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Christian Bale, who plays Jim, was selected from the 4000 candidates.
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Spielberg had planned to take a long shot depicting Jim standing on the roof and witnessing the bombing of an airport by a U.S. fighter plane. This very complicated shot could only be taken once, but Bell, who was overly nervous during the real shot, even forgot to perform, because most The blasting point has been used up, so Spielberg can only use Bell's multi-angle close-up to make up for the shortcomings.
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The Japanese Zero fighter in the film is modified from an American Harvard trainer aircraft.
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The film was allowed to be filmed in Shanghai for 21 days in the spring of 1987. A total of nearly 10,000 extras were used. At that time, in order to obtain the real scene, Spielberg removed all the ships produced after the 1930s on the Huangpu River.
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During the filming of "Empire of the Sun", when it was filming in Shanghai, China, it was punished by the Chinese authorities due to environmental pollution.
Empire of the Sun behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Ladarius 2022-03-21 09:01:53
Shooting the wartime scenes of the 1940s in Shanghai in the 1980s was a brilliant visual, but the wavering between the child's perspective and the adult mind unfortunately blurs the whole theme of the film, which seems serious enough, but not enough light.
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Timmy 2022-03-25 09:01:08
A Child's Eyes on the Pacific War, Christian Bale's first film. When I was a child, I was much cuter than now, but now my acting skills are enough to make up for my increasingly crippled appearance.
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Basie: Jim, didn't I teach you anything?
Jim: Yes! You taught me that people will do anything... for a potato.
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[Nurses attempt to wake a sickly man]
Jim: Can I have his shoes when he's dead?
Dr. Rawlins: God you're a pragmatist, Jim.