Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

On the weekend, Yang Ye took Adjani and Yang Xi to visit Xie Yi's house.

Yang Ye didn't expect that Xie could cook, so he cooked himself and made a table of German dishes.

Yang Ye looked at the golden and crispy German elbows on the table and all kinds of weird sausages, and gave a thumbs up!

Shay said proudly: "Although your Chinese food and French food are very good, our German food is also very unique."

As the man spoke, he enthusiastically served everyone the dishes. He put a piece of Bavarian white sausage on Yang Ye's plate and said, "Try my big sausage. This is my wife's favorite!"

Damn it, Yang Ye was looking at a table of delicious food just now, but now he doesn't want to eat it.

Yang Ye rolled his eyes and said, "I'm more interested in your pork knuckles. You'd better leave your big white sausage to your wife!"

Adjani and Shay's Hannah couldn't help but lower their heads and laugh wildly.

Shay was a little embarrassed, so he had to raise his glass and said: "Drink, drink!"

Yang Ye drank Lafite from 1982 and took off a big elbow, feeling very satisfied.

By the way, now I can finally say "Bring me a bottle of 1982 Lafite" when ordering food in a restaurant.

After the meal, their wives went to play with their children, and Yang Ye and Xie sat together drinking tea and chatting.

Xie said: "I think movie theaters are a good business, and some of the theaters acquired in the past two years have begun to make profits.

I plan to expand the scale and expand our theater chain to other communities. "

Yang Ye said: "Take your time. We don't have enough funds. If we take too big a step, we will lose our money."

Yang Ye said a Chinese proverb, which made Xie laugh.

Yang Ye said: "We, Lian Mei, are an outlier among the eight major companies. If we develop too fast, we will be easily targeted by those Jews.

Although the Paramount Act has ceased to exist in name only after Reagan came to power, this law is still there after all.

If we develop the film industry rapidly, this thing may become a weapon against us.

So I think that instead of developing vertically, it’s better to develop horizontally! "

Shay was puzzled: "What is vertical development and what is horizontal development?"

Yang Ye said: “If we invest in movies on a large scale, build cinemas, and make our film industry bigger and stronger, this is vertical development.

If we continue to follow the steps, do not expand the scale, and use the profits from the film industry for other businesses, this is horizontal development. "

"That's it!" Shay said thoughtfully, "Which industry do you have your eye on?"

Yang Ye said: "I have a Japanese friend named Kadokawa Haruki. He was originally in the publishing industry, and later got involved in the film industry.

He made a popular Japanese novel into a movie, and after the movie became a hit, he published the novel. As a result, both the novel and the movie became huge hits.

Literature is a very old art, and movies are not young anymore. Now there is an emerging industry called the ninth art, which is..."

Shay's eyes lit up: "Video games?"

Yang Ye nodded and said: "The emergence of electronic games represents the birth of a new form of entertainment, although it developed slowly at the beginning.

But with the advancement of technology, especially after Atari released the Atari 1977 home game console in 2600, the industry experienced a blowout development.

We have a lot of really good movies on our hands. For example, 007, First Blood, Alien... They are very suitable for being adapted into video games. I think we can also get a share of this industry! "

The Atari 1977, released by Atari in 2600, was the first true home game console system in history. It shocked the United States and sold 2500 million units.

By 1982, its popularity had reached the level of one for every three households in the United States, and it was even more popular around the world.

However, Atari also came to an end this year. The huge market collapsed due to the proliferation of inferior software, and the software and hardware were all unsaleable.

The gaming market in the United States disappeared almost overnight, and the development of the world's gaming industry came to a standstill.

However, although Atari died, the concept of home game consoles has successfully penetrated into people's lives.

Atari's game console made two changes to the traditional game console.

The first is to directly connect to the TV and play with a controller. Traditional game consoles come with their own monitors and the controller is integrated on the host, which is expensive and inconvenient.

The second is that all previous games were solidified in ROM. Once you get tired of playing them, the game console will be useless. Atari, on the other hand, uses cartridges and replaces them when they get tired of playing.

It is precisely based on these two points that home game consoles truly surpass other toys and reach the pinnacle of entertainment devices.

Japan's Nintendo seized the opportunity of Atari's failure and huge market demand, and successively launched a number of classic games, becoming the king in this field.

Xie Yi digested the information in Yang Ye's words and asked: "Are we making games or consoles?"

This time the question came to the point, Yang Ye said appreciatively: "Be the host!"

Shea asked: "After the collapse of Atari, the game market now belongs to Japan, and our funds are not very strong. Can we compete?"

Yang Ye said: "We can play the national card!"

Xie lost his voice and said: "You mean... boycott Japanese goods?"

The 80s was Japan's most powerful period, and American industry was suppressed by Japan until it could breathe.

The first to be hit is the U.S. auto industry. The profits of the three major U.S. auto giants have been declining, workers have been laid off, and many people have lost their jobs.

At this time, various T-shirts and car stickers printed with words such as "Boycott Japanese Goods" and "Second Pearl Harbor" were popular in the United States.

Retail giant Wal-Mart also launched the "Bring America Home" campaign, announcing to Americans that it would sell American products as much as possible, implying that it would never sell Japanese products.

Protectionist sentiment is on the rise in the U.S. Congress, which has introduced 400 bills to protect U.S. products, including imposing import surcharges.

In another year, five countries, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Japan, will sign the Plaza Accord at the Plaza Hotel.

Two emerging economic powers, Germany and Japan, adjusted the exchange rates of the mark and the yen against the US dollar according to the agreement.

Judging from the situation at that time, the Japanese industry and the public were not actually worried about the appreciation of the yen. On the contrary, they were happy to see the agreement come to fruition.

Because people realize that a strong yen actually has many benefits.

For example, in industries that rely on imported energy and raw materials, a strong yen means lower costs.

A strong yen also means that imported goods are cheaper and therefore consumers are more satisfied. Japanese companies are in a more favorable position when investing and acquiring overseas.

The strong yen brings about rising export costs, which can force export-oriented companies to optimize their business and cut costs.

But... everyone knows the subsequent results.

Yang Ye said: "As long as we can make products that are comparable to Nintendo, and then use the banner of national justice and boycott Japanese products, not to mention driving Japanese game consoles out of the U.S. market, at least we can get a share of the newly emerging game market. ”

It is very funny to say that Yang Ye, a Chinese, is practicing nationalism in the United States.

However, Xie Yi felt that although Yang Ye's move was damaging, it was very effective.

After all, even Walmart does this.

At any time, patriotic wealth is the best way to make money!
Yang Ye and Xie discussed it and decided that it would be too troublesome to start from scratch. It was better to take a shortcut and go to Warner to buy back Atari.

Atari once created huge profits for Warner, but since its collapse, it has become useless now. It must not be difficult to buy it.

After all, Atari is the king of the generation. As long as it develops new and useful products, there is still a chance that the king will return!

New and easy-to-use products are too easy for Yang Ye. He can come up with ideas at will. For this era, they are just whimsical ideas.

The decision was made, and now it was Shay's turn to take action.

Yang Ye and Xie Yi have cooperated tacitly over the years and have a clear division of labor.

Yang Ye is always the one hiding behind and coming up with ideas, while Xie is charging forward.

……

Next, Yang Ye threw another script to Shay.

"After Alien, I tried to create a new alien monster, so this story came about."

Shay took a look and saw "Predator" written on the title page.

The story is very simple and can be said in one sentence: Major Dutch of the special forces led the special forces to the tropical rainforest to rescue the crashed helicopter members. Unexpectedly, they were attacked by unknown creatures on the way, which triggered a bloody battle.

The highlight lies in the setting of alien monsters. The image of "Predator" was created by Cameron's good friend and the famous special effects master Stan Winston.

At the beginning, the Predator was a small, agile creature, a ninja who was proficient in kung fu.

Cameron suggested that Winston add insect mouthparts, and the final image turned out to be very scary and disgusting.

Later during filming, Jean-Claude Van Damme was asked to play the Predator, but he was very dissatisfied that he could not show his face.

In the end, it was changed to a black man over two meters tall to play the role. He changed from agility to strength, and the effect was very good!

Let me talk about it here, why are all Kung Fu superstars small?

Being more agile and easier to make beautiful moves is only one aspect.

More importantly, the protagonist looks weaker, while the BOSS is a tall and strong enemy. The weak defeating the strong will make the audience more excited.

If the protagonist is a big, ferocious guy, and the BOSS is a skinny little guy, and it looks like the protagonist can crush this guy to death, it would be meaningless.

This is why in those level-breaking games, the BOSS in each level is always very large and has all kinds of cool skills.

Only in this way can players feel a sense of accomplishment if they find ways to kill it!
Arnold Schwarzenegger, a tall man who is 1 meters tall, started acting in movies in 89 and was not famous until 1970's "Terminator".

In fact, "Terminator" also follows the setting of weak protagonist and powerful villain. The actor who plays Kyle acts like a chicken in front of Schwarzenegger.

For example, in the movie "Predator", when Schwarzenegger was cast as the male protagonist, the villain was taller than him. The black guy was 2 meters tall in net and 2 meters in suit.

In front of him, the strong and tall Schwarzenegger can only become a delicate prey.

Although Yang Ye's script is simple and can be completed in just a few pieces of paper, the setting of "Predator" is very detailed.

There are not only detailed sources, but also various image settings. Just like Ultraman, most people only know the name Ultraman, but in fact there are many Ultramans, and they are a very large family.

What appears in Yang Ye's script is just a novice-level Predator, wearing gray equipment, a relatively flat mask, armor, and beige skin. Although he has little killing experience, he can easily kill an elite group. Team.

Behind them are light Predators equipped with spears and shoulder cannons, tracking Predators with hounds, reconnaissance Predators equipped with falcons, Scar Predators who have killed aliens, lone wolf Predators who have experienced hundreds of battles, and savage and cunning Mad Predators. Iron Blood, the wisest Iron Blood elder, the ancient Iron Blood with mysterious weapons...

Shay looked confused: "What is the situation of killing aliens?"

Yang Ye explained: "In the setting of "Alien", the engineer civilization created humans, but later they discovered that humans were not as perfect as expected, but had various flaws.

From the perspective of creation engineering, human civilization is a failure and has no need to exist.

In order to eliminate human civilization, engineers created a very powerful species in an alien testing site: the alien. They are ferocious in nature, have no intelligence, and are very suitable for dealing with humans.

Later, the spacecraft crashed and the pilot died, but the powerful alien survived, took other creatures on the planet as hosts, and began to reproduce aggressively, ruling the planet in a very short period of time.

Many years later, a group of Predator warriors came to this planet for hunting and accidentally discovered the existence of aliens.

The Predators, who always like to challenge the strong, not only do not think aliens are scary, but instead think that such creatures are very good prey and can be used to improve their hunting skills.

So they took the Alien Queen away and built a cultivation cabin on the spacecraft specifically to store alien eggs. Whenever necessary, they would cultivate a batch of aliens for them to hunt.

But cultivating aliens requires a host. The Predators cannot use their own tribe as hosts to cultivate aliens. They can only look for other creatures.

Just at this time, they came to the earth and met humans, so they regarded themselves as gods and taught humans various scientific knowledge including astrology and architecture.

Humans are also required to regularly provide strong young people as hosts to cultivate aliens. When the aliens reach a certain number, the Predator will launch a thrilling hunting operation.

Those participating in the hunt held telescopic spears and carried ion cannons on their shoulders, standing on the top of the pyramid tower to fight against the tide of aliens. The winner will not only get enough glory, but also greatly improve his status in the iron-blooded society..."

"So, the earth is the hunting ground for the Predators, the aliens are their prey, and humans are the feed used to breed aliens?"

"That's what happened!"

"Although it sounds weird, I am convinced that you can connect these two monsters with the entire human civilization. The Predator stands on the top of the pyramid and fights aliens? This idea sounds very touching!"

Yang Ye said: "My plan is to develop these two series independently and merge them when necessary."

Shay showed a look of understanding and said: "I know why you set up the background stories of the aliens and the Predators in such detail from the beginning. These settings are all things outside of the movie. You did it to... Are they made into video games?"

"Of course!" (End of chapter)