Talk:Chungking Express

Repeated song

Was "Dreams" is played several times? I remembered it to be only as end theme song. --Menchi (Talk)â 09:26, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The song is "Dream Person" (not "Dreams") by Faye Wong. It can be found on her album "Random Thoughts". Visit the Faye Wong page on Wikipedia for more information. The song plays when Faye is cleaning the apartment, and as well at the end of the film. Her song "Know Oneself and Each Other" (also found on "Random Thoughts") is as well in the movie very briefly during one of the bar sequences when Tony is sitting by the jukebox. Jason Gervais 17:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Names and Fallen Angels

"Kaneshiro Takeshi" and "Wong Faye" aren't the english/western ways of putting their names. In English they're known was Takeshi Kanesiro and Faye Wong. I'd think it'd be logical to change the names to this because Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Wong Kar Wai in put into "western" form.

Also should it be mentioned that WKW filmed two additional stories that were intially planned to be told in Chungking Express, but were left out and fleshed out to form Fallen Angels. It also features Takeshi Kaneshiro. The story takes place in the same universe and has the same themes as Chungking Express.

Referring to your second paragraph: It's actually only one additional story, not two. Jason Gervais 17:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

JFYI, Wong Kar Wai is not the "western" form. Timmyshin (talk) 11:08, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Forest or jungle?

The introduction gives two different literal translations of the Chinese title: Chungking Forest and Chungking Jungle. Someone who knows Chinese should correct whichever is wrong. In case there's a problem differentiating the two English words, a forest is a general term for a large tract of land in any climate which is covered with trees and undergrowth but which is not typically impenetrable. A person might fairly easily go for a casual walk through a forest. A jungle, in contrast, is typically in a tropical or at least very humid climate and has much denser vegetation than a forest, so dense that it is practically impenetrable; walking through a jungle would take a considerable amount of effort. Jungle is a more dramatic word than forest, so I would think it might be preferable, but since the intention is to give the literal meaning of the Chinese word, someone who knows Chinese well should make the correction.--Jim10701 (talk) 22:02, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

森林 can mean either Forest or Jungle. 220.255.1.131 (talk) 14:05, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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Plot

Yo. I find it a bit rich to be accused of "vindictive and unconstructive editing" when the very edit being undone was a compromise: keeping the information about the two-story structure while trimming the fluff.

Speaking of fluff:

"Except for a brief moment when the first story ends and the second begins, the two stories do not interconnect.

However, the three main characters from the second story each momentarily appear during the first."

is not important to plot and should be omitted. We're just trying to summarise the events of the film here, there's no need for a breakdown about "brief moments" when scenes overlap or which characters momentarily appear or whatever. See WP:PLOT, which states: "The plot summary is an overview of the film's main events, so avoid minutiae like dialogue, scene-by-scene breakdowns, individual jokes, and technical detail." Popcornduff (talk) 14:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Sorry Popcornduff – I just saw the absence of subsection headings and lazily assumed you undid my edit entirely. I apologise. It's fine to edit for brevity but I think a bit of extra context is sometimes worth some wordiness too. Citobun (talk) 14:47, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Well done for being one of the 1% of pissed-off Wiki editors who admits when they made a mistake (a 1% I sadly do not always belong to myself). As per my explanation above I've removed the information I consider superfluous again; I don't think we need to say the stories both involve heartbroken police officers when exactly this is explained in the summary itself. Popcornduff (talk) 14:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Critical Response section update

Proposing removal of semi-pro review by James Berardinelli plus addition of other reviews equal in status to Roger Ebert and Sight & Sound.

• "Prolific" output by a writer can be applauded, but the purpose of the Critical Reception section is to show the range of reviews which had impact on the success/popularity of the film. The inclusion of this quote by "not a professional movie reviewer" seems self-serving.
  
• Rolling Stone, Variety, New York Times would be justified additions, especially to demonstrate the film's varying range of praise and criticism.
  

GimmeChoco44 (talk) 08:59, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

References

Moving forward on revising critical response list. GimmeChoco44 (talk) 09:03, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Name of Character played by Kaneshiro

From what I can see, his name 何志武 in pinyin should be He Zhiwu, not He Qiwu as written in the article. Can anyone else confirm this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.0.186.38 (talk) 19:41, 25 June 2020 (UTC)