Vietnamese Movie 18+: The scene of chasing a container truck on Da Trang Pass makes people “stop in their hearts”

After the scene, the entire front glass of the car was shattered, one car had a broken gear, the entire front part was dented and completely damaged.

Following a series of behind-the-scenes action scenes dubbed “the biggest of Vietnamese cinema”, the movie “578: Shot of a madman” continues to release Behind the scene of the second million-dollar battle. It was a chase by a container truck precariously between the high pass and the abyss.

The dangerous pass right next to the abyss is the filming location of the second million-dollar battle

Not choosing the usual racing style or racing on flat roads, simple terrain, for the first time on the screen the audience witnessed the fierce chase of 5 “terrible” containers on a pass road. small, right next to it is a deep abyss. With this unique feature, the battle on the White Stone Pass was identified by Oh Sea Young – the film’s action director – as his favorite battle.

As shared by director of photography Morgan Schidmt, the key to creating attractiveness, especially for action films, is the “Take risks to do things that no one has done before“. And this adventure comes from both the setting and the footage of “578: Shot of the Madman”. With the above criteria, the scene chosen for the second great battle is Da Trang Pass with an altitude of over 1000m – a famous road with backpackers connecting Mai Chau and Tan Lac, covered with fog all year round. This is also one of the highest passes in the North.

The dramatic scene on the pass was done only once

The terrain is rugged and moving is difficult even with small vehicles, but the film crew still decided to “play big” when filming completely the scene of chasing, crashing… between 5 heavy-duty container trucks. (with a length of up to 15m, weighing up to 30 tons). When making these scenes, the crew did not use special effects at all. According to action director Oh Sea Young, this is also a battle with a lot of dangerous real combat scenes in the movie “578”.

According to director Oh, the attacks in this great battle were revealed 100%, without using the camera’s technique to deceive the audience’s vision. That is intended to increase the realism and fierce feeling of the action. Director Luong Dinh Dung asked to film the scene where two shark cars crashed directly into each other and were thrown out close to the abyss.

The film crew set up a simulation table before filming

Luong Dinh Dung said, this is the scene “making the whole crew worried, the director himself had to constantly pray before filming this scene“. With just a little overhand, the car can completely plunge into the cliff, so this scene was filmed only once. After the scene, the entire front glass of the car was shattered, one car had a broken gear, the entire front part was dented and completely damaged.

“578: The shot of the madman” is known as the fiercest action movie and the most willing to play in Vietnamese cinema with 5 fierce million-dollar battles. The dangerous and haunting battle at the great scene of Dinh Vu harbor with more than 200 actors and crews; intense real battle, the pursuit of container truckers on the edge of the abyss of White Stone Pass; the colorful and crazy “cat and mouse” hunt of crazy female monsters; brutal “marine battle” and finally the pursuit to the end, uncompromising, bloody confrontation between two fathers in the million dollar stone mansion.

Video: Behind-the-scenes of the action on the White Stone Pass in “578: Shot of a Madman”

“578: Shot of a madman” is a journey to seek revenge and regain justice for the father’s young daughter named Hung. On the journey of hunting and being chased “alone alone”, the father realized that he was not only confronting an evil but also a dark force behind. The film caused a fever when it was labeled C18+ for people over 18 years old. Director Luong Dinh Dung said, this is inevitable because the action scenes of the film can contain up to 91% of violent action scenes, although the director himself had to try very hard to “restraint”. .

The film set a release date for Vietnamese audiences on May 20, 2022.