In 1988, 38-year-old Zhang Yimou came to Mo Yan's hometown of Gaomi with 40,000 yuan in funds. He found local farmers, took out 40,000 yuan and said, "You can plant all these dozens of acres of land with sorghum this year. This 40,000 yuan is yours. I don’t want the sorghum when

In 1988, 38-year-old Zhang Yimou came to Mo Yan's hometown Gaomi with 40,000 yuan in funds. He found the local farmers, took out 40,000 yuan and said, "You will use these dozens of acres this year. The land is planted with sorghum, and the 40,000 yuan is yours. I won’t want the sorghum at that time, and it will be yours after filming.” The villagers were a little confused when they heard this, but they were still happy knowing that they would make money. The contract was signed and sorghum was planted, but when the crew led by Zhang Yimou came to the local area, they were shocked. In 1986, Zhang Yimou and Wu Tianming worked together to shoot the movie "Laojing ". After the film was released, it received a lot of attention. It was well received by the audience and won the 8th China Golden Rooster Award. Zhang Yimou, who was an assistant at the time, was valued by Wu Tianming and specially transferred him to Xi'an Film Studio to be the director. After Zhang Yimou became famous, , recommended a novel " Red Sorghum " to Wu Tianming. After reading it, the other party praised the drama and immediately decided to let Zhang Yimou host the filming

. It happened that Mo Yan was attending a local writer training class at this time, and Zhang Yimou found Mo Yan. Revealing his intention to film "Red Sorghum", Mo Yan looked at Zhang Yimou's skin that had darkened due to long-term exposure to the sun, and jokingly said: "When I look at you, you look like the captain of our production team. "Red Sorghum" gave me You’ll have no problem filming."

Because of his dark appearance, Zhang Yimou successfully qualified for the filming of "Red Sorghum" and spent 800 yuan to buy the copyright of the novel. After 1987, Zhang Yimou and Wu Tianming took 40,000 With a piece of start-up capital, he came to Mo Yan's hometown of Gaomi, Shandong Province, wanting to take a look at the long and dense red sorghum in Mo Yan's novels. However, after arriving in the field, he discovered that because the yield of red sorghum is too low, it has been used by farmers in recent years. It was eliminated, and now everyone is planting new sorghum. Although it is short, the yield is particularly high

Because he could not find a suitable shooting location, Zhang Yimou took out the 40,000 yuan he had in his pocket and said to the local farmers, you guys As long as you grow red sorghum, the money will be yours. After the filming, we don’t want the sorghum and will give it to you. Just like that, the farmers happily signed the contract and returned to the village to plant old varieties of sorghum

Soon after, "Red Sorghum" was officially launched. Zhang Yimou took the crew to the filming location again, but he was surprised to find that many farmers mixed red sorghum with new varieties in order to increase production. Looking at the sorghum fields It was so uneven that it was impossible to film. He had no choice but to ask the crew to buy fertilizer, and supervised the villagers to spread fertilizer. Finally, after more than a month of fertilization, the sorghum gradually grew to full height.

In June 1987, " "Red Sorghum" officially started filming, with Wu Tianming as the producer, Zhang Yimou as the director, Gu Changwei as the photographer, starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen who had just become famous. It was in this sorghum field that Gu Changwei passed through the rich The lens art shows the audience the classic scene of the male and female protagonists in the sorghum field.

After the release of "Red Sorghum", Gong Li was directly promoted from a grassroots artist to a first-class actress, which also started her eight-year relationship with Zhang Yimou. The love-hate entanglement

In 1988, the film samples of "Red Sorghum" were sent to Berlin, Germany for an exhibition, and won the Best Film Golden Bear Award in one fell swoop. This was the first time that China won the highest award at the world's three major international film festivals. At the same time, Jiang Wen's "Sister, Go Forward Boldly" and the episode "September 9", which Jiang Wen sang in the movie, also became the most popular songs in the mainland at that time.

"Red Sorghum" successfully premiered in Later, more than 200 copies were distributed across the country, and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region alone ordered 3 copies. Many Yinchuan people in the 1990s probably saw this movie, and in that era when one yuan was the cost of food for a day, With a ticket price of 8 cents, "Red Sorghum" sold a box office of 40 million

In October 2018, Xi'an Film Studio once again launched a high-definition 2K restored version of "Red Sorghum". When the red sorghum field returned, Once it appears on the screen, it is of great significance to the new and old film era in our country. In the past, films were about reality, but now the special effects of films are almost synthesized into all the backgrounds, but we can no longer produce works like "Red Sorghum"

What do you think of this matter?