Than those illusory awards and honors, because in this respect, a stubborn old man can tie all mainland directors together and rub them on the ground, and a mere Xiaogang Feng is not qualified to compete with him at all. Commercial society speaks directly with money, and Xiaogang Feng has always adhered to the line of king at the box office. Comparing this is not bullying.
Xiaogang Feng's film A * * * won six annual titles, three runner-ups and four third-runners, ranking among the top ten box offices with a total box office of/kloc-0.5 times, with a total box office of 4.863 billion in the mainland.
Zhang Yimou film * * * won five box office titles and four runner-ups, totaling 15 in the top ten, and the total box office in the mainland was 37 1 100 million.
Director Feng, don't get excited. It's just the mainland box office. As an internationally renowned director, overseas box office is also an important reference factor, and data comparison must be added together.
The global box office of films directed by Zhang Yimou has also reached 950 million US dollars, equivalent to RMB 6,765,438+billion, and the overseas box office is still higher than all mainland directors.
Xiaogang Feng's films have basically no overseas box office, and even Hong Kong and Taiwan have no market, so they are ignored.
Compared with art awards, we can only look at Zhang Yimou's taillights from a distance, and we are far away from overseas award-winning professionals such as Jia and Lou Ye.
Compared with the commercial value, Xiaogang Feng has already become second-rate in the mainland market. I'm not Pan Jinlian. In order to make a movie, I went on a hot search with Wang Sicong, and only made 400 million box office. However, the masterpiece Fanghua, which was hyped by the media, barely crossed the threshold of one billion, but it made Feng Dao bear the notoriety of "letting actresses make dancers", and his reputation was directly stinky by half.
Today, everyone's expectation for Xiaogang Feng is whether he can publish some gossip or expose some scandals. As for his film works, the attention is really extremely low. "Mobile Phone 2" rushed to the street before it was released, basically announcing the end of Feng Dao's market appeal.
However, in recent years, Zhang Yimou has been trapped by capital and made bad films frequently. Even the film "Shadow", which has a good box office reputation, has been criticized for its more form than content and unclear storytelling. However, as long as the elderly have works, they are still the object of competition for cinema managers. Tearing Master Wanda doesn't need old tricks, and it doesn't need to call the audience garbage in front of the camera. Movie master's title is enough to keep Zhang Yimou standing.
Therefore, the level gap between Xiaogang Feng and Zhang Yimou belongs to the level of all-round seconds kill without dead ends. Even if Zhang Yimou fell from the altar and died, Xiaogang Feng suddenly began to understand and the director's level soared, but it will take more than ten years to catch up with Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Yimou and Xiaogang Feng are not directors of the same level. Although in recent ten years, when it comes to mainland directors, Xiaogang Feng and Zhang Yimou have always been put together. But considering the achievements in the past 30 years, Zhang Yimou has surpassed Xiaogang Feng. Generally speaking, Zhang Yimou is better than Xiaogang Feng in artistic achievements, film and television status, and people's behavior!
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Xiaogang Feng also mentioned Zhang Yimou in an interview some time ago. He said that he claimed to make only 100 million movies, which made it easier to return to the original work. At the same time, he also ridiculed Zhang Yimou, saying that Zhang Yimou invested one billion dollars in the movie "The Great Wall" because the box office needed three billion dollars to recover its capital and lost a lot of money. In fact, from this passage, we can also see that the internal structure of Xiaogang Feng is not large. The purpose of his filming is not to benefit and contribute to the audience, but to make money! He is a businessman at heart.
Zhang Yimou is famous both at home and abroad. Zhang Yimou has produced many famous masterpieces at home and abroad, such as Red Sorghum, Chrysanthemum Bean, The Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum, Living, House of Flying Daggers, flowers of war and so on.
Zhang Yimou is good at planning large-scale events. In 2008, he began to focus on being the general director of large-scale event planning. The details of the major events he planned in recent years include the director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the director of the main promotional film of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the director of the cultural performances of the G20 Summit. Each item represents the honor of the country, and Zhang Yimou, as the general director, has accomplished these tasks well.
Xiaogang Feng's films also have their own characteristics, that is humor. Known for shooting commercial films, he also called his films "Feng-style humorous comedies". Known as "the first person in the New Year film", he has also made many comedies in recent years, which has also been well received by the audience.
In fact, it is with these New Year films that Xiaogang Feng gradually became famous. For example, Party A, Party B, Party D, world without thieves, Banquet, Tangshan Earthquake, Lao Liu and so on. However, the language of Xiaogang Feng's films is rough, and Xiaogang Feng is only famous at home, and its influence in the world is not as good as that of Zhang Yimou.
As mentioned earlier, Xiaogang Feng's film and television status is inferior to that of Zhang Yimou. Zhang Yimou is not only in a leading position in China, but also has won many awards internationally. For example, he won the Golden Bear Award at the first international film festival in China. Two jury awards at Cannes Film Festival; Three Oscar nominations for best foreign language film and so on. On the other hand, Xiaogang Feng is not well-known internationally, and his awards are generally domestic.
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As far as pop stars are concerned, Zhang Yimou is taller than Xiaogang Feng. Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Dairy Forest, Angel, Zhou Dongyu, Nini ... these female artists are all held by Zhang Yimou. I have to say that Zhang's eye for choosing actors is vicious and unique.
Xiaogang Feng's previous remarks angered countless audiences. He said, are there so many junk movies in China because there are so many junk audiences? As soon as he said this, he directly offended many people. Moreover, Xiaogang Feng once asked the heroine in Youth to accompany the wine, and this video was also circulated on the Internet. In an interview not long ago, Xiaogang Feng also alluded to Zhang Yimou. As soon as so many things came out, I left him for you to evaluate!
Zhang Yimou, on the other hand, is modest and prudent. When he makes a movie, he will never say where it is good. He will only say that the film is just so-so, and needs to continue to work hard.
As far as I know, Zhang Yimou, born on June 4th in Xi, Shaanxi Province, 1950 165438, is a famous internationally renowned film director in China and one of the representatives of the fifth generation directors in Chinese mainland. Zhang Yimou has also contributed many good movies to us, such as The Great Wall, Return, flowers of war, Love of Hawthorn Tree, Surprise of Three Guns, Golden Flower in the City and so on.
People who like the works directed by Zhang Yimou have a higher cultural level, because they really don't understand. At least I didn't understand what the movie was about when I first saw it! Compared with works, Zhang Yimou's works should be immortal, and the details in some works can almost become the model of film art. Zhang Yimou is a generation of director artists who speak with works.
Xiaogang Feng, born in Beijing from 65438 to 0958, is a director, screenwriter and actor in China, and one of the directors with box office appeal in Chinese mainland. His works are mainly Beijing-style comedies, and he is good at commercial films such as Big Shot, world without thieves, A, B and D, I am not Pan Jinlian, Lao Liu and Fang Hua. His box office is also one of the best in China.
Xiaogang Feng is essentially a businessman, which can be seen from the types of films he makes, most of which are commercial films. Besides, Xiaogang Feng is a famous Mr. Liu. If he disagrees with other people's views, he will make public comments on netizens. His personality is straightforward and he often calls names, so there are often messy news, so Xiaogang Feng is quite famous in recent years. Director Xiaogang Feng's works are ok, at least you can smile. For example, in these movies, if both parties laugh, it's nothing. As for the connotation, it seems that I really don't know. In fact, whether a movie is good or not depends on everyone's appreciation level. So these two directors have their own advantages.
Zhang Yimou used cultural exaggeration to cover up cultural inferiority;
Xiaogang Feng exposed the mainstream by poking fun at humor.
Both of them are excellent directors in China today, and many of their works are remarkable, but through their works, we can also find the obvious problems.
Zhang Yimou is good at stimulating the audience's senses through grand scenes, gorgeous colors, beautiful dances and exaggerated music, so as to achieve shocking results. However, despite the amazing effect, his works are invariably characterized by depression, femininity and even a little coldness. This is not a perfect presentation of China culture, but a little distorted, lacking masculinity and righteousness, and seems to have some deep inferiority.
Xiaogang Feng's works are full of loquacity and ridicule, but people understand a lot of life truths with knowing smiles, and the plot is also ups and downs, which is amazing. In a word, Feng Dao's works are humorous and wise, and belong to relatively good-looking comedies. However, in contrast, Feng Dao's works are mostly marginalized, which explain the life and mentality of a group of people who seem to be divorced from the mainstream in reality and cannot reflect the development of social subjects.
Therefore, although both Zhang and Feng are excellent directors, they may not have the correct social orientation. We expect thoughtful directors to face up to the development reality of the main society, correctly understand the cultural connotation of China, correctly present it to the audience in film and television works, give birth to real cultural self-confidence, and correctly look at various problems in social development, so as to have a correct outlook on life and world on their own life path.
Taking Zhang Yimou as a maverick and not interacting with the Beijing circle shows his persistent self-confidence. Xiaogang Feng knelt down and begged to be integrated into the Beijing circle, flattering the Beijing circle, showing inferiority and flattery. The so-called works, most of Zhang Yimou's works have a temperament and implied public responsibility, which is also the reason why his works are basically recognized by the West. Xiaogang Feng's works, except following the trend of several national teachers, are mostly grounded, but they talk to themselves and seem to be close to the public. In fact, they are fragmented (not cut) and have little social responsibility. This is why his works are liked by the public, but generally lack the recognition of mainstream elites. This is also the reason why he desperately begged to enter the Beijing circle, but it also led to the grounding gas and bad reviews of Xiaogang Feng's works.
Many awards for Zhang Yimou's film and television works are positive, but few of them sell well, which is also related to the reason why China's film and television works can't go abroad. Most of China's film and television works talk to themselves and only express themselves, but not their relationship with the outside world, which is also the character of most people in China. This intangible core theme is strongly expressed and highlighted by western culture (film and television works). Zhang Yimou's works have these characteristics, but they are not thorough enough, so the evaluation of his works is complicated, neither eastern nor western. Xiaogang Feng may not be aware of this, or it may be unwilling to do so. This will be enough to be well integrated into the China market.
Zhang Yimou doesn't flaunt himself, but he can express himself, but he is ambiguous. Xiaogang Feng flaunts himself, but he can't express it. Chen Kaige flaunts himself and wants to show himself, but his ability is not good. His works are always short of breath. Jiang Wen doesn't care, look confused. He flaunts himself but doesn't know what to mark! ! !
If directing the 2008 Olympic Games is not enough to show Zhang Yimou's strength, then directing the 70th anniversary party will always show Zhang Yimou's strength. Friends who have watched the program should be moved by the frame-by-frame pictures.
On the other hand, Xiaogang Feng, a director from a business background, directed the first film "Party A and Party B". The style of this film almost runs through Xiaogang Feng's directing career, and we can always see the shadow of this film in many films in Xiaogang Feng. Although Xiaogang Feng also tried to make literary films, I personally feel that his literary films have never reached the depth that literature should have. More often, Xiaogang Feng is consuming people's feelings about the times, such as the movie Youth.
Obviously, Zhang Yimou and Xiaogang Feng are not directors at the same level. Zhang Yimou has long been an internationally renowned director, while Xiaogang Feng is only a semi-famous director in China at best. Why is he semi-famous because he is going downhill? Since the tit-for-tat with Cui Yongyuan, it has gradually faded out of public view, and the release of "Mobile Phone 2" directed by him has also become a mystery. If this situation continues, Xiaogang Feng may not even be a semi-famous director.
When Alita: Fighting Angel was released, Cameron, as a producer, invited Zhang Yimou when he came to China to promote it, showing Zhang Yimou's position in the world. However, it seems that Xiaogang Feng is rarely invited by internationally renowned directors, not very rarely, but almost never. On the contrary, he often compares his works with Hollywood movies, for example, when he is questioned by everyone that there are too many advertisements in his movies.
From any angle, Xiaogang Feng is inferior to Zhang Yimou. Zhang Yimou made many in-depth literary films in his early years, which laid the foundation for the development of his films in China and even the world. Even though Zhang Yimou's achievements in making commercial films are not as good as before, technically speaking, Zhang Yimou's director level is still worthy of recognition. Personally, I think Zhang Yimou's director level is definitely excellent, but he is not suitable for co-production of commercial films. Xiaogang Feng is more suitable for making commercial films, and he also knows how to map hype. So bad movies like personal tailor can also get a pretty good box office, and none of his films have much depth.
In short, in my opinion, Zhang Yimou has long been a master director. The 2008 Olympic Games and the 70th birthday of the motherland have proved his strength, and Xiaogang Feng is just a buffoon in China film industry. Now that everyone has seen his true colors, he can't even jump if he wants to.
The above are purely personal opinions and are for reference only.
Zhang has Red Sorghum and Feng has Party A and Party B..
Zhang has a red lantern hanging high, Fengyou 1942.
Zhang has a bad film "Three Guns Surprise", and Feng certainly has a bad film.
As for the military parade and National Day in 2008, it is only a matter of timing. If you give it, you can still get it out, which is no worse than Zhang.
They are all excellent. They are all great.
If I were the decision-maker, I would give a director an opening ceremony and a closing ceremony in China. In short, to all reliable directors, let our directors be more creative and patriotic.
Zhang Yimou has a higher gold content in the hearts of netizens. Professionally, Zhang Yimou was born with a serious training background, while Xiaogang Feng was led by Wang Shuo. Even if he succeeds now, he still can't belong to the camp of the fifth generation director.
Speaking of temperament and personality, although our understanding of the two people comes from the lens and pen of the media, it's no harm not to compare them. Zhang Yimou has no other black history except sentient beings, and it is rarely reported.
Zhang Yimou played an important role in these grand scenes. Since Zhang Yimou became famous in the 2008 Olympic Games, its position has been consolidated, and Zhang Yimou must be present at large-scale activities. This year's National Day celebration, Zhang Yimou directed the National Day Gala, which vividly demonstrated the China Revolution and the construction and development of China. Judging from his layout, it is not only meticulous and compact, but also extremely wonderful. Judging from his masterpiece "100,000 Military Parade", it is also a good demonstration of national strength. The PLA phalanx is impeccable, and its weapons and equipment are excellent performances. Flying from the sky to the ground is a display of Zhang Yimou's talents. Zhang Yimou also directed a mass get-together on the evening of 10/day. The whole party was well designed and it felt like one go. It can be seen that Zhang Yimou's ingenuity is by no means an empty name, but a model that can be taken up and put down. Compared with Zhang Yimou, Xiaogang Feng is no match at all. Although both of them are fame-seeking people, they are both ambitious directors and people who can make decisions. Xiaogang Feng is much worse than Zhang Yimou, not only in terms of their films, but also in terms of their grandeur. They can't be compared. Zhang Yimou's feelings are much deeper than Xiaogang Feng's. ...
Say it bluntly:
Zhang Yimou's works are state banquets.
Xiaogang Feng's works are family dinners.
More generally speaking, in the 1990s, every household in rural areas still ate corn flour steamed bread. At that time, the population of each household was quite large. Adults work in the fields during the day, some in brick factories, cement factories, and some in the village firecrackers factory. Give orders to the children at home before starting work in the morning. The big one will take the small one, and the small one will sometimes take the small one. At noon, adults will go home and cook. In such an era of material poverty and relatively low living standards, people eat coarse grains all day, and their lives are not colorful, talking and laughing. I am very happy to have a white steamed bread once in a while during the holiday. I couldn't be happier. For ordinary people, coarse grains can be full, which is a necessity at home, and white flour steamed bread can also be full, but this is a luxury. Necessities are always there, but luxuries are not. This is life and reality. Movies are also ordinary, popular and elegant.
It is inappropriate to describe Xiaogang Feng and Zhang Yimou with corn steamed bread and white flour steamed bread, but it is very suitable for me. The following table compares two people at a glance:
These two people are already the flag figures in China film market, and they are unique and irreplaceable in terms of box office and influence. Watching the movie directed by Lao Mouzi is nothing more than the beauty of the picture, which is enough to shock you. After a long time, it will raise your eyes to appreciate beauty and give you some inspiration and thinking while enjoying it. This is Zhang Yimou's consistent style. Every frame of his picture is art, and movies are more suitable for telling stories in the times. Xiaogang Feng's light-hearted, humorous, serious and satirical criticism was promoted again. More are New Year's Eve movies and comedies, which add some jokes to the people during festivals, and then have a sip of wine, which is extremely comfortable and leisurely. Every picture of him is a story, which is more suitable for creating comedies in real society.
Comparing them together, no matter who you like better, it actually reflects a problem from the side, that is, there are these two people in China movies at present, and they can create movies that can be remembered in Hong Chao of the times. This kind of memory makes everyone as an audience feel spiritual satisfaction, and it is enough that the film can do this.