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| Cya Liu, Gordon Lam courtesy of on.cc |
The Andy Lau Tak Wa produced and starred with Gordon Lam Ka Tung, Eddie Peng Yu-Yan and Cya Liu film I DID IT MY WAY (CHIM HUNG) would open Thursday (the 11th). The film would have its share of exciting and stimulating action scenes. One of the major gun fight scenes would take place at the leads Wa Jai and Cya Liu's romantic small island wedding. They were holding their wedding on Tioman Island, Malaysia, but the enemy's mercenary army arrived. As his life and death colleague Lam Ka Tung tried to stop them. With the gun fights, the team spent a lot of manpower and material to build the romantic wedding into battlefield. This gun fight scene shot for 12 nights straight, even against the challenge of a red rainstorm warning, and completely relied on the team's demonstration of Hong Kong filmmakers' spirit!
Also the producer, Wa Jai was very anxious about this major scene, personally studied in detail every shot with action director Chin Kar Lok, every actor's movement; every detail down to how each stunt coordinated with the dialogue, Wa Jai gave suggestions to. After each shot Wa Jai with Ka Tung would watch the playback with the director and study it. The team was very cautious and serious about the production, just an explosion scene took three to four hours to shoot. Once after Wa Jai accepted a take, Ka Tung jokingly cut in. "I have protected you!" Ka Tung after each gun fight could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was animated from the elation. "Gun fight scenes required a lot of coordination, the wire team, the explosions, the set, arrangement of the stun team on how to handle them, how actors would coordinate, but the film was worth all the effort. Without movies around this budget, I wouldn't have the chance to be an action actor." Ka Tung also said that luckily this time the shoot took place on the beach, which was open and cool by comparison. If it was on the streets it definitely would be even tougher.
Without a gun to strike back with, Cya Liu still had to accept physical challenges. In the film she was pregnant when she went to get married. Escaping the rain of bullets while pregnant, she had to appear to remain calm despite the danger. She also had to interpret the character's worry for her husband's and the child in her belly's safety, which was quite a challenge to her physical and acting abilities. In one scene she and Wa Jai went to the beach and were preparing to leave on a speedboat. They had to lie down on the beach that was just rained on to act. Wearing a fake belly and a wedding gown, Cya had to roll around in the wet sand.
The wedding gun fight that took 12 nights to shoot faced bad weather almost every night. On many days the team encountered strong wind and rain, even the red rain storm warning. During the rain, Wa Jai would discuss strategies with Kar Lok and the crew. Luckily each time they took their marks, the sky suddenly cleared up. Rain and wind stopped for the team to smoothly complete the shoot in one take. Kar Lok was particularly grateful to the entire team's contributions. "On the week of the shoot rain came down sideways, but our team has been great. Under the work environment of rain and lightning the team would work very hard and demonstrate our Hong Kong filmmakers' spirit." The team grasped every second of every minute, worked all night until early morning, all for the best result. Wa Jai was also very pleased. After the shoot he even screamed "Good morning!" repeatedly to everyone.
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