- The crew selected several young actors based on "looks like Jiang Wen ", but they don't look like each other when they are placed together. Who to choose? It makes Jiang Wen worried. Later, Jiang Wen's mother came and said that Yu Xia looked like Jiang Wen's middle school, so it was decided that Yu Xia would play Ma Xiaojun.
- The amazing Ning Jing in the film was not the first choice to play Milan. The actors who played Milan changed several times, and it was not Ning Jing that was settled later. After the filming started, Jiang Wen saw Ning Jing from a distance in the dining room and felt very good. In this way, Ning Jing finally came to play Milan.
- In fact, two-thirds of the seemingly sunny and scorching summer in the film were shot in autumn and winter when the temperature is below ten degrees. Ma Xiaojun braved the downpour to find Milan to confess that the scene was actually filmed in Beijing's climate of minus ten degrees in January!
- During the filming, Hua Fang , who played the old chief, was not in good health. He thought he could not complete the task well, and he also took the initiative to ask Jiang Wen to reduce his salary. Mr. Hua Fang wanted to see this film very much during his lifetime, but when he died, the film had not yet been reviewed.
- During the shooting process, Jiang Wen played on the spot, paying special attention to capturing the impromptu inspiration of the scene. A total of 250,000 feet of footage was shot, setting a record for the highest film-consumption ratio among Chinese directors.
- In the film, there is a photo hanging in Milan's house, and Ma Xiaojun lost his soul when he saw it. But Jiang Wen couldn't get that taste no matter how he shot, so he used 4 films (about 40 minutes) to shoot, which is equivalent to taking a total of 23040 photos, and then select one from them, the film consumption ratio is as high as 23040 :1!
- In order to let the actors enter that era and their respective roles as soon as possible, Jiang Wen gave them a closed "pickling" training, let these actors wear military uniforms, live in the army barracks, cut off all external contacts, every day Read Chairman Mao's quotations and poems, and listen to red songs.
- In the film, he made a cameo appearance as a "little villain". He recalled the filming experience of that scene. At that time, he agreed to make a cameo appearance because of his vanity. However, when he arrived at Lugou Bridge, he regretted it, because the North Wind still had to film the summer scene. , He was so cold that his nose was running, and he was embarrassed.
- Many people didn't notice Ma Xiaojun's scene at the entrance of the exhibition hall. Zuo Xiaoqing performed Zhang Xiaomei, who was practicing dance at the Children's Palace next to Yu Beibei. It was Jiang Wen's unique vision that allowed Zuo Xiaoqing, who had just retired from the national gymnastics team, to play a cameo role in the film and embarked on the road of acting.
- The adult Ma Xiaojun played by Jiang Wen had a lot of scenes during the filming, but when editing the film later, Jiang Wen felt that there was a problem with his performance, so in the end, he cut almost all his scenes drastically.
- In the Heat of the Sun premiered in Venice on September 9, 1994. However, during the screening, the English copy was misplaced into a copy with Italian subtitles. As a result, judges from many English-speaking countries, including the chairman of the jury, David Lynch, could only guess the film.
- When Yu Xia was interviewed by a reporter from " Qingdao Evening News " the day after the Venice Awards , she knew that she had become the best actor in Venice. Yu Xia had no concept of this award at the time, and only later realized that he had "accidentally" become the youngest actor in Venice.
- The home of Ma Xiaojun in the film is located in Beixincang Hutong in Dongzhimen . Milan's home is the former site of Duan Qirui 's government on Zhang Zizhong Road, Dongcheng District. Matteo Ricci and the Cemetery of Foreign Missionaries on Chegongzhuang Street is where Ma Xiaojun first met Milan himself .
In the Heat of the Sun behind the scenes gags
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