Date of birth: 1965 Education: University.
Enterprise: Guo Zhong Holdings Native place: Shanghai.
Graduate school: Industrial Automation, Shanghai Second Staff University
experience
Zhang Yang did conduct trade between the mainland and Hong Kong in the early days of his visit to Hong Kong, and soon completed the primitive accumulation. From 65438 to 0989, 26-year-old Zhang Yang moved to Hong Kong and set foot in real estate, restaurants, hotels and other industries. Before Hong Kong returned to China, it began to invest in the Mainland. At present, investment is mainly concentrated in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. 200 1, Zhang reorganized the company's business. 72.5% of Guo Zhong Holdings' sales come from the financial industry. In March 2002, he bought a securities company.
Reporter: The script of Sunflower was written for two years. Have you been accumulating feelings these days?
Zhang Yang: It's difficult to write a good script. Besides, Sunflower was written by myself. Usually, it takes me a long time to think over a film and I can't write it quickly, so it took me two years to revise it.
Reporter: The investment of sunflower is120,000 yuan. Do you think the movie box office with high investment will be guaranteed?
Zhang Yang: Investment is not a direct relationship. Investment is only the expansion of film production scale. If the investment is large, it can be used for equipment and production. The production cost of Sunflower is three or four times more than that of ordinary movies, so the confidence in shooting is enhanced.
Reporter: Why did Sunflower choose Sun He as an actor?
Zhang Yang: Part of the reason for choosing Chen Chong is to consider overseas markets. If the sunflower depends on the domestic market, it is obviously impossible to recover the cost. Chen Chong is also very suitable for this role. I talked to her before I went to the United States to turn on the phone, and found that her understanding of her parents was the same as ours. It's not because she lives abroad that her thoughts have changed. What she expresses is exactly what we need. She is an ordinary mother in the movie, and she can find the inner feelings of the characters. Sun is an intellectual in the film and has his own personality.
Reporter: Yesterday depicts the inner world of the characters by adding a drama stage to the film language. Will you continue this style?
Zhang Yang: Not necessarily. It depends on each movie. I can't choose the script in the same way, but according to the theme of the movie.
Reporter: Compared with Zhang Yimou's Alive and Jia's Platform, what changes have taken place in Sunflower?
Zhang Yang: Actually, I didn't particularly describe the background of the times.
Just choose one year in the development process of the three eras reflected in Sunflower, such as 1976 in the 1970s. Sunflower expresses the fate and stories of the characters through family relationships, and the times are only the background, not the focus of depicting the times. In the process of the development of characters' stories, there are also some events, such as the smashing of the Gang of Four, which illustrate the process of the story through the evolution of some scenes.
Reporter: Your film has won many international awards. Do you think winning an award can improve the commercial interests of your film?
Zhang Yang: Business is a goal that must be achieved. But in the process of shooting, I feel that I am concerned about what I want to express, not whether my film sells well. Every filmmaker has a different idea. Perhaps the most important thing for me is to realize what I want to express in the film through some channels.
Reporter: Now many young directors have established their own styles. What do you think of their own style?
Zhang Yang: It's good to establish a personal style, because with your own style, the film will have a label. Many young directors find it difficult to do this. (What about Jia? ) He has his own film language. It has not yet formed its own style, and it is still in the experimental stage.