In 2009, Zhang Ziyi begged bitterly to participate in the "Tangshan Earthquake", but Feng Xiaogang refused to give reasons for poor money.
When filming "Night Feast", Feng Xiaogang was able to take out two million dollars to invite Zhang Ziyi to be the main actor, and Feng Xiaogang said: I should have paid you twenty million films, but I wanted to use a new person, and I could use the money to use it in production.
It is true that the budget of "Tangshan Earthquake" is nearly 200 million, but Feng Xiaogang only from Tangshan, Huayi and China Film have made up a little 200 million.
So he had to find some powerful actors who were not very well paid.
Twelve years ago, Feng Xiaogang was scolded for exposing the scars of the nation and making the country rich, because half a year after the Wenchuan earthquake, Feng Xiaogang actually said that he would prepare a movie about the Tangshan earthquake. What is his intention?
The overwhelming scolding did not make Feng Xiaogang give up filming "Tangshan Earthquake".
However, when the film was officially prepared, the first problem the crew immediately encountered was because the story spanned important nodes such as the 1976 earthquake, the 1980s, the 1990s and the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.
Props and sets must decide to restore these eras, but the amount of props is too large, even if it is made, there are not enough old objects that are originally referenced.
So Feng Xiaogang had no choice but to "beg" the people of the whole country at the press conference to collect items from the old era.
Unexpectedly, the crew, who had little hope, soon received donations from all over the world, and old objects such as telephones, bicycles, radios, televisions, sewing machines, single-door refrigerators, and double-cylinder washing machines were sent to the crew.
In terms of scenery, Feng Xiaogang did not hesitate to spend 20 million days to build Tangshan Old Street, and spent three and a half months to build more than ten buildings on both sides of the three-hundred-meter street.
Because the investment is too large, it can only be a half-set and half-real building, neither poured nor dug foundation.
During the shooting, hundreds of actors and crew members and their equipment had to go up, coupled with the rainy autumn, the building was very easy to collapse.
But in contrast, Feng Xiaogang is more worried about the choice of actors.
When he ran into a wall with the script, Chen Daoming took the initiative to find Feng Xiaogang, and he said: If you shoot the Tangshan earthquake, I will act for free.
Because Chen Daoming was also a witness to the earthquake, he was in Tianjin at that time, in Tangshan and Tianjin, on an earthquake belt.
His home was also affected, and the entire unit collapsed, bringing a deep shadow to Chen Daoming.
In the end, Chen Daoming joined, and Feng Xiaogang invited Zhang Guoqiang and Li Chen, who performed well in "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", to play the father and adult son, and then invited Lu Yi, Wang Ziwen and other actors.
On July 1, 2009, the film finally started, and "Tangshan Earthquake" was filmed for a month, but the crew suddenly stopped working.
Feng Xiaogang kept calling Huayi boss Wang Zhonglei, nothing more than two words, asking for money.
At this time, he had been shooting the earthquake scene for more than a week, spending a lot of manpower, material resources, various equipment, and various shooting methods, but the effect was not satisfactory to him.
In fact, the crew has invited Hollywood special effects studios, not that they can't do good special effects, but they are afraid of not having enough money and dare not do it.
On the phone, Wang Zhonglei asked Feng Xiaogang to let go, and if there was a problem, he came to find a way, so Feng Xiaogang completely let go of his hands and feet.
For the seven minutes or so of earthquake scenes, five million fake buildings were pushed and pushed, and deep trenches were dug in the ground to be used to bury equipment to shoot the crack scene.
In addition to the traditional blue screen keying, there are also tracking scans, three-dimensional models, etc., many of which were the world's top special effects technologies in that year.
But unfortunately, the local catch-up with the continuous rain, the earthquake scene does not need rain, so the crew can only wait.
Due to the expensive British shooting machines rented, the daily rent is more than thirty thousand US dollars.
The two British aides also wanted a thousand dollars, and originally planned to rent for five days, but they were delayed for six days due to rain, and more than two hundred thousand dollars were lost.
Moreover, technicians in Europe and the United States often quarrel with Korean technicians, and they even threaten Feng Xiaogang and say: If you don't use our advice, you won't do it.
Feng Xiaogang can only continue to be a peacemaker between the two.
In post-production, 90 special effects crews at home and abroad spent eight months completing 260 supporting shots.
Calculate the production cost of special effects, up to more than 70 million yuan.
Why Xu Fan said that the group performance of "Tangshan Earthquake" is the best group performance she has ever encountered, and when filming in Tangshan, most of the group performances invited are ordinary people with no performance experience in Tangshan.
Ten years after filming the earthquake, when the streets and alleys were burning paper to pay tribute to their relatives, Feng Xiaogang told everyone that if you have relatives lost in the earthquake, talk to them.
The group performance was very fast, the sound was full of tears, the whole alley was full of crying, Feng Xiaogang shouted to stop, said: Finished shooting.
He was still crying and couldn't stop.
The film was finally filmed, the largest premiere ceremony in the history of Chinese cinema, and for the audience's emotional consideration, the film side prepared several truckloads of tissues for the audience of 15,000 Tangshan, as well as a hundred medical emergency personnel and four ambulances to prevent crying until it fainted.
After the premiere of "Tangshan Earthquake", Feng Xiaogang said that he was moved as soon as he opened his mouth, shooting this movie, there were many things that touched me, the most touching thing was that last night God opened his eyes, and it has not rained during the premiere.
After the end, the torrential rain poured down, like the tears of 240,000 Compatriots who died in Tangshan.
Feng Xiaogang told the audience through the movie that family affection and love can cure those "incurable pains", and after the disaster, we should choose to be strong and make a difference.
Instead of letting the pain spread, and finally let your life be wrapped up in it, getting deeper and deeper.
Feng Xiaogang made comedies such as "Party A and Party B", "Mobile Phone", "Endless", "Non-sincere Do Not Disturb" and other comedies, and many people said that Feng Xiaogang would only make comedies.
Actor Sun Haiying in the media face Feng Xiaogang, is a commercial film director, will put garlic.
And Feng Xiaogang also tried to tear off this label and prove himself with films such as "Tangshan Earthquake" and "1942".
What type of director do you think Feng Xiaogang is?
Why do you think Sun Haiying wants to scare Feng Xiaogang? Is it hype or is it a private grudge between the two? #八卦手册 #
