Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Great directors are all liars!

Yang Ye complained and went back to Hong Kong.

This summer in Hong Kong, the three brothers Yang Ye and Jackie Chan are not here, and they look very depressed.

Siyuan Pictures' "Dragon Ninja", Shaw Brothers' "Tathagata", and Yuan Jiaban's "Qi Men Dun Jia" were released in Jiahe, Shaw Brothers, and Baiyang theaters respectively, and they were indistinguishable.

In the end, "Qi Men Dun Jia" was slightly better at the box office with 840 million Hong Kong dollars, while "Dragon Ninja" and "Tathagata Palm" both had more than million.

After "Qi Men Dun Jia" was released at Baiyang Cinema, New Art City's "Night Terror" was released at the same time. It grossed 950 million at the box office and had the last laugh.

Last year, the box office of several major summer movies was over 5 million. This year, it was mentioned as over 7 million. This shows how strong the growth momentum of Hong Kong's box office is.

However, these movies all belong to the category where there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys act as overlords.

Yang Ye didn't care much. He slapped his head and said, damn, I forgot one thing.

Yang Ye originally planned to launch a singing competition variety show this year, something similar to TVB's "Happy Tonight".

But I haven’t thought about whether to make a fast boy or a super girl or to make a good voice.

Moreover, he had many things to do, so he put them down for the time being.

As a result of this delay, Wireless held the first rookie singing competition and discovered Anita Mui.

Wo Day, a generation of diva slipped away.

Yang Ye was depressed for three seconds and said in his heart: You have a queen of songs, and I have a god of songs.

He immediately called Zhang Xueyou over: "Ayou, I heard that you sing pretty well?"

Zhang Xueyou scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's not bad!"

"Don't be modest. You and Hua Zai are the first batch of artists launched by our trainee system. They are the face of the agency. You must have the momentum to do your part."

When Yang Ye said this, Zhang Xueyou immediately stood up straight: "Boss, I want to sing!"

"Very good. I'll give you three days to practice this song. If your performance satisfies General Manager Zheng, the company will release a record for you."

Yang Ye said, handing him the song "Distant Her".

Zhang Xueyou took it and saw that his hands were shaking a little. Yang Ye actually wrote the lyrics and music for this song himself.

Whoever Yang Ye writes a song for will become popular, but he is too valuable and no one can hire him, so we can only depend on his mood.

This song "Distant Her" has a soft style and poignant melody. It is one of Zhang Xueyou's early masterpieces.

It is actually a cover of "Romantic Railway" released by Shinji Tanimura in 1985, and Yang Ye naturally paid tribute to it first.

Zhang Xueyou was so excited that he went there holding the song.

……

Liu Hua returned to the rental house with midnight snacks and beer. Zhang Xueyou was holding a guitar and sitting in the living room, humming and singing.

"If you are still playing at this late hour, be careful of neighbors complaining about you!"

Liu Hua made a joke and put the midnight snack on the table.

Zhang Xueyou said with a smile: "Young Master Yang gave me a song."

Liu Hua was shocked: "Really?"

"I'll sing it to you!"

Zhang Xueyou strummed the guitar and sang: "She can no longer go home in the distance, but she is always the only one in my dreams. Can she know the words in my heart, the passion has not changed, no matter the vicissitudes of life..."

"Does it sound good?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Liu Hua nodded fiercely, "Young Master Yang is extraordinary when he takes action."

Zhang Xueyou put down his guitar, opened his late-night snack, took a bite of Niuhe, and said, "But I still have to pass the test of Manager Zheng. Young Master Yang said that he will only release a record for me after I sing to the satisfaction of Manager Zheng."

"You can sing so well, there must be no problem." Liu Hua was a little envious.

Zhang Xueyou smiled, he still had this bit of confidence.

"When will your Divine Condor be broadcast?"

"Next week!"

"Then first I wish you good ratings."

"You have already made two Jin Yong dramas, and I have only made one. I can't compare with you."

"How can there be? The Divine Condor is a Jin Yong drama on the same level as Tianlong. You played the first male lead in The Divine Condor, and I only played the third male lead in Tianlong. If you act well, I think you will become more popular than Leslie Cheung."

"You really dare to say that, then I also wish you to become more popular in singing than Leslie Cheung!"

The two opened their beers and bumped into each other, both looking forward to the future!

……

Baiyang Management Company provides subsidies for its artists to rent houses. In order to facilitate the start of work, most people choose to rent houses near TV stations or studios.

Lan Jieying was carrying a bag of snacks. As soon as she returned to the rental house, she smelled the tempting aroma of food.

She put down the snack, grabbed a piece of shiitake mushroom and put it in her mouth.

Zeng Huaqian just happened to come out with bowls and chopsticks, and said angrily: "You didn't wash your hands, so you ate it secretly!"

"Who told you to cook so delicious food?"

"Stop flattering and wash your hands!"

The two beautiful girls were eating, but their eyes were fixed on the TV.

"Love begins in a daze, when the world first opens, this romantic old story."

"Love is hazy, past lives, present lives, and other lives. I'm afraid I won't know if I miss it..."

The moving theme song sounded, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" began.

Different from the 95 version, the plot of this version develops very quickly. It starts with sealing the door with a bloody hand seal, and then Li Mochou hunts down Lu Liding's family. Halfway through the episode, Yang Guo appears. However, like the 95 version, this version did not select the childhood bodies of several protagonists, and directly appeared in the adult bodies.

"Wow, Brother Hua is so handsome!" Lan Jieying's eyes lit up.

Liu Hua was a bit fat at this time in the original time and space, but since he started as a trainee, he has been taking bodybuilding classes, so now he maintains an excellent figure.

"Nympho!" Zeng Huaqian rolled her eyes.

"Isn't it handsome?"

"I didn't say he wasn't handsome, but..." Zeng Huaqian didn't say any more, picked up the dishes on the table and walked to the kitchen.

"Don't leave, I'm going to appear soon!"

"I won't watch you appear!" Zeng Huaqian said, but stood still.

"Haha, you are jealous that I appeared earlier than you."

At this time, Guo Fu on TV started to show off.

"If you know what's going on, just leave quickly, otherwise my parents are here and I'll have some juice for you!"

"Who are your parents?"

"I'll scare you to death if I tell you. My father is the famous Daxia Guo of Peach Blossom Island, and my mother is Gang Leader Huang of the Beggar Clan!"

Zeng Huaqian wrinkled her nose: "Guo Fu is so cute!"

Lan Jieying said sternly: "What's the point? If my father and mother were so powerful, I would be more powerful than Guo Fu!"

Zeng Huaqian shook her head and said with a smile, "I can't stand you."

There were a few words on the TV, and the fight broke out, and Li Mochou took action with his Ice Soul Silver Needle.

At this time, Lan Jieying and Zeng Huaqian suddenly saw a strange scene.

I saw a silver needle slowly flying across the screen accompanied by a strange sound effect, but the people on the screen seemed to be still.

This picture was so shocking that Lan Jieying and Zeng Huaqian's eyes widened and they stopped breathing, as if they had become people on TV.

At this moment, the scene suddenly sped up. Ke Zhen E listened to the sound and identified the position, and instantly knocked the silver needle away with his crutch.

It took Zeng Huaqian a long time to come to her senses. She did not participate in the early shooting and couldn't help but ask: "How handsome is this?"

……

In another rental house.

Zhang Xueyou was also dumbfounded. He asked the same question: "It's so cool. How was this filmed?"

Liu Hua explained: "This is made by Ziqi Company. They use many cameras connected in a circle to form a camera array. They press the shutter at the same time, so that each camera will take a frame. Finally, when connected, it will form this A special effect."

……

Zeng Huaqian was shocked: "It was taken with a camera?"

Lan Jieying said: "Yes, people from Ziqi Company said this is called 'time cutting'. I heard that this shooting method existed before the birth of movies."

……

Liu Hua explained: "In 1878, people had a debate about whether animals had all four feet off the ground when they were running. A man named Eadweard Muybridge put 24 cameras together, with a Controlled by a tight rope across the track. When the horse ran past, the camera shutter was triggered and the moment of the horse's running was captured.

He later synthesized these photos into a set of primitive animations by placing them on a glass disk that rotated in front of a light source. Later, Edison invented the movie camera based on this principle. "

(Note: Edison invented the movie machine, and the Lumiere brothers made improvements based on it, shooting and showing the world's first movie "A Train Arrives at the Station", so it is generally believed that the Lumiere brothers invented the movie. .)

Zhang Xueyou smiled and said: "It's so interesting. Such a popular technology was actually born a hundred years ago."

……

Zeng Huaqian said: "It's so troublesome. Doesn't it mean that every time Li Mochou releases the Ice Soul Silver Needle, he has to take a photo again?"

Lan Jieying said: "No need. I heard that Ziqi Company shot the flying needle effect in front of a blue screen. When you want to use it in the future, you just need to add it to various scenes."

"What's a blue screen?"

"I don't know about this, I just heard it from hearsay. In short... that Ziqi Company is very powerful. The movies Young Master Yang shot before were like alien spaceships, Terminator, and all kinds of heroes flying all over the sky. Such things are all made by Ziqi Company."

……

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is completely popular, with the ratings of the first episode exceeding 60%, beating TVB's "Little Heroes of the Condor Heroes" to nowhere, with the ratings falling below 30%.

The scene of Li Mochou firing the Ice Soul Silver Needle impressed countless people and became a hot topic in the city.

Major newspapers also kept up with current events and popularized science among citizens about what "time cutting" is.

In fact, the "time cutting" effect of Ice Soul Silver Needle is very rough.

This technology became truly popular and widely known only after the release of "The Matrix".

Because the props in The Matrix are bullets, it is called "Bullet Time".

Fang Yihua pinched the bridge of his nose and felt a headache.

With the ratings so low, those advertisers are going to cause trouble again. Wireless is a free TV station with no ads. What to eat?

Fang Yihua was scared by Yang Ye last time and did not dare to use any shameful means. She called several gold medal producers over and asked: "Can we do this 'time cutting' effect?"

Xiao Sheng said: "'Time cutting' is not a rare thing. It existed a hundred years ago. It's just that it's troublesome and expensive to do. The other thing is to find a suitable scene to show it, like Li Mochou's launch Ice Soul Silver Needle is a very suitable scene.”

Fang Yihua asked: "Do you have any good scripts recently?"

Wu Runquan said: "Manager, can we dig Michelle over?"

"What are you digging Michelle for?"

"The previous ATV show "Fearless" was very popular, and I want to make a "Su Qier" with a similar theme. Huang Yuan Shen has just transferred to ATV and will definitely not come back, so I want Zhou Runfa to be the male lead. As for the female lead, Zhao Qiannan played by Michelle in "Fearless" is so popular, I want to ask her to be the heroine of "Su Qier"."

Fang Yihua's eyes lit up, Chow Yun-fat is Chen Yulian's ex-boyfriend, filming "Su Qier" against "The Condor Heroes", letting Chow Runfa and Chen Yulian fight in the ring, it seems to be quite exciting!

And Michelle is indeed very resistant to ratings, so bringing her back can just increase the chance of winning.

Fang Yihua said: "I'll give it a try!" (End of Chapter)