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However, few people may know that Zhang Yimou, who is now a "national teacher", was once an overage and backward student who almost didn't go to school.
Now all these honors and achievements have been achieved after decades of hard work with a sense of crisis and mission.
In 1974, Zhang Yimou, a worker working in the No. 8 National Cotton Factory in Xianyang, spent a sum of money saved from years of frugality, totaling 186.6 yuan, and bought himself a Seagull 4 dual-lens reflex camera.
Zhang Yimou is very happy that he can finally take pictures.
Four years later, Beijing Film Academy began to recruit students from the whole society.
In 1978, Zhang Yimou was 28 years old and had been a worker in a cotton factory for 7 years. He was ready to apply for the Beijing Film Academy with all his energy. In the year of
, he rushed towards his destiny with a passion beyond his age.
But going to college is too difficult, not to mention he is still an overage student.
Zhang Yimou went to the recruitment site time and time again, and was rejected again and again because of his age.
also had a recruiting teacher who saw his talents and recommended him to work at Xi’an Film Studio, but Zhang Yimou was unmoved and insisted on applying for the Beijing Film Academy. In the end,
really had no choice. He wrote a letter to Huang Zhen, then Minister of Culture, with his own photographs attached. The letter reached Huang Zhen after several rounds and turns, and Zhang Yimou was finally admitted by virtue of his talent.
"I became the oldest of our class of students. This is how I am called "Laomouzi"." The twists and turns of
going to school and the huge age gap made Zhang Yimou nervous all the time: "What 100% effort is made in everything, and I can’t let people grab a little bit of my handle and feel that I don’t deserve to stay in this school.”
Compared with his young classmates who are so dear to foreign movies, Zhang Yimou is in the factory. Ordinary workers who have worked for 7 years are even more out of place. At the opening ceremony of
, the school released a Western film for freshmen, and it was the first time that they were exposed to such novel foreign films.
Zhang Yimou was so excited that he returned to the dormitory and couldn't stop the discussion, but the excitement amused the classmates.
They also ridiculed: "Grandma Liu enters the Grand View Garden." The various experiences of
made Zhang Yimou, who is cautious, even more crisis-conscious. He can only study desperately through a hundredfold effort and a race against time, even learning his own photography course At the same time, I also read the reference books of the director department.
Zhang Yimou said many years later: "So from the beginning, my work is a bit more extreme than my classmates; this also seems to have a sense of anxiety, because I am the oldest in the school, and I felt that I started very late at the time. So there was such a mentality at the time: I was eager to show the original spirit, I was afraid that there was no time and no chance." After four years of hard work, Zhang Yimou graduated successfully, but there were few job opportunities. After several twists and turns, he was finally assigned. Guangxi Film Studio. At that time, no one thought that
would be the first to raise the banner of the fifth generation of directors in this remote province one year later.
Only three classmates went with Zhang Yimou, Zhang Junzhao, Xiao Feng and He Qun.
Several young and energetic lads are holding back their energy, especially the "Lao Mouzi", who still maintain their hard work in school after arriving at the studio.
He never dared to relax in his studies and work. Sometimes colleagues asked him to relax and he refused with "no time".
Sure enough, a year later, the four of them, with their drive and sincerity, impressed the studio leadership and began to prepare their first movie.
"One and Eight" was released in 1984 and received rave reviews.
As a photographer, Zhang Yimou won the China Film Excellent Photography Award for his bold composition and unique lens.
was a blockbuster when he first came out, and everyone knows that Zhang Yimou's future is limitless.
"Yellow Land"It also allowed him to win the Best Photography Award at the 5th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award, the Best Photography Award at the 7th Nantes International Film Festival in France, and the Oriental Kodak Excellent Production Technology Award at the 5th Hawaii International Film Festival. .
Since then, Zhang Yimou's position in China's photography industry has been as stable as a rock.
After several years of experience, Zhang Yimou finally directed his first film "Red Sorghum" in 1987.
With this directorial debut, Zhang Yimou won the highest Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
He was 38 years old that year, and made a start for Chinese films to go global. After
, he was out of control, such as "Judou", "Hanging the Red Lantern", "Qiuju Fighting a Lawsuit", "Alive", "Shake and Shake to Grandma Bridge", "My Father and Mother" and other works , Renowned internationally.
won the prize and got soft, at the same time he personally made famous stars one after another.
After the new millennium, the whole world is changing with each passing day, European and American commercial movies are coming violently, and Chinese directors are beginning to go global.
At this time, Zhang Yimou's sense of crisis in the profession of director and curiosity about new technologies and new forms made Zhang Yimou once again make changes and break through himself.
In 2002, he shot the large-scale commercial film "Hero", which was named the number one of the top ten best films in the world by Time Magazine in 2004, and also nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
won 250 million yuan in the mainland and a high box office of US$177 million in the global box office. To this day, this film is still the highest-grossing domestic film released in North America.
has a good reputation at the box office, and the prelude to the era of Chinese blockbusters has been opened by Zhang Yimou.
Later, no matter whether it was making a movie or a director's party, every time it was highly anticipated, the name of "national teacher" has been cast.
However, this director, who is of great significance to the Chinese audience, always feels that he is an ordinary person. He calls himself an "old scalper".
Even today, after achieving such an achievement, he still works hard with the sense of crisis when he first entered college. People who work with
and Zhang Yimou know that he is a super workaholic. It is common for
not to sleep for dozens of hours while working. It is also common to be busy without eating. A meeting is a brainstorming for several hours. The ideas are endless, and it is often the people around you can’t stand it. He only realized later. When
was preparing for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, Zhang Yimou looked like a clockwork.
had a meeting with a shaft and he was unconscious of his energy. Who knew that the other colleagues were so hungry that they were staring at gold stars. The deputy director Zhang Jigang even secretly sent a group of text messages at the bottom of the table: "Which kind comrade will stand up and talk to Yimou." Let's go and have dinner." He was 67 years old when
was filming "Shadow". He was still busy at the scene and did everything by himself.
has to personally instruct from the design and production of the props to the expressions of the actor's actions. No wonder Hu Jun would say: "I don't know how he keeps it, and he jumps up and down at the scene and is not idle at all."
shoots until midnight every day, after returning home I don't take a break, pulling the creators to talk about the script, thinking about creativity, constantly innovating and breaking through, and striving to present the work to the best. The always energetic look of
is beyond the reach of many young people, but he always feels that the times have created the present Zhang Yimou.
For this reason, he can only move forward desperately: "Our generation does not know how to treat ourselves."
recalled his own experience and encountered good opportunities step by step, but he was more talented than me!
If I'm still wasting my time, I can't justify it. "Zhang Yimou said.
Zhang Yimou, born in 1950, is nearly 70 years old today. After making so many movies and winning countless honors, he still hasn't stopped, and he never even thought of slowing down his speed.
If you don’t believe me, you see, the autobiographical film "One Second" directed by Zhang Yimou at the beginning of this year has all been completed and is waiting to be released.
Not long ago, he also revealed that the film "Strong as a Rock" directed by him has been completed.
It is reported that this film is about an ordinary young policeman who started to protect the safety of the people because of a "bus incident" that had a huge impact.A thrilling public security criminal investigation story.
This is a subject he has never set foot in before, and it is also his new attempt. I don't know what kind of movie watching experience it will bring us.
Look, more than thirty years have passed, and Zhang Yimou is still the "old scalper" who has to work 200% hard for everything.
may be the reason why we always have expectations of Zhang Yimou, because he has made so many attempts and he has led so many trends.
because he is always learning, changing, innovating and advancing, because he never stops and always surprises us.
Then let us look forward to his works and see what kind of surprises he will bring us and the world.
