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The origin of the title of this movie. Zhou Xingchi ( ) always does not give the answer to the mystery. The chief producer Han Sanping said that he was inspired by the "Shenzhou VI" manned spacecraft. Everyone has said so, and it doesn't delay us from guessing. As early as 1968, director Li Hanxiang made a film in Taiwan based on Zou Lang's original anti-Japanese spy novel "Dead Bridge". Yang Qun (Yang Qun, the gangster in "A Comics to Go to the End of the World ()") plays the hero "Yangtze River No. 1". This movie was so popular at the time that the name "Yangtze River No. 1" almost It has become synonymous with intelligence officers like "007" (in Sammo Hung's "Fugui Corps", there are a lot of people from "Changjiang No. 1" to "Yangtze River No. N"). Based on this information, I have no responsibility to speculate randomly, and the alien dog, a foreigner who penetrated into human beings, was named "Changjiang No. 7", which was taken from the representative of foreign intelligence officers "007" and the representative of Chinese intelligence officers "Yangtze River No. 1". number" collection.
2. Stephen Chow said he had seen UFOs twice. The first time was more than 20 years ago, in the actor training class, when Stephen Chow was studying in the eleventh night training class of Hong Kong TVB artistes. At night, when he started filming "430 Shuttle", he inadvertently looked up and saw something flying overhead, white, the size of the moon, flying over the top of the mountain in the distance. The second time was more than ten years ago, while traveling in Hawaii, he lay on the beach at night and looked at the stars in the sky. The sky was full of stars, and I found that one of them would move, and it moved for half an hour. "I can't think of anything other than a UFO." This is reminiscent of his lines in "Return to the Soul ()": "Okay! I tell you, I saw UFOs when I was a child. Now, it's what the world calls UFO (the Hong Kong translation of UFO), do you understand UFOs?"
3. Why is "Changjiang No. 7" designed as a dog? This is too wise and can inspire human love, especially female audiences of all ages, what Zhou Xingchi said to Yuan Yongyi in "Domestic Lingling Paint": "I can see that you are very caring, because you are very caring for dogs. Dogs are good." Of course, this is a joke, why Zhou Xingchi made the image of an alien dog, because Zhou Xingchi once raised a dog Bull Bull, and later died of cancer because of this dog. "Changjiang No. 7" is actually a memorial to it. Stephen Chow said: I have always liked dogs because they are loyal. Zhou Xingchi now has a dog named "Chocolate", and he often praises his dog for his good acting skills. Especially the drooling appearance, it is often said that if the acting is like this, it is first-class. Later, he said that this drooling was trained by him, and it was originally not drooling...
4. The expressions of the alien dogs in the movie were all performed by Stephen Chow himself.
5. The alien dog first appeared in the closet in the movie. This can't help but remind people of the classic line of "Nine Pin Sesame Official": "Close the door, let the dog go!"
6. The superpower of the alien dog has become a tear gas for the film. In the trailer, we saw Qi Zai's super elasticity, and Stephen Chow also told us that Qi Zai's biggest function is that he can poop. Of course, the alien dog's superpowers don't stop there. In fact, it is its superpowers that become the turning point of the story and have a tear-jerking effect. As for what this superpower is, let everyone see for themselves.
7. In the first trailer, Xu Jiao's screaming sequence of actions was NG 30 times. That scream can be said to have been done in every detail. It was already autumn when the scene was filmed, and Xu Jiao had to look like she was sweating in the summer under the cold night. She had to retake it nearly 20 or 30 times, and it was hard work. Imagine.
8. The music in the first trailer of "Yangtze River 7" is taken from "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" in Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey". This piece of music is used in the title of the movie and the part where the monkey learns to use tools, which represents the awakening of human wisdom. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche with music by Richard Strausch.
9. The second trailer of "Changjiang No. 7" is intended to pay tribute. It includes: kicking ball - "Shaolin Soccer"; rocket shoes - "Astro Boy"; Alien Dog Cloud, Xu Jiao swooping out of the palm - "Kung Fu"; exploding sunglasses thrown by Xu Jiao - " "Mission Impossible 2"; Xu Jiao's action - Bruce Lee in "Jingwumen".
10. The narration in the first trailer for the international version of "Changjiang No. 7" is from "Alien" - "It turns out that even in outer space, your dad can hear you screaming", "Alien" "The original slogan is "In space, no one can hear you scream".
11. "Changjiang No. 7" is a warm film. Its nonsensical level is relatively small, but it is also one of the most moving Stephen Chow movies. You must know this before watching the film. Stephen Chow has researched the top-grossing films in the world and found that almost all of the top ten are related to family warmth. Zhou Xingchi sighed: "If you do it well, the power of warmth will be great." Zhou Xingchi believes that a warm family film like "Changjiang No. 7" has gone beyond the simple comedy category, "Life is tragedy, comedy has everything, this film will It's like this, watching comedy makes people laugh, and the element of warmth makes you cry."
12. "Changjiang No. 7" was inspired by Spielberg's "ET Alien" more than 20 years ago. "I watched "ET Alien" over and over again. This sci-fi film opened my eyes! At that moment, I wanted to make an equally wonderful film. It can be said that Spielberg inspired It made me aspire to be a director." This is reminiscent of Stephen Chow's saying that Bruce Lee made him an actor. The relationship between the alien dog and Xu Jiao in the movie is a bit like the relationship between ET and the little boy, including the special functions of Changjiang No. 7 and ET.
13. Zhou Xingchi's family motto to Xiao Di in the movie comes from "the teachings my parents have taught me since I was a child." What does that sentence say? "Although we are poor, we do not steal or rob, things that do not belong to us. We won't take it."
14. "Changjiang No. 7" is the shortest film by Stephen Chow in recent years, only 88 minutes. Because it is relatively short, it is possible to launch an extended version, from "Shaolin Soccer" to "Kung Fu".
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15. Yao Wenxue played the "Tyrannosaurus" classmate in "Yangtze River No. 7". This role often bullied Xiao Di played by Xu Jiao in school. "Tyrannosaurus" is so fierce, will he bite? As early as "Domestic Lingling Paint", the dialogue between Ah Qi and the commander answered this question.
Aqi: Have you ever seen the Pig Park?
Commander: No. Jurassic has seen it.
Ah Qi: Yes, it is Jurassic. May I ask whether the tyrannosaur is the one that Guigui Chongchong walked around, or the one that "ha-ha"?
Commander: It's the "ha-ha" one.
Ah Qi: The one with no humanity, chasing after the children and biting?
Commander: No, the Chinese one will definitely not.
Ash: Oh. makes sense.
16. Yao Wenxue, the girl who plays the judo player "Tyrannosaurus", is 23 years old, and the role she plays is only 8 years old. In addition, she has to wear a cotton-padded jacket-like costume to shoot some fighting scenes under high temperature. The hard work can be imagined, and it also makes people look forward to her performance. Yao Wenxue has participated in the recording of "My Type, My Show" and "Dream China" before, and she already has a lot of fans.
17. Huang Lei, who played the role of "Chen Junsheng", a child of a wealthy family, also performed in reverse. The little girl Huang Lei participated in many drafts and competitions. The rumor of giving up the runner-up title because of dissatisfaction with the result, perhaps this is the bud of star flavor.
18. Han Yonghua, who plays "Meijiao" in the film, is a boy who has now been called the successor of "Ruhua" by the media. This starting point is not low. Li Jianren's "Flower" also started to be talked about after many movies, and it has become a symbol. This can't be achieved without the courage to dare to act. The big "Mei Jiao" has a delicate voice, and Xiao Di is her favorite boy.
19. The casting process of the male lead, Xiao Di, is one in ten thousand. Wang Yalin, the planner of "Changjiang No. 7", once said that in order to find the role of "Xiao Di", she had searched all major cities and interviewed nearly 10,000 children. From February 2005 to August 2006, they finally chose Xu Jiao. Could it be that Xu Jiao is the "one-in-a-million peerless master" mentioned by the charterer in "Kung Fu"? Zhou Xingchi is like the beggar who taught the Tathagata's palm, seeing her aura spurting out of the sky, a once-in-a-century acting prodigy, let Xu Jiao star in "Yangtze River No. 7", isn't it a flying dragon. But the biggest reason for choosing Xiao Xu Jiao may be because she looks a lot like Xiao Zhou Xingchi. In fact, Xiao A Xing and Zhou Xingchi in "Kung Fu" also look very similar. Let's take a look at Zhou Xingchi as a child, okay? So far, we can find that the four children in "Yangtze River No. 7" are all anti-strings.
20. Li Shang, who played Director Cao, was the first character actor who appeared in the Star Lord movie. He said: "Director Cao is a scholar who believes in elite education. He despises students with poor grades, sloppy and untalented students, and he is very outspoken, revealing all his dissatisfaction to Xiao Di. Playing Director Cao also gave him a certain degree of difficulty. : "The most difficult part was the scene where I had to pick my nostrils. I thought I was pretty good at it, but after talking to the director, I realized that he has taken this action to another level..." Li Shangzheng laughed : "It turns out that nose picking will completely destroy a person's social status and identity, plus a little imagination and special effects, it has become a classic scene. "This dean reminds us of the dean of dean played by Chen Guoxin in "Fighting Dragon 1". Picking booger is the favorite action of "Flower".
21. Lin Zicong, who worked closely with Stephen Chow, played a fierce foreman this time. Previously in "Shaolin Soccer", he played the role of floating on the water in Qinggong, and in "Kung Fu", he played the partner of Xing Ye. The foreman has a strong voice, and he is from the same town as Zhou Xingchi, but he yells at him from time to time: "I believe everyone has seen a lot of the role of the foreman. He may not have received any education or know any etiquette, but he has a good heart and finally has Stand up for justice." Lin Zicong, who has never worked as a coolie, went to observe the life of the workers for the role: "I have observed many people like this character in China. Once, I saw a man on the side of the road in Shanghai. Repairing bicycles, just standing there and watching all day. He really looks like my character." Playing this character is not as easy as imagined: "The foreman is not a simple role, and his behavior and ideas It has changed a lot before and after, and it's a test of acting skills to express this character."
22. Zhang Yuqi, who played the role of "star girl" in this film, rarely was made ugly by the star. Zhang Yuqi's explanation is, "It's not that I don't want to be ugly, but I really don't want to be ugly enough, so Xing Ye gave up." Zhang Yuqi, who is under 20 years old this year, is a Shandong girl who majored in acting at the opera school affiliated to the Shanghai Theater Academy. Proud body has always been a hot topic in Hong Kong gossip newspapers. In the film, Zhang Yuqi plays Teacher Yuan, who cares about Xiao Di, and has been wearing a light-colored cheongsam, while Xing Ye shows off her beautiful figure through the camera and editing.
23. Actor Feng Mianheng, a classic character in Zhou's comedy who played a physical education teacher in the film. As a screenwriter, Feng Mianheng's performance skills are absolutely high enough. He played roles such as Liu Piaopiao's first love boyfriend in "The King of Comedy", the four-eyed boy in "Shaolin Soccer", the car repairman in "Shaolin Football", and the office worker in "Kung Fu". (Mr. Feng, please forgive me for calling you that. I am such a straight person. You just think I am talking about floating clouds.) They are both small and smart, impressive, and they naturally attract attention for their good performances. It's also very logical.
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24. The theme song "Qi Zai" of the Cantonese version of "Changjiang No. 7" sung by SHE (Ting Ge) is a cover of the famous single "Sunny" ("Sunshine") released by the European singing group Bobby Hebb (Ting Ge) in 1976. brilliant"). As soon as I heard the title of the song, I thought of the Sunny brother from "The King of Comedy", "Morning, Sunny brother".
25. The main scenes of the movie were filmed in Ningbo, because Ningbo is the birthplace of Stephen Chow. Zhou Xingchi as a child spent his earliest life time with his parents here. It is reported that Xing Ye specially went back to his ancestral house to shoot a set of scenes, and called his father on the spot to tell him about the filming in his ancestral house.
26. The props and garbage in "Yangtze River No. 7" also enjoy the treatment of hanging and coercion. Hanging Weiya is a traditional method of filming action scenes in Hong Kong. During the filming of the scene where the flying saucer rises from the garbage heap in "Yangtze River No. 7", in order to make the whereabouts of the garbage have a sense of hierarchy, the garbage was also hung up. Come on Weiya, didn't it say in "The King of Comedy", that Weiya should wear underwear.
27. The shooting of the flying saucer in "Yangtze River No. 7" is exactly the same as the shooting of the flying saucer in "The Third Kind of Contact". Stephen Chow once said that this is a performance of his unequivocal tribute to director Spielberg.
28. The magical red shoes that Xiao Di put on in "Yangtze River No. 7" is a big placement advertisement. It is the LOGO with a circle outside the uppercase English letter A. At the premiere in Hong Kong, Xu Jiao wore a T-shirt of this brand. On this issue, could it be Director Feng Xiaogang's suggestion?
29. The cockroach Xiaoqiang who appeared in many of Stephen Chow's films continued to appear. A scene in the movie showing the father and son stepping on cockroaches is very warm. Of course, the cockroaches are made of special effects, otherwise, wouldn't it still hurt Xingye, "Xiaoqiang, you can't die, I and you have depended on each other for so many years, we have shared weal and woe for so many years, I can't imagine that today, the white-haired man sends the black-haired man..." .
30. There are two details in "Yangtze River No. 7" that reproduced fragments of his childhood when he was a child. One is that he saw a toy in the mall and wanted to buy it, but his parents were busy fighting and naturally ignored him. One was living in a very small room with his father, and his father lifted little Zhou Xingchi up to play with his feet.
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31. In the movie, there is a section of Zhou Xingchi's action design when he wants to beat Xiao Di, which appeared in "The King of Comedy". Xing Ye first picked up a wooden stick, waved it and put it down, then picked up a clothes hanger, waved it and put it down, and finally took a newspaper. In "The King of Comedy", Liu Piaopiao chose a few tools when he wanted to fight Yin Tianqiu, and finally chose the "folding stool" called "the head of the seven weapons" in "God of Cookery". But this passage is actually a tribute to a passage in Pulp Fiction, in which Bruce Willis tried a hammer, a chainsaw, and finally a samurai sword.
32. Xiao Di's classmates let Changjiang No. 7 perform with similar details to "The King of Comedy". Qizai has successively expressed "the whole family died", "seeing beautiful women", "getting 100% in the exam", etc. Stephen Chow also made a series of expressions at the beginning of "The King of Comedy".
33. Xiao Di's lines in which he "shouted" and got 100 percent appeared in "The God of Cookery". Xiao Di claimed to have the help of the Yangtze River No. 7, and shouted: Dad, I will get 100% in the exam today~! In "God of Cookery", Ba Liang Jin once performed like this: After eating the peeing beef balls, I became smarter, and I got 100% in every exam.
34. The last shot of "Yangtze River No. 7" is very similar to "Da Nei Detective Zero Zero Hair". The scene of Changjiang No. 7 with a group of all kinds of Changjiang No. 7 on the stage, the sense of the lens is very similar to the appearance of "Three Thousand Beauties in the Harem" in "The Great Inner Detective", but the one who ran to the front that time. It is like a flower.
35. "Four-eyed boy" Feng Mianheng's mantra is always related to "unreasonable". In "Yangtze River No. 7", he said to Xiao Di, "It is unreasonable to jump so high when you are so young." In "Shaolin Soccer", he said, "Don't be nervous, everyone, I'm a car mechanic, and this wrench is what I use to screw the screw, isn't it reasonable?" In "Kung Fu", he said, "I As a clerk, wearing gold-rimmed glasses is very reasonable and logical."
36. When Feng Mianheng taught the students to jump high, he said that the waist and horse should be unified. It is reminiscent of Zhou Xingchi's words in "Shaolin Football": "The waist and horse are one, it is the late martial artist Mr. Bruce Lee who has long been in my mind has explained it."
37. The scene where Xiao Di and the physical education teacher "Four Eyes" fight is a tribute to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Kung Fu". Among them, the martial arts are ridiculing "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and then Xu Jiao flew into the sky to overthrow the security guards with the palm of the Tathagata, which is a joke of "Kung Fu". Finally Xu Jiao said, "Why are you forcing me?" This is Bruce Lee's spoken language.
38. Xiao Di's action of playing football in super-powered sneakers is a tribute to "Shaolin Soccer".
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39. Stephen Chow's role in "Changjiang No. 7" is the least of his recent works. Wu Mengda said in "God of Cookery": "Do what you like, that's power." Stephen Chow also mentioned in the interview why he wanted to make "God of Cookery" when he was a director for the first time, because he liked to eat. . Zhou Xingchi's transformation from actor to director can be seen from "Shaolin Soccer", "Kung Fu" to "Changjiang No. 7" where his role is decreasing and his control over the entire movie is increasing. It can be seen that he has movie power. Zhou Xingchi, he no longer uses his personal performance to convey his message to the audience. Zhou Xingchi's style runs through the whole film and integrates into every detail. If Einstein's theory of relativity is also true for the film, then what we see It is a generalized Zhou Xingchi.
40. Zhou Xingchi originally wanted to invite Feng Xiaogang to play the role played in the film. However, the chief producer Han Sanping said that Zhou Xingchi was the most suitable for playing the role of migrant workers, so he finally decided to go into battle in person.
41. Zhou Xingchi's Mandarin dubbing in "Changjiang No. 7" is still the familiar Shi Banyu. Teacher Shi Banyu's voice not only appeared in the film this time, but also appeared in the series of advertisements of the chief advertising sponsor of "Changjiang No. 7".
42. Gu Dezhao, who wears sunglasses, played a backstage actor in a scene in a toy store. As one of the screenwriters and producers of this film, this fat "Tang Niu" and Stephen Chow have not been on the road for a year or two. Since "A Happy Family", Gu Dezhao has been a screenwriter under the leadership of his master Gao Zhisen. It is said that it is also because He privately helped Zhou Xingchi come up with ideas for "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance" and was expelled from his division. The cooperation between Zhou Gu and the two is by no means a simple one plus one equals two. It is sparkling and fluttering. Didn't the two of them say it in "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance"? "I'm sorry, we both cherish each other and can't help it!"
43. The film's director of photography, Pan Hengsheng, has previously collaborated with Stephen Chow on many classics, such as "Westward Journey" and "Kung Fu". Although he has been behind the scenes all the year round, he is absolutely wonderful on the screen. Did you remember that the teacher with long eyebrows in "Jigong" suffered from long-term constipation and was still fighting on the front line of conquering demons and eliminating demons. Ah Fa's father-in-law in "The Great Inner Detective" won the best actor from Xing Ye just by saying "I saw him enter Huixian Yaxu with my own eyes".
44. From "The King of Comedy", music director Huang Yinghua began to join the "Star Gang". His soundtrack is no longer a foil for the whole plot, but an improvement. This time, in "Changjiang No. 7", we can hear some nostalgic music he brought to the film. By the way, I like his "Kung Fu" in "Shaolin Soccer" the most, which was used for the background music of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu MV.
45. The film's martial arts instructors Gu Xuanzhao and Yuan Xinyi are both members of the Yuan family. Do you still remember the stupid son of King Wuxiang in "The Secret Agent in the Big Nei", it was this Uncle Yuan, Yuan Xinyi, who played it.
46. Wu Lilu, the costume director of this film, once worked with Stephen Chow in "The Dead Man". This time, I designed a very cool outfit for Stephen Chow. In fact, it is not only Zhou Xingchi, the clothes of other characters are also very cool. Especially the Jordan brand sports suit that Feng Mianheng wore...
47. "Changjiang No. 7" has a strong group of screenwriters. In addition to Gu Dezhao, the cooperation between Zeng Jinchang and Zhou Xingchi started ten years ago in "The God of Cookery", Shao Liqiong and Zhou Xingchi's partners should start from "He Comes from Jianghu" and "Dou Qi Family", and Feng Zhiqiang participated in the screenwriter "Shaolin Football". ". Compared with Zeng Jinchang and Shao Liqiong, his qualifications are more than ten years different. However, qualifications and talents are not proportional. This time, "Changjiang No. 7" can cooperate with Xing Ye again, naturally because of his strength.
48. Huang Ruimin once again worked as an art director for "Changjiang No. 7" after working happily with Zhou Xingchi in "Kung Fu". He once played a small role in "Kung Fu", the policeman who was scalded by Feng Xiaogang's pot of boiling water.
49. The editing of this film, Lin An'er, is also a continuation of the team from "Kung Fu". This Lin An'er is now more famous than her master Mai Zishan. To be joking, the director of "Edward Scissorhands" back then, Timothy, wanted to make a movie "Invincible Scissorhands" to sing her praises. Click click.
50. The special effects production of "Changjiang No. 7" is no longer Xantao Digital of "Shaolin Soccer" and "Kung Fu", but Wankuan Computer Art Design Co., Ltd. Wan Kuan once produced "The Legend of Shushan ()" for Tsui Hark, that film was a milestone in Chinese special effects, and "Changjiang No. 7" still is. The entire special effects production process for "Changjiang No. 7" took up to two years: "We drew more than 1,000 color pictures for the characters and plot, and the most challenging thing was to make the alien creature 'Changjiang No. 7'. We specially developed a set of software to draw the complex and exaggerated facial expressions and witty movements of 'Changjiang No. 7'. Visualizing what Mr. Zhou imagined was the biggest challenge of this collaboration." Besides, Wan Kwan Gengter used a set of Hollywood's most advanced visual effects programs to make "Yangtze River 7" more vivid and lifelike. "We call the program the 'hairy system'. It not only simulates wet and dirty conditions, but also interacts with hands. Our company's R&D team has hired a foreign hair expert to jointly develop a unique program."
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