Why In the Mood for Love Pushed Wong Kar Wai to the Edge

[Music] from start to end it was about 15 months but we didn't shoot the whole 15 months it was on and off because we had a lot of technical problems the whole process is very painful because it's like loving two person at the same time he says thiser says to me is that all you can do Chris and you don't know when will he shoot again you have to you know keep the mood if a script writer and a director spends if they spend six months in the in an office writing a script we spent six months of this shooting things to make the SCP a script [Music] we have to find a way to stop this we need a deadline so okay I I said okay we can go to Khan and now we we have to [Music] stop in 1997 one car planned to make two films happy together in Argentina and a more light-hearted film in China his concept initially was that the China film would be called Sumer in Beijing and would be largely concerned with relationship in terms of food well in fact we we started the project and it has three story in it the actual story we see in in a mood for actually is only 30 minutes it's only concentrate in the restaurants in the noodle shops that the staircase they buy noodles detailing and Affairs he adapted the idea from a Japanese short story that is about two neighbors it's very much about the two people going up and down the staircase and seeing each other in the staircase and that gave him the idea to have us as neighbors