Let’s talk about the movies made by Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen has a standard for blockbusters in his heart. This standard requires money, but it is not all related to money. Take the length of the film as an example:

1. In "Sunny Days", the film was shot one by one regardless of the shot, and 250,000 feet of film was used - the film ratio of domestic films at that time was 1:3. "Sunshine" reached 1:15, setting a domestic record at the time with five times the extravagance.

2. In order to create the special effect of Ma Dasan being beheaded at the end of "The Devil Is Coming", several special cameras with rolling shooting capabilities were imported from the United States. The film ended up using 480,000 feet of film.

3. "The Sun Also Rises" traveled across the country, filming in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the Yunnan border and the northwest Gobi. It cost more than a car to make a pair of embroidered shoes. It took hundreds of birds and animals, consumed dozens of boxes of ammunition, burned hundreds of tents, transported dozens of tons of cobblestones and red soil from thousands of miles to the location, and traveled across nine cities to assemble one train. .

4. In "Let the Bullets Fly", Chow Yun-fat gave Jiang Wen and Ge You a Hongmen Banquet. In order to capture the "three-legged" feeling around the round table, they dismantled the studio and built a circular track. Three action cameras had to be Facing three actors simultaneously and alternately during movement. Of the 550,000 feet of film used in the film, 1/5 was consumed in this scene alone.

Jiang Wen has his own views on his "luxury", "I went abroad to investigate this matter. They didn't have enough film to shoot, and they shot it in strips without dividing it first like ours." Shots. The vividness of the cuts is all due to the number of shots taken." He firmly defined it - quality comes first, and this is called a blockbuster.

In addition to material things, the human investment in Jiang Wen's movies is also "extravagant". He always lets "his own family" go into battle. In "The Sun Also Rises", Jiang Wen once let his two-month-old son freeze on the railway tracks in winter. In "Let the Bullets Fly", in addition to his younger brother Jiang Wu and his wife Zhou Yun, Jiang Wen's father also appeared in several guest scenes. Jiang Wen's father had already appeared in "The Japanese Are Coming", but was edited out by Jiang Wen. This time, three scenes were retained in "Let the Bullets Fly". When filming the "Hongmen Banquet" scene, Jiang Wen's father also helped to watch the monitor.