Yesterday's movie was "What Time Is It There?" and today's movie is "Where has the Skywalk Gone?" As mentioned before, in the first film, the guy is selling watches, and he sells them out of a briefcase on a pedestrian overpass. The movie continues with her going to Paris on vacation and him staying in Taipei, and they never meet again.
The next film with these characters is the infamous "The Wayward Cloud" which is a musical about the pornography industry. Basically the guy has his watches stolen so to make money he becomes an actor for pornographic videos. Eventually the two characters meet again, there are a few musical numbers, and one incredible ending. Also a very very memorable sex scene involving a watermelon. It's actually a very good movie.
Anyway, there was about five years between these movies, and the director, Ming-Liang Tsai, made another movie in between them (the movie about the movie theatre). So to refresh people's memory about these characters he made a shot film called "Where Has The Skywalk Gone?" which takes place immediately after the first movie and immediately before the next. In this movie the lady returns to Taipei from her trip to Paris, and goes to the overpass to find the guy, but since the overpass has been taken down by the government, she can't find him. They do pass by each other on the street without knowing it, and he goes into a company that makes pornographic videos for an interview.
Well pictured, is where the overpass used to be. The big building to the left is Taipei train station. The director likes to joke that the places where many of his movies have been filmed, are now gone. The theatre was soon closed after he made that movie, the skywalk is gone, and a few other things from other movies are gone.
To be quite honest that overpass should have never been taken down, cause this area is so crowded, and there is an underpass, but it's so crowded going up and down those stairs, it would be nice to have another option. Thankfully there are quire a few other pedestrian overpasses in Taipei. Being a fan of Japanese anime, it seems to be a rule that all of them must have one touching scene between two characters on an overpass. So i've always thought of overpasses being quite quaint. I'm still waiting for my own touching scene on an overpass.
Oh if you want to see what the overpass was like, you can go to the imdb page for "What Time Is It There?" the picture for the left trailer is of the overpass, and the picture for the right trailer is of clock building from yesterday.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269746/
