From Wayne Wang: we had no idea what to shoot when we went into this. We just read the newspaper every day and decided what to shoot for that day. Maggie Cheung is a bit crazy but full of HK vibe and she needed no script (WKW?). Gong Li was in because the production company wanted it. He was naive about the handover, but things happened eventually
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