Original Zhang Yimou’s ＂Golden Flower in the City＂, how many group performances were used in the film？

The film "Golden Flower in the City" is based on Cao Yu’s drama "Thunderstorm", directed by Zhang Yimou and co-starred by Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li and Jay Chou. The film was released in China Mainland on October 14th, 2006, which refreshed the box office of domestic films with nearly 300 million yuan, and was the box office champion of Chinese films in 2006.

Since Zhang Yimou directed his first film "Red Sorghum" in 1987, color has become the most unique style in Zhang Yimou’s films. Bold composition and color constitute Zhang Yimou’s unique photography aesthetics, and "Golden Flower in the City" even exaggerates the color aesthetics. The kitsch purple of the harem represents the golden yellow, and it is more a spectacle of commercial vision.

In 2006, Jay Chou, with the popularity accumulated by releasing six albums, has become a new leader in Chinese music. The number of fans is huge, which makes him still have high popularity and spotlight even if he is out of the circle.

In 2005, he starred in Initial D, which helped him win the Golden Horse Award and the Hong Kong Academy Award for Best Newcomer Award. With such a high popularity, naturally many directors want to cooperate with him. In 2006, Zhang Yimou cooperated with Jay Chou to release "Golden Flower in the City".

This film takes the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms as the background of the story, and describes that a certain captain at that time married the princess of a neighboring country in order to win the supreme position in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and finally succeeded in becoming the king of a country. But he has no feelings for his wife, only to use it. The queen, who was a victim of political marriage, couldn’t bear such a fate. She secretly fell in love with the eldest prince Yuan Xiang and had an abnormal love with him.

In 2007, the film was nominated for the Oscar Award for Best Costume Design, and won the Best Costume Design Award in History by the Foreign Film Costume Design Union and the Costume Award by the Foreign Film Art Guidance Union. It was rated as the top ten best movies of the year by Time magazine abroad.

Maids-in-waiting-middle school students, people looking for temporary help nearby, students from the Film Academy (more than 400 people) who can speak a few lines are mostly students from the Film Academy.

Soldiers wearing golden armor and silver armor-students, soldiers, performance enthusiasts, etc. (more than 3,000 people), it is understood that only the last fighting scene, there will be more than 2,000 people, and the momentum is great.

Twenty thousand group performances were used in the film "Golden Flower in the City", and nearly 1,000 armed police were used in the highlight of the Double Ninth Festival mutiny. At that time, Zhang Yimou had an investment of 360 million yuan, and a wall of more than 5 meters was built as soon as it was built. Four million chrysanthemums were covered in an instant, and 3,000 workers set the scene and 20,000 extras participated.

When consulting other related materials, I found that director Zhang Yimou learned the lesson from Hero, and in order to avoid the production of computer special effects in the later period, he used to shoot films. Actual framing, no abuse of late stunts.

During filming, Zhang Yimou was also appointed as the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games. Is the scene of fireworks blooming at the end of the film, the palaces and crowds photographed from high altitude similar to the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games?

In 1992, Zhang Yimou, who was still in love, promised Gong Li that she would play the queen once. This wish was made for 14 years. It was not until October 2006 that Zhang Yimou filmed "Golden Flower in the City" for Gong Li.

The Golden Dragon Robe, which weighs 20 Jin, is made of cloth bought from abroad, and the Dragon Robe, which weighs 40 Jin, is filled with 18K pieces of gold with gold thread. It took more than 30 days to make it, and it was worth 1.25 million yuan, which was equivalent to a house in Beijing at that time. Almost all the scenes in the film are played by Jay Chou himself. In the movie, there was a scene of a knife chopping, and he cut off more than 1,800 broadswords.

As the first truly "global synchronization" film in China’s film history, "Golden Flower in the City" has been widely reported by foreign mainstream media since it was released abroad on October 21st, 2006. The four core foreign print media, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, Washington post and LA Times, all showed rare enthusiasm for the film.

Foreign film critics and media people generally praise the film with "epic work", "grand spectacle of drama" and "extremely brilliant in vision" It is indeed a great movie and a drama full of tension. It is by no means a soap opera, but a grand drama.

At the end of the film, the empty banquet turned into a blooming chrysanthemum, and when the familiar prelude of "Chrysanthemum Terrace" sounded in my ear, my mind was still constantly changing formations on both sides of the fierce battle, and my heart was still concerned about every character in the film. I’m still unfinished. I think this is what impressed me most about Golden Flower.