Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 151 Sailor Moon

Sisters Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi only stayed in the UK for a week before returning to Hong Kong.

Yang Ye sent the two sisters home first. When they got out of the car, Yang Ye kissed Zhao Yazhi on the cheek and said, "Honey, you two sisters go home first to check on our mother."

Zhao Yazhi hummed, and Yang Ye said to Zhao Yazhen: "Zhenzhen, please!"

Zhao Yazhen said seriously: "Brother-in-law, for the happiness of you and my sister, I will go through fire and water, no matter what!"

Zhao Yazhi knocked her on the head and scolded: "Be more serious!"

The two sisters got out of the car. Yang Ye saw them entering the door and drove home.

As soon as Yang Ye got out of the car, a big yellow dog rushed over and whined at him.

"Good barley, do you remember me?"

Yang Ye touched its dog's head, took out a bag of dog food from the car, tore it open and gave it a handful. Damai sniffed it and walked away with a look of disgust.

"Damn it, this is the best dog food I brought you back from Paris. Are you sure you don't want to try it?"

"Brother Ye, you're back! Damai doesn't eat dog food."

A pretty little girl walked out of the house, it was Zhou Huimin.

Yang Ye lightly kicked Barley and said, "It's all my fault. Why do I feed you meat and bones? Look at you for being such a naughty bitch. Hey... Amin, have you grown taller?"

Zhou Huimin is 11 years old and her body has started to grow. She has grown a few centimeters taller after not seeing Yang Ye for a few months. Yang Ye naturally feels that she has changed a lot.

"Yes!" Zhou Huimin said shyly. Her body had undergone some strange changes recently, so Yang Ye asked her, which made her a little embarrassed.

"Come here and help me get something!"

"Okay!"

Zhou Huimin helped Yang Ye take out the things he brought from the car and put them in the living room. Yang Ye said to the driver sent by the company to pick him up: "Ali, you go back to the company first and pick me up at two o'clock in the afternoon."

"Okay, Mr. Yang!" Ali agreed and drove away.

Yang Ye took out a gift and threw it to Zhou Huimin, saying, "Amin, this is for you."

"Thank you, Brother Ye!" Zhou Huimin opened it and said in surprise, "Is it watercolor paint?"

"Yes, don't you like drawing? How about I teach you?"

"Really?" Zhou Huimin was overjoyed. She had seen Yang Ye draw split-shot scripts and knew that Yang Ye was very good at drawing. He could often outline the character's ecology with just a few strokes.

"Why are you lying to me? Bring some of your watercolor paper and let's go to the study. Where is your mommy?"

"My mommy went shopping for groceries, and sister Takako went to work."

The two came to the study room. Yang Ye took a piece of watercolor paper and quickly sketched the outline of a girl with a pencil.

Zhou Huimin said in surprise: "Is it a comic?"

"That's right!" Yang Ye responded and started coloring.

Soon, a cute comic girl appeared on the page. She was wearing a blue and white sailor uniform, with big eyes, a small mouth, long golden hair, and two braids that were extremely long.

"So beautiful, Brother Ye, you are so amazing!"

Yang Ye was a little ashamed, and said in his heart: "I'm crazy, why should I draw a moon hare?"

Yang Ye gave Zhou Huimin paints because she had been learning to paint. He just said casually about teaching her to paint. As for why he wanted to draw a moon hare, he himself was baffled.

"Does she have a name?"

"Um... Yes, her name is Xiaotu. She is the reincarnation of the princess on the moon and came to Hong Kong. Now in Form One, if she encounters danger, she will transform into a Sailor Moon of love and justice, representing the moon and destroying enemy!"

"It's so interesting. No wonder her braids are so long. Does it represent ears? Brother Ye, is this a story you made up?"

Yang Ye thought to himself, it would be quite interesting if Zhou Huimin could draw "Sailor Moon"?

So he drew a girl with blue hair on the paper and introduced: "Her name is Ami, she is a warrior from Mercury. She can use the power of water..."

Another girl with red hair was drawn and introduced: "Her name is Ali, she is a warrior from Mars and can use the power of fire..."

After drawing the five guardian warriors of Little Rabbit, they briefly talked about what they did. After that, Yang Ye felt like he was about to turn pink.

The old man's girlish heart!
Zhou Huimin naturally listened with great interest. It is impossible for little girls not to like this stuff.

Even the gentlemen can’t stand it, even though it’s a bit shameful.

"If you like it, start learning comics!"

Zhou Huimin studied painting since she was a child, and later her level reached a professional level. She held art exhibitions and was especially good at watercolor painting. However, Yang Ye abducted her to draw comics, not knowing what was wrong with her.

"Brother Ye, can you teach me?"

"of course can!"

Yang Ye searched for relevant information and started teaching from the most basic level.Soon it was noon, and Zhou’s mother called the two of them to eat.

After eating, Yang Ye was too sleepy and had no energy to teach Zhou Huimin.

He was jet-lagged, so he stayed up and didn't go to bed. Not long after, Ali drove over, and Yang Ye said, "Amin, you can draw it yourself. I'll go out for a while."

"Ok!"

Yang Ye stood up and took two steps outside. Zhou Huimin suddenly called from behind: "Brother Ye."

"what's up?"

"Um...Sailor Moon, doesn't it have a male protagonist?"

"Oh, yes, the male protagonist is a prince from Earth, named Wei."

"Then what's his relationship with Xiaotu?"

"Love relationship!"

Looking at Yang Ye's leaving figure, Zhou Huimin secretly decided to paint the prince like Brother Ye!
……

"Ali, go to Baiyang Records."

"Okay, boss!"

Baiyang Records has been established, but because Yang Ye is filming a movie abroad, it has not officially announced its opening.

The three bosses combined their efforts to record the album and then open it, so that it would become an instant hit.

Therefore, during this period, the two leading singers that the company planned to promote, Teresa Teng and Alan Tam, were both recording records.What Teresa Teng is recording is of course the number one Chinese-language album "A Touch of Love".

However, Alan Tam does not have the privilege of being directly supported by Yang Ye and managing the entire album.

Yang Ye only wrote two songs for Alan Tam's album, and Zheng Donghan helped him choose the other songs.

But having two hit songs in one album is already pretty impressive.

Like Yang Ye's first Cantonese album "Under the Lion Rock", the main theme is to step on the horse, unless another time traveler appears.

The song "Love in Late Autumn" comes from "Friends" sung by Korean singer Cho Yong-pil.

The song "Can't Forget You" comes from Japanese singer Mayumi Mayumi's "Lover".

Alan Tam is a big cover singer among Chinese singers. His early albums contained a large number of cover songs, and sometimes he even sang entire albums.

In 1981, he sang a cover of Mayumi Mayumi's "Lovers", which made Hong Kong fans aware of Japanese pop music and started a wave of covers of Japanese songs by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

During the peak period of Hong Kong entertainment from the 80s to the early 90s, Hong Kong Philharmonic performed covers all over the world. As long as a song became popular overseas, it would be immediately covered by Hong Kong stars.

One year there were even top ten Chinese hits, seven of which were covers.

At that time, although there were many excellent original musicians in Hong Kong, capital was all about profit, and it was easier to cover songs. Moreover, the cover songs had been tested in other markets, and they were basically guaranteed to be popular, with very little risk.

Yang Ye now tries his best to copy songs from foreign countries. Have you not tested them in other markets?Very red?Then I’ll copy it for you in advance!
Yang Ye came to Baiyang Records. Zheng Donghan, Lijun Teng, Alan Tam and a group of staff were having a meeting. The content of the meeting was naturally about the new album.

As soon as Yang Ye entered the conference room, Zheng Donghan immediately led everyone to applaud and said with a smile: "Welcome to the chairman!"

Yang Ye pressed his hands down and said with a smile: "Everyone, please sit down! When we meet for the first time, please introduce yourself and let me recognize you. Allen, you don't need to introduce me."

Everyone laughed and stood up one by one to introduce themselves to Yang Ye.

Later, Yang Ye asked: "When will the new album be released?"

Zheng Donghan said: "Li Jun's "A Touch of Love" is tentatively scheduled to be released before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, and Allen's "Love in Late Autumn" is scheduled to be released in September."

The title song of "A Touch of Love" is "When Will the Bright Moon Come?", so it is very appropriate to release it during the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Love in Late Autumn" is also very relevant to be released in September!

Yang Ye nodded and said, "I have an idea that I want to discuss with you."

When the boss has an idea, everyone is naturally all ears. Yang Ye said: "Currently, the albums we release are all Bakelite records, but I recently thought, would it be feasible to release records in the form of MVs?"

Zheng Donghan asked: "What is a MV?"

Yang Ye said: "Music Video, traditional records only have sound. I think if I film the content of a song into a short music video, I can use TV images to supplement information and content that cannot be covered by music. It should also be Quite interesting.”

Zheng Donghan was stunned. This idea was indeed interesting. He thought about it and asked, "Make it into a video tape and sell it?"

Yang Ye nodded and asked, "Have you done anything yet?"

Zheng Donghan shook his head: "Nowadays, families rarely have equipment that can play video tapes. They are only available in video halls. You can't go to the video hall to listen to music, right?"

Yang Ye said: "Trends can be driven. When I released "Tokyo Summer Rendezvous" in Japan, I made a short film in the form of a cartoon and played it on NHK TV. The result was very popular, which proves that this art form , is acceptable to the audience.

Now, some singers in Japan are already imitating this form.As for what you said about the lack of market and the fact that families don’t have the conditions to play video tapes, there’s always karaoke, right?Wouldn't it be unpopular if this kind of album was played in a karaoke bar and customers could sing along while watching it?
Also, this time I was in Europe and saw the latest audio-visual equipment LD, which is laser disc. Its excellent audio-visual effect is amazing. I believe that it will become the standard configuration of karaoke in less than two years.So I decided to go ahead and do an experiment. "

Deng Lijun was very interested in this, and she asked: "How to do it specifically?"

Yang Ye smiled and said: "Let's play something simple first. For example, Lijun, your song "A Light and Quiet Love", the lyrics are all from Song Dynasty poems. Then we can find a Chinese garden, and then you can put on ancient clothes and dress up as a national beauty. The ancient beauty of Tianxiang walked in the garden, introduced the origin of the poem, the author's allusions, promoted a wave of Chinese culture, and then sang it."

What Yang Ye said was only the preliminary gameplay. The later MV also added plot and so on, which is too advanced for now and is not necessary for the time being.

Despite this, the colleagues in the conference room still sounded very interesting.

Yang Ye continued: "Actually, after this kind of MV is shot, selling it will only have a small part of its function. After all, due to the popularity of equipment, the market is too small. The main benefit is actually that it can be used for singing.

Now we mainly play songs on radio stations, and sometimes go to TV stations to play songs, but it is impossible for singers to go on TV in person all the time for promotion.What will be the effect if we take the recorded MV directly to the TV station for broadcast? "

Damn it, a huge promotion channel suddenly appeared, and everyone present was moved.

Yang Ye announced: "I will personally direct this MV for Lijun, mainly to test the effect. Allen, do you have any objection if you step back a little?"

How dare Alan Tam dare to argue with Lijun Deng? He quickly said: "No objection!"

Deng Lijun was naturally elated when she saw Yang Ye thinking about her so much. The two hadn't seen each other for many days, and she just wished she could go home with him early!

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While Yang Ye was busy working on the MV, the summer battle had already begun.

Baiyang Cinema is showing "Legend of the Mountain" directed by King Hu and starring Xu Feng and Lin Qingxia.

In the original time and space, "Legend of the Mountain" and "Spiritual Rain in the Sky" were shot together, but now they are shot separately.

When filming "Legend of the Mountain", due to the strong support of Yang Ye, the funds were very sufficient, and it was not as shabby as the original time and space. Therefore, the lenses, special effects, etc. were greatly improved compared to the original version.

However, this movie still suffers from King Hu's old problem of wanting to express too many things.

The version he edited himself was 190 minutes long. This length is not conducive to today's movie viewing habits, so he was forced to cut it to 120 minutes. As a result, it was too deleted and fragmented.

Fortunately, the artistic conception of this movie is really invincible, and with the addition of the great beauty Lin Qingxia, the movie looks very pleasing to the eye.

Golden Harvest's flagship film is "The Famous Sword" directed by Tan Jiaming and starring Zheng Shaoqiu and Xu Jie. This is Tan Jiaming's directorial debut.

Since Baiyang Pictures has a monopoly on the martial arts resources of "Seven Little Fortunes", Tan Jiaming hired another well-known drama team in Hong Kong, "Nine Prodigies".

"Seven Little Blessings" and "Nine Prodigies" are the names of the troupe. The numbers only refer to them in general, not seven or nine people.

The "Nine Prodigies" came from the Oriental Drama School, one of the four major drama schools in Hong Kong. The most famous one in later generations is probably Cheng Xiaodong.In addition, senior brother Xu Zhongxin and Mars are also somewhat famous.

"The Famous Sword" is Cheng Xiaodong's first time as a martial arts director, and his performance is quite outstanding. Especially at the end of the movie, Xu Shaoqiang transforms into a human cannon and is split in half by Zheng Shaoqiu's famous sword. In this era, it can be said to be quite amazing. .It can be seen from this movie that although Cheng Xiaodong is just starting out, his unrestrained martial arts style has already begun to take shape.

The Shaw Brothers movie this time is "Two Prides" directed by Chu Yuan, with Fu Sheng playing Xiao Yu'er and Zhao Yazhi playing Tie Xinlan.There's nothing much to say about this movie, it's still the usual Shaw Brothers style, a boring one, but it did surprisingly well at the box office.

Interestingly, Chu Yuan originally wanted to invite Zhao Yazhi to play Tie Xinlan, but Zhao Yazhi turned it down due to schedule reasons.In this time and space, Chu Yuan still invited Zhao Yazhi to play Tie Xinlan, and Zhao Yazhi agreed.

The three films all had serious flaws, but each had its own merits. In the end, the box office was still very tight. After two weeks of tension, Shaw Brothers' "The Two Young Masters" took the top spot with a box office of 330 million, and Golden Harvest's "The Famous Sword" followed closely with a box office of 260 million.Bai Yang's "Legend of the Mountain" ranked last with 240 million.

Speaking of which, Aries Cinema is the loser, but Baiyang Cinema also released a movie called "Lin Yazhen" starring Xiao Fangfang at the same time. The production company is Ye Zhiming's Colorful Film Company, which received 270 million box office.

The multiplex format of Baiyang Cinemas means that it will release a major movie every weekend, and the release time of each movie will be very long. As long as your movie is not terrible and there are audiences watching, it can be shown to you. It's a full month, and if the box office is good, it's not unusual to see it released for two or three months.

The single-screen theaters of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are unable to withstand the situation. Once the attendance rate falls below a certain level, they have no choice but to forcibly remove the film. Even if many viewers who want to see it have not had time to see it, there is nothing they can do.

For example, the movie "The Famous Sword" by Jiahe was canceled after only 14 days of release.Shaw Bros.'s "The Last of Us" was only released for 16 days.

Both "Lin Yazhen" and "Legend of the Mountain" screened by Baiyang were screened for a full month before being released, and the 191-minute version of "Legend of the Mountain" was immediately screened in the VIP hall.

But these are just appetizers. In August, the Xu brothers' comedy "The Pledge of Allegiance" will face off against Yang Ye's "Alien"!
(End of this chapter)