In 2016, at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards, a double yolk egg was laid for the first time.
Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun jointly won the crown of the Golden Horse Shadow Queen, becoming the only double film queen in the history of the three golds.
After the ceremony, in the face of this result, the netizens expressed their satisfaction, but also infinitely sighed: this double yolk egg was 7 years late.
Seven years ago, Li Bingbing and Zhou Xun were jointly nominated for the 46th Golden Horse Awards for the same movie, and finally Li Bingbing defeated Yuan Quan, Zhou Xun and Zhang Rongrong to dominate.
At that time, countless netizens expressed dissatisfaction: they thought that Zhou Xun's performance in the film was not inferior to Li Bingbing,But the result was that he did not have the golden horse film queen of the year.
The film gathered the best actors in the Chinese film industry at that time, and every shot in the film was a textbook performance, and was also praised by netizens as a top domestic spy movie.
Now, 11 years later, no one has been able to surpass it.
Today, Uncle Chai will talk about this movie that has conquered countless netizens - "The Sound of the Wind".
In 2008, Huayi Brothers was doing the final sprint before the listing, and accidentally saw the serialized novel "The Sound of the Wind" in "People's Literature", which was deeply shocked, and the businessman's sixth sense told him that if he could adapt it into a movie, it would definitely sell well.
So he quickly found the original author Mai Jia and wanted to buy its copyright, but he did not expect that Mai Jia said: "It is not okay to buy copyright, but the right to adapt can be considered."
Originally to be adapted into a movie, Huayi Brothers bought the adaptation rights on the spot, and asked Huayi's film director chen Guofu to guide him, Chen Guofu was the best at suspense reasoning, and the thriller movie "Double Pupil", which was once directed and supervised, broke the box office record of the same type of film in less than 3 days after its release.
After Chen Guofu read the novel, he also liked it, and personally wrote the script, originally wanted to direct it himself, and later met Gao Qunshu who came to talk about cooperation in Huayi, and he invited Gao Qunshu to direct the film together.
Gao Qunshu has a unique insight into the aesthetics of space, which is exactly what "The Sound of the Wind" needs. Coupled with the novel's requirements for reasoning and vision, and the degree of love the two people have for it, it can be described as a one-shot deal.
In the novel, the background of the story is the middle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to reflect the grand scene of the Double Tenth Festival of the Wang puppet government at the beginning, the crew finally decided to choose the location on Jiefang North Road in Tianjin.
The entire street of Jiefang North Road is full of cultural relics, and the local government also has regulations: when shooting, it cannot affect traffic and cannot damage cultural relics.
Originally wanted to let them retreat, did not expect the crew to spend 3 months, in the heart of the mother at the same time, ran more than a dozen departments, hard to get the relevant permits, the government reluctantly agreed to let them go in the shooting.
At the same time that Chen Guofu and the quasi-auction certificate were dead, Gao Qunshu was not idle.
The Qiu Zhuang presented in the film was built by the crew in two and a half months on the seashore in Dalian, and the 65-meter-long cross-sea bridge between the two floors was also a scaffolding set up by the staff vertically from the seabed upwards, which took nearly half a year to complete.
In order to let the audience feel the luxury of Qiu Zhuang, the crew also collected nearly 5,000 props from all over the country in advance, and there were more than 4,000 books on the shelves alone, and many furniture and tableware were collected in antique antique shops, with a total value of more than 470w yuan.
When the actors were shooting, they were all careful, afraid of breaking the props and not being able to afford to lose these antiques.
Not only that, in order to live up to the natural cliff beauty, the crew also invited Fiying CAM, which had filmed blockbusters such as Harry Potter and Mission Impossible, to conduct aerial photography, not to mention millions of drones, and the equipment alone contained 8 large boxes.
The preliminary work is done, and the next step is casting.
The two directors know that if the film is compared to an oil painting, then the actor is a variety of pigments, if the coverage of the pigments is not strong, even the most intelligent painters can not paint a layered oil painting.
Before the shooting, it was the movie "Mei Lanfang" that was screened, and I originally thought that Yu Shaoqun would be a popular candidate for Bai Xiaonian, but I did not expect that the director chose the obedient tiger Su Youpeng.
In the impression of everyone, Su Youpeng is either an arrogant fifth brother or a funny Du Fei, anyway, it is all bad comments.
And Bai Xiaonian is not only a womanizer, but also a Kunqu opera celebrity, can Su Youpeng do it?
It turns out that the director's vision is indeed poisonous. In the film, Su Youpeng's acting skills can be described as stunning
As soon as he appeared, the audience did not see the shadow of the past from him at all, as if Bai Xiaonian should be like this. And this movie has also become a turning point in Su Youpeng's acting skills, becoming a witness to his transition from idol school to acting school.
As for the role of the villain Takeda, the original director was not optimistic about Huang Xiaoming.
He felt that Huang Xiaoming was too thin and weak, except for being handsome, there was nothing advisable, and Takeda was a soldier, and the requirements for actors were even higher.
In the end, it was Huang Sect Master himself who took the initiative to shave a board inch, and then practiced his chest muscles, put on a military uniform to find the director, and won this role.
Changing hairstyles and practicing pectoral muscles are not things, and the most headache for Huang Jiao is Japanese.
In order to be able to speak to the mouth type when dubbing in the later stage, Huang Jiao lord memorized Japanese every day, early and late, and even ate and went to the toilet, and his mouth was "chirping", which once made him feel crazy.
The result of this effort was that after the shooting, Huang Xiaoming learned one more skill - to communicate with people in Japanese.
The most difficult of all the actors is the old drama bone Wang Zhiwen.
Wang Zhiwen has always been rigorous and very demanding on the film, he feels that the characters are not good, the plot is not good, even if he looks at the director awkwardly, he does not pick up.
It is really not possible to invite Wang Zhiwen without some face, so most directors will choose to find Feng Xiaogang to act as a matchmaker in the middle.
The only exception for Wang Zhiwen was "The Sound of the Wind", which was able to get him done with only two emails.
Later, Wang Zhiwen himself revealed that the reason why he took over this film was entirely due to his appreciation of the director and his love for the movie "Double Pupil".
Perhaps it is the divine arrangement in the underworld, which also shows that Wang Zhiwen has a fate with this film.
In addition to several popular movie stars, as well as the joining of Ni Dahong, Yingda and others, even Duan Yihong has become a "cannon fodder", which is really a gathering of big names.
At the beginning of the film, in order to prevent the plot from leaking, the crew signed a confidentiality agreement of up to 10w with the actors, and the actors could only get the script to be filmed the next day, which continued until the end of the film.
This level of secrecy is comparable to that of the underground party of that year.
Everything is ready, the curtain is opened, and the drama is ready to go.
In the original novel, the real "old ghost" is actually Li Ningyu, who also committed suicide by taking poison at the end, and used his own body to pass on the information.
Although this part is slightly different from the plot in the movie, there is also the same part, that is, the punishment of "measuring the body".
Li Ningyu is a highly educated person, has a firm belief, can only start from self-esteem for her, and "measuring the body" is like a specially tailored for her, which is also reflected for the first time in the movie, the spiritual ravages are far more terrible than the destruction of the body.
Before filming began, Li Bingbing asked the director: "Why is this acting?" Collapse or firmness? ”
The director replied with only one sentence: "You are a professional actor."
This scene can be said to be the largest scale scene since Li Bingbing's film, when she appeared naked, and only she and Huang Xiaoming and the photographer were on the set when filming.
After the shooting was completed, Li Bingbing directly collapsed in place, crying bitterly, for herself, but also for Li Ningyu.
Later, the director was afraid that the scale was too large to be reviewed, and when editing, it was not all shown, only the part above the shoulder was exposed.
And the biggest sacrifice for this movie is Zhou Xun and Zhang Hanyu.
Zhou Xun is the real "old ghost" in the movie, she not only has to pass on the correct information in the environment of hidden killing machines, but also maintains her usual image and cannot show her appearance in front of her former colleagues.
She seems to be free on the surface, but in fact she is anxious inside.
Under the persecution of these two extreme emotions of high pressure and freedom for a long time, Zhou Xun had insomnia almost every day, couldn't sleep all night, and could only fall asleep by relying on sleeping pills.
During the filming of "rope punishment", although she did enough protective measures at that time, she was accidentally injured, which became a shadow in her heart, and until now she sees the rope, her body still trembles.
Zhang Hanyu was not much better.
In the film, Zhang Hanyu was guilty of the boss, beaten again, and then electrified, and he was also pricked by a needle by the "Secretary Dakang", which was really unbearable.
But in reality, he himself did not suffer these sins, and he did not know how to act at all. It is impossible to really torture yourself for filming!
In desperation, he had to use the paralysis of alcohol, gritting his teeth and stalking his neck to achieve the state of blood veins erupting and green tendons bursting out.
Sure enough, when the audience is watching, across the screen, the eyes are full of tingling, as if being electrocuted should be this reaction, one more point is too fake, one less point is too bad.
Before filming, Zhang Hanyu almost did not stick to the wine, but after the filming of this scene, his alcohol consumption increased by leaps and bounds, and the whole half a pound of a meal was not a problem.
Several starring actors have a lot of pressure, the pressure of group performances is not small, usually in the crew to rely on melon seeds to decompress, it is said that during that time, the nearby melon seeds are sold out.
After more than half a year of hard work, the film finally came to meet the audience.
At the first trailer conference of "The Sound of the Wind", Wang Zhonglei once said: There is no upper limit to the investment in this shooting.
Although Haikou has been exaggerated, but in fact, half of the investment at that time was bank loans, coupled with the mysterious end, the film used a smooth shooting, so the funds are even more uncontrollable, halfway through the shooting, the capital chain almost broke, and finally the investor persuaded the bank, the bank is willing to continue to invest in filming.
Later, the film was completed a month later than expected, but fortunately, the actors did not ask for an increase in salary, which was also unexpected.
Huayi Brothers originally played a good abacus of box office word-of-mouth double harvest, but did not expect to hit half, the abacus beads were broken, 8000w investment, and finally only received 225 million box office.
Although after the release, many fans criticized the script for having plot loopholes, but the overall reputation is not bad.
In 2009, at the beginning of the release of "The Sound of the Wind", there was a sentence on the poster: After the sound of the wind, there is no legend.
This is not arrogance.
If you want to choose the best domestic spy film in the past decade, "The Sound of the Wind" deserves it. Until now, it is still the top work of domestic spy films.
Watching this movie now, it does recreate hell on earth, but more importantly, it recreates the humanity embodied in hell and their respective beliefs.
Qiuzhuang is their hell, but the people in Qiuzhuang show different human natures and beliefs.
At the end of the film, there is such a sentence: the enemy will not understand that the old ghost and the old gun are not individuals, but a spirit, a belief.
It is human nature for Gu Xiaomeng to use Li Ningyu to obtain intelligence, and it is also human nature for Li Ningyu to defend li Ningyu in the end; Wu Zhiguo and Gu Xiaomeng are faith in exposing each other, and it is also faith to be willing to sacrifice themselves while preserving comrades.
Faith is bone, human nature is flesh, and together, flesh and bones can be connected.
Kissinger said that Chinese are always well protected by the bravest of them.
Where there are quiet years, it is only because there is a group of people with faith and who dare to sacrifice, who are shielding us from the wind and rain and carrying heavy loads, whether it is the war years filled with gun smoke or the peaceful and prosperous times with songs and dances.
When this peace and tranquility is suddenly broken, whether it is a jackal invasion or a deadly virus, they are never afraid of life and death, guarding the people. Save the country and the people from danger.
This is the true soul of the nation.
After the film was released, director Chen Guofu once said: Movies should provide things with ideals and beliefs.
The sorrows of the past may be diluted by the dilution of time, but history cannot be forgotten. Just as a movie may become obsolete, the beliefs it conveys will be remembered forever by the audience.
Perhaps, this is also the director's original intention!
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