When the crew of "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" arrived in China, the crew members rested for half a day and went straight to Badaling. went to the Great Wall to shoot Chinese and Japanese chess players at the Great Wall, and Song Bo and Kuang Yishan played blind chess on the Great Wall.

On the fifth day of filming, the production director Masao Takenaka and the deputy photographer came to Beiping with the developed film. Ordinary movies are washed while shooting, and you can see the sample film quickly, but "A Game of Chess" had to be developed in the United States because the film had to be processed by the silver retention method. Traveling to the U.S. is very expensive, and it is impossible to send a roll of film for development as soon as you do in a normal movie. Therefore, it was not until all the scenes in Dongying were filmed that the crew sent the film to the United States for processing.

That night, Xu Wangqiu, Junya Sato and all the members were in the screening room of the Beijing Film Studio to watch the developed samples. The film processing effect is very good, better than Xu Wangqiu imagined. Especially in a few particularly tragic scenes, the heavy gray really gives people a feeling of dead ashes. There is no need to talk at all, and there is no need for music, and that sense of sadness comes out.

Two days later, Xu Wangqiu and all the members of the crew watched the rough cut version of Dongying in the screening room of Beijing Film Studio.

When Ah Ming was shot dead by the Dongying military police, Xu Wangqiu felt that he was breathing a little short, and the people around him were also short of breath because of nervousness. Listening to the sound of heavy breathing around him, a spiritual light suddenly shone into Xu Wangqiu's mind, and a strange feeling rose in his heart, just like a traveler trekking in the desert saw an oasis with abundant water and grass.

After the dailies, the screen was snow-white, and the lights in the screening room came on.

Xu Wangqiu's eyes were still glued to the screen, and at this time, his mind was filled with various breathing sounds and shots of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End", and at the same time, the breathing sounds and the decomposition and combination that was constantly with the camera.

Junya Sato is very satisfied with the dailies, which is definitely the highest level of shooting since he has ever filmed. He turned his head to look at Xu Wangqiu and said excitedly: "Wangqiu, this movie is really ......"

"Don't talk now, let me think, I've got something very important that needs to be sorted out, give me a few minutes. Xu Wangqiu interrupted Junya Sato's words, then closed his eyes and continued to combine the sound of breathing and the camera in his head.

Junya Sato is a director who has had a similar experience and knows that Xu Wangqiu is inspired. He knew how important inspiration was to creators, and immediately waved at the others to signal them to be quiet.

Everyone has inspiration, but most people can't catch the spark of inspiration at all. Only a very small number of people can follow the spark of inspiration, go deeper, and extract the whole picture of it, and many awesome works come from this.

Time ticked and ticked, three, five, ten......

After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, Xu Wangqiu still had his eyes closed and was in deep thought. Many people couldn't sit still and turned their eyes to Junya Sato, wondering what he thought and whether they should continue to wait. Junya Sato shook his head, lowered his voice and spit out three words: "Keep waiting." ”

After closing his eyes and pondering for nearly an hour, Xu Wangqiu finally completed the combination of the sound of breathing and the camera. He suddenly opened his eyes and said excitedly: "I have a particularly good idea, if we deal with our film according to this method, it will be ten times, or even a hundred times stronger than our current shooting method." ”

Junya Sato immediately asked, "What do you think?"

"I directly said that you may not have a deep understanding, let's take a look at it again, and everyone pay attention to the scene where Amin died. Xu Wangqiu turned his head to the staff in charge of the screening and said, "Please reappear and put it back." ”

The lights in the screening room are turned off and the dailies are re-screened.

Junya Sato and the others stared at the screen tightly, especially when they put it to the scene where Ah Ming was killed, they all stared at every detail with wide eyes, wanting to know what Xu Wangqiu's thoughts were.

When the sample was finished and the lights in the screening room came back on, Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "Mr. Sato, if you are Matsuba, how do you feel when you recall the content of Ah Ming being shot?"

Junya Sato thought for a moment and said, "It must be very sad and very sad. ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled: "That's it, maybe even the breathing has become short, right?"

Junya Sato nodded and said, "yes, is there anything wrong with that?"

The smile on Xu Wangqiu's face became even brighter: "Our film is different from many movies, the characters' hearts are externalized, and the characters' inner feelings are shown through the change of color and grayscale. If you've done that, why not take it a step further and add sound to the film? For example, in the scene where Amin beats him to death, he adds the sound of rapid breathing. After this scene, the sound of breathing slowly decreases until it disappears. My thoughts are like this, the two memories of the movie have the sound of breathing, and the more tragic plots, such as the death of Yishan's wife and daughter, such as the killing of Ah Ming, the sound of breathing will become rapid and heavy. Through the change of voice, we can more truly feel the inner pain of the characters. ”

Junya Sato looked at Xu Wangqiu dumbfounded, it is not uncommon for movies to use voice-over to depict off-picture space, but it is unheard of to use voice-over in this way, this is not the use of voice-over to depict off-screen space, but the use of voice-over to show the inner heart of the character. It's a crazy and genius idea!

After a few seconds, Junya Sato came back to his senses: "Can this really work, won't it be too noisy?"

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "I just tried to match the breathing sound of the movie in my head, and I feel that the effect is very good." Of course, this is just the result of my imagination in my head, and it may not be the effect when I actually make it. But no movie has done this before, and because no one has done it, I think it's necessary to try. If it succeeds, then we are the first to do it, and we belong to the pioneers, and if the results are poor, then we don't need to. ”

In fact, there are such movies full of breathing sounds in later generations, and "The Silence of the Lambs" will sound breathing from time to time, such as when Clarice went to catch Bill, when Bill turned off the power and put on night vision devices, the heavy breathing sound was simply suffocating, and this scene has become an eternal classic.

However, the breathing sound in "The Silence of the Lambs" is mostly set up to render the atmosphere, and it is unique for Xu Wangqiu to express the changes in the inner emotions of the characters through the breathing sound when recalling.

Although Junya Sato is a commercial film director, he also has artistic pursuits. Every film he has made in the past has tried something new, and the filming of "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" is already novel and creative enough, and if you add the sound of breathing, it will really become an unprecedented film. He couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and said with his hands dancing: "Then let's do it, if we can really make the effect of hunger as you said, then even if you die, there will be no regrets!"

Not only Junya Sato was excited about Xu Wangqiu's idea, but the entire creative team was extremely excited. Everyone thought it was a brilliant idea, and if it could be realized, "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" would shock the world. It is a great honor for any filmmaker to be able to participate in such a work, as Junya Sato said, "Even if you die, there will be no regrets."

In the days that followed, the crew did their best from top to bottom, trying to make the movie better.

After completing the filming in Beiping, the crew soon went to Jiangnan and started the filming of Jiangnan scenes.

Many of the crew's locations were the locations of the original Japanese military organs or the places where violence against the Chinese was carried out. For example, after filming the August 13 Incident, the village where the residents of Wanghu Town fled for a scene was once looted by the Japanese army, and many of the extras invited were witnesses. Another example is Jingyuan, the location where Yi Shan's fingers were broken, which was the Japanese army's station. And in the room where Ah Ming and Ah Hui lived when they were children, there was once a girl who was raped by Dongying soldiers here. Whenever he arrived at these locations, Fang Zhenwu would tell the crew what had happened in these places.

The Dongying people in the crew are all left-wing people, and they have a certain understanding of the damage caused by Dongying to Asian countries in World War II, but most of these understandings come from books and video materials. When they actually came to China, to the place where it happened, and to see the victims, the feeling was completely different, and they were all greatly affected in their hearts.

As a member of the Japanese army, Mikuni Rentaro participated in the war of aggression against China, and he was very clear about what the Dongying soldiers were doing, and he always said to the Japanese members of the crew, "What the Japanese army did in China can only be described as aggression." As a member of the Japanese army invading China, Mikuni Rentaro has a relatively heavy sense of repentance. When he was filming Songbo kneeling down to Guo Yishan and asking for forgiveness for a scene, he kept kneeling on the ground. Xu Wangqiu considered that he was almost sixty years old, so he asked him to get up and kneel again during the shooting, but he didn't listen at all, so he kept kneeling there. Xu Wangqiu couldn't bear it, so he asked the staff to find a blanket to put on the ground and let him kneel on the blanket. It wasn't until after the filming of this scene that Rentaro Mikuni got up and knelt for hours.

On May 15th, all the roles of Dongying actors were completed, and on this day, Xia Meng officially joined the group.

Xu Wangqiu was very happy to see Xia Meng: "Sister Xia Meng, we are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and we finally have you here." ”

Xia Meng said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I've been busy with "Running to the Angry Sea" recently, the cast and crew are basically from Xiangjiang, Xu Anhua They don't speak Mandarin, and they have no experience in dealing with the mainland, so I'm not really good." It's really made everyone wait for a long time."

Xu Wangqiu smiled and waved his hand: "No, no, I'll just say that." I just finished filming the Dongying actor today, and you came at the right time. Sister Xia Meng, has the filming of "Running to the Angry Sea" finished, and when will it be released?"

Xia Meng smiled: "The shooting is over." It will be released in October. ”

Xu Wangqiu knew that although "Running to the Angry Sea" was more literary, it did very well at the box office in Xiangjiang, and it was a rare blockbuster movie for Xu Anhua. Hearing that "Running to the Angry Sea" will be released in October this year, he was moved in his heart, whether to let Xia Meng postpone "Running to the Angry Sea" to be released next year, so that he will have a greater chance of winning five seats in the top ten box office in Xiangjiang next year. But after thinking about it, next year, the export company will have films such as "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace", "Listening to the Politics of the Curtain", "Dang Kou Zhi", "Wulin Zhi", etc., and it is not a big problem to account for five of the top ten box office in Xiangjiang, so I gave up the idea of letting "Flee to the Angry Sea" be released next year.

"I'm looking forward to this movie. Xu Wangqiu smiled, took out two scripts and put them in front of Xia Meng, "These two scripts, one is "Cold" written by me, and the other is "Heroes from Ancient Times". "Cold" was written by me, but the story takes place in Xiangjiang, I am not particularly familiar with Xiangjiang society, and I can't grasp many details. ”

Xia Meng smiled and said, "I'll find the best screenwriter in Xiangjiang to change it." ”

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said: "Let's talk about the problem of "Heroes from Ancient Times", in fact, the idea of this script is very good, and the content is more interesting, but the details are not good, the story is still too rough and needs to be changed. For example, this scene ......"