cooperated for 16 years and was sentenced to pay 2.4636 million. This was the final fate of Zhang Yimou and his old partner Zhang Weiping.
In 2009, Zhang Yimou asked Zhang Weiping to pay him 15 million shares due to "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", which was recognized by law.
But after ten years, Zhang Weiping refused to implement it.
Finally, Zhang Yimou filed a complaint again, telling Zhang Weiping to restrict high consumption... As soon as the
incident happened, it immediately set off an uproar, mostly directed at Zhang Yimou.
"Crossing the river and demolishing the bridge", "Wolf-hearted", and "Ingredient", the public opinion showed full malice against Zhang Yimou.
But, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping's grievance is just his fault?
Zhang Yimou used to sell blood to buy the first camera. He was rejected because of his age. He was ridiculed because he was a farmer. How did he endure the suffering left by his fate in his life?
How did he become the business card of Chinese movies and how did he become the rumored "national teacher?"
1. From a cotton factory worker to a Nortel student
Before becoming a cotton factory worker, Zhang Yimou worked in Qianxian County, Shaanxi for several years Workers in the queue. Later it was transferred to the Eighth Cotton Spinning Factory in Xianyang City. When
jumped into the team, Zhang Yimou had a good handwriting and a good poster. He was once a reporter in the team; after he moved to the cotton factory, he started designing socks. And this is his first creative experience.
may be these experiences, which evoked the restlessness factor in his bones, and he was eager to break out of his own world.
By chance, he came into contact with the camera. In order to buy a camera, I even sold blood! After
had a camera, Zhang Yimou became more literary and artistic. From time to time, he put on the camera and went outside to take a shot. Whatever happened in the factory, he would also ask him to help take a picture. Gradually, he began to have a clear goal for his future.
Zhang Yimou's family is a well-known Lintong family, his grandfather graduated from Yanjing University, his uncle and his father graduated from Huangpu Military Academy. But later, his family was in decline, and Zhang Yimou became a poor farmer.
in order to change his own destiny, but also to get rid of his label. Zhang Yimou began to pay attention to relevant national policies everywhere.
Finally, God pays off. A few years later, a message of "recovering the college entrance examination system" reached the cotton factory. He knew that his chance was here.
In 1978, Beijing Film Academy resumed full enrollment. Zhang Yimou took his photographs to Nortel and showed them to the admissions teacher.
However, Zhang Yimou at that time had already passed the maximum age for enrollment.
This was undoubtedly breaking his last way of turning over, so he had to ask his wife's brother-in-law for help. Under his brother-in-law's dealings, he was finally admitted by Nortel. Became a college student at Beijing Film Academy.
2. From photographer to director
enrolled in the same year as Zhang Yimou, and Chen Kaige. Unlike Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige was admitted seriously.
Zhang Yimou at the time was the oldest in his grade and he had been a farmer, so he was always laughed at.
But Zhang Yimou ignored it. He knew that if he flinched, there would be no future.
Therefore, Zhang Yimou has always worked very hard in Nortel's days. As long as he catches the time, he will study on his own, and his grades will always be at the top.
Actually, at the beginning, Zhang Yimou studied photography, just thinking about going back to the countryside in the future and taking pictures of others for a living.
But who would have thought that he became a director in this shot.
After graduating in 1982, Zhang Yimou was assigned to the Guangxi Film Studio as a photographer. Compared with cotton factory workers, the career of photographers is much easier and happier. When
was in Guangxi Film Studio, he made his first movie "One and Eight".
Later, Guangxi Film Studio wanted to shoot "Yellow Earth", but could not find a suitable director. So Zhang Yimou recommended Chen Kaige.
Finally, this play won the Silver Leopard Award at the 38th Locarno International Film Festival. Opened a new era of Chinese cinema.
and Zhang Yimou also won the Best Photography Award at the 5th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award and the Best Photography Award at the 7th Nantes International Film Festival in France. Since then, he has become famous.
3. From storytelling to creationThe story is
, but Zhang Yimou at this time is still just a photographer. Becoming a director was completely unexpected. The
turning point appeared in 1986.
In 1986, Mo Yan published an article "Red Sorghum" in "People's Literature". After Zhang Yimou saw it, he had never directed a play, but he had the idea of making this novel into a movie.
So he made a special trip to Beijing to talk about "Red Sorghum". After
, he rushed to Gaomi, Shandong's hometown of "Red Sorghum" without stopping. But people are not as good as heaven. Where was sorghum in Gaomi at that time? All were planted with other crops, and the only bit of sorghum was divided into several pieces.
If there is no sorghum, "Red Sorghum" will not be made. Zhang Yimou was unwilling to find a way around.
At that time, director Wu Tianming of the Xi'an Film Factory appreciated Zhang Yimou very much. When he learned that he was in trouble, he immediately borrowed 40,000 yuan to grow sorghum. This gave him the endless sorghum field.
didn't wait long to be happy, and a new problem appeared. Due to the abnormal climate that year, the land was so thin that it was difficult to grow grass, let alone raise the beam. Zhang Yimou had to find a leader in the county. In the end, 5 tons of chemical fertilizer were finally approved and the 100 mu of sorghum was rescued.
Today, there are not many directors who have to go farming in order to make a movie.
It can be said that "Red Sorghum" is the strongest touch of color in China's new film era.
It not only opened the door of Chinese people's thirst for culture and art, but also opened the door of Chinese film. It won the first Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in Chinese film history and opened a new era of Zhang Yimou.
4. The ruthless man
who abandoned his wife and child was working in a cotton factory, Zhang Yimou met his first love, Xiao Hua.
Xiao Hua and Zhang Yimou met in the rice transplanting team. Later, after several rounds, Xiao Hua came to the cotton factory where Zhang Yimou worked. If the first encounter is fate, then this re-encounter may be the arrangement of the gods.
So, two young people who are in love come together.
But what he didn't expect was that Xiao Hua's father, after learning that his daughter was in love with Zhang Yimou, prevented him in every possible way. Obviously, he does not agree with Zhang Yimou.
Xiao Hua’s parents both graduated from the North China People’s Revolutionary University, and they are new contemporary talents. However, Zhang Yimou’s family is not so glamorous and has problems of origin.
Therefore, in this love, there are already many contradictions and gaps. But Xiao Hua didn't care and insisted on staying with Zhang Yimou. His father couldn't hold her back and had to give up.
In 1972, Xiao Hua, who had saved enough years of service, planned to take the college entrance examination, but he failed the exam after two years. In the third year, Xiao Hua still wanted to take the test, but was persuaded by Zhang Yimou.
He threatened the relationship between the two, "If you can go to university, our relationship will definitely be over." Women in love are always blind, and Xiao Hua shrinks when she hears her lover say this.
Even though she later got the only place in the factory, recommending Shanghai Jiaotong University, she did not leave Zhang Yimou behind.
But ironically, Zhang Yimou left her a few years later and went to participate in Nortel’s enrollment... Before
went to Nortel, Xiao Hua worried that the relationship between the two would end. Zhang Yimou comforted her, "I am not a heartless person." He also took her to get a marriage certificate.
But the facts have proved that he is indeed worthy of his heart, but he is not impressed.
Zhang Yimou graduated from Nortel in 1982 and was assigned to the Guangxi Film Factory. The following year, their daughter was born.
Xiao Hua cherishes Zhang Yimou very much.
Once, Zhang Yimou had a high fever and went to the hospital for treatment. After Xiao Hua found out, he went to the hospital to take care of him until he recovered. On another occasion, Xiao Hua moved away from the original factory and went elsewhere, even though it was far apart. Far away, she would often run to wash and cook for Zhang Yimou.
But after Zhang Yimou became famous, he killed the marriage with his own hands.
5. The fate between
and Gong Li, an infatuated male who fell in love with wild flowers, was formed during the filming of "Red Sorghum". At that time, Gong Li was still a student at the Central Academy of Drama. Both the temperament and the looks are outstanding.
They are so in sync. One who knows how to shoot can be the most beautiful, and the other who knows how to act can be the most beautiful, just like a match made in heaven. Therefore, in the long-term contact, the two sucked each otherLead came together.
However, how cruel the two are to Xiao Hua.
later recalled by Xiao Hua in his autobiography "The Past". When she was washing Zhang Yimou's clothes, she found a letter.
wrote in the letter, "You are gone, take my heart away."
"I want to get married, I hope to get an answer, I hope God will give me happiness."
"When we are together, you The look of Lai in my arms is so cute. We have endless things to say and do together. "The signature is Gong Li.
Only then did Xiao Hua know that this person who kept talking about busy and did not go home all year round turned out to be cheating.
In the letter, Gong Li confided to Zhang Yimou that her boyfriend went to school to beat herself, and planned to stab the two of them to the school.
Zhang Yimou, who learned that the incident had been revealed, had to beg Xiao Hua not to speak out. After all, he is a just-starting director. Once a derailment scandal occurs, there will never be a day to rise. Xiao Hua missed the old feelings and never mentioned the matter again.
A few days later, Zhang Yimou found Xiao Hua angrily. Only because Gong Li was beaten by her boyfriend again, and the complainant must be Xiao Hua...
From that moment on, Xiao Hua knew that this man was destined to never stay with him again.
Later, Xiao Hua and Zhang Yimou divorced.
Zhang Yimou took Gong Li and made a series of classic films. "Raise the Red Lantern", "Qiu Ju fights a lawsuit." And Gong Li, with the help of Zhang Yimou, became an internationally renowned film star.
But the two are no longer emotionally related. Just as the media wrote, the vigorousness that was once has become "a confidant who is extremely familiar with the other party".
Today's Zhang Yimou has long passed the age of nostalgia for the red dust. One thought only focused on the movie.
He once said: As long as my body allows, I will keep shooting. And now, he is still active in the movie circle as he said.
His background color is the young man who sells his blood in order to buy a camera, the older student who works extremely hard in order to go to the film school.
Some people are born to be kings and some are born to be grassroots, but as long as they breathe, they must fight for a future.
