Zhang Yimou, a great Chinese director who has been a director for decades, has directed dozens of classic movies, and has won many influential awards, would actually lose to a newcomer at the box office. This is really a bit strange. It doesn't make sense.
In 2021, Jia Ling, who served as a film director for the first time, successfully surpassed the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou and became the top box office director of Chinese directed films just by directing and acting in a time-travel comedy "Hello, Li Huanying" Even the female director with the highest single-film box office in the world. At this time, the cumulative box office of films directed by Zhang Yimou was less than 5 billion yuan.
Fortunately, Zhang Yimou was still very productive in the later period, and the films he produced were all of high quality. They were well received by most audiences and achieved good box office results. In this way, Zhang Yimou has successfully surpassed Jia Ling in the cumulative box office of the films directed by Zhang Yimou, and now he has become the director with the second highest cumulative box office of the films directed in the Chinese mainland market.
However, even though he has become the second highest-grossing director in China, his new movie " Article 20 ", released during the Spring Festival this year, once again lost to word-of-mouth, daily box office and total box office. Jia Ling served as the director of the second film " hot boiling hot ".
From the first day of this year's Spring Festival, New Year's Day, until February 18, Jia Ling's new movie "Hot and Spicy" has always been the Japanese box office champion with absolute advantage. In the end, it It also successfully won the box office championship of the period.
As for Zhang Yimou's new film "Article 20", it initially lost to the animated film "Bear Bears" and only ranked fourth in the Japanese box office list. In the end, the film only ranked fourth at the box office on the schedule list.
From the box office point of view, "Article 20" did lose to "Hot". However, losing at the box office does not mean that the movie lost, nor does it mean that Zhang Yimou is not as good as Jia Ling.
After the Spring Festival, Zhang Yimou's "Article 20" finally began to counterattack other films, gradually surpassing them one by one. In just two days, it defeated all other films and successfully topped the daily box office.
In other words, "Hot", which once consistently topped the Japanese box office, has now been kicked off the top spot. At this time, we can conclude that Zhang Yimou is still Zhang Yimou after all. After all, after being a great director for decades, it is impossible to be inferior to a newcomer who is just starting out.
As for why "Article 20" had to counterattack after its schedule to reach the top position at the daily box office, the reason is that this schedule is during the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival, everyone just wants to have fun and does not want to spend time thinking about or learning something. For example, Jia Ling's "Hot" is an entertainment movie, while Zhang Yimou's "Article 20" reflects reality and has certain educational significance.
