2046 (film) - Books - Famous Chinese Shopping City

March 8, 2014


		1 Introduction 2 Cast and roles include 3 Filming details 4 Title 5 Plot details 6 Music 7 Producers 8 Cinematographers 9 Awards 10 Release dates 11 See also 12 External links

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2046 (film)

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Cast and roles include

Tony Leung Chiu Wai - Chow Mo-wan, the main character and narrator. A journalist and writer, he is the same character, played by the same actor as in In the Mood for Love. He also appears in a silent cameo at the very end of Days of Being Wild.

Maggie Cheung - Su Li Zhen, the woman Chow Mo-wan loved most. See In the Mood for Love.

Gong Li - Another Su Li Zhen. Presented as a "professional gambler" and nicknamed "Black Spider", she said that she was from Phnom Penh. Chow Mo-wan met her in Singapore.

Wang Sum

* Mr. Wang, the hotel owner. He had taken singing lessons in Harbin, China.

* The captain of the train to (or from) 2046.

Faye Wong

* Wang Jing Wen (王靖雯, py W??ng J??ngw??n; which incidently was Faye Wong's stage name as a singer until she changed it back to Faye Wong, zh-cp|c=王菲|p=Wáng Fēi, in 1994) . The first daughter of Mr. Wang, the hotel owner. She was in love with a Japanese man, a relationship that her father opposed strongly.

* An android in the train to (or from) 2046.

Takuya Kimura

* A Japanese man, sent to Hong Kong for a while by his company. He is Wang Jing Wen's boyfriend.

* Tak, a passenger of the train to (or from) 2046.

Dong Jie - Wang Jie Wen. The second daughter of Mr. Wang, the hotel owner.

Carina Lau

* Mimi/Lulu. See Days of Being Wild.

* An android in the train to (or from) 2046.

Chang Chen

* The drummer boyfriend of Mimi/Lulu. Played by Jacky Cheung in Days of Being Wild.

* A passenger of the train to (or from) 2046.

Zhang Ziyi - Bai Ling. An occupant of room 2046 in the Oriental Hotel, and a lover of Chow Mo-wan.

Siu Ping-lam - Ah Ping, a colleague and friend of Chow Mo-wan.

Bird McIntyre

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Filming details

Image:2046_Set_Shanghai.jpg|thumb|(Left to right) Christopher Doyle, William Chang, Wong Kar-wai on 2046 set in Shanghai, China

A total secrecy surrounded the movie before its release, and this led to a lot of speculation as to the significance of the number "2046". Many thought the title referenced the year in which the movie would be set, and that it would be a science fiction film. It also became an in-joke that the title would actually refer to the year of release.

The film took a whole four years in making, and the production suffered a good deal of bad luck. For example, the production was shut down because of the SARS epidemic in March 2003. It finally premiered during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival as a competitive film (the reels arrived straight from the laboratory causing a delay in the schedule), yet Wong pulled the film off after the premiere to continue editing it. Wong was reportedly still editing it until October, when it was finally finished and released to theaters.

It has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics in the United States of America, and is scheduled for release on 5 August 2005.

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Title

2046 is the number of the hotel room in In the Mood for Love in which Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung's characters meet to write their kung fu serial.

In the movie 2046, "2046" is the number of a hotel room occupied by Lulu, and later by Bai Ling at the Oriental Hotel, while Tony Leung's room number is 2047.

In the same movie, the main character (Tony Leung) writes science fiction stories, in which 2046 is a popular year to which people time-travel. The stories are titled 2046 and later 2047 (a collaboration with Faye Wong's character).

The year 2046 has its own significance for Hong Kong. It is 49 years after the handover of Hong Kong by the British on July 1, 1997. At the time of handover, Mainland China|the Mainland government promised One country, two systems|fifty years of self-regulation for the former British colony. The year 2046, then, references the moment before Hong Kong's special, self-regulated status ends.

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Plot details

The main line of the movie takes place in Hong Kong, in the "Oriental Hotel", between 1966 and 1969. Some flashbacks show the main character (Tony Leung) in Singapore. Some parts of the movie show pieces of the 2047 science fiction story that Tony Leung is writing.

A herald of Wong's respect for his imagination, as well as a summary of his previous films, 2046 is a ground-breaking film in Wong's career, much like La Dolce Vita to Federico Fellini. As Chow Mo-Wan uses his personal experience to imagine "2047", he manages to face his troubled past. Similarly, Wong Kar-wai uses his previous personal experiences, already portrayed in his earlier movies, to imagine "2046", a film that houses his trademark sentimentalism, allowing his very self to push ahead into his realm of imagination.

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Music

Original music:

Shigeru Umebayashi: "2046 Main Theme", "The Christmas Song" (Fast Version), "Interlude I", "Polonaise", "2046 Main Theme" (Rumba Version), "Lost", "Long Journey", "Interlude II", "2046 Main Theme" (With Percussion, Train Remix)

Peer Raben: "Dark Chariot", "Sisyphos At Work"

Non-original music:

Xavier Cugat: "Siboney" – Instrumental, "Perfidia"

Dean Martin: "Sway"

Georges Delerue: "Julien et Barbara" (originally from the soundtrack of Fran??ois Truffaut's Vivement Dimanche!)

Connie Francis: "Siboney"

Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani: Norma (opera)|Norma opera: "Casta Diva", performed by Angela Gheorghiu and the London Symphony Orchestra, directed by Evelino Pido - recorded in 2000

Zbigniew Preisner: "Decision" (originally from the soundtrack of Thou shalt not kill, Part 5 of Krzysztof Kie??lowski's The Decalogue)

Secret Garden: "Adagio" with David Agnew (cor anglais)

Nat King Cole and the Nat King Cole Trio: "The Christmas Song"

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Producers

Eric Heumann - co-producer

Amedeo Panaghi - co-producer

Marc Sillam - co-producer

Wong Kar-wai - Film producer|producer

Zhang Yimou - producer

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Cinematographers

Christopher Doyle

Kwan Pun-leung

Lai Yiu-fai

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Awards

Image:2046hkawards.jpg|thumb| Zhang Ziyi and Tony Leung holding their trophies during the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards

In April 2004, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or|Golden Palm at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, later receiving mixed reviews.

In November 2004, it won awards for Best Art Direction and Best Original Film Score at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan.

In March 2005, it was nominated in numerous categories at the Hong Kong Film Awards, winning Best Actor (Tony Leung Chiu Wai|Tony Leung), Best Actress (Zhang Ziyi), Best Cinematography (Christopher Doyle), Best Costume Design and Make-Up, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Film Score (Shigeru Umebayashi).

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Release dates

Image:2046 film.jpg|thumb|222px|US version of the 2046 film poster

France: May 20, 2004 - Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

Shanghai China: September 20, 2004 - Asia Premiere

Hong Kong: September 29, 2004

Malaysia: September 30, 2004

Taiwan: October 1, 2004

Singapore: October 14, 2004

United Kingdom: October 15, 2004

France: October 20, 2004

South Korea: October 22, 2004

Japan: October 23, 2004

Italy: October 29, 2004

Thailand: November 4, 2004

Norway: November 5, 2004

Denmark: November 12, 2004

Portugal: November 18, 2004

Finland: November 26, 2004

Spain: November 26, 2004

Germany: January 13, 2005

Netherlands: February 3, 2005

US: August 5, 2005

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