Hangzhou, December 22 (Liu Wenbin) "At the beginning of the cooperation with Jackie Chan, I was going to shoot a traditional type of action movie, but I was not very satisfied after the script was completed, and I later told Jackie Chan that I wanted to scrap the original one. I felt that film genre China was very lacking, and China now needed to do experimental themes, so I decided to innovate. Speaking of the innovation of "Blood of the Machine" in the theme, director Zhang Lijia said so.
Pictured: Stills from the movie "Blood of the Machine". Picture courtesy of the tablet
On the 22nd, the New Year action movie "Blood of the Machine" starring Jackie Chan landed in major theaters to meet with fans. In order to cooperate with the release of the film, the film released a director's production special, which deeply revealed the filming process of the film.
At the previous "Blood of the Machine" conference, Zhang Lijia revealed that it can achieve realistic effects, gun battles, explosion scenes are all real guns, and the investment amount is very large.
"I've always believed that the time and money invested in a film determines the quality of a commercial film. In the opening rain action scene alone, we used more than 1700 shots, fifty or sixty guns, and shot from dawn to dark every day. In the special edition, Zhang Lijia revealed the details of the shooting, filming a gunfight in Taiwan for more than twenty days, a scene filmed for more than twenty days, and a village in the middle of the mountain. In total, seven vehicles and two armored vehicles were bombed, and a gas station and several small buildings were blown up.
To this end, Jackie Chan also exclaimed: "More than twelve thousand rounds of bullets, all finished for us." ”
In the past Jackie Chan movies, the audience is most looking forward to the picture of Jackie Chan's waist bolt Weiya jumping out of a tall building, or breaking out of the wall behind the fiery flames. The reporter saw that the degree of danger in "Blood of the Machine" escalated again, and the scenes such as explosions, gun battles, and car chases presented the shooting state of real fighting and falling, which was very shocking.
In addition to exposing many shooting details of the film, the production team behind the scenes also appeared for the first time. The reporter learned that the crew of "Blood of the Machine" specially invited luo Lixian, a famous action stunt director who had participated in the production of action classics such as "Plan B" and "Blood Double Male". And he is also an industry senior who has been working with Jackie Chan since he entered the industry in 1985. Luo Lixian revealed: "We crashed more than a dozen cars, all the explosions are very close to people, the nearest distance from people may not be more than a meter." ”
In such an action film, the safety of the actors is naturally very important. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the crew of "Blood of the Machine" has carefully designed each explosion point and action. The professionalism of the behind-the-scenes personnel impressed the actors very much, and the lead actor Xiahou Yunshan said: "They have been doing this film industry for decades, all the difficult moves rely on them, they are very professional. ”
Pictured: Poster of the movie "Blood of the Machine". Picture courtesy of the tablet
Not only that, the film also has great innovations in the theme. Zhang Lijia previously compared himself to a person who "eats crabs" in an interview, "I think the first person to eat crabs is either poisoned or incense dead, and it is more likely for me to use the former." So I came to be the first person to eat crab, which was a bold attempt and an unprecedented breakthrough. From the script to the start of filming, it took three years in between, plus shooting and release, in fact, it took four years, plus the story itself spanned more than ten years, and various styles of things were available, which was very difficult to operate. ”
For Zhang Lijia's persistence and innovation, Jackie Chan, who is the producer of the film, expressed great support: "The director must have everything, such as car chases, shooting, punching and kicking, and so on. I think Zhang Lijia is not only a very enthusiastic director, but also a director who wants to innovate and wants to shoot seriously. ”
It is reported that "Blood of the Machine" is produced by Jackie Chan, directed by Zhang Lijia, starring Jackie Chan and Luo Zhixiang, Ouyang Nana, Xiahou Yunshan, Callan Mulvey, Tess Haubrich and other actors, released on December 22. (End)