"Boom!" Violent explosions sounded continuously, and those explosions looked like the flames and smoke were very powerful, but in fact, they were not too powerful, as long as the actors did not come within half a meter during filming, they were all fakes with only visual and auditory effects.

However, Zhang Laomou and Chen Kaige were dumbfounded, because the pyrotechnics brought by Wang Zijun could accurately control the flames of the explosion to an ultra-close distance of 20 centimeters from the human face. At this time, the mainland film studio did not dare to imagine that the flames were in danger of accidents even one meter away from people.

Wang Zijun led a team to Tianjin for more than 20 days to shoot, and there were 10 days before the camera was not turned on at all, but a cadre was trained. For example, in the big scene of hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, Wang Zijun couldn't be busy with a few makeup artists at all, and only temporarily recruited and trained some people to dress and make up for the extras.

In addition, the repair of the city wall did not take much thought, because the city wall of Tianjin had long been demolished by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and during the Anti-Japanese War, it simply relied on the remaining city wall to build fortifications, and the war was not fierce, and Wang Zijun did not need to repair the city wall much, and the reconstruction of the drum tower took a lot of effort. There are also a lot of sets made in the old railway station, which was the key defensive location of [***] back then.

The battle of Tianjin is actually very low, but because it is the first battle in which the protagonist participates in the movie, there is a lot of ink, and Wang Zijun does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to rebuild local buildings.

"Assault!" Playing the commander of the army is an actor from Beijing Film Studio, after raising the command knife, his eyes widened, and his expression was fierce and funny, which is the standard image of his own officer in "Tunnel Warfare" and "Mine Warfare".

"Click!" Wang Zijun suddenly stood up angrily and said angrily, "Please, you are playing the commander of the Yue army who captured Tianjin in one day, not a circus clown!" Who's that! Wang Zijun turned his head and shouted, "Brother Chen Kai, what did you tell him?" ”

"Director, my negligence." Brother Chen Kai immediately raised his hand to admit his mistake, and then ran over to communicate with the actors who played the soldiers.

After Chen Kaige and Zhang Laomou entered the crew, one became a counselor and the other was the leader of the fifth photography group. The two of them didn't complain and had a lot of fun.

After correcting the acting concept of mainland actors, filming continued. Here Ken Takakura's acting skills are fully played, and the male protagonist is very good in all military skills when he enlists in the army, but after entering the battlefield, he is a complete recruit, and he can't find North at all, so he can only follow the others to rush around.

In the end, the male protagonist Uno Xiuhe inexplicably rushed into a house and found a Chinese couple hidden in a cabinet. The Chinese couple trembled with fear, and Hidekazu Uno's first reaction was to bow and apologize.

Just as Uno Hidewa bowed, the Chinese man mustered up the courage and thought that his husband and wife would die, so he held the kitchen knife hidden on his body and slashed at Uno Hidewa.

Almost instinctively, Hidekazu Uno raised his bayonet and stabbed the Chinese man to death. Blood rushed out and stained his hands red, full of blood, this was the first person he had killed in his life, and he was completely stunned.

It wasn't until the Chinese woman saw her husband's tragic death and stabbed the scissors that she was going to use to commit suicide into his body that the severe pain brought Uno Hidekazu to his senses, and then, like an ordinary person with no military training, scuffled the woman to the ground, and finally strangled the woman to death in a panic.

The two actors who play the Chinese couple are professionals, all full-time actors from Beijing Film Studio, because the capital is close, so many actors in the play in Tianjin are borrowed from Beijing Film Studio. These people are paid much higher than extras, 20 yuan a day.

This is a high salary, and Jiang Wen's starring in "Red Sorghum" is only a few hundred yuan.

Chen Kaige learned a lesson this time and communicated carefully with the two mainland actors before filming. These actors have a very deep foundation, as long as they understand the director's intentions, they are very accurate in filming, and they are far stronger than many stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan who are halfway out of their homes to act.

In the mainland film industry, there is no shortage of talents.

"Ahh Ken Takakura held his head, completely ignoring the scissor wound in his lower abdomen, and wailed like a beast, his expression confused, painful, but with a certain strange excitement. If you don't see it with your own eyes, you can't imagine that an actor can express such a complex message through his movements and expressions.

This is already the twenty-fourth N-camera of his group of shots!

After countless consecutive reshoots, Ken Takakura finally exploded his acting skills under strong pressure.

"Great!" Wang Zijun couldn't help but applaud, not only him, but even the Chinese actors who have been watching Takakura Ken's N machine countless times also applauded and congratulated.

It's just that Ken Takakura himself was pale after playing this scene, he just forcibly substituted himself into the heart of the role of the actor in order to perform perfectly, and he was too deep in the play, and he couldn't get out for a while after filming, and the other shots were still a little muddy.

"That's it for today!" Wang Zijun said that he hurriedly brought in several psychiatrists and asked them to do psychological counseling for some of the actors filming today.

Ken Takakura's pain has only just begun.

Soon, the crew moved all the way from Tianjin to Shanghai, and the crimes of the war became more and more profound.

At first, these soldiers were still very normal, and the young people often joked together, performed various shows in their spare time, and even after the capture of the city, they would sincerely amuse the Chinese children.

But with the repeated wars, the experience of life and death, these soldiers completely lost their surnames and thoughts, blindly obeyed the command of the officers, and existed as a personal war machine. They began to despise death, forgetting people's surnames, and looking only at winning wars and destroying their enemies.

Not only Ken Takakura, but even the crew and supporting actors gradually couldn't stand it, and after a period of rest during the Spring Festival, after only filming for more than half a month, Wang Zijun had to stop again. Let everyone go back to accompany their families, and if they want to relax, he also subsidizes a little money for everyone to travel.

It wasn't until April of that year that the crew of "Holy War" finally came to Nanjing and began to shoot the most "gaochao" and the most painful part of the film.

During this period, for more than half a year, Wang Zijun basically stayed in the crew, and when he felt that he couldn't stand it, he returned to Taipei, hid in the gentle nest of his wives to recuperate, and came out to shoot again in a few days.

He is a director, and the psychological pressure he is under is no less than that of Ken Takakura, because all the bloody and ugly scenes are thought up by him and his deputies, and sometimes he is so disgusting that he wants to vomit when he draws a storyboard. And he has all kinds of photos of the Nanjing Massacre at hand, because these things can give him inspiration for his creation. Some people feel disgusted after watching a few of these photos, but Wang Zijun has to study them every day for two or three months in a row, and how they can be perfectly turned into lens images again.

Jiang Wen, Gong Li, Liu Dekai, Nicolas Cage and Huang Qiusheng and others have joined the crew, Jiang Wen plays a soldier defending Nanjing, Gong Li plays a girl, Liu Dekai plays a son-in-law, Nicolas Cage plays an American reporter, Huang Qiusheng plays a Chinese reporter who accompanies Nicolas Cage to Nanjing for interviews, and Sun Yue, a veteran actor of Wang's Pictures, plays a civilian who was tortured and killed by the army.

The filming lasted until January 1990, and lasted 16 years, nearly a year and a half.

In the past two years, Wang Zijun has not attended any activities, and even later it seems that the media has forgotten about him. If it weren't for the fact that "Gongxin Bao" still serialized his "Heroes" from time to time, I am afraid that some people would spread rumors about Wang Zijun's death.

In the past two years, the filming has been intermittent, and Chen Kaige and Zhang Laomou have each shot a work of their own, and other people's movies have been painted, and Wang Zijun's "Holy War" has not yet been completed.

When the last shot was completed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the two years of suffering were finally over.

Other people's work is over, but Wang Zijun is still early. He invited John? Williams is the soundtrack for the film, the maestro is the soundtrack for the "Star Wars" series, "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List" and other films. Williams worked with Taiwan's Weng Qingxi, Zhou Lanping and others.

Because there is not only Western music in the movie, Wang Zijun also wants to embellish some Chinese music into it.

In post-production, "Holy War" began to use a lot of computer technology combined with traditional special effects, and it took nearly three months for post-production to finally be completed.

The director's cut version lasted for five hours, and the final commercial theatrical version was more than three hours long. Bai Muyang was speechless for a long time after watching it, he really didn't know whether this super blockbuster, which finally cost $78 million, could achieve a good box office.

Nearly 80 million US dollars, almost drained all the liquidity of Wang's Film Company. The filming and production cycle lasted for another two years, and then Wang's turnover was not opened, and he almost didn't go out of business, but fortunately, Wang Zijun took out his personal money to lend it to the company to fill the loopholes, and then he got through the difficulties.

If this movie hits the street, Bai Muyang, the president of Wang's Pictures, has the mind to jump off the building.

After two years of silence, the outside world finally had news of Wang Zijun again, and Wang's Pictures began to promote "Holy War".

At the end of April, the Organizing Committee of the Cannes Film Festival announced the shortlist of each unit of the film industry, and Wang Zijun and his "Holy War" were impressively listed. After getting the list, entertainment reporters from various countries, even if they didn't plan to go to Cannes, also booked air tickets one after another, and the flights to France were super popular for a while.

Wang Zijun has revealed the news that this may be his last movie, which can't help but be excited.

(To be continued)