At this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival, Zhang Yimou, who is 69 years old, appeared high-profile. He not only shared his feelings about shooting the new film "One Second" to the audience, but also revealed his two new films "Jiang". Some situations about "As Rock" and "Above the Cliff", "As Hard as a Rock" is a hardcore police film, which has been filmed now and is in the trial stage, and "Above the Cliff" is a spy film that will soon start shooting. In addition, Zhang Yimou even released a big news, saying that he wants to make a science fiction movie and is currently in the stage of looking for a script.
As we all know, in terms of movies, Chinese people like to "look back on history". Most of the big-produced movies are period films, while Americans are better at "looking up at the stars". High-input movies are often science fiction films. As China’s modernization progresses by leaps and bounds, domestic films have also begun to pay attention to the future in terms of themes. Take this year as an example, there have been three major production science fiction films that have come out, namely Guo Fan’s "Wandering Earth" and Ning Hao’s "Crazy Outside Star Man and Teng Huatao's Shanghai Fortress. Of course, whether it is experience or technology, domestic science fiction films are at an elementary level, so there is no need to be too demanding.
"The Wandering Earth"
"Shanghai Fortress"
Zhang Yimou's statement, making Chinese science fiction movies about to usher in "the strongest player." Zhang Yimou was once the undisputed "China's No. 1 Director". Even now that young directors have begun to take the lead in the box office, from an international perspective, Zhang Yimou is still China's No. 1 director. If you want to ask: Which is the most expensive Chinese film in history? Most people may not understand, the answer is "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou, the production cost of the film is as high as 150 million US dollars, exceeding 1 billion yuan. Even if this cost is placed in Hollywood, it is considered A-level production. The reason why Chinese and American investors are willing to invest a lot of money in "The Great Wall" is because of Zhang Yimou's signature and influence.
In the minds of many people, Zhang Yimou may be regarded as a director of literary and artistic films, because the several films that made him famous internationally, such as "Red Sorghum", "Raise the Red Lantern" and "Living", are not commercial films. In fact, Zhang Yimou has been experimenting with commercial films since his debut. Not long after the filming of "Red Sorghum", he directed "Code Named Jaguar" and even adopted an avant-garde pseudo-documentary approach, "Code Named Jaguar." In the same year, he also starred in Cheng Xiaodong's movie "The Love of the Terracotta Warriors in Ancient and Modern Times". After "Being Alive" sent Ge You to the Cannes actor, Zhang Yimou directed the film "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" which involved the fighting of the old Shanghai gang.
"Codenamed Jaguar"
"Shake and Shake to Grandma's Bridge"
Of course, more people think that "Hero" is the key work of Zhang Yimou's "business road". The film was launched as soon as it came out. Huge controversy and great commercial success. When "Hero" was released, there were only more than 1,800 screens in China. This domestic martial arts film generated 250 million box office through the only more than 1,800 screens. In 2019, the number of screens in China will exceed 66,000. Many years later, when the audience looked back at "Hero", they found that it was not as clumsy as it seemed at the beginning. Now on the Internet, this pioneering work by Zhang Yimou has gradually been washed out. After
"Hero", Zhang Yimou's commercial films have obviously increased. Objectively speaking, although these films have mixed praises and criticisms, one thing cannot be denied. Zhang Yimou's commercial films are visually different from the first-class Hollywood commercial films. Up and down, this is also the reason why Zhang Yimou's statement that he wants to make a science fiction film makes people look forward to it. Perhaps we will soon be able to see more magnificent and magnificent domestic science fiction movies on the screen than "Wandering Earth". (Author: Mo Xiucai)
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