1. Let Taiwan's Xiaoqingqing Gui Lunmei play the Northeast woman, which is the result of the unanimous agreement of the filmmaker and the director. They believe that the fresh and unfamiliar feeling of being in the northeast of Gui Lunmei is the main reason why she attracts men. The heroines of film noir are almost always strangers to small towns.
2. The original English name of the movie is "Crows Hunting", crow hunting. This meant that there was an important scene at the end: after the case was over, Liao Fan followed a group of people from the criminal police team to fight crows. This was the most difficult scene to shoot, but the director cut it out during the first cut and changed the English name.
3. The director often mentioned the American writer Raymond Carver when revising the script. It is like "Peacock" in Carver's novel, and it also reminds people of the horror in "The Water Pool is So Close to Home".
4. After Wu Zhizhen cut his finger, Zhang Zili chased away the young man who came to wash the sweater. This was actually Zhang Zili's idea. Although this move moved Wu Zhizhen's heart, Zhang Zili did this not to pick up girls, but to take advantage of his relationship with Wu Zhizhen to get more clues to solve the case. So at the door, he couldn't help snickering for a long time.
5. After the night of the Ferris wheel, Zhang Zili and Wu Zhizhen sat awkwardly and intimately together for breakfast, suggesting that they had spent an unforgettable night together. Director Diao Yinan clearly explained: "How should a man and a woman sleep for a night? Let them have breakfast together."
6. Liao Fan's dance in the ballroom is not to release his joy after solving the case, but to imply Zhang Zili after Gui Lunmei was taken away life fell into disrepair. The driving force that pushed his life forward came to an abrupt end with the detection of this major case, and his feelings for the prisoner Wu Zhizhen were also revealed with the fireworks released in the sky, and there was nothing he could do after that.
7. The box office of "Fireworks in the Day" reached 11 million on its premiere day. By March 22, the number of films still ranked second, reaching 17%. That is to say, when you go to the cinema, you can at least choose different times and times to watch it. this film.
8. Director Diao Yinan is not a rookie. In 2002, he starred in Yu Liwei's "Tomorrow's End", which was selected for the "A Kind of Attention" competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
9. The script refers to the classic film noir "The Third Man", which was filmed in 1949 from the famous writer Graham Greene. The special moral torture during World War II, as well as Green's own Catholic background, endowed the film with a traditional value color: the pursuit of justice and justice is higher than personal love. This kind of values is transplanted to Zhang Zili, a desolate and decadent policeman in modern northeastern China, and it has a vivid meaning in the ice and snow.
10. Photography Dong Jinsong is also the photographer of Diao Yinan's previous works "Uniform" and "Night Train". He also participated in the filming of Wang Xiaoshuai's "My Eleven" and Cai Shangjun's "Crowd of People".
11. The scene of the Ferris wheel is obviously a tribute to "The Third Man", and the sound recording engineer Zhang Yang is ingenious in the processing of the sound, making it sound like a steel monster.
12. The horse in the corridor of the neighborhood committee office in the film belongs to the waste collector, and the dialogue mentions that the waste collector has been missing for several days. What is revealed here is the absurdity and danger of real life: people will disappear inexplicably, and the people around them don't seem to care, showing that the protagonists are in an unsafe environment.
13. After Zhang Zili was followed into the ballroom by the weighman and Wu Zhizhen's husband, Liang Zhijun, he pretended to hug a woman who was dancing alone, merged into the crowd, and took the opportunity to escape Liang Zhijun. This passage in the Berlin edition is similar to Andy Lau's embrace of Meng Jiahui in To Qifeng's "Dark War". In the domestic release version, this dance was skipped, and only the woman who danced alone was shown at the end of the film, implying that Zhang Zili never came to the dance hall after the stalking.
14. Rong Rong, the owner of a dry cleaner, blindly gave out a red scarf when Wu Zhizhen, played by Gui Lunmei, was taken away by the police. This was the only moment when Gui Lunmei wanted to cry when she was filming.
15. The film was shot in two unconventional phases: 10 days in summer and 47 days in winter. The change of time gives the characters space for the precipitation of the short spiritual history, and the summer also heralds the signs of the protagonist's recovery from the sinking.
16. Before Diao Yinan could find an investment, he went to Fushun to see Jingjing to cheer him up, but after the official start of filming, Fushun has changed a lot. At the suggestion of photographer Dong Jinsong, the shooting venue was moved to Harbin.
17. At first, the producer of the film required more than 1,500 shots in the whole film, which was different from director Diao Yinan's concept. At that time, in the storyboard drawn by the director, the number of shots was about 500. Later, the main creative team selected some good films with a relatively balanced commercial and artistic quality to count their shots for reference. These films include "A History of Violence", "Memories of Murder", "A Parting", "Big Event" and so on.
18. The script was written for a total of 8 years, and the film took three years from preparation to finalization.
19. The crew hired the best pyrotechnicians from Changchun Film Studio to control the explosion point during the shooting. They also considered wrapping the actors closest to the explosion point with iron sheets to prevent accidental injury, but because the characters wore thin in summer, they finally gave up. I am also fortunate that the crew was lucky and did not encounter a fireworks accident.
20. The scene where Zhang Zili was drunk in the highway tunnel took more than half an hour to shoot. It was a long shot, so Liao Fan couldn’t move. He was more than 100 meters away from the camera crew. He couldn't communicate with the film crew either, so he had to lie there all the time, with multiple layers of moisture-proof plastic wrapping around his waist.
21. Zhang Zili was lying in the tunnel and his motorcycle was taken away. It wasn't really snowing at the time. There was a snow-making machine working on the scene.
22. During the second shot, the camera cart overturned, and the assistant lay on the ground and could not move, and was carried away by 120. Liao Fan's helmet was full of water vapor. He didn't know what was going on, but he saw many people gathered to carry people away. After the filming was over, Liao Fan took off his helmet and shed tears.
23. Zhang Zili and Wu Zhizhen went to the old cinema to watch a movie together. They watched the first martial arts film "The Thirteen Sisters of Chivalry" in my country in 1983.
24. One scene was filmed at minus 40 degrees. All the monitors of the crew were frozen, and the effect was not visible. The result was dark, and it was necessary to raise the level in the later stage.
25. Their "Wild Ice Skating" scene was filmed on the Songhua River.
26. Liao Fan and Gui Lunmei did not know how to skate originally, but they studied with the Harbin provincial team and even the national team members for ten days for this film. Gui Lunmei has already practiced by herself in Taiwan. Liao Fan didn't know if he had practiced beforehand, but when they arrived in Harbin, they all knew it.
27. In order to shoot some surreal and dreamy shots, sometimes the actors stand on the sled and move with the camera, making ice skating movements, not really slippery.
28. The title of "Fireworks in the Daytime" is basically a flash of inspiration when the director Diao Yinan was chatting. It also has a secret inner connection with Buñuel's "Beauty in the Daytime" and Cai Guoqiang's fireworks works.
29. The neon lights of the nightclub "Daylight Fireworks" appearing in the film are actually realized by special effects. Its actual scene is a dilapidated auditorium of a business college in Harbin.
30. The fireworks that Zhang Zili set off for Wu Zhizhen at the end were specially ordered in Hunan. Ordinary fireworks will not explode in the daytime. To see the trajectory of fireworks during the day, you need to add a special powder. The ordering process is also very tortuous, because the transport of gunpowder needs permission, and the discharge also needs permission.
31. The fireworks are also very difficult to control. Later, each rocket was hung on the Weiya, and the Weiya was erased in the post-production.
32. The colorist of the film is Korean. He adjusted all the important Korean art films, from Lee Chang-dong to Hong Sang-soo, from "Old Boy" to "Memories of Murder".
33. The producers have heard some opinions and have concerns about Zhang Zili's violent tendencies, including when he pushed his ex-wife on the sand at the beginning, and later pulled the female worker to the ground in the factory, and on the Ferris wheel. And Gui Lunmei's play, I think it's a bit disrespectful to women. After winning the award in Berlin, Diao Yinan specifically asked James Shams, the chairman of the jury, what the female judges thought of the film. It is to ask whether these plots have a negative impact on Liao Fan's evaluation, because this time there are four female judges. James Shams said: "Oh, each of them wants to be pushed down by Liao Fan once.
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