If you ask what is the first real war blockbuster in China, many people will definitely give such an answer: "The Gathering Number"!
Yes, that's it, don't look at wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" and "Wolf Warrior 2" later, and Lin Chaoxian's "Red Sea Action" is in the top ten of the Chinese film box office list, but in front of "The Gathering", they are all latecomers, they are all little brothers.
The film was released on December 18, 2007, and the final box office earned 246 million, directed by Chen Kexin, who was released at the same time, and starred Jet Li, Andy Lau, Jin Chengwu and others, the blockbuster "Letter of Submission" was 202 million at the box office, and "The Gathering Number", which was not optimistic before its release, was perfectly crushed by the mainland war film, whether it was a lineup or an investment, it was a luxurious large-scale Hong Kong film.
Fast forward 14 years since the film was released, but many of the stories behind the scenes are still talked about today.
As we all know, the relationship between Ge You and Feng Xiaogang is not an ordinary iron, the two have been cooperating since the early nineties, and after more than ten years of ups and downs, Ge You has become Feng Xiaogang's royal male protagonist.
Before "The Gathering Number", the two had worked together on seven movies, ge You was the male protagonist, including "Party A and Party B", "Not Seen and Not Scattered", "Endless", "Big Names", "Mobile Phones", "No Thieves in the World", "Night Feast" and so on.
In fact, before the filming of "The Gathering Number", Feng Xiaogang first thought of this movie is still to use Ge You to play the male number one Guzidi, but for the huge investment of Huayi Brothers of more than ten million US dollars, he feels that no matter how much he can not live up to it, Ge You such a comedic face, to play a heroic figure who has experienced the baptism of life and death in war, will the audience be out of the drama at a glance?
In addition, at that time, Ge You's age was more than half a hundred, and the male number one in the play was a young adult in his thirties, considering that filming such a grand war scene would be very bitter, the actor not only had to have acting skills, but also had physical strength, worried that Ge You could not bear it, Feng Xiaogang finally decided to change.
So we later saw Zhang Hanyu's interpretation of the valley land.
"The Gathering" was filmed in 2006, when Chen Shu was 29 years old, graduated from the Beijing Dance Academy, and had previously participated in many film and television dramas, and she was famous, among which the most impressive people were Fang Yanyun in "New On the Beach" and Huang Yiyi in "Dark Calculation".
Therefore, before the filming of "Gathering Number", it was convenient to invest in recommending Chen Shu to Feng Xiaogang to play the female number one Sun Guiqin.
This is definitely a very good opportunity for Chen Shu, before her work is mainly a TV series, can go to the big screen, but also with the top directors in China, for every actress, is a beautiful dream can not be more beautiful.
Feng Xiaogang also gave full trust after meeting Chen Shu for the first time, and only chatted for a while, and did not even try the play, and directly settled down.
In order to play this role well, Chen Shu made great efforts to carefully check the information and memorize the lines.
At the end of the first day of the group, Feng Xiaogang also encouraged her, "The play is good, just act like this."
At that time, Feng Xiaogang was busy with the promotion of his other movie "Night Banquet", at first he did not pay much attention to this side, and when he had time to put Chen Shu's lens on the big screen, he found a problem, he felt that the heroine temperament played by Chen Shu was not the same as the feeling he wanted, specifically Chen Shu was a little too foreign.
In this way, the crew only stayed for 5 days, and on the morning of the 6th day, Feng Xiaogang talked to Chen Shu and told her, "You don't have to shoot, go back."
Chen Shu couldn't think straight, and he was a little breathless, after all, this was a serious blow to an actor who was already a bit famous, and it was somewhat insulting.
She asked Feng Xiaogang where she was not acting well.
Feng Xiaogang explained that she felt that her temperament was too noble, too foreign, and a little inconsistent with the role.
Chen Shu was helpless, his teeth were broken, and he could only swallow it into his stomach, and later talked about it in a show, she once said, "You said that I don't shed tears, I think I'm not so strong."
Before leaving, Feng Xiaogang said a kind word to Chen Shu, "I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future", but since then, until now, the two have not said to cooperate, together with the box in front of the public has never appeared.
After Chen Shu left, Feng Xiaogang hurriedly told Huayi boss Wang Zhongjun to quickly cast a big net to choose a grounded actress to play female number one.
Although it is a great opportunity, many people have lost their confidence when they see that Chen Shu has been changed, and as a result, few actors have come to audition.
At this time, Tang Hui, a newcomer who had worked with Zhang Guoli and Deng Jie on "Brother and Hot Brother", came to the crew, and in the face of the assessment personnel, she bowed her head slightly shyly, no one looked, just talked about her own affairs.
It is this point that touched Feng Xiaogang, he felt that this girl was different, very honest, especially simple, because before some actresses came to audition, careful thinking a lot, very good at judging the situation, to see who spoke the most, the heaviest tone, he felt who had the most right to speak, and he deliberately went to please whom.
Speaking of this Tang Hui, she really has a lot of momentum, at first she studied in a local drama academy in her hometown of Jiangsu, and the teacher did not look up to her at all, and even advised her to quit school, but in the end she relied on her unremitting efforts to be admitted to the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama.
Tang Hui did not live up to Feng Xiaogang's appreciation, and the performance of Sun Guiqin was a great success, and later won the nomination for best actress at the 29th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films.
It is said that Tang Hui has such a good movie blessing, and after that, the stars should be brilliant, but she did not expect that because of one thing, her relationship with Feng Xiaogang fell to the freezing point.
Just after the filming of "The Gathering Number" during the publicity period, some media exposed that they met Feng Xiaogang and Tang Hui in an entertainment venue in Beijing, and the news headlines were very ambiguous, which was easy to make people think.
The news content revealed that a group of people first reveled in the entertainment place, after 10 o'clock in the evening, others left, Tang Hui got on Feng Xiaogang's caravan, and then went to a luxury hotel nightclub with several other people, the reporter waited outside until about 00:00 a.m. the next day, and did not see Feng Xiaogang's figure again.
In this gossip news Feng Xiaogang did not buy it, in the "Can Fan Listen" program directly confronted the hard Gang, said "after eating is to go to a piece of singing, but the camera is waiting for you, and then heard that this paparazzi is trying to hold the soup, just hire someone to shoot this, how boring, put me in, you say dirty is not dirty"?
In the end, whether this paparazzi filming these and Tang Hui have a direct relationship is unknown, but since then Feng Xiaogang has never cooperated with Tang Hui, it seems that in Feng Dao's heart, he actually thinks so, he thinks that no matter who it is, all this is intentionally arranged in advance, the purpose is nothing more than to create a topic to praise people.
Of course, it is not excluded that he was warned by his wife Xu Fan.
Now mention Tang Hui, I'm afraid few people can know it, I have to say that it should be a good hand, but it may be beaten by herself.
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