Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

A desperate doomsday battlefield, a plane that can suddenly accelerate, a robot that runs over a pile of skeletons, an indestructible laser weapon...

When this scene was displayed in front of the students of Beijing Film Academy and China Theater Academy, they were almost suffocated.

Unlike Hong Kong audiences who kept discussing the plot when watching a movie, no one spoke during this screening.

It wasn't that they didn't want to speak, but the scene in front of them was so shocking that they forgot to speak.

They are the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, and all of them are the pride of heaven.

But when it comes to being well-informed, they are not as good as an ordinary Hong Kong citizen.

This... is the consequence of closure and openness.

It wasn't until the final battle, when the Terminator was crushed by a hydraulic press, that a particularly abrupt sentence suddenly broke out from the audience...

"Fuck! This is a fucking movie!"

It was naturally Jiang Wen who said this.

The students who were immersed in the movie were disturbed and turned their heads one after another, casting murderous glances at Jiang Wen.

Although the auditorium was pitch dark and Jiang Wen could not see those gazes, he still felt cold and cold, as if there were countless blades cutting his neck.

He quickly shut up!

The subtitles of the movie began to appear, but the students still remained silent. They seemed to want to remember who created this movie.

Suddenly, the screen lights up again, and the easter egg arrives.

The government took away the complete robotic arm...

The students were shocked.

Before, they only realized that it was because of Li Kai's time travel that Yang Han was born.

Now we know that it is precisely because of the Terminator's time travel that humans can create the Terminator.

This... doesn't make sense!

Since humans were originally unable to create a Terminator, is it impossible for a war between humans and machines to occur in the future?

But now humans have obtained the parts of the Terminator, so they created the Terminator and triggered the war in the future?

If humans develop normally, then there will be no Terminator in the future, so how can the Terminator travel through time and space to the present?

Damn, my head hurts!

The students were whispering, getting caught up in arguments, and even forgot to applaud.

It wasn't until the lights in the auditorium came on and Yang Ye returned to the stage that the students burst into warm applause.

But now, they looked at Yang Ye with extremely eager eyes and full of reverence.

This movie actually subverted their cognition a bit, but they are all smart people and love the art of film, so they quickly completed the transformation from shock to acceptance and then to admiration.

Yang Ye waited until the applause stopped and said into the microphone: "According to the arrangement, I should come here to give you a speech today. But I want to treat it more as an exchange of film art and a road show.

In Hong Kong, film companies are private and we are responsible for our own profits and losses, so in order to attract more audiences, we have invented many ways to promote films, and road shows are one of them.

What is a road show? After the movie is released, the main creative staff of the movie go to the cinema to meet the audience and have face-to-face communication. Talk about the film creation process, and also answer questions for the audience on the spot, shortening the distance with the audience, thereby increasing the box office of the film.

In Hong Kong, during the release of a movie, we probably have to go to nearly 50 road shows and communicate closely with tens of thousands of audiences. Sometimes we even go to Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Seoul for road shows, covering tens of thousands of kilometers. "

After listening to Yang Ye's explanation, the students all felt that this method was very novel and interesting. Imagine if you bought a ticket to watch a movie, and the director and starring actors of the movie suddenly appeared in front of you, what would it be like? Surprise?

At the same time, the students also felt that Yang Ye was very kind and approachable. As a world-class film artist, he has no airs at all and actually made a gesture of communicating on an equal footing, which moved everyone very much and increased their favorable impression of Yang Ye by 10086.

As a result, the atmosphere at the scene immediately became active, and everyone raised their hands to speak enthusiastically.

In addition to some professional stuff, some people also raised their own questions.

"Mr. Yang, the teacher taught us that literary and artistic creation must be combined with the current social situation and cannot be divorced from reality. Although science fiction movies like this are good-looking, they have little relevance to society. May I ask, what is the significance of making it?"

Yang Ye said: "French director Jean Renoir once said that movies are dream-making machines. We film practitioners recognize this as a very subtle statement.

The cornerstone of modern society is precisely because humans have replaced human power with machines. Because of machines, we can go up to the sky to catch the moon, go down to the five oceans to catch turtles, and the ends of the world are just a few steps away.

But machines can only meet human material needs, and spiritual needs rely on art. As the seventh art, film also has very strong industrial attributes. A film studio is like a dream factory, and we filmmakers are the workers of this dream factory, creating various dreams for human beings.

Factories produce a variety of products to meet various material needs of humans. The dream factory also produces movies of various themes that can satisfy various spiritual needs of human beings.

These movies can be niche or popular. You can't make a judgment based on your personal likes and dislikes. Maybe you don't need it and think it's meaningless. But how do you know that others don’t need it and find it meaningless?

Specific to science fiction movies, they can give humans the wings of imagination and cultivate the human spirit of exploration. These are very precious things.

Moreover, this "Terminator" is not without practical significance. In today's world, computer technology is developing rapidly. In the near future, personal computers will enter thousands of households, and each of us will have a computer.

"Terminator" is a story imagined based on such social changes. This movie was very popular in Hong Kong because people had the same thinking: The power of computers far exceeds that of humans. If it continues to develop, will it in turn control humans?

So the practical significance of this movie is that it provides a possibility for the future of mankind and gives mankind a... small warning. "

"Clap clap clap clap..."

Yang Ye's speech raised the status of filmmakers to a very high level, making the students in the auditorium very excited. It turns out that the career I am engaged in is so meaningful?

But what Yang Ye means is that you are just a worker, no different from the workers in the factory, so don’t take yourself too seriously.

People raised their hands again, and Yang Ye pointed at Jiang Wen and said, "This classmate, you come to speak."

Jiang Wen was overjoyed and stood up and said: "I once saw a time travel paradox called... the grandmother paradox. For example, if a person travels to the past and kills his grandmother, then his mother will not exist. He wouldn't exist, so who killed his grandmother? But the movie doesn't seem to be limited to that, so what kind of theory does that support?"

Yang Ye smiled and said: "This classmate is well-read and very knowledgeable. However, film is an art of imagination. We do not need to be limited to a certain theory, which will restrict our imagination.

In this film, the son's existence and his father's return to the past are mutually causal, and the terminator is the matchmaker who connects Li Kai and Yang Lisa. If the robot armies of the future don't send the Terminators back in time, they will fail. Even if dispatched, it will still fail!

I prefer that history has its inevitability. You can understand the future robot army as reactionaries that oppress the people. They will inevitably be overthrown by the people, and there is no point in trying to be clever. "

Yang Ye's last words shocked everyone. How else can we explain it this way?

Yang Ye's concern is that his movie is too shocking for today's mainland.

He showed this movie in school today. If someone with ulterior motives confuses right and wrong, something might happen.

So he took the initiative to give this movie a monument of people's resistance to oppression, and let's see how you can be shameful if you step on the horse.

The visit continued, and Yang Ye answered all questions and told them everything he knew.

For example, I asked Zhang Yimou about the use of color in movies, asked Chen Kaige about the art of film screenwriting, and asked Chen Daoming about the skills of acting...

His profound knowledge has benefited the students a lot, and his approachable attitude has won their infinite favor.

After today's exchange meeting, these awesome people will all be his fans.

We had been chatting for more than two hours. It was almost five o'clock, and Dean Lu signaled that it was over. Yang Ye finally concluded his speech:

"I haven't made many movies, but they have rich themes. There are legendary stories like "Shaolin Temple", anti-Japanese stories like "Fist of Heroes", and martial arts stories like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." But why should I do this today? How about a sci-fi movie?

Because this movie uses the world's most advanced technology, it is an industrial movie and a technology movie. It's not something you can take just by carrying a camera.

I told you before that movies have industrial attributes. Hollywood is the largest film factory in the world today, and various advanced technologies were first used there. The cost to shoot a movie can run into tens of millions of dollars, something no other film in the world can compete with.

I want to use this "Terminator" to show everyone what the most advanced movies in the world look like. I want to tell you that only by working hard in this direction can you catch up with the world!

All of you here may be the oldest college students in the world, and some unfortunate things may have happened to you. These experiences may be reflected in your future works, because you want to show the world... the suffering I once suffered.

This is normal, but I hope everyone can look forward and not stay in the past. Because there is no use in feeling sorry for yourself, and no one will sympathize with you if you show it. Mr. Lu Xun once said that human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same. No matter how much Mrs. Xianglin recounts her tragic experience, it is just a joke in the eyes of others.

Of course, don’t persuade others to be kind without suffering others’ suffering. I don't have your experience, so saying this seems to be nosy. I just think that all of you here are talented people and are the hope of Chinese films. We should turn difficulties into motivation and strive towards the prosperity of Chinese films. Don’t stop chasing the wind and the moon. Wherever there is plain grass, there are spring mountains! I'm done, thank you everyone! "

Yang Ye's last words can be said to be sincere and thoughtful. Although many people here are dissatisfied, they feel...why?

But they also felt the great responsibility from his words, so they all responded with warm applause.

Among those who felt dissatisfied, Chen Chong was one of them.

Her family was persecuted, and her grandfather Zhang Changshao, a great figure in the medical field, was forced to commit suicide.

She felt...why?

She sat in the audience, applauded along with the students, and looked at Yang Ye with very complicated eyes! (End of chapter)