Zhang Yimou's success tells you: How important is it to be a man with his tail between his legs?

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Zhang Yimou once said in his autobiography:

People must have dreams, but I often think, what is a dream? It shouldn't be an idea on the horizon, because it can't work and affect your behavior.

I always believe that dreams should be very specific, very WTO-oriented and very realistic. It will change at every different stage of our lives.

And Zhang Yimou's own dream has been changing with different time periods.

0 1 middle school, Zhang Yimou suddenly became a "marginal figure".

Zhang Yimou's father and two uncles are both graduates of Huangpu Military Academy. He was a good student when he was in primary school. In front of the squadron leader, he is carefree every day, and family factors have not affected him.

After junior high school, suddenly one day, the sky changed. Naughty students dominate the world. Due to his poor background, he became a marginal figure.

In a few days, Zhang Yimou became the object of "being bullied", completely losing his former vigor, living in fear all day and learning to be a man with his tail between his legs.

In order to change his marginalized situation, he began to practice calligraphy and painting desperately, just to become one of them.

Zhang Yimou began to learn painting without any formal training, but he was very good at writing posters, columns and portraits of the chairman, and was soon "requisitioned" and became a person who served the organization specially.

Many years later, recalling this period of time, Zhang Yimou said, "Now think about it, why did you learn so fast at that time? In fact, it is because of fear that I practice day and night and make me progress so fast. "

A junior high school student, who should enjoy life well, is struggling to survive in the torrent of the times, which is embarrassing.

Later, Zhang Yimou became the person who wrote posters and painted portraits of the chairman in the organization. With this skill, he found the feeling of being needed and recognized, and gradually found the skills to survive in the cracks.

This skill has been supporting him to go on and later became his ability to eat.

In the factory, you are still a man with your tail between your legs.

After graduating from junior high school, he jumped the queue in the countryside of Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province, bringing his own tools, paints and pigments. In his first few days there, he used all his spare time to draw a huge portrait of the chairman on all the wooden doors in the village, which was later praised by the villagers.

When he did this job, he didn't ask anyone's permission, he just followed his instincts. Doing so can show his loyalty and express his loyalty.

Zhang Yimou said: "My dream at that time was to be a useful' tool' and get everyone's recognition."

In Zhang Yimou's own words, once a person becomes a tool, it shows that he has the value of being used and can survive in the cracks.

This truth accompanied Zhang Yimou for most of his life, and made him stumble through most of his life.

When Zhang Yimou jumped the queue, there were two happy events, one was recognized by the villagers, and the other was accompanied by his ex-wife Xiao Hua.

Although years later, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li cut in line and said that his marriage with Xiao Hua was a mistake.

This statement is biased. In the darkest moment of his life, few Xiaohua stayed with him.

Later, Zhang Yimou was able to leave the place where he jumped the queue, for one thing, because of the policy, and for another, because of his stylistic expertise.

It was almost impossible for the Zhang Yimou family to enter the factory from the countryside.

But he can draw, write posters and brush slogans on the wall. His giant portrait of the chairman is even more famous.

With this specialty, he crossed the threshold of birth and was recruited into the factory.

197 1 year, Zhang Yimou changed from an educated youth who jumped the queue to a worker in No.8 National Cotton Factory, and finally got a paid job.

When I first entered the factory, it was 36 yuan a month. At that time, it was definitely a job that everyone envied.

Although family and friends are very happy for him, life in the factory is not so good.

At that time, there were frequent power outages in the factory, and the cadres would say, "party member and the activists who asked to join the league stayed, and we had a meeting, and the others could go."

Zhang Yimou has never joined the League because of his birth. There are 600 people in the whole workshop. He is not eligible to apply except for those who join the League and those who are ready to join it.

Everyone looked at each other, only Zhang Yimou is not a league member, and he is not qualified to apply for membership.

Under the eyes of the public, Zhang Yimou, like an abandoned lone goose, walked through the layers of people alone with a lunch box to the exit of the workshop.

From school to work, he has always been a marginal figure and has never been taken seriously. This feeling is very bad.

When he first entered the factory, as a marginal figure, he was still a man with his tail between his legs, very quiet and humble, and won the favor of many people.

Fortunately, in the No.8 National Cotton Factory, Zhang Yimou met a large number of people who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and the affiliated middle school in the 1960s. Although it seems that their academic qualifications are not high, everyone is professional and dedicated, and anyone can be a teacher in Zhang Yimou.

After entering here, Zhang Yimou began to study oil painting, Chinese painting and gouache. With them, I gradually found a little feeling of painting, and his level is also improving.

Zhang Yimou used to paint as a "tool" for institutions, but now he seems to realize something about aesthetics and start to pay attention to the basic knowledge of fine arts.

Those preparations for soaring.

Zhang Yimou's eight years in Guomian No.8 Factory can be divided into two parts: he studied fine arts in the first four years and photography in the last four years.

1972, Zhang Yimou's cousin Ning Long bought a Huashan camera. He likes taking pictures very much. He often takes Zhang Yimou out for sightseeing and sometimes asks Zhang Yimou to take pictures of him. After a long time, Zhang Yimou discovered some new pleasures.

1973, Zhang Yimou began to save money to buy a camera.

In order to buy a camera, he scrimped and saved and sold blood. It took him more than a year to scrape together 60 cents from 186 yuan to buy a Seagull 4 dual-lens reflex camera.

This incident was a great sensation in the No.8 National Cotton Factory. At that time, everyone had food and clothing problems, and no one would spend so much money on cameras.

People's happiness and passion will be delayed, the harder it is to get, the more cherished it is, and the more cautious it is.

For Zhang Yimou, buying a camera means learning photography. Since then, besides going to work, he has been wandering around the Weihe River to see if there is anything that can enter the country.

During the period of saving money, Zhang Yimou has started reading all kinds of books and teaching materials, and devoted himself to studying photography techniques.

At that time, all books were borrowed, either by themselves or by friends. His ex-wife Xiao Hua also borrowed books from him through his cousin in Beijing.

It is natural to return the borrowed things, so Zhang Yimou began to copy books, copying all the borrowed books related to photography for three years.

Today, he still has many manuscripts copied in those years, with neat handwriting and clean pages, and the awe of a young man is among them.

Therefore, I think those who say that Zhang Yimou started with women are biased. At least before the opportunity came, he had made efforts that ordinary people could not insist on.

Because he studied fine arts before, Zhang Yimou knew the basic composition, so photography made rapid progress.

The photos he took are mature in composition, light and lines. My cousin Ning Long said that they look much better than his photos.

After buying a camera, you need to have film. At that time, film was also a rarity, belonging to pure consumables. Making a film of 10 may waste 9, which is completely a toy of the rich.

In order to make the best use of film and not waste it, Zhang Yimou practiced the unique skill of "accurate composition".

At that time when everyone was photographing the working people, Zhang Yimou had already begun to photograph the scenery.

Old farmers and scalpers, flower-picking girls and sports workers have all become his sources of materials.

Gradually, the photos taken by Zhang Yimou were praised by many people, and he became a celebrity in the factory.

The habit of practicing composition in photography can be clearly seen in his first films "One and Eight" and "Yellow Land".

Use photo album as a stepping stone to recruit Nortel.

More than 800 people entered the factory in the same period as Zhang Yimou. Among them, four boys with problems were rated as "four outstanding men in China".

Besides Zhang Yimou, there are Xie Ergang who is good at singing and playing badminton, Ji Anqing who can draw oil paintings, and Liu who is good at playing basketball.

Later, the other three became the protagonists in Zhang Yimou's shots, appearing frequently and leaving a lot of photos.

1977 10, the college entrance examination resumed the cultural examination, and everyone was equal. After the news spread, Zhang Yimou didn't care at all. Because he knows his family background, it is almost impossible for him to pass the political examination.

It was not until 1978 that Zhang Yimou realized that "people from poor families" could also go to college, and his heart stirred.

However, Zhang Yimou still has no confidence, because he is only in the second grade of junior high school. He knows sports but is not dominant, and his art is good but not good, so he has to make up his mind to go to Agricultural University.

At that time, a painter friend around Zhang Yimou suggested that he said, "I was admitted to the photography department of Nortel before, but I couldn't go because of the changing situation. Your photography is so good, why don't you take the photography department? "

A word from a friend touched Zhang Yimou's heart.

Later, after a study, he was over age and failed in the cultural examination, so he had to find a relationship to see if he could "play tricks."

In order to get into the photography department of Nortel, he held a meeting with his family to find out the relationship around him and see if anyone could go directly to Beijing.

In order to let others see his talent, Zhang Yimou spent more than half a month carefully preparing an album full of his excellent works over the years.

The family provided two direct telephone lines to the Ministry of Culture:

One is Zhang Yimou's mother, an old classmate, who works as a doctor in Beijing and often meets big cadres. Maybe she can send the photo album to the Ministry of Culture.

In this way, the photo album and a short message were sent to Beijing in duplicate.

Subsequently, the album was given to China and then to the Minister of Culture.

Zhang Yimou's photographic talent left a deep impression on Minister Huang Zhen and gave special instructions to Nortel. Zhang Yimou finally got a chance to enter the photography department of Nortel.

In Nortel, continue to be a man with his tail between his legs.

In fact, after the album was released, the whole family had no confidence in its success, and they were completely waiting for fate.

Facts have proved that Zhang Yimou's eight-year accumulation finally paid off at this moment.

After seeing his photo album, Minister Huang Zhen praised his talent and insight and recruited him to Nortel.

After entering Nortel, Zhang Yimou has been living in a state of tension and inferiority, and always feels that he is a dwarf.

Students in Beijing are active in thinking, well-informed and eloquent. And he just takes a few photos.

In order to narrow this gap, he studied the basic knowledge day and night, and by the way, he made up his film knowledge.

During his years in Nortel, he caught up and watched movies from all over the world, trying to get closer to his classmates.

But not long after he entered school, he posted on the poster column and criticized him for "going through the back door."

At first, the poster was aimed at He Qun. He Qun's father is a painter and sculptor with some background.

It is widely rumored in the school that he was admitted by connections, not by himself. As a result, some disgruntled students began to put up posters.

Soon after, the war burned to Zhang Yimou, and he became one of the posters.

Zhang Yimou described: "I have no face and can't lift my head at all. After the poster was posted, they became people with their tails between their legs. Fortunately, they were used to it before. I have been living in fear and feel that the school will definitely deal with us. "

During that time, Zhang Yimou was always a man with his tail between his legs, and he was always careful for fear of being caught.

Zhang Yimou thinks it's right. Soon after, the academic affairs office of the school talked to him and said that he might not be able to finish four years of college to prepare for him.

After returning from the Academic Affairs Office, Zhang Yimou has been living in anxiety, feeling like an axe hanging from his head, which will fall at any time.

Fortunately, before the summer vacation of 1980, he received a notice from the school saying, "You can finish college for four years."

After that, Zhang Yimou's personality became more cheerful, and he really began to enjoy school life.

After learning from Nortel, Zhang Yimou lived in fear all the way, lived a life of being a man with his tail between his legs, and finally ushered in a glorious period of his career.

Years later, he met Gong Li and told Xiao Hua that he wanted to escape from his present life and change his lifestyle.

I think what he wants to escape is not only his marriage with Xiao Hua, but also the environment in which he once suppressed his life. The escape from mind to body has been completed.

As Zhang Yimou said, ideals are hierarchical. If you can't reach the highest level, start from the lowest level and go wherever you can.

When Zhang Yimou was young, the ideal he wanted to achieve most was to be accepted and recognized;

What Zhang Yimou wants to achieve after his success is spiritual satisfaction.

So, young people, don't say that life is not just the present, but also poetry and distance.

Poetry and distance can only be obtained after meeting the immediate difficulties, otherwise it is nonsense!

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Author: Ye Gongzi

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