The Eight Hundred scene props
2022-03-10 08:02
The staff of the film built a building covering an area of 200 acres with bricks and tiles. Not only did they manually excavate a new Suzhou River, but they also constructed 1:1 real-life buildings on both sides of the river
. During the filming, the demolition site in Baisha, Ningbo was set as the scene of the Battle of Songhu. In pursuit of reality, the crew spent a year and a half in the Huayi Brothers Movie Worldshooting base to design and build a 200-acre site with 68 buildings, and dug the 200-meter-long Suzhou River to restore the war on both sides of the river. The "hell" of the sky and the "heaven" of the sensual neon. The entire film used 300 flares to reproduce the lighting effects on the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu. A total of more than 300 kilograms of e-liquid and nearly 5 tons of old newspapers were burned, creating a real battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke and artillery fire. In order to present the best visual effects, ensure the realism of the picture and highlight the aesthetic value, Cao Yu, the director of photography, set up more than 2,000 lamps on the set to match different shots
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