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Chapter 322 The Godfather of the Fifth Generation Director (4000+ chapters, please subscribe~)

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

The film with the largest investment in China's history has more than a year of preparatory work, which is not to say that it is not rigorous.

Wu Jianye's version of the movie does not directly involve the story of little Puyi being summoned by Empress Dowager Cixi like Bertolucci did, but will show how Puyi sat on the throne of the emperor.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Cixi, played by Lu Yu, sits on the throne, with eunuchs and maids hanging beside her, and Li Lianying, Cixi's favorite eunuch, stands under her.

No one thought of the actor who played Li Lianying.

Wu Jianye actually found his old classmate Zhang Yimou to play the role. In fact, it was a coincidence that Li Lianying's role was originally played by an actor from Yan Film Studio, but the actor was accidentally bumped into when the filming started. Broken leg, can't come.

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

With this film, Zhang Yimou also began to emerge in the domestic film industry, and won the Best Photography Award at the [-]th Golden Rooster Award and the Photography Award at the [-]th Nantes Three Continents Film Festival in France.

Became Class 78, the second person to win the Golden Rooster Award after Zhao Fei. For a while, someone called Zhao Fei and Zhang Yimou the two major new generation photographers in China!
However, what really established the status of this film is Chen Kaige. With this film, he won a series of awards such as the Silver Leopard Award at the 38th Locarno International Film Festival and the Akira Kurosawa Award at the 21st Tokyo Film Festival.

Nowadays, the saying of China's fifth generation of directors has appeared. After winning many awards, Chen Kaige and Wu Jianye are called the leaders of the fifth generation of directors by the domestic media.

Zhang Zhidong, played by Liao Bingyan, stands opposite Cixi with his head bowed.

When the movie is playing, there will be a voice-over, introducing 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 movie, Guangxu heard that the Empress Dowager Cixi was in poor health, and then wrote the word "Killing Biao" by himself in Yingtai. There will also be a scene where Yuan Datou and Li Lianying conspire to get rid of Guangxu.

But these will be filmed later.

Now the entire crew will be shooting scenes in the Forbidden City first. Although the upper management has negotiated with the Forbidden City Museum about the use of this place, it is not for Wu Jianye to borrow it without limit. Naturally, the sooner the better.

Not only that, the Palace Museum will also send special personnel out to supervise the filming, in case the crew will damage some things during the filming.

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

But even so, the domineering look on Cixi's eyebrows was perfectly interpreted by Lu Yu.

Zhang Zhidong stood with his head bowed, and his respectful attitude was also evident. When Lao Mouzi was electrocuted for the first time, he seemed a little nervous and couldn't find his way for a while.

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

In fact, there is no need for Wu Jianye to talk about these things, Zhang Yimou himself knows it, but he knows it, and it is still difficult to perform in such a state.

After repeating this for a few shots, Zhang Yimou finally found the state, and the shooting was able to continue.

"Old Wu, these machines of yours are so beautiful that they are all newly imported. Have you never heard of any domestic studio adding new equipment?"

During the shooting interval, Zhang Yimou fiddled with the shooting equipment and said enviously.

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

"Damn it, you actually bought new equipment just to shoot a movie?" Zhang Yimou couldn't help being surprised and said, "All these equipment cost hundreds of thousands of dollars!"

Wu Jianye sat on the saddle and said with a smile: "Tangting Culture, there will be a few films to be shot next year, and we can't always borrow from the studio."

"You added these equipments, the studio should have borrowed them from you!" Zhang Yimou laughed.

"How about it? Are you interested in coming to our company for a part-time job, and then you can play with the equipment as you please." Wu Jianye tempted.

It would be great if Zhang Yimou could be fooled into Tangting culture.

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

Of course, at the time when Wu Jianye was reborn, whether it was Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, or Feng Pants, they all had their own struggles.

On the one hand, I wanted my reputation to match the box office at the time, and on the other hand, I wanted to pursue my own ideas. Therefore, in many cases, the movies I made were completely different, and I couldn’t impress the hearts of the main moviegoers at that time. Lost its own characteristics.

However, it cannot be denied that a director like Zhang Yimou will definitely have a brilliant stroke in the history of Chinese film after a hundred years.

Zhang Yimou smiled wryly and said, "Even if I signed it, it's useless. I'm going to Chang'an Film Studio to participate in "Old Well" directed by Wu Tianming after I finish my cameo."

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

"That's right. Director Wu likes to promote newcomers very much. It's a good thing for you to be able to do photography under him. Maybe Director Wu can transfer you to Xiying Studio. At that time, we will be colleagues!"

In 1983, Wu Tianming had already been appointed as the director of Xiying Film Factory. At that time, the provincial government of Shaanxi Province sent people to Xiying Film Factory to conduct public opinion evaluation. It was very good, and was finally appointed as the director of Xiying Film Studio.

When the appointment was made, Wu Tianming wasn't even in Xiying Studio, but was far away in Phoenix with the crew of "Life".The road kiln is also there.Wu Tianming asked Luyao, how can he be the director of the factory?Xiying Studio has 800 people, plus 7000 family members, what should we do?Lu Yao told him that he would not speak for a month after returning home, sleep in the morning, hold a meeting in the afternoon, let them report on their 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 about photography."

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

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

Our national teacher Lao Mouzi made his debut not only in photography, but also as the male number one, not only did it, but also succeeded.

The movie "Old Well" won Zhang Yimou the Best Actor in the No.11 Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films, the Best Actor in the Eighth Golden Rooster Awards, and the Best Actor in the Second Tokyo International Film Festival. Three movie kings stand by!

Later, in order to avoid the scandal between him and Gong Li, he went to Xiangjiang and co-produced a movie "The Love of Terracotta Warriors in Ancient and Modern Wars" with Gong Li!
Proper performance and excellent guidance
"Fuck, it's unreasonable!" Zhao Fei couldn't help but swear.

Zhang Yimou smiled triumphantly.

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

Zhang Yimou showed a trace of embarrassment on the face of the man from northern Shaanxi, and complained: "It's not because of Chen Kaige. At that time, we went to the Loess Plateau to choose a scene, but Chen Kaige told me that he had no money, and I had no money. The car broke down again, so we had no choice but to go to Director Wu for help. If you want to say that Director Wu was generous, he took 2000 yuan for both of us, arranged board and lodging, and coordinated in the factory. , adjusted a jeep for us, and then we chose a good scene.”

In fact, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige didn't know at the time that Wu Tianming, the director of the factory, had already started smacking young directors all over China at that time, and as graduates of Yanjing Film Academy, they had their own fame, so naturally The two of them have become their own pockets, which is nothing more than buying people's hearts in advance.

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

It has almost the same meaning as unsatisfactory, but it is not a derogatory term anyway.
It is also because of Wu Tianming's knowledge and good use of factory directors 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 very well, the director who will be called the godfather of the fifth generation of directors in later generations.

After Wu Tianming became the director of Xiying 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 is too old, and the management is too old-fashioned.So a meeting was held, and it was announced that all middle-level cadres would be dismissed, and young people should be promoted first.

With this big move, Zou Renti was promoted to the director of the special effects workshop, and 35-year-old Bai Yuguo 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 settlement, negotiating agreements, daily management, script selection, production and production.These four people were called "Four Tiger Generals" by Xiying Studio people.Cypress Hugo was one of them.

However, it was Wu Tianming's drastic reforms that moved many people's cakes, so since he became the director of Xiying Studio, he has been reported by many people.
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 cannot be separated from Wu Tianming's help.

As for
As the spiritual mentor of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others, Wu Tianming also criticized the two people's later movies many times.

After Zhang Yimou started the era of Chinese blockbusters, he didn’t dare to show Wu Tianming his movies. Later, when he filmed "Return", he once said that it was like letting Brother Angus watch this movie. It’s a pity that Wu Tianming I didn't see it in the end
"Yes, I heard that many old people in the factory are dissatisfied with Director Wu's actions." As a member of Xiying Studio, Zhao Fei naturally knew about the infighting in Xiying Studio.

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

"By the way, Old Wu, director Wu Tianming respects you all the time, and keeps talking about having a chance to cooperate with you!" Zhang Yimou said.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "There is a chance!"

It's not that Wu Jianye deliberately made a decision. If possible, he really wanted to meet director Wu Tianming. However, he has a full schedule of work in the past two years. First of all, it must be the filming of "The Last Emperor". The estimated shooting time of the film will be as long as eight months.

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

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

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

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

Then, when little Puyi ascended the throne, the more than 2000 extras were not all bald.

Wu Jianye almost recruited all the 'Tony's in Forty-Nine City to shave the heads of more than 2000 extras, making the entire Forbidden City look like a monk's temple.

There are also lamas, because lamas are forbidden to be touched by women, so the crew specially hired male clothing assistants for them to help them get dressed.

But these are small problems, and everyone gradually overcome them during the shooting process.

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

Seeing 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 1 cents per day. When the crew has the most people, it can reach 2 people. This is not counting the scene where Puyi is expelled. After that scene, the extras of the crew can reach [-]. People!" Wu Jianye said.

"That is to say, [-] yuan per day for food alone?" The big leader clicked his tongue.

He was not surprised by the simple number of [-], but because of the cost of this scene, which surprised him.

If calculated according to this amount, the food expenses of the crew alone would be enough for a domestic studio to shoot a movie!
"We 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 crew's calculations, the money spent on extras alone in this drama will be close to 70!
When the big leader left at the end, he patted Wu Jianye on the shoulder and said, "Shoot well, let those foreigners also see the level of our domestic movies!"

"Thank you for your support!"

After the big leader left, Wu Jianye started to scratch his head, not because the leader paid attention to it, but because the crew was about to bring in a special actor.

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