A Different Tony Leung in Wong Kar-wai’s Chunking Express Chungking Express draws a restless alienation and ambiguity between urban people in Hong Kong, and delicates the subtle people relationship happened on four characters in the modern city. Cope 633, acted by Tony Leung, is one of the isolated figure. Wong Kar-wai’s unique directing style and soundtracks make the film stand out in many art films in the nineties of Hong Kong. In Wong Kar-wai’s movie, Chunking Express, Tony Leung’s acting has been a certain degree of promotion. Wong Kar-Wai’s mise-en-scene plays an important part to help Tony Leung become a success actor. Wong is good at using lighting, stylish camera shots to build the atmosphere for the actor. Cooperated with
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Compare to his partner, Faye Wong, Leung’s acting is more mature. Therefore, Wong Kar-wai’s mise-en-scene releases Tong Leung’s acting, and Liang’s unique acting style in Delsarte system and method acting applied in subtle facial expressions to act as a mature male character through his personal experience which makes him distinguish from many other Hongkong actors. Wong Kar-Wai’s stylish directing helps Leung to shape his character in-depth. In “Giving Performance Elements Their Due,” Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke writes, “Directorial visions display a range of strategies for integrating performance and other cinematic elements” (38). In a certain degree, director is the soul of a movie, that his vision determines the performer’s acting. In Wong Kar-wai’s movies, including Chungking Express, are followed a fragmental narrative structure, primarily with an amount of voice-over. In the point of view of Wong Kai-wai, he focuses on the typical or questionable characters in the society like killers, prostitutes, and police. For example, cop 633, the character Leung played, is a normal institution in the society, but he has the characteristics of mobility, alienation, and insecurity. The fragment structure connecting through characters’ inner
Compare to his partner, Faye Wong, Leung’s acting is more mature. Therefore, Wong Kar-wai’s mise-en-scene releases Tong Leung’s acting, and Liang’s unique acting style in Delsarte system and method acting applied in subtle facial expressions to act as a mature male character through his personal experience which makes him distinguish from many other Hongkong actors. Wong Kar-Wai’s stylish directing helps Leung to shape his character in-depth. In “Giving Performance Elements Their Due,” Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke writes, “Directorial visions display a range of strategies for integrating performance and other cinematic elements” (38). In a certain degree, director is the soul of a movie, that his vision determines the performer’s acting. In Wong Kar-wai’s movies, including Chungking Express, are followed a fragmental narrative structure, primarily with an amount of voice-over. In the point of view of Wong Kai-wai, he focuses on the typical or questionable characters in the society like killers, prostitutes, and police. For example, cop 633, the character Leung played, is a normal institution in the society, but he has the characteristics of mobility, alienation, and insecurity. The fragment structure connecting through characters’ inner