Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye has no interest at all in Shangguan Xiaobao's "82 Painting Society".

He also has no interest at all in his signature comic "Bruce Lee".

These early Hong Kong comics were nothing more than street gangs fighting, and Yang Ye didn't like them at all.

Not only Shangguan Xiaobao, but also the crappy gadgets in Huang Yulang's hands.

The shortcomings of Hong Kong comics are too great. The painting style is the same, the subject matter is single, the thinking is narrow, the characters are not outstanding, the characters are too focused on dynamic sketch-style compositions, and the characters' faces are repeated.

There is also too much dialogue, using a lot of narration and dialog boxes to describe psychological activities, which makes it feel like you are reading a comic or a novel.

These IPs are of little value and cannot compete with American and Japanese comics. In Yang Ye's eyes, they are just junk.

Some people say it can be adapted into a martial arts film! Damn, doesn’t Jin Yong’s cologne smell good?

Yang Ye wanted to acquire "Yulang International" at first, but he just thought Huang Yulang was a business talent and wanted to hire him as the general manager of the comic company.

Since he refuses to come, forget it.

Yang Ye came to Shangguan Xiaobao because he was an old painter with good painting skills, and he was good at coaching apprentices. The bully he brought out, Ma Rongcheng, later became very famous.

Yang Ye is planning to open a comic company, and Shangguan Xiaobao can serve as a technical director in the company.

As for the operation of the company, he is simply incompetent. Otherwise, Huang Yulang would not have suppressed him to this point.

Yang Ye was even less interested in Shangguan Xiaobao's invitation to Zhou Huimin to serialize "Sailor Moon" in the "82 Painting Society".

He smiled and said, "Mr. Shangguan, do you think this set of comics is good?"

Shangguan Xiaobao said: "Ms. Zhou's painting style tends to be Japanese comics, but her techniques are very mature and her level is not inferior to the popular Japanese comics. To be honest, I can't find any shortcomings.

That's all. I think its biggest selling point is that its character prototypes come from Girls' Generation, a super popular idol group.

Once it is launched on the market, I can't predict the specific sales volume, but there will definitely be a lot of fans paying for it! "

Yang Ye smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, this "Sailor Warrior" will not only be published in Hong Kong, I also plan to release it throughout Asia.

And there will be related cartoons produced, including exclusive songs, figures and a series of other contents!

Riding on Girls’ Generation’s popularity, I’m very optimistic about its future! "

Shangguan Xiaobao said in surprise: "Then what do you mean, Mr. Yang, by asking me to come here?"

Yang Ye is a super rich man in Hong Kong. Although he just said a few simple words, Shangguan Xiaobao has already heard the generosity in them.

Hong Kong comics basically cannot go out of Hong Kong, but Yang Ye wants to distribute "Sailor Moon" throughout Asia.

Whether it succeeds or not is another matter. This kind of momentum is beyond the reach of Hong Kong comic companies.

There is also the adaptation into an animated film, which is what all cartoonists dream of, and "Sailor Moon" has not yet been released on the market, and the animation has been started directly.

In comparison, Shangguan Xiaobao's "Bruce Lee" can only be sold twice in Hong Kong. It sells tens of thousands of copies per issue and only makes a few thousand yuan in profit. It also has to pay wages to its apprentices, which is nothing!

In this case, Shangguan Xiaobao doesn't understand.

You, Yang Ye, are so awesome, why don't you be awesome yourself?

What does it mean to show Zhou Huimin's comics to me?

show off? Crazy? This is not it!

Shangguan Xiaobao had flirted with him before, because Zhou Huimin wanted to become his teacher.

Now I feel that I really thought too much!
Yang Ye said sternly: "I'm going to enter the comic industry, focusing on three comics, "Transformers", "Sailor Moon" and "Men in Black"!"

Shangguan Xiaobao was even more surprised: "Transformers too...?"

The TV version of the cartoon "Transformers" is currently being broadcast simultaneously in the United States, Japan and Hong Kong, with one episode per week, and is extremely popular.

ATV airs every Saturday night at 70: p.m. When the time comes, children all over Hong Kong will be ready to sit in front of the TV to watch. The ratings exceed %, which makes TVB complain incessantly.

Fortunately, it’s only twenty minutes a week, otherwise the wireless would be really unbearable!

Yang Ye said: "I originally planned "Transformers", and I also invested in the production company Ghibli.

It is now popular in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong, and will soon be broadcast in mainland China and Singapore.

However, labor costs in Japan are too high, so there is no need to hire Japanese people to draw the "Transformers" comics. I plan to bring the comics to Hong Kong for production. "

Shangguan Xiaobao nodded in understanding and asked: "Then what is "Men in Black"?"

"Have you seen "ET"?"

"That's Mr. Yang's classic movie. Who in Hong Kong hasn't seen it?"

"Chen Long and Yuan Biao made guest appearances in the movie at that time. They were the men in black, who specialized in managing alien affairs on earth.

The comic "Men in Black" is tailor-made for Chen Long and Yuan Biao, based on their images.

When the time comes, I will personally act as the director and make it into a movie. "

It’s not uncommon for comic book characters to be based on real people, and there are tons of examples from all over the world.

Not to mention, Chen Haonan painted it after He Jiajin.

It's just that Yang Ye is cheating a bit by directly copying a super-popular star, custom-making it, and threatening to make it into a movie.

How do you let others play with this?
Hong Kong's comics market is only so big, and the destructive power of a heavyweight player like Yang Ye entering the market can be imagined.

Shangguan Xiaobao suddenly felt that he was finished. Not only was he finished, Huang Yulang was also finished.

Huang Yulang's little net worth is nothing in front of Yang Ye, how can he outplay Yang Ye?
Yang Ye said: "My comic company needs an art director, and I would like to ask Mr. Shangguan to take over. As for your Bayer Painting Club, I don't think it's okay to open it!"

Although Yang Ye's comic company has not yet opened, the quality of "Sailor Moon" and "Transformers" is there.

There is also the "Men in Black", with the fame of Chen Long and Yuan Biao, it seems very difficult to mess with.

Yang Ye is not telling a joke.

Shangguan Xiaobao felt a little uncomfortable and asked, "What about my original comics?"

After all, it is the hard work of more than ten years, and it is still something I cherish.

Yang Ye said: "With all due respect, except for "Bruce Lee", there is no need to retain anything else. If you feel reluctant to let go, it is better to do this.

Convert these copyrights into the capital you need to invest in my comic company, and I will give you 10% of the shares. "

Shangguan Xiaobao understands very well that just because "Transformers" is a hit in the United States, Japan and Hong Kong, the future is huge.

These copyrights in his hands can be converted into 10% of the shares. Yang Ye can be said to be rich and generous.

Shangguan Xiaobao himself is not a person who pursues much. He has been drawing comics in recent years just to follow the trend. He draws whatever is popular and mainly aims to gain popularity.

He even followed the trend and drew Yang Ye's comics a few years ago, but after being warned by Yang Ye, he did not dare to continue. After pondering for a while, Shangguan Xiaobao happily said: "Young Master Yang, I am willing to join!"

Yang Ye smiled and raised his glass: "Mr. Shangguan, you have made a very wise choice!"

The three of them drank a drink, and Shangguan Xiaobao asked: "What is the name of our comic company?"

Yang Ye said: "I actually own two film companies, besides Bai Yang, there is also Jade Bird.

Bluebird used to be mainly used for co-productions with mainland China.

But now that I have successfully entered the mainland market, there is no need for Jade Bird Company to exist.

I plan to reorganize it to specialize in animation production and become an animation studio under Baiyang Pictures.

As for the comic company, for the sake of unification, let’s call it Blue Bird! "

"Blue Bird Comics!" Shangguan Xiaobao read it again and praised: "It's a good name!"

Yang Ye asked Zhou Huimin with a smile: "What do Amin think?"

Zhou Huimin liked this name very much and said, "I think it sounds very good!"

Yang Ye said dotingly: "Since Amin likes it, it's decided!"

He turned to Shangguan Xiaobao and said, "Director Shangguan, please suspend the doll newspaper you have in hand.

Later I will hand over the comic manuscript of "Sailor Moon" and the complete setting of "Transformers" to you.

Please make these two comics for me first, so that our new doll newspaper can be launched as soon as possible.

If there is a shortage of manpower, go to Huang Yulang's company to dig as much as you can, no matter how hard it is, you won't be short of money! "

Mahler Gobi makes you ignorant of praise!
Huang Yulang is Shangguan Xiaobao's lifelong enemy. After Shangguan heard this, he felt happy and said quickly: "I will try my best."

Yang Ye thought for a while and then said: "By the way, after our doll registration is launched, my new novel will also be serialized on it!"

"Doll" is a Cantonese word, which means little person. Hong Kong's doll newspaper corresponds to the mainland's little person book.

Shangguan Xiaobao was shocked again. As we all know, Yang Ye wrote novels when he first debuted.

At that time, he serialized "Kunlun" in "Ming Pao" and was also known as Jin Yong's second best. Readers thought he was the best in Jin Yong's true biography!

However, the later "Canghai" and "Lingfei Jing" became worse and worse and ceased.

At that time, many people still laughed at Yang Ye for his talent.

However, more people expressed their understanding, because they felt that after Yang Ye became famous, he was singing and making movies, and had no time to write a book.

Therefore, it is understandable that the quality of the novel cannot be guaranteed.

It's just...at this rate of regression, I'd better not write anymore.

Shangguan Xiaobao didn't expect that Yang Ye was still writing novels?
He was very surprised, and then asked happily: "Is it a martial arts novel?"

Yang Ye shook his head and said: "The protagonists this time are a few children, and the story is about their experiences growing up.

The novel involves immortals, demons, and mythical beasts... It seems inappropriate to call it martial arts. Why not call it... a fairy tale novel? "

Later generations generally believe that Huanzhu Louzhu is the originator of Xianxia novels, but Huanzhu Louzhu is a proper martial arts novelist, and his works have always been called martial arts novels.

The concept of fairy novels is a newly coined term after the rise of the Internet era.

Now, it doesn't hurt to be used by Yang Ye in advance.

As for the novel that Yang Ye wants to serialize, it is naturally "Harry Potter".

But now it's not called "Harry Potter", it's called "Happy Journey", which is a Chinese version that Yang Ye extracted from the outline of "Harry Potter" and rewrote it.

Because it is children's literature, just paying attention to the vocabulary is life-threatening. Fortunately, he has the help of divine power to proceed smoothly.

Because it is very troublesome to translate it into Chinese, and Yang Ye has a lot of things to do and is intermittent, a few years have passed and only five books have been written. I don’t know when the remaining two will be completed.

But now it’s not a problem to serialize it. A thousand words can be serialized in one day, and it will take ten years to serialize the full text. There’s no rush!
Some people may not understand why "Harry Potter" needs to be magically modified. Isn't this thing popular in China?
Why not just copy "The Story of Mortals Cultivating Immortality", "Fights Break the Sphere", "Douluo Dalu" and so on?

First of all, those who say that "Harry Potter" is not popular in China and the box office is not high do not realize how popular "Harry Potter" is in China and how high the box office is.

Since the first "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was introduced to mainland China in 2002, in ten years, all eight "Harry Potter" films have entered the top ten at the annual box office. Is this still popular?
However, the box office of Chinese movies only started to take off in 2012, and "Harry Potter" ended just before that, so it just didn't catch up with the good times.

On later online novel websites, there are so many Harry Potter fanfics that it’s mind-numbing, and they have a huge number of readers.

In addition, judging from Yang Ye's achievements, most of the later online articles on immortality, fantasy, and urban genres are actually not worth copying.

The first one is too serious, smelly and long, because the starting point is based on subscription, so it finally became popular, why don’t you write 5 million words?

Ten million words is not impossible, and twenty million words is not impossible.

The fishman has already reached 2300 million words. If he wants to finish it, he and Qidian must die first.

Great masters are good at writing, but small writers are also good at writing. There is a guy called Rape Flower who can write down a large section of information at every turn. Alas, it’s all for life!
Second, online writing is actually a very niche thing. Qidian has less than 10 million paying users, and the entire site has less than 20 books with more than 100,000 subscriptions. It is not as popular as everyone thinks.

Even if you include those who watch pirated copies, it is far from mainstream.

Third, the characters of the protagonists of online articles are mostly selfish, shameless, and cruel, pretending to be pigs and eating tigers, killing people and stealing goods, and others take advantage of others' troubles while they stay behind to take advantage.

You can't suffer a little loss. If you are bullied in this chapter, you must take revenge tenfold in the next chapter. If you don't kill the whole family, it will be considered an easy thing.

In order to keep the protagonist pretending to be awesome, the protagonist often has to pretend to be weak, and then the psychopaths around him will mess with him, and then he will show his strength, bang bang bang bang!

After showing off, he continues to be stubborn, waiting for the next wave of madness to hit the whole family!
It's really cool, but if you say you want to turn it into a film and television, that's really not possible. Later generations of men's online videos have rarely been successful in film and television.

Some people say it's because you're not good at special effects, like fighting spirit turning into a horse...

That's really not the problem.

Generally speaking, in film and television works that are truly accepted by the vast majority of people, the protagonists are on the side of justice and want to defeat evil.

The protagonists of online novels often contradict this point, so they lose their adaptation value.

Unless you reset the protagonist's personality, but... the slap-in-the-face model of the online novel can only adapt to this kind of personality.

If the protagonist is a good person and he cannot do these things, then the entire story will not be valid.

Therefore, Yang Ye is not very interested in copying Internet articles.

Unless it's like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", that one is very interesting.

"Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" is a story-by-story, clean and concise, very suitable for adaptation into a movie.

Yang Ye is not sure whether he will take out this set of books in the future! (End of chapter)