mijobooks Chapter 150 Poaching Zhang Yimou? (2, Ask For Automatic Subscription)
Chapter 150 Poaching Zhang Yimou? (2, Ask For Automatic Subscription)
A few days later.
Shen Fei and Lin Xue watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games together.
to be honest.
For this opening ceremony directed by Zhang Yimou, Shen Fei really admires it.
The national teacher can be called the national teacher, not only because he won the award and got soft hands, but because he really has the ability.
It's also interesting to say.
The national teacher was originally a satirical title for Zhang Yimou, but today it has evolved into a respectful title for Zhang Yimou.
In terms of awards, Li Yong has won more than him.
In terms of the artistic value of the film, Wang Jiawei, Hou Xiaoxian, and Yang Dechang are all above him.
But when it comes to the title of national teacher, no one can accept it except Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Yimou's status and influence are unparalleled in the Chinese film industry.
It was the first time for me to work in film, and I was in charge of the photography of "Yellow Earth", and many people know that the film "Yellow Earth" is the glorious beginning of the fifth generation of directors, and the master's skills have basically been revealed.
After that, he became the male lead of Wu Tianming's movie "Old Well", and won the Best Actor in one fell swoop, the first Best Actor of a category film festival in the history of Huaguo.
He turned himself into a director, and his debut film "Red Sorghum" won the Berlin Golden Bear. For the first time in the history of Huaguo film, he won the highest award at the Cannes, Venice, and Berlin Film Festivals. .
Zhang Yimou also started his experience of brushing awards.
"Red Sorghum", "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", "Speak Well", three films, three gold awards.
"Raise the Red Lantern", "To Live", "My Father and Mother", three films, three silver awards.
Hold 02 out of Gong Huang and Uncle Ge.
A queen in Venice , a date in Cannes
Among them, "Raise the Red Lantern", Zhang Yimou's best work, was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film on behalf of Chinese for the first time.
Zhang Yimou also awarded the Golden Bear and Golden Lion to three Chinese-language films during his tenure as the jury chairman of the three film festivals, namely Li Yin's "Wedding Banquet" and "Lust, Caution", and Xie Fei's "Scented Soul Girl".
In the new century, Zhang Yimou pursued commercial and genre exploration, and created the movie "Hero", which ushered in the era of Huaguo blockbusters. Both domestic and overseas box office were excellent, which is an achievement that many Hong Kong films have failed to achieve.
The opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games, to be precise, is a proposition composition, but Zhang Yimou abruptly got a perfect score.
I have to say that you can dislike Zhang Yimou, but no one can deny that Zhang Yimou is the national teacher of the Chinese film industry.
Shen Fei still very much approves of this evaluation.
After watching the opening ceremony, Shen Fei and Lin Xue left here.
They didn't watch the following games, and the main time was a bit short.
"You don't like sports games much?"
Seeing Shen Fei's disinterested look, Lin Xue asked curiously.
"It doesn't feel interesting."
Shen Fei smiled and said flatly: "I'm actually a bit of a homebody.
"House?"
Lin Xue looked at a loss, obviously quite unfamiliar with this term.
Shen Fei smiled, shrugged and explained: "The vocabulary of the Dongying people."
"All right."
Xue Lin nodded.
Afterwards, she smiled and said: "But Zhang Yimou is really amazing, this opening ceremony is so beautiful."
talking.
She looked at Shen Fei: "Haven't you considered signing him to your company?"
"I really haven't thought about it."
Shen Fei was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said.
This is from my heart.
Because at this time Zhang Yimou was still working with Zhang Weiping.
Although there was some filth between the two, in Shen Fei's impression, it seemed that they parted ways after a few years.
Zhang Weiping is a typical businessman. At the beginning, he couldn’t do real estate development for several years. He could only work as a real estate intermediary. This allowed him to quickly complete his original accumulation and avoid falling into the real estate bubble. At the time of Zhang Yimou, Zhang Weihu was already a "real estate boss who made money in eastern Guangdong".
As for movies, Zhang Weiping was a layman who didn't know anything at all. His wife loved Gong Li's movies and knew Gong Li. Unexpectedly, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou also became friends.
"We often eat, drink and have fun together, but never talk about movies.
In 1996, after filming "Shake Ah Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", Zhang Yimou and Gong Li broke up and announced their breakup. Zhang Yimou who lost Gong Li suddenly made film investors hesitate, and was about to start filming "Speak Well" 》The budget of more than 20 million was compressed again and again, and finally only 6 million was left.
Zhang Yimou was very depressed and mentioned this matter to Zhang Weiping by chance.
"How much is it? If not, I'll vote for it!"
Zhang Yimou certainly didn't expect that Zhang Weiping, who had never touched a movie, would say this.
A week later, Zhang Yimou called Zhang Weiping because of something, and asked a parting question: "The other day you said you wanted to invest in a movie, have you really thought it through!
"If you find investment, then I'll forget it. If not, I'll invest." Zhang Weiping replied.
"Then if you can, please pay the crew's account in the next two days." Zhang Yimou also made up his mind to "draw this friend into the water"
Two days later, Zhang Wei split the money twice and gave Zhang Yimou 26 million, which later became "Speak Well".
At that time, Zhang Weiping didn't understand distribution and publicity, so he directly sold the film copyright to Dong Ping, the future owner of Huanxi Media, for 8 million yuan, making the other party a fortune.
Zhang Weiping lost more than 10 million yuan in "Speak Well", Zhang Yimou felt very embarrassed, but Zhang Weiping took it for granted, "It was not for making money, but Yimou needed my investment at that time, and he didn't reach out at critical moments. Then why do you need friends?"
After Zhang Weiping came into contact with movies by chance in 1997, he slowly focused his energy and financial resources on movies.
"After so many years, other industries have basically stopped working. Movies consume too much energy!"
Today, Zhang Weiping, a real estate agent and pharmaceutical agent, has completely given up on it, as well as the safe and profitable airport food business, which has also been half-retired, and only keeps part of the shares for "annual dividends.
At that time, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou were really close. Zhang Yimou went to Zhang Weiping's house for a meal every week.
The two collaborations "No One Less", "My Father and Mother", and "Happy Time" were released one after another.
"No One Less" won the Venice Golden Lion.
"My Father and Mother" won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Zhang Ziyi and Dong Jie also became the new "girls" and began to become popular.
However, "Happy Days", which was released in the new millennium, only sold 5 million despite being supported by Uncle Zhao.
Up to this time, Zhang Weiping had not put forward many opinions on film creation.
However, New Picture Company kept losing money, and Zhang Weiping also began to criticize Zhang Yimou for "going too far, paying too much attention to storytelling, and not having enough commercial elements." Zhang Yimou silently accepted Big Brother's opinion.
After all, Zhang Weiping was also learning about the market. He was a businessman, and he started to think about how to make money from movies.
After "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar for best picture and broke the North American box office record, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou decided to make "Hero".
Liang Yingdi, Zhang Manshen, Zhang Ziyi, Zhen Zidan, and Kung Fu superstar Jack Lee who has entered Hollywood.
After missing "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with his wife during childbirth, Jack Ji immediately took over the unnamed role.
Their team has done a very thorough job in movie promotion and marketing, and spared no effort.
He must be the one that impresses everyone the most among the films released in the same period.
For example, they hyped up the rumors about Liang actor Zhang Manshen and Zhang Yimou's impact on the Oscars, and they even carried a plane to promote "Hero" because of the super-large premiere in the auditorium.
During the premiere, in order to prevent piracy, the scene was monitored by far-infrared rays. Anyone who has a pinhole camera cannot enter at all.
It just so happened that Feng Xiaogang filmed "A Sigh" that year, and it couldn't be on the Lunar New Year slot, so this slot was empty.
Feng Xiaogang's absence just gave Zhang Yimou a good schedule, so the film became a hit!
The audio-visual copyright alone was sold for 17.8 million. This figure is really surprising.
However, starting from "Ambush from Ten Daggers", Zhang Weiping's "Applause for Ten Minutes" various fake word-of-mouth praises at the Cannes Film Festival made everyone see a super big hit.
Liu Tianwang rolled 490 with flying knives all over the ground and couldn't die, Zhang Ziyi's little sister couldn't die, and the classic sentence "I let my little girl touch the top, but you want to touch from the bottom" is so shocking!
Fei used to think that foreign film critics simply ignored the special marketing case of "House of Flying Daggers" received rave reviews abroad, which made him feel that corruption can be found everywhere!
In 2005, "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" did not achieve the expected box office, but Dongying's heavyweight actor Takakura Ken once wrote to Zhang Yimou, asking him to stick to his inner choice of art and not to be restrained and controlled by the producer.
After Zhang Weiping knew about this incident, he was furious and asked Zhang Yimou not to associate with Gao Cangjian any more, and the two began to have a estrangement.
In 2006, during "The Golden Armor in the City", Zhang Weiping suddenly asked director Zhang Yimou to add the second prince played by Zhou Tianwang to increase the selling point. In the end, the actor who was supposed to be the prince was forced to replace, and the whole story structure was completely disrupted. Weight change.
Zhang Weiping enjoyed the benefits of shouting "Whoever doesn't cry will come to me" in "Ambush from Ten Daggers", so he simply shouted before the "Golden Armor" this time: "I want to eat all the box office at the end of the year!" "will lose miserably!" ""The Good Man of Three Gorges" let it fend for itself" has the tendency of "my flowers bloom and a hundred flowers kill them"!
According to Shen Fei's information, Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man in Three Gorges" also brought a message in advance, and said hello through Shanghai Film Group, and wanted to hype Zhang Yimou's film. Zhang Weiping said, "If you don't play with others, you will lose if you lose." own."
After hearing this, Jia Zhangke must have had an opinion, and for some reason he fell in love with it.
However, Kechang Jia's film did not sell well, because "The Good Man in Three Gorges" itself was not a commercial blockbuster.
Thinking of this, Shen Fei's eyes suddenly brightened.
Because he suddenly realized that it seemed that this was a very good opportunity.
I didn't expect it before, this is a great opportunity!
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