How was Black Sun 73 1 filmed?
More than 20 years have passed, and the scene of filming "Black Sun 73 1" is very deep in my memory, as if it is still vivid, and I will never forget those stories!
The film crew reported for work.
1In July, 987, when the TV series A Dream of Red Mansions was successfully broadcast in China, I performed in Yueyang, Hunan (that is, stepping on acupuncture points). At that time, I was invited by the Literature and Art Department of CCTV to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival "Dream of Red Mansions" literary evening. I gave up my performance in Yueyang and went to Beijing. After reporting to the crew, let me write a sketch. The content is that "Xue Pan" has opened a hotel as the general manager and "Xiaohong" is Xue Pan's secretary. Granny Liu, a rich farmer, came to the restaurant for dinner. Grandma Liu found the food in this restaurant unsanitary and complained to Xiaohong. Xiaohong had a bad attitude and had an argument with Grandma Liu. "Xue Pan" ran out to play with "Grandma". After grandma's patient education, Xue Pan deeply realized his mistake and apologized to grandma. A few days later, due to some reasons, our sketch program was cancelled by the crew and replaced with other programs. At this time, I received a phone call from Cui Xinqin, a professor in the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy, and recommended me as the deputy director of the film Black Sun 73 1 (the name of the film at that time was 73 1 Army). Farewell to the party, I rushed to Changchun overnight and reported to the film crew of the guest house of the Provincial Armed Police Corps.
When I arrived at the film crew and saw a man with a beard, I knew that the director was Tun Fei Mou, a famous director who filmed Heroes of Ancient Times in Taiwan Province and Hongkong. I was assigned as the deputy director of makeup, costumes, props and organizing extras. After more than 20 days of preparation, the film Black Sun 73 1 was launched in Changchun on August 1. First, the scene of Kwantung Army 73 1 germ warfare troops killing "Maruta" in Anda experimental field was filmed. On August 1 day, the sun in Changchun is still very bright. I was busy at the scene with bare arms for 8 days and got a layer of skin on my back. On August 9, when the film crew moved to Changchun East Station to shoot the rain scene of 73 1 troops retreating, the weather changed dramatically, and we had put on our military coats, which was very cold. Working with director Tun Fei Mou for the first time, I learned a lot about shooting. I also learned the director's character and artistic morality.
Shooting the scene of the body
The scene of the corpse burning room for filming Black Sun 73 1 was arranged in the boiler room of a tank regiment in Changchun. The scene of the morgue needs twelve bodies, because the actors have to chop and burn the bodies with axes, and the director asked for real bodies, which is more sensual. It can better reflect the inhumanity and cruelty of the Japanese Kwantung Army 73 1 germ warfare troops. For this reason, I went to the laboratory morgue of Bethune Medical University in Changchun. Wearing a mask, I saw a formalin pool of more than 200 square meters. There are hundreds of naked bodies of men and women floating in the pool, and some bodies' hair floats in the water, which is very scary. Formalin in the room smells very strong and unpleasant. I wore two masks, both of which were badly smoked. We need to pick out 12 relatively fresh bodies in this pool. According to the staff, there are still body specimens from more than 40 years ago in this pool. I pointed to one of them and said, "This is it!" Two workers in the mortuary, one with a thick iron hook, one with a neck and one with a thigh, shouted: 1, 2, 3. In an instant, the body was pulled out of the pool and fell to the ground. I think the body is still fresh. In this way, we chose twelve bodies and bought them at 3,000 yuan each. At that time, I discussed with the people in the laboratory that if the body was not damaged or stained, we would sell it back to you for 2000 yuan, and they agreed to make a deal. Because bodies were hard to buy at that time. Actually, we rented it for 1000 yuan. We are responsible for sending chopped limbs and broken bodies to the crematorium for burning. 12 the bodies were wrapped in white cloth, loaded into the car and taken to the crematorium for site layout. Because there were twelve bodies in the house, everyone felt nervous and the atmosphere froze. Everyone didn't speak, silently arranged. In order to mediate the atmosphere at the scene, I joked with the body. I put one corpse's hand on another corpse's shoulder and said, you didn't know him before, but now you do. Don't quarrel. Please cooperate with us in shooting. After that, everyone laughed and the atmosphere eased a lot. After the scene was arranged, the director felt that there were still too few bodies, so he asked me to go to the army and find 12 people to play the dead bodies. After I found the head of the army to explain the situation, the head of the army agreed to say, "You filmed the film story of the Japanese Kwantung Army 73 1 germ troops killing us in China, and we fully support it." . Call the guard platoon immediately and ask to send a small team of soldiers to cooperate with us in filming. The soldiers were very happy when they heard that a film was going to be made. The security platoon leader told the soldiers that all actions were under the command of Director Chen, and they must obey the director's requirements, and you can do whatever you want. Did you hear that? The soldiers said "yes" in unison. One of the soldiers asked me: Director, shall we play Japanese devils? Another soldier asked me, director, are you asking us to fight the Eighth Route Army? I said you'll know when you arrive. The soldiers are going to make a film. How happy they are!
Soldiers came to the scene and saw many naked bodies piled up in the house. They asked me: Is the director's dead person true or false? I teased him that it was false. When a soldier heard that it was fake, he squatted in front of the body to see clearly-"Oh, my God, it's really dead"! Suddenly, a group of soldiers ran out in fear! The soldiers asked me what they were playing. I said play the dead body! As soon as the soldiers heard that they were going to play a dead body, they all said they would quit. I said: Japanese Kwantung Army 73 1 Bacteriological warfare troops committed heinous crimes in the Northeast. As a Northeastern, we want to ask the Japanese aggressors for blood debts! Are you still unwilling to attend? I am older than you. Let me play the dead body first The soldiers stopped talking. I said, what did the director ask you when you came? Do what you want, right? The soldiers nodded. I said go to the scene now and listen to my command.
Soldiers entered the scene. The scene began to clear, and all the female compatriots left. I was the first to take off my clothes and lie naked next to the body. Other workers piled the soldiers together and poured plasma on them. The scene at this time is like a fresh corpse that has just been transported from the autopsy laboratory. It was very cold in Changchun that day! More than 20 degrees below zero! Seeing the performance of the soldiers, the director was very satisfied. The camera went well. Among them, Liu Tianfu, an old actor of our Harbin Theatre, plays the role of the corpse-burner of the 73 1 Army. He chopped up the body with an axe, cut off a piece and sent it to the stove for burning, dancing and drinking, chopping, jumping, burning and drinking again. It can be seen that the Japanese invaders took pleasure in chopping up China's body! The actor acted very seriously, very much like it, especially true! The professionalism and artistic ethics of the old actors are really worth studying by our young actors today!
When you watch this movie and this scene again, you will realize the hardships of our filmmakers.
Pat freezing test
In the shooting of Black Sun 73 1, there is an outdoor freezing test scene. "Female Maruta" is doing a freezing test outdoors. We actors do freezing experiments with our own arms. In the film, the Japanese army in the Kwantung Army 73 1 Bacteriological Unit kept pouring ice water on the experimenter's arm. The actress who plays "Female Maruta" is the costumer of our film crew and Min Jiang, the niece of director Tun Fei Mou. The drama was filmed all day, and the Minjiang River froze and kept crying: Uncle! I'm not filming! Uncle, I am freezing to death! Help me! It hurts! I won't shoot. The director encouraged Minjiang in tears: children, insist! Hold on! Every shot, the staff kept rubbing Minjiang's arm with snow, making her arm circulate until she rubbed her arm red. So the arm won't get frostbite. Northeasters are still very experienced in the ice and snow. The director continued filming, then watered, frozen, filmed, watered, frozen and then frozen his arm. (Of course, the ice in the lens was pasted by an ice model made of rock sugar by a makeup artist. ) 73 1 Japanese troops beat the frozen arm with bayonets. Every time he knocks on Minjiang's arm, a purple bag will appear. Every time he knocks, it is a purple bag! Minjiang River is crying! The camera is shooting! Shoot again! I've been shooting like this all day. We are all watching, patting, watching and patting with tears in our eyes! The Minjiang spirit touched everyone present, and we all shed tears! This is the spirit that we filmmakers contribute to film production!
Make-up shot with lens piercing
There is also a scene when shooting, that is, the arm of the frostbite experimenter is placed in an outdoor warm pool. When the water temperature rises to a certain degree, the flesh of the frostbitten arm is torn by the experimenter, and suddenly the flesh falls off, leaving only the lens of the bone. Because the actor has to hold the tail of a pair of real people's arms, and there is oil on the human bones, it needs to be wrapped in toilet paper to stabilize it. The palm of the hand is facing down, and the camera successfully completed the shooting of the scene. In the evening, we found the pink toilet paper with the actor arm in arm in the camera. Because the screen of the editing machine is too small to see clearly, the director decided to show it in the big screening room. When it is displayed on the big screen, it is obviously toilet paper. Wow! The lens is broken! Breaking the lens is a very frustrating accident in the film industry. The film crew held an emergency meeting overnight, and the director asked that the scene must be finished by tomorrow morning 10! Because the next day 12, our entire film crew moved to Harbin to shoot. Part of the homework went to Changchun North Korea Middle School to find students who fought Japanese soldiers all night and returned to the regiment. The clothing department contacted to borrow clothes, and the art department resumed the scene and asked me to find another pair of female corpse arms. I took a bus to the laboratory morgue of Changchun Bethune Medical University overnight. I paid a high price and gave the person in charge a little tip before the other party agreed to sell me a pair of female corpse arms. The staff took me to the corpse pool again and quickly unloaded a pair of female corpse arms with a scalpel. I wrapped it in white cloth and hurried back to the film crew under my arm. Because the props were busy restoring the scene, the work of making the corpse arm fell on me. I cut the skin and muscles of my arm with a scalpel, stripped the bones of the whole arm to my fingers, then restored the flesh to its original state and dyed it with glue. I bowed my head and did it alone. I was too busy to finish the work until dawn. When the director was satisfied with the sight of the dead body arm, I was deeply relieved! The make-up exam was successfully completed on 10 the next morning. In this way, our entire film crew left Changchun on time at 12 for Harbin. This is our filmmakers' sense of responsibility in making movies!
Shoot a mouse.
The film Black Sun 73 1 needs more than 10,000 mice. In Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang, we called on local teachers, students and farmers to catch mice, and all the small ones were bought at 80 cents. It's already a rat in the dead of winter, and it's hard to find mountain rat in the hole. Teachers and students and local farmers dig up the mountain. Every day after work, we drive to nearby villages, villages and schools to collect. After more than ten days of hard work, we finally collected more than 10 thousand mice, and the mice we received were put in two rooms with corridors for shooting. More than ten thousand mice! A large gray area. Mice fight with each other, and mountain rat is the best. He can kill each other with one bite. In this way, hundreds of mice die unexpectedly every day. The staff will pick out many dead mice from the room every day. The local farmers told us to put some corn and corn stalks in the room. Rats can eat, and if they can hide, it will reduce the mortality rate. According to the old farmer, it is really effective, and the mortality rate of mice has dropped. We lit a stove in the corridor, because it was too cold, and the mice warmed each other in piles. We're going to shoot. Four cameras were pointed at the mouse, but the mouse didn't move. I went down to get a big broom to sweep, but the mouse didn't move or kick. I haven't shot all day. Back to the hostel, Tun Fei Mou, director of the depressed, don't want to eat. I thought about it and said to the director, can I use electricity? The director said: don't talk nonsense, didn't 220 electricity die as soon as it was hit? I said: you can use a transformer to slowly increase the voltage, and the mouse will definitely move when it is more than ten negative. Hearing this, the director makes sense. Arrange to lay the power grid immediately. The staff laid a 20 cm square barbed wire at the height from the ground 1 cm, and each nail head was wrapped with insulating tape, so that electricity would not reach the ground. The next day, four cameras pointed at the mouse and started shooting. The director shouted: Xiao Chen is rising slowly, and I have a transformer. Bit by bit, 0- negative, 2- negative, 5- At this time, the mouse began to shake, and I slowly got up again. When the voltage became more than ten negative, the mouse began to run. The mouse has been running and has been electrified. This is a spectacular gray dense package. Panoramic view, middle view, close-up view and close-up. Wow! It's beautiful, and there are many mice! The director shouted: Stop! I'll turn off the transformer at once. At this time, the mice were shocked, sweaty and panting. The director smiled, the photographer smiled, and we all laughed. The director said: Let them have a rest before shooting. Xiao Chen brought a cat. I brought a big cat prepared in advance and put it in the mouse's room. We thought that mice would run away when they saw cats. The big cat had never seen so many mice in her life, which scared her to hide in a corner and look around. But unexpectedly, mice are not afraid of cats at all. Mice and cats warm each other peacefully. Many mice got under the cat's stomach to keep warm and tied the cat's feet with wires. The director said he was ready to start. The motor of the camera rang again, and I took the transformer to step up the voltage slowly. When it was over ten, mice and cats were bitten by the noise of electricity. The cat barked, bit and tore when it caught the mouse. The close-up of cat biting mouse and mouse blood is wonderful! Stop. The mouse is panting, the cat is panting and sweating all over. The prop master killed the big cat with a knife and smeared the plasma mixed with honey on the cat. Mice love sweets, so they all eat plasma, just like mice eating cats! This is the research logic of Shiro Ishii, the chief officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army Bacteriological Force-the more the weak, the weaker the strong. The inhuman robber logic that small fleas can also exterminate mankind!
When the Kwantung Army Bacterium 73 1 troops retreat, all laboratories will be blown up. Those mice were painted on each mouse by our prop teacher with solid gasoline and then set on fire. Rats with fire were running around and fireballs were scattered everywhere. It's spectacular and beautiful!