Chen Kaige was filming Life on a String in 1990 when he ran into his old friend Zhang and asked him to help out with a scene in which hundreds of people are attending an opera in the evening. Zhang pulled it off with aplomb, and went on to do an even more scintillating job on another scene involving an armed melee between village residents.
1990 年，陳凱歌正在拍攝《邊走邊唱》，在北京碰到老友，一場幾百人聽歌的夜戲，請他幫忙，張進戰輕鬆完成；另一場村民械鬥的戲，更是叱吒風雲。