"I'm very disgusted that some of our reporters make up nonsense for the sake of propaganda, saying that the US army is a young master soldier, and when they hear the gunshot, they are so frightened that they pee their pants, and this kind of propaganda will be misleading."
This is what Kong Jie said to Li Yunlong and Kong Jie when he recalled the experience of the Korean War in "Bright Sword", and he couldn't help but cry as he spoke.
And this clip is exactly what interprets the essence of "Bright Sword", because it does not deliberately portray the enemy as a "weak chicken", but expresses their strength from the side.
It's just that what everyone doesn't know is that the reason why the poor crew of "Bright Sword" can shoot a classic, in addition to the actors' hard filming and being responsible for the audience, is even more unavoidable, because every second of stopping is a waste of money.
"The long-stranded "Bright Sword"
I believe that after seeing the wonderful anti-Japanese drama "Bright Sword", you will definitely think that the original novel of the play has been carefully selected and written by a professional screenwriter.
But in fact, it was because of Du Liang's "bragging", one day when Du Liang was drinking with a good friend, he complained about all the popular film and television works on the market at that time with the strength of the wine.
At first, my friend thought that the other party was joking, but Du Liang said very seriously that these novels were too pompous, without a sense of truth, and lacked a sense of appreciation.
Hearing this, his friend joked that Du Liang had the ability to write a try, and advised the other party not to put a green onion in a pig's nose and pretend to be an elephant.
Seeing this situation, Du Liang did not speak, but continued to drink and chat with his friends, originally thought that this sentence was passed by Du Liang in his heart, but he didn't expect him to be more serious.
When he returned home full of wine and food, Du Liang first lay on the bed and pondered for a while, and then began to write on his own, and this writing took a full 8 months.
But what people didn't expect was that in just 8 months, Du Liang really wrote a novel, and it was "Bright Sword".
At first, Du Liang didn't have much hope for this novel, and just wanted to prove it to his friends, but it turned out to be unexpectedly "popular", and 9 million copies of "Bright Sword" were sold in just a few months.
Over time, the novel "Bright Sword" attracted the attention of one person, and he was Liu Yanming, a producer.
After appreciating this novel, Liu Yanming was immediately shocked, he felt that "Bright Sword" was too real, there was no so-called "deified heroism", only an endless sense of reality.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Yanming came up with an idea, that is, to shoot "Bright Sword" into a film and television drama to make the characters in the novel more distinct.
With this in mind, Liu Yanming finally got the film and television copyright of "Bright Sword" with some hard work, and swore to prepare to shoot this film and television drama.
However, reality slapped Liu Yanming hard, because the subject was very sensitive at that time, and there were very few war-themed film and television works on the market, and the plot was not too real.
The second is that the war film market is very sluggish, and there are almost no people to watch, and the themes that the audience generally watches are costume mythological dramas and urban dramas.
And it is precisely for the above two reasons that Liu Yanming found many directors and no one dared to take on this task, so the filming of the "Bright Sword" film and television drama was over.
It wasn't until the explosion of an anti-Japanese drama that the film and television drama version of "Bright Sword", which had been stranded for three years, ushered in the dawn, and this anti-Japanese drama that attracted countless fans was "The Sky of History".
This drama is also an excellent anti-Japanese drama, telling the story of the New Fourth Army during the Anti-Japanese War, which is both real and bloody, and instantly attracted the attention of the audience.
Seeing this situation, Liu Yanming immediately prepared to make a big move, found the two directors Chen Jian and Zhang Qian, and asked them to direct and shoot "Bright Sword" together.
In the end, after three or four months of rapid filming, the anti-Japanese drama "Bright Sword" was finally unsheathed, and this sheath became a classic.
"The Forced Filming Process"
Because the crew of "Bright Sword" only has a fund of 9 million, and it also includes salary, props, group performances, etc., so there is only one word "poor" around the filming.
Considering the daily salary of the group performance, the crew did not dare to miss a minute or a second during filming, and the filming process was very compact, and it took 12 hours to shoot every day.
Not only that, but because the crew didn't have the money to buy equipment, there were only two pitiful cameras during the filming of the whole show, one for close-ups and one for shooting scenes during the war.
On top of that, even these two cameras were not bought, but rented at a camera store, and they simply couldn't afford them.
In addition, because the daily rental of the camera is very expensive, the crew does not dare to slack off for a moment, except for filming during meal time, from early morning to evening.
But even so, in order to speed up the filming process, the director sometimes lived in the filming location, an abandoned small village.
The most terrible thing is that when "Bright Sword" was filmed, it was still in the winter environment, staring at the temperature of dozens of degrees below zero to shoot battlefield scenes, and in order to show better results, almost all the actors were dressed in autumn clothes and had a thin layer of costumes.
Not only that, but the opportunity for the crew to eat hot meals is even rarer, because they often rush to the scene beyond lunch, and the temperature at that time was very low, so many actors were cold when they ate box lunches.
But even under such extremely harsh conditions, the crew has to desperately catch up with the schedule in order to save money, and all the actors have no days off.
And Li Youbin, who plays Li Yunlong, is the most tired of all the actors, as the protagonist of "Bright Sword", he not only has to run for a long time against his middle-aged and elderly body, but also has to memorize a lot of lines.
Of course, although the crew is in a hurry because of poverty, it is by no means perfunctory, and they will continue to shoot when they encounter unflavored clips until the best effect is achieved.
For example, in the clip of Li Yunlong's bombardment of Ping'an County in the play, Li Youbin filmed for three days just with a "cannon" and a look in order to reflect Li Yunlong's feeling of losing his lover.
So far, "Bright Sword" has been replayed thousands of times, and it has also confirmed its identity as the "trump card" in the anti-Japanese theme.
Although the plot of this drama has long been familiar, every time you watch it, the audience's eyes will turn red, and every minute and second is the essence.
"Bright Sword" does not have the outrageous operation of tearing devils, nor the confusing behavior of kicking cannons to hit planes, nor does it have a plot that insults the audience's IQ like urine mines.
The effect shown in this drama is only authentic realism, and the bloodiness and cruelty of the war, and it is not an exaggeration to say that "Bright Sword" is the "first person" in anti-Japanese dramas.