"Man Jiang Hong" was originally set as a science fiction film. Screenwriter Chen Yu revealed the story outline

Chen Yu, screenwriter of "Red River", was interviewed by GQ Report and said that due to the limitation of "one compound", he had the idea of ​​"Raise the Red Lantern" and the story of "Source Code". The movie was originally conceived as a science fiction film, and the last ten minutes were a story of fighting aliens.

"After Sun Jun walked out of the compound, all the green screens opened up, and it turned out to be a modern military camp with all kinds of planes and tanks. Then a general came over and said, OK, you've been selected. It's the 2000s, and alien spaceships have landed on Earth, and the army is approaching. We have more than a hundred thought simulation laboratories on Earth, and we need to pick out someone who is tenacious and able to get close to the enemy and kill the aliens during the negotiation."

"More than a hundred laboratories were conducting negotiation experiments at the same time, implanting people's minds. Sun Jun thought he was a man from the Song Dynasty, but he was actually a warrior. Then Sun Jun passed the test. The last shot was the Earth, and a spaceship ignited and flew across the sky, flying all the way to the huge alien mothership. The music was Thus Spoke Zarathustra."

"Yimou said that the story at the beginning was good enough, and the rest was unnecessary. He is more inclined to paint a color to the extreme and push a certain effort to the extreme. This is what I learned from him. I think it is a trait of his."