Collective memory of Mui
by friends, media, critics, colleagues ....
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/yZt4Hsg1kxE/
Thanks to AT for the link.
The director, Tsui Hark talks about Anita Mui 徐克作客"天下女人"
(Tsui Hark is the director of the film, "A better Tomorrow III" of 1989. Anita Mui played the leading female leading role for that film, and also sang the theme song. Tsui Hark talked about Anita Mui when he was a guest at the interview program "Women in this world")
(梅豔芳親自演繹了主題曲 "夕陽之歌")
訪問; 但是當時跟梅豔芳的合作是不是很順利? 據說她的脾氣比你大. 她上午都是不開口的, 是嗎?
徐克: 那個時候還好. 可是喝醉酒之後, 她脾氣就特別難控制. 我試過跟她猜拳. 結果她的猜拳是, 她贏了, 她刮你一個耳光. 你贏了, 你刮她一個耳光. 可是這個不好刮的嘛.
訪: 對, 對. 男人下不了手嘛.
徐: 贏了都是不刮. 她贏了都是刮. 不玩了, 不玩了. 好特別啊. 猜了幾十次之後, 不玩了. 但是演戲的時候
訪: 她又是個很有靈氣的人, 對不對? 你是不是說一遍戲, 她就能夠明白?
徐: 我們講有時候她會在鏡頭裏面出現一些很讓你着迷的東西. 跟她跳舞一樣. 舞臺上同一個舞, 人家跳, 她跳, 總覺得梅豔芳跳得不太一樣. 在鏡頭裏面, 她這個特寫出來跟別人特寫的就不一樣. 後來她演喜劇, 我覺得有點怪怪的
訪: 對啊, 我也不喜歡她演喜劇
徐: 我也說過, 我叫她不要再演喜劇, 要演喜劇, 演我的喜劇, 不要演別人的喜劇
訪: 原來還有點私心在裏面. 後來她得病去世的時候, 其實也表現得挺堅强的, 所以她最後選擇那樣的方式離開, 你覺得你能夠理解嗎?
徐 ; 因為她最後做演唱會? 那時候她已經好像體力不支了.
訪: 對啊!
徐: 我當時覺得, 她是不是想暈倒在臺上, 我搞不清楚. 我有去看, 站在下面, 觀眾席燈是全亮着. 一般演唱會觀眾席是黑的, 她的演唱會觀眾席是亮的, 跟她一樣, 特別亮, 她要看下面的觀眾來唱. 當時我很感動. 而且唱完之後, 他們一大堆人跑到後臺去. 我就沒有去, 我當時就跟一個朋友說, 把今天的照片傳給我, 我希望有這麽一個紀念, 就今天晚上這個東西.
訪: 你為什麽不去後臺去看她?
徐: 我覺得她很累. 表演完了之後, 還有一大堆人圍着她, 她要對每一個人很圓滑, 招待我們每一個人. 我覺得她好像不必要這樣做. 我沒有去. 後來就沒有再見面.
訪: 你是不是在那個時候也有很强的預感那是她最後一次演出?
徐: 應該是. 因為那時候她穿了婚紗. 在最後一場穿了婚紗, 唱的是那時候我跟她拍的戲叫"夕陽之歌", 我就覺得這個太戲劇化了.
訪: 這是她的一種告別方式.?
徐: 對啊! 她一輩子都好像須要愛情, 需要跟一個人在一起, 一直都沒有, 然後還是在舞臺上, 她把婚禮在舞臺上舉行了. 這樣子, 我當時看了覺得
訪: 難過?
徐: 梅豔芳, 你還是太過執着這個東西.
Interviewer: At time, when you worked with Anita Mui, was it very smooth? It was said that her temper was worse than yours. She never talked to anyone in the morning, didn't she?
Tsui: That time she was okay. But after she got drunk, her temper was particularly difficult to control. I tried to play a guessing game of fingers with her. Her guessing game was like this: - if she won, she would slap you on the cheek; if you won, you would slap her on the cheek. But you could not slap her.
Interviewer: Exactly. Man could not slap a woman.
Tsui: When I won, I could not slap her on the cheek. When she won, she slapped me on the cheek. I wanted to stop playing with her. It was so special. We played a few tens rounds, and then stopped playing. But when she was acting
Interviewer: She was a person with inspiration ( divine spirit), was it correct? After you talked about the script just once, she could understand already.
Tsui: We often said that in the camera, she could show you something that could charm you. Just like her dancing, the same dance on the stage, other people danced, she danced, but we always felt Anita Mui always danced not the same as others. In the camera, the special shot of her was always different from the special shot of others. Later on, she acted for comedy, I always felt strange about it.
Interviewer: correct. I don't like her playing comedy.
Tsui: I told her not to shoot for comedy. If she wanted to play in comedy, she should play in my comedy, don't play for others' comedy.
Interviewer: Some selfishness. Later when she got sick and passed away, actually she appeared to be very tough. Therefore she finally chose to leave in that way. Do you feel that you could understand it?
Tsui: Because she held the last concert? At that time she was already physically very weak.
Interviewer: Yes.
Tsui: At that time I was wondering if she wanted to faint on the stage. I was not too sure what was going on. I went to watch the concert, I was in the auditorium among audience. The auditorium was completely brightly lit. In normal concerts, the auditorium was in dark. In her concert, the auditorium was brightly lid. Just like her, particularly bright. She wanted to see her audience and sang. At that time, I was very touched. After the concert, the whole group went to back stage . I didn't go. But I asked a friend to send me the pictures of that night. I wished to have those pictures as a souvenir, just the things of that night
Interviewer: Why you didn't go to back stage to see her?
Tsui: I felt that she was very tired. After performance, still a large group around her, She was nice to everyone, she had to entertain everyone. I felt it's not necessary for her to do that. I didn't go. Then I never got to see her again.
Interviewer: At that time, did you have very strong premonition that it was her last performance?
Tsui: Should be, because she put on the wedding gown, at the last scene she put on the wedding gown, and she performed the song "Sunset Melody, that was the film we worked together, I just felt it was too dramatic.
Interviewer: This was her way of saying farewell.
Tsui: Exactly. For her whole life, it seemed she needed love (romantic love), needed to be with someone, but she never had. Then it's on the stage, she held her wedding ceremony on the stage. When I watched it, I felt
Interviewer: Sad
Tsui: Anita Mui, you are still so persistent about this.