In 2009, Feng Xiaogang spent 200 million yuan to shoot "Tangshan Earthquake", Zhang Ziyi took the initiative to find Feng Xiaogang, originally arranged for her sister, she felt that the role was too small, said that she was willing to drop 10 million films to play her mother, Feng Xiaogang said: "Please can't afford it, my mother let my wife Xu Fan star, not a penny out!" ”
Zhang Ziyi was speechless, and Feng Xiaogang found small actors Zhang Zifeng and Zhang Jingchu to perfectly complete the role of sister.
In 2007, Feng Xiaogang saw Zhang Ling's novel "Aftershock", not long after, Tangshan relevant departments found Feng Xiaogang, hoping that he could shoot a film about the Tangshan earthquake, Feng Xiaogang was ecstatic, took the book to Su Xiaowei, and the two people began to catch the script day and night.
Who knows, before filming began, it caught up with the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.
In this dilemma, Feng Xiaogang insisted on shooting, and his friend Ma Weidu said: "Disaster films are not easy to shoot, the investment is large, and technology is needed!" The entire film needs 200 million funds, the investor only gave 120 million, the special effects are a big head, so Feng Xiaogang invited the Hollywood special effects team and invited more than 90 special effects personnel.
It took 8 months to do more than 260 special effects shots, and the cost was as high as 70 million.
The funds are not enough, can only save from other places, Chen Daoming heard that Feng Xiaogang wanted to shoot "Tangshan Earthquake", took the initiative to find Feng Xiaogang: "Xiao Gang, as an experiencer of the Tangshan earthquake, I am willing to star in zero remuneration!" After Feng Xiaogang arranged for Chen Daoming to audition, he decided on the spot to let him play the role of his adoptive father.
Zhang Ziyi had already entered the international stage with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and she had a premonition that this film would become popular.
So she took the initiative to find Feng Xiaogang, Feng Xiaogang arranged for her sister Fang Stool to become an adult, Zhang Ziyi read the script, felt that the role was too little, so she took the initiative to propose: "Director Feng, the role of Fang Stool is too weak, can you change it again?" "At that time, the script was almost polished, and it would be crazy to rewrite the screenplay!"
Feng Xiaogang said: "Ziyi, this can't be changed!" ”
Zhang Ziyi made a clever move: "In this way, Director Feng, I will reduce my salary by 10 million pieces and play the role of mother!" Feng Xiaogang said: "That does not have to be paid 20 million films, I still can't afford it, the role of mother has been decided, my wife Xu Fan starred, not a penny out." ”
Later, Feng Xiaogang boldly enabled Zhang Jing to play the adult Fang Deng.
These are all set, the next thing that makes Feng Xiaogang worried is the small actor, how can the child be so young to express that feeling, so he began to interview the small actor, when it was Zhang Zifeng's turn, Feng Xiaogang asked her: "Child, how do you understand this story?" ”
8-year-old Zhang Zifeng immediately entered the play: "Why does my mother only save her brother and not me, I am also her child!" ”
Feng Xiaogang looked at the sad crying child in front of him, he thought to himself, there are still difficult things to do next, Feng Xiaogang invited the survivors of the Tangshan earthquake to do a group performance, but this matter is also very risky, fortunately they agreed without saying a word, they entered the factory soon, the weather began to rain.
It went down for six days in a row, which made Feng Xiaogang anxious, with a daily rent of thirty thousand US dollars and a direct loss of 200,000 US dollars for six days.
In October, the weather is already a little cold, the survivors are wearing vests, drenched in rain acting, the plot came to ten years later, people burned paper to pay tribute to the relatives who were killed, in order to let the group performance enter the play as soon as possible, Feng Dao proposed that if there is a group performance that lost relatives in the earthquake, the relatives nagging in their hearts.
As a result, the scene was touching, and there were already tears before the shooting began, and Feng Xiaogang hid in the corner silently crying after filming.
Especially I remember a scene, when Zhang Jingchu returned home after becoming an adult, the mother played by Xu Fan "poofed" and knelt on the ground, and the two mothers and daughters embraced each other and cried. Xu Fan said that this action was not originally in the script, nor was it required by the director, in fact, she did not think about how to act before filming.
But when she actually saw her daughter (in the play), she thought that she had to kneel down at that time!
After many hardships, "Tangshan Earthquake" finally ended, at the premiere ceremony, 15,000 people gathered in the gymnasium, learned that there was heavy rain that day, Feng Xiaogang intimately prepared 20,000 raincoats, but the whole movie came down, not a drop of rain fell, until the end of the film, heavy rain fell on Tangshan.
Feng Xiaogang said excitedly, "This is really god's eye open!"
After the film was completely successful, Feng Xiaogang was completely sleepless for a while, and one day he listened to a song that calmed his sleepless heart through the night, and immediately decided to use this song as the ending song of the play; due to the different design and copyright of the song, the search for the copyright of the song has not been smooth.
After Faye Wong learned about it, she didn't say a word to let Director Feng try the song for free, and this "Heart Sutra" appeared at the end of the film.
Now that 46 years have passed since the Tangshan earthquake, the film Tangshan invested more than 60 million yuan and received 650 million yuan at the box office when it was released, Xu Fan was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, and 8-year-old Zhang Zifeng won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Newcomer for playing the young Fang Deng.
Now Zhang Zifeng is 20 years old, debuting 15 years with zero bad reviews!
After 12 years, looking back at "Tangshan Earthquake", we find that the success of everything is difficult, including Feng Xiaogang who was under pressure to make this movie, and the acceptance of disaster films abroad is much higher than in China. Chinese many would rather laugh than cry.
But now we are really experiencing, such as the new crown epidemic, the previous flood in Henan.
Feng Xiaogang said: "Tangshan invested more than 60 million yuan to this movie, why not build a hospital and a school?" The reason why I decided to shoot it was because I hoped that the film would shoot the spiritual courage of Tangshan people. If you shoot well, it will be more beneficial than building 10 hospitals. So I have to go all out to shoot well! ”
It's easy to rebuild your home, but it's hard to rebuild your heart.
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