“Tunnels: Sun in the Dark” directed by Bui Thac Chuyen is scheduled to be released on April 30, the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and the reunification of the country. This is a project that the director has been nurturing for 10 years, with the desire to contribute to telling the historical story of the silent heroes who lived and fought so bravely.
For director Bui Thac Chuyen, the 10-year journey of conceiving the film was a journey full of difficulties and challenges. And fortunately, he received a lot of help and support during the process of making the film, when he had investors who trusted and accompanied the project, and had the support of many agencies, departments, ministries, sectors as well as people and many other individuals. "The film was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the country's peaceful reunification, for me it is a blessed day, the day we gather together for a common joy. I hope the audience will support and allow the film to contribute a small part to that common joy," said director Bui Thac Chuyen.
Image in the movie. (Photo: Galaxy) |
This is the first private film in history about the revolutionary war. Businessman Nguyen Thanh Nam, the investor of the film, shared: “I am a businessman. For us, the war of the last century left many lessons. We - me and my friends - want to contribute to doing something meaningful to celebrate the 50th anniversary of peace and national reunification. And the film project 'Tunnels: Sun in the Dark' by Bui Thac Chuyen was chosen as 'something' to do together. Our biggest goal with this project is to contribute to making young people interested in, learning about and contemplating the Vietnam War, and at the same time introducing Americans to a different perspective on the Vietnam War from Hollywood. And if the film is commercially successful, it will continue to create interest among investors in films about the revolutionary war.”
Investor Nguyen Thanh Nam also said that meeting director Bui Thac Chuyen with this project was fate. He believes that investing in history is a valuable investment. “We cannot move forward into the future if we do not understand history. The easiest way to understand history is art, cinema, and music. Everyone will understand the message: What we have experienced will not be lost, it will stay forever with the dedication that has been put in” - Mr. Nguyen Thanh Nam shared.
In the film project, the selection and helping the actors get used to the film and easily blend into the characters was done very carefully by director Bui Thac Chuyen. The actors spent 2 months practicing on the training ground, living with the guerrillas, to better understand the lives and psychology of the characters in the context of war, as well as to be inspired for their roles.
Actor Thai Hoa in the movie. (Photo: Galaxy) |
Talking about the opportunity to come to this special project, actor Thai Hoa shared: “One of the factors that made me accept this script right away was that my wife’s grandfather was a veteran revolutionary who fought in Cu Chi. There are some details in the film that are very similar to his memoirs about the years of fighting in Cu Chi.”
The film producers spent a lot of time carefully preparing the setting for this film, including recreating the scene outside the tunnel (fierce fighting scenes on the ground, by the riverbank and on the river) at Hoa Phu studio of Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV).
The tunnel was built at the HK Film studio. (Photo: Galaxy) |
The producer also spent a lot of time researching and studying to create a tunnel at two large HK Film studios to be able to film scenes depicting both daily life and intense, life-and-death battles between Cu Chi guerrillas and American "mole" soldiers in the tunnel during the fierce sweep.
Perhaps this is also the first time a Vietnamese feature film project has mobilized many heavy weapons that the US used in the war in South Vietnam at that time, such as M-48 Patton tanks, M113 ACAV armored vehicles, UH-1 Iroquois helicopters, Swift Boat (PCF) Patrol Craft Fast warships, LCM-8 small landing craft and other types of military weapons and equipment.
Many types of weapons and heavy equipment are mobilized in the film. (Photo: Galaxy) |
Thanks to that, the confrontations between tanks, warships, and heavy weapons between the professional American army and the "barefoot and steel-willed" Cu Chi guerrillas were convincing and captivating to viewers.
In the behind-the-scenes video about the film’s production, many stages of the film involved the contribution of foreign crews. The foreign crew members said that the reason for participating in the project was because they wanted to see a film about this war from a Vietnamese perspective, when most of the films with the same theme that they knew were produced abroad.
The film's perspective is also an interesting point. Director Bui Thac Chuyen said that he chose the film's perspective to be the subjective perspective of the Vietnamese people, the lowest perspective, the perspective of the brave guerrillas fighting underground.
“The core of this film is about people's war: ordinary people against the most powerful army in the world. That is indisputable. This was an unequal war, but we did it. We had strategy, tactics, intelligence and courage. This was not a war between A and B to win a prize. This is an epic. Why did the Cu Chi guerrillas stay there for so many years while the Americans could do nothing? A land that was bulldozed and burned, but underground there were still tunnels, there were still guerrillas. This is not an objective view of the war. This is a subjective view: I wanted to have the lowest perspective, the perspective of a brave guerrilla fighting underground in the tunnels,” he shared.
“Tunnel: Sun in the Dark” is being eagerly awaited by audiences. Not only because of the elaborate investment of a private film on the revolutionary theme, but also because of the perspective of the next generation on how the predecessors lived and fought to gain independence and freedom for the Fatherland.
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