Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"Quick, quick! Pull up!"

A group of people pulled up a rope and quickly pulled photographer Zhong Zhiwen out of the water.

Yang Ye hugged Zhong Zhiwen's legs and was dragged up.

Two buckets with hot water had been prepared on the shore. The two of them were helped to sit in the buckets, and they felt warm.

"Ginger soup, ginger soup!"

Xu Feng personally held a bowl of ginger soup, supported Yang Ye, and fed him to drink. Zhong Zhiwen was also supported by others and fed ginger soup.

In winter, the stream in the mountain forest was so cold that the two of them stayed under the water for two minutes. They were trembling as soon as they came up and couldn't hold the bowl at all.

Xu Feng fed Yang Ye a bowl of ginger soup. Regardless of the strange looks from others, he hugged Yang Ye and asked, "Are you feeling better?"

"I'm fine, look at Awen!"

Zhong Zhiwen went down with his scuba, and the conditions were actually much better than Yang Ye's.

Yang Ye was naked and had to perform.

However, Yang Ye exercises every day and has never stopped for many years, and his physical fitness is much better than Zhong Zhiwen.

So he can still speak, but Zhong Zhiwen's two rows of teeth are fighting and he can't speak at all.

After finally regaining his composure, Zhong Zhiwen said, "I, I, I'm not...it's okay!"

"Did you get the picture?"

"The distance is a bit far and the effect is not very good!"

"Then take a rest first and continue shooting later."

Yang Ye sat in the hot water for a while, regained his strength, and crawled out. Xu Feng quickly dried him with a towel, then wrapped him in a blanket, and said distressedly: "Why do you have to splash water on the first day?" Are you going to start filming? Why not wait until summer to film?"

Yang Ye smiled and said: "The stream in summer is too turbid and not as effective as in winter."

There are very few underwater scenes in Chinese-language films these days, and even if they do, they are in a glass tank, and the photographer fools around with them through the glass.

Yang Ye wanted to shoot the scene of Mona Ludo dodging bullets under the stream, and he couldn't fool him at all.

So he specially bought a set of underwater photography equipment from Nikon and asked Zhong Zhiwen to wear scuba and follow him underwater to shoot.

Unfortunately, the conditions for underwater photography are too harsh, and the equipment these days is not very advanced.

Under the water's surface, red and orange light with longer wavelengths are quickly absorbed by the water, making the picture appear bluish.

Therefore, photographers must get as close to the subject as possible to reduce color loss.

If this distance exceeds one meter, it is unacceptable.

In the shooting just now, because the water in the stream was too cold and the equipment was too heavy, Zhong Zhiwen couldn't adapt to it for a while, so he couldn't control the distance and get good results.

Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "Find a wooden stick and push it into the water. After you enter the water, Awen, hold the stick and shoot. Don't move. I will jump directly in front of you. This way there will be no mistakes. .”

This method was good. After Zhong Zhiwen had rested, he went into the water and tried it. He simply tied himself to a wooden stick with a rope. Anyway, he was wearing scuba and would not drown.

"3, 2, 1, Action!"

Yang Ye looked at the position, jumped into the stream with a "swipe" sound, and landed accurately in front of Zhong Zhiwen...

Xu Feng stared at his watch. When the two minutes were up, he immediately shouted: "Quick, pull up!"

With all their strength, everyone pulled the two of them up with wooden sticks.

Zhong Zhiwen made a trembling OK gesture, indicating that the shooting was successful.

……

Yang Ye and Zhong Zhiwen were wrapped in blankets and resting, while Hua Huiying and other photographers continued shooting.

This scene tells the story of Mona Ludo of the Mahepo tribe who grew up to be fifteen years old. His father, Ludo Luhei, led the tribe to help him out.

On one side of the stream, two hunters from the Ganzhuowan tribe were hunting. They killed a wild boar with great force.

At this moment, the Mahpo tribe suddenly attacked and killed the two people with shotguns.

Mona Ludao appeared. He jumped into the stream, swam to the other side, raised the knife with his hand and dropped it, harvested two heads, and carried the wild boar that was killed by Ganzhuo people.

Not only to kill people, but also to steal the loot!

The struggle between tribes is so cruel and barbaric!

"Mona!"

"Mona, thousands of people are coming to Ganzhuo!"

"Run, hurry up!"

"Run quickly, the wild boar doesn't want it anymore!"

Mona was extremely tough and still refused to give up the wild boar. He carried the wild boar on his shoulders and ran all the way. However, because of this, the wild boar helped him block a shot.

The two tribes opened fire across the bank, each suffering casualties. Mona Rudao crossed the stream and successfully escaped!

……

After the group performance, Yang Ye came back on stage, and Ke Shouliang pointed out the locations of the bomb sites one by one to Yang Ye.

After Yang Ye read it over, he remembered them one by one and said it was time to start filming.

Later, Yang Ye entered the stream, and the recorder called: "Action!"

Yang Ye jumped out of the water and ran all the way according to the designed route. Explosive points exploded one by one at his feet. It was extremely thrilling!

"OK, perfect!"

Ke Shouliang sighed: "It's great to film with Mr. Yang. As long as you tell him once, he will remember it and he will never make a mistake."

Luo Lixian also said: "On the contrary, we are worried that we will make a mistake. His stuck point is too precise. If the dose of medicine is not determined, it may hurt him."

……

The Sino-Japanese War failed, the Beiyang Fleet was completely wiped out, and the Qing Dynasty ceded Taiwan Island to Japan!

The Hakkas on the island were dissatisfied and began to organize themselves and launched a heroic resistance. This was the famous "Yiwei War".

The Yiwei War was the largest war in the history of the island of Taiwan. Hakkas were the main force, but Hokkien people, mainlanders, and aborigines also participated. The entire people resisted Japan and lasted for a year.

In this battle, the Japanese army dispatched two major regiments, the Guards Division and the Second Division, totaling more than 3 men and 7 horses. This did not include soldiers and logistics reserve troops. In the end, nearly 7 people were killed or injured. , including a leading prince and a major general.

On the Taiwan side, about 3 regular troops were dispatched, and the number of civilian warriors and rebels was incalculable. Not only did they lose many generals in this war, but the Japanese army also carried out brutal and indiscriminate raids, resulting in at least 3 military and civilian casualties. above.

In the original Seediq Bale, the war was briefly introduced in three scenes.

In the first scene, the Japanese generals held a general meeting, pointed to the map of Taiwan and said: "Taiwan Island is the new territory of the empire, a land that has not yet received the emperor's grace. Although the people on the island are fierce and ferocious, and it is said that they will use arms to resist our army's takeover, but They are all stragglers, so there is no need to be afraid. After the landing at Keelung Port, a comprehensive sweep from north to south must be made to make the islanders no longer have the heart to be insulting and sincerely surrender to our Sun Empire. Especially the heartland separated by the Fan tribe... "

The Japanese general pulled out his command knife and pointed at the central mountain range on the map, "The mountains, forest farms, mines here... there are infinite treasures..."

In the second scene, the Hakka people organized to resist the Japanese invasion, but they were a ragtag group and were defeated in minutes.

In the third scene, the Japanese captured the leader of the resistance army and paraded him in public, surrounded by numb onlookers with pig tails.

Yang Ye made some modifications to this.

The first scene is copied from the original version;

The second scene shows the heroic resistance of the Hakka people against the Japanese army;

The third scene shows the Japanese army's brutal and indiscriminate raids on Hakka villages.

Next, we return to the topic and talk about the Aboriginal resistance to Japan.

A Japanese army crossed through the deep and steep Taroko Gorge and prepared to enter the central mountain range where the indigenous people live. The Seediq people had already been waiting on the cliff for a long time based on the natural dangers.

"Put the rocks down!"

At the command, the rocks on the cliff fell one after another, smashing the heads of the Japanese soldiers below.

The various tribes achieved unprecedented unity without prior communication.

……

"Rail car ready, Action!"

Zhong Zhiwen sat on the rail car and controlled the camera to take close-up shots of Yang Ye chasing the Japanese soldiers.

I saw Yang Ye, dressed in a Seediq costume and holding a scimitar in his hand, rushing out and chasing a Japanese leader.

Miraculously, he actually maintained a relative speed with the rail car, allowing Zhong Zhiwen to perfectly photograph his stern face as he chased the enemy.

The proud Mona Rudo would never swing his knife from behind his enemy when mowing the grass.

He chased after him and passed a Japanese officer. He raised his knife and suddenly slashed it down... "How's it going?"

"OK! The running rhythm is so well controlled, I really admire it!"

Zhong Zhiwen has been a photographer for several years and has filmed more than ten TV series for LiTV. He has never seen an actor with such a good camera sense. His precise positioning makes people call him abnormal.

Yang Ye nodded and ordered: "Clean up the scene, clean up all the props and stones, and don't leave garbage here to pollute the environment!"

Yang Ye ordered loudly, and suddenly someone shouted: "Director, your feet!"

Yang Ye lowered his head and looked: "Fuck, it's broken again. Doctor, please come over and wrap it up for me."

Seediq people do not wear shoes. Although Yang Ye specially made a batch of rubber shoes, the effect was only marginal.

Rubber shoes are often punctured in the mountains and forests, and since the toes are exposed, accidental kicks are common.

After filming for less than a month, people were injured almost every day, and Yang Ye himself was injured several times.

He was quite lucky. Every time, his skin was broken and some blood flowed, but the damage was not very serious.

Several of the martial artists he brought had their feet punctured and were sent back to the city to recuperate.

"Damn it, after eight years of filming, it has never been so miserable!"

Yang Ye complained, and assistant director Ding Shanxi laughed and said: "No one has made a movie like this before, and no one will make it in the future."

Hua Huiying nodded and said, "Yes, in the future there should be no one like Mr. Yang who spends so much energy telling the history of ethnic minorities."

Yang Ye thought to himself, it was not impossible. Hollywood later filmed "Pocahontas" and "Avatar", but their angles were... very strange.

For example, Disney's "Pocahontas" beautified the brutal colonial history of America.

Pocahontas has the face of an Indian princess but the body of a Caucasian. She is nothing more than an exotic, idealized beauty based on the aesthetics of Caucasian men.

"Sediq Bale" does not make judgments and truly reproduces the cruel history of Taiwan's aboriginal people resisting Japanese aggression!

From this point of view, it is much more advanced than "Pocahontas" and "Avatar".

Of course, the highlight of "Pocahontas" is the beautiful singing and dancing, and the highlight of "Avatar" is the dazzling special effects.

Use advanced technology for commercial packaging, which even "Sediq Bale" cannot match!

……

The crew was filming everywhere in the mountains and forests every day, with countless extras coming in and out. Before I knew it, two months had passed.

Yang Ye had already played the role of Mona Ludo in his youth, and Zhang Shuping personally applied makeup to transform him into a middle-aged man with deep eyes, some gray hair, and a grooved face.

The filming continued with a scene where Mahpo and the Daoze tribe met in the hunting ground.

Mona Rudo and Temuvaris met as enemies and became jealous. Kojima Genji, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, quickly ran out to smooth things over.

Kojima Genji grabbed the muzzle of Mona's gun and said: "Mona, don't get me wrong, my eldest son went hunting for the first time. I asked Tiemu to take me here!"

Mona was furious: "Then you shouldn't come to my hunting ground of Mahpo."

Tiemu refused to accept: "When my uncle was here, this was our hunting ground of Daoze, and you took it by force."

A young man from the Mahepo tribe said arrogantly: "Your hunting ground? Then you can take it away again!"

Kojima Genji shouted: "That's enough!"

The Japanese went crazy and everyone suddenly became quiet.

Xiaodao said: "Mona, give me some face, can you?"

Mona said: "Xiaodao, if you were in Mahepo now, I would definitely give you face. But you are in Tumbala now. Take these red-footed slugs with you and get away from my hunting ground."

"Kakaka..."

Dozens of rifles were immediately loaded and ready to fire.

At this moment, Kojima's son, who was only a few years old, said: "What is your hunting ground, my hunting ground? They all belong to us Japanese!"

The child's words silenced all the Seediqs present.

Yes, they all belong to the Japanese. Even the guns and ammunition for hunting are obtained from the Japanese. You must register the guns when you receive them, and return them when you use them.

What else are you fighting for? What a fight!

……

"OK, we just took the photo here today. It will get dark in two hours. Let's go down the mountain quickly. That kid just now, you did a great job. Chicken drumsticks for dinner!"

"Thank you, director!"

Everyone packed up their things and went down the mountain. Yang Ye said to Ding Shanxi: "Old Ding, I have to take a leave. The first Hong Kong Academy Awards will be held this year. I must give face to support them. You will lead the team these days. Just skip my scene."

Ding Shanxi nodded and said, "Okay!"

Yang Ye went down the mountain without eating dinner. Within two hours, he arrived at Lin Fengjiao's home in Taipei.

Lin Fengjiao heard the doorbell ringing. When she opened the door, she saw a middle-aged man with a dark face and gray hair standing outside the door, wearing strange clothes. She couldn't help but look confused.

"who are you looking for?"

"Gillian, you miss me so much!"

"Ye...Brother Ye?"

Yang Ye grinned, showing two rows of white teeth, and said, "You came directly from the set and didn't even have time to take off your makeup. Fortunately, you are at home."

"Come in quickly, have you eaten?"

"Nope!"

"Then I'll cook you a bowl of noodles!"

"Okay, I'm going to take a shower first!"

Yang Ye walked into the bathroom, scrubbed himself, put on the clothes Lin Fengjiao had prepared for him, and walked out.

Lin Fengjiao had already cooked the noodles and was sitting at the dining table waiting for him.

Yang Ye walked over but didn't eat the noodles. He picked up Lin Fengjiao and placed her on the dining table.

Lin Fengjiao exclaimed: "What are you doing? Let's eat noodles first!"

Damn it, I have been holding it in for two months in the deep mountains and old forests, so of course I need to release it.

Xu Feng only stayed on the set for a few days before going home to take care of his baby.

After Yang Ye finished eating, Lin Fengjiao sat at the dining table and watched with satisfaction as Yang Ye ate the noodles.

"Are you reincarnated as a starving ghost?"

"After two months in the deep mountains and old forests, I'm almost turning into a savage. I can't bear it anymore!"

Lin Fengjiao spat: "I'm talking about noodles, you gangster!"

Yang Ye chuckled and said, "Have you seen Qingxia recently?"

"No, we each have a movie being filmed, so how can we have time to meet?"

In fact, this is just an excuse. They used to film separately and didn't see each other often.

It's because, a few months ago, after the two of them accompanied Yang Ye together, they felt very embarrassed when they met again, so they made a tacit agreement to avoid meeting each other.

"You are good sisters, how can this be okay? Call Qingxia and ask her to come over!"

"Do it……"

"When I return to Hong Kong tomorrow, won't you two come with me?"

"Oh!"

Lin Fengjiao thought it right, agreed, and ran to call Lin Qingxia.

Yang Ye made a good excuse, because Er Lin was shortlisted for the Academy Award, so naturally he had to go back with Yang Ye.

But in fact, Yang Ye asked Lin Qingxia to come over because after holding it in the forest for two months, Lin Fengjiao couldn't withstand his fire by herself! (End of chapter)