The National Day holiday movie "My Father and Me" has a box office of more than 1 billion, and the total box office forecast given by the professional ticketing platform is 1.439 billion, from the current trend, the final box office is difficult to exceed the first two "My Motherland and Me" and "My Hometown" in the "National Day Trilogy".
The reason is that it has nothing to do with the quality of the film, mainly affected by the same period of film, 2019 National Day "My Motherland and Me" was released, when it was the first time that multiple directors collectively created, each person shot a story, so the audience has a sense of freshness; 2020 National Day "My Hometown and Me" was released, when there was no film in the same period that could match it, so the box office performance was ideal. However, this year's National Day "My Father and Me" encountered the strongest rival "Chosin Lake", and it did not have an advantage in the schedule, which was the main reason for affecting the box office.
On the one hand, the four directors are all starring in the film at the same time, which is a change in the creative mode, and Among them, Zhang Ziyi and Shen Teng are still the first time to serve as film directors, and they have very good performances. On the other hand, compared with the first two films, Wu Jing's "Riding the Wind" chapter in "My Father and Me" made the "National Day Trilogy" appear for the first time with shocking war scenes, and it was a large-scale horse battle that Chinese films had never tried, and the large scene of hundreds of horses charging in the rain of bullets and bullets was very shocking, and the difficulty of its shooting could be imagined. In order to shoot the big scene well, Wu Jing invited Yuan Heping, who has the reputation of "the world's first martial finger".
After the release of the movie, the behind-the-scenes documentary programs of "My Father and I" have successively met with the audience, and with the behind-the-scenes documentary of Wu Jing's "Riding the Wind" online, the film shooting behind-the-scenes exposure, it is not difficult to find that this shooting is very difficult.
The actors worked hard to practice riding horses, and Wu Jing was strict
The biggest difficulty of "Riding the Wind" is that no director has ever tried to shoot such a large-scale horse war before, and even the experienced Yuan Heping also sighed that "I have never filmed such a large-scale horse war in the whole country."
Screenwriter Yu Baimei said: "There are films abroad that specialize in making horses like "War Horse", and there is no such thing as a circus and a lively military action film in China over the years that has really used the standard of modern industrialized film. Yu Baimei thought that only Wu Jing could do such a thing.
Wu Jing has high requirements for film quality and actors, in the past costume TV series, often actors do not ride horses, the director will be handed over to a stand-in to complete, and then close-ups of the actor's face are edited together to fool the audience. But "Riding the Wind" Wu Jing requires actors to practice riding hard, not only male actors, Zhang Tianai also had to learn.
Most of the actors said that they could not ride horses at all, and could only start from scratch, Zhang Tianai said that the first time he got on the horse and rode twice, he came down.
Wu Lei said that he was originally full of morale and felt that there was no problem, and after the training, he said: "I am just a little transparent, nothing." Actor Anan confessed that the stage of training at the horse farm was the most severe time for Wu Jing, because he hoped that everyone could finish the scene safely and try not to be injured.
And the actors practice riding also paid a very "painful" price, some actors have prickly heat on the inside of the thighs, most of the actors have abrasive butts, rub iodine wine at night, dry in the morning, but as soon as they get on the horse, they are worn out again.
During the filming, Wu Jing fell off his horse and Wu Lei was injured
There is a scene in the movie where Wu Jing and several actors ride horses, probably because the dirt road is uneven, the horse loses its front hoof during the running, Wu Jing is thrown down, it is not difficult to see through the picture, the moment of falling down the inertia is very large, Wu Jing rolls the whole head pestle on the ground, looking particularly dangerous.
The staff immediately surrounded them, and even the action director Yuan Heping was nervous to check it out, but fortunately, there was no big deal, and Wu Jing was still worried about whether ma was okay.
And the most dangerous is Wu Lei, he was riding a horse to shoot in a scene, when pulling the gun bolt gunpowder exploded in the gun, Wu Lei's face collapsed like a numb, the eyes were also injured, the eyes, the bottom of the eye took out more than 40 slag, but Wu Lei was too dedicated, while treating the wound while also said to Wu Jing that he could come again.
In the large-scale horse battle in the climax of the movie, hundreds of horses rushed out with many uncontrollable factors, many horses fell, Wu Jing said on the set, more than 80 people were injured and admitted to the hospital, almost all of them. Actor Yu Haolei has a rib injury, wears a waist seal, still has to shoot the scene of riding and running, can only put on more waist seals, and the filming of "Riding the Wind" is visible to the naked eye.
It is precisely because the actors are fighting for their lives that "Riding the Wind" has a shocking effect on the big screen, such a sincere film, these hard-working actors, it is worth the audience to give back a movie ticket, "My Father and Me" Have you watched it?