The Winter Olympics are in full swing, and opening ceremony director Zhang Yimou has already thrown himself into the rehearsal work for the closing ceremony. Director Zhang Yimou, who completed the opening ceremony and "Sniper" at the same time, is really not easy, and the 71-year-old has said that he will always be a director and will maintain the speed of launching film works.
This time filming "Sniper", director Zhang Yimou asked the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee for 2 months to complete the shooting. During the promotional period, he was busy with the rehearsal of the opening ceremony and did not have time to take care of the film promotion. In an interview at the end of the opening ceremony, Zhang Yimou revealed that he could not take care of the movie anymore and was too busy.
After listening to the director's words, the audience spontaneously promoted the film, hoping to make a little effort for the film box office. Under the influence of word of mouth, with the support of everyone, the film schedule has increased to a certain extent, and has exceeded 250 million at the time of publication, although it is very different from the "Chosin Lake" released at the same time, but Zhang has said that he does not pursue the box office.
In recent years, Zhang Yimou has continuously made great works, successively launched works such as "On the Cliff" and "Sniper", and each time a different type of movie will be launched, so that everyone can sigh that the elderly over 70 years old can still challenge and break through themselves. Just 2 months ago, director Zhang Yimou also won the Best Director Award at the Golden Rooster Awards Ceremony.
The eldest daughter, Zhang Mo, born in 1983, is 38 years old and has worked with her father countless times, graduated from the New York University Film School, and has been working with her father since 2009. He has worked as an editor, counselor, subtitler and other works in works such as "The Surprise of the Three Guns Shooting", "Jinling Thirteen Chao", and "Return", but it is the first time that he and his father have co-directed.
Because director Zhang Yimou was busy rehearsing the opening ceremony, the work of promoting "Sniper" fell to his daughter Zhang Mo. In an interview with the media, Zhang Mo talked about the origin of cooperation with his father and the image of his father in his mind. It is also through this interview that everyone has a better understanding of the father-daughter relationship.
In this shooting, Zhang Mo called his father a partner and called him "Da Zhang Dao" at the scene. Because there is no frame with the opponent, the father and daughter are filmed separately. Director Da Zhang photographed the volunteer part and himself photographed the United Nations Army (US army) part. The shooting was on two hills 10 minutes apart, and the scene would not be encountered.
It will not be discussed during shooting, so as to avoid interference with the other party's shooting. There are only 6 hours of shooting a day, because all that is to be filmed is the plot of the dawn. The day before the shooting, I would brush up the script, and I would put the two sets of shooting together in the editing room after the end of the day. If there is a change, it is solved by multiple solutions.
Zhang Mo admitted that this opportunity to cooperate with his father was because after his father got this proposition essay, he did not want the characters in the United Nations army to create faces, and at the same time did not want to use fake snow to complete the shooting. It was important to have a tacit partner, so I thought of working with my daughter, who was fluent in English.
From Zhang Mo's words, we can understand that the relationship between father and daughter is very harmonious. When shooting, Zhang Mo will take his father's plan as the starting point for shooting, if his father shoots 2 plans, he will have to cooperate with 4 plans. Because every day to shoot according to the situation, the other party also has to cooperate, so it really tests the degree of tacit understanding between the two sides.
The host laughed and said that although this is mutual cooperation, it is actually a trick. Zhang Mo also agreed with this statement, "Yes, we have a special degree of cooperation." She also thought that this shooting experience with her father was very interesting. When asked how his father balanced the two tasks, Zhang Mo said that this was all because his father's time management was very clever.
From her words, everyone knows that director Zhang Yimou has no habit of eating dinner, and the sleep time has been compressed to a very short time. In this way, he can hold online meetings while everyone is eating and sleeping, and even at the shooting site, he can communicate with the director team from a distance about the opening ceremony.
Zhang Mo sighed and said that his father's work was also his own interest, and he would definitely insist on doing it. Her father's creative passion and love for life will affect herself, and she feels that to live to learn from old age, to constantly surpass herself, people must improve. Also making progress is Zhang Mo, who said that people need to constantly break through and innovate, and her father has been exploring new areas.
In the eyes of his daughter Zhang Mo, his father has been exploring new areas, which is a comfort zone for him. Like her father, she also wants to make some different types of film and television works. In this process, I am also exploring what type of work I am good at, and there is still a long way to go for being a director.
Zhang Mo said that she learned from her father that people should be humble, and from the interview, it can be seen that she is the same, low-key and modest. For Zhang Mo, her father is a very good teacher, and her father's style will also infect herself, and she hopes to learn her father's work model, constantly challenge herself, and make herself go to a higher level.
For all the works that Zhang Mo likes her father, her favorite is her father's debut work "Red Sorghum", she admits that although she has a sense of youth, it is very pure. The first creation is very ignorant, and simple creation is difficult to encounter in the subsequent artistic career, which is why she speculates that her father has always wanted to innovate and can maintain the simplicity of creation.
Zhang Mo's debut film is "28 Years Old Minor", and the second part is "Sniper". The gap between the two works is very large, which is also a process of breakthrough and learning for her, and new things can make themselves zero. When asked about Zhang Mo's attitude of trying new things and his father's inheritance, Zhang Mo frequently nodded, and it was clear that she agreed with this statement.
Zhang Mo went to the United States to study before the age of 16, began to study architecture in college, and then went to the New York University Film School in the United States to study. Changing careers also accepted his father's suggestion, because Zhang Mo found that the construction industry and the imagination were big gaps, and after calling his father, he decided to change careers.
Zhang Yimou is very happy that Zhang Mo chose to engage in the film industry, because he and his daughter can have more common languages, and they can also help their daughters more, and the communication between father and daughter will be smoother. Zhang Yimou encouraged her daughter to return to China for development, and advised her daughter not to worry, because it is difficult to achieve her father's achievements, or follow her own path.
Although Zhang Yimou has a new family after that, he has always had a lot of contact with his daughter. When his daughter won the award for "28 Years Old Minor", he was very happy for her daughter, and encouraged her daughter to say that she did not get this award, which is a good memorial, "In me and my daughter, it seems to reflect this inheritance." ”
Another important influence of director Zhang Yimou as a father on his daughter is to make her daughter pay more attention to the family. Zhang Mo said that she did not launch a new work in a few years because as a wife and mother, she wanted to have more time in the family. Zhang Yimou suggested many years ago that his daughter should focus on the family.
Zhang Yimou said this to his daughter, and so did he. After disclosing his wife Chen Ting and his 3 children, he is also more willing to disclose his family. He said that he attached great importance to family and family relations, and in the past he attached great importance to his career, but then he felt that family, children, and family affection were the most important. The family is its own harbor.
After making public about her three children and wife, Zhang Yimou's wife, Chen Ting, once gave an interview to the media and talked about her family. Chen Ting said that the eldest son, Yi Nan, did not show great interest in his father's work when he was a child, and only became interested after the 9th grade, and chose Film in the IB course. The eldest son is usually cool, occasionally warm, much like his father Zhang Yimou.
The youngest daughter Yijiao is a girl whose wife wants a girl, she is a powder of her father, a "Great Wall" has been watched no less than 50 times, Beijing 8 minutes, the daughter worships the ground, "from the beginning to the end has been screaming, fantastic, so handsome!" It seems that Zhang Yimou's 2 daughters all admire their father.
Zhang Yimou once took his wife and daughter to visit the class "Crossover Ice and Snow King" together, and when he saw his daughter have a perfect action display on the ice and was praised by the national team coach, Zhang Yimou was not happy in his heart, which was a sincere pride. When Zhang Yimou's son won the first award, Zhang Yimou praised his son for being better than himself, and he won the award at the age of 18.
Zhang Yimou said that several children are very happy, which is the sense of honor and pride as a father. The children talked about how the father was not like this. Zhang Yimou's eldest daughter talked about her father's oriental aesthetic, so that audiences outside China can empathize, "his use of color and composition have the magic of opening up human beings all over the world." Zhang Mo praised his father for being very good at handling Chinese aesthetics.
Don't look at Zhang Mo is the eldest daughter of Zhang Yimou, the most promising to inherit her father's career, but she would rather choose to let the career stop for many years and accompany the 2 children who are growing up, she said that she hopes to be a housewife. This is also influenced by the father. Zhang Yimou told his daughter in this way, hoping that her daughter's life is the first, the film is the second, and she can get married and have children first.
In 2017, when filming "Shadow", Zhang Mo took a pair of children and husband to visit the class. Zhang Yimou was not happy when he introduced his grandson to Hu Jun, he said that this was his grandson, a dragon and phoenix fetus, and his birthday was the same day, when he was 2 years old. From this, it can be speculated that Zhang Mo, who married in 2013, gave birth to a son and a daughter in April 2015, and now the dragon and phoenix fetus are almost 7 years old.
There are many rumors that Zhang Yimou's daughter was unhappily married and divorced. She also faced such questions when she promoted the movie "28 Years Underage". Judging from the live shooting, Zhang Mo and her husband have a good relationship, and she respects her husband's suggestions, including shooting proposals.
In Zhang Yimou's view, his career always gives way to the family, and from his attitude towards his wife and children, it can also be seen that although he attaches great importance to his work today, he will not ignore his family and relatives. I wish that the 71-year-old director Zhang Yimou can create more excellent works.
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