lot of people’s homes, actually, and looked out on the street through the windows that faced our wall. From inside, I felt one more level of detachment, of being further removed that could make the scene even more poignant, with more loneliness.
So we shot most of this sequence of the film as a tracking shot, from the apartment corridor looking out.
The mixture of lighting, camera position, and the way in which the actors all relate to each other make the dynamics of the film.
Now you can’t explain all that to someone. It didn’t happen because we thought it through. It just happened that this space with this particular light and with this particular possibility gave us this moment.
影片來源 Video:《花樣年華》“In The Mood For Love” (2000)
音樂來源Music: Françoise Hardy “Je Veux Qu’il Revienne”
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