There is a titan in the Chinese directorial industry called Zhang Yimou, who has created countless amazing films in his directing career, and is one of the leaders of the fifth generation of directors. What is less well known, however, is that he is the general director of the Chinese Olympic Games, the general director of the Winter Olympics, and the general director of the G20 Summit Literary and Art Show. Such an influential director also has a sharp and poisonous vision when casting, and all those who are selected by him as heroines are known as "girl". Today, let's take stock of who are the women of the past and their current situation?
Gong li
As the first mou girl, as early as 1987, she starred in Zhang Yimoudan's first director and filmed the movie "Red Sorghum". It can be said that this film was of great significance at the time, with this film, Gong Li won several awards in one fell swoop, and even won the highest award of the international film festival, and she has also made a name for herself internationally since then. Subsequently, the two collaborated several times and launched several classic works in succession. Zhang Yimou and Gong Li achieved mutual achievements, and Gong Li accumulated acting skills with these films and gained fame at the same time; Zhang Yimou also realized his dream of becoming a director and successfully won the Golden Bear Award.
Stills from "Red Sorghum"
Later, Gong Li also became a female star who was concerned at home and abroad, becoming the first Chinese face to appear on "Time Magazine", Gong Li's facial features are bright and atmospheric, she does not even need to speak under the lens, just by an action or a look, she conveyed a thousand words to the audience, she was also known as "the most beautiful oriental woman". As the first girl, Gong Li, who is now 57 years old, is still a myth in the film and television industry, and she has not lost her face because of the years under the lens, but after the precipitation of time, her beauty is more elegant, subtle and intriguing.
Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi is known as the "International Chapter", not only because her face has a traditional oriental beauty, but also because it has gained international recognition. The second generation of the girl Zhang Ziyi was excavated by Zhang Yimou in 1998 and became the protagonist of the film, with this film, Zhang Ziyi, who was only 19 years old at the time, won the Hundred Flowers Award, when she had not yet graduated from college. Her youthful, unique temperament and spirited performance immediately entered the hearts of the audience, and the film also won a high award.
In the following 1999 and 2002-2004, Zhang Ziyi starred in several films directed by Zhang Yimou and won awards in succession, successfully entering Hollywood and becoming an international actor. Zhang Yimou is good at capturing the beauty of details, and at the same time, he is good at running the mirror, and he interprets Zhang Ziyi's beauty under the lens to the fullest. Although many years have passed since the film was shot, it now seems that Zhang Ziyi under the lens is still beautiful and impressive, and it can be said that Zhang Yimou single-handedly won the actor.
Now Zhang Ziyi is not as active in front of the screen as before, but its influence is still not to be underestimated, whether it is the awards she has won, or the title she has crowned, but also the star or director of cooperation, the weekly magazine, no matter which achievement, let many stars now have no hope, as an actress who is internationally renowned, Zhang Ziyi is worthy of Zhang Yimou's appreciation and support for her, the two are not only cooperative relations, more like a mutual achievement.
Zhang Yimou and Zhang Ziyi
Wei Minzhi
In 1999, at the age of 14, Wei Minzhi starred in Zhang Yimou's film "No One Can Be Less", and she became famous for it. However, knowing her own advantages, she did not choose an acting career, but continued to study, and she also won the grand prize in the composition competition, so she enrolled in further study. She is now also the vice president of China Youth. Although she did not enter the show business circle, she lived out her own wonderfulness.
Stills from "No One Can Be Less"
Dong Jie
Dong Jie's identity as a girl does not seem to be known to many people, in 2000 Dong Jie appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, and in the same year, she stood out in the audition of Zhang Yimou's film and became the fourth generation of mou girls. With this film, coupled with Zhang Yimou's guidance, the new actor also opened his acting career after winning the award. However, the two did not cooperate too much since then.
Dong Jie takes the filming of TV dramas as the focus of her work, and leng Qingqiu in "The Golden Powder Family" makes her a white moonlight in the hearts of many people, but Zhang Yimou, who is good at shooting movies, can be said to be getting farther and farther away. Later, due to slandering her ex-husband Pan Yueming, her passers-by were almost ruined, and her career plummeted. Now she has long lost the scenery of the girl she used to have, and can only play a supporting role in a TV series, becoming a marginal figure in the entertainment industry.
Stills from "The Golden Powder Family"
Lin Miaoke
Zhang Yimou, who was the general director of the Olympic Games in 2008, boldly used a 9-year-old girl as the opening ceremony performance, the little girl on the stage had a vivid expression and a sweet smile, and unveiled the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games with a song "Singing the Motherland", this little girl is Lin Miaoke.
Although he did not appear in Zhang Yimou's films, as China's century-old Olympic dream, its importance is far higher than that of a movie, so it is not too much to say that Lin Miao is the fifth girl. However, due to her young age, Lin Miaoke's fame will inevitably bring her some malignant effects. After the opening ceremony, she was also caught in the storm of false singing. But for a nine-year-old, there are a lot of things she can't understand. Fortunately, she still treated herself with self-discipline, studied seriously, and always worked hard for her favorite acting career.
Zhou Dongyu
Zhou Dongyu, known as the "Little Yellow Duck", has single eyelids, swollen eye bubbles, and facial features are not outstanding in the showbiz circle where beautiful women are like clouds, but as a fifth generation of female partners, she can be said to be a shadow queen. In 2010, 18-year-old Zhou Dongyu starred in Zhang Yimou's film "Hawthorn Tree Love", although Zhou Dongyu was still young at that time, her youthful temperament coincided with the characteristics of the protagonist in the movie, with this film, she won multiple awards, and Zhou Dongyu also entered the audience's vision.
Subsequently, Zhou Dongyu starred in a number of movies, although there was little cooperation with Zhang Yimou, but she worked hard to polish her acting skills, in recent years, "Young You" has made Zhou Dongyu burst into flames, in the play Zhou Dongyu's performance is very outstanding, will be a student who suffered from campus violence in the heart of sadness, helplessness, fear and outbreak of interpretation to the fullest. Now Zhou Dongyu, whether acting skills or works, can make her proudly say that she is the name of the girl, thousands of years ago Bole and Maxima, but also the current Zhang Yimou and Zhou Dongyu.
Stills from "Young You"
Nini
In the past generations of women, although Ni Ni's appearance is "catfish series", she has a full sense of story, so she is very recognizable. In 2011, she cooperated with Zhang Yimou to play a prostitute who sacrificed herself to save female students under the fire of war, although her identity is not shameful, but Ni Ni in the play is full of style, elegant and moving, she perfectly interprets the heartache and helplessness of people in the war years, the acting skills are amazing, and this movie also sets a high starting point for Ni Ni. She also starred in a number of film and television dramas, receiving countless flowers and applause.
Jing sweet
As the eighth Mou Girl, Jing Tian's "The Great Wall" can be said to be controversial, and Jing Tian is also known as the Strong And Not Popular Mou Girl. Although it is questioned by many people that it is a commercial film, Zhang Yimou still poured a lot of his own efforts in "The Great Wall", which can be seen that this film has a certain cultural output orientation, and the film was shot in China and distributed to the world, which shows Zhang Yimou's good intentions.
As a girl, Jing Tian even trained for half a year in order to shoot this movie, but after shooting this movie, the response was flat, and Jing Tian subsequently starred in many TV series and movies, although some film and television dramas exploded, but Jing Tian was still in a tepid embarrassing state. Until the broadcast of "Si Teng" in 2021, Jing Tian wore a cheongsam in the play, beautiful and atmospheric, known as "the rich flower in the world", she ushered in the red of her career, and at the same time had to make people lament that Zhang Yimou's vision was too accurate!
Liu Haocun
As the latest generation of girl Liu Haocun, in terms of appearance, belongs to the pure small flower, although she is slightly green under the lens, but a slight smile makes people feel like a spring breeze. In 2018, she was selected as the heroine of Zhang Yimou's new film, and in November of the same year, she starred in another spy film directed by Zhang Yimou, cooperating with Qin Hailu, Zhang Yi and other old drama bones, it can be said that Zhang Yimou's appreciation of Liu Haocun is very conspicuous.
However, such a rising star has ended before it has begun. After the movie was broadcast, some netizens exposed on the Internet that Liu Haocun's family's dance training class was improperly operated, resulting in a girl's lifelong disability in the lower body, and after the court's judgment six years later, the girl waited for a late apology and compensation. This incident made netizens accuse Liu Haocun's family of being cold and ruthless for a while, and even some netizens said that Liu Haocun stepped on the legs of others and put on a crown.
Coincidentally, when the incident fermented, Liu Haocun's series of low emotional intelligence statements were also exploded by netizens. When the host asked her if she thought she was a talented actor, she said bluntly: Why not? In the face of such questions, other actors will be humble, or say that they are hard-working actors, etc., in comparison, her answer can be said to be full of intelligence. In a later interview, when the host asked her what kind of role the actor was, she was torn apart and could not answer, obviously a look of not memorizing the manuscript also made netizens spit "no culture", when evaluating the performances of other predecessors, it was even more said that "he is very hard", just like the appearance of a predecessor, there is no modesty and self-consciousness as a newcomer. Today, she can be said to be completely unpopular with passers-by, and she is going farther and farther on the road of being hacked.
Looking back at the nine girl scouts, some people have become film queens by virtue of their strength, and even stepped onto the international stage; Some people quit the show business and fight for their favorite careers; Others were resented by the public. It can be seen that as an actor, what you have to do is not only to hone your acting skills, but also to have moral character, conscience, and to learn more, so that you can get the love of the audience for a long time.