Zhang Yimou's homework

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Last week, I just finished reading the book "Zhang Yimou's Homework" and had a profound understanding of Lao Mozi.

After reading this book, my biggest feeling is that all successful people are the success of hard work and opportunities, and they are also the results of adapting to the times.

Zhang Yimou was originally a worker in the Eighth National Cotton Factory, who could have imagined that he would later become a big director? In fact, Zhang Yimou's journey has a lot to learn and think about.

First of all, Zhang Yimou's family composition is actually not good, because his uncle was the Kuomintang, and it was difficult to enter the state-owned enterprise factory in that era, but Zhang Yimou usually loved style, liked to write a fine art word, painted a portrait of the chairman, brushed a large slogan, and played basketball well.

You see, in fact, as long as you have value and ability, sometimes, when the factory needs a talent, you still give in, and you are most afraid of a person who is not born well, does not work hard, and gives up on yourself, then how can fate turn towards you?

Zhang Yimou is actually quite a chicken thief, said good, very smart, after entering the factory, want to learn photography, but at that time, how expensive is film? A camera is still hundreds, save a few years of money, you can still buy, but the film is a consumable, very expensive, the average person can afford to spend ah.

Zhang Yimou's method is to think of himself as a tool man. Zhang Yimou's understanding of instrumentalization is also in place, worth learning, he said: instrumentalization, you will be useful to others, people have use, some things will not find you, you will have a gap to survive. Tools are not a bad word, useful is also the value of our generation that goes deep into the marrow.

Therefore, Zhang Yimou's writing is good, he consciously uses this strength, takes the initiative to help the factory to run a blackboard newspaper, engraved steel plate mimeography, brush factory slogans, etc., plus can take photos, Zhang Yimou has become a small and famous talent in the factory. The trade unions and the propaganda section would call him for any activity they wanted.

In this way, Zhang Yimou has the opportunity to photograph at public expense, as long as there are photo publicity activities in the factory, let him come, what about him? When taking pictures, save the use of points, and leave the remaining materials for your own use.

You see, using the factory's public-funded photography, you can not only exercise your photography ability, but also a little socialist wool and take pictures of yourself.

Now the problem of taking pictures is solved, but how to solve the level of technology? Stupid method, go to the library to borrow books, learn by yourself.

What stupid method? Copy the book. He borrowed all the books on photography that could be borrowed from the library, including aesthetic essays, photographic composition, darkroom operations, and so on. After the book is borrowed, whether you can read it or not, copy it down first, and then slowly figure it out. He believed that "it is better to see it a thousand times than to pass it once.". Fortunately, most of the books at that time were pamphlets, and few were thick ones.

Zhang Yimou copied the book for three years, a total of hundreds of thousands of words. After copying the book, the theory that I couldn't understand at all before seemed to understand a little. Copying the book is only the first step, after copying, Zhang Yimou honestly follows the methods in the book to practice hard kung fu, do not take shortcuts, do not play small clever.

After work, I took the camera to go around without a problem, took pictures according to the method in the book, and then cut and processed according to the method in the book after shooting.

Slowly, I shot myself better and better.

When you take pictures better and better, when your ability reaches a certain level, your value is more prominent, in the eyes of other people in the factory, you are talented, you are famous.

As the saying goes, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and the reason why a noble person is willing to help a young man is because he sees the shining point of this young man and feels that this person will be useful and worth helping in the future.

When Zhang Yimou helped the factory to hold an exhibition, he met his nobleman: Tian Jun, who graduated from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts Affiliated High School, he was originally admitted to the Nortel Photography Department, but unfortunately did not go to Cheng later. It was Tian Jun who pointed out that Zhang Yimou could go to Nortel, and the photography department was particularly suitable for him. Zhang Yimou called Tian Jun his "guiding light."

You also have it, the opportunity of the times is also coming, in 1978 the college entrance examination was resumed, and the people in the factory all wanted to go to the college entrance examination to fight the fate given by the times.

However, Zhang Yimou is playing drums in his heart, after all, his family composition is not good.

However, coupled with his talent, friends and relatives constantly persuaded, Zhang Yimou made a big deal out of his mind to try. Then, taking advantage of the opportunity to go to Beijing on a business trip, he brought with him a photo album that he had carefully prepared at home for several months, not only that, Zhang Yimou also attached the negative of the photo and the cutting line on the negative of the actual work.

Zhang Yimou worked hard to practice composition, and insiders can see how the basic skills of the photographer are when they look at the cutting line. As soon as these photos were handed out, the teacher's eyes were immediately different, and he asked in a bit of disbelief: "Is this what you took?" ”

However, the enrollment requirement of the Beijing Film Academy was 22 years old, and Zhang Yimou was 27 years old at the time, 5 years old.

What to do? Zhang Yimou did not want to give up, and this time Zhang Yimou's guiding light Tian Jun gave him advice for the second time, saying: Write a letter to the Minister of Culture. The minister of culture at that time was Huang Zhen, who graduated from the Fine Arts College and was a painter. Tian Jun has seen Huang Zhen's sketches, "He knows how to draw," Tian Jun analyzed, "The Beijing Film Academy is directly under the Ministry of Culture, he is a leader, but also an expert, you may wish to write him a letter, send your work, the photo is very intuitive, he knows good or bad at a glance, maybe a love talent, will give you to want." ”

Then, Zhang Yimou began to look for a relationship to see how to deliver the letter to the Minister of Culture, and after careful analysis, all the possibilities boiled down to two clues.

One is Zhang Yimou's mother's side. His mother was a dermatologist, and some classmates worked in a large hospital in Beijing, often treating senior cadres, perhaps handing them over to Huang Zhen. The other is the relationship between Zhang Yimou's ex-wife Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua's brother-in-law, Wang Dihuan, is in Beijing and is familiar with people in the circle of calligraphy and painting, and it is said that a painter named Bai Xueshi knew the cartoonist Hua Junwu and could find Huang Zhen through this line. So the album added a letter, in duplicate, and sent it to Beijing at the same time.

In the end, the relationship between his ex-wife Xiao Hua went through this road, and after the cartoonist Hua Junwu saw Zhang Yimou's photography, he was full of praise, so he sent the photo album album to the Minister of Culture Huang Zhen, who saw it and also loved cai very much, so he called the leaders of Beiying and let them break the admission.

Then, Zhang Yimou went to the North Shadow Photography Department as he wished, of course, in the North Shadow because he came in by relationship, he could not be too high-profile, and he had been holding his tail between his legs, but even so, he also encountered problems. However, Zhang Yimou has turned the danger into a disaster every time, and behind the essence is talent, low-key, and hard work.

Zhang Yimou's journey is actually quite worthy of our reflection and learning.

He did not give up on himself because the family composition was not good, or he was constantly fighting for opportunities for himself, with his own interests and hobbies, crossed the threshold of the ingredients, entered the factory, went to the factory, used himself as a tool, where he needed to move, through his own value display, successfully can help the cultural propaganda department to assist in the work, thus obtaining the opportunity of photography, when your ability is getting better and better, your value is getting bigger and bigger, then the nobles naturally appear, and the nobles are willing to help a valuable person, just at this time The opportunity of the times came, facing the college entrance examination, facing the problem of family composition, facing the problem of exceeding the age standard, he never gave up, but always looked for more possible opportunities, thus achieving success.

Finally, in the words of Zhang Yimou: What is destiny? Fate is opportunity and the ability to seize it. There is no way to discern what an opportunity is, and 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 a few years later, you suddenly realize that it was an opportunity that was seized.

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