The launch of "The Last Emperor" caused quite a stir in Yanjing.

This film, the largest investment in Chinese history, has taken more than a year to prepare for it alone, which is not rigorous.

Wu Jianye's version of the movie is not like Bertolucci, which is directly the plot of Xiao Puyi being summoned by Cixi and entering, but will show how Pu Yi sat on the throne of the emperor.

In the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, Cixi played by Lu Yan sat on the throne, and the eunuch palace maid stood next to her, and Cixi's favorite eunuch Li Lianying stood under her.

The actor who plays Li Lianying, no one thought of it.

Wu Jianye actually found his old classmate Zhang Yimou to play it, in fact, it is a coincidence that Li Lianying's role, the crew originally found an actor from Yanying Studio to play it, but when the actor started filming, he accidentally broke his leg and couldn't come.

In September this year, a classic movie was released in China, which was directed by Chen Kaige and photographed by Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou also began to emerge in the domestic film industry with this film, winning the Best Cinematography Award at the 5th Golden Rooster Award and the Cinematography Award at the 7th Nantes Three Continents Film Festival in France.

became the 78 class, the second person to win the Golden Rooster Award after Zhao Fei, and for a time some people called Zhao Fei and Zhang Yimou the two major photographers of the new generation in China!

However, what this film really established was Chen Kaige's status, with which he won the Silver Leopard Award at the 38th Locarno International Film Festival and the Kurosawa Akira Award at the 21st Tokyo Film Festival...... and a series of awards.

Now, the saying of the fifth generation of directors in China has appeared, and after Chen Kaige won many awards, he was called the leader of the fifth generation of directors by the domestic media together with Wu Jianye.

Zhang Zhidong, played by Liao Bingyan, stood opposite Cixi with his head down.

When the movie is playing, there is a voiceover that introduces the background of the beginning of the story.

In November 1908, the lives of Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi had come to an end......

In the colleague's movie, there will also be a scene where Guangxu heard that the Empress Dowager Cixi was not safe in Yingtai, and then wrote the word 'kill table' with his own hands, and his colleagues will also have a scene where Yuan Datou and Li Lianying conspire to get rid of Guangxu.

But these will be filmed later.

Now the first thing the whole crew wants to shoot will be the scene in the Forbidden City, although the upper floor has negotiated with the Forbidden City Museum to use the situation here, but it is not for Wu Jianye to borrow it without restrictions, naturally the sooner the better.

Not only that, but the Palace Museum will also send special people out to supervise the filming of this time, lest the crew damage something here during filming.

Cixi, played by Lu Naan, is sitting on the throne at this time, the dim scene is symmetrical Cixi's slightly pale face, of course, this pale is not the zombie face in Bertolucci's version.

But even so, a trace of domineering between Cixi's eyebrows was still interpreted by Lu Yan perfectly.

Zhang Zhidong stood with his head down, and his respectful attitude was undoubtedly revealed, and when it was the first time Lao Mouzi was electrocuted, he was a little nervous, and he couldn't find his state for a while.

In desperation, Wu Jianye had no choice but to call Zhang Yimou to his side and analyze Li Lianying's mentality for him.

In fact, these things don't need to be talked about by Wu Jianye, Zhang Yimou knows it himself, but it is still a little difficult to know that he wants to perform in such a state.

After repeating a few shots like this, Zhang Yimou was able to find his state, and the shooting was able to continue.

"Lao Wu, these machines of yours are so beautiful, they are all brand new imports, I haven't heard of any domestic studios adding new equipment?"

In between shooting, Zhang Yimou fiddled with the shooting equipment and said enviously.

"These are all imported machines that Lao Wu ordered abroad!" Zhao Fei grinned.

"Damn, in order to shoot a movie, you actually bought new equipment?" Zhang Yimou couldn't help but be surprised: "All these equipment cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!"

Wu Jianye sat on the mazar and said with a smile: "Tangting culture, there will be a few movies to shoot next year, and you can't always borrow from the studio." ”

"You added these equipment, the studio should have borrowed it from you!" Zhang Yimou said with a smile.

"How about it? Are you interested in coming to my company for a part-time job, and you can fiddle with the equipment when the time comes." Wu Jianye tempted.

If you can fool Zhang Yimou into court culture, it will be great.

Although many people in later generations have some complaints about Zhang Yimou, they cannot deny Zhang Yimou's achievements in movies, whether in art or box office.

Of course, when it came to the period of Wu Jianye's rebirth, whether it was Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, or Feng Pants, they all had their own struggles.

On the one hand, I want my reputation to be consistent with the box office at that time, and on the other hand, I want to pursue my own ideas, so many times, the movies made are not like four things, which can not impress the hearts of the main moviegoers at that time, and lose the characteristics that I should have.

But it cannot be denied that a director like Zhang Yimou, in a hundred years, will definitely have his strong stroke in the history of Chinese films.

Zhang Yimou smiled bitterly: "Even if I sign it, it's useless, after the cameo on your side, I will go to Chang'an Film Studio to participate in "Old Well" directed by Wu Tianming." ”

"Photography?" Zhao Fei asked curiously, his current working relationship is in the West Film Studio, so he naturally knows what kind of status Wu Tianming has in the West Film Studio.

"That's right, Director Wu likes to promote newcomers very much, and being able to do photography under him is also a good thing for you, maybe Director Wu can transfer you to the West Film Studio, and then we will be colleagues!"

In 1983, Wu Tianming had been appointed as the director of the West Film Studio, when the provincial government of Shaanxi Province sent people to the West Film Studio to conduct public opinion evaluation, at that time, Wu Tianming was not only outstanding in the West Film Studio, but also very popular, and was finally appointed as the director of the West Film Studio.

When he was appointed, Wu Tianming was not even in the West Film Studio, but was far away in Phoenix with the crew of "Life". The road kiln is also there. Wu Tianming asked Lu Yao, how can this director be the director? There are 17,800 people in the West Film Studio, plus 6,700 or 7,000 family members, what can be done? Lu Yao told him that after returning home, he would not speak for a month, sleep in the morning, hold a meeting in the afternoon, let them report to work, and continue filming in the evening.

Zhang Yimou looked at Zhao Fei with a smile and said, "Director Wu said, it's not just photography ......"

Zhao Fei asked incomprehensibly: "What else can it be if it's not photography, I can't let you be an assistant director, right?"

"Starring!" Zhang Yimou looked at Zhao Fei proudly, and then said: "When I go back this time, I'm going to experience life!"

Our national teacher Lao Mouzi, his debut is not just photography, he has also been the male number one, not only did it, but also succeeded in doing it.

The movie "Old Well" won Zhang Yimou the Best Actor at the 11th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards, the Best Actor at the 8th Golden Rooster Awards, and the Best Actor at the 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival.

Later, in order to avoid the scandal between him and Gong Li, he also went to Xiangjiang to co-produce a "Ancient and Modern War Qin Warriors" with Gong Li!

Proper acting and excellent directing.......

", it's unreasonable!" Zhao Fei couldn't help but burst into foul language.

Zhang Yimou smiled proudly.

"By the way, how did you know Director Wu?" Zhao Fei asked.

Zhang Yimou's face in northern Shaanxi showed a trace of embarrassment, and he complained: "It's not because of Chen Kaige, when we went to the Loess Plateau to choose the scene, Chen Kaige told me that he had no money, and I had no money, the car broke down again, there was no way, we had to go to Director Wu for help, if you want to say that it has to be Director Wu's righteousness, he directly took 2,000 yuan for the two of us, and arranged room and board, and coordinated in the factory, and transferred a jeep to us, so that the scene was selected." ”

In fact, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige didn't know at the time that Director Wu Tianming had already begun to smack young directors in China at that time, and as graduates of Yenching Film Academy, they had their own fame, so they naturally regarded them as their own pockets, which was just buying people's hearts in advance.

Buying people's hearts here is not a derogatory term!

It's pretty much the same as unsatisfactory, and it's not a derogatory term anyway.......

It is precisely because of the knowledge and good use of Director Wu Tianming that Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige became famous early.

"Director Wu is making a lot of noise in the West Film Studio!" Wu Jianye still knows Wu Tianming, the director known as the godfather of the fifth generation of directors in later generations.

After Wu Tianming served as the director of the West Film Studio, he persisted for a month according to Lu Yao's statement, and came to the conclusion that the average age of middle-level cadres was too old and the management was too old. So a meeting was held, and it was announced in a big way that all middle-level cadres would be dismissed from their posts and that priority would be given to the promotion of young people.

This big move made Zou Renqi promoted to the director of the special effects workshop, and the 35-year-old Bai Hugo was promoted from the director of the publicity department to the director of the newly established publicity and distribution department.

Wu Tianming also dismissed all the deputy factory directors, and only promoted four assistant factory directors from various departments, in charge of publicity, external media distribution, domestic and foreign settlements, negotiation agreements, daily management and script screening, and production. These four people are called the "Four Tiger Generals" by the people of Western Film Studio. Pak Hugo is one of them.

However, it was Wu Tianming's drastic reform that moved many people's cakes, so since he became the director of the Western Film Studio, he has been reported a lot.......

The reason why Wu Tianming is called the godfather of the fifth generation of directors is because the success of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige is inseparable from Wu Tianming's help.

As for

Wu Tianming, as the spiritual mentor of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others, has also criticized the later movies of the two many times.

After Zhang Yimou opened the era of Chinese blockbusters, he didn't dare to show his own movie to Wu Tianming, and later when filming "Return", he once said that it was like asking Brother Wu to see how this movie was, but unfortunately Wu Tianming didn't see it in the end.......

"Yes, I heard that many old people in the factory are not satisfied with Director Wu's approach. "Zhao Fei, as a person from the West Film Studio, naturally knows about the infighting in the West Film Studio.

Wu Tianming wanted to praise the newcomer, and those old people were naturally dissatisfied, because of this matter, there were many people who made trouble with him.

"By the way, Lao Wu, Director Wu Tianming has a lot of respect for you, and keeps saying that there is a chance to cooperate with you!" Zhang Yimou said.

Wu Jianye smiled: "There is a chance!"

It's not that Wu Jianye intends to handle it, if he can, he does want to meet director Wu Tianming, but his work schedule in the past two years is full, first of all, it must be the filming of "The Last Emperor", and the estimated shooting time of this movie will be as long as eight months.

Coupled with the post-production, it is estimated that the whole year of next year will be spent on this movie, and then the movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" can no longer be delayed, the basic story framework, Wu Jianye has already written.

After enough rest, Wu Jianye gave an order, and the crew continued to shoot.

In the next few days, almost the entire crew was soaked in the Forbidden City, catching up with the filming schedule, but there were still some minor problems.

For example, Lin Shen's performance, although the little kid Lin Shen is not afraid of the camera, but it is still very troublesome to want to perform that feeling, sometimes no one knows why, he cries, it is a headache, but fortunately, his mother Li Xiaowan followed by the side and went up to coax him at any time, so he finished filming.

And then when Xiao Puyi ascended the throne, the more than 2,000 extras were not all bald.

Wu Jianye found almost all the 'Tony' in Sijiu City and shaved the heads of more than 2,000 extras, and for a while, the entire Forbidden City looked like a monk's temple.

There are also lamas who were found, because lamas are forbidden to be touched by women, so the crew specially hired male costume assistants for them to assist them in dressing.

However, these are all minor problems, and everyone has slowly overcome them in the process of filming.

During this period, the leaders of the hospital, the leaders of China Film, and the leaders of the Ministry of Culture all came to inspect the filming of Wu Jianye and others.

Looking at so many group performances in the Forbidden City, even the big leaders were a little surprised.

"These actors have a lot of money for food every day, right?"

"Each person has a food subsidy of almost five jiao per day, and when the crew has the most, it can reach 10,000 people, not counting the scene where Pu Yi was expelled later, and when it comes to that scene, the extras of the crew can reach 20,000!" Wu Jianye said.

"In other words, you have to pay 10,000 yuan a day for food alone?" the big leader smacked his tongue.

He was not surprised by the simple number of 10,000, but because of the cost in this scene, it was he who was surprised.

If calculated according to this amount, the food expenses of the crew alone will be enough for a domestic studio to shoot a movie!

"You can't let everyone go hungry to shoot. Wu Jianye said with a smile.

He hasn't told the big leaders about the subsidies for these extras.

According to the calculations of the crew, the money spent on the extras alone in this drama will be close to 700,000!

In the end, when the big leader left, he patted Wu Jianye on the shoulder and said: "Shoot well, let those foreigners also see the level of our domestic films!"

"Thank you for your support!"

After the big leader left, Wu Jianye began to scratch his head, not because of the leader's attention, but because the crew was going to come in with a special actor.

Li Xiuming!

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