"Devils on the Doorstep" used 480,000 rolls of film. Gu Changwei suggested whether Jiang Wen could shoot black and white. At that time, the technical means and personnel and equipment were not particularly complete, and black and white films were a challenge for photographers. This is not a matter of form, but of content.
Anyone who has seen it has realized that according to the story of "Devils on the Doorstep", its color itself is the content. For the bright red picture of the beheading at the end of the film, the entire film was shot in black and white. When filming "Devils on the Doorstep" Jiang Wen once imported a special camera from the United States for a scene. "Devils on the Doorstep" used 480,000 volumes, which resulted in an investment of more than 30% over the original plan of 20 million.
