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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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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.
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Filming site research 2: Spielberg was fined the first time he went to China to shoot a film, becoming a classic case of Chinese textbooks
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Bystander's War
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war movie with bland plot scenes
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There is no black sun, no purple sun, only feelings for the bloody sunset
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Shooting point verification 4: Spielberg can be said to be the originator of the "anti-war drama" to a certain extent