But this image was still engraved in my memory years later. It gave me the idea for Hsiao Kang’s character. The location is both a faithful mirror of Taipei’s economic depression and a powerfully imaginative place, full of mystery and artistic paintings. Did you change many things before you shot there? #Tsai ming liang full The whole world is like this place: realistic and imaginative, if you look at it in the right way! I didn’t want to change bits of the place before shooting. Finding the right location for a story is very important for me. And this place was obviously right for me. In fact, my artistic director was quite mad at me, because I forbade him to even dust the place, or step on fallen leaves. I wanted everything to appear just as it was. It’s surprising because the walls look like abstract paintings, when the little girl tells a story about frogs looking for a king, for example… He just worked on the lights and solved some technical problems, like water dropping. I am not interested in visualizing a script. I want to display a narrative in visual terms. Where does this frogs story come from? Is it a traditional Taiwanese folk tale? There are things that cannot be done artificially… So, the locations are like characters they have things to say. That’s why shooting this kind of scene with children is very stressful. It’s really important who is co-starring with children actors.
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