"Ambush on Ten Sides" had already begun in the middle of filming of "Hero". In September 2001, "Hero" was filmed on the set. After work every day, Zhang Yimou would spare two hours to discuss the script of "Ambush on Ten Sides" with screenwriters Li Feng and Wang Bin. Zhang Yimou believes that the first thing "Ambush on Ten Sides" is to enrich the story and character. Therefore, when conceiving the script, Zhang Yimou gave up his views on "politics" and "history" expressed in "Heroes" and returned to himself. From the perspective of human nature, he tells the love tragedy of a woman entangled between two men. In addition, the main creator of the film also made a special design on the script: the three protagonists have fake identities, and the three people are deceiving each other, but after peeling off the false and deceitful cloak, they will find that the three people truly love each other. The feelings in the process are real.
Here are seven cold things you don't know about "Ambush on Ten Sides": 1. Zhang Yimou bows to his old shoes. When filming this movie, director Zhang Yimou had a quirk on the set. He would bow and say goodbye to the old shoes that he took off every time he changed new shoes. It is said that this quirk came from the filming of the movie "Yellow Earth". Zhang Yimou is still a photographer. He has been wearing a pair of military rubber shoes during filming. After the filming, he took off these shoes and said to the shoes, brother, it is not easy for you to follow me. Zhang Yimou's behavior of bowing to shoes actually expresses respect for his hard work.
2. The sea of flowers turns into snow. The film originally had a scene in Huahai. The director specially invited people to plant sunflowers in Ukraine for this purpose. Unexpectedly, SARS was encountered as soon as the seeds were planted. As a result, the sunflowers were left unattended. When the crew went to shoot again, the sunflowers were sick. Surprisingly, coupled with the early arrival of the Ukrainian snow season, the director had to change the ending film to the snow.
Third, Anita Mui almost became the big sister of Feidaomen. Zhang Yimou originally planned to invite Anita Mui to play the eldest sister of the Flying Daomen. Unfortunately, Anita Mui died of illness in 2003, and finally Zhang Yimou asked Song Dandan to play the role. To commemorate Anita Mui, Zhang Yimou also played "only with The subtitles of "Miss Anita Mui" in memory of this film are nostalgic.
Fourth, Takeshi Kaneshiro almost shot the staff blind. When filming "Ambush on Ten Sides", as the action director Cheng Xiaodong had just taught Takeshi Kaneshiro to shoot arrows, he was shot in the head with an arrow by Takeshi Kaneshiro. Fortunately, he was looking at the monitor at the time, otherwise the arrow would be shot. His eyes.
5. Huge funds to build a peony house. In order to shoot the film, the crew spent more than two months and spent 2 million yuan to build the Peony Square. More than 200 pillars were made, four to five hundred hand-carved windows were made of real wood, and more than 50 palace lanterns were made. One. In the film, the actors perform two dances on the stage. In order to make the picture brighter, the 18 butterflies around Peony are made of glass fiber reinforced plastics. The flat platform is illuminated by spotlights. There are more than 40 drums around and the Peony wall. It is also made of glass fiber reinforced plastic, illuminated from the back, with a relief of peony, the dougong is also designed to be three-storey high, and the lattice windows are all hollowed out.
Six, Zhang Ziyi lives with the blind girl. Zhang Ziyi played the blind dance girl in the movie. In order to let her better integrate into this role, Zhang Ziyi specially invited a blind girl with cerebral palsy to eat and live with herself for more than two months. They can be said to be inseparable from the toilet.
Seven. During the filming, a horse was suddenly in trouble while running in a straight line. Takeshi Kaneshiro could not dodge the horse and fell to the ground, causing the left knee and two ligaments to tear. After Takeshi Kaneshiro returned to the crew, the six staff members used bamboo poles to lift his wheelchair to simulate the scene of riding a horse, thus making up for the footage of him walking on horseback.
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