Light and shadow player

Don't look at Zhang Yimou's age, but he is a director who is willing to keep trying new things.

He rarely repeats himself in movies, but he also has his own obsessions.

In other words, directors of his generation more or less have such a problem-he attaches great importance to international awards.

Otherwise, he would not have flown to the Golden Globe Awards in person with "Thirteen Panties of Jinling" to show his importance to the award.

After so many years of rushing towards Austria, he failed to achieve his wish, which has always been a small knot in his heart.

That's why he promised Cheng Yu'an to make another foreign language film.

At the beginning of the year, Cheng Yu'an personally selected the script for Zhang Yimou from the Hollywood blacklist, and formed a crew for Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou's untitled new film disclosed in the semi-annual report of Long-distance Film and Television was about this one.

“I’ve made all the arrangements. I’ll start competing for awards at the end of August next year. I’ll go to Venice first, then Toronto, then San Sebastian, and then back to North America. I’ll go through all kinds of association awards and Golden Globe awards. Come on, we have made it to every stop, let the judges see our sincerity, and I am confident that "Three Billboards" will be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture," Cheng Yu'an smiled again, "As for whether we can win the award or not , I can't say, it depends on the opponent next year."

Zhang Yimou said with a smile: "In the past two years, I feel that I am in good health and can hold on."

"Isn't it?" Cheng Yu'an joked, "After I finished filming a film, let alone rest for a year or more, who is like you? I can't survive you when I prepare for "Shadow" after the filming of "The Great Wall"."

Zhang Yimou's energy is really strong, and ordinary young people can't survive him.

Cheng Yu'an asked, "Should "Shadow" be launched at the beginning of the new year?"

"Yes." Zhang Yimou nodded, "It will start up in mid-March."

"That girl Zuer is making a lot of trouble. Take good care of her for me in the crew." Long-distance hardly interferes with Zhang Yimou's casting. He can use whoever he wants, but Zhang Yimou will also take the initiative to use some long-range artists, In the corner of Princess Qingping, she took the initiative to find Song Zuer.

Song Zuer received the news a few days ago and jumped three feet high, but then the company agent told her that her roles were mainly concentrated on holidays.

Song Zu suddenly became wilted. He thought he could go out to play without going to class, but he didn't expect to stay in school.

Back at the scene of "The Great Wall", the film was still the same film, and the problem was still the same problem. Cheng Yu'an knew that the film was hopeless halfway through the performance, and he didn't know how to end it halfway through the performance.

But the theme song "A Bridge of Fate" is very nice.

Although judging from the reaction at the premiere scene, the applause and cheers of the audience are still very enthusiastic, but Cheng Yu'an can already imagine how the audience will spray Jing Tian and three words after the film is officially released.

You want to ask Zhang Yimou himself if he knows?
He must know, but he has no choice but to bite the bullet and do it.

After attending the premiere of "The Great Wall", Cheng Yu'an returned home.

The daughter was so happy at her mother-in-law's place that she didn't go home for several days. Cheng Yu'an had to turn a corner to see her every day, trying to trick her into going home with her father, but he didn't know what ecstasy soup the mother-in-law gave her daughter. Grandma refused to come back.

Cheng Yu'an saw that there was nothing wrong with it, she was happy and relaxed, and really threw her daughter to the mother-in-law.

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This year’s Lunar New Year’s file is Xin Yukun’s "The Invisible Guest". Cheng Yuan had made a lot of determination to hand over this movie to Xin Yukun. He kept the script for himself after filming "The Wandering Earth". to do.

As a result, when discussing the movie, Xin Yukun begged for nothing and insisted on making it, feeling like "If you don't give me the script, I'll eat and drink at your house and never leave".

Cheng Yu'an was so annoyed by him that he threw the script in his face and told him to fuck off.

But during the preparation, Xin Yukun put on a face and asked him to help with Gong Li.

Cheng Yu'an had to talk to Gong Li for him like a babysitter. Gong Li ate him to death and said, "If you want to make this film, I will act in it."

Cheng Yu'an was close to giving Gong Li a knock at that time, and promised: "I will definitely find you in the next play, let's act this first."

"You don't come here." Gong Li refused to accept his tricks, "How many actors have you deceived with this kind of nonsense?"

In the end, Cheng Yu'an wrote an IOU to Gong Li, saying that he would find her to make a heroine movie within five years, and signed his fingerprints. Gong Li then agreed to star in "The Invisible Guest".

Gong Li's husband role in the play is not much, so she doesn't need to hire a big guy, so she asked Teacher Han Tongsheng to help.

The male protagonist Duan Yihong and his mistress played by Wan Qian.

These are the four main characters in the whole movie.

But the structure and pace of this movie is fantastic!

This layer-by-layer reasoning story is very prone to bugs, and Xin Yukun and the screenwriter team spent a lot of effort to deconstruct the entire logic chain.

Xin Yukun has now grown into a signature of domestic crime suspense films.

"The Invisible Guest" has Gong Huang in charge, and before it was released, it was listed by netizens as the most anticipated movie No. 3 in the Lunar New Year file - the top two were "The Great Wall" by Zhang Yimou and "The Ferryman" produced by Wang Sunjing.

Now that the results are out, they are really extraordinary.

On the first day, the revenue was 1.22 million!
It earned 4.51 million yuan in four days in the first weekend, creating the highest box office record for a domestic crime movie in the first weekend.

It is also the best performance of films on the market, including imported films, since the opening of the Lunar New Year file in December.

According to the general calculation of X3 in the first week, the final predicted box office of "The Invisible Guest" was set at 11 billion to 12 billion by various platforms.

"The fact that the lawyer is pretending is not difficult to guess. But this is not the point. The point is the relationship between 'narrative' and 'truth'. In the absence of a chain of physical evidence, every narrative of the hero is actually self-consistent and true, but maybe neither is true either. That’s the point that’s really food for thought.”

Until "The Great Wall" was officially released, the December schedule was dominated by "The Invisible Guest". By 12 pm on the 15th, the total box office of "The Invisible Guest" had reached 6 million.

"The Great Wall" was released ahead of schedule an hour later, and scored 4864 million box office within five hours.

The five-hour score was the same as that of "The Invisible Guest". I have to say that Zhang Yimou's appeal is still strong.

16号正式上映，电影以近10万场的排片占当日总排片的44.2%，当天拿走70%的票房——1.2亿。

Counting the early screenings, the overall box office on the first day of the movie was as high as 1.68 million!
And also on this day, Liu Yifei came home!

Holding a poke, she said angrily, "This group of reporters is really annoying. They come up to interview me even though they know I'm experiencing life."

Liu Yifei originally wanted to experience life for at least a month, but now it has to end early after only three weeks.

Cheng Yu'an said, "Hurry up and wash up, I'll pick up my daughter."

"What about Seven Seven?"

"It's fun to play with her grandma. I think, if you don't come back again, she will forget that you are a mother."

Liu Yifei went to wash up by herself, and Cheng Yuan went out to pick up her daughter.