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...That's where the real difficulties began. With SARS at full strength during the filming last spring, Chang had to hurry to capture a cameo spot by Tony Leung Ka-fai to avoid the quarantine measures Taiwan was about to impose on travelers from Hong Kong. When Chang wanted to shoot a scene at Taipei's airport, officials allowed in only 50 cast and crew members?a paltry number to simulate an airport throng. "I was thinking maybe a flight would come in, and there could be people in the background," Chang says. "But all the flights were canceled...
...women. So the true stars of this year's festival were luminous presences like Gong Li, who never seemed more relaxed and human than in Sun Zhou's triangle romance Zhou Yu's Train-we note, with pleasure, her steamy sex scene with Hong Kong's Tony Leung Ka-fai-and Korea's Moon So Ri, the lead in A Good Lawyer's Wife. As a sexually vital and frustrated woman who says, "I seem to have lost my G spot," and then tumbles into a reviving affair with the teenaged boy next door, Moon is the charismatic anchor...
...Gong Li plays Zhou Yu, a young artist. On a business trip to the city of Chongyang, Zhou meets the shy poet Chen Ching, played by Tony Leung Ka-fai (the other Tony Leung). Chen falls in love with Zhou because, well, she's played by Gong Li, and Zhou falls in love with Chen because he's a sensitive poet. Zhou travels twice a week by train to meet Chen, who rarely leaves his library. Zhou spends so much time on the train that the sound of the wheels and the spinning scenery dominate her memories; director Sun Zhou...
...Locals know the phenomenon as bung fai paya nak (Naga fireballs), which have been bubbling up from the mighty river on the late autumn night of the full moon at the end of the Buddhist Lent for as long as anyone can remember. "I've seen them since I was a little girl," says Pang Butamee, 70, who lives in a flood-prone hut on the river's edge. Nearby is Wat Paa Luang?an elegant, 450-year-old temple and one of the most popular spots to watch the fireballs. "I've seen them come up from the river...
...thinking, I'm dealing. I work on finance and promotions. I'm the controller. Every film is like a battle, and I have to organize the soldiers who fight with me. But the battle is usually good. A lot of people call me 'The General' and Ka-fai 'The Minister...