For my response to Days of Being Wild by Wong Kar-wai (1990), I have created the following poster, using bold red as the background and the traditional Chinese characters of the movie title in the foreground.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Days of Being Wild
For my response to Days of Being Wild by Wong Kar-wai (1990), I have created the following poster, using bold red as the background and the traditional Chinese characters of the movie title in the foreground.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Fleeting, Subtlety, Yearning…Lasting.
“花样年华是指少年男女二十岁左右青春焕发的岁月.”
In The Mood For Love by Wong Kar-wai (2000) takes on a Chinese idiom for the movie title, to which I found it quite thought intriguing. The definition of the phrase 花样年华 is not easy to define, as it represents a very ephemeral concept – mainly used to describe the years in one’s youth, alike to blossoming flowers, pretty, yet not everlasting. For the movie, I would describe it in these four words – fleeting, subtlety, yearning and lasting.
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