On May 6, 2008, the crew of "Shanghai" moved to London for a 7-week filming. With limited time and budget, the producer undertook the arduous task of recreating the old Shanghai in the 1940s in London. The combination of the ingenuity of photographer Neut Delheim and production director Jimmy Clay captured the scale and nature of an extraordinary city. Their landmark building location in London transformed the colonial concession of old Shanghai. Become a reality: the exquisitely decorated rooms in Waitanhurst style, the historic residence of King George in Highgate in north London; the masterpiece of modern design, the Art Deco-style Eltham Palace in south London, was built The fortress of the underworld businessman Anthony in the film; another magnificent Art Deco building, located in the center of London, was built in the 1930s, and became the location where Paul Soms tried to find out the cause of his friend’s death; Picardy The Criterion restaurant on Leigh Street is the only new Byzantine restaurant in London. It is used as a Casanova restaurant in the film, where Lenny, played by Franka Potente, meets Paul Soms. In Holden House, this Buckingham country house was turned into the German consulate in the film. The film crew also obtained permission to shoot at the abandoned Battersea Power Station, which has become a landmark of the London skyline. It is famous for its original large art decoration, which has also become the public concession in the film— -Shanghai Zhabei is also the main filming location for many action parts in the film.
After seven weeks of filming in London, the crew streamlined the crew and went to Bangkok for the next three months of filming. 300 set-scene crews tried to rebuild an old Shanghai port, including more than a dozen five-story buildings. , A huge water tank, the appearance of a huge passenger ship, and two main intersections. The main interior construction was also completed in Bangkok, including the Grand World Casino, a complex multi-layered interior setting, where Paul Soms and Anna met for the first time in the film.
Living Films is a local production company. They are responsible for coordinating with the Thai army, navy and police, including one of only two Japanese tanks in the 1930s that can still be used in the world, and an old police gunboat. Weapons, police dogs and soldiers.
In the film’s climax location series, the local actor company prepared thousands of Chinese and Japanese extras, the clothing department also prepared hundreds of unique rickshaws for this purpose, and the event vehicle department rented them from all over Thailand. All kinds of cars and trucks at that time, the firearms department brought real old-style weapons and equipment from New Zealand
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