House of Flying Daggers Creative background

The script preparation for "House of Flying Daggers" had already begun in the middle of the shooting of "Hero". In September 2001, "Hero" was shot on the set. After work every day, Zhang Yimou would spare two hours to discuss the script of "House of Flying Daggers" with the screenwriters Li Feng and Wang Bin. Zhang Yimou believes that the first thing "House of Flying Daggers" should do is to enrich the story and character. Therefore, when conceiving the script, Zhang Yimou gave up the "politics" and "history" that he expressed in "Heroes", and renewed Returning to the perspective of human nature that I am good at, tells the love tragedy of a woman entangled between two men   . In addition, the main creator of the film also made a special design on the script: the three protagonists have fake identities, and the three are cheating on each other, but after peeling off the false and deceitful cloak, they will find that the three are truly in love with each other. The feelings in the process are real   .