Chapter 1026 Menacing (34)

"Do you know which two directors Xudong admires the most?"

"Which two?"

"Zhang Yimou and Qiu Litao..."

In the car, Chen Xi and Tan Songyun chatted.

Tan Songyun didn't know why: "I attended the Xiangshan Film Festival that day, and Director Shen said that his favorite director was Edward Yang..."

"I'm talking about admiration...I admire you too!"

"What happened to them?"

"I'm over sixty and still work tirelessly, with great energy. Director Zhang Yimou can discuss movies with people for five or six hours without taking a break... Qiu Litao is similar. Qiu Litao averages three movies a year, and He often stays up late filming!"

Indeed, they are both very energetic!

"Drinking debts are commonplace, but rare in the past seventy years of life."

The Chinese ideal version of the elderly is to have fun with their grandchildren and enjoy family happiness.

But Zhang Yimou still maintains a strong desire to create when he is seventy years old!

Let’s look at a set of data: In mid-December 2019, “Above the Cliff” was launched;

In January 2021, "Sniper Starts" (co-directed by Zhang and Zhang Mo), and in June 2022, "Man Jiang Hong" starts shooting;

In July 2023, "Article 20" will be launched.

In addition, Zhang Yimou also serves as the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2022 BJ Winter Olympics and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics.

In addition, he participates in the promotion of every movie!

With this kind of directing speed, only Qiu Litao can compete with the current directors in the Chinese-speaking circle, but Qiu Litao is 11 years younger than Zhang Yimou.

In the past few years, Tsui Hark has actually been no less generous, but he has been more of a producer...

And after 70, Mr. Xu’s efficiency dropped significantly.

Chen Xi continued: "I talked about this with Zhou Xiaofeng..."

"Zhou Xiaofeng?"

"Zhang Yimou's previous literary plan..." After a pause, Chen Xi continued: "He said that Zhang Yimou had seen a flying saucer, which may be "the result of the brain being scanned by aliens."

Tan Songyun was surprised: "UFO? Isn't that ridiculous?"

Director Chen can also testify to this. Zhou Xiaofeng wrote this paragraph in the book "Fate: Lonely Zhang Yimou"...

Regarding Zhang Yimou’s magical place, Yu Hua also said: Zhang Yimou sleeps for one or two hours every day!

"I also think it's a bit ridiculous... But his team's execution ability is really strong. In the past, I used to look for scripts everywhere, and the copyrights of many scripts were bought. Now, many scripts come to him to shoot, and he picks them, which makes it easier. "

After a pause, Chen Xi added: "Director Zhang's studio has at least five projects in progress... You go and perform well. Even if you don't get this project, if there is a suitable drama, it will be great if he can think of you." !”

Tan Songyun nodded...

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Shen Xudong is talking nonsense to A Mou...

In fact, Amou majored in photography at university. However, one time he went to Beijing Film Studio to visit and study: "I saw Chen Youqun, who was in his fifties, measuring light. He didn't become a photographer until he was sixty."

"According to the regulations of the studio, after graduating from the photography department, students will work as assistants for three years, and their job is to push rail cars. If they do well, they will be promoted to second assistants, responsible for focusing. After that, they will be senior assistants, responsible for measuring. Light - this is exactly what Chen Youqun does.

If the first assistant does a good job, he will then serve as the assistant photographer, and finally become the photographer.

Most people want to go from assistant to photographer, it takes ten or twenty years! "

"I calculated at the time that if I followed this process, I would be in my fifties before I became a photographer. In order to avoid such a life, I decided to learn directing techniques..."

"How to study? Audition?"

"We were not allowed to sit in at the time, so I asked my classmates from the directing department for advice. Chen Kaige, Wu Ziniu, and Tian Zhuangzhuang shared their must-read lists for directors. As long as the books mentioned by my classmates, I read them and took notes on the important parts... But I never expected it. I became a photographer as soon as I graduated!”

After graduation, Zhang Yimou, He Qun, Zhang Junzhao and others were assigned to Guangxi Film Studio, and Guo Baochang guided them in business...

And supported them to launch "One and Eight"...

Shot in 1984, Zhang Yimou was the main photographer, and he became the main photographer two years after graduation!

In the same year, old classmate Chen Kaige was filming the movie "Yellow Earth" and named Ah Mou as the cinematographer. Then, Ah Mou won the 1985 Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography!

By the way, "Yellow Earth" is also a project that Guo Baochang supports.

But this thing... the core content is actually, 'Dude will win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Photography after graduation'...

Not only that, Ya took the time to act in a drama "Old Well", won the Best Actor at the Tokyo Film Festival, and won the Berlin Golden Bear Award for the first film she made...

To be honest, any entertainer who can meet one of these three conditions will be enough to brag about for a lifetime. As a result, this thing is his norm!

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The reason why Zhang Yimou shoots so fast is mainly because of his wealth. Basically, one shot has 4 to 8 cameras shooting together, and all angles can be shot at once...

How can ordinary film crews have such financial resources?

Ordinary directors don’t have such strong control!

Oh, Tan Songyun, Cai Wenjing, Mao Xiaotong, and Kan Qingzi who came to audition later were all selected...

It's not necessarily "Parasite", there are also "Burning", Yan Lianke's "Year, Month, Day", "Above the Cliff", Tian Er's "A Man Decorated with Lanterns", in addition, "Jingzhou Killing" is also being adapted...

Shen Xudong did not participate in the follow-up, but just said, "If you have any themes you want to try, just mention it!" ’

In fact, Ah Mou should feel a bit sorry - the company gave a 50 million yuan bonus, and the Xiangshan Film Festival also awarded 10 million yuan...

To compare, he worked with Zhang Weiping for 16 years and only received 11.63 million yuan in remuneration...

Oh, Shen Xudong is busy now - Tao Piao Piao is starting to show off!

Taopiaopiao is very fierce, backed by Taobao and Alipay. From the beginning, they said "no upper limit"!

Beginning in April 2014, Taopiaopiao launched a series of aggressive marketing campaigns, including "Select a seat to watch "The Devil" for 9.9 yuan" and "Select a seat to watch "Frozen: Gate of Rebirth" for 9.9 yuan, with tens of thousands of tickets Tickets are often sold out within a minute, and marketing expenses for a movie often exceed tens of millions.

The amount of money spent is far greater than that of Baidu Nuomi!

Moreover, Ali Pictures has been aiming at the strategy of producing, distributing and ticketing from the very beginning. Not only did it take over the ticket subsidy for two movies, it was also a joint distributor and also launched an entertainment treasure...

It was so fierce that it came up with the most various terms, plans, and products.

With my eyes closed, I casually think of a bunch of things, including Plan A of Youku Film Industry, Plan Stupid Bird, Jincheng Co-production, Beacon, Alibaba Entertainment, Entertainment Bao, Taopiaopiao, and some other marketing backwards thing...

Excellent word-making!

But the secondary market believed him - Ali Pictures went public through a backdoor scheme, with a market capitalization of over HK$60 billion, and without a single movie, surpassed Golden Harvest and became the leading entertainment stock in Hong Kong!

Then the Internet began to spread Zhao Yanzi’s myth about Buffett, the female version of Buffett with a net worth of over 10 billion...

Whatever you say...

All kind words!

Anyway, Ahri has dominated the news on the Internet recently, so much so that Han Yan’s new film "A Little Red Flower for You", which was released in April, has a box office of over 500 million, but not many people care about it!