Chapter 25

This single scene took a full two days to shoot. The actors didn't know what they were performing, and they certainly didn't know what the director was filming. Fortunately, Chen Ming's ordeal came to an end, and Wong Kar-wai turned his focus to torturing Tony Leung. For a single scene of punching a wooden dummy in a living room at dusk, Tony Leung shot for three days until he actually fractured his arm. It was a genuine fracture. But he was a true professional; he would wear a cast while filming dialogue scenes, keeping it hidden, just showing his face... Time slipped away quietly, and in the blink of an eye, July arrived. The film had been in production for over three months, but the progress was, to put it mildly, difficult to describe. Chen Ming received news that he needed to join the cast of The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate for promotional activities. In his memory, the film was supposed to be released at the end of the year; he wasn't sure why it had been moved to the July slot, though fortunately, it avoided clashes with *Thor*, *Fast Five*, and *Kung Fu Panda*.