Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 309 Young Master Yang has many ideas

Chen Long was injured, "Plan A" was suspended, and Yang Ye's "Violent Street" was not finished. During the Spring Festival of 1983, Baiyang Cinema released New Art City's "The Best Partner 2".

Comedy is king in the Hong Kong film market. In the original time and space, the box office champions every year were basically comedies, and action films could only lag behind.

Of course, Hong Kong comedies and action films are often tied together. Only by combining the two can they create box office myths, and they must be mainly funny and supplemented by action.

The Best Partner series and the Five Lucky Stars series both use this routine.

During the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, these two series stole the show.

Although Chen Long was a strong player at that time, in Hong Kong, he often lost when facing these two series.

For example, 1985's "Police Story" is definitely a masterpiece among action movies.

But it still couldn't beat Hong Jingbao's Lucky Star series, ranking third in the annual box office rankings.

Because Chen Long's movies are mainly action, supplemented by comedy, and vice versa.

Of course, the Hong Kong market is nothing to Chen Long.

……

Yang Ye was filming when Hong Jingbao came over.

When he saw that Yang Ye was busy, he sat aside silently and watched with a learning attitude.

The set was decorated like an underground casino, and Donnie Yen was fighting a group of gangsters.

Yang Ye said: "Danny, look at the position of the gambling table below. If it falls, it will hit the gambling table. This dummy is expensive. You only have one chance."

Donnie Yen nodded.

Yang Ye emphasized again: "When you hit the gambling table, you must let the dummy help you with your back. Otherwise, the best outcome for you is to go to the hospital and lie down for a month."

There are so many substitutes used in filming scenes. Hong Jingbao was surprised to find that Yang Ye was actually using a dummy as a substitute.

After getting ready, the crew first filmed a gangster hugging Donnie Yen from behind. Donnie Yen struggled twice, and the crew immediately replaced the gangster with a dummy.

Then Zhen Zi did a backflip, jumped over the railing and fell, breaking the gaming table below in half.

Although there was a dummy on his back, Zhen Zidan still fell badly.

But this was filming. He endured the pain and climbed up quickly. Only after he appeared on camera did he dare to fall down. Someone immediately stepped forward to support him.

Yang Ye clapped his hands and praised: "Perfect! Danny, you should take a rest first."

Hong Jingbao said hello to Yang Ye and couldn't help but run forward to check the dummy. He found that the dummy was very realistic and lifelike.

"Mr. Yang, this thing is expensive, isn't it?"

"Well, that's two months' salary of a Dragon and Tiger martial artist."

"Why not just let Master Longhu come?"

"People will die! If the problem can be solved with money, use money to solve it."

Yang Ye said seriously: "Sanmao, your crew's accident rate is too high. Now many dragon and tiger martial arts masters are afraid when they hear that your crew is starting work.

If the action is too dangerous, don't do it forcefully. You can try to find Ziqi Company to help you solve it. "

Hong Jingbao nodded, and Yang Ye said again: "Don't think I'm too talkative. The martial arts guild is currently negotiating with the insurance company to allow Longhu martial arts masters to buy insurance. If you don't reduce the accident rate, this matter won't happen."

The first president of the martial arts union, Yuan Xiaotian, has passed away, and the successor president is a woman, Yu Suqiu, the senior sister of Qixiaofu.

Yu Suqiu has retired long ago, so she has a lot of time to deal with the union's trivial matters.

Moreover, she has a high seniority. People like Hong Jingbao and Chen Long don't dare to speak out in front of her, so she is suitable for this job.

As the martial arts union becomes more and more formal, it will start two things now.

The first is to bring Shaw Brothers' Dragon and Tiger Warriors into the union, and the second is to buy insurance for the Dragon and Tiger Warriors.

Due to the long-term sluggishness of the box office of Shaw Brothers' movies and the large studio system being on the verge of collapse, it was only a matter of time before the first goal was achieved.

But for the matter of buying insurance for Longhu martial arts masters, the union went to several insurance companies, but they were all rejected.

This is understandable. Insurance companies want to make profits. If you are so desperate, who dares to insure? The rhythm of death!

Therefore, if this thing is to be accomplished, the accident rate of Longhu martial arts masters must be reduced.

In fact, Hong Jingbao himself is also thinking about this matter. On the one hand, his senior sister has already talked to him about it.

On the other hand, he has a bit of a bad reputation now. Once those dragon and tiger martial arts masters heard that it was Director Hong's job, they would express their unavailability.

Yang Ye moved out of Ziqi Company, which was a clear path for Hong Jingbao.

Seeing that Hong Jingbao had listened, Yang Ye said, "You have something to do with me?"

Hong Jingbao said: "I have a new film that will be released in the summer. I wonder if you are free and can you help me make a cameo?"

Yang Ye snorted and asked, "What movie?"

This film is naturally "The Five Lucky Stars". This film was directly spawned by "The Best Partner" and is the pinnacle of Hong Jingbao's film career.

Hong Jingbao originally had Chen Long's idea.

With Chen Long, we can sell our films to Japan, even Europe and the United States.

But now that Chen Long was lying in the hospital, Hong Jingbao had another idea for Yang Ye.

Last year, both Yang Ye and Chen Long went to Hollywood to shoot Western films. "Shanghai Noon" grossed more than 70 million US dollars at the global box office, making Chen Long very popular in Europe and the United States.

However, Chen Long listened to Yang Ye's advice and did not continue to stay in Hollywood. Instead, he ran away after pretending to be cool and returned to Hong Kong.

Yang Ye said to Chen Long: We have to maintain a sense of mystery and just come here every three to five. If we stay in Hollywood all the time, it will soon be worthless.

"First Blood" directed by Yang Ye himself did not appear in the film, but it relied on Stallone's super appeal and the box office exceeded 1.6 million US dollars.

This box office is more than 40 million US dollars higher than that of the original version. The reason is of course that the speeding, fighting, and explosion scenes in the movie are more shocking than the original version.

At this point, Yang Ye's single film box office finally exceeded 100 million US dollars in North America, although he did not star in it himself.

After listening to Hong Jingbao's introduction, Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "Since this role is designed for Aaron, it's better for Aaron. His injury is almost healed. You can save his scene until the end." That’s it.”

Seeing that Yang Ye did not agree, Hong Jingbao had no choice but to give up.

Unexpectedly, Yang Ye changed his tone and said: "I can also make a guest appearance. You can design a scene outside the main plot where Aaron and I have a misunderstanding and have a fight. It only takes two minutes."

Hong Jingbao's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. Chen Long and Yang Ye were fighting each other, and it looked like they were going to make a difference.

"Young Master Yang still has more ideas!"

Hong Jingbao left happily, and Yang Ye continued filming.

It has been three months since the filming of this drama and it will be finished soon.

Yang Ye is too lazy to wait for the summer schedule and plans to release it directly during the Easter schedule.

In order to create a gimmick, the title "Violent Street" was not used when it was released in Hong Kong, but was directly changed to "Kowloon Walled City"!
……

Before you know it, it’s the annual awards season again. The biggest highlight of this year’s Golden Melody Awards is the competition between Jacky Cheung and Anita Mui for Best Newcomer.

There was even a handicap on this matter, betting on which of the two would win the best newcomer.

In the end, Zhang Xueyou was slightly better and took the trophy home.

There was no way, Yang Ye's blessing was too great.

Among the top ten Chinese golden songs that were subsequently announced, a song was unexpectedly selected.

When the award-giving guest shouted "Li Guyi, "Nostalgia"", many people in the guest room were confused. Who is this? never heard of that!
I saw a beautiful woman in a pale pink dress, dignified and calmly walked onto the stage, took the trophy, and said: "Hello everyone, I am Li Guyi, a singer from the mainland. Thank you to the Chinese Music Golden Melody Award for giving me the honor of the top ten Chinese golden songs. Awarded to the song "Hometown Love"."

Everyone suddenly realized that this award was called the "Chinese Music Golden Melody Award" from the beginning, not the "Hong Kong Music Golden Melody Award".

Since Taiwanese singers can win awards, why can't mainland singers win awards?

But, mainlanders can also sing pop songs? Isn’t it an old-fashioned red song?
Many people scoffed, waiting to see the joke.

"Your figure and your singing will always be imprinted in my heart.

Although yesterday has disappeared, it is difficult to see each other again

How can I forget your deep affection.

my love, my sweet dream

stay in your arms forever

tomorrow is coming
But it’s rare to meet you

Only the wind sends me a deep feeling..."

Everyone was surprised to find that the melody of this song is deep and soothing, the lyrics are delicate and touching, and the song is sentimental and not earthy at all.

Li Guyi sang calmly, and her singing skills and voice amazed everyone present.

What's even more surprising is that Li Guyi's singing style actually has a bit of Deng Lijun's style, and you can clearly hear Deng's "breathy voice" and "vibrato" characteristics.

How can this be?

Teresa Teng's songs are classified as pornographic songs in the Mainland, and their melodious music is a poisonous weed that can't get rid of horses!
What they didn’t know was that it had actually been three years since the song was born.

When it was aired three years ago, it refreshed the lifeless mainland music scene, like a fresh wind blowing through people's hearts that had been bound for a long time.

But it didn’t take long for the song to be banned because many Dogecoins complained that the song was a pornographic song, with a melodious sound, and was a poisonous weed that stepped on horses.

Not long ago, the first Spring Festival Gala was held in the Mainland, and the party adopted a very unique TV on-demand format.

Audiences across the country can call the hotline for the Spring Festival Gala. You can order whatever program you want to watch or listen to, and then the artists at the gala will perform and sing for you.

As a result, people all over the country wanted to hear Li Guyi sing and kept asking for songs for Li Guyi to sing.

Li Guyi had just finished singing a song and went down, and immediately asked her up again.

Singing one song after another, I followed the concert.

The most troublesome thing for the party program team was that countless viewers called in and wanted to listen to "Nostalgia".

This is a forbidden song, who dares to play it?

The program team ignored it at first, but the audience became very rebellious. You just stopped singing, right? I’ll just order it!

Calls came in one after another from all over the country. I had to listen to "Nostalgic Love", and the cables of the dedicated phone lines were hung until they started to smoke, and the fire brigade came.

After singing during the Spring Festival Gala, the first popular song after the change was finally released.

It shows that literature and art should bid farewell to the unified and rigid model, bid farewell to thousands of people and thousands of tunes.

……

Baiyang Records recorded Li Guyi's "Nostalgia" as an EP and sold it in Hong Kong, selling more than 10,000 copies.

Although it's nothing compared to the triple platinum sales of top-tier singers in the Hong Kong music scene, it's still pretty good.

In Yang Ye's office, Zhang Guoqing was drinking tea and said happily: "Comrade Yang, it's a great idea to let Li Guyi perform a song at the Golden Melody Awards. It's more useful than a hundred editorials written by Wenhui Po."

Yang Ye said: "Ms. Li sings well. Her singing voice is comparable to Teresa Teng. She lets the people of Hong Kong know that the mainland is not so vulgar and there are also good pop songs."

In fact, both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the four places share the same culture and culture. What they lack is exchange and communication, so there are so many misunderstandings between each other. "

Zhang Guoqing said: "This is well said. Culture requires more exchanges. Mr. Yang, you are the master of Hong Kong and Taiwan music. We want comrades from China Record Corporation to visit your Baiyang Record Company to introduce Hong Kong and Taiwan music to the mainland. go."

Yang Yexin said, this is to repay the favor. Baiyang Records sent an EP to Li Guyi, but he was bitten by the bunch of bastards led by the Industrial and Commercial Daily to get some benefits.

Yang Ye asked: "When it comes to pop music, Teresa Teng is unique. She has huge influence not only in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but also in Southeast Asia and Japan. Can her songs be introduced to the mainland?"

Zhang Guoqing said: "This..."

Yang Ye said unceremoniously: "To be honest, although Deng Lijun's songs are banned, her records and tapes have long been spread throughout the country through smuggling channels.

In addition, Radio Hong Kong, Commercial Channel, ABC, and our Asia Broadcasting Corporation are playing Teresa Teng’s songs every day.

Along the coast, hundreds of millions of people are listening to her songs on the radio. There is no point in blocking, so why not open up? "

Zhang Guoqing said: "I will report this matter to the police. After research, I will tell you the results!"

……

The Academy Awards will be held a few days later. Yang Ye and Chen Long were filming Western films last year, so there would be nothing to do without them.

There is not much difference between this year's Academy Awards and the previous one. Jade Bird's "Journey to the Angry Sea" has a tendency to crush other films.

In one fell swoop, he won the best film, best director, best screenwriter, best art, and best newcomer.

Hong Jingbao and Mai Jia were awarded the Best Actor title at the same time, opening a double-yolked egg, and Lin Biqi was awarded the Best Actress title.

However, the main creative staff of "The Wrath of the Sea" all use pseudonyms and will not go on stage to accept the award at all.

The Best Actress Lin Biqi was nursing her baby at home. She didn't care about the award at all, so naturally she wouldn't come.

As a result, a very embarrassing scene occurred. For six consecutive awards, no real winner came on stage to receive them. The organizing committee could only find a staff member to come on stage, take the award and leave. Naturally, there was no acceptance speech or anything!
This year's Academy Awards banquet sponsor was changed to The Peninsula Hotel.

There were many people at Baiyang Pictures, and they gathered around two big tables.

Hong Jingbao and a group of dragon and tiger warriors were having fun, Yang Ye walked over and said with a smile: "Sanmao, I respect you for being awarded the best actor title!"

Winning the Best Actor Award is a joyful thing, and it is even more joyful to win the Best Actor Award at the same time as one of his good brothers, so Hong Jingbao is in a very high mood tonight.

However, this guy was still very humble and said: "It's just a fluke. Mr. Yang, you don't have any movies released this year."

Yang Ye touched his nose and said with a smile: "I feel so good about flattering you. I will give you a celebration banquet in two days for everyone to come and have fun."

They were chatting happily when a slightly fat man came over with a wine glass and said: "Hello, Mr. Yang! I am the general manager of Century Pictures, Liu Zhenwei!"

Yang Ye was stunned and almost blurted out: "I'm going to attack your mother?"

(End of this chapter)