In an interview, Chang Chen explained different methods for getting performances Edward Yang would use. He describes one scene that left an impression on him. In the scene were Xaio Si'r discovers the slaughter at the pool hall, Chang, being a young boy at the time, had no idea how to convey the kind of emotion (discovering a dead body for the first time). So the day Chang arrived at the shoot, Yang out of nowhere starts yelling at him and told him to sit in a dark room, stare at the wall, and think about the performance. After a half-hour, Yang brings Chang out of the room and immediately shoots the scene. As you can see in the film, Chang is completely petrified.

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