Production and sale of small night knives

Knife of the Night, which attracted attention because of Gianna Jun's first overseas film, has been in the doldrums at the box office for several days. 13 According to the statistics of the Film Promotion Committee, the audience of Night Knife reached 33,346 on the first day of release, 1 1, 12, ranking seventh among all the films being released. The pre-sale rate of a pre-sale website at 9: 00 pm 13 is only 1.69%, and the pre-sale rates of other websites in Korea are also unsatisfactory.

Gianna Jun was frequently exposed to the media because of promotional videos, and participated in many activities and interviews. It seems that her efforts have not attracted the attention of fans. Both the film reviews after the media screening and the audience comments after the screening expressed their disappointment with the film, which was a fatal blow to Jaina Jun. Knife of the Night was a difficult action film selected by Gianna Jun who voluntarily gave up the theme of love. However, the exaggerated publicity in the early stage, the incident of Gianna Jun wearing a Japanese school uniform, and the story of not getting rid of the level of a third-rate action movie have made people worry whether Night Knife is also the result of a fiasco at the Korean box office after Japan.

Since 2004, when the second film "My Barbarian Girlfriend" was filmed, "Barbarian Teacher Sister and Daisy", Gianna Jun hasn't released a well-received work. It seems that it is difficult for her to get rid of the evaluation of "advertising star" for a while. However, in recent years, Gianna Jun's Berlin and League of Thieves have made the audience more aware of Gianna Jun's more mature acting skills and box office appeal.

Gianna Jun marched into Hollywood.

The story of Little Night Knife is set in 1966 at the Japan-US Air Force Base, which was mired in the Vietnam War. There were several monster murders near the base. A mysterious organization secretly sent a vampire girl to the American school at the base to destroy the demon "winged hand" there. This girl named "Saiya Skirt", with a Japanese knife in her hand, will shoulder the mission of killing all "winged hands".

It is reported that in "Little Night Knife", the role played by Gianna Jun is the only one that runs through the film from beginning to end, and all the other characters in the film have died one after another. Therefore, except for Gianna Jun, the schedule of other actors involved in filming is basically about one week. Some people in the crew also compare "Little Night Knife" with "Kill Bill". Gianna Jun will create a female killer image that is not inferior to uma thurman in the film. Small Night Knife can be said to be Gianna Jun's most ideal debut in Hollywood.

Before the filming, Gianna Jun had a three-month special martial arts training, practicing waist and abdomen strength, flying kick and stringing. Although the training intensity was great, she never complained, and this hard work soon made her a martial artist. Gianna Jun said with a smile that through this film, she became the best actress who beat around the bush. French director chris nahon praised her acting and fighting skills, and film action director Yuan Kui admired her perseverance and understanding. Yuan Kui designed a thrilling scene in which hundreds of ghosts were beheaded, which became the climax of the film.

Xiaoxue, who plays the leading role in "The Last Samurai", plays the "Ghost Source", the arch-enemy of the Isaiah skirt.

The mystery of secret shooting

The news that "Night Knife" moved to Tengchong, although strict confidentiality measures prevented the media and fans from seeing the true face of the film, after many twists and turns, the reporter not only obtained the exclusive stills of Gianna Jun at the shooting scene, but also learned the details of the film shooting in China, and also received the report from readers, which can be said to have completely unveiled the mystery of this international blockbuster.

Knife of the Night, directed by John Woo, is adapted from the animated film The Last Vampire by Japanese animation master Mamoru Oshii. Since it was released in Argentina on March 6th, 2007, it has been the focus of media and fans. Because Hollywood invested 35 million dollars to shoot the film, according to the usual practice, the producer not only signed a strict sealing agreement with the crew, but even the shooting was carried out in a semi-closed situation.

The film only talks about love, not hands-on

As Gianna Jun's debut in Hollywood, the performance of "savage girlfriend" in the film attracts the most attention. Although it is an action movie, the reporter learned that because of body double's arrangement, the savage girlfriend only needs to fall in love this time, and does not need to go into battle in person.

The story of Isaiah Skirt Knife is basically narrated according to the growth process of the protagonist "Isaiah Skirt". In the film, she will not only have a big fight, but also have a scene in which the Isaiah skirt falls in love with her childhood friends in her girlhood. However, for Gianna Jun, who plays the Isaiah dress, she only needs to fall in love under the guidance of chris nahon, the director of literary drama. As for the martial arts scenes, except for some facial close-ups, the others are basically done by stuntmen. The drama part is also very important this time. The Isaiah dress played by Gianna Jun will unwillingly kill her mother at the end of the film.

As for the lines, Gianna Jun had an English translator following him all the time at the shooting scene. For distribution, Gianna Jun must perform each performance in English and Korean respectively. Although China actor Xu Qifeng plays the childhood friend of the Isaiah skirt in the film, Gianna Jun knows nothing about Chinese. Their emotional scenes can only be communicated in English. Although there are some problems in language communication, director chris nahon is quite appreciative of their final performance.

Compared with the ostentation and extravagance in Koyuki Kato.

Koyuki Kato, who once played the heroine in The Last Samurai, is one of the unpublished actresses before Little Night Knife and one of the most popular Japanese first-line actresses. The contest between the first-line female stars in Korea and Japan is not only opposite, but the crew also revealed an anecdote about Gianna Jun and Koyuki Kato when they were shooting at the scene. It is reported that Koyuki Kato has many opposite roles with Gianna Jun in the film. Because of the regulations of the crew, actors who don't have live shots can't stay at the shooting scene, so Koyuki Kato and Gianna Jun meet alone at the scene in many cases. On the first day of filming, Koyuki Kato was accompanied by more than a dozen assistants and staff, who surpassed Gianna Jun, the main actor with only six or seven assistants. So, within two days, Gianna Jun's assistants flew from South Korea to the location of Sayyidao, in order to build momentum for the "savage girlfriend" on the spot. The two seem to be fighting privately, but they cooperated quite well in the shooting process and the shooting was very smooth.

Debris flow occurred during filming.

The filming of Little Night Knife was smooth in Argentina and other places, but it fell into a series of difficulties after moving to Tengchong, Yunnan. According to the insiders of the crew, the crew of "Little Night Knife" set up a small night village on the location of Tengchong, which contains a hut played by Gianna Jun and a watchtower for warning. It takes about an hour from Tengchong County to Tengchong. However, due to the rainy season in Yunnan in June, the roads were muddy and landslides or mudslides occurred in many places.

Due to the unpredictable weather conditions and the fact that many actors have signed the shooting schedule, the crew of Night Knife basically shoots by two groups at the same time every day to catch up with the progress. Although John Woo is the general director, the specific on-site directors are chris nahon, a French director who directed Empire of the Jackal and Kiss of the Dragon, and Yu Rentai, a famous Hong Kong director. In addition to these two directors, Yuan Kui, a famous Hong Kong martial arts director, also served as some directors at the scene. According to reports, during the filming in Yunnan, chris nahon was mainly responsible for the filming of literary dramas, while Yu Rentai and Yuan Kui were mainly responsible for the filming of martial arts films. The two groups started working on location in Tengchong at the same time.

The martial arts scene is dazzling.

With the participation of Wu Yusen, Yu Rentai, Yuan Kui and other masters, the martial arts scene of Little Night Knife is naturally very interesting. Yuan Kui once directed a movie of the same name based on the video game "Life and Death" for Hollywood, and he has a lot of experience on how to design martial arts scenes for movies adapted from anime works. It is reported that the martial arts scene of "Little Night Knife" still uses the traditional method of hanging Weiya, but Yuan Kui has designed many new details on this basis. According to reports, in the woods on location in Tengchong, the crew dug many deep pits according to Yuan Kui's design, and some actors dressed as ninjas "rose from the ground" from these deep pits, and the scene was quite beautiful. Because there are quite a number of deep pits, the crew who shoot literary dramas must find out where there are deep pits in advance every time they shoot here, in case other staff members accidentally fall. In addition, because it was adapted from a Japanese animated film, Yuan Kui combined Japanese Ninjutsu, Kendo and China Kung Fu routines to design the action scenes of the film, which was dazzling and achieved the effect in the original animated works.