上世纪90年代中期,张艺谋突然“失去”了合作伙伴巩俐和国外投资後,张伟平出现了,他慷慨自掏腰包让张艺谋拍片,并迅速从电影外行修炼成高手,写下2.5亿的《英雄》票房神话,开创了中国电影“制作-营销”新模式,成为中国电影梦工场的最大“买家”。2005年,张伟平和张艺谋一起联手高仓健,打造艺术大片《千里走单骑》。 In the mid-1990s, after Zhang Yimou suddenly “lost” his partner Gong Li and foreign investment, Zhang Weiping appeared. He generously paid Zhang for filming and quickly practiced as a master from outside the film industry to write down 250 million “Heroes” at the box office Mythology, creating a new mode of “making-marketing” of Chinese movies and becoming the largest “buyer” of the Chinese movie DreamWorks. In 2005, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou together Takakura Ken, create art blockbuster “Riding Alone for Thousands of miles.”