Rebirth: War on the Honest

The early morning sunshine shines on the foggy Mekong River.

The Golden Buddha on Thai territory remains holy, and civilian and commercial ships from various countries are docked at the pier.

Wearing sunglasses, Gu Yun and Cheng Yingying got off the boat, chartered a local car, and arrived at the Golden Triangle at the junction of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, about 20 kilometers south of the southern border.

The crew of "Operation Mekong" shot a lot of scenes in this peaceful and peaceful place.

In order to restore the real case, director Lin Chaoxian led the team to prepare for a long time, collected a large amount of information, interviewed real anti-drug police, went to the Golden Triangle to shoot scenes and had in-depth exchanges with residents.

With a group of actors, the crew traveled to 105 locations in various countries in Southeast Asia, and the process was full of dangers.

As a well-known action film director in China, a major feature of Lam Chaoxian's works is the full live-action shooting.

What is even more worth mentioning is that this movie, which is full of gunfights and chases, had almost zero special effects in its production.

The tough guy lead actor Peng Yuyan and the newcomer heroine Shen Qingcheng followed the entire filming process. Needless to say, the filming process was also obvious from the original makeup of the gray and gray face.

"Card! Okay, let's take a rest."

When Gu Yun and Cheng Yingying arrived to visit the crew, the filming of a segment had just ended. Director Lin Chaoxian turned around and met Gu Yun face to face.

"Boss Gu is here? Welcome, come and sit inside."

Lin Chaoxian, who had a bright bald head, patted Gu Yun's shoulder, and the wrinkles on his face turned into a smile.

As early as when discussing the script, the director met Gu Yun, the creator of the script behind it.

Directors and creators often have different differences during filming. Fortunately, Lin Chaoxian has his own persistence, but the implementation of this persistence is not easy.

During script discussions for other movies, Lin Chaoxian often feels "very embarrassed."

"They are all very extreme and say this won't work, and that won't work either. If we had followed their direction, the film would basically not have been made."

However, as the script writer, Gu Yun started discussing the filming with the relevant departments in 2013. He took into account the opinions of director Lin Chaoxian and prepared more than 20 drafts of the script. He was extremely patient.

In the meantime, Lin Chaoxian went to make other films.

"You can do it yourselves. You have discussed it among yourselves. I said I must have it. These are necessary. After discussion, if you think it can pass, then shoot it. If you can't, then don't shoot it. If you don't, then don't shoot it."

Lin Chaoxian said at first that he really thought about "pulling him down", but in the end he was impressed by Gu Yun's patience, and the two became good friends.

As the most mature and representative genre of Hong Kong films, police and gangster films often encounter "acclimatization" after Hong Kong directors enter the mainland market.

Many Hong Kong directors have complained that due to the constraints of the mainland's film system and their lack of understanding of the mainland police's handling of crimes, they don't know where to start with mainland police and criminal themes, and they always face embarrassing situations.

However, Gu Yun's script and shooting suggestions basically completely overcome the problem of Hong Kong directors' acclimatization.

Lin Chaoxian also said frankly, "If it weren't for the subject of "Operation Mekong", it can be said that I would never film a police subject. If I were to film a police officer in the city, I would not understand many details of life. This is not a matter of finding a screenwriter.

Problems that can be solved, life is different without personal experience; but when I took on "Operation Mekong", because it was all overseas and there were basically very few domestic scenes, I could treat it as a normal commercial movie.

, basically because of this background, I will shoot police-themed subjects."

In fact, relevant departments have given strong support to this film. In the past, China has basically not been involved in the subject of "guns abroad". "Operation Mekong" is a breakthrough.

"Burning" is the personal feeling of almost every participant.

As a main theme film, almost 90% of the film's time focuses on the incident itself. The plot advances at an extremely fast pace, with dangers and climaxes rising one after another.

The details in the filming are exquisite, the characters' IQs are online, the struggle between justice and evil forces is equally matched, the fairy tale that strips the halo of the protagonist, and the price of blood and tears make the film more realistic.

Coupled with the background of the adaptation of real events, all these make this theme film full of sensory excitement that can even make people feel "overloaded", and it is not preachy emotionally, and is truly touching.

This time, the public security department did provide a lot of top-secret information.

In the past, public security handling methods and criminal investigation methods were not shown in film and television works for the purpose of protecting the police and avoiding inciting crimes.

This time, the criminal police who handled the case revealed a lot of first-hand information. Because of this, the crew broke the shackles and a large number of people came to the Golden Triangle to participate in the filming.

"Director Lin, is it almost finished? How do you feel?"

Gu Yun smiled and opened his trolley case, took out some specialties brought from the capital and distributed them to everyone, while chatting with Lin Chaoxian.

"It's very cool. Because we were shooting overseas, the restrictions in many cities no longer exist, and we can shoot more freely."

Lin Chaoxian seemed much more relaxed and waved a finger.

Looking at the props on the floor and the firearms and ammunition everywhere, Gu Yun picked up a gun, and the heavy feel made him realize that it might be a real gun.

"Boss Gu, please pay attention. Although the ammunition used is not live ammunition, the blank ammunition can still be lethal at a close distance."

Lin Chaoxian was just about to stop Gu Yun's movement, but after seeing Gu Yun's skillfully assembled movements from the corner of his eye, he stopped continuing.

The Big Boss has obviously played with firearms. Such a person will not mess around, and he knows more about the dangers of firearms than ordinary actors.

The scale that "Operation Mekong" will present is indeed rare in previous public security themes.

Child soldiers, killing prisoners, headshots, human bombs, many scenes are indeed full of violence beyond the censorship level.

"Director Lin, where is our Qingcheng?"

While Gu Yun was playing with the gun, Cheng Yingying never saw Shen Qingcheng's figure and asked.

"Xiao Shen, she may be resting in the tent. The weather here is hot and there are many mosquitoes. She is never outside every time she takes a rest."

Lin Chaoxian pointed to a small tent not far away and explained the reason why Shen Qingcheng was not present.

In this dangerous golden triangle, if a delicate female star needs to take good care of herself, every detail must be taken into consideration.

For a theme film of this level, the preparatory work is long and meticulous.

In order to obtain the right to co-produce the film "Mekong River", in addition to providing the script for Paradise Entertainment, Bona Pictures once sent a collection team to the court where Naw Kang was tried and recorded the entire sentence of Naw Kang and his gang.

process.

The team also compiled interviews with all personnel involved in the incident, including front-line personnel and senior leaders.

In the end, they handed over hundreds of thousands of words of recordings and videos to the crew for unified sorting.

The subsequent location scouting work was also full of dangers that conventional films would never achieve.

When the crew planned to return to the place where the film was first produced, they received strong opposition from relevant departments.

After all, the Golden Triangle is an authentic "drug trafficking village". The cross-border arrests shocked China and the world at that time. Even now, public security informants are not sure whether there are still remnants of Nuokang in the local area and will retaliate after discovering their identities.

Therefore, during the inspection process of entering the village, many scenes can only be peeked at and cannot be photographed.

"Because those small circles are filled with the wives and families of big brothers in the industry like Nuokang. In fact, those are very poor areas. Only this village is rich. Everyone in it is rich. Everyone

They all have several cars and several floors of buildings.”

While Lin Chaoxian was chatting with Gu Yun, there was a sound of footsteps in the tent, and Shen Qingcheng trotted out with her shoes on, her expression of joy was beyond words.

"You're here."

Shen Qingcheng stopped beside Gu Yun and took the initiative to hold his little hand.

Many male actors in the crew looked at me like rays on their backs.

"Well, not bad, my hair grows pretty fast."

Gu Yun looked at Shen Qingcheng, who had returned to short hair, from head to toe, and couldn't help but sigh deeply. Beauty is in the bones, not the skin. Even though she went to the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia to endure hardships, Shen Qingcheng still remained beautiful.

The fair skin is slightly darker and paired with short hair. The girl is already tall, but her eyebrows show a heroic spirit, and the aura of the policewoman is fully revealed.

But what makes Gu Yun extremely distressed is that even in hot weather, Shen Qingcheng wears long clothes and long trousers. She usually loves sandals and exquisite high-heeled shoes, but she wears a pair of ordinary high-top sneakers.

"I was bitten by an insect before when I was wearing ordinary shoes. It swelled up a lot, which was a bit scary."

Shen Qingcheng noticed the confusion in Gu Yun's eyes, stuck out her tongue and explained.

In actual shooting, snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the tropical rainforest will also cause a lot of trouble, and in severe cases, they may even be life-threatening.

While the crew was filming in a Malaysian swamp, Lam was accidentally bitten by a six-inch poisonous centipede on his ankle. His ankle immediately swelled with blisters the size of his fist, and he even went into shock for a time.

Lin Chaoxian interjected, recalling this experience, as a director, he still has some lingering feelings.

"Yes, it's best not to show too much skin in this area. I wore sneakers at that time, so I was lucky."

"If it were another staff member, the bite would have been more serious if he was wearing slippers. That centipede is poisonous and will anesthetize your nerves and muscles. I found out that it had already reached my thigh. If the bite was higher, I would have fainted quickly.

Because it will paralyze the heart."

In addition, during the filming of the water battle scene, the crew encountered leech attacks to varying degrees.

"Let me tell you, I'm not just afraid of bugs because I wear so many clothes. There are also leech here."

Shen Qingcheng, who has always been strong and never complained to the crew, seemed to have opened up a chatterbox and pulled Gu Yun to complain.

"Leech?"

Gu Yun had never been bitten by such a thing before and was a little confused.

"Yeah, it's usually the kind that crawls up from the water to suck blood. Its saliva will numb your skin little by little, so you don't know it exists."

"Many staff members were bitten and didn't know it. When they returned to the hotel in the car, someone suddenly saw a pool of blood on the ground. There was so much blood. Everyone should check it out quickly. And if you find it, you can't beat it to death because you are irritating it.

, it will spit out the contents of its stomach, which may contain bacteria. So you can only let it bite, because it will go away on its own after biting. So everyone went online to check how to deal with this kind of thing.

information, and then wrap yourself up, but it’s so hot.”

Shen Qingcheng vented out all her grievances. In order to make this movie a success, as a new actress, she put in countless hardships.

There is almost no time when the crisis in the film subsides. When one incident is resolved, another danger comes suddenly, and each paragraph is very long.

After going through so much, the movie is about to be finalized, and Shen Qingcheng can finally take a breath.

"Director Lin, why are you in such a hurry? You don't even care about Qingcheng's safety?"

Gu Yun frowned slightly after listening to Shen Qingcheng's description of the shooting environment.

Although the environment is very harsh, if the director hadn't compressed the footage too quickly, there's a high probability that everyone wouldn't have been affected by the environment.

Lin Chaoxian shrugged and said: "I want to make a faster-paced movie this time, not just about a real incident. The focus should be on the incident, how it is circuitous, and how to lead the incident out."

, what difficulties they faced, and how they finally grasped them. This is already an extremely rich content in a movie."

"If you can't figure out what's important, I don't think there's any need to cooperate next time."

Gu Yun curled his lips, for the sake of your artistic rhythm, let my woman risk being bitten by bugs?

No matter how high Lin Chaoxian's level is and no matter how good his artistic rhythm is, the movie will of course still contain many elements of artistic processing.

For example, the villain's son Natu is a fictional character, and the final capture of "the mantis stalks the cicada, with the oriole behind" did not happen in real events.

The Yellow Bird Song Ge in the movie is actually a police informant in real life.

"I can't help it, Mr. Gu. I didn't mean it. I really tried my best. This project took eight months, but it's impossible to tell a movie for eight months, so I can only compress it into one movie."

"This script is still great. I have made police and criminal films for so many years, and none of them can achieve the rhythm of "Operation Mekong". Because it is a real case, how to advance these stories in the most intensive way is the most difficult

of."

Lin Chaoxian quickly explained.

Although he is a director and can joke with Gu Yun, how can he offend a financial sponsor of this level?

"Qingcheng was bitten by an ordinary bug once before, and we have never entered the rainforest again. Don't worry about this."

Shen Qingcheng immediately pulled the corner of Gu Yun's clothes and shook her head slightly.

She also knew in her heart that the director himself could not be blamed for this matter. In fact, it was Gu Yun who felt guilty and just took the opportunity to get angry.

She could obviously hold a concert in a large stadium full of people and enjoy a comfortable life, but because of Gu Yun's casual words, she went to the mountains and forests to film a movie, and was bitten by unknown mosquitoes and became red and swollen.

moon.

No matter what the scene, region or time, the owner must protect his puppy.