Millennium director

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

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

The new Zhang Yimou Studio, co-founded by Light and Shadow Times and Zhang Yimou, was immediately launched.

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

The economic contracts of the artists brought by Zhang Yimou were also transferred to 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, which is at least closer than artists from other companies.

After all, this studio Light and Shadow Times also owns 20% of the shares. Even if Light and Shadow Times does nothing, 20% of the profits earned by the studio’s contracted artists will be shared with Light and Shadow Times.

Who is making this money for? Isn’t it a profit?

When their own company does not have suitable actors to choose from, when hiring external actors for projects in the Light and Shadow Era, they will definitely prefer Zhang Yimou Studio. This is also a good thing for Zhou Dongyu, Ni Ni and others.

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

After all, Zhang Yimou is not a professional artist management company. The studio he established is mainly for his personal services, and signing artists is just a incidental act.

Just like Mr. Star also opened a company and signed Star Girl into the company.

They do this just because they don't want these star girls and mou girls to make any profit after becoming famous through Zhang Yimou and Xingye's movies.

It's just that after these star girls and career girls signed contracts with the companies of these two directors, except for their first movie, which was the movie that made them famous, the company almost gave them no guidance on their subsequent acting career. Any planning.

Regardless of whether it was Huang Shengyi and Zhang Yuqi in the early years or Zhou Dongyu, Ni Ni, and Lin Yun later, after they signed with the companies of two great directors, they could hardly receive any scripts, and they had no plans for their acting career.

Therefore, these people's contracts with Zhang Yimou and Xingye either have to endure it until the contract expires and run away, or they simply file a lawsuit to tear up the contract during the contract period.

There is no way, the golden period of actresses is only a few years. If there is no ice in these companies, it is better than hiding for five to eight years. How many years will they have to become popular?

Anyway, whether it is Huang Shengyi, Zhang Yuqi, Zhou Dongyu, Ni Ni, Lin Yun and others, their acting careers only started to improve again after leaving the companies of these two directors.

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

Now that Zhang Yimou is cooperating with Light and Shadow Times to open a studio, Light and Shadow Times will also support Zhang Yimou's studio with outstanding agents and plan the future path for these young girls. This is definitely a good thing for Zhou Dongyu and others.

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

In this way, a week later, the cooperation between Light and Shadow Times and Zhang Yimou was completed resolutely.

"Return", which was produced in the middle of filming by Zhang Yimou, was also taken over by Light and Shadow Times to co-produce.

Maybe things really have turned out well.

Director Zhang's "Return" can be regarded as his best film in recent years. This film, which he and New Picture have gone their separate ways, will bring a lot of momentum to Zhang Yimou.

But the box office may be less. If Wu Yuan remembers correctly, the domestic box office seems to be less than 300 million yuan, which cannot be considered much in 2013.

But considering this is a literary film, the box office is very impressive.

But what Wu Yuan is really looking forward to is Zhang Yimou's later film "The Great Wall".

The movie "The Great Wall" is a bad movie, but I have to admit that the box office is really good, with 1.1 billion domestically, and it also paid a lot of royalties.

Wu Yuan didn't make this movie himself anyway, so it doesn't matter to him whether it gets a good reputation or not, but the money he makes is real.

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

Otherwise, take the lead and encourage Zhang Yimou to make "The Great Wall"?

To be honest, if this movie had not been interfered by Hollywood and had not had Hollywood's personal heroism forced in, and had it been made as a purely Chinese-language film, the reputation and box office of the finished film would have been as good as It will all be better.

It can be seen from the feature film that Zhang Yimou has indeed compromised a lot with Hollywood, or that he wants to try this Hollywood-style personal hero.

It's just that this style is a bit unaccustomed to China.

Chinese audiences cannot accept a foreigner who came to China from the Silk Road to steal black gunpowder and eventually became one of the heroes who saved China.

And the Chinese background that Hollywood has changed is so worth complaining about.

It seems that this background is based on the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Northern Song Dynasty background of guarding the Great Wall is really a bit ridiculous.

Moreover, the ministers and emperors in the story were too incompetent.

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

The story begins and ends from the perspective of two foreigners, who witnessed and participated in a monster-fighting story about the meaning of life that took place 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)