【阿萨】亚斯这算是告白吗

但剧集化也有其突出的弊病：相比前作虽然小成本却精致的手持长镜调度，预算提高后的影像反倒呈现出廉价如《艾米丽在巴黎》般的质感。群像扩容也导致情节更频繁地失焦。关于行业的探讨和段子是对影迷而言的“彩蛋”，但插入的方式有时也略显生硬，没有形成有机的整体。



这也就导致了观感杂乱，尤其是在失去了张曼玉作为“外来者”的视角之后，整部片子的情感支点被一下子削弱，导致我全程思考：这“可以但不必”的翻拍，究竟是为了什么？


没想到阿萨亚斯亲自下场答疑。


在第三集结尾，一位心理咨询师向剧里的导演连环发问：你为什么要再拍一遍这个作品？你的焦虑是因为之前的那位中国女演员吗？你们结婚了多久？谁提的分开？为什么这次要找一个美国演员？
导演的回答非常直白：如果再找一个中国演员，他还会想起她。而此时，银幕上甚至出现了《迷离劫》中张曼玉的镜头混剪。



这段对话基本就是阿萨亚斯在向观众介绍自己的往事。他当时在为《迷离劫》选角时认识了张曼玉，两人在片场坠入爱河，并迅速成婚定居巴黎。


但婚后一个月，张曼玉就回到香港拍摄《花样年华》，本以为只是离开三个月，最后却因为王家卫的拖延症拍了一年多，等回到巴黎时，一切都已经变了。

不过张曼玉不后悔拍花样年华。

访谈中的一个问答：

Q： There is an obvious and major shift involved in the story here in that the main character is now a European actress versus a Chinese actress. Can you talk to me about making that choice?

A.V.: That’s brought up in the series. It will come up. [Laughs.] You can answer that question.

O.A.: To me, the thing is that I used Maggie as Maggie. Even if, of course, the Maggie is not exactly the Maggie in real life. We used her name, we used her career, we used the fact that she had been playing the girlfriend of Jackie Chan in so many movies. But to me at that point, it was about East meets West. When I was a journalist, I really championed Asian films and genre filmmaking, and that’s always been important to me as an inspiration — bringing the energy of Chinese cinema into the world of independent French filmmaking at a moment when I felt the French industry was less vital than it was in the past, and filmmaking was happening in such a fascinating and powerful way in Asia. But now I don’t think it works that way anymore. People are very aware of Asian cinema and Hong Kong films have faded in many ways.

Maggie was like an alien coming from the Orient, and Mira is an alien coming from Hollywood. I like the idea of confronting what’s going on in Hollywood with blockbusters and special-effects movies, and indie filmmaking in Europe. Hollywood is always a caricature. It’s an easy target. The way I put it in the film is that Maggie has been such a big part of my life, we were married for many years, and there was no Chinese actress in my view who could substitute for Maggie. It would not have made sense; I wanted to keep intact what happened with Maggie on Irma Vep.