In 2021, a new generation of "girl" Liu Haocun is red all over the country, and many people say that she is the lucky purple micro star that fell from heaven, and she is also the successor of Zhou Dongyu. But who remembers that many years ago there was also a girl named Wei Minzhi, who was also a "girl", but was rated as the "ugliest girl".
Before the age of 13, Wei Minzhi did not enter the cinema, every day after school, feeding pigs, is the most ordinary little girl in the countryside.
That year, Zhang Yimou planned to shoot "No One Can Be Less", because this film is a theme that reflects the substitute teachers in poor areas, so Zhang Yimou decided not to hire professional actors, but to find real teachers and students. So the crew went to all over Hebei to find people, and Wei Congzhi and Wei Minzhi sisters were caught by their group.
At the beginning, the crew was more optimistic about not Wei Minzhi, but his sister Wei Congzhi, but when determining the personnel, Wei Minzhi's boldness made the crew shine. When Wei Minzhi sang loudly in front of everyone and danced a self-choreographed dance, the crew asked her: "Do you dare to make a movie?" Then Wei Minzhi replied without hesitation with the word "dare" and fixed her. In fact, before this, Wei Minzhi had not even been to the cinema.
Later, "No One Can Be Less" was released and became popular throughout the country, touching countless people. The film won ten awards such as the 56th Venice International Top Golden Lion Award, the 19th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Director, and the 22nd "Popular Film" Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film, Zhang Yimou's career once again ushered in a small peak, and the 14-year-old Wei Minzhi was also famous.
Because the movie was so popular, many people were touched by the role played by Wei Minzhi, and a group of reporters in their village also poured into her to interview her. Wei Minzhi knew for the first time that this was the feeling of being a star.
After becoming famous, Wei Minzhi received many olive branches from schools, and many directors came to her and invited her to shoot. Zhang Yimou's work seems to have changed her life, before that her future was almost at a glance, she went home after graduation and married someone to farm, but now that the whole country knows her, and so many people help and appreciate, so that her life has more choices. Whether to continue reading or go out acting, Wei Minzhi was confused. Wei Minzhi found Zhang Yimou because he was her Bole and she wanted to hear his opinion. After her own confusion, Zhang Yimou told her that in fact, she was not suitable for being an actor, and what she needed more was to go to a good school and study well. After Zhang Yimou finished speaking, Wei Minzhi finally settled down and decided to study well. She turned down offers from other directors and then studied hard after receiving help from the principal of an elite middle school.
However, after filming "No One Can Be Less", Zhang Yimou still planted the dream of being an actor in Wei Minzhi's heart. However, because she is not beautiful, Wei Minzhi may really not be suitable for being an actor, so she decided to become a director. She told her family about the idea, but the family collectively opposed it. The opinion of the family is that she hopes that she can face the reality, do not dream of entering the show business circle because she has filmed a scene once, or honestly go to the normal school, and teach as a teacher in the future.
But the stubborn Wei Minzhi didn't think so.
In the year of the college entrance examination, she went to Beijing and took the admissions examination of beijing electric power institute, but it was not surprising that she was eliminated in the second round. At that time, the media knew the news that Wei Minzhi was eliminated from the Nortel exam, and a wave was set off on the Internet, and netizens complained one after another, some people said that she looked ugly and was the ugliest girl, and some people said that she wanted to enter the entertainment circle. In short, there are many very vicious remarks about her on the Internet.
Wei Minzhi was very sad in the face of all kinds of malicious remarks, but at this time, her father encouraged her to try again. Although the father does not know whether it is right to choose the path of directing, this is his daughter's dream, and if there are regrets, he is afraid that his daughter will regret it for the rest of her life. With the encouragement of her father, Wei Minzhi also remembered her Bole, although she did not know where Zhang Yimou was now, but she still remembered what Zhang Yimou had said to her when she was a child. Zhang Yimou let her study well, so Wei Minzhi went all out to prepare for the college entrance examination, and then Zhang Yimou's hometown of Xi'an Foreign Chinese University's Western Film and Media College asked Wei Minzhi to apply for their school in writing, and promised that if he was admitted, he would also be exempted from 11,000 yuan of tuition and miscellaneous fees per year.
In 2004, Wei Minzhi lived up to her father's expectations and was admitted to the Western Film and Media College of Xi'an Foreign Chinese University with super high results. In college, Wei Minzhi has also been working very hard, and during her time at school, she also filmed her own work "Mother's Wish". Later, Wei Minzhi also got the opportunity to study abroad at Brigham Young University, where she met her current husband, a Chinese-American. They fell in love in 2008, and after getting married, Wei Minzhi returned to China with her husband and two children.
Later, Wei Minzhi met Zhang Yimou at the sharing meeting of the movie "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", when Zhang Yimou and Zhou Dongyu were sitting on the stage. Zhang Yimou did not know that Wei Minzhi came to the scene, when the sharing meeting was held to the audience question session, Wei Minzhi stood up, saw Wei Minzhi who had not been seen for many years, Zhang Yimou was very happy, he said with emotion: "I have not seen Wei Minzhi for many years, you have grown up, you were only 14 years old when you made a movie with me. Wei Minzhi also expressed her gratitude to Zhang Yimou in this meeting, saying that the experience of filming "No One Can Be Less" changed the trajectory of her life. Later, she may have the opportunity to go to college and study abroad, and without this film, she might probably raise pigs at home, get married, have children, and be a housewife. But now, as a director and film and television, she has a happy and happy family, which she did not dare to think of before.
Later, Wei Minzhi was not often active in everyone's field of vision, and she did not really enter the entertainment circle. In fact, why did Wei Minzhi not know his own ordinary? Wei Minzhi was once asked by a reporter in an interview: "Everyone says that you are good for the soil, and you are the most earthy girl", in the face of such an attack, Wei Minzhi generously said: "In fact, this is the evaluation of others to others." Everyone has the right to evaluate anything. I think it doesn't matter, the soil, no change, just be myself. ”
Wei Minzhi once dazzled, it was Zhang Yimou who changed her and made her life completely different. Her life has also met many nobles, and Wei Minzhi is lucky. But more importantly, in fact, Wei Minzhi herself is also working hard, otherwise she would not have seized the opportunity to change her fate every time. Now she cherishes such a life, she also deserves to have such a life, in fact, to say that Wei Minzhi is the ugliest girl, it is better to say that her life is also very inspiring!