During the Spring Festival of 1990, Gong Li brought Zhang Yimou to Mrs. Zhang Weiping's dinner. During this dinner, Zhang Yimou met real estate businessman Zhang Weiping, which means that Zhang Yimou met Zhang Weiping through Gong Li.
But in 2005, when Zhang Yimou invited Gong Li to participate in " is full of golden armor ", Gong Li's only condition was "don't see Zhang Weiping and his wife on the set", why is this?
The cooperation between the two Zhangs has to start in 1995. At that time, the filming of "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" had just finished. Before the announcement, Zhang Yimou suddenly announced that he and Gong Li had broken up. The investors were very dissatisfied with this, because the investors were They went to Gong Li to invest, and the news of the breakup would definitely affect the box office of the movie, so they withdrew their funds (if this matter is now, it must be something that investors are happy to see, and it can cause heat). After the withdrawal of funds, the late stage of the film and the publicity were stagnant. Zhang Yimou was helpless, so he asked Zhang Weiping for help, and Zhang Weiping also happily agreed to invest the money. So the cooperation between the two began.
In 1997, New Picture Film Company was established, specializing in investing in Zhang Yimou's films. Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping began to work closely together, and the relationship at this time was like brothers.
The cooperation between the two was still a literary and artistic film a few years ago, and the box office was tepid. After seeing the great success of Ang Lee 's " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon " in North America, they also aimed at martial arts. piece. In 2002, the first commercial film " hero " was officially released. The film assembled Jet Li , Chen Daoming, Tony Leung , Maggie Cheung , Zhang Ziyi , Donnie Yen and other first-line superstars. This time, the Chinese people saw a different martial arts film, which also met the tastes of Western audiences. The film was very successful both in word of mouth and at the box office. It was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film, and the global box office was as high as 1.4 billion yuan. The two-piece combination became the golden combination of the film industry at that time. The unprecedented success of
"Heroes" made Zhang Weiping see the opportunity to make money and exposed the nature of the businessman. He participated more in the casting and shooting of the film, hoping to add more commercial elements to the film. But Zhang Yimou has an artistic pursuit of movies, unlike Zhang Weiping, who is a pure businessman. This also determines the inevitable contradiction between the two after that.
In 2006, when the filming of "Golden Armor in the City" started, Zhang Weiping forced the little king of Asian music Jay Chou into it, and squeezed out the Huang Xuan that Zhang Yimou chose at the time. After the film was released, Jay Chou's acting skills were seriously criticized by the audience. Although the film achieved a certain box office, it was regarded by the audience as a purely bad film.
In 2009, the filming of " Three Guns Shooting the Case Surprise " started. Zhang Weiping insisted on letting Zhao Jiaban play the role, turning a serious suspense movie into a semi-comedy movie, nondescript. Years later, Zhang Yimou once admitted that "Three Shots and Shooting the Case Surprise" was his worst movie, without cultural value, and was purely a product of commercial coercion.
In 2011, " Jinling Thirteen Hairpins " started filming, Zhang Weiping strongly asked Zhang Yimou to add a bed scene of Bell and Ni Ni , in a serious anti-Japanese-themed film, it seemed particularly out of place, and was seriously complained by the audience.
Zhang Weiping's excessive intervention in the film eventually led to a complete break between the two, which developed into an enemy-like tension. Zhang Wei found someone to break the news that Zhang Yimou had a super-birth, and the super-birth incident caused a lot of uproar. The people who ate melons called it a "calabash baby" incident. Zhang Yimou also took Zhang Weiping to court many times, accusing Zhang Wei of arrears in his salary. The
new picture company was also cancelled, and the two-piece combination that used to be like brothers ended up being a chicken feather.
Then why does Gong Li hate Zhang Weiping so much?
Because during the conflict between Zhang Yimou and Gong Li, Zhang Yimou often asked his friend Zhang Weiping to talk about his troubles, but Zhang Weiping often met Zhang YimouI spoke ill of Gong Li before, which indirectly led to the final breakup of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
If the two hadn't separated, maybe today's film industry is another scene.
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