Hero behind the scenes gags

Hero

In terms of clothing and character design, Zhang Yimou did not understand Japanese and Hetian Huimei did not understand Chinese. There were inevitably problems in the cooperation process. However, after Hetian Huimei finished the design, Zhang Yimou made a decisive choice.
Zhang Yimou can be said to be the most energetic and hardest person in the whole crew during the filming. He only takes a few shots every day. Sometimes one shot has to be shot dozens of times, sometimes even for one shot, and sometimes he encounters Zhang Yimou has to reshoot when he has a new idea or better natural shooting conditions.
Because the terrain of Dunhuang, the shooting location, is mountainous, the altitude ranges from more than 800 meters to more than 3,000 meters. The temperature varies greatly. When the temperature is low, the crew must wear cotton jackets, and when the temperature is high, they can only wear vests. After such a toss, many people have caught a bad cold. In the face of such natural difficulties with harsh weather and rugged roads, the people who built "heroes" gritted their teeth in silence.
Jet Li's character "Anonymous" was dumb in the original design. The hero "Anonymous" in the script can only communicate with people through calligraphy. This role was once loved by Zhang Yimou, but unfortunately in the later actual operation, due to various reasons such as actors, "Anonymous" finally spoke.
The emperor in "Hero" can be placed in any dynasty. Qin Shihuang was chosen because he was the first emperor of China. It would be a selling point to get a foreign market and it would affect the foreign box office. In addition, the people of Qin are still dark, so they will look better in terms of image effects.
When Tony Leung and Jet Li were filming a scene of chasing on the water, in order to step on a whirling ripple on the calm lake surface, Tony Leung was swung back and forth in the air many times. Due to the long space, the actors had to fly from the shore to the middle of the lake. It is difficult to control the length of Wia very accurately. It is either too short or too long. Tony Leung fell to the ground almost every time You returned to the ground and never flinched and continued on.
A scene in the film is a fight between Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung in a yellow forest. She wanted to shoot the ideal effect of flying leaves, but the local nature protection measures stipulated that all leaves on the trees should not be picked. If you want the leaves to follow The wind is blowing, and you can only look for fallen leaves from the ground. Zhang Yimou anxiously came up with a trick to collect fallen leaves from the homes of fellow villagers in the village into special grade, first grade, second grade, and third grade. In the end, the special-grade leaves fluttered over the face of the actor, the first-grade leaves fell from above and accidentally fell into the line of sight, while the second-grade and third-grade leaves were flying in the distance and laid on the ground.