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On June 5438+ 10, 2003, filming of The Suffering of Christmas began in Chicago. Mitchell wanted the story to take place in a city with obvious winter characteristics, so the film had to leave Los Angeles when it was filmed on location. Although there is winter there, it is obviously not up to the requirements of the film. Mitchell himself admitted that the live shooting in Chicago created many convenient conditions for shooting, where every household had a Christmas tree specially prepared for the festival, and the production team only needed to hang them with decorative holiday lights. Most importantly, the snowfall there is up to standard.

The city itself seems to cooperate with the filming, wearing white winter clothes all winter, and the crew hardly need to spend too much time on artificial snow. However, this year, Chicago also experienced the coldest season in history, and even the local residents living there felt that it was really a cold winter. This is definitely not a good omen for the crew members who come here to shoot, whether they are staff, actors or directors: Mitchell asked that when shooting this set of scenes, the actors' performances should be as comic as possible, and at the same time, they should be full of romantic warmth. However, the only thing everyone here can think of is: "My toes must be frozen, and I can't feel them anymore." In such cold weather, it seems that even the mind will freeze. The daytime temperature in Chicago has exceeded MINUS 20 degrees, and everything seems to freeze in an instant, not to mention the biting cold wind. The actors felt their faces frozen.

Although I only stayed in Chicago for two weeks, more than half of the actors and staff suffered from frostbite to varying degrees. In addition, windy weather is also the natural enemy of normal shooting: although it is not necessary to create a large and complete snow scene, some scenes still need to be slightly decorated with artificial snow. However, sometimes the wind in Chicago blows like a naughty boy losing his temper. The pre-arranged snow scene is not only blown beyond recognition, but the most irritating thing is that there is no shadow of snow around the actors performing in front of the camera, while there is a beautiful white background around the staff behind the camera.

In addition, the shooting location of "Pure Exterior" also includes Mount CMOS, a ski resort in California, where the crew will shoot a group of scenes where Drew forces Alicia and her brother Brian to sledge with him ... After experiencing the cold in Chicago, everyone thinks that Mount McMos is "like a warm beach".