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Peter Chan flew on-axis in Seoul, South Korea, Bangkok, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and the mainland for intensive post-production. He worked continuously for 40 hours without rest. The only time he could sleep was on the plane .
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When "Swordsmen" was filmed, some netizens joked: "Zhen" Zidan, Tang "Wei", plus Jincheng "wu", it happens to be "true mighty". After Donnie Yen heard this, he joked and added Chen "Ke" to Xin, which means "Ke is really mighty . "
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Although he has been away from the film world for more than ten years, as the first person in the "One Armed Sword" series, Wang Yu has many international fans like Quentin Tarantino and Woo Ping Yuen in the international film world. As soon as the news that "Swordsmen" was shortlisted in Cannes, the French publisher TF1 "scheduled" Wang Yu's schedule with the film studio in the first time, hoping to reproduce the legend of "One-armed Swordsman" on the red carpet .
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"Don't be handsome, blame it" is Takeshi Kaneshiro's modeling concept in "Swordsmen". "Although Takeshi Kaneshiro only has one set of clothing, it is a luxury item from head to toe. It is a genuine antique." Takeshi Kaneshiro wears only one antique straw hat in the film. The crew also specially equipped a safe. During filming, Takeshi Where did Kaneshiro go, where did the safe take .
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Takeshi Kaneshiro’s first scene in "Swordsmen" was a "post-mortem". Although the "corpses" were made of special materials, they had to be shot in one day to ensure their "fresh" texture. As a result, Takeshi Kaneshiro's More than 100 films of the "post-mortem" scene have been filmed, making him a veritable "post-mortem emperor". Takeshi Kaneshiro said frankly, acting with the "corpse" has lingering fears and nightmares. In order to make the "post-mortem" look professional, Takeshi Kaneshiro also hired a surgeon as his teacher, and studied every posture from the opening to the sampling .
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In the film, Takeshi Kaneshiro's lines are all in Sichuan dialect. On the first day, he made up his mind. Because he was not prepared, he made a lot of jokes. Later, I learned from a Sichuanese in the field workers. I just said vaguely for two days. On the third day, a tour guide was specially transferred from Chengdu to be a teacher, but it turned out that the previous field workers and the tour guide had different pronunciations. , So it was chaotic in an instant, who did you listen to? In order to learn Sichuan dialect, Takeshi Kaneshiro puts the words of the "Masters" into MP3 and listens to it repeatedly, but because the accents of the "Masters" are different, his Sichuan dialect version is also a "mixed version" .
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About 20 minutes after the beginning of the film, Tang Wei and Donnie Yen were in the bathroom discussing whether to use it., Or the private conversation of taking mercury for contraception, the next scene shifted very abruptly, and a passion scene was deleted.
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The domestically released version of "Swordsmen" is eight or nine minutes longer than the version shown in Cannes, adding a scene of Tang Wei's fishing in the water. This scene is about Tang Wei and Donnie Yen meeting for the first time by the stream, and how Tang Wei fell in love with him. In addition to the "fishing scene" and the emotional scene between Tang Wei and Donnie Yen, some empty scenes with Chinese elements have been added to the domestic version.
Dragon behind the scenes gags
2022-01-17 08:03
Extended Reading
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Xu's investigator: [referring to Liu Jin-Xi] He's a reformed man.
Detective Xu Bai-Jiu: We're not here to reform criminals.
Xu's investigator: Then what's our purpose?
Detective Xu Bai-Jiu: [sternly] To serve the law!
Xu's investigator: If the law doesn't help reform people, what good is it?
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Detective Xu Bai-Jiu: Is the law really more important than humanity?