" Thousand Miles Return " 6 cold knowledge: Thousands of foreign extras alarmed the Immigration Bureau, real evacuation of overseas Chinese cruel - Introduction.
Accidentally, the box office of "The Road to Return" has exceeded 700 million, and I really didn't expect it.
After watching the movie, I couldn't calm down for a long time. Sitting in the cinema, I didn't want to get up. I want to reminisce, then reminisce, and reminisce.
movie "The Road Back" begins with people, and their moods fluctuate with the experience of the characters in the film, nervousness and anxiety, and sweat is everywhere in their palms.
movie not only has no urine throughout the whole process, but also makes the mind excited and excited at all times, and a sense of happiness all over the body, which arises naturally.
Why is the movie "The Road to Return" so good? Now tell you 6 cold knowledge about it, maybe you will know why this movie is so good.
The first cold knowledge: Zhang Yi , Wang Junkai is actually the second partner
In the movie "The Road to Return", Zhang Yi and Wang Junkai play their respective roles. Zong Dawei and Cheng Lang are not only working partners, but also have many "opposition scenes" in the film, fiercely "fighting".
Everyone was impressed by the tacit understanding of the two of them. Although Wang Junkai's acting skills were a little immature, he also grew up with Zhang Yi, the "10 billion movie champion" and there was no sign of losing his chain at all.
In fact, this is the second time the two of them have cooperated together.
As early as April this year, the two of them had partnered once in the theft-themed suspense drama " Rebirth of the Gate " directed by Yang Dong and starred in Pan Yueming.
It is a story about the criminal investigation team leader Luo Jian (played by Zhang Yi) who met the genius college student Zhuang Wenjie (played by Wang Junkai) while investigating theft of ancient paintings. The two joined forces to solve strange cases repeatedly.
So, this is also the reason why director Rao Xiaozhi found them this time and partnered again as the starring actor to provoke Daliang "The Road Back".
because don’t worry!
The second cold knowledge: Ningxia Shapotou 1-1 copy North Africa Small country
As we all know, the movie "The Road Back" has such a big scene and scene, coupled with the current epidemic situation abroad, it is impossible to take the crew to a foreign country to shoot.
Therefore, in order to accurately show the true style of a small North African country, Guo Fan arranged for the art setting team to expand continuously, and the maximum number of staff reached a small number of 1,000.
In order to pursue the truth in the eyes of the audience and completely restore the North African style, director Rao Xiaozhi took at least 6 months after taking over and traveled all over the country to survey the scenery.
Can you take photos like foreign countries if you consider the domestic climate, light angle and vegetation?
Finally, the art setting team built a small town in North Africa with more than 70 standard buildings according to the first season of " Where to Go, Dad", according to the 1:1: ratio, the small town in North Africa with more than 70 standard buildings.
So, after completion, the small countries in North Africa, from every large building to every piece of candy paper, have the Arabic logo.
Even paper bags that fall randomly on the ground have obvious Arabic logos.
or even director Rao Xiaozhi sometimes asks blower to blow up newspapers, scraps and plastic bags on the ground. Each piece must be carefully checked, and sometimes, random checks are randomly, which is a bit obsessive-compulsive.
In fact, those are props made by the art setting group.
is a foreign logo because it has foreign languages. Every picture that appears in the camera must conform to the foreign environment. If there is an inconsistent vegetation and occasionally Chinese characters appear, then the visual effect needs to be solved later and "fidelity".
even the fabric, patterns and even the degree of old clothing are also required to be close to the background of the story of the movie "The Road Back".One of the producers of
, Guo Fan's "Iron Brother" Wang Hongwei kept sighing to the reporters who came to interview:
"All scenes are real scenes, and aerial photography is all real, because it is not science fiction, not fantasy, but real realistic themes."
Interestingly, at that time, when Guo Fan brought his movie " Wandering Earth 2" crew to visit "The Road Back", the friends were all shocked.
Everyone praised it, saying that this small country in North Africa has brought "The Road to Return" one step closer to success.
The third cold knowledge: the director was Guo Fan at first, not Rao Xiaozhi
If we talked about the "iron triangle" in the past, it was Wang Gang, Zhang Guoli , Zhang Tielin . Now, there is also a "iron triangle" in the film industry, that is, director and screenwriter Guo Fan, Rao Xiaozhi and producer Wang Hongwei.
In fact, the original director of the movie "The Road to Return" was Guo Fan, not the current director Rao Xiaozhi.
At that time, the movie "The Road to Return" was just one of the many shooting plans in Guo Fan's hands (just).
In order to do this project well, he mobilized many people to do a lot of interviews. The original version of this story was not like this now, and it was originally named "Translation Officer".
But after interviewing a large number of parties (diplomats), they adjusted many versions to have the current prototype.
But unexpectedly, everything is ready, and the east wind suddenly disappears.
It turned out that one day, Guo Fan suddenly had a "sudden idea" and did not want to do it himself. Instead, he went to find his old friend Rao Xiaozhi and wanted him to direct this story.
Rao Xiaozhi was surprised when he heard this, and he immediately refused without thinking.
Because he had no idea about diplomats and evacuation of overseas Chinese. So, he thought to himself, if he answered, he didn't know what to take, how dare he answered, how could he answer?
In fact, Guo Fan and his team have interviewed many diplomats for this story. But Rao Xiaozhi didn't know what Guo Fan and the others had done before.
Guo Fan is a person who is very stubborn and will never give up on the person he likes.
In the following days, Guo Fan's timid temper came up and went to find Rao Xiaozhi again. Unexpectedly, Rao Xiaozhi was also very arrogant. He still said nothing like the first time and refused.
After a while, Guo Fan did not give up and found Rao Xiaozhi again.
This is the third time. Rao Xiaozhi didn't know how to "reject" and said, but he was speechless for a moment.
Back then, Liu Bei only found Zhuge Liang . Now, Guo Fan has been looking for him three times. If he refuses again, what else will happen in the future?
So, when the words came to his mouth, Rao Xiaozhi actually said, "Okay, then I'll give it a try."
Rao Xiaozhi is also a ruthless person. If you say you don’t do it, don’t do it. If you say you do it, you must do it well.
Since Guo Fan begged him three times, he was finally touched by Guo Fan and decided to do this project.
cannot be taken lightly, and it cannot be fooled casually.
So, the "ruthless man" Rao Xiaozhi began to make up for the lessons, making up for a large number of diplomats, evacuated overseas Chinese, and all the knowledge related to it - common sense, and old news.
He not only studied, but also studied, and read through many books that describe the stories of diplomats, as well as reportage and old news reports related to several evacuations from our country.
The fourth cold knowledge: 300 million, 90 days, more than 1,000 foreign extras, more than 2,000 tents
.3 billion!
is the total investment in the movie "Going Back", which cost a full 300 million yuan (actually, just the size of the movie comes to the dormitory, not much).
When I decided to start filming, for various reasons, the actors of "The Road to Return" actually had only 90 days left for the filming of the actors in the group and the post-production.
, but the shooting location has to run back and forth between Ningxia and , Qingdao . All of these take a lot of time to the crew.
1,000 more foreign extras!
In order to find a suitable foreign extra, Rao Xiaozhi mobilized the crew and cast a net across the country, searching almost all the foreign extras across the country, gathering them in Shapotou, Ningxia. The number of people was as high as 1,000. Because of this incident, it even attracted the attention of the State Immigration Administration.
"Someone has also mentioned that there are dozens of foreigners in front of the camera, and people put on a turban on the back, so I can just deal with it! But you should know that the IMAX camera cannot deceive people. If one or two cameras are found to be not foreigners, but Chinese, the audience will not trust you."
In the view of producer Wang Hongwei, this is just stupid work and requires a lot of effort.
2000 more tents!
Director Rao Xiaozhi searched around before the filming started and found more than 2,000 tents of various types.
Moreover, the artist team also made them all old.
"There is no way to do this kind of detail, it is just a little bit hard to do, and it is like shooting movies."
The fifth cold knowledge: Are there really 125 compatriots?
In the poster of the movie "The Road Back", there are 125 compatriots including Zhang Yi, Wang Junkai, Yin Tao , taking a group photo in front of the Gobi mine.
It is a real live photo, faces of different ages and different expressions represent characters and lives.
These 125 compatriots are not extras in the general sense, but more actors from Rao Xiaozhi's drama troupe. Before the filming of
, director Rao Xiaozhi also called them together, held a conference, and personally assigned homework for each of them.
, and he himself prepared each person's "character biography" for these 125 characters, so that each character has a story and gives them real souls.
In addition, director Rao Xiaozhi also asked the actors to conduct weight-bearing hiking training to experience the real state of crossing the desert, and ultimately created 125 flesh-and-blooded people on the way home.
Now, although the box office of the movie has exceeded 700 million, at this speed, it is definitely no big problem to create a new record in the National Day movie.
The 6th cold knowledge: Is the story of evacuation reflected in the film true?
is true!
For example, in 2000, in , the Solomon Islands, in 2003, in 2003, in 2006, in 2006, in 2010, in Kyrgyzstan, in 2010, the large-scale evacuation of Chinese in Libya,
, which occurred in 2011, was the first time that my country used military forces to evacuate Chinese in China.
In fact, the source of the main details restored by Rao Xiaozhi in "The Road to Return" is based on the clips of this evacuation of the overseas Chinese.
Similarly, this evacuation also touched him the most inspiration.
evacuated Chinese in China in 2012, 2015 evacuated Chinese in Yemen and Nepal evacuated Chinese in 2016 evacuated Chinese in New Zealand evacuated Chinese in 2022, evacuated Chinese in Ukraine... Rao Xiaozhi During the reading, sorting and studying the information and interviews that Guo Fan had collected before, Rao Xiaozhi felt many details that touched him and were mixed with emotions.
For example, because of China's strength, Chinese people have begun to receive many preferential treatments overseas. When other foreigners pass through the checkpoint, they will be ruthlessly "special" inspection, but the inspection process of Chinese people -
is very smooth. Moreover, it is more convenient to have diplomatic passport .
However, there is a problem that has always troubled Rao Xiaozhi. After all, he still does not understand the work of diplomats and the difficulties and obstacles in the evacuation of overseas Chinese.
The problem in his mind was that a diplomat, from the surface, actually did not have much force value. So, what are diplomats, or what they use to bring so many compatriots back to our country safely from a country with constant gun battles and constant wars.
What is the secret, or what "mana" is there? This process must be difficult and dangerous, and it is full of difficulties. It may be a life-threatening experience...
Rao Xiaozhi is full of doubts and curiosity about this.
And a person who is curious about things will defeat everything. Finally, Rao Xiaozhi understood this process and solved all the problems in this process, and then presented it to us with his superb film art.
Now, I understand, no wonder, this movie is so good-looking, it turns out that this is what it is behind the scenes.
Only real things can touch people; real things can surpass all the scattered and random fabrications.
The author of this article: Xia Shuo
Editor: An Ning
