Why did Zhang Yimou call himself the master of candid camera when he was filming The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum?

Because Zhang Yimou likes this way of shooting, he feels very happy. Later, Zhang Yimou laughed and called himself a master of candid camera. Zhang Yimou is a very powerful director in film history. His power supply is very good. He has directed for decades and has quite rich experience.

At the previous film exhibition, Zhang Yimou talked with the audience about an old film "The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum" at 1992. Zhang Yimou said that the film "The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum" had been prepared for a long time, but felt that it was similar to the previous script and had no features, so he suddenly changed his mind before shooting, so it was better to make a documentary style, which made Liu Heng, who had already finished the original script of "Autumn Chrysanthemum", once collapse and the script was written in vain.

After deciding to make a documentary style, do it and start busy eating. The recording equipment is hidden in the street, and the photographer is responsible for taking pictures of these villagers every day, because he is shooting his favorite movies and doing his favorite things. At that time, he was very happy Zhang Yimou laughed and called himself the earliest "master photographer" on the stage. There were no paparazzi at that time.

Zhang Yimou also said, now is a society ruled by law, it is impossible to take large-scale candid photos on the street, because movies are commodities, and bringing people in casually is an infringement of people's portrait rights. Zhang Yimou revealed that even in those days, they were accused by a passer-by, an elder sister who was eating marshmallows in the street in The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum. Although the elder sister only has a close-up of 2 or 3 seconds in the film, she still pursued the lawsuit for several years. The elder sister said that the "sneak shot" caused great psychological harm to herself, because it was working time at that time, and the elder sister didn't know how to eat in the street.