Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"Why are you still living here?"

Yang Ye came to Yang Liping's residence, looked at the dripping roof, and said with a frown.

Yang Liping said before that she lived in a warehouse of a song and dance troupe. Yang Ye didn't expect that it was actually a basement with leaks like this.

Although Yang Liping participated in Yang Ye's movie and was invited to perform dances in Hong Kong, her treatment in the troupe did not improve.

There's nothing strange about this!

In the original time and space, Yang Liping won the first prize in national dance for "Spirit of the Bird". Later, she also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and still lived in a warehouse.

In 1989, "Red Flower Leader" Yang Erche Namu was transferred to the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble. She defended Yang Liping and moved out of the righteousness that discriminated against ethnic minorities, so Yang Liping was finally assigned to a dormitory.

Yang Liping was very happy to see Yang Ye, but she didn't care much about where she lived. She said calmly: "It's already very good here!"

Yang Ye sighed and said, "How about you move out?"

"Where to move?"

"I bought several courtyard houses. You can choose one close to the song and dance troupe to live in!"

"Why did you buy a courtyard house?"

"I thought this kind of house was quite interesting, so I bought ten of them for less than 200,000 yuan."

Less than 200,000... Less than 200,000... Less than 200,000... Yang Liping was speechless. Her monthly salary was less than 100 yuan.

"No, you've already helped me enough."

"Don't be stubborn. Someone needs to take care of the house, otherwise it will rot. Just think of it as looking after the house for me."

After a pause, he continued: "This place is dark and humid, and the environment is too bad. If you live here for a long time, you will easily get rheumatism.

You have to take responsibility for your artistic career. Can you still dance? And there’s…”

Yang Ye hugged her shoulders, stared into her beautiful big eyes, and said seriously: "I hope you live a better life."

Yang Liping saw the tenderness in Yang Ye's eyes, and her eyes became moist.

"Ok!"

It was just one word, the voice was soft, but it was filled with a feeling of happiness.

Yang Liping considers herself not a materialistic person, but Yang Ye does not start from materialistic aspects, but from the dance she loves, and is concerned about her career.

Only at the end did he lightly mention his concern for her.

This sentence alone moved Yang Liping to tears, and she couldn't help but lean into Yang Ye's arms.

Pressing against his strong chest, I felt stable for the rest of my life.

……

"So it turns out that doing this kind of thing makes you so happy? Why didn't I realize it before?"

Yang Liping felt like she was flying in the clouds, with 36,000 pores, no one was feeling uncomfortable!

After finishing the work, Yang Liping's whole body turned into a pool of spring water.

She lay in Yang Ye's arms and wanted to say: "You are awesome!"

But I was too shy and blushed to say it.

"I'll take you to meet someone tomorrow!" Yang Ye said, rubbing her shoulders.

"Meeting whom?"

"Chief Director of the Spring Festival Gala, Huang Yihe!"

……

In a small alley restaurant, Yang Ye took Yang Liping and met Huang Yihe.

"Mr. Yang, long time no see!"

"Director Huang, hello, hello!"

The two shook hands warmly and exchanged greetings. Yang Ye introduced Huang Yihe: "This is Comrade Yang Liping from the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble!"

"Hello, Director Huang!"

Everyone was polite, sat down at the table, and ordered some home-cooked dishes such as garlic pork elbow, gluten cabbage, and celery shrimp.

Huang Yihe raised his wine glass and said: "Mr. Yang, this meal is my private host. I can't afford to pay for it in a high-end restaurant. I can only treat you to some home-cooked dishes from our capital. Don't be offended!"

"Director Huang is so polite, that's great!"

Yang Ye took a sip of Erguotou, picked up a piece of gluten and chewed it in his mouth.

After everyone chatted awkwardly for a while, Huang Yihe sighed: "Mr. Yang, I have to thank you!"

"no need thank me?"

“I originally thought it was too shabby for a country with over a billion people to hold a Spring Festival Gala in a studio.

I want to move the Spring Festival Gala venue to the Workers' Gymnasium to show a grand scene.

Fortunately, you reminded me that our current conditions are not yet mature!
To be honest, after listening to your words, I was not convinced at the time and did not give up the idea.

Later, I watched the Olympic Games and the military parade, and my desire to hold the Spring Festival Gala at the Workers' Sports Center became even stronger.

However, I still remembered your reminder and did not start blindly, but practiced it beforehand.

It really doesn't work, we lack funds, we don't even have walkie-talkies, and we can't solve the lighting problem.
The most serious problem is the weather. There was a light snowfall two days ago. I stood in the workers' gym for half the night and it made me very cold...

All in all, I want to thank you for saving me this time. Otherwise, if something as big as the Spring Festival Gala goes wrong, I can only die to thank the world. "

Yang Ye smiled calmly and said: "Director Huang said something serious, I was just speculating based on the actual situation.

In fact, the focus of the Spring Festival Gala is that the program must be exciting enough, and the venue is secondary. In my opinion, just grasp the two old characters. "

Huang Yihe snorted and asked in surprise: "Don't you dare to ask for advice?"

Yang Ye said: "The veteran cadres are satisfied, the people are satisfied, in short... the two elders are satisfied!"

"Are you satisfied?" Huang Yihe's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wonderful!"

"Mr. Yang, you are really a great talent. You can explain such a complicated matter clearly in just four words. I admire you, I admire you!"

Yang Liping looked at Yang Ye with eyes full of admiration. "Even the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala admires him so much. He is really awesome!"

Huang Yihe chatted with Yang Ye for a few more words, and finally got down to business:
"Now that the Sino-British Joint Declaration has been signed, the return of Hong Kong has been settled. This is a major event worthy of national celebration.

To celebrate, we hope to invite a host from Hong Kong TV to host next year’s Spring Festival Gala together with our CCTV host.

Originally, I planned to go to Hong Kong in two days to hire people from ATV and TVB, but Mr. Yang happens to be in Beijing, so I thought I would talk to you first. "

Yang Ye nodded and said, "This is a good thing, I support it!"

Huang Yihe was overjoyed and said: "And... I hope to invite artists from Hong Kong to perform at the Spring Festival Gala."

"No problem!"

Yang Ye agreed wholeheartedly, which made Huang Yihe very happy. Yang Ye was so generous.

In fact, Hong Kong's return has been confirmed, and it would be foolish not to hold on to it at this time.

Next door, Run Run Shaw embroidered the red flag overnight and sent out TVB's eldest sister Wang Mingquan.

Can Yang Ye lag behind in this matter?
"I asked..." Yang Ye thought for a while, TVB sent Wang Mingquan, so I will also send someone who can compete, and said: "Miss Zhao Yazhi, the pillar of our ATV, comes to attend the Spring Festival Gala. What do you think?"

After Zhao Yazhi's comeback, she became popular in Asia with the TV series "Little Nyonya". This TV series was introduced to the mainland half a year ago and quickly caused a sensation.

Many people stopped eating and sleeping to watch "Little Nyonya", crying and laughing along with it.

The image of a good wife and loving mother that Zhao Yazhi displayed on TV made many viewers obsessed to the point of going crazy.

Today, Zhao Yazhi has become the most famous overseas star in China, and her popularity once overwhelmed Japan's Momoe Yamaguchi.

After all, Zhao Yazhi is Chinese, and the stories he shoots are Chinese, so he is more approachable to mainland audiences.

Speaking of this, Yang Ye was very proud: They are all my wife!

Yang Ye was so supportive of Huang Yihe's work that Huang Yihe was so moved that he almost burst into tears.

Huang Yihe is someone who has been abroad and knows how important Taiwan's market is to Hong Kong.

Yang Ye sent out ATV's leading actress without saying a word. How could he not be moved by such support?
Huang Yihe choked up and said, "Mr. Yang, your patriotism is really admirable!"

Yang Ye said calmly: "We are all Chinese, there is no need to distinguish each other."

Later, Yang Ye began to promote Yang Liping. "Director Huang, this Comrade Yang Liping once made a movie with me, and the peacock dance she danced was very ethnic.

After the movie was released, it also caused a sensation overseas, and many people called her the Peacock Princess.

I think such a good dance should be shown to the people across the country on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala! "

Huang Yihe said happily: "This is a simple matter. We are also collecting performances for the Spring Festival Gala. As long as it is a good show, we warmly welcome it.

Comrade Yang, just ask your song and dance troupe to submit the program and let our program team review it. "

Yang Ye said: "Because Liping comes from a small place, she is not taken seriously in the group.

I mean, could you please go to the cabaret yourself.

Just say that you have seen her dance and hope she can perform at the Spring Festival Gala!

Of course, if the Spring Festival Gala program team feels that Liping's dancing is not good, I will have nothing to say. "

Huang Yihe immediately understood that this kind of national-level unit had many related households.

It was not unusual for people from a small place like Yang Liping to be squeezed out. He had seen it many times.

"No problem, I'll make a trip in two days!"

Yang Ye supports Huang Yihe's work so much. Of course, Huang Yihe reciprocates this little thing.

Yang Ye said happily: "Director Huang, thank you so much!"

As he spoke, he and Yang Liping toasted Huang Yihe with a glass of wine.

……

Yang Ye's attitude towards his women is to hope that they can shine.

Only in this way can we have a sense of accomplishment. There is no point in being locked up and used as a canary.

Of course, he would also be willing to support someone like Yamaguchi Momoe who voluntarily quit the industry, since he has money anyway!
As for these women, after they become awesome and harden their wings... will they choose to leave him?
In fact, Yang Ye didn't care very much. He had too many women to take care of.

Except for a few core women, if the others really want to leave, then let's go. He is already happy anyway.

……

"Kill Bill" was filmed at the Beijing Film Studio and attracted a lot of attention. Many people from the capital came to visit the film.

Film studios from all over the country also took the opportunity to come and learn from the experience. They all wanted to know how the teams in Hollywood and Hong Kong made movies.

The last time Yang Ye filmed in the Mainland was in Zhejiang, but that time he was not a director, but a producer.

Moreover, the producer was incompetent. He finished filming his own scenes in a few days and then left.

This time is different, Zhenger has been staying at Beijing Film Studio and will not leave.

But when these people came to the set, they didn't see anything.

As the director of the movie, Yang Ye actually skipped work. Only Yuan Heping was in the studio filming the filming scenes with the actors.

In fact, this is a normal thing. Hong Kong movies often separate civil and military aspects.

Why can Wang Jing make ten movies a year?

After he finished filming the literary drama, he left the martial arts drama to the martial arts director.

A layman should not guide an expert. The director's presence at the scene will only get in the way.

Chen Jia was filming "Fist of Heroes", and the last eight-minute duel scene took a month to film.

This month, Yuan Heping, Jet Li and Zhou Bi have been working on it, and Chen Jiashang has not even been to the set.

Of course, Yang Ye is both a well-known director and a kung fu master.

Only he knows what effect his movie will have, so he usually stays on set and directs it himself.

It's just that after coming to the capital, he had a lot of people to meet and a lot of things to deal with. Sometimes he had to skip work as a last resort.

He even went to see an old man. That old man was a great alchemist.

He drew a circle on the South China Sea, and golden mountains rose up.

Fortunately, with Yuan Heping, the best martial artist in the world, Yang Ye had set the tone and set some key routines in advance.

Even if others are not on the crew, nothing will go wrong.

……

At the beginning of January, Tu Yongxiong, the artistic director of ATV, also came to the capital with his people to discuss cooperation.

As usual, ATV has to produce a Jin Yong drama every year. This thing is ATV's ratings weapon, and it beats the shit out of TVB every time it airs.

At the beginning of this year, ATV decided to start filming Legend of the Condor Heroes, but was suppressed by Yang Ye.

Because after getting involved with CCTV, Yang Ye had some new ideas.

Although ATV has produced several Jin Yong dramas with great reputation, Yang Ye himself is not satisfied.

The biggest problem when filming a Jin Yong drama in Hong Kong is that we can't find the corresponding scenes.

When Jin Yong's drama was filmed by Time and Space Wireless, the scenery was all set up in a studio. The waterfall was actually made of plastic and reflected light from the horse.

In the 82 version of "Dragon", Xiao Feng slapped himself to death because he couldn't find a cliff for him to jump to.

Jiashi was willing to spend money on Jin Yong's drama. When filming "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain", he even went to Nepal for location shooting.

Yang Ye hopes that the story of the martial arts drama can take place where it really happened.

When you shoot the flying fox, you will really see the snow-capped mountains. When you shoot the vultures, you really have a desert.

When filming a war, there really are thousands of troops, instead of a dozen people running back and forth, fooling the devil?
Yang Ye said: "Lao Tu, director Zhao from Changying Film Factory came to visit me some time ago. I mentioned to him about cooperating in the filming of a TV series, and he was very supportive.

So this time I would like you to lead a team to Changchun for inspection. If appropriate, the location of "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain" will be co-produced with Changying Film Studio. "

Tu Yongxiong nodded.

Yang Ye added: "Nowadays, there are many co-productions between Hong Kong and the Mainland, but this is the first time for a TV series to be co-produced, so filming "Snowy Mountain Flying Fox" can be regarded as a test of the waters.

How the two parties want to cooperate, you have to discuss, discuss, and work with the people at Changying Factory to find a way for our future cooperation model. "

……

Co-production between the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan is a very long road of exploration.

At the beginning, the mainland did not even allow employees to have too much contact with Hong Kong artists, otherwise it would be a violation of discipline.

The most widely circulated story about Liu Xiaoqing on the Internet in later generations:
Li Hanxiang co-produced "Burning Old Summer Palace" with the Mainland. The male lead is Hong Kong's Leung Ka-wai and the female lead is Mainland Liu Xiaoqing.

As a result, when it was time to eat, Liang Jiahui's group of Hong Kong actors had a dining car with fish, meat, and rice.

Mainland actors like Liu Xiaoqing can only eat wowotou and black pickles.

Liu Xiaoqing refused to accept it and made a scene on the set: "I want to eat rice, I want to eat meat!"

The crew had no choice but to give food to Liu Xiaoqing.

Liu Xiaoqing was still dissatisfied: "I want the mainland staff to be like me, eating rice and eating meat!"

Because of Liu Xiaoqing's struggle, she won the same treatment as mainland staff and Hong Kong staff.

Regarding this matter, Liu Xiaoqing is amazing.

Because she has a fighting spirit and dares to say no to unfair things.

But later generations of netizens criticized Hong Kong because of this incident, which is actually a bit unfair.

How much can a few actors spend on a work meal?
At this time, prices in the mainland were pitifully low. Even if chicken, duck, fish and meat were opened, a person's food expenses for a day would not cost more than one yuan.

Counting one hundred of you, a few thousand dollars a month is more than enough. Hong Kong film companies really don't care, they're just pulling out the hair.

……

This kind of bad thing is actually stipulated by Tama Bei Film Studio itself.

I am afraid that people in the factory will have too much contact with Hong Kong and become ambitious.

Except for work, you are not allowed to communicate with people in Hong Kong. Of course, you have to eat separately when eating.

That's why Liu Xiaoqing made a scene on the set. She didn't do it for that bite, she just felt it was unfair.

Li Hanxiang actually takes good care of Liu Xiaoqing. Li Hanxiang often runs a small stove. When his wife stews chicken or something, he will call Liu Xiaoqing to eat it.

In fact, this kind of regulation is very stupid. If employees are not allowed to have contact with Hong Kong, won't they become ambitious?
Not only will you become wild-minded, but you will also become cold-hearted and even want to run away!
So when Yang Ye co-produced "Book of Swords" with Beijing Film Studio, he made it clear from the beginning that everyone must be treated the same in terms of life. (End of chapter)