Recently, the film "On the Cliff" directed by Zhang Yimou landed in major cinemas, in just 21 days, the film exceeded 1 billion box office, until June 1, the box office has exceeded the 1.1 billion mark, becoming Zhang Yimou's second high-grossing film after the movie "The Great Wall", and this film will also have the possibility of climbing "The Great Wall" to become Zhang Yimou's highest-grossing film.
In Zhang Yimou's films, there is such a movie, the actors on the film are basically not professional actors, basically ordinary people participate in it, but they have repeatedly won film awards at home and abroad.
There is such a movie, the male and female protagonists are under the age of 15 children, but it has caused a sensation in everyone and touched the hearts of countless people.
The film was born in the late 1990s, and everyone who saw it was shocked by what it was. The most rare thing is the children who play in it, what their original name is, what is the name in the movie.
This movie is the 1999 zhang Yimou's work "No One Can Be Less".
The two small protagonists in the movie, Wei Minzhi and Zhang Huike, have now grown up, so what about them who were once popular by Zhang Yimou?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > "lucky" hit them on the head</h1>
If it were not for Zhang Yimou's films, or the fate of Wei Minzhi and Zhang Huike, they would not have been rewritten, perhaps they were like other children in the mountains, too poor to read, dropped out of school early to work in the city, entered marriage, had children or did farm work for their families in the mountains, went to the fields to raise pigs, and could not see any way out...
In 1998, Zhang Yimou made a plan to put Shi Xiangsheng's novel "There is a Sun in the Sky" on the big screen, and when Shi Xiangsheng wrote "There is a Sun in the Sky", he did not expect that he would be inadvertently discovered by Zhang Yimou after that, thus turning the novel into a film and television work.
At that time, Zhang Yimou was one of the representative figures of China's "fifth generation director", and he had shot many films before, causing a sensation at home and abroad.
But as a director, he does not like to linger in the same genre or similar works, he hopes to make a different work than before, under his concept, "There is a Sun in the Sky" into Zhang Yimou's vision.
But Zhang Yimou is not willing to only do a film adapted novel, if the content is well known to everyone, then the film lacks freshness, Zhang Yimou obviously does not like this.
He found the author of the novel, Shi Xiangsheng, and hoped that he could cooperate with him and let him be the screenwriter of the film, provided that the script should have something different from the novel.
However, there is a certain reason why a famous director can become a famous director, and the meticulousness and truthfulness of the script of the work have made Shi Xiangsheng suffer in creation.
For a writer, writing a script is not a difficult thing, but the continuous revision of the script for nearly 4 months before and after made Shi Xiangsheng collapse, fortunately, the script presented in the end made Zhang Yimou very satisfied.
In order for his work to present a different style from the past, and also to highlight the authenticity of the film, Zhang Yimou decided not to use professional actors from the class, but to go to the countryside to find people who matched the role.
Later, Wei Minzhi and Zhang Huike, two children from the countryside of Hebei, successfully attracted Zhang Yimou's attention, and from this moment on, "luck" hit their heads.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > a movie doesn't change anything</h1>
Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Dongyu, Ni Ni are all the "mou girls" that Zhang Yimou put up, and they can continue to get good film shooting opportunities in succession, even Tang Yan is also selected by Zhang Yimou to star at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games, and later slowly took on many roles in the show business circle.
And Wei Minzhi is also one of the "Mou Girls" selected by Zhang Yimou, but this Mou Girl is different from other Mou Girls, she is called "the most earthy Mou Girl".
After filming Zhang Yimou's works, other mou girls can have a good play and achievement in the show business circle.
The girl who was almost selected by Zhang Yimou will soon become a proud girl in the show business circle.
After Filming "No One Can Be Less", Wei Minzhi was surprised to find that she had followed the director to shoot a scene, and publicized that there were not only good food and fun, but also people sent flowers to themselves.
This is undoubtedly a huge temptation for Wei Minzhi, who has not been out of the mountains before the age of 13, and she once fantasized about becoming an actor and making a living as a filmmaker.
But Zhang Yimou's words made her wake up from her fantasies.
Seeing Wei Minzhi, who was a little fluttery, Zhang Yimou, who had read countless people, knew what kind of wishful thinking Wei Minzhi had in his heart, spoke to her in a serious tone, and clearly pointed out a point with his hand: "A movie cannot change your destiny!" ”
Wei Minzhi was able to enter Zhang Yimou's eyes at that time, relying entirely on her compromise and courage not to bow to fate, rather than her appearance. However, in the entertainment industry, the appearance divides the actress into several levels, and Zhang Yimou, who has learned to paint, has a certain aesthetic ability for the contours of the characters, and he can see at a glance that Wei Minzhi is not suitable for being an actor in the entertainment industry.
But he did not directly deny Wei Minzhi, but calmly persuaded her to study well, and for Wei Minzhi in the mountains to change the future, reading became the only way out.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > knowledge changes fate</h1>
Fortunately, the 13-year-old Wei Minzhi listened to the words of the big director, and after the release of the movie "No One Can Be Less", although many film dealers found Wei Minzhi and wanted to invite her to shoot, she refused, but calmed down and read well.
A person's opportunities are actually related to what kind of Bole she meets, a good predecessor can guide you in the right direction in the future, and Zhang Yimou is Wei Minzhi's Bole.
In 2004, at the age of 19, Wei Minzhi was admitted to the Film and Television Media College of Xi'an University of Foreign Chinese, and she wanted to be a choreographer like Zhang Yimou.
At that time, Wei Minzhi and her sister also went to Hebei Daily to intern as a reporter to interview everywhere in addition to studying, but Wei Minzhi's fame was too great, and sometimes he was "interviewed" by the interviewee.
After 2 years in school, Wei Minzhi had the opportunity to go to Hawaii in the United States for further study, unlike other international students, Wei Minzhi took a full scholarship to go.
In the United States, in addition to completing her studies, Wei Minzhi also met her lover here and married and had children.
In 2010, Wei Minzhi also returned to China with her husband and appeared on Lu Yu's interview program.
And from the beginning of the show to the end, the hands of the two have never been let go, and Wei Minzhi's face has always had a happy smile.
The mischievous Wei Minzhi was a reporter at the press conference of Zhang Yimou's "Love of hawthorn trees" and interviewed Zhang Yimou, but he did not expect Zhang Yimou to see the transformation of Wei Minzhi now, and sighed that time flew by, like a dream.
22 years later, Wei Minzhi is now slightly fatter than herself in the movie. Although people have become more rounded, this has not prevented her from being positive, and she has found boys who are as good as her to spend the rest of her life in the United States, and there is a cute son to accompany her.
It can be said that Wei Minzhi's reading changed his destiny.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > The original Zhang Huike who paid off his family's debts</h1>
In the movie, in order to pay off the debts of his family, 10-year-old Zhang Huike had no choice but to give up his studies and run to the city to work. In reality, Zhang Huike and Wei Minzhi read books at school.
It's just that Zhang Huike was still immersed in the taste of being a star at the beginning, used to living in the spotlight, and for a while and a half he could not re-adapt to the life of the school. Fortunately, the teacher has always been by Zhang Huike's side, so that his turbulent heart can be calmed.
Unlike Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, who returned to the campus to study in the second year of junior high school, still let Zhang Yimou worry about it.
At that time, the studio of the Anti-Japanese War film "Struggle" wanted to find Zhang Yimou to recommend small actors, and Zhang Yimou remembered Zhang Huike and recommended him to them, so Zhang Huike had a second chance to make a movie.
Later, he also walked into the crew of "Xibaipo" and played a shepherd baby.
In fact, Zhang Huike's performance in the movie made people feel moved to see it and couldn't help but cry. Even Big S's ex-boyfriend Lan Zhenglong watched it and said that he admired Zhang Huike and felt that the drama should be presented in this way.
It's just that the highlights of childhood don't guarantee a smooth future.
When she grew up, Zhang Huike took the college entrance examination like Wei Minzhi and was admitted to the photography major of Hebei College of Communication.
After Wei Minzhi returned to China, she always "worried" about this student, and she went to Zhang Huike's school to visit him and surprise him.
In the movie, Wei Minzhi always looked down at Zhang Huike, and did not expect that many years later, Wei Minzhi would look up at Zhang Huike.
22 years later, Zhang Huike is now married and has children, and works at Hebei Television, but he used to perform in front of the curtain to work behind the scenes.
22 years after "No One Can Be Less", the two rural children who were popular by Zhang Yimou are now returning to the lives of ordinary people, although there is no comparison with the stars on the screen.
But compared with the former them, there is no doubt that they are lucky, at least their current life is unimaginable to them who grew up in the mountains before.
One went abroad to become a Chinese wife, one became a successful husband, and both of them had a happy family.