For so many years, Zhang Weiping imposed his opinion on Zhang Yimou's films, mainly three times:
once in "The Golden Armor in the City", Zhang Weiping asked Jay Chou to join him out of market and box office considerations, but Zhang Yimou did not perform. Experienced singers have concerns about playing with Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li. The second time was when Zhang Weiping insisted on joining Xiaoshenyang in "Three Shots and Shooting the Table Surprise". The third time was the one that annoyed Zhang Yimou the most—the bed scene between Christian Bale and Ni Ni in "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was not in the script (Bell also said in an interview that he could not accept this bed scene) , Zhang Weiping insisted on filming, and was still vigorously promoting this point in the publicity, and even an article such as "Belle and I Acting in a Sex Scene" appeared. This time, it seems to have touched Zhang Yimou's bottom line.
After reading it, I deeply feel that Lao Zhang is not as vulgar as he imagined, especially the third one, which is as disgusting as the whole piece of rat shit, so it is better to draw a clear line between the national teacher and the unprofessional fellow as soon as possible.
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