Chapter 61: A New Drama

Jing Zhan: Give me your hand, don't ask about the future, I'll take you home.

After this turmoil passed, Jiang Miao entered the group in a low-key manner.

There is no report, no publicity, and even the fan support club doesn't know what Jiang Miao's next itinerary is.

Jiang Miao's play this time is the new film "Mi Duo's Conjecture" by the famous domestic director Zhang Weiye.

Director Zhang Weiye is one of the representatives of the "fifth generation of Chinese directors", the first person who has made the greatest contribution to Chinese films, he has laid the glory of Chinese art films in international films, and opened the era of Chinese commercial blockbusters, which can be called a milestone figure in the history of Chinese films.

Director Zhang won two Venice Golden Lion Awards, a Berlin Golden Bear Award, a Cannes Grand Jury Award, a Cannes Technical Award, a Venice Jury Award, and a Berlin Silver Bear Award with his extraordinary artistic talent, and also made Ge Hong and Gong Lin crowned Cannes Best Actor and Venice Actress respectively; Among them, one film was also nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language.

These works have opened a window for the international film industry to understand China, and also won a world-class reputation for Chinese films, to a certain extent, breaking the prejudice of the international film industry against China and the yellow race.

So far, all the awards and achievements of the rest of the mainland directors in the three major European film festivals combined are only comparable to Zhang Weiye in the 90s.

come, and can only fight a draw with Zhang Weiye.

When the country opened up and Hong Kong commercial films and Hollywood blockbusters came one after another, the directors of the same generation and younger generations continued to follow in the footsteps of Zhang Weiye in the early years, shooting various local theme films, and concentrating on international awards, so in the box office competition, they were defeated by Hollywood and Hong Kong films, and their competitiveness was not even comparable to that of video halls and DVDs. The major theaters are dying, and the movie theaters don't know how many have been demolished.

At the beginning of the new millennium, the fledgling Chinese film market is about to follow in the footsteps of Taiwanese films and Japanese films.

At this time, it was director Zhang Weiye, with a sense of responsibility for Chinese films, with the fearless spirit of daring to be the first in the world, regardless of personal reputation, he changed his course from scratch and filmed a "Fearless" with unparalleled significance in the history of Chinese films.

The film not only won the annual crown record in China, but was updated by his own other blockbuster after 4 years, and at a cost of 31 million US dollars, it topped the box office in North America, Japan and South Korea and other parts of the world, with a total of 177 million US dollars at the global box office, and also won the Oscar foreign language film nomination and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination, as well as the Berlin Film Festival's Special Innovation Award, and was named the world's best film of the year by many world authoritative media, including Time Magazine. Since then, it has opened the era of Chinese-language commercial blockbusters, truly saving the entire Chinese film, and has made great achievements and benefited to this day.

However, it is also the huge victory of "Fearless" at the box office and word-of-mouth that has made countless practitioners and self-proclaimed "well-known" Wenqing film critics "envious, jealous and hateful" of director Zhang Weiye's achievements, and they must want to get rid of it as soon as possible.

In the eyes of those literary and young film critics, Director Zhang no longer makes local literary films that reflect China's backward appearance, but instead makes commercial blockbusters that have achieved huge box office successes, which is "bent on making money and turning his back on artistic ideals";

Director Zhang's feelings for the family and country advocated in the film, and the reverence for the great man Qin Shi Huang who created a unified country and laid the foundation of our Chinese nation for thousands of years, were interpreted by those "well-known film critics" who were deeply dissatisfied with the system as "subservience to power and flattery to the system", which was specially approved by a large number of people.

There are also many people who chase fame and fortune, but they simply use criticizing and smearing Director Zhang, the most outstanding representative of Chinese films, as a means to show their vision and how clever they are.

In the early years, the Internet was not developed, the print media still had considerable influence, and the general public's understanding of movies was also lacking. These "film critics" who came to the Internet from the print media and like to pretend in the clouds and mountains also have the right to speak in the evaluation of movies to a considerable extent.

So in their so-called "film reviews", "Fearless" and "Ambush on All Sides", which are well received in the international film industry, have won numerous awards and nominations, and the overseas box office is much higher than the local box office, have actually become "bad movies" with a lot of colors, plot routines, and pale stories!

"Dauntless" : Time magazine named the best picture of the year, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Berlin Film Festival Main Competition Unit, Berlin Film Festival Technology Innovation Award;

In history, all Chinese films have only been nominated for a total of seven Oscars, of which Zhang Weiye alone has been nominated three times.

All Chinese films were nominated for a total of only 12 times at the Golden Globe Awards, of which Zhang Weiye was nominated five times.

These are extremely high achievements, but they have also been ridiculed by some keyboard "film critics" as "bent on winning the Oscar, it's simply beyond your means".

And behind these film critics, I don't know how many film industry peers who are blushing at Zhang Weiye's achievements and are bent on pulling him off the horse and replacing him.

It is said that in a special documentary filmed by Japan's NHK TV station explaining Chinese films, many pretentious Chinese film directors, when they meet for meetings, the topic they discuss every day is how to change new tricks and go to black Zhang Weiye.

Until 2008, when the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, 100,000 soldiers sacrificed their blood to save the common people and save the sky. Then there is the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games directed by Zhang Weiye, Huang Zhong Dalu, Huanghuang epic, 5,000 years of glorious and splendid civilization, spread out like a picture scroll, which not only shocked the world, but also inspired the spontaneous patriotic enthusiasm of countless netizens.

The voices of patriotic netizens gradually gained the upper hand, and after several years of fierce confrontation, it was only after 2012 that our generation of patriots finally gradually occupied the mainstream.

This public opinion war without gunpowder smoke can be said to be related to the fate of the country and the nation.

Director Zhang Weiye has not only changed from a pure filmmaker to a master who organizes ceremonies for the country and the people, but also sublimated into an artistic master who promotes Chinese culture to the world.

Zhang Weiye, winner of 3 top awards, 3 sub-top awards, 2 technical awards, 3 nominations for the Oscars, 5 nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, winner of the highest award in the UK and the highest award in Italian films, and Longgao commendation for domestic film awards.

Since the beginning of accurate box office statistical rankings, Zhang Weiye's films have won a total of 4 box office annual champions and 4 box office annual runners-up in the Chinese film market, with a total of 15 box office annual top ten. Both commercially and artistically, it has achieved heights that are difficult for others to achieve.

And since "Fearless", the costume films directed by Zhang Weiye have been the most representative of Chinese films in the world and the most capable of obtaining overseas box office.

Not only is "Daringless" a huge success in the global market, including his other films, the box office in other countries is also much higher than the domestic box office, and the box office of these costume blockbusters is all a big profit.

It can even be said that in the Chinese film industry since the 21st century, there are countless directors who have succeeded at the box office, but not even the directors who have completely mixed Hollywood, the Chinese film master who really dares to say that he is making films for fans all over the world is director Zhang Weiye.

Director Zhang's precise control of costs and return on investment is NO1 among domestic directors.

As an actor, Zhang Weiye starred in the movie "Inoue", and also won the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flowers Award, and the Tokyo Film Festival in one fell swoop.

As a filmmaker, he has won the Lifetime Achievement Award/Outstanding Contribution Award at three A-category film festivals, including the Cairo Film Festival, the Montreal Film Festival, and the Shanghai Film Festival; He has been elected President of the Venice Film Festival, one of the three major European film festivals, a jury member of the Berlin Film Festival, and the chairman of the two A-category film festivals of Saint-Sen and Tokyo. For his peers and juniors in the Chinese film industry, Zhang Weiye has always spared no effort to support and strive for the interests of all Chinese filmmakers.

Seeing that the world's second largest film market, which has made countless filmmakers make a lot of money, more people suddenly realize that Zhang Weiye's foresight and sagacity back then, his contributions have been praised by future generations.

In the era of the great development of the Internet and the popularization of smart phones, everyone can be self-media, everyone is a film critic, and hundreds of millions of "small-town youth" decide the jobs of filmmakers and the God of filmmakers; The era when a small number of literary and young "film critics" could determine the historical status of a film's style review is long gone.

For those literary and young film critics who thought they had the right to speak in film evaluation in the past, and who had always despised and despised and ignored the box office value, perhaps the most painful and lonely era was nothing more than this.

Now, this old man, who is nearly seventy years old and has already won awards and achieved fame, has long looked down on the success or failure of the box office, and he can calmly entrust the heavy responsibility of the Chinese film market to those outstanding juniors who have created billions of box office miracles.

Director Zhang has said many times that as long as the box office of each new work can recover its costs, it is worthy of investors.

Zhang Weiye is making films now, which is to race against time, just to complete his unfinished artistic ideals, and the careful carving of the artistry of the film is still striving to break through himself, seek innovation and change, and this autobiographical film "Mi Duo's Conjecture" is through the life of the male and female protagonists, and the recollection of the starting point of his film career.

Director Zhang previously revealed that after four years, the new "Ye Girl" was used again, but the media did not know who the new "Ye Girl" was.

This is also Director Zhang's second involvement in literary films after many years.

Jiang Miao also went to audition for the movie directed by Zhang Weiye, and also thought that like other "Ye girls", she was originally mediocre, but because she acted in Director Zhang's movie, she became a popular actor in one fell swoop.

The director she wants to cooperate with the most is Zhang Weiye, but she used to be a cabinet, and now she can act in Director Zhang's movies, she must act well.

However, this "Mi Duo's Conjecture" has now only announced the roles of the male protagonists Zhao Yi and Fan Cheng.

"Mi Duo's Conjecture" pinned on director Zhang Weiye's feelings and awe for movies and the film era.

The story of the film is inspired by the director's own early experiences.

The curtain fell, the lights came on, and the ten miles and eight towns gathered to go to the appointment of light and shadow.

In the 70s of the last century, movies were the "spiritual food" that people cherished very much, and watching a movie was a major event like the New Year, and it was a light that shone into people's poor lives.

The director expresses the memories of the film era deep in his mind more affectionately, constituting a realistic story focusing on the small people of the big era, which fully demonstrates the humanistic feelings.

It can be said that "Mi Duo's Conjecture" is a love letter to the movie, a grand confession to the movie, and a tribute to all those who love movies.

Jiang Miao has always felt that director Zhang Weiye is the best director in China, and she hopes that she can be fortunate to cooperate with director Zhang Weiye, and this time in the early stage of preparation for "Mi Duo's Conjecture", director Xu Wenhua recommended Jiang Miao to Director Zhang, and finally, after screening layer by layer, and finally between Jiang Miao and another actress, Director Zhang chose Jiang Miao.