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
the Hong
Kong in
Wong
Kar-wai’s
eyes
"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 them to break their routines and move on."

-Wong Kar-wai