When Lin Chaoxian saw the script, he admitted that the film was not easy to make. However, after three years of preparation, it still brought a film with a higher level at the moment.
When the "Mekong Massacre" caused a national sensation five years ago, Bona finally obtained the filming rights for this subject after screening. After that, Bona sent a team to go to the court where Nuo Kang was tried in Kunming, and recorded the whole process of the sentence of Nuo Kang and his gang. At the same time, interviews with all the participants in the case were compiled. Some of the Yunnan dialects were difficult to "translate". In the end, they handed over hundreds of thousands of words of audio and video to Lin Chaoxian, restoring the case itself to the greatest extent possible.
After the filming of "Broken Wind", Lin Chaoxian felt that he had been hollowed out and there was no more film to shoot. He was very excited when he suddenly received this subject. "Finally there is a story to make an action film outside the Hong Kong regional background, like the US Navy SEALs law enforcement, I really want to make it as soon as I hear it."
The Ministry of Public Security attached great importance to the filming of the film, and arranged for the prototype of Gao Gang, the anti-drug captain played by Zhang Hanyu, and then the leader of the "10.5 Mekong River Case" task force Liu Yuejin to serve as the general counsel of "Mekong River Action".
"Said a lot of secrets that can't be told", and also provided a lot of first-hand top-secret information and insider information that was inconvenient to be exposed at the time, and provided support on props and equipment to improve the restoration of the details of the film.
In the past, films and TV dramas have shown a lot of the Golden Triangle area. In order to make a difference, Lin Chaoxian secretly went to the Golden Triangle for inspection. A group of seven or eight people was led by front-line intelligence personnel to a small village in the Golden Triangle near Laos, and there was an informant.
Only peeking, not taking pictures. In that poor area, the village they went to was very rich, because there was a gathering place for drug dealers.
Eddie Peng said that he only wore a pair of shorts for the first filming of "Guild War", and only tights for the second filming of "Broken Wind". This time, he was very happy to see that he had so many clothes and styles in "Operation Mekong", but he did not expect to put The face is "destroyed". The curly hair and beard's evil and charming look is far from his sunny and handsome image in the past. He has various headgear, fake faces and noses. After dressing up, someone will greet him in Thai on the set, which is often mistaken.
In addition to learning English, Thai and Burmese, Eddie Peng also knows Muay Thai. Because he is an intelligence officer who has been stationed in the Golden Triangle for five years, he must have many local characteristics. In order to be realistic, the crew also hired a Thai royal bodyguard and a first-class sharpshooter to train the actors. Peng Yuyan was obsessed every day and after finishing work, he borrowed a gun from the crew and went to the hotel to practice, and was called "nervous" by the assistant.
For a scene to trap Natu, the son of a big drug lord, the crew really smashed a famous shopping mall in Malaysia. This scene took two weeks to set up and 8 days before and after. After the shooting, the merchants counted the lost money from house to house, and the producer complained that it was "too expensive". When filming a major scene in Malaysia, Lin Chaoxian was bitten by a six-inch poisonous centipede that penetrated into his trousers and went into shock on the way to the hospital for treatment. Even if the situation was so serious, he was discharged from the hospital and returned to work immediately after being treated in the hospital. Lin Chaoxian said: "I doubt who raised the centipede. I want to bite me, so I can stop work early, but I won't stop work." After that, the crew prepared water boots and serum for each staff member.
For Zhang Hanyu, who doesn't have much experience in action dramas, the filming of "Operation Mekong" seems to have become an action actor, but fortunately, the fighting of the police is very practical. "Only my body armor is real in the whole crew, it is very heavy, the gun is real, the grenade is hanging, everything is real. After holding these things, I have to keep running, because the dog is running in front I'm going to chase that dog." The
arrest of Nuo Kang was the first time for Chinese police to enforce the law overseas, and it was under control. The police officers rented civilian helicopters, so no machine guns were used as live targets to hang and beat. The clothing worn in action is also not military camouflage. Because of the length of the movie, the plot did not explain this in particular, causing many military fans to misunderstand.
The film party specially invited nearly a thousand public security officers and police academy students to "review" the film in advance. Yu Haibin and Zhao Chengfeng of the Ministry of Public Security, who participated in the detection of the "Mekong Massacre", "spoiler" Zhang Hanyu "extremely handsome" after the screening! And Zhang Hanyu said humbly: "The most handsome in my heart is my anti-drug dog-Xiaotian". Asthma is outstanding in the film.
In the movie, the child soldiers under Nuokang's gamblers show violence and explicitness, which has a strong impact on the audience. Inspired by interviews with frontline police officers. In the process of fighting with Nuo Kang, he did meet children who were arrested, brainwashed, and controlled by drugs at a very young age. In addition to drug use, killing prisoners, headshots, and human bombs, these large-scale scenes of bloody violence are all presented.
The real arrest of Nuo Kang has a process of "catch all the way and release it all the way". Nuo Kang is a Burmese national and a Thai. If he is arrested in Thailand, he will be handed over to the Thai police for trial. If he is arrested in Myanmar, it will be handed over to Myanmar. . Therefore, he must be arrested and released all the way, and he must be sent to a third country for arrest.
Among the ASEAN countries, Laos and Cambodia are more friendly to China, so they were finally arrested in Laos and extradited to China for trial through diplomatic efforts. For plot considerations, the movie gave up this narrative line. In the process of actually arresting Nuo Kang, when he arrived at his old nest, the public security officers were ready to negotiate with him, but Nuo Kang ran away and was preparing to attack at that time. Fortunately, the battle plan was canceled.
Because Nuokang's nest is as dangerous as in the movie, there are mines on the ground, there are mines hanging on the trees, and even the old woman who hides drugs has guns in her basket. If you attack us, the casualties will be very heavy. But Lin Chaoxian presented the storm on the screen. Helicopter rescue is also one of the arrest plans designed by police officers in real operations. The film combines these capture methods and recreates them.
In order to film the water scenes, there are 5 boats in the film and 20 work boats outside the film. I also ruined a few of the ship collision scenes, because the collision time had to be matched very accurately, and as a result, I couldn't stop it many times. In the real incident, the last arrest of Nuo Kang was actually in a tea garden. In order to pursue the effect, the film designed the process to be more tortuous.
An important informant in the real case, "Song Ge", was designed to be the third force besides the public security police and Nuoka, and staged a drama of "mantis catching cicadas and oriole behind".
Lin Chaoxian couldn't bear it the most, "How could a fireball burst out if you throw a grenade and pop it out". Therefore, the professional analysis of the bullet holes after shooting the Chinese crew members in the film and how to infer that the killing of the crew members is a 45-degree execution method is indeed very professional and realistic.
The discussion with the Ministry of Public Security began in 2013. Due to the sensitive and strict control of the subject matter, the crew prepared more than 20 scripts before and after, and Lin Chaoxian, who was born in Hong Kong, had the idea of quitting halfway through. Huang Jianxin comforted him. Back then, there were hundreds of criticism points in "Black Cannon Time", but now these twenty or so are nothing. Due to the sensitivity of the "Mekong River Case" in Thailand, Lin Chaoxian was also under pressure from local authorities. But he still insisted on restoring the truth of the case as much as possible to show respect for history and life.
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