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This drastically changes the feeling of the scene and more importantly the meaning/focus of it. In the restored version, as soon as Tony rejects the letter and starts drinking the coffee, the song "Dream Person" aka "Dreams" sung by Faye Wong starts playing. Faye is merely in the background, admiring him from a distance, and gradually gaining a fondness for him. The main focus of the scene is Tony's perspective. Especially since we immediately get the scene of him being lonely and saying "Ever since she left, everything in the apartment is sad". This clearly is meant to bring our focus to how Tony's character is feeling about his lover leaving him. When Tony drinks the coffee, we hear the sound of an airplane. In the original version, there is no music during this section. We then get scenes of Tony being sad and lonely, talking to inanimate objects in his apartment. He then narrates "Ever since she left, everything in the apartment is sad". Tony then takes a leave of absence from work. Tony is thinking about his lover who had just left him. Then there is a "step printed" shot of Tony drinking coffee and Faye gazing at him. In the scene at around the 56 minute mark, Faye's character is telling Tony's character that his lover (Valerie Chow) left a letter for him. On the other hand, I found a different major change. Sorry for misleading people into thinking that the scene was changed in the film. Now that I see what they were doing, I'm all for that aspect. Interesting that they took time to restore the trailer footage / alternate takes. So that is a good thing that they didn't change it. The toy airplane landing take used in the actual restored film is the same as the one from the old Criterion release. I checked the Chungking Express restoration on the Lincoln Center screening. That doesn't necessarily mean those alternate takes have been edited into the actual movies, though. So it looks to me like Jet Tone not only restored the films but also the trailers, including whatever alternate takes were used therein. I don't think I got an exact frame match for this one because of the borked gamma on the original trailer that obliterates much of the detail, but they're clearly the same take: The re-release trailer is identical to the original trailer except for the title cards. There are any number of pre-release trailers (not exclusively for WKW films) that use alternate takes or even scenes and shots completely missing from the finished film I can't think of another example where a re-release trailer does that.
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Just a thing about " Chungking Express" : the restoration trailer is not an excerpt of the movie, but a trailer, and sometimes with Wong Kar Wai, trailers could content some different cuts or angles, even some outtakes unused (2046 trailer on the TF1/Ocean DVD is one of the best example : the movie looks like it was more focus on the tunnel, a kind of "Zone" temporal, suspended time like in "Stalker" for lovers.)