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A "Furong Town" made Liu Xiaoqing win the two major movies of "Golden Rooster" and "Hundred Flowers", and also let the fledgling Jiang Wen win Liu Xiaoqing's heart.
Trying to catch up with his girlfriend's pace, Jiang Wen plunged headlong into Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" crew.
Jiang Wen in the play and Gong Li, who is still in her sophomore year, are in the "field battle" in the sorghum field, and the people are excited to see it.
Zhang Yimou outside the play is also deeply infatuated with Gong Li, who is in her early 20s.
Gong Li's oriental pure sentimentality of classical charm is definitely based on the aesthetic of "old strategist".
In 1988, Zhang Yimou and Xiao Hua ended their 10-year marriage and fell in love with Gong Li.
This year, "Red Sorghum" Berlin won an award, became internationally famous, Zhang Yimou became famous in one battle, and sat on the chair of the fifth generation of Chinese directors.
Career love double harvest, spring breeze triumphant.
In 1989, Gong Li and Zhang Yimou co-starred in Hong Kong director Cheng Xiaodong's "Qin Figurines vs. Ancient and Modern Love", witnessing the sweet love between the two.
It was also this year that Zhang Yimou met Zhang Weiping, who was in the early stage of entrepreneurship, at a cocktail party.
Zhang Weiping, who has just turned 30 years old, is full of style and business courage,
With the aviation food business has achieved a small success, has accumulated a certain wealth.
The two talked happily about the mountains in the south of the sea, but did not talk about the movie.
After the dinner, Zhang Weiping drove Zhang Yimou home in a XiaLi car.
They would not have imagined that in a few years, two people in different fields would intersect because of "movies".
I wouldn't have thought that because of the parting of the ways, the sword was raging, and the court was in court.
To this day, the entanglement of the two is still a confused and unclear account.
Two
In the warm and sweet years that Zhang Yimou and Gong Li have been together, they have also presented several classics for Chinese films and audiences.
From "Ju Dou" and "Big Red Lantern Hanging High" to "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" and "Alive", it is a classic and has won numerous awards.
Zhang Yimou also sat firmly in the top spot of the fifth generation of directors.
"Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" but Gong Li "shake" to the bank of the Xiangjiang River, married to the tobacco rich merchant Huang Hexiang.
It is said that Gong Li and Zhang Yimou have been obsessed for many years, and have never had a reputation, and they are unwilling to marry a woman in a vain way.
Some people also broke the news that Zhang Weiping obstructed it and created a misunderstanding between the two, which broke the relationship.
The truth is unknown, but the only thing that is certain is that the two broke up with each other.
In 1996, Gong Li married and settled in Hong Kong.
The old partner Ge You defected to "Party A and Party B" and became Feng Xiaogang's "Party B" and Zhang Yimou's "other party".
Love careers have failed one after another, film financing has been difficult, and Zhang Yimou and his films seem to have fallen to the bottom.
Zhang Yimou, who was at a loss, happened to meet Zhang Weiping.
Zhang Weiping is no longer the small boss who made a fortune by doing small business a few years ago.
When Zhang Yimou and Gong Li jointly weaved the film dream, Zhang Weiping had begun to get involved in the fields of real estate and medicine.
And accumulated a wealth of capital in a short period of time.
After learning about Zhang Yimou's situation, Zhang Weiping waved a big hand, threw out 26 million, and said:
"You just make movies, you don't have to worry about money."
Zhang Weiping, who grew up in Shenyang, has the arrogance and righteousness of the northeastern people, which makes Zhang Yimou greatly moved.
With the financial support of Zhang Weiping, "Have Something to Say" was successfully filmed.
For the film field, Zhang Weiping is a "layman", not to mention the operation and distribution of films.
Out of caution, Zhang Weiping sold the film rights to Dong Ping (now the boss of Huanxi Media) for a package price of 8 million yuan.
After the release of the movie, even if gong Li's signboard was missing, it still won 46 million at the box office with a wonderful plot.
But the box office revenue has nothing to do with Zhang Weiping, and this cooperation still makes him lose 18 million.
Zhang Yimou looked at it in his eyes and felt quite guilty in his heart.
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For this loss-making transaction, Zhang Weiping, who has worked hard in the business world for many years, knows that it is perfectly normal to invest in profit and loss.
However, in order to get involved in the film field more professionally, Zhang Weiping still established New Picture Pictures in 1997.
The only business is to be responsible for Zhang Yimou's film affairs.
It was in this year that Zhang Yimou's father, Zhang Bingjun, died.
It is rumored that before his death, Old Master Zhang warned Zhang Yimou that Zhang Wei was not good enough to be wary of him and not to get too close to him, so as not to be unfavorable to himself.
Although Zhang Yimou verbally agreed, he needed money to make a movie at that time, and where would he listen.
What's more, Zhang Weiping's righteousness and the affection of saving him from danger made Zhang Yimou feel the five inners.
The two in the "honeymoon period" worked closely together, so "No One Can Be Less", "My Father and Mother", and "Good Times" came out one after another.
While harvesting box office and word of mouth, it is also popular with Zhang Ziyi and Dong Jie's new generation of "Mou Girl".
Among them, Zhang Ziyi will become the only Chinese actress who can compete with Gong Li in the next nearly 20 years.
While focusing on the field of film, Zhang Weiping also led the development of projects that combine live performances and tourism culture.
Among them, the large-scale live opera "Liu Sanjie" has created a novel cultural expression and achieved considerable box office results.
In 2000, Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" turned out to be a major Oscar, sweeping the Oscars and winning the best foreign language film award.
Zhang Ziyi made a name for herself abroad through this drama and shined.
Ang Lee's "success in rushing the Olympic Games" also deeply stimulated Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping, who held their breath and decided to "be big and broad".
Invest 30 million US dollars to gather the top film actors in the Chinese language industry Jet Li, Liang Chaowei, Zhen Zidan, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Daoming,
High price invited Tianhou Faye Wong to sing the theme song of the movie of the same name," Hero,
A premiere ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People, and in order to prevent piracy, copies were airlifted to major theaters on the day of release.
With overwhelming publicity and pervasive marketing, the film grossed $177 million worldwide after its release.
Although, in the end, the Oscars returned home, but this "big and broad" strategy is undoubtedly successful.
Zhang Weiping and his New Picture Pictures are even more profitable.
It was also from this year that Chinese films ushered in the "first year of blockbusters".
Although the reputation of "Hero" is mixed, it proves the huge commercial value of the three words "Zhang Yimou".
In China, there are three directors' works, and the vast majority of the audience is not directed at the actors.
They are Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige, whose influence and box office have occupied half of the Chinese film industry for nearly 20 years.
Present a "three-legged" competitive ecology.
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Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping, who tasted the sweetness, used similar marketing routines to "Hero", and successively launched "Ten Faces Ambush" and "Full of Golden Armor".
Among them, Jay Chou's out-of-place performance in "The Golden Armor in the City" was even more ridiculed by the group,
When the box office was in full swing, Zhang Yimou's reputation was also declining a little, and he questioned Zhang Yimou's directing level.
In fact, Jay Chou is an actor who made a decision under Zhang Weiping's popularity, and Zhang Weiping liked the popularity of Jay Chou, and in today's words, it is a "traffic" star.
I hope to use Jay Chou's popularity to drive the film's box office.
Zhang Yimou insisted on using professional newcomer actors, unwilling to affect the integrity and appreciation of the film because of external interference.
Under the conflict between commercial interests and artistic creation, Jay Chou still appeared in the film.
It is interesting that Gong Li refused to meet with Zhang Weiping and his wife during the filming and publicity of the film, and wrote it into the contract.
In addition, in the face of the full screen of "Zhang Yimou Gong Li's old news, compound rumors" publicity copy, but also let Zhang Yimou feel deeply uncomfortable.
In fact, earlier, when "My Father and Mother" was announced, Zhang Weiping also took "Zhang Yimou's First Love Story" as a publicity gimmick to earn eyeballs.
It seems that there are already scratches between the "two sheets".
Also in 2006, the task of opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games fell on Zhang Yimou's shoulders.
In order to prepare for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou decided to "stop the shadow" for three years.
This also means that Zhang Weiping's new picture needs to be closed for three years.
Five
During Zhang Yimou's preparations for the opening and closing of the Olympic Games, he entrusted the studio to prepare for the next film.
Strive to put into filming after the Olympic Games and minimize the loss of new pictures.
During this period, Zhang Yimou ended a 16-year partnership with Wang Bin, a royal literary planner, and writer Zhou Xiaofeng took advantage of the situation to join Zhang Yimou's team to take on this position.
After the Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou began to shoot the next film.
Under the strong recommendation of Zhou Xiaofeng, Zhang Yimou's team decided to remake the Coen brothers' "Blood Labyrinth".
The team sinicized it, moved the background to the ancient western part of China, and renamed it "Three Guns Shooting Surprise".
In the Spring Festival Gala of 2009, Xiao Shenyang became popular all over the country with the skit "Not Bad Money".
Zhang Weiping seems to have taken a look at the "box office elixir", re-walked the routine of "pushing Jay Chou", and strongly recommended Xiao Shenyang to participate.
However, Zhang Yimou had to agree, and changed the original shooting plan and script again and again.
After the film was released, it only achieved 258 million at the box office, in addition, it is also the Waterloo of Zhang Yimou's directorial career.
The Douban score is even lower than the subsequent "Great Wall", becoming a big bad film without compromise.
Until the advent of Zhang Yimou's literary and artistic pure love film "The Love of hawthorn trees", Zhang Yimou's reputation rose little by little.
Time came to 2011, the two zhang cooperated "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
This time, Zhang Yimou began to adhere to his own creative philosophy, no longer seeking perfection, giving the role of Yumo to Ni Ni and rejecting Han Tingxi, who was recommended by Zhang Weiping.
However, Zhang Weiping added a "boat scene" between Bell and Ni Ni to Bo Eyeballs, and used this as a publicity gimmick.
For Zhang Yimou, who is ingenious in making movies, this makes him intolerable.
Freezing three feet is not a cold day, and the differences between the two in creative ideas and film promotion for many years have reduced the relationship between the two to the freezing point.
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In August 2011, Zhang Weiping was interviewed by the media about his and Zhang Yimou's "star-making" experiences and his views on the current lack of Chinese film actors and actresses.
Song Dandan posted on Weibo, expressing dissatisfaction with some of Zhang Weiping's remarks involving actresses in the interview, and retracted them in the air.
Not willing to show weakness, Zhang Weiping took a tough attitude and fought back, and expressed the hope that Song Dandan would not enter the seat because of the "half-old Xu Niang".
Isn't Zhang Weiping talking about Song Dandan? Everyone knows that Song Dandan played the "big sister" of the half-old Xu Niang in Zhang Yimou's movie "Ten Faces Ambush".
Since March 2012, He Jun, who was unsuccessful in the election of "Golden Nobile", has successively exposed Zhang Yimou's privacy and reported that Zhang Yimou has three sons and belongs to Chaosheng.
In August 2012, Zhang Weiping was interviewed by the media to announce his breakup with Zhang Yimou and reprimanded Zhang Yimou for refusing to communicate and meet.
Zhang Yimou Zhang Weiping's relationship was officially broken.
In the face of He Jun's report, Zhang Yimou apologized and paid the fine, which was considered to have calmed the incident.
In the face of Zhang Weiping's accusations, Zhang Yimou remained silent.
Until 2015, Zhang Yimou sued Zhang Weiping in a complaint to the Chaoyang Court in Beijing, demanding 15 million yuan in box office revenue.
In the final third instance judgment, New Picture Pictures paid Zhang Yimou 2.46 million yuan, but Zhang Weiping refused to execute.
Zhang Weiping was therefore restricted to high consumption, and New Picture Pictures has also been revoked.
The feud between the two will not know when it will end.
After the separation of the "two sheets", the development situation is very different:
Zhang Yimou stood up to the number one of the "National Master" and continued to play a role in the film circle, with the top resources on hand, and the movies were also filmed one after another, and they were very busy.
Zhang Weiping was completely lost, except for a "Kidnapping of a Big Star", which did not stir up any splash, and the New Picture Film Company was forced to shut down.
There is an old Chinese saying: "Harmony makes money, and peace is precious." ”
Since we cannot continue to cooperate and win-win, it is not impossible to look at each other and smile and forget about each other.
The big guys in the entertainment circle should have such great wisdom!
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