For the first time since 'Movie Talk' was launched in 2013, the Hong Kong Film Archive is shining a spotlight on a film music composer. His name is Tomy Wai.
Wai has now been in the industry for nearly three decades and worked on over 150 films. In 2011, he once again won Best Original Film Score at the Hong Kong Film Awards, for the score he co-wrote for Gallants (2010) with Teddy Robin. He is also the Chairman of the Hong Kong Film Composers' Association, an organisation that promotes exchanges with the film industry, protects intellectual property rights of film scores, and nurtures future generations of film composers. A composer who insists on remaining 'can-free', Wai refuses to use existing compositions or others’ original compositions. He believes that 'original music composer is absolutely not music editor', working hard to uphold the proper status of 'original score'.
Wai once said that film directors do not necessarily have to use musical vocabulary when explaining a film, but they must know the emotions being conveyed by every actor and in every shot. His job, in turn, is to translate them into music.
In January's 'Movie Talk', Wai and his close friends will visit the Hong Kong Film Archive to talk about the films he chose to showcase, and share with audiences the masterpieces that inspired him.
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