{"id":428218,"date":"2022-04-05T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:50:12","slug":"the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Slow-Fast Effect in &#8216;Chungking Express&#8217; Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261d2c03158\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261d2c03158\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Slow-Fast_Effect_in_%E2%80%98Chungking_Express_Explained%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Slow-Fast Effect in &#8216;Chungking Express&#8217; Explained&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/#Watch_%E2%80%9CHow_did_they_do_this_in_Chungking_Express%E2%80%9D\" >Watch \u201cHow did they do this in Chungking Express?\u201d:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/#More_videos_like_this\" >More videos like this<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-slow-fast-effect-in-chungking-express-explained\/#Recommended_Reading\" >Recommended Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Slow-Fast_Effect_in_%E2%80%98Chungking_Express_Explained%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Slow-Fast Effect in &#8216;Chungking Express&#8217; Explained&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media \">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chungking_Express_speed_effect.jpeg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Chungking Express Speed Effect\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chungking_Express_speed_effect.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chungking_Express_speed_effect-768x462.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><br \/>\n                        <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">The Criterion Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <!-- START BYLINE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n            By\u00a0Meg Shields\u00a0\u00b7 Published on April 5th, 2022\n            <\/div>\n<p>        <!-- END BYLINE --><\/p>\n<p>        <em>Welcome to The Queue \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay that unpacks how (and why) Chungking Express creates its iconic slow-but-fast effect.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Released in 1994,\u00a0<em><strong>Chungking Express<\/strong><\/em> tells the story of two policemen in Hong Kong reeling from their respective breakups. Then each of them falls in love, the hot-headed Cop 223 (<strong>Takeshi Kaneshiro<\/strong>) with a wig-sporting femme fatale who turns out to be a deadly drug dealer and the melancholic Cop 663 (<strong>Tony Leung<\/strong>) with an ethereal server at a takeaway restaurant. Despite the similarities of their stories, both men have very different relationships with time \u2026 and with the way that time inflects their relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Where Cop 223 is decisive and action-oriented, Cop 663 lacks initiative and is a bit of a slow-mover, preferring to give himself over to the regularities of routine than to leap headfirst into the unknown. <em>Chungking Express<\/em> is a story (well,\u00a0<em>two\u00a0<\/em>stories) keenly interested in time, habits, and expiration dates. This is, as is the case with much of Wong Kar-wai\u2019s work, no doubt another refraction of the director\u2019s career-long interest in reifying the anxieties of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/articles\/wong-kar-wai-cinema-hong-kong-transition\/\">the infamous British lease on his homeland<\/a>; a looming deadline that permeated every aspect of local life.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the stories (and policemen) in\u00a0<em>Chungking Express\u00a0<\/em>have very different relationships to the experience of time. And both stories\u2019 cinematographers \u2014 Andrew Lau and Christopher Doyle \u2014 capture those different experiences with powerful variations of a striking visual trick: a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>py slow-but-fast-motion effect.<\/p>\n<p>As the video essay below explains in further detail, the effect is the result of two related processes: step printing and under-cranking. To make a long story short (and to avoid spoiling too much of the video), step printing has to do with how many frames we\u2019re seeing and the under-cranking affects the blurriness of the movement. But as with most technical explanations, seeing (rather than reading) how things are done is always more fun. So, without further ado:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watch_%E2%80%9CHow_did_they_do_this_in_Chungking_Express%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Watch \u201cHow did they do this in Chungking Express?\u201d:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How did they do this in Chungking Express?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TAGuU4i6KaQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-inc=\"3\">This video essay on the slow-but-fast effect in <em>Chungking Express\u00a0<\/em>is by Canadian video essayist\u00a0<strong>Alex Boucher<\/strong>. Their videos cover a wide range of topics, from filmography rankings to more theoretical essays and opinion pieces. You can subscribe to their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> account <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMG5uQag6BoG4w4rH7iGt4w\/featured\">here<\/a>. And you can follow them over at Letterboxd <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/af15alex\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_videos_like_this\"><\/span>More videos like this<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>        Related Topics: Chungking Express, The Queue<br \/>\n        <!-- AUTHOR BOX --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/meg.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Meg Shields is the humble farm boy of your dreams and a senior contributor at Film School Rejects. She currently runs three columns at FSR: The Queue, How&#8217;d They Do That?, and Horrorscope. She is also a curator for One Perfect Shot and a freelance writer for hire. Meg can be found screaming about John Boorman&#8217;s &#8216;Excalibur&#8217; on Twitter here: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWorstNun\">@TheWorstNun<\/a>. (She\/Her).        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"recommended py-5\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recommended_Reading\"><\/span>Recommended Reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p>                <!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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