In 2005, Li Youbin, He Zhengjun, Zhang Guangbei starred in the "Bright Sword" turned out, the drama once launched it triggered a huge hot discussion, with a super high reputation and ratings became the absolute hit of the year, although the film has passed 16 years, but replayed more than 3,000 times, making it a classic work.

Not only that, the success of "Bright Sword" has also led to the emergence of "anti-Japanese" theme TV series, in "Sonorous Threesome", Li Chengru once said that after "Bright Sword", anti-Japanese theme film and television dramas were particularly popular in Hengdian, and more than 40 crews started filming at the same time when they were long, which shows the influence of "Bright Sword".
Now "Bright Sword" has been broadcast for 16 years, when Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei in the northwest of Jinbei have also been obedient, perhaps for the sake of feeling that they have cooperated again with the film version of "Life and Death Sniper", don't look at the tacit understanding of the cooperation between the two now, the story behind "Bright Sword" that year is not so simple.
Liu Yanming's wise eyes are not afraid to buy copyrights without fear of risk
At that time, "The Great Dyeing Workshop" could be filmed smoothly because Zhang Hongsen of Mountain Shadow met the young man Chen Jie by chance on the train, when Chen Jie heard Zhang Hongsen and others talking about the story of film and television adaptation, so Mao Sui introduced himself and gave the script of "Strange Merchants in the Troubled World" to Zhang Hongsen, which led to the later "Great Dyeing Workshop".
In 2001, the producer Liu Yanming went to Los Angeles for business, and before getting on the plane, he bought a book from the bookstore to pass the boring time, so that Liu Yanming did not expect that this look could not stop, and he was deeply attracted by this novel.
As soon as he got off the plane, he immediately contacted his colleagues to inquire about the copyright of the book, but the film and television copyright of the book had already been sold, which made Liu Yanming a little disappointed.
Despite this, Liu Yanming still holds the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and goes to the copyright holder Guangdong Television, fortunately, this novel is more sensitive because of its sensitive content, and the project has not yet been officially established, Liu Yanming after many negotiations, as desired, won the copyright of "Bright Sword".
However, the copyright is in hand, but the content of this novel is relatively sensitive, and the military has been in a downturn at that time, Liu Yanming patiently waited for the arrival of the opportunity.
This wait is three years, at this time Zhang Fengyi starred in the "Sky of History" broadcast, well received by the public, its appearance once again pulled the military brigade into the audience's attention, at the same time in celebration of the 60 years of victory in the anti-fascist war, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television hopes that the film and television companies will launch works on the theme of the war of resistance, in this case " Bright Sword" was officially approved.
A twist and turning casting process
"Bright Sword" in the choice of Li Yunlong's role, in order to improve the popularity of the film, the first invitation is Tang Guoqiang, when Tang Guoqiang with the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Zhuge Liang, "Yongzheng Dynasty" in the fourth master has become the premier artist at that time, and Tang Guoqiang himself also starred in the military drama "Garland Under the Mountain", so the director is still very optimistic about Tang Guoqiang.
At that time, the crew's salary to Tang Guoqiang was 550,000, to know that the cost of the entire film was only 9 million, although the crew felt that this was already the top of the film remuneration, but Tang Guoqiang's agent had a price of 1 million, and the shy crew had to give up the decision to invite the big name.
Then they focused their attention on Li Youbin, although Li Youbin was not very famous at that time, but the starring film was very popular with the public, and more importantly, Li Youbin's salary was relatively cheap at that time.
So the director found Li Youbin, explained his intentions, and let Li Youbin look at the crew first, think about it, after Li Youbin read the script, he really liked the role of Li Yunlong, this kind of angry soldier is more grounded than Gao Guangweian, but he refuses in his heart.
The reason is very simple, at that time Li Youbin was 46 years old, the body is not as good as before, especially when filming, he often feels very difficult, and in "Bright Sword", although there are only 28 episodes, but there are 17 episodes in the war, as the male number one Li Yunlong not only has more lines, but also plays more, plus long-distance raids, Li Youbin is most worried about his body can not survive.
But fortunately, at that time, Li Youbin and Shi Lanya were in a period of hot love, and when Shi Lanya saw the script, he said to Li Youbin: Youbin, you must pick up this play, he will definitely make you popular. Obviously, Shi Lanya's vision is correct, "Bright Sword" not only made Li Youbin fire, but also the film came and went, especially Zhu Kaishan in "Breaking into the Guandong" made Li Youbin's reputation reach its peak.
It is precisely because of Tang Guoqiang's gentle refusal and Shi Lanya's persistence that Li Youbin, who is afraid of suffering, has established an image of Li Yunlong, who is an open-mouthed laozi, a closed-mouthed woman, and who is not afraid of heaven, especially after the film was broadcast, Li Yunlong's cunning and simplicity blended with each other's personality, deeply loved by veterans, and even some people said that he was simply so-and-so himself, which shows that Li Youbin's version of Li Yunlong has become a classic in the hearts of the audience.
He Zhengjun asked for a change of role
When the "Bright Sword" crew contacted Li Youbin, they were also in contact with He Zhengjun, when the script was given to He Zhengjun, it was not for him to play the role of Zhao Gang, He Zhengjun also liked it very much after seeing the script, but he felt that this role was not suitable for him, so he directly said to the director, although he liked this script, but this role was actually not suitable for me, so I could only say sorry.
Just when He Zhengjun was sorry for missing this good script, the director found He Zhengjun again, and this time the director told him, what do you think of the role of Zhao Gang? After careful study, He Zhengjun readily agreed.
Zhang Guangbei refused to act
After getting Li Yunlong and He Zhengjun, it was almost Chu Yunfei, when the crew found Zhang Guangbei, in fact, Zhang Guangbei and "Bright Sword" are still very fateful, at that time, the director and producer of the crew were Zhang Guangbei's good friends, and He Zhengjun was Zhang Guangbei's classmate when he was in the Chinese opera, such a relationship, it is reasonable to say that Zhang Guangbei has no reason to refuse.
At that time, the director found Zhang Guangbei, and they said to Zhang Guangbei, I have a very good script here, and there is a role that wants you to play it. At that time, Zhang Guangbei had begun to gradually turn to the background, rarely participating in film and television works, but they were good friends who had been together for many years, and he was not good at directly rejecting, so he asked "what drama"? The director said: "Anti-Japanese drama"!
As soon as this sentence was said, Zhang Guangbei did not think about it and said a sentence of "anti-Japanese drama", because in Zhang Guangbei's view, many anti-Japanese dramas were finally filmed into divine dramas, and the imagination of the characters was also very single, either highlight or Wei An, for an actor, this is not a good thing.
After the director Chen Jian listened, he did not get angry, but said to Zhang Guangbei, you first read the script, and then reply to me after reading it. When he returned home that night, Zhang Guangbei began to read the script, and the more he read it, the more excited he became, and he immediately called He Zhengjun and said that he would also join the filming of this play.
At that time, He Zhengjun knew that Zhang Guangbei had turned to the producer, he thought that this time Zhang Guangbei was still a producer of the film, and he still thought in his heart, they are all old classmates, and their film remuneration may be able to rise.
In this way, after a series of twists and turns, the main actors in the northwest of Jinbei were in place, and this was only the first step in the long march, and the harshness of the shooting environment of "Bright Sword" was far beyond Li Youbin's imagination.
But the shooting time is winter, the number nine cold days to what extent, before shooting, first in the shooting site to light firewood, and then put the shooting equipment to the side of the baking, otherwise the camera battery does not turn at all, and when shooting night scenes, the driver needs to take turns to sleep, because the car needs to start 20 times, otherwise the car will not be able to start.
The harsh shooting environment, coupled with the overload of operation, Li Youbin's body was finally overwhelmed, and he had a high fever on the set, just like "swinging" in the play, when the shot was Li Yunlong's single knife to Chu Yunfei's Hongmen banquet.
At the time of filming, Li Youbin just sat down and drank a bowl of liquor, Zhang Guangbei touched it in the past, it was hot forty degrees, and finally Zhang Guangbei consulted with the director, after filming Li Youbin's close-up, let Li Youbin go to the doctor, in fact, later everyone saw that the panorama in this scene was almost concentrated on Zhang Guangbei's body, in fact, Zhang Guangbei was acting against the air.
Although filming is very difficult, there are also many interesting things in the play, such as The Wei monk Zhang Tong threw Li Youbin off his back in order to show himself.
The story is like this, when there was a reporter visiting the class, Zhang Tong, who had just graduated, saw so many reporters for the first time, and he decided to show himself well, and the scene filmed was the scene where The Wei monk escaped on the hillside with Li Yunlong on his back.
At that time, Li Youbin's weight should have been on Zhang Tong's waist, as a result, Li Youbin rubbed upwards, and the weight directly pressed on Zhang Tong's shoulder, what was even more unexpected was that there was ice on the hillside at that time, and the logistics department did not clean up in time, Zhang Tong slid on the ice when he ran on his back, when he felt a light neck, a black shadow flew out directly from behind, and then Li Youbin often ridiculed Zhang Tong, in order to be famous, he threw himself out.
Of course, in addition, there are many contents worth digging deeper, such as Ding Wei's graduation report at that time was actually very sensitive, many people did not agree to leave this clip, but the film side withstood the pressure to hand it over.
"Bright Sword" has been broadcast for 16 years, although now in terms of production standards, equipment and other aspects have made great progress, but "Bright Sword" is still the peak of the anti-war drama, its most successful place is to respect objective facts, did not deliberately smear the enemy, but also did not mythologize themselves, this realistic shooting method, is not exactly what the current film and television works lack? Whether you admit it or not, it is an indisputable fact that "Bright Sword" has become a classic.