Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 119 Poaching Xu Guanwen

"Hey, my brother-in-law kisses me so passionately!"

The movie is showing an intimate scene between Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia.

Zhao Yazhi slapped the little girl: "This is a movie, nothing to make a fuss about."

The entire Zhao family stared at the big screen without blinking, and the second sister even covered the child's eyes.

Even if Yang Ye is thick-skinned, he is still a little embarrassed now.

In fact, they didn't show much, they just hugged and kissed each other. For today's movies, it's nothing at all.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was fine at first, but after watching too many fights in "Shaolin Temple" and "Fist of Heroes", I felt it was not interesting at all.

Until the later fight between Li Mubai and Yu Jiaolong, he took off on the spot without even stamping his feet.

Floating across the beautiful lake and fighting on the bamboo branches, everyone in the old Zhao family was stunned.

In the late 80s, for almost ten years, Hong Kong movies and TV series featured all kinds of flying and escaping, completely ignoring the laws of physics.

"New Blue Blood Sword", "Six-fingered Piano Demon", "New Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Child Mother", "New Crane Needle"...

In this series of martial arts movies, the characters are no longer human, they are all gods!
After everyone watched it too much, they all got tired of it, so... the action movie changed to a real fight involving fists and flesh.

This is how "Fist of Heroes" in 1994 and "The Broken Blade" in 1995 came about.

However, these two classics appeared at the intersection of style changes. Although they received good reviews, the audience could not adapt to them for a while, so the box office was very poor.

Then, before the style had completely changed, Hong Kong movies suddenly exploded, and martial arts movies never recovered.

But no matter what, starting in 94, the martial arts style of Chinese-language movies began to change to a realistic style that involves fists and flesh.

This is also true for the later rises of Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, and Zhang Jin.

In this case, 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.Li Bian suddenly went back to his old ways and started playing Qinggong.

The first feeling of the Chinese audience was that they were very surprised, and the second feeling was...that's it?
I got tired of watching it ten years ago, and you are so light and flaccid, with no energy at all.

At that time, the Six-fingered Piano Demon, the Tianshan Child Elder, the Palace Master Yao Yue, the Golden Snake Man, Bai Yunfei, Lan Xiaodie... which one could not destroy the world with a wave of his hand?
In comparison, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is simply weak!

As for the so-called artistic conception of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", not many people get it.

Therefore, when this film was released, its reputation in the Chinese world was not very impressive.

The mainland box office is 1000 million, and the annual box office is 15.The Hong Kong box office grossed HK$1470 million, ranking ninth in the year.The box office in Taiwan is NT$9 million, ranking first among Chinese films, but how much is NT$2000 million?

But now...

On the one hand, under the dual pressure of Oscar and Palme d'Or, no one dares to say that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is not good.

The bad thing is that you have no taste and don't understand it, so you have to go to the cinema and watch it again.

On the other hand, this kind of flying and escaping is still quite new for now.

Moreover, Hu Jinquan is actually much better than Li Yin in creating the atmosphere of the picture. He really made it poetic and picturesque, which looks very pleasing to the eye.

……

"This movie is very artistic. No wonder it won so many awards abroad."

After the movie ended, Zhao Yangming commented.

"Where can I find this novel? I would like to read it again." Zhao Yangming is a martial arts fan.

Yang Ye said: "Wang Dulu's novel has not been published in Hong Kong, but it is available in Taiwan. I have a copy on hand and will send it to you another day."

"There is no need to send it specially, just ask Zhizhi to bring it to me. But when you are free, you can come to your house as a guest, and we will have a drink then."

When the whole family came out of the movie theater, Zhao Yazhi's eldest nephew suddenly asked: "Uncle Yang, what is there?"

Yang Ye said: "That's a handicraft store. Come on, let's go over and have a look!"

Everyone walked in and found that there were all kinds of figures and toys inside, but they were all related to movies.

There are figures of Bruce Lee, figures of Chen Long’s Drunken Master, figures of Yang Ye Shaolin Temple novices, figures of Yu Jiaolong holding the Qingming Sword...

There are also a variety of toys and souvenirs.For example, a smaller version of the Qingming Sword, a pillow with the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon LOGO printed on it, a cartoon keychain, a lighter...

"Mommy, I want the Qingming Sword!" The eldest nephew immediately set his sights on the sword!
Although the sister-in-law was unwilling to let her son play with these toys such as knives and swords, she happily bought them in front of Yang Ye.

"198 yuan, thank you!"

"Such a small sword costs only 198 yuan?" the sister-in-law couldn't help complaining.It's not that I can't afford it, I just think it's expensive. This thing isn't even made of metal.

Yang Ye explained: "These are derivative products from the movie. They are in limited quantity and are available while supplies last. They have collection value, so the price cannot be calculated according to the price of ordinary toys."

The sister-in-law said oh, but she said in her heart, you are really good at making money.

At this time, many people who had watched the movie were coming here. Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi were both stars, especially Yang Ye, who was so famous. He was afraid of causing a commotion, so he quickly said: "Everyone, let's go first. Otherwise, we won't be able to leave." After saying that, he picked up Zhao Yazhi and ran away.

……

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had a box office of 161 million on its first day!
Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang looked at the box office data and remained silent for a long time.

What is the concept of 161 million?
In 1976, "Meteor and Butterfly Sword" ranked seventh in Hong Kong's annual box office, with a box office of 7 million.

In other words, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" could reach the seventh place in 1976 at the box office in one day.

"Is this... so beautiful?"

Zou Wenhuai shook his head: "It's not a question of whether it's good or not, but the scale of Baiyang Cinema is too big. It adopts the latest multi-hall theater model in the United States. Don't look at it. There are only six theaters, each theater has 1000 people. It has multiple locations and is bigger than the Taiping Theater. These six theaters can rival at least fifteen theaters.

In addition, Yang Ye also cooperates with two theaters, Lisheng and Anle, as well as six independent theaters with which it has cooperated before.This is equivalent to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" being released simultaneously in 29 theaters in Hong Kong.

This scale exceeds any previous movie, not to mention that Yang Ye spent 200 million on overwhelming publicity and whetted the audience's appetite for such a long time.

In addition, the price of movie tickets has increased again this year. Together, these factors can achieve a box office of 161 million in one day. "

He Guanchang said: "Fortunately, we have adjusted the release date of "Fa Qian Han" to August, otherwise we would have crashed into it and we would have died without knowing how. You said, we don't have that big a grudge against Ah Ye, right? "

Zou Wenhuai said: "This is not a matter of hatred. Speaking of which, we just thought he was dead, so we just wanted to take the opportunity to poach his people. This is a normal business behavior. How much hatred can there be? If Yang Ye is on our side, Location, too.

In fact, Yang Ye plotted against us not because of any hatred.His cinema chain has been under construction at least two years ago.It's just that others thought it was a shopping mall and didn't even notice that he was building a movie theater.

Yang Ye has great ambitions. Since we are his competitors, he will naturally use any means to attack us.Unfortunately, we have no means to deal with him. "

"What if we find a club?"

"People from the club are looking for death if they directly confront Yang Ye. Not only can he fight on his own, but he also has the relationship with the city. Unless he uses a gun."

"Use a gun? This guy managed to escape under the nose of the gunman in Japan! The murderer is still squatting in the cell. Besides, using a gun would make the matter bigger, but it doesn't get to this point."

"What should we do? Baiyang now has two trump cards, Yang Ye and Aaron. We are just the Xu brothers, and we are no match at all. Those other satellite companies are completely useless."

"I said before that I should not contact Aaron again. Now that everyone is at odds with each other, let's talk to Aaron again. No matter how much it costs, we must poach him."

……

The Peninsula Hotel!

Xu Guanwen quickly walked into the Yingren Tea Restaurant and soon came to a corner.

"Aye, I'm sorry, there's a traffic jam on the road."

Yang Ye smiled and said: "It's normal to have traffic jams at this point. I've just arrived here not long ago."

Xu Guanwen sat down, ordered a cup of stocking milk tea, and said, "The song "Half a Category" you wrote for Ajie last time was really good. His records have sold like crazy. I haven't thanked you properly yet."

"It's just a song. Brother Wen, don't take it to heart. Ajie has already invited me to dinner."

The two drank milk tea and chatted awkwardly for a few words. Yang Ye got straight to the point: "I heard that you haven't received the dividends from "Half a Category" yet?"

When Xu Guanwen heard this, his eyes flashed. He adjusted his glasses and said with a smile, "Aye, you're not here to poach people, are you?"

Yang Ye said: "Of course! My theater chain is larger than Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, and the facilities are more luxurious. It will definitely be more cost-effective for you to show a movie in my theater than Jiahe."

Xu Guanwen smiled and said: "But Bai Yang has you and Aaron, and Hu Jinquan. I can't get a good schedule at all."

Yang Ye said: "Then you should visit Baiyang Cinema Line. We are a multiplex cinema. A cinema has 6-8 screening rooms. It is easy to show two popular movies at the same time in one schedule.

As for overseas channels, I have already opened them up, and they are only stronger than Jiahe.There is also the matter of box office sharing. We can sign an agreement. If I delay in paying after the agreed time limit, I am willing to pay triple compensation. "

Yang Ye opened his mouth and thought about all aspects for Xu Guanwen. Xu Guanwen had no reason to refuse at all.

"I'll go back and discuss it with Ajie and the others!" Xu Guanwen did not answer immediately, but dropped a sentence.

Yang Ye smiled and said: "No problem!"

Over there, Jiahe hadn't taken any action to poach Chen Long, but over here, Yang Ye was already on the line with Xu Guanwen.

(End of this chapter)