" because of Gong Li , my childhood was less fun than other children, and more vicissitudes."
Zhang Yimou's daughter Zhang Mo, who publicly accused Gong Li, ruined her childhood , killed her and her father all opportunities for contact.
Zhang Yimou 's infidelity in marriage, Gong Li's blatant interference, is undoubtedly a long-term irreparable injury to Zhang Yimou's ex-wife Xiao Hua and daughter Zhang Mo.
Zhang Mo was not yet an adult at that time, 's "hate" towards Gong Li and 's disappointment towards his father were beyond words.
However, after years of baptism, the former child has grown up and has completed reconciliation with himself.
The smiling hug with Gong Li at the Cannes Film Festival became a hot topic of the year.
Some people questioned that this was a show, and some people felt that the Zhang family's father and daughter's blood was thicker than water. For all these, Zhang Mo was noncommittal.
, who is now a director, is no longer the impulsive girl she used to be.
After all, Zhang Yimou worked hard for this daughter.
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Don't look at today's Zhang Yimou, who is absolutely second to none in the film and television industry, and is one of the representatives of China's "fifth generation of directors".
In that special era, Zhang Yimou's family background was a burden .
has a father who was a Kuomintang quartermaster, which made Zhang Yimou's childhood experience unpleasant.
Xiao Hua's family background is completely different from that of Zhang Yimou. The wealthy family background and good family background seem to be incompatible with each other.
However, these two people whose family backgrounds seem to be very different, finally came together, overcame many practical difficulties, and became a pair of lovers.
Don't talk about family background, Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua in those days can be called talented and beautiful.
3 years of life in the queue made Xiao Hua think that Zhang Yimou is the one who deserves to work together.
Because Zhang Yimou said "If you go to college, our relationship is over!" Xiao Hua gave up the idea of going to college, which is also his lifelong regret.
is different from Zhang Yimou, who was sensitive and somewhat egoistic when he was young. Xiao Hua always wants to do his best and go to to fulfill his lover Zhang Yimou's photography dream.
It's just that Xiao Hua didn't expect that the two people who gradually opened up the gap would gradually drift apart emotionally, creating an insurmountable estrangement.
Although the two were married in 1979 and became legal husband and wife, 's life after marriage is not as sweet as expected.
Living in a different place for a long time made Xiao Hua deeply uneasy. Even during pregnancy, Zhang Yimou was busy with his career and rarely accompanied him. On the day
gave birth to his daughter Zhang Mo, Zhang Yimou did not return home.
Perhaps, from this moment on, the family of three of Xiao Hua, Zhang Mo and Zhang Yimou is destined to have a difficult ending.
Zhang Mo was born in 1983, just in time for Zhang Yimou to film "The Yellow Earth", and rarely returned home.
For Zhang Mo when he was a child, his father was a little unfamiliar.
In 1985, "Yellow Earth" won the 5th Golden Rooster Award for Photography and the 5th Hawaii International Film Festival Oriental Kodak Excellent Production Technology Award. Zhang Yimou finally entered the ranks of first-line photographers.
The following year, Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua finally got a half-room in the Xi'an Film Studio, which is considered to be a real "home".
Zhang Mo finally got to see his father more time.
However, such a good life did not last long.
Zhang Yimou, whose career is on the rise, always neglects to accompany his wife and daughter.
The more she lacks, the more eager she is. The young Zhang Mo often misses her father, She really wants to have her father by her side.
Xiao Hua naturally longs for her husband's company, but she always feels that she and her daughter should not be a stumbling block on Zhang Yimou's road to success.
However, how can a child have so many thoughts in her heart, she will only feel sad because she is not accompanied by her father.
It's just that neither Xiao Hua nor Zhang Mo thought that it would be much more sad than that.
In 1987, Zhang Yimou directed his first movie " Red Sorghum ", the heroine was Gong Li.
During the filming process, the two fell in love because of the drama.
Zhang Yimou's derailment, Xiao Hua soon knew.
Once, Xiao Hua washed Zhang Yimou's clothes and took out a letter to Gong Li in his pocket. Driven by curiosity, Xiao Hua gently opened the letter.
"After you left, you took my heart with you. I want to marry you, and I hope you can give me an answer."
's husband who often doesn't come home, but now he has another crush. This part has a good beginning The feelings have ushered in an unhappy ending.
In 1988, Zhang Yimou, who became famous with "Red Sorghum", filed for divorce from Xiao Hua.
For Xiao Hua, this is undoubtedly a painful blow, and they all forgot to take into account the feelings of their daughter Zhang Mo.
For Zhang Mo, who is ignorant, all she knows is that her family was broken, her father abandoned her, and it was a woman named Gong Li who caused all this.
Zhang Mo's young mindThere were indelible wounds, she didn't understand her father's "abandonment", and she resented the appearance of Gong Li.
02 Gradually breaking the ice
Zhang Mo lives with his mother Xiao Hua, and the life of mother and daughter is not very good.
However, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li on the other side are flourishing .
" Judou ", " Qiu Ju's lawsuit ", " red lanterns hang high ", " is alive "... A series of works will bring Zhang Yimou and the first generation of "seeking girls" Gong Li, pushed to a high position.
The contrast is a bit too strong. What's more, Zhang Mo, who misses his father, spends a little longer talking with Zhang Yimou, which will attract Gong Li's dissatisfaction and anxiety, making Zhang Mo even more unable to treat Gong Li calmly.
It is said that Zhang Yimou and Gong Li kept talking every day during their relationship.
And because Zhang Yimou and her daughter chatted for a little longer, Gong Li always used to call , Gong Li was hysterical and lost her temper.
Zhang Yimou was unacceptable for Gong Li's sensitivity and sharpness at that time.
He realized that maybe Gong Li could be his lover, but not a qualified stepmother.
Therefore, the relationship between the two also ended in a sloppy manner, and they did not reach the palace of marriage.
is no longer in love and realizes Zhang Yimou, who owes a lot to his daughter, finally starts to find a way to go to to remedy .
He began to take his daughter to the crew and began to pay attention to her daughter's life.
The relationship between father and daughter has eased, but the estrangement in our hearts will not disappear at this moment.
What's more, Zhang Mo couldn't let go of Gong Li's involvement in his parents' marriage at that time.
So, when the news of her father and Gong Li came out again, Zhang Mo, who had gone to study in the United States, publicly spoke out, angrily scolding Gong Li for ruining her childhood and destroying the relationship between her and her father.
Adolescent girls are particularly sharp. Zhang Mo bluntly said that he did not understand Gong Li, why he hated so much towards his father's only daughter.
For a while, Zhang's father and daughter and Gong Li were pushed to the forefront again.
After too many years of repressed mood, it finally came together into a book called "My Father and Mother".
's book not only tells about the life of her parents in memory, but also mixed with her various views on Gong Li.
It's just that parents' love has finally become a thing of the past. Even without Gong Li, Zhang Yimou did not return to Xiao Hua's side.
After breaking up with Gong Li, Zhang Yimou met Chen Ting who was 31 years younger.
The two entered the palace of marriage. In 2001, the two had their first child, and then in 2004 and 2006, Chen Ting gave birth to a second child.son.
Zhang Mo is no longer Zhang Yimou's only daughter, she has two more brothers and a sister .
However, Zhang Mo did not resent Chen Ting for this.
Because she knows that Chen Ting is not the one who got involved in her parents' marriage, and her father and mother are not destined to reunite.
What's more, Zhang Yimou is no longer the derelict father who rarely returned home.
This is evident from Zhang Mo's successful transfer from the Department of Architecture at Columbia University to the School of Film at New York University.
You must know that the construction industry and the film and television industry are not closely related, and it is not easy to change universities and majors in the middle.
What's more, according to local students, the New York University Film School only recruits two Chinese students every year, and the competition is very fierce.
It is widely speculated that Zhang Yimou found Ang , who had studied at New York University , and wrote a letter of recommendation to Zhang Mo, so that Zhang Mo could transfer smoothly.
Of course, NYU's $20,000 annual tuition and $15,000 living expenses are also provided by Zhang Yimou.
During the days of studying abroad, Zhang Mo began to try socializing and try more new things. The grievances that
once held in their hearts finally began to slowly fade away.
Zhang Mo once said in an interview that as a teenager, she suddenly realized that only her parents' love for her is unconditional, so she learned to be "thankful". It was because of Zhang Mo's first marriage.
While studying abroad, Zhang Mo fell in love with his foreign boyfriend Tovey .
This is a hasty love, and Zhang Mo, who is eager to have a family, loses his rational judgment for a while.
In September 2003, when Zhang Yimou went on a business trip to New York, he learned that the girl had found a foreign boyfriend.
passed Zhang Mo's mouth, and Laomouzi learned that Tovey was one year older than Zhang Mo and studied financial management. After
learned about it, Zhang Yimou immediately objected, but Zhang Mo's sentence "Dad, I don't want to leave him" made Lao Mouzi speechless.
For Zhang Mo's future consideration, Zhang Yimou even went to Tovey himself,
told him that I am just such a daughter, you are not suitable, she will go back to China sooner or later, there will be no results between you, break up as soon as possible .
However, after Laomouzi returned to China, this Tovey entrusted a lawyer to call him: "Oh my buddy, if according to American law, you interfered with the love between Zhang Mo and Tovey, it is a crime. If you continue Going down, we had to meet in court."
hung up the phone, his face flushed with anger, and immediately called Zhang Mo across the ocean: "It's really against him, and you want to sue me, this kind of thing. Why are you still in love with him?"
At that time, whether it was mother Xiao Hua or father Zhang Yimou, is not optimistic about Zhang Mo's relationship .
But Zhang Mo was still stubborn and chose to marry each other.
's hasty marriage did not bring Zhang Mo's expectations. Instead of having a long-awaited and complete home, she encountered the nightmare of 's domestic violence. It was the most vulnerable and helpless time in Zhang Mo's life.
I once thought that the person I loved was fighting against me, I once thought that I didn't love my father, but spared no effort to bring myself back to the sun.
Zhang Yimou began to accompany Zhang Mo as much as possible. When Zhang Mo encountered difficulties in his career, he would also provide some good suggestions from a professional point of view.
After a bad marriage, Zhang Mo began to move towards a new stage in his life.
In 2008, Zhang Mo returned to being single and began to devote himself to his career.
She has a clear life plan, and she also wants to know and get closer to her father in this way.
At this time, 26-year-old Zhang Mo is still holding a grudge against Gong Li, consciously owes his daughter Zhang Yimou a lot, so naturally spares no effort to help her daughter start a career.
Fortunately, Zhang Mo's ability is obvious to all, and did not let Zhang Yimou's painstaking efforts go to waste. On the
movie " Three Guns Shooting the Case Surprise " project, Zhang Mo is the editor and subtitler. On the
" Hawthorn Tree Love " and "Jinling Thirteen Shorts" project, Zhang Mo is the assistant director,
even In "Return", which Zhang Yimou collaborated with Gong Li again, she participated in it.
's outstanding ability, coupled with Zhang Yimou's unabashed support for , Zhang Mo's film career has grown extremely rapidly. In an interview with
, when Zhang Yimou went to the studio to visit himself, a smile appeared on Zhang Mo's face.
Although Zhang Mo is already an adult, he can't help but be moved by such details.
Later, after the lace news about Zhang Yimou and Zhang Ziyi broke out, Zhang Yimou's first move to explain to Zhang Mo also moved Zhang Mo.
Zhang Mo not only did not have hysterical doubts, but persuaded Zhang Yimou and told him not to care about those rumors,
she knew that those false reports were all to attract readers' attention.
Although Zhang Yimou's fatherly love came a little late, it was still hot and deep.
Zhang Mo is no longer that fragile girl, she has learned how to get along with her father, how to accept her father's love, and become a better version of herself. In the days when
was busy with his career, Zhang Mo was no longer stuck in the past.
If you want to be liked by others, you have to work hard to be a lovely person first, This is the truth that Zhang Mo gradually figured out.
Gradually, Zhang Mo let go of his hatred for Gong Li.
She is relieved of the woman who brought so much sorrow to her childhood.
In 2014, at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, Zhang Mo and Gong Li, who met again, were no longer tit-for-tat. The two smiled and hugged each other, but they ended their ten-year feud.
In the process of reconciling with himself, Zhang Mo also re-examined his expectations for love and marriage.
This time, she is no longer blind and hasty.
She has a new lover Meng Danqing , Meng Danqing is also a foreigner, but not comparable to the domestic violence man Tovey.
Meng Danqing, who graduated from the University of Florida in the United States, can meet almost all of Zhang Mo's expectations for the other half.
is handsome, sunny and capable. Even Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua likes Meng Danqing very much.
In January 2013, Zhang Mo entered the palace of marriage again.
This time, her marriage leads to happiness.
Perhaps, it is precisely because of his father's escort and his lover who will work together that Zhang Mocai and Gong Li will "exorcise the feud" at the Cannes Film Festival!
Zhang Mozao is not as sensitive and sharp as she was back then. Her feelings are gradually delicate and soft, and she also put such feelings into her works.
's warm works are always easier to move people's hearts.
In 2016, Zhang Mo directed the film for the first time alone, and also served as the screenwriter of the film.
This year, Zhang Mo is 33 years old.
Despite the careful teaching of his father Zhang Yimou, Zhang Mo and Zhang Yimou have different movie styles.
In 2016, Zhang Mo released his film debut " 28-year-old minor ", starring Ni Ni , Huo Jianhua , Ma Su , Wang Dalu , and the film finally received a perfect box office of 129 million Officer,
For a rookie director, this is a good result. The film
brought Zhang Mo not only a good income, but also an extraordinary sense of accomplishment.
With his screenwriting and directing of the movie "28-year-old Minor", Zhang Mo won the "10th China Screen Billboard" Newcomer Director of the Year Award.
In 2018, he once again won the Best Virgin Award at the "14th China Changchun Film Festival Awards Ceremony" for "28-year-old Minor". Such achievements as
are of course far from the achievements of his father Zhang Yimou.
However, for Zhang Mo, who is only 33 years old, such an achievement is enough to boost his confidence.
When it comes to starting a family and starting a business, Zhang Mo is undoubtedly better than his father.
Although daily work is not easy, Zhang Mo has not neglected communication with his lover.
When she was a child, she lost a lot of family affection and sense of security from her father Zhang Yimou.
As an adult, Zhang Mo gained a lot of energy and teaching from her father.
She ignores rumors that she "relies on her father", and she never shy away from normal cooperation with her father.
In 2021, Zhang Mo and his father Zhang Yimou will co-direct the movie " Sniper ".
The film will be released on February 1, 2022, and it has also received rave reviews. Some people say that the Zhang family's father and daughter are really tigers and no dogs.
In May of the same year, Zhang Mo's independent film "Saving the Suspect" officially started.
has opened up his heart, has a career, ushered in his father's late care, and has a truly beautiful marriage. Zhang Mo's life is full and busy, and the cynicism he once had is long gone.
Perhaps it is because of many experiences that Zhang Mo is now tough and soft.
With the passage of time, now 39-year-old Zhang Mo, while forgiving Gong Li and understanding his father, also completed reconciliation with himself and became a better self.
