Chapter 474 You Should Play a Role that Suits Your Age.

"Under the Hawthorn Tree" was originally scheduled to be released in mainland China on September 16.

However, because "Interstellar" was scheduled for September 12, New Picture changed the release date of "Under the Hawthorn Tree".

According to Zhang Yimou's idea, he certainly doesn't care about competing with Wu Yuan at the same time.

It's not that he thinks he is so awesome, but the fifth-generation directors don't have the idea of ​​"avoiding enemies". In addition, Zhang Yimou has been transforming into a commercial film for so many years, and it has always been others who avoid him, not him avoiding others.

It's just that Zhang Weiping, who is responsible for the film distribution, is a thorough businessman, and he is also a businessman with a lot of bad intentions. He is good at marketing and will not do such a thing that hurts both sides.

While Zhang Weiping was adjusting the release date, he was also jumping up and down to issue a press release, saying that "Under the Hawthorn Tree" was not changed to avoid "Interstellar", but because of technical reasons, there were some imperfections in the post-production that needed to be modified. In order to present a perfect work to the audience and fans, it had to be postponed for half a month.

He believes that as Zhang Yimou is the first director in the mainland, and "Under the Hawthorn Tree" is his best emotional feature film, it will definitely achieve a box office result that is not inferior to "Interstellar" and will become another classic love movie in the mainland.

Under the bombardment of these press releases, "Under the Hawthorn Tree" was fully released in the mainland on October 5, a week after "The Empire of Heaven and Earth" was released.

At this time, "Interstellar" has already earned a total of 687 million yuan in the mainland box office. Although it is not as exaggerated as "Avatar", it has also refreshed the box office record of movies directed by mainland directors released in the mainland.

Well, as long as the adjectives are given enough, everyone can break the record.

However, this number is not the final box office of "Interstellar" in the mainland. In the first week of October, "Interstellar" still earned 24.65 million yuan in the mainland weekly box office.

Although the weekly box office champion has been snatched away by "The Empire of Heaven and Earth" with 121 million yuan, "Interstellar" still has a lot of stamina. It is expected that before the end of the screening, the mainland box office should be able to break 700 million yuan.

Unfortunately, this is not a Chinese-language film, and it cannot break the Chinese-language film box office record held by "Gravity" - 658 million yuan.

But Wu Yuan returned after two years and brought another movie with a box office of over 600 million yuan, which still made mainland filmmakers feel what the real mainland box office king is.

To be frank, in China, Wu Yuan's status is almost the same as James Cameron's in North America. Both are directors who sit on the box office throne and cannot be shaken.

"Interstellar" has not been released yet, and people in the circle are already asking about Wu Yuan's next movie.

Wu Yuan has been in the circle for so many years, and his way is actually almost known by everyone.

Now the actors in the circle know that Wu Yuan is a director with balanced development. Every time he shoots a foreign language film, he will shoot a Chinese language film, one foreign language and one Chinese language, walking on two legs and developing in parallel.

Now that the foreign language film "Interstellar" has been shot and released, it stands to reason that Wu Yuan should be preparing his new Chinese language film.

Although Wu Yuan is not as energetic as Zhang Yimou, who can be as efficient as Zhang Yimou in post-production, shooting, preparation, and writing a new script, he basically starts preparing for the next one after the release of one, and the gap in between is not too long.

According to Wu Yuan's style, he should be preparing for a new movie now, and the new movie must be a Chinese-language movie, and there are a lot of opportunities for Chinese-language actors!

It was also because of this that so many celebrity actors came to the premiere of "Interstellar" in China, all of whom wanted to get familiar with Wu Yuan before he prepared for the new movie, and maybe they could get a role in the new movie.

Their idea was indeed correct, Wu Yuan was indeed slowly preparing for the new movie.

But what many people expected wrong was that Wu Yuan was not so anxious.

At this moment, he was sitting in the cinema with Liu Yifei, watching the newly released "Under the Hawthorn Tree".

Rather than preparing for a new movie, he still wanted to relax and rest for a few days.

It would be nice to watch Zhang Yimou's new movie with his fiancée.

Although the movie "Under the Hawthorn Tree" is a very impressive movie in his memory, when he watched it again in the cinema this time, Wu Yuan would still be amazed by Zhang Yimou's superb directing art.

Zhang Yimou, who has returned to his best field, is really invincible.

Does Zhou Xiaoya fit the "actor" label defined in the minds of ordinary people?

To be honest, it really doesn't fit.

Even from Wu Yuan's perspective, Zhou Xiaoya is not photogenic at all, and when filming "Under the Hawthorn Tree", she didn't have much acting skills to speak of.

But under Zhang Yimou's lens, the little yellow duck appeared just right, as if she was Jingqiu herself. This is not acting in a movie, but just recording something that really happened in the past.

Zhou Xiaoya's pure taste, coupled with the original spirituality that she has retained without any actor training, like a blank sheet of paper.

Under Zhang Yimou's hands-on teaching, she perfectly showed her most perfect, or the side that best fits Jingqiu.

If another director were to come, even with the same script, it would probably be difficult to train actors to such a level and shoot such a perfect "Under the Hawthorn Tree".

Zhang Yimou's title as the best director in China at training actors is absolutely well-deserved.

Zhang Yimou has trained countless actors who have reached the peak of their careers.

Zhou Dongyu will never be able to shoot a work like "Under the Hawthorn Tree" again without Zhang Yimou's lens.

This movie can be said to be the highlight of her life, even more so than "July and Ansheng" which won her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress.

Just look at this, after watching the movie, Liu Yifei exclaimed with tears in her eyes: "The acting is so good."

"The heroine is only 18 years old."

"She is really a good actress."

Hearing Liu Yifei's sigh, Wu Yuan shook his head: "It's not acting."

"Under Zhang Yimou's hands, in this movie, she is Jingqiu, and Jingqiu is her."

"Director Yimou didn't let her play anyone, but just mobilized her most real, most unreserved, and pure side that belongs to her age."

"That's why I have always emphasized that people of different ages should play roles of different ages."

"Director Yimou has always been like this, from Gong Li who just went to college when the big red lanterns were hung high, to Zhang Ziyi who was also only 17 or 18 years old in "My Father and Mother" later."

"He has always let these actors play the most suitable roles for them when they are at the most suitable age."

"In this case, the actors are usually not acting, but just releasing the most real side of their hearts."

"This is the highest level of acting, playing yourself."

"Just this point alone is enough for many domestic directors to learn for a lifetime."