Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 131 The New Lady Joan

PS: Chapter 131 was about opening a brokerage company. I felt it was too streamlined, so I rewrote it, from the original three thousand words to ten thousand words.

In other words, the original chapter 131 has become the current three chapters 131-133.
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Trainee?
This was the first time Chen Ziqiang heard this term.

Yang Ye explained: "Nowadays, film companies have too few methods to discover talents. Since there are no professional performing arts schools in Hong Kong, apart from introductions from friends, everyone just goes to the street to randomly recruit people. This is definitely not conducive to long-term development." Shao I have organized an artist training class, but it is relatively rough. It is held every three months. What can you learn?
That's why I came up with such a trainee system. The so-called trainees, as the name suggests, are still in the training stage and are not official artists.My idea is to recruit some talented children from society and teach them singing, dancing, acting and other professional skills from an early age.Wait until you reach adulthood and then select the outstanding talents among them to make their debut. "

After hearing this, Chen Long couldn't help but said: "Isn't this the same as the Chinese Drama Academy founded by my master?"

Yang Ye nodded and said: "It's almost the same, but you mainly learn Peking Opera. The content we teach is different, and the operation methods are also different."

Our trainees are not full-time in the early days. After signing the training business, they can still go to school, but they have to use their spare time and holidays to practice.

We do not charge any fees during this period and provide free training, but we will evaluate whether the person has potential to be tapped during the process.

If you think you have talent that can be made, then you can focus on training. After graduating from middle school, you will receive systematic training for one year, and then you can basically make your debut..."

Yang Ye then gave a general introduction to the training methods of Japanese and Korean trainees, which made Chen Ziqiang and Chen Longmao suddenly enlightened.

After hearing this, Chen Ziqiang flattered Yang Ye: "I see, Mr. Yang, you are really thoughtful, I admire you!"

Chen Long smiled and said: "I think Mr. Yang often has some fantastic ideas, which are very interesting."

Yang Ye took a sip of tea and said: "I didn't come up with this all. The first trainee system in the world was Japan's Johnny & Associates. According to Japanese language habits, they are called graduate students. I was just inspired by them, I just came up with this idea.”

Japan's Johnny & Associates was established in 1975 and is the originator of idol companies. The idol rules and regulations familiar to later generations come from it.

When Johnny was at his peak, there would be 200 Jr. newcomers every year, basically maintaining the speed of debuting a new group in two to three years, and the competition was quite fierce.

Kondo Masahiko, Kimura Takuya, Takizawa Hideaki, Yamashita Tomohisa, etc. A large number of popular Japanese idols were launched by Johnny & Associates.

Later, with the rise of Hallyu, those Korean idol groups basically copied Johnny.

For example, Johnny's "Johnny's Athletes" in the 90s was very popular in Japan.

Later, South Korea imitated an "Idol Games". Cheng Xiao made her debut in gymnastics and became famous in South Korea.

Later, in 2018, the domestic penguins also held a "Supernova Games", which was basically a copycat, and that time Zhao Lusi got out of the circle.

The brokerage company Era Junfeng of Sanxiaozhi copied it again in 2020.

All in all, all the money-making routines of the Korean Wave and domestic entertainment were inherited and developed from Johnny's routines.

However, Johnny's was established not long ago and is still in the exploratory stage. Yang Ye copied the trainee system of later generations and is much more mature than them.

Moreover, Johnny & Associates specializes in male idols. They only launched a girl group in 1976, but they later gave up due to lack of response.

This gives Yang Ye an opportunity. Since there will be no well-known female idol management company in Japan in the next few years, Yang Ye can use his influence to go there and recruit people!

Akina Nakamori, Shizuka Kudo, Izumi Sakai, Chisato Moritaka, Noriko Sakai... all come to my bowl!
Of course, recruiting trainees mainly relies on the company's discovery and registration from the community.

Yang Ye will occasionally take the initiative to find some future popular stars to join.

Time is the biggest cheating device. Knowing what will happen in the next few decades makes Yang Ye unfavorable.

In fact, a butterfly flapping its wings may cause huge changes. A person's success and fame are not only related to his personal efforts, but also related to the era, environment and other factors in which he lives.

Yang Ye recruits future red stars in advance, but maybe they won't become talents.

Other companies lose this red star and may launch new red stars that did not originally exist.

But Yang Ye doesn't care about this. Yang Ye's logic is:
If a person can achieve great achievements in the original time and space, then he must be extraordinary.

Since there is something outstanding, it is worth recruiting.

It is better to have a targeted goal than to find a new person to forcefully change his destiny.

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After Yang Ye explained the trainee system, he began to explain the second function of the brokerage company to Chen Ziqiang, establishing the brokerage system.

Yang Ye took Chen Long as an example. Now that Chen Long is famous, it will have a great social effect.

Some people asked him to attend events, some asked him to endorse advertisements, TV station invitations, commercial ribbon cuttings... a lot of messy things.

Although these things are tedious, they are all money, and the total amount of mess is more than the income from making movies.

Doesn't he want to make money?

However, Chen Long's energy is limited after all, and he is not very educated and doesn't know much about literacy.Although people are smart, they will inevitably be tricked.

Now Yang Ye asked Hu Yinmeng to take care of these trivial matters for him. Hu Yinmeng was also responsible for Yang Ye's affairs and was often too busy to touch the ground.

Yang Ye said to Chen Ziqiang: "From now on, you will be Aaron's agent, responsible for helping him take care of all the trivial matters so that he can concentrate on filming movies."

In the original time and space, it was Chen Long who took the initiative to find Chen Ziqiang and asked him to help him.At that time, Chen Long was not awesome enough. His original words were, "Everyone has porridge to eat porridge, and everyone has rice to eat."

Chen Ziqiang was a good manager of the film company at that time. He hesitated when he heard this, because once he agreed, he would help Chen Long carry bags from then on.

Chen Long begged him again: "Brother Qiang, I don't know a few characters and I can't speak English. I really need you to help me!"

In the end, Chen Ziqiang gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and followed Chen Long away.

In that case, Chen Ziqiang could resign and leave with Chen Long, let alone Yang Ye now asking him to be the manager of the brokerage company.

This situation was more than a hundred times better than that of the original time and space, so Chen Ziqiang naturally took over the position without hesitation.

The first task Yang Ye gave to Chen Ziqiang was to teach Chen Long to speak English.

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Then Yang Ye talked about the third function of the brokerage company:

Promote its artists, help them with dramas, song appointments, and various endorsements. In short, they use all kinds of resources.

In the entertainment industry, resources are everything, and the one who can seize them is the king.

It is definitely not enough for Yang Ye to make cakes by himself, he also has to go outside to grab them.

Yang Ye said: "Don't think this is easy. Just arranging the company's actors to film in-house is not enough. When other companies come to our agency to hire actors, it will be considered awesome!"

Regarding this point, Chen Zhiqiang raised his own doubts. Nowadays, the common practice of film companies is to sign an artist and then squeeze him desperately to make him keep filming for him.

Go to other people's companies to film?Isn’t that capitalizing on the enemy?

Take Shaw Brothers as an example. If you want to hire actors from their company, it is basically impossible. Only Yang Ye has done it.

Yang Ye explained: "Since we have opened a brokerage company, we must abandon the distinction between branches and focus on the interests of the artists. Only in this way can the brokerage company develop and grow. If the artists we sign only film for our own film company, So do I need to set up a brokerage company? That would be superfluous!

And let me tell you, opening a brokerage company is very promising. Now the box office of Hong Kong movies is getting higher and higher. Many small movie companies have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. They themselves are unable to sign actors and can only recruit actors from outside. Please, but those big companies won’t let you go?what to do?
At this time, our brokerage company made its debut.As long as he can afford it, even if he wants to invite Aaron, it’s no problem to invite me!Aaron, someone is paying you 500 million to film a movie. Do you want to do it? "

Chen Long smiled and said: "Of course I will do it, who would have trouble with money?"

Yang Ye said: "So, everyone comes out to do things just to make money. Whose money is not earned? Aqiang, do you understand what the goal of the agency is now?"

Chen Ziqiang said: "I understand, we want Hong Kong film companies to be inseparable from our agency as long as they make movies."

Yang Ye clapped his hands lightly and said, "That's what it means."

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Chen Ziqiang and Chen Long had just left, and it happened to be the time agreed by Yang Ye and Qiong Yao.

Yang Ye asked the waiter to clear the table and make tea. Within a few minutes, the couple Ping Xintao and Qiong Yao came down.

Yang Ye greeted them and introduced them: "This little girl is called Liu Xuehua. Xuehua calls people."

Liu Xuehua said quickly: "Hello Mr. Ping, hello Sister Qiongyao!"

When Qiong Yao saw this girl, she found that she was indeed stunningly beautiful.Especially Liu Xuehua's eyes had an endearing look, which made her very satisfied.

Qiong Yao said with a smile: "Xuehua, hello! Are you a BJ person?"

Liu Xuehua nodded and said, "I was born in BJ and moved to Hong Kong when I was five years old."

Yang Ye smiled and said: "Everyone, sit down and order something to eat. It's a rare trip to Hong Kong for you two, so you must try the Hong Kong-style morning tea."

Ping Xintao smiled and said: "Of course, we come here because of its reputation."

After ordering things, Qiong Yao said to Yang Ye: "You said you were a girl you met at Senior Lin Chuchu's house. I thought she was a girl from the Li family."

Yang Ye smiled and said: "That little girl from the Li family is only six years old now, so naturally she can't act in our TV series. Xuehua's father is a good friend of senior Lin Chuchu. That day Xia Meng and I went to visit senior Lin, and it happened that Xuehua's father The woman is also there.

I'm a director, and when I saw Xuehua's appearance, I thought she was suitable for filming.However, Xuehua's father was more traditional and did not agree with Xuehua's entry into the industry at first. Later, he relented after being persuaded by senior Lin Chuchu.Does Sister Chen think Xuehua is suitable to play our role? "

Qiong Yao pushed up her glasses, looked at Liu Xuehua for a while, and said, "I think you are suitable to play Yiping!"

Yang Ye exclaimed, and Qiong Yao said: "Xue Hua's appearance makes people feel pity at first glance. It is better to play Yi Ping. Yi Ping is more miserable, which will make the audience feel more sympathetic. Huizhong's face is a bit round, which is suitable for playing Ru Ping. , so it’s a bit richer.”

Yang Ye nodded and said, "That's it!"

In fact, Yang Ye was too lazy to care about who played whom, Qiong Yao could just make up her own mind.

Now that Qiong Yao is satisfied, everyone is happy, and Yang Ye has made it clear to Lin Qingxia!

(End of this chapter)