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July 18, 2005
It's a term of endearment: more from drunken sailor Christopher Doyle
The Observer's Gaby Wood has open ears for yet another session with the great shooter and ranter Christopher Doyle: "Calls to a Hong Kong mobile phone go unreturned, and when eventually I doorstep him at the SoHo Grand Hotel, I see why. There before him on a table in the outdoor bar, next to a bottle of beer and some uneaten oysters, are 4 phones, all different shapes and nationalities, all of them switched off. 'Terrible for a marriage,' he says, unprompted, of his travels... He makes no secret of his love for Asian women or of his preference for beer as breakfast, and is clearly aware of the legend that precedes him.... He is known for his perfectionism and eccentricity. A single love scene in Days of Being Wild, the first of 7 films... made with... Wong Kar-Wai, [took] 53 takes. Their last film together, 2046, took five years to make. For Zhang Yimou's Hero, Doyle insisted on filming a certain kind of tree that only blossoms in Mongolia for 10 days a year... On Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon he drank a bottle and half of whisky a day... [Doyle] is... storyboarding M Night Shyamalan's next eerie blockbuster... When asked if he grew up watching movies...: 'In Australia? No, you go to the movies to fuck!' ... 'In my world... talent is an insult. If you say, "Where is the talent?", you mean "Where is the stupid bitch?"' It's perhaps not surprising that when I ask Doyle to teach me a few words of Chinese, the... most useful phrase he comes up with is: 'You stupid cunt.' He seems offended that I have no plans to use it. 'It's a term of endearment,' he insists."
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