Nowadays, the Chinese film market is becoming more and more prosperous, and with the rising price of movies, the number of Chinese-language films that have joined the "billion yuan club" has gradually increased, and the box office of over 100 million has naturally become the goal of filmmakers.
In fact, as early as more than thirty years ago, a Chinese film with a production cost of only a few hundred thousand yuan achieved a box office of more than 100 million yuan with a film ticket price of 30 cents. It has created a "myth of the Chinese film industry" with 600 million people watching the movie and a box office of 180 million yuan. This film is "The Gunshot of the Secret Bureau" filmed by Changchun Film Studio in 1979.
"The Gunshots of the Secrecy Bureau" not only achieved a domestic box office of more than 100 million, but also went out of the country - the Associated Press also specially reported the pomp caused by "The Gunshots of the Secrecy Bureau", and the title of the article was called "Chinese mainland The First Spy Film and Its Sensation".
Directed by Chang Yan
Speaking of the birth of this film, there are still some twists and turns, originally in 1978 director Chang Yan planned to shoot "The Battle of Jinan", but for some reason could not be made. So he wanted to grasp a theme that reflected the underground struggle, so he asked Zheng Quan, an editor he had worked with, to understand the material. When Zheng Quan and his assistant Jin Deshun went to Qingdao to collect materials, they accidentally discovered Lü Zheng's novel "Fighting in the Heart of the Enemy".
They found the storyline of the novel thrilling and exciting, and it was very suitable for adapting it into a movie. Therefore, Zheng Quan wrote to Chang Yan to recommend this work. Receiving the letter, Chang Yan attached great importance to it, so he went to the library to borrow the original work, and while reading it, he sighed that this novel was cleverly conceived, suspenseful, and had great potential from the perspective of film art. Therefore, Tokihiko is determined to bring this novel to the screen.
In order to restore as much as possible the underground work of our party in Shanghai at that time, Chang Yan and 5 other people went to the Shanghai Garrison District Headquarters to check the past materials. But at that time, there was a rule that not party members could not look at it. However, only Chang Yan and another colleague of the five of them were party members, so the task of consulting the information basically fell on Chang Yan's shoulders.
What is more difficult is that most of these files are involved in secrets, so it is not allowed to copy, let alone take pictures, Chang Yan can only rely on his brain to forcibly write them down, and then go back at night to transcribe them from memory. The information accumulated by the headquarters over the years is vast, and they have been in Shanghai for nearly 3 months. In the past three months, Chang Yan has gone to see and memorize materials almost every day during the day, and returned to the guest house at night, lighting the lamp and staying up late to write materials and screenwriters.
It is precisely because of consulting a large number of historical materials that the screenwriter and director have a comprehensive understanding of the harsh fighting environment of underground party members at that time. The script they finally adapted was even affirmed by the original author Lu Zheng - did a very beautiful job!
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