Author: Shanjia
On February 4, 2022, Li Chun opened the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. At this point, Beijing has become the first "city of double Olympics" in history, and Zhang Yimou has also become the world's first "double Olympic" general director to direct the opening and closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. But Zhang Yimou, a national teacher, once admitted that "I never wanted to be a director at all."
Also, until now, Zhang Dao's family is also strange, and will ask him "how did you become a director". The final answer is that fate gave him the opportunity to become a director, but also a national teacher...
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In 1976, when the Cultural Revolution ended, Zhang Yimou was 26 years old. In 1978, he was admitted to the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy. It is said that Zhang Yimou was over-aged at that time, or his ex-wife Xiao Hua launched the help of the seven aunts and eight aunts, and finally found Minister Huang Zhen. With a note, Zhang Yimou entered the university as he wished.
For Zhang Yimou's generation of intellectuals, going to college is the best choice. At that time, he did not have much luxury, and any university could accept it, as long as he had a degree and a diploma. Zhang Yimou once thought that when he went to the College of Physical Education, or the Academy of Fine Arts, he would take ten thousand steps back, even if he was in the last agricultural college. The end result is that he came to film school and was destined to become acquainted with film.
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After Zhang Yimou was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, there was a teacher Fu who had fought side by side with him in the factory for seven years, which was very strange: "Yimou, you want to learn to play movies?" "In the eyes of the teacher, isn't the movie the kind of open-air movie?" In order to put on a movie, you have to go to film school for four years?! It's hard to understand.
Entering the university, Zhang Yimou never wanted to make a movie in the past, only to feel that the movie thing was too vain, and it would be quite good to be a photojournalist in the future.
Until after work, Zhang Yimou served as the cinematographer of the film "One and Eight" for the first time. He was thrilled to see the works produced by his own hands. It is really not enough to say excited, because from then to today, Zhang Yimou still loves it. Zhang Yimou sighed: I will become an eternal lover of movies, an experience is that you insist on a thing in your life, you must love it the most to do it.
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Because of his love, he insisted that Zhang Yimou's latest works, such as "One Second", "On the Cliff", and the recent "Sniper", have his persistent beliefs. Zhang Yimou insisted that it was fate that gave me the opportunity to become a director, so I must cherish it. Actor Zhang Yi, the male number one of the movie "On the Cliff", in an interview, once broke the news: Zhang Yimou Zhang director only sleeps 3 hours a day and eats a meal. And the most amazing thing is that Zhang Dao also insists on 5 kilometers of exercise every day, almost every day when he wakes up, he has to devote himself to work, without any entertainment activities, diligence and self-discipline, Zhang Dao is really admirable.
To this end, in response to the relevant rumors in the anecdote, Zhang Yimou also came out to respond: he did not sleep for three hours a day, only in extremely busy situations, and usually maintained normal sleep, but the habit of walking five kilometers a day has been maintained, and he also insists on a healthy diet. The response is a response, but the fact is that Zhang Yimou is now in his ancient age, and he should pay more attention to health than before. After all, there are still four gourd babies to lead.
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In the 1990s, Zhang Yimou directed "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge". At the end of each day' shooting, he gathered the creators together to discuss the next content. Every day is like this, so that everyone lights up and boils oil, it is really unbearable, so they "talk about Zhang Guiding Color Change" and flee into the wilderness.
Bi Feiyu is the screenwriter of the film "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge". On this day, he couldn't support escaping back to his room, even if Zhang Yimou chased after him. At this time, Bi Feiyu was almost collapsed and collapsed on the bed. Knowing that Zhang Yimou still did not let go, he circled around the bed, saying that he would discuss the plot with him. In the end, after surviving Bi Feiyu to pass out alive, Zhang Yimou left in a daze. A post-60s, the energy can not do a post-50s? This is true.
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For the word opportunity, Zhang Yimou has his own understanding: you have no way to distinguish what is an opportunity, no one can grow a pair of eyes and see the opportunity coming. You can only make all kinds of preparations, often after the preparation you make temporary choices, do not know the depth of the decision, it is these preparations, so that your various choices and decisions change the fate. When you look back over the years, you suddenly realize that what you seized was the opportunity.
That year, during the preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Zhang Yimou explained to his team what it meant to seize the opportunity. At that time, Zhang Yimou was a super workaholic, working for more than ten hours a day, just a piece of cake. The strangest thing is that from beginning to end, he does not need any rest in between. Napoleon was still napping on horseback, and our Zhang Dao was like a brave iron man, tireless.
Non-stop, it has become a rhythm that Zhang Yimou is accustomed to. He often ate only one meal a day, and described him as a waste of sleep and forgetting to eat, which was really more than enough. No, at the office meeting, Zhang Yimou was also more courageous and energetic in the Vietnam War. While holding a meeting, deputy director Zhang Jigang secretly sent a mobile phone message to the venue staff under the table: "The stomach has issued a long sound, which brave buddy can stand up, say a word to the director, and let us go to dinner?" ”
A friend once asked Zhang Yimou, today you are in this position, what are you so busy doing? What else to shoot?
Zhang Yimou said that it is fate that gives me the opportunity to become a director, so many years of hard work, persistence, persistence, very difficult, so I cherish, not for the name, not for profit, or out of love, I cherish that I can become a director from an ordinary student, always feel as if only diligence can repay such an opportunity.
It is this cherished mentality that makes Zhang Yimou always live up to expectations when accepting national tasks, and also makes him a well-deserved "national teacher" in the hearts of national audiences.
The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has been unveiled in front of the world, and it is necessary to brush the playback again to select the most favorite ideas, just like the movable type printing performance at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, which will always be the favorite of the heart...