What contribution did Wu make to China films?

Wu's glory in the 1980s is often remembered. During this period, he not only directed three works that won many awards at home and abroad, such as River Without Navigation, Life and Old Well, but also personally trained Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, the mainstay of the fifth generation of directors.

In the early 1990s, Wu spent five years in the United States. By the time he returned to China, his era had drifted away, and the commercialization mode of movies became more and more obvious.

In fact, when he was the director of Xi 'an Film Studio, he was also a business genius. He promoted young people, transformed the factory into an enterprise, and was responsible for its own profits and losses. Movies are also divided into three categories. The first category is to make money by shooting commercial films that the audience likes to watch, the second category is to shoot theme films that the government needs to recover costs, and the third category is to shoot some "money-losing goods like Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang" to win international awards.

Results After Wu took office for two years, the film copy circulation of Xiying Factory jumped from 1983 to the first in China, and its profit quadrupled in two years. He won many awards and trained a large number of filmmakers, who are famous even today.