After his father's death in 1997, Zhang Yimou defied his father's last words: Beware of one person. He would never have imagined that he would have a grudge with this person for more than 20 years, not only losing his ex-girlfriend, but also dragging his wife into the water, and then more than 10 million also disappeared.
This person is Zhang Weiping, Zhang Yimou's close friend and collaborator for many years, and the two are known as "golden partners".
In 1995, after Zhang Yimou broke up with Gong Li, he lost Gong Li's "living signboard".
When Zhang Yimou was preparing to shoot "Have Something to Say", the film investor suddenly withdrew.
Zhang Weiping heard about it and took out 26 million yuan to give Zhang Yimou a rescue.
Zhang Yimou was grateful to Shu Zero, and he couldn't imagine that his brother would talk about "righteousness" like this.
As early as a few years ago, Zhang Yimou, under the introduction of his girlfriend Gong Li, met Zhang Weiping, a rich man who made a fortune by real estate, Gong Li and Zhang Weiping's wife are girlfriends, and the friendship of the two women has also narrowed the distance between men.
After the two met, Zhang Weiping and his wife also became regular customers of Zhang Yimou's family. Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping gradually became friends who talked about everything.
Later, the two founded the "New Picture" film company. At the beginning of the cooperation between the two, Zhang Yimou made films such as "No One Can Be Less", "My Father and Mother", and "Happy Time".
Unfortunately, although the reputation of the three films is good, they have also won many awards. However, the box office has always been applauded.
As the saying goes, it's just three.
Seeing the dismal box office and thinking about the silver that floated in the water, Zhang Weiping could accept it once or twice, and he couldn't sit still for the third time!
He began to repeatedly lobby Zhang Yimou to make some compromises to the market, and more hype of the film will have heat and box office will sell well.
Zhang Yimou made concessions to the situation and made the film more commercial.
Since then, the two have created movies such as "Hero" and "Ten Faces Ambush".
As soon as the film was launched, it immediately received a warm response from the market, and it received a total of 2 billion box office, which was much higher than the previous pure art films. The two made a lot of money.
This time, Zhang Weiping has more say!
In the second year of their cooperation, Zhang Yimou's father unfortunately died, and when the old man was alive, he had seen Zhang Weiping two or three times, and at that time he opposed Zhang Yimou's cooperation with Zhang Weiping. But Zhang Yimou did not listen.
Because of Zhang Weiping's intervention, Zhang Yimou's films are becoming more and more commercialized, although the income is beautiful, but the reputation has declined and the reputation has been damaged, which is not what Zhang Yimou wants to see.
The two people's different pursuits of the movie led to the two slowly drifting apart.
Later, Zhang Yimou voluntarily withdrew from the "new picture".
Finally, in 2012, a "super-life breaking news" made Zhang Yimou fall to the bottom, and his current wife Chen Ting was exposed, and he also had to pay a fine of 7.48 million yuan for superbirth.
Zhang Yimou knew in his heart who caused all this, and he drew a clear line with Zhang Weiping and did not interact with each other.
Zhang Yimou later finally learned that it was probably Zhang Weiping and his wife who had stirred up their feelings with Gong Li.
It turned out that Zhang Yimou had heard Zhang Weiping and his wife say that Gong Li had an improper relationship with Huang Hexiang behind his back.
After that, Gong Li asked Zhang Yi for a marriage certificate, and the answer she got was not in a hurry, in fact, at that time, Zhang Yimou's heart had already doubted this relationship.
Not long after, Gong Li was disheartened and left Zhang Yimou.
No wonder that when Gong Li agreed to star in Zhang Yimou's film "Full of Golden Armor", there was only one condition that "Zhang Weiping and his wife would never be seen".
In 2016, Zhang Yimou formally filed a lawsuit against Zhang Weiping, asking him for 15 million shares of "The Surprise of the Three Guns Shooting".
Later, Zhang Yimou sued Zhang Weiping three times in 5 years, and since then he has been inseparable from Zhang Weiping.
@Book Ray Cottage
It's not very sad that things have turned out like this. Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping went from former friends to the court, and we don't know who was right and who was wrong.
But it is certain that the entertainment industry is a vanity fair, and once full of interests, it is difficult to find a true confidant.
And their grudges and hatreds also seem to have unveiled the fig leaf of the entertainment industry, confirming a sentence: there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.
Everyone has their own destiny, and whenever they reach the other shore, they need to be down-to-earth, not opportunistic.
What do you think about that?
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