Thoughts on Reading Zhang Yimou's Homework

Zhang Yimou, a famous director, has a simple and low-key personal impression and is good at grand narrative scenes. His movie pictures are very beautiful and his storytelling ability is average, so there are also many bad movies and all kinds of online spit.

It is understandable that photographers transform into directors.

You see, such an ordinary audience can also point at the great director according to various news from the media, and it seems that there is still a sense of superiority.

I read the book Zhang Yimou's Homework, because I was introduced by Fang Xi, the author of this book. Among them, I talked about several characteristics of Zhang Yimou: hard work, pragmatism as a tool, stable and excellent continuous performance, and indifference that never explained to the media.

When I became interested, I found this book and looked at it. It has more than 200 pages, but there is not much content. In fact, it is a collection of Zhang Yimou's photographic works, or a memoir of his photographic works. This book was dictated by Zhang Yimou and written by Fang Xi.

After reading the book, I have several thoughts: First, Zhang Yimou's diligence really confirms that sentence: people who are better than you work harder than you. Second, Zhang Yimou is really a very, very pragmatic person.

1 Zhang Yimou's diligence

Zhang Yimou only read the second grade of junior high school and left school under the tide of that era. 197 1 year, he was lucky enough to become a cotton mill worker from the educated youth who jumped the queue. The restless Zhang Yimou wants to learn photography. How does he learn?

Borrow books from my cousin and classmates, and copy them while reading. Even then, he couldn't understand many books, so he copied them first. In this way, I copied hundreds of thousands of words for three years.

I copied books for three years and bought a camera with the money I saved, trying to apply the theoretical knowledge I learned from books to practice. Because photographic paper is very expensive, every photo has to be pondered for a long time before it can be published. After two years in silence, I took some good photos.

Zhang Yimou said: "So I probably had this creative mentality a long time ago. Failure is common, and perfection is hard to get. If you always fail, you won't be afraid of failure. " -thin-skinned officers are easy to get down, thick ones are practiced, and it is not easy to know. If you study hard, you can only say, "Look at the next one, and the next one may be better."

Including after college, every time I went to the movies, Zhang Yimou took a stack of medical information cards given by her mother and a pen, recording the composition, light and so on while watching movies. Watch a movie and write down dozens of cards.

At that time, a student of the Film Academy had to watch more than 500 movies in the whole university. In this way, Zhang Yimou watched all the movies in this stupid way.

This kind of diligence is not only in school, but also as a film director in the future. Zhang Yimou is the most patient person at the scene.

In fact, judging from his experience, he is a talented person, but in the process of cooperating with the group, he put forward new ideas one second and completely overturned them the next. In this way, innovation is constantly denied, and the whole people are tired, and Zhang Yimou can continue to be vigorous.

Chen Danqing said that he was humorous at ordinary times and looked at lost face at work. When he talked about a scene in the shooting, he immediately entered the state of the studio, and his bold expression returned to his face. This is a competitive and daunting expression.

2. Zhang Yimou's pragmatism.

His pragmatism may stem from his growing experience. His background was not good at that time. His father and brother were both from Whampoa Military Academy, and his uncle went to Taiwan Province Province with the Kuomintang.

Therefore, when he works in a factory, he will organize study in case of power failure or special time. At first, he would tell party member, the league members and activists to stay, while others would leave. Zhang Yimou always walks alone. Later, it became a direct notice to Zhang Yimou to leave.

This special status made Zhang Yimou stay in this group with his tail between his legs.

After he went to college, his classmates and Beijing around him also gave him a great influence. He is ten years older than his classmates and feels old and rustic. His classmates are all descendants of the cultural circle, including Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige, and they all have great talk. Zhang Yimou felt that he had too much to catch up with.

So when he was assigned to the worst film studio in Guangxi at that time after graduation, others were filled with indignation. Zhang Yimou has no idea, because he is lucky enough to go to college and be assigned after graduation.

Entering Guangxi Film Factory, they filmed their first film "One and Eight", which is the pioneering work of the fifth generation directors. Although the film was not censored at that time, it caused a great sensation in the literary and art circles at that time.

But in fact, they didn't choose this script at that time, but there was such a script in the factory, which the leaders liked very much, but no one took it. Several of their recent college graduates asked for this task.

"Doesn't mean you have the conditions and qualifications to pick things from the start. If you have a position, take it quickly, do it with your heart and show it to people. " Zhang Yimou said.

This pragmatic attitude also reflects his understanding of his own tools. He said that the so-called instrumentalization is to quickly make yourself a tool at any difficult beginning. It is necessary to know what the CD organizer really wants and how to become a useful role in this matter. For example, a designer should seriously realize the housing needs of the owners, instead of thinking about tearing down and rebuilding other people's houses every day.

As Fang Xi said, we always think that the word "tool" insults creativity as a human being. Even if you believe that Shakespeare said that man is "the foundation of heaven and earth, the soul of all things is long", you also believe that Qi Fei's free will and independent personality are the source of dignity. But when you do things, you will find that it is time and time again to deeply understand the needs of the environment, organizations and others, and creatively meet these needs, in order to gain the knowledge and ability of external forces again and again.

3. Zhang Yimou's non-explanation

Now the convenience of the internet gives everyone the opportunity to speak online and let others see your thoughts and opinions.

Now, the public seems to be familiar with the operation of star rating. After the emergence of star emergencies, it is often the time to test the public relations ability of stars and teams. Everyone will observe how the stars or teams respond.

For Zhang Yimou, every movie and every large-scale activity has a lot of bad comments. He never lacks channels and opportunities to express himself. But after repeated criticism and criticism, Zhang Yimou seems to have never come out to explain anything, which is very different from the entertainment stars we are familiar with now. He said: explanation may be the most instinctive reaction after people feel wronged. Everyone has grievances, but grievances, like luck, cannot be copied. I now see that many stars are seriously explaining in Weibo, and they are all fighting for it. These things are meaningful to themselves, but they are not necessarily positive. The public doesn't really care. "

He has more important things to do, move on and speak with his works. Instead of staying in place to explain, staying in place to explain, in his view, is rolling in the mud.

This is a very clear understanding. Indeed, as soon as you explain everything, you are trapped in a hard time wall and hit back and forth. You can't jump out of these events and move on. Your actions are very slow. At the same time, the words you responded to became the target of a new round of attacks.

After reading Zhang Yimou's Homework, I have an affinity for Zhang Yimou, because you find that the so-called genius is just more diligent and dedicated than you. After you have experienced more failures, it may be better to continue working silently and look forward to the next time.