After a break, shooting for the second scene began.
Why was this scene the highlight?
It was the most torturous scene, and the climax in the whole movie, the important turning point for Meng Changge entering the palace for revenge.
This was a crucial turning point, which directly set up Meng Changge’s character as well as the audience’s perception of her for the second half of the movie.
Because of the huge disparity in strength between the two armies, Meng Changge had still lost this battle.
She had watched with her own eyes her right-hand man, who had been through fire and water with her, go down under an enemy’s horse, his neck broke; she had watched with her own eyes her beloved little brother beheaded by the enemy, his head raised on the tip of a sword as an insult…
She had been separated from Sun Huanqing in the middle of the battle, and by the time she found him, she saw him pierced through by the enemies’ arrows…
