Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

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If a person travels back in time early enough and can make movies, then he only needs to copy those movies from 1994, and he will be the god of movies.

In the magical year of 1994, filmmakers from all over the world seemed to be cheating, and all of them produced the pinnacle works of their careers, and various masterpieces emerged in droves.

Even so, "Drunken Master 2" and "Fist of Fury" were both among the top ten films rated by Time Magazine that year, which shows how awesome these two movies are.

"Drunken Master 2" not only has a good reputation, but also has a strong box office. The box office in Southeast Asia that year was as high as 3800 million US dollars. Six years later, it was released in North American theaters. Although the disc market was already flooded, it still sold 1155 million US dollars in box office.

Now this "Drunken Master 2" was tinkered by Yang Ye in advance. Although there is no Liu Jialiang, Yuan Heping is no worse than him. With the concept map designed by Yang Ye as a pointer, the final effect is enough to be brilliant. To describe it.

After the movie ended, Yang Ye took the lead in applauding.

"It's awesome, even better than the first one. Let's wait and count the money!"

"Hahaha!" The screening room was filled with joyful air.

Li Xing sighed: "Hong Kong films are getting more and more powerful. This "Drunken Master 2" not only has wonderful fights, but also talks about the great righteousness of the country and the nation, and its lofty intentions are really admirable. Those of us in Taiwan are little Compared with it, the movie "Love Little Love" is really far behind."

Yang Ye said: "Director Li's words are serious, everyone has their own strengths."

Then he said to Jiang Zhiqiang: "Aqiang, I will leave the promotion work of "Drunken Master 2" to you. I will give you a budget of 300 million, and you must make it known to the whole city."

These words made Li Xing and Lin Fengjiao take a breath. Their investment in making a movie usually does not exceed NT$300 million. Yang Ye's announcement for a movie was actually HK$300 million. This horse... …

Yang Ye looked at their surprised expressions and explained: "Our kung fu movies are unique in the world. Aaron's "Drunken Master 1" sold well in overseas markets. "Drunken Master 2" must be exported. Overseas. So we must build up the momentum. The higher the local box office, the easier it will be sold in overseas markets. A promotion budget of 300 million is nothing."

Comparing people with others will lead to death, and comparing goods with goods will lead to throwing away. Li Xing has nothing to say except being convinced.

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "Time is a bit tight. We won't be able to sell out the 300 million yuan for a while. How about giving up the Lunar New Year stall and changing it to the Spring Festival stall? That way we can make arrangements calmly."

Yang Ye said: "What kind of movies are those two in the Lunar New Year festival?"

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "Jiahe is "Qieli Coffee" and Shaw Brothers is "Swordsman".

Yang Ye was confused: "What?"

"That's right, it's "Swordsman"."

Yang Ye was speechless: "Why are you doing this again? Jin Yong didn't authorize it twice, right?"

Jiang Zhiqiang suppressed his laughter and said, "I went to inquire, and they changed the names of the protagonists. Linghu Chong is called Nangong Song, Ren Yingying is called Bai Yingying, Yue Buqun is called Luo Chaojun, and Yue Lingshan is called Luo Yingzhi... The plot is still the same."

Yang Ye was convinced: "I'm not afraid of Jin Yong suing them. Forget it, let him go. These two movies sound like rotten fish and shrimps. It's useless to fight them. Let's move "Drunken Master 2" to the Spring Festival schedule. There is plenty of time. So easy to arrange.”

Although Shaw Brothers is a blatant copycat, in this day and age, such lawsuits are actually difficult to fight.

The pioneering work of Hong Kong martial arts films, "The One-Armed Swordsman", which grossed HK$1967 million at the box office in 100, was actually a re-skin of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" with a slightly changed name.The only difference is that instead of the little dragon girl, there is a little dragon man.

There's nothing we can do about it. Chang Cheh's films are so full of eroticism. They often end with both the enemy and the heroine dying, and the two men walking away under the sunset.

This kind of thing where famous novels are replaced by vests and filmed openly, this is not only done in movies, but also in TV series.

In 1979, TVB's "Chu Liuxiang" became a hit, and LiTV immediately followed suit and made another one. Unfortunately, they did not have the copyright, so they changed the title of the drama to "The Legend of Thieves." Chu Liuxiang was directly called the Thief Commander, Su Rongrong was called Ye Xiaoxian, and Li Hongxiu was called Du Hung Hom...are you crazy? Isn't that right?

Now everyone is faced with another question: "What's on the Lunar New Year stalls?"

You can't let such a good schedule pass, right?
The original plan was to release "Drunken Master 2" during the Lunar New Year period and "Hundred Man Killing Girl" introduced from Japan during the Spring Festival period.

Now that "Drunken Master 2" has been postponed, it is impossible to advance the release of "Hundred Men Killing Girl".

Yang Ye thought for a while and said, "How about we buy and distribute Director Li's "Small Town Story"?"

Jiang Zhiqiang wanted to say: "Can that thing be sold for money?"

But he still held back and said, "That's okay!"

better than nothing!
……

After the meeting, Yang Ye invited everyone to have afternoon tea. After that, Xia Meng and Li Xing went back to the company to discuss the Taiwan branch, while he himself went to the Grand View Studio to prepare for the evening shooting.

It doesn't cost much to make a shabby literary film, it's enough for Xia Meng to show up.

"The Swordsman" is about to wrap up, and after filming, he has to go to Japan to reshoot scenes in "One Hundred Girls 2".

"Brother Ye, can I go to the set with you?"

As soon as Yang Ye went out, Lin Fengjiao followed him.

Yang Ye asked: "Where's Ah B?"

"He went to play with Allen. I don't know anything about music. I still like filming. I want to know how your martial arts movies are made."

"Fine!"

The two got into the car. Yang Ye drove the car and said, "Actually, if you want to know how to shoot a fight scene, you can ask Aaron."

Lin Fengjiao said strangely: "Why should I ask him?"

Yang Ye said in a daze: "Qingxia and I were on the phone a few days ago, and she said she wanted to match you up with Aaron. Aren't you coming to Hong Kong just for a blind date?"

Lin Fengjiao sighed and said: "Qingxia is so enthusiastic, I couldn't bear to refuse her kindness, so I just went there."

Yang Ye snorted: "Then you and Aaron didn't have a blind date?"

Lin Fengjiao said: "It's okay, I went to find him. But he was with a bunch of brothers, and they dispersed without even talking to each other."

Yang Ye said: "This is Qingxia's fault. She helped you go on a blind date, so she should be there too."

Lin Fengjiao said: "She hasn't finished filming yet. Director Hu is very strict, so that's understandable."

Yang Ye couldn't help but fell into deep thought. Isn't this style of painting wrong?

Didn't this pair of adulterers and adulterers spark thunder and fire as soon as they met, and then committed suicide, and finally got married?

Also, according to what Chen Long said later, didn't Lin Fengjiao have no airs and could get along with his brothers, so she succeeded in becoming Long's wife?

This horse riding is completely inappropriate!
"What are you thinking about?" Lin Fengjiao couldn't help but ask when Yang Ye didn't speak for a long time.

"Oh, it's okay. When will you return to Taiwan?"

"Go back with Director Li."

"I'll give it to you then!"

"Don't go to such trouble!" "That's right, you are Qingxia's good sister."

Yang Ye figured it out: "This woman doesn't like Chen Long, she likes me!"

Although Lin Fengjiao is as famous as Lin Qingxia, she is actually worse than Lin Qingxia in all aspects, so she has an inexplicable comparison mentality.

It was because of this mentality that Lin Fengjiao initially did not agree to Chen Long's pursuit. Later, when Chen Long ran after Lin Qingxia, she immediately agreed.

Lin Fengjiao also looked down upon Chen Long's brothers, and getting along with those people was just a way for her to get to the top.

The evidence is that when Lin Fengjiao took charge, she fired all Chen Long's old brothers.

Lu Huiguang worked with Chen Long for 30 years and received a severance package of [-] yuan.

At that time, the Hong Kong media made a huge headline: Chen Long was unscrupulous, Gillian was mean, Lu Huiguang suffered 30 years of life and was compensated [-]!
This incident became a big deal and Chen Long was completely embarrassed.

But Lin Fengjiao knew it would make Chen Long lose face, so why did she do this?

The reason can only be: She is tired of Chen Long's gang of bad brothers.

Yang Ye thought about it, and Lin Fengjiao's mentality was probably like this: "Although Chen Long is powerful, Yang Ye is his boss. You, Lin Qingxia, are in love with your boss, but you introduced your employees to me. What are you worried about?"

This is probably the so-called... plastic sisterhood, right?

The two arrived at the Grand View Studio at around four in the afternoon, and the lighting engineer was making preparations.

When shooting night scenes, you must prefer to be early rather than late. Be ready before the sun sets. Wait for the sky to slowly darken and the neon lights to slowly light up, ready to start shooting.

Lin Fengjiao said in surprise: "You guys really wait until night to shoot night scenes?"

In today's era, in order to save shooting time and costs, most crews of Hong Kong and Taiwan movies will use the method of "shooting at night and shooting in the day" to fool the audience.

The so-called "night scene shooting in the day" means shooting at noon, deliberately opening the aperture to a small size, and pushing the amount of light in to the limit to produce a dark picture. This is used to fake it and pass it off as a night scene.

In Hollywood, with the emergence of high-sensitivity film, this shooting method has been abandoned, because this kind of fake picture is very crude, and will only be used as a last resort unless the shooting scene is in a special scene such as a forest or mountain.

Yang Ye smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, my filming standards are higher than those in Hollywood. I will not fool the audience with something fake like 'daylight and night scene'."

Lin Fengjiao said: "The cost would be much higher!"

Yang Ye said: "We must save money that should be saved, and we must spend money that should be spent."

Lin Fengjiao sighed: "Oh, I'm so envious of your way of shooting."

Yang Ye said: "Actually, we dare to spend like this because we are confident that we can make money back. It would definitely not be possible for anyone else. For example, your budget for making a movie is not as high as Aaron's salary. Naturally, we can save as much as we can."

Comparing people with others will lead to death, and comparing goods with goods will lead to throwing away.Yang Ye's current movie budget is more than [-] million. Except for Chen Long, no one else's box office is so high.

How to compare, what a fart?
Yang Ye took Lin Fengjiao around for a tour. The more Lin Fengjiao looked at it, the more she felt that filming in Taiwan was ridiculous. She couldn't help but ask: "Do you think I can come to Hong Kong to film?"

After saying this, Lin Fengjiao felt a little regretful.In this era of original time and space, she also had two competitors, Lin Qingxia and Hu Yinmeng.

But now, these two women have been brought to Hong Kong by Yang Ye. Lin Fengjiao is basically the only one in Taiwan, and any good scripts always focus on her first.

If you give up the great situation in Taiwan and come to Hong Kong, what if you can't open up the situation?

Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "Gillian, with your fame and strength, if you come to film my movie, the heroine will definitely be available, but I don't have a role suitable for you for the time being! So, I suggest that you still Stay in Taiwan and develop!"

Lin Fengjiao heard something different. She smiled and said, "You mean, you will ask me to be the heroine?"

Ah this... Yang Yexin said, I'm just being polite, why do you still take it seriously?

Yang Ye finally saw that Lin Fengjiao was a very utilitarian person. If she wanted something, she would take the initiative to get it.

This has something to do with her background. After all, she was hungry when she was a child and couldn't eat enough. Of course, she would only focus on climbing up.

Yang Ye doesn't think there's anything wrong with this. If you want something, you should proactively go for it. Is there anything wrong with that?of course not!

Now that Lin Fengjiao fell in love with Yang Ye, she started to fight for it. Although the tricks were relatively subtle, Yang Ye had already noticed it.

Yang Ye was a little confused: "Should I play with Mrs. Long?"

Yang Ye saw that Lin Fengjiao seemed to be looking forward to it, and said: "You are the most famous actress in Taiwan. Naturally, I would love to work with you. Let me think about it and write a script that suits you! You can do fighting scenes ?"

Lin Fengjiao laughed and said, "I originally made action films, but there was no market for martial arts films in Taiwan, so I later switched to making literary films."

Lin Fengjiao's first big-screen appearance was in 1973's "The Angry Man of Chaozhou". This film was the work of action star Tan Daoliang and was modeled after "Tangshan Brother".

Tan Daoliang was once regarded as the second Bruce Lee by Golden Harvest. Chen Lung, Hong Jingbao, and Yuen Biao all played small roles in his movies.

However, because of the emergence of Yang Ye, Chen Long and others rose to prominence in advance, and Tan Daoliang's light in this time and space was obscured, and he had no reputation.

Lin Fengjiao had made several martial arts films, but was later appreciated by Li Xing and quickly rose to prominence.

The top star of "Two Lin and Two Qin" is actually not Lin Qingxia, but Lin Fengjiao.

In Taiwan, Lin Fengjiao is more popular than Lin Qingxia and has better acting skills. She won the Golden Horse Best Actress early.

Yang Ye nodded and said, "Then let me think about it and I promise not to disappoint you."

Yang Ye's words made Lin Fengjiao very happy because of the abnormal psychology of long-term comparison with Lin Qingxia.

After all, Lin Qingxia is the heroine of Yang Ye's movie, so she naturally wants to do it too!
While the two were chatting, the crew members arrived one after another. When they saw Yang Ye sitting there chatting with a beautiful woman, no one came to disturb them.

Except...Guan Zhilin.

As soon as Guan Zhilin came in, she saw Yang Ye and Lin Fengjiao chatting happily, and she suddenly became angry.

She walked up to Yang Ye and said expressionlessly: "Brother Ye, can you come here?"

Yang Ye glanced at her and asked, "What's wrong?"

Guan Zhilin said: "I have a question and I want to ask you."

Yang Ye nodded and said to Lin Fengjiao, "I'll go over there."

Yang Ye and Guan Zhilin came to an empty utility room. As soon as the door was closed, Guan Zhilin pouted and said: "You playboy, you are picking up girls again!"

(End of this chapter)