On the morning after the award ceremony, he welcomed us in his café in Taipei, located in the former assembly hall of the Japanese colonial government. Why did you return to Taipei? And how did you choose the main location – an abandoned building left in ruins? ”Stray Dogs” is your first film shot in Taipei since ”Goodbye Dragon Inn” in 2003. In fact, I have always directed films that are close to my life and to my city Taipei. Three or four years ago I received an invitation from the public television in Taiwan, to shoot a film based on a screenplay about a father and his children. I envisioned Lee Kang-sheng for this part. I thought of this man I saw ten years ago in the streets of Taipei who was holding up an advertisement sign. It was not for housing, like in the movie, but for tour packages. 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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