We all know that in terms of filmmaking, film shooting is one of the key and complex links, the workload is extremely large, and even a shot may take several days to shoot.
However, there are some films that, for various reasons, have a very short shooting time, even in one day, and are well received.
Gunfire (1999)
The Mission
Director: Du Qifeng
Writers: You Naihai
Starring: Wu Zhenyu / Ren Dahua / Huang Qiusheng
Douban score: 8.7
Underworld boss Wen Ge (Gao Xiong) is hunted down and killed, and his brother Anan (Ren Dahua) arranges five people to be his brother's bodyguards and orders them to find out who is behind the assassination of Wen Ge.
The five are Ah Ghost (Huang Qiusheng), Ah Lai (Wu Zhenyu), Mike (Zhang Yaoyang), Ah Xin (Lu Songxian) and Ah Fei (Lin Xue).
Ah Lai and Ah Xin are well-known masters, and Ah Ghost, Ah Mike, and Ah Fei are the former heroes of the Golden Basin: Ah Ghost is Wen Ge's former subordinate, Ah Mike is a sharpshooter, and Ah Fei is a firearms expert.
Together, the five men captured the killer and identified the man behind it. Five unknown jianghu people become friends with each other, at this time, Anand tells Ah Ghost that Ah Xin has committed adultery with Wen Ge's wife, and asks Ah Ghost to kill Ah Xin, and Ah Lai is determined not to allow this.
Ah Mike and Ah Fei support Ah Lai and Ah Ghost respectively, and finally they agree to solve this problem in a small restaurant, and the muzzle of the gun aimed at each other is really touching...
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"Gunfire" took only 19 days to shoot, the production cost was only 2.5 million, the story dialogue was written while shooting on the spot, and all the actors performed basically one.
Chainsaw Horror (2004)
Saw
Director: Wen Ziren
Writers: Wen Ziren / Ray Werner
Starring: Ray Werner / Gary Elvis
Adam (Ray Werner Leigh Whannell) wakes up to find himself trapped in an abandoned toilet. Opposite him is lawrence (Gary Elvis Cary Elwes), who is chained to their legs and is surprised to find a terrifying dead man straddling the middle of them.
The dead man was covered in blood, holding a recorder in his left hand and a gun in his right hand. Adam had a tape in his pocket, and he hurried to the tape recorder.
The tape says That Lawrence must kill Adam by 6 p.m. tonight, or the two will die together, and Lawrence's family will not be spared. And the blood shed by the dead man in front of him was extremely poisonous.
A bloody game of death begins. In the little time left, they must find clues and escape from hell. At the last minute, when they thought they were seeing the light of day again, a new round of nightmares had just begun.
"Chainsaw Horror" took only 18 days to shoot, and only in one warehouse, with an investment of 1.2 million US dollars, and earned 102 million at the box office.
"Chainsaw Horror" has also suddenly become the signature of horror movies, from 2004 to 2010, the annual "Chainsaw Horror" dominated the Western Halloween slot for seven years.
Ignorance (2016)
Mad World
Director: Huang Jin
Writers: Huang Jin / Chen Chuheng
Starring: Zeng Zhiwei / Yu Wenle
Douban score: 7.9
Ah Dong (Yu Wenle), who suffers from bipolar disorder, was sentenced to be admitted to Qingshan Hospital because of the accidental killing of his mother (Jin Yanling), who was suffering from pain, and after recovering and discharged from the hospital, he lived in the board room of his father Huang Dahai (Zeng Zhiwei), who was a dry port driver.
Huang Dahai tried to care for his son, but Ah Dong did not appreciate it, and it turned out that Ah Dong had always been grumpy about his father's abandonment of the family.
Antoine re-entered the society, but was discriminated against by his friends around him, but he tried to calm himself, and At the same time, Antoine also tried his best to find Jenny (Played by Fang Haowei), who talked about the day that was almost engaged, but he did not expect that when he found Jenny, he had a different taste.
The film cost only $2 million, because of the limited budget and the shooting time was only 16 days. Such a film that sounds very "poor" has received 8 nominations at the Academy Awards, among which Zeng Zhiwei, Yu Wenle and other big names have zero remuneration to participate.
Family Affair (1992)
All's Well，Ends Well
Director: Gao Zhisen
Writers: Gu Dezhao / Cai Tingting
Starring: Zhang Guorong / Zhou Xingchi
Douban score: 8.4
Chang Man (Huang Baiming), the eldest brother of the Chang family, has a successful career, but he dislikes his wife Cheng Dajie (Wu Junru) as a yellow-faced woman who does not know how to dress.
Sister-in-law Cheng serves the elderly demented in-laws at home every day, and is deeply loved by Chang Suo (Zhang Guorong) and Chang Huan (Zhou Xingchi).
The girly Chang Sao and the "man's wife" cousin Liang Wushuang (Played by Mao Shunjun) are a pair of sworn enemies, but when the two are emotionally hurt at the same time, they have love.
Chang Huan is a well-known playboy, but accidentally broke his brain, and his girlfriend He Liyu (Maggie Cheung) is still willing to stay by his side. When individuals have a heart to belong, they have to help the eldest brother find a way to save his feelings with Cheng's sister-in-law.
The 92nd edition of "Happy Family Affair" took only 13 days to complete the shooting, bringing together a number of superstar characters such as Stephen Chow, Cheung Kwok-wing and Maggie Cheung at that time, and the atmosphere of the film was very relaxed, which can be called a classic.
Open Room(2004)
Bin-Jeep
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Writers: Kim Ki-duk
Starring: Jae Hee / Lee Sung Yeon
Douban score: 8.0
Tae Seok (Jae Hee) is an idle young man who rides his motorcycle from house to house every day handing out leaflets and stuffing them into keyholes. If the leaflets hadn't been removed in a few days, Taishi would pry open the lock and stay in for a while, take a shower and cook there and take pictures.
In exchange, he would help the host's family with some chores and take care of the room. Once, in an empty house, he meets a woman who has been tortured by her husband, Shanhua (Lee Chun-juan).
She was bruised and swollen, and there was resentment in her eyes. After escaping, Tae-seok remembers Shanhua, and when she returns to her house, she happens to encounter Shanhua's husband abusing her, and he immediately intervenes and takes her away.
Later, the two of them returned to their previous mysterious life, and together they searched for an empty room, and although there was no verbal communication, they tacitly understood each other.
Once when they entered a stranger's room, they found the body of an old man, and they happily stayed in the room after a serious funeral for him.
Until one day the old man's sons came to the door and they were taken away as murder suspects. Tae Seok is imprisoned, and Sun-hwa is taken away by her husband. But the story doesn't end here.
Kim Ki-duk finished the film in 13 days, and what is even more shocking is that the hero in the film does not have a single line, and the heroine has only three lines: "Ah", "I love you", "Eat", which is called a god's work.
Sniper Phone Booth (2002)
Phone Booth
Director: Joe Schumacher
Writers: Larry Cohen
Starring: Colin Farrell / Kiefer Sutherland
Douban score: 7.9
Publicist Stu (Colin Farrell) hides that his wife has a secret lover, and in order to avoid his wife's phone list check, he sneaks to the public telephone booth on the street to make a date.
Unexpectedly, the moment he entered the phone booth, the phone rang. Although I don't know who made the call, out of habit, Stu picked up the handset.
A gloomy, monotonous male voice immediately sounded, warning Stu not to hang up, or he would splash blood on the street! Stu, of course, ignored the mischievous warning and was about to walk out of the phone booth.
At this time, a gunshot rang out, and a passerby had fallen to the ground. Stu was so frightened that he didn't dare to move.
The police came to hear the news, but they did not believe Stu's explanation, and Stu became the main suspect in the shooting. For a time, the whole city was sensational, and Stu's wife and lover heard the news and rushed to come...
The shooting of "Sniper Phone Booth" took only 12 days, of which 10 days were spent shooting the part of the phone booth, and the part outside the phone booth took only two days, and the director used four cameras to shoot synchronously, creating an immersive feeling for the audience as much as possible.
Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer (1993)
Kung Fu Cult Master
Director: Wang Jing
Writers: Wang Jing / Jin Yong
Starring: Jet Li / Zhang Min / Qiu Shuzhen
Douban score: 7.8
Zhang Cuishan (Wu Zhenyu) and his wife and son Zhang Wuji (Jet Li) set off from the isolated island to celebrate his master's 100th birthday, and zhang Wuji was secretly calculated.
In Wudang Mountain, Zhang Cuishan and his wife were forced to die by the various gate factions, and Zhang Wuji could no longer practice martial arts, but could only survive by relying on the true qi that Zhang Sanfeng lost every day.
Zhang Sanfeng's actions arouse the jealousy of Song Qingshu (Zou Zhaolong), who unites with Emei's female disciple Zhou Zhiruo (Li Zi) to deal with Zhang Wujie.
The Ming Sect's holy daughter Xiao Zhao (Qiu Shuzhen) makes Zhang Wuji change his fate, so that he first encounters a high person on the cliff to cure the cold methamphetamine in his body, learns ninety percent of the "Nine Yang Divine Skills", and then practices the "Qiankun Great Shifting Mind Method" in the forbidden place of the Ming Sect.
When he learned that the Mongol lord Zhao Min (Zhang Min) had designed the six major factions of the Jianghu to besiege Guangming Ding and want to annihilate the Ming Sect, Zhang Wuji decided to go to tang to save the Ming Sect.
The film was filmed in less than a week, because Jet Li was so popular at the time that various blockbusters came to the door, and there was not much time left for Wang Jing.
Originally, Jet Li did not intend to take this play, but later he temporarily adjusted his friendship with Xiang Huaqiang for seven days and cooperated with Wang Jing to complete this classic work.
Tetris (2002)
Russian Ark
Director: Alexander Sokolov
Writers: Anatoli Nikiforov
Starring: Sergey Dryden / Mariya Kuznetsova
Douban score: 7.5
A contemporary filmmaker and another French diplomat from the 19th century (Sergei Dontsov) find themselves in an ancient palace in St. Petersburg, completely invisible to those around them.
The two wandered the palace together, witnessing the enraged Peter the Great whipping his general with a whip; the private life of Empress Catherine; the last supper of the last Tsarist family on the eve of the revolution, and the last glorious court ball of 1913.
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