Millennium director

When Wu Yuan's hand was held by Zhang Yimou, a new page in Zhang Yimou's life came.

Soon, Zhang Yimou signed a cooperation agreement with Light and Shadow Times.

The new Zhang Yimou Studio, jointly established by Light and Shadow Times and Zhang Yimou, was immediately established.

In this new studio, Zhang Yimou holds 80% of the shares, and Light and Shadow Times holds 20%. The specific work and operation are completely handled by Zhang Yimou and the agent who cooperates with him.

The economic contracts of the artists brought by Zhang Yimou were also transferred to the hands of the new Zhang Yimou Studio.

These people cannot be regarded as artists under Light and Shadow Times, but they can have a cooperative relationship with Light and Shadow Times, at least they are closer than artists from other companies.

After all, Light and Shadow Times also has 20% of the shares of this studio. Even if Light and Shadow Times does nothing, 20% of the profits earned by the contracted artists of this studio will be distributed to Light and Shadow Times.

Whoever makes this money, it doesn't make money, right?

When there are no suitable actors to choose from in their own company, when Light and Shadow Times invites actors from outside for projects, they will definitely prefer Zhang Yimou Studio. This is also a good thing for Zhou Dongyu, Nini and others.

To be honest, although they are Mou girls, they did not develop well after signing with Zhang Yimou Studio.

After all, Zhang Yimou is not a professional artist agency. The studio he established is mainly for his personal service. Signing artists is just a side behavior.

Just like Stephen Chow also opened a company to sign Star Girls into the company.

They did this just because they didn't want these Star Girls and Mou Girls to become popular with Zhang Yimou and Stephen Chow's movies, but these two people didn't get any benefits.

It's just that after these Star Girls and Mou Girls signed with the companies of these two directors, except for their first movie, that is, the movie that promoted them, the company almost didn't give any plans for their subsequent acting career.

Whether it was Huang Shengyi and Zhang Yuqi in the early years or Zhou Dongyu, Nini, and Lin Yun later, after they signed with the two big directors' companies, they hardly received any scripts and had no plans for their acting careers.

So these people either waited until the contract expired and ran away quickly, or simply sued to tear up the contract during the contract period.

There is no way, the golden period of actresses is only a few years. If they are not hidden in these companies but are better than being hidden for five to eight years, how many years will they have to become popular?

Anyway, whether it is Huang Shengyi, Zhang Yuqi, Zhou Dongyu, Nini, Lin Yun and others, their acting careers only started to pick up again after they left the companies of the two directors.

It can be said that the companies of these two directors are really not suitable for normal actors.

Now Zhang Yimou and Light and Shadow Times have cooperated to open a studio. Light and Shadow Times will also support excellent agents for Zhang Yimou's studio and plan the future path for these Mou girls. For Zhou Dongyu and others, it is definitely a good thing.

They were probably secretly happy, hoping that Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping would part ways.

Just like that, a week later, the cooperation between Light and Shadow Times and Zhang Yimou was completed in a swift and vigorous manner.

"Coming Home", which Zhang Yimou had half-produced and filmed, was also taken over by Light and Shadow Times for co-production.

Perhaps it was really a good turn of events.

Director Zhang's "Coming Home" can be regarded as his best movie in recent years. This work in which he and New Picture parted ways will bring Zhang Yimou a lot of momentum.

It's just that the box office may be less. If Wu Yuan remembers correctly, it seems that the domestic box office is less than 300 million yuan, which is not much in 2013.

But considering that this is an art film, the box office is very impressive.

However, what Wu Yuan really looks forward to is Zhang Yimou's later "The Great Wall".

"The Great Wall" is a bad movie, but we have to admit that the box office is really good, 1.1 billion in China, and a lot of copyright fees were sold.

Anyway, Wu Yuan didn't make this movie himself, so it doesn't matter to him whether the word of mouth is good or not, but the money he made is real.

It's just a pity that this is a Sino-US co-production, and Legendary Pictures took the initiative to cooperate, so Light and Shadow Times should not be able to participate too much.

Otherwise, Legendary would have taken the lead and encouraged Zhang Yimou to make "The Great Wall"?

To be honest, if this movie had no interference from Hollywood and Hollywood's forced Hollywood personal heroism, and was made as a pure Chinese film, the word of mouth and box office of the film would have been better.

It can be seen from the feature film that Zhang Yimou did compromise a lot with Hollywood, or he wanted to try this kind of Hollywood-style personal heroism.

It's just that this style is not suitable for China.

Chinese audiences can't accept that a foreigner who came to China from the Silk Road to steal black gunpowder eventually became a hero who saved China, even if it was just one of them.

And the Chinese background after Hollywood's magic change is too worth complaining about.

It seems that this background is based on the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is a bit too absurd to guard the Great Wall in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the performance of the ministers and emperor in the story is too incompetent.

Although it is understandable that this is a standard Hollywood routine, except for the protagonist, other characters have no extra plots.

The story begins and ends from the perspective of two foreigners, who witness and participate in a story about the meaning of life and fighting monsters on the Great Wall.

This narrative technique seems to suit the tastes of both Chinese and foreign audiences. After all, most of Legendary Pictures’ previous “monster movies” did this.

But if it is really localized, Chinese audiences with "higher taste" will not be able to accept it.

Because Hollywood’s monster movies have foreign backgrounds, and Chinese audiences don’t know much about the historical development of foreign countries, they don’t care about those fictional settings. It’s said that distance brings beauty.

But once the background is moved to China and they see these magically modified Chinese dynasties and armies, Chinese audiences cannot accept it.

This is also the reason why so-called Sino-US co-productions with a Chinese background, such as "The Great Wall" and "The King of Kung Fu", usually have a bad reputation at home, but they perform well at the box office abroad and receive good reputation reviews.

It’s really distance that brings beauty, because foreigners don’t understand China, so they have no feeling for this kind of magical transformation. They only focus on fighting monsters while watching the movie, but they feel that fighting monsters is very exciting.

If "The Great Wall" is a monster-fighting blockbuster aimed at the domestic market and domestic movie fans, then the background of this movie should not be so magically modified. It must be as close to reality as possible, and then be magically adapted in the context of real history. Only then can the audience accept it.

Just like the "Painted Skin" series, its background is anchored in the Han Dynasty. From the soldiers' dressing to the overall artistic style, they are very consistent with the real historical situation of the Han Dynasty, so that the audience will not feel strange and will not feel strange. So many flaws.

If the era of light and shadow is allowed to start the movie plan of "The Great Wall" in advance and make a more localized "The Great Wall" movie, coupled with Zhang Yimou's strong cooperation, the finished film will definitely be more exciting than the one made by Zhang Yimou and Legend. !

In his heart, Wu Yuan secretly made up his mind.

This movie still needs to be made by Light and Shadow Times and Zhang Yimou, we can’t let the legend go to Huo Huo! (End of chapter)