Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Duras gives some advice on empty mirrors at the end of the novel.

She suggested that if you make a movie, you can shoot some scenes and use them as external elements of the film, a "countryside", the hometown of the characters in the book, and the hometown of the film.

She gave many examples:
A blue sky filled with stars.

In the hazy night, there is an endless river with no boats in sight.

The sun rises from the river, illuminating the rice fields and the endless, silky white straight roads.

Children drive buffaloes on the road.

A cruise ship between the sky and the water, sailing along the endless rice fields on the shore.

heavy rain. Landing on rice fields, rivers, and villages composed of thatched huts. Landing on a thousand-year-old forest.

Landing in the mountains on the Siam border. It landed on the faces of the children who looked up to catch the rain.

The sky is blue after the rain, and the sky after the rain is transparent and clear, cloudless.

They all poeticize rural life and then show it to city dwellers after photoshopping it to satisfy their fantasies about the countryside.

……

Cloudless blue sky...

She felt these images could be used as cutaway shots.

Since Yang Ye had watched the original version of "Lover", Yang Ye occasionally gave Jean Jacques some advice when scheduling the scenes.

Of course, not too many of them ended up being used in the movie. They only serve as an adjustment and access lens, and will not take over the main focus.

From this perspective, Li Ziqi is the contemporary Meng Haoran.

Jean Jacques felt that Yang Ye's words made sense, so he took people everywhere to photograph the pastoral scenery of the Mekong Delta.

Yang Yexin said, what’s the point? In a few decades, after the rise of short videos, there will be people dedicated to doing this.

However, these suggestions often coincided with Jean Jacques's thoughts, which shocked him.

Jean-Jacques asked Yang Ye: "Nick, do you think these empty shots that Duras gave examples are useful for movies?"

Yang Ye's point of view made Jacques feel very novel. He said: "There are also people like this in Europe. We call them lakeside poets. People can indeed get tranquility from their poems.

It’s just that one uses the lens as a carrier, and the other uses words as a carrier.

From this, he deeply admired Yang Ye and began to take the initiative to discuss with Yang Ye.

Of course, this is not to say that Li Ziqi can compete with Meng Haoran, but that what she does is essentially the same as Meng Haoran.

Yang, I find your idea of ​​using lenses instead of poetry very interesting. Ms. Duras mentioned the concept of rurality, which shows that she also understands this truth. "

There is a girl named Li Ziqi who beautifies rural life and makes videos, thus gaining huge traffic.

In ancient China, there were some people known as landscape poets. They were keen on describing and poeticizing rural scenery. The dignitaries living in the city were very fond of these poems.

Although the era of poetry has passed, we have movies and lenses. We take these pictures and intersperse them in the movies, which will give those people living in the city a short-term tranquility in their impetuous hearts. "

Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "It's useful, because people living in cities have a pastoral and beautiful imagination about poor and backward places, and they have a yearning like Ye Gong loves dragons.

It's just a suggestion, feel free to listen or not.

……

Although Yang Ye is the leading actor, his role in the movie is only half that of Sophie Marceau.

Because the movie also tells about the heroine’s school and family affairs, Yang Ye was not involved in these scenes.

So he lived a leisurely life in Vietnam, and finally split up into two groups:

Let Jacques take the people to take pictures of the school, and Yang Ye take the people to take pictures of the Mekong River scenery. Just treat it as a trip.

In this way, the progress was very fast. After staying in Vietnam for about twenty days, the crew completed the filming and returned to Hong Kong to start shooting indoor scenes in the studio.

……

At this time, Priscilla Chan has successfully signed with Baiyang Records, and the new album is being produced intensively under the auspices of Luo Dayou.

Yang Ye took the time to take Sophie Marceau to the recording studio to record the theme song of "Lover", the French version of "When You Get Old".

This song had French lyrics written by Duras himself, and Yang Ye originally planned to have Teresa Teng record it.

But she had a big belly, so she forgot about it and let Sophie Marceau sing in the end.

Although Sophie is not a singer, she likes this song very much and is eager to try singing the theme song.

Yang Ye took Sophie to the recording studio and happened to meet Luo Dayou and Priscilla Chan.

After Luo Dayou went to Hong Kong, he saw Hong Kong's professional royalty system and the Songwriters Association, as well as the city's tolerance for artistic creation. He swept away the decadence in the United States and became passionate.

He straightened his curly hair, threw away his sunglasses, and became a literary young man again.

Yang Ye asked casually: "How was the song recording?"

Luo Dayou said: "I'm looking for someone to write lyrics." Yang Ye looked confused: "Is this still necessary?"

There are not many talented composers in the Hong Kong music scene, but there are a lot of talented lyricists. There is no shortage of them.

Luo Dayou said: "Let me ask you something, if someone scolds you, how would you respond?"

Yang Ye raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course I'm going to beat him up!"

Luo Dayou's face froze and he said, "It's not a personal grudge. What if it's a matter of different ideas?"

"Oh, what are you looking at? What's wrong? Who scolded me?"

"I originally wanted to ask Lu Guozhan to help Xiaoxian write the lyrics, and he agreed. However, he was a guest on Radio Hong Kong two days ago and said that you have fallen."

Yang Ye was stunned: "How did I offend him?"

Lu Guozhan is a master of Hong Kong poetry. He has written many classic lyrics and won the Golden Needle Award in 2015.

Luo Dayou said: "Lu Guozhan launched the 'No Love Song Movement' last year, and many people originally responded. But you made a piece of "Kiss Goodbye" for Zhang Xueyou, which was full of love songs. It sold like crazy, and his efforts were in vain. A joke."

The "Non-Love Song Movement" was a new wave in Hong Kong's lyrics industry in the mid-80s. The founder, Lu Guozhan, was tired of writing a large number of lyrics about male and female love for a long time, so he proposed to seek new breakthroughs in the field of non-love songs.

Although the idea was good, it ignored the market taste and violated business principles, and it soon came to nothing. Lu Guozhan was also boycotted by the record company and no longer asked him to write lyrics. Therefore, his interest waned and he faded out of the poetry world.

Luo Dayou explained: "He thinks that the "Under the Lion Rock" and "Pearl of the Orient" you wrote before are very wonderful and good words, but in the past two years, you have written only bitter love songs that cater to the market. You have fallen."

Yang Ye understood the reason and said nonchalantly: "Oh, so that's what happened. If you fall, just fall. As long as you can make money."

Luo Dayou asked: "Aren't you angry?"

Yang Ye said: "There are many people who love me in this world, and there are also many who scold me. Are you so angry? Oh, it's because he scolded me, so you plan to find someone else to write the lyrics?"

Luo Dayou said: "That's what it is. After all, you are the boss, so we think we still have to take your face into consideration."

That's what Luo Dayou said, but Yang Ye didn't see any scruples from his expression.

If he cares about Yang Ye, then he is not Luo Dayou. He is a person who wants to use music to change the world. Although his heart has become cold now, his arrogance is still there.

Yang Ye asked: "Lao Lu should rarely get lyrics writing jobs now, right?"

"Yes, after he launched the non-love song movement, he was boycotted by major record companies."

"Then why did you ask him to write lyrics?"

"Because he has a high level of lyric writing!" Luo Dayou said matter-of-factly.

"Then it's over, and his words will be accepted!"

"Awesome!" Luo Dayou gave a thumbs up.

Yang Ye didn't take it seriously and said, "That's it! Come on, Xiannu!"

Priscilla Chen stood aside and listened to the conversation between the two. She admired Yang Ye's big heart and said sweetly: "I know, Mr. Yang!"

Priscilla Chan's first album after joining Poplar Records is scheduled to be released on Christmas. The title song is a duet with Jacky Cheung's love song "Love in the Storm".

This approach is to use Zhang Xueyou's popularity to promote Priscilla Chan.

Secondly, when Yang Ye was listening to music with a certain dog in the original time and space, he once saw a comment:
Jacky and the princess sang a lot of duet love songs, but none of them were good. It would have been nice if "Lovesickness in the Storm" had been sung by them.

Yang Ye felt at that time that it made sense to ride on a horse!

Now that I have the opportunity to realize my dream, of course... make arrangements!
As for the original title song "Dancing Street", because it is a cover song, although the copyright was purchased and included, it was not featured.

Priscilla Chan is a newcomer that Baiyang Records strongly supports. It would be too shameful if the title song of the first album produced by Baiyang Records for her was a cover of Ta Ma.

This shows that Yang Ye doesn't value her! Therefore, it is impossible for "Dancing Street" to be the main feature.

Priscilla Chan was a cover singer in her original time and space. Almost all of her well-known songs were covers of European, American and Japanese pop music, except for "Where Do We Meet in Life".

Yang Ye had looked through Luo Dayou's music score before and found that he had already written this song, so he filled in the lyrics with a wave of his hand and made it the second hit of Priscilla Chan's new album.

With Yang Ye and Luo Dayou personally writing classics such as "Where Do We Meet in Life" and "Love in the Storm", it is difficult to imagine whether this album will be popular.

Zheng Donghan laughed and said that he had heard the sound of money falling.

Yang Ye stopped talking nonsense with them and started recording songs with Sophie Marceau.

After taking two steps, he suddenly turned back and said:

"There is a handsome guy named Aaron Kwok in the agency. He is a good dancer. Let's hire him to shoot the MV for Xiannu's "Dancing Street" as a backup dancer!"

Poor Aaron Kwok, Yang Ye finally remembered him, but he was just a dancer on the horse!
……

Yang Ye being scolded by Lu Guozhan was just a minor incident, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

Besides, people just say that he is degenerate and writes love songs every day to make money. This is not a scolding, it is just telling the truth.

Yang Yexin said: "I will release "Queen's Road East" next year and make your face swell."

Hey, didn’t you just say you didn’t take it to heart? (End of chapter)