Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"Ming Pao" has great influence among Hong Kong's middle class, and Hong Kong's cultural celebrities also like to open columns in "Ming Pao".

Literary romance films like "Lover" are very popular among this group of people.

Suddenly, many celebrities commented on "Lover" in columns.

In addition to praising the movie itself, most of them also focused on stories outside of the movie.

That is, how did Yang Ye ask Duras to modify the script?

For example, Liang Yanni wrote:

When reading the novel "The Lover", my emotions naturally followed Duras' words.

For the Chinese man inside, the emotions of dependence, vanity and disgust are mixed, and finally I find a wandering and unexpected love.

But while watching the movie, I fell in love with this man so much.

The heroine in the movie got everything she wanted from him.

Consideration, admiration, carelessness with money, physical contact, talking and listening, everything has emotion in it.

He is a perfect lover and the prince that every girl dreams of!

As far as I know, this is not because Yang Ye deliberately modified the script or made it up randomly for the sake of his own image.

This script was revised by Duras himself.

It is said that Yang Ye changed Duras with a letter, and then Duras spent a full five months rewriting the story, overturning everything before it.

The story outside of this movie, in my opinion, is more exciting than the movie.

I really want to know what Yang Ye said to Duras?
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Female authors pay more attention to emotional issues.

Male authors, such as Huang Zhan, not only praised Sophie Marceau's good body, but also expressed envy of Yang Ye's beauty.

It focused more on the impact of script adaptation on the image of Chinese people.

It is believed that what Yang Ye did in this matter is a model for the descendants of Yan and Huang.

This is extremely high praise!

However, Yang Ye actually allowed a prestigious French writer to overturn his own award-winning work, and Huang Zhan couldn't even accept it.

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Overnight, word-of-mouth changed!

Yang Ye, who was infamous yesterday, has become a national hero again in the blink of an eye, and his image is even more impressive!
In the Shadow Man Teahouse, Run Run Shaw looked at the newspaper and said with a bit of laughter and tears: "This Aye, must have expected this!"

Fang Yihua said angrily: "It seems that these articles were written by this bad guy."

Run Run Shaw knew that his concubine hated Yang Ye very much, so he said indifferently: "Turn your hands to make clouds, turn your hands to make rain, I couldn't do it when I was young!"

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"Oriental Daily" headline: "Lover raked in 300 million box office in five hours!" 》

"Lover" was released at 7pm on Christmas Eve, attracting a large number of couples to watch.

The film schedule that night was once as high as 60%, and theaters in Hong Kong were still sold out.

In just five hours, the box office exceeded 300 million, ranking first in the box office of the day...

At the end of the article, five erotic scenes between Yang Ye and Sophie Marceau in the movie were described in detail in an extremely salty and wet way.

The readers of the newspaper were so itchy that they wished they could rush into the cinema to see it.

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"With this power, whoever comes will die. Fortunately, "Mr. Zombie" is not in the Christmas slot."

He Guanchang threw down the "Oriental Daily" in his hand and sighed helplessly.

Zou Wenhuai wanted to laugh a little, thinking, weren't you a pity that "Mr. Zombie" didn't come to the Christmas show?

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Yang Ye's reputation has improved, and the five scenes of meaty scenes with great gimmicks have attracted a large number of audiences to the cinema to see it.

In this case, the two movies "Christmas Adventure" and "Merry Christmas" were very unlucky.

Due to the overwhelming market response to "Lover", the theater alliance immediately removed the movie that was released two weeks ago.

Then we started cutting down the schedule for the three blockbusters released a week ago.

The two movies, "Christmas Adventure" and "Happyland," had their film schedule cut down to single digits due to poor attendance, and they were all in garbage slots.

In a good time slot, you can only watch others make money.

Chen Long's "Police Story" has not been affected at all. The attendance rate is stable and the film can't be cut off.

Debao and Xinyi City were very unhappy, but it was useless to be unhappy. Cinemas had to make money, and "Lover" had a high attendance rate. If not, who would be excluded?
If you are not good enough, there is no point in blaming others!
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"This Yang Ye, I didn't expect to be so good at making love movies!" Huang Baiming threw down the newspaper helplessly.

Mai Jiadao: "This is not an ordinary romance movie at all. What Yang Ye sells in this movie is not love, but nationalism.

He plays a ghost girl in the movie, and many viewers praise him for bringing glory to the country. It's strange that the box office is not high, let alone that there are erotic scenes to watch. "

Shi Tian asked doubtfully: "Why are those ghost guys willing to film this kind of plot?"

Maijia said: "Didn't the newspaper say that Yang Ye asked Duras to rewrite the story, and the movie was made based on the rewritten story."

Huang Baiming sighed: "If a great French writer can overturn his own work, Yang Ye is really awesome. I won't accept it even if I don't accept it."

Shi Tian suddenly said: "That Sophie Marceau is quite famous in France. It is said that she is also famous in Taiwan. Now she is famous in Hong Kong. Is it possible to invite her to make a movie?"

Huang Baiming's eyes lit up: "This is a good idea! But she and Yang Ye have made a movie together. If we ask her to make a movie, can it enter the Taiwan market?"

Maijia curled her lips and said: "Taiba is in charge of heaven and earth, how can he control the French?"

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Kowloon Walled City.

Chuishui boasted eloquently to his pawns: "The movie "Lover" is really good. Young Master Yang just broke the virginity of that ghost girl. It was really exciting. Let me tell you..."

His pony boy asked doubtfully: "Did you really lose your virginity? Is it just for filming a movie?"

"Making a movie? When has Mr. Yang ever compromised on anything? If I say I'll kill your whole family, I'll kill your whole family, not even a dog. If I say I'll break my virginity, I'll break it. Even if I'm not a virgin, I'll have to break it to mend it!"

Ma Zai thought to himself, can he still claim to have lost his virginity after making it up?
He didn't dare to disobey his boss, so he had no choice but to echo: "Young Master Yang is awesome!"

However, this guy seemed to have a rebellious spirit, and added: "It's a pity that Sophie Marceau has black hair. It would be more exciting if it were a golden lion king."

Chuishui slapped him hard on the back of the head and cursed: "You know what the hell, black hair is the most noble. We Chinese have black hair. Are we inferior?"

Ma Zai didn't dare to deny this and said, "That's what I say, but as a foreigner, I always think the Golden Retriever Lion King is more exciting."

The nickname Chui Shuiqiang didn't come from nothing. He pointed at Ma Zai's nose and sprayed: "So if you don't study, you can only be a young and Dangerous boy. Even if you are a foreigner, black hair is the most noble." ,Understand?"

Ma Zai said: "No, in my impression there are more golden retriever lion kings!"

Chuishuiqiang looked like you are ignorant and said: "Black hair is a symbol of power and status in the West. Romans have black hair. Other Germanic people, Slavs, and Celts have red hair or blond hair. They are all barbarians who only deserve to be slaves!”

Ma Zai said weakly: "This Germanic, who else, and where are they from?"

"The people who ask you to ride horses are uneducated. The Nordics and Germans are the Germans. The Irish and Scots are the Celts. The Soviets are the Slavs. Do you understand?"

Ma Zai was filled with admiration and praised: "Boss, your knowledge is really profound."

Chui Shuiqiang said proudly: "If I don't have any skills, how can Mr. Yang let me sit here as a charterer? Damn, I can't stand it after watching Mr. Yang's movie. I'll go to Lan Kwai Fong tonight to find a ghost girl and have a good time. !”

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Yang Ye's battle with the ghost woman, as well as the gimmick of Hong Kong's first third-level film, made many viewers who don't usually watch movies rush to the cinema to find out. Although the movie has a slow pace and is too literary, the erotic scenes between handsome men and beautiful women, coupled with the inexplicable national sentiments, are enough to make up for the movie-watching threshold, making the box office soar.

Suddenly, many teenagers were ready to take action.

Although the law stipulates that tickets cannot be sold to people aged 18 or under to enter the cinema, and ID cards will be checked when the audience enters the venue, these children will still find ways to sneak into the cinema, making Hong Kong's major cinema chains unable to guard against it and causing a huge headache. .

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Hong Kong is in full swing, and France is also causing an uproar.

"Lover" was banned in France at level 16, which is considered a relatively loose rating.

There are two factors that caused the uproar.

One is the starring role of teenage idol Sophie Marceau, which shocked everyone.

But this is okay, because there are no French actresses who don’t take off their clothes, they just take them off early and late.

Her stripping off made many viewers enthusiastically go to the cinema to admire her naked body.

Then the trouble came. The movie was called "Lover", and the plot of the novel "Lover" was completely opposite.

Some viewers who had read the novel immediately became angry. This was a complete attempt to buy dog ​​meat, and they criticized the movie one after another.

As mentioned before, the Goncourt Prize is different from China’s Mao Dun Prize.

The winning works of the Mao Dun Prize are not necessarily best-selling, but the Goncourt Prize is a guarantee of best-selling.

Therefore, many French people have read the novel "The Lover".

Therefore, this wave of verbal and written criticism is very powerful.

However, as soon as these people spat out their words, they were slapped in the face.

Because Duras's new novel is on the market in time.

Only then did people realize that the plot of the movie was not just made up or randomly altered.

It was Duras who rewrote it himself after knowing that his lover had died.

Logically, the new story is more reasonable and acceptable than the original story.

Except the racists!
For their part, racists clearly cannot accept new stories.

It would be fine if it were just written as a novel and published, but not made into a movie.

Once it is made into a movie, it will inevitably be belittled or even boycotted.

Suddenly, several of the film's main creators were caught in the center of the whirlpool, especially Sophie Marceau.

Because of this movie, this eighteen-year-old girl became instantly famous several times more than before, but along with it came all kinds of doubts and racist insults.

In the face of doubts, Sophie Marceau was not afraid. She told reporters: "Anyone who has seen the movie knows that the male protagonist in the movie is an excellent man and a perfect lover.

What some people are dissatisfied with is simply that he is Chinese. What if this role was replaced by a French man? Will these people still question it?
We appreciate a person because of his elegance, maturity, humor, kindness and many other excellent qualities.

And not because he is French, he is white and I despise those racists! "

Sophie Marceau's remarks received a full house of applause, especially from the female audience.

Generally speaking, women have weaker racial concepts than men because they are often on the weaker side in social relationships.

This is why we often see many girls who are brainless, Korean, Japanese, and easy girls.

As long as she thinks the other person is handsome or rich, she won't think too much about other things.

And some men hate things like the Korean Wave. In essence, they don’t hate those Obamas and the like.

Because whether you like it or hate it, the prerequisite is that you have been exposed to it and have a certain understanding.

If you have no interest in something and don't understand it, then why hate it?
So what do some men hate? It’s the way women of their own race throw themselves into the arms of men of other races and worship them without any brains.

This is easy to deduce, because as long as the gender is reversed, everyone will immediately like it.

This phenomenon is a common problem inherited from the male-dominated society for thousands of years and applies to any nation.

From a certain perspective, this phenomenon is actually beneficial to the development and continuation of the race.

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After "The Lover" was released in France, although some French people hated the movie, most French women liked it very much after watching it.

Because this movie was shot in a beautiful and romantic way, Yang Ye, as the male protagonist, is handsome, rich and graceful, which can fully satisfy their fantasies.

Moreover, Yang Ye is not an unknown person. He is very famous in his own right and has many fans in France.

Even if you don't follow him, as long as you know a little bit about him, you will know his impressive family history.

Since his birth twelve years ago, Yang Ye has become a pop culture symbol and has countless fans around the world.

In other words, his awesomeness transcends nationality and stands at the top of the human pyramid in this era.

A little slander will not have much impact, and the hype will actually help the box office.

Amid the constant quarrels, the French box office of "Lover" climbed all the way to 500 million people. (Note: French movie box office only counts people.)
For a non-kung fu movie, this is already a miracle.

However, the French are already relatively receptive to literary films. "The Lover" itself is a French movie, but the male protagonist is Chinese.

With this box office, it’s not surprising.

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As early as the 1970s, when Hollywood's special effects technology was not yet advanced, kung fu movies were the most awesome visual spectacles in the world of cinema.

Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" and "Enter the Dragon" both achieved miracles of more than 400 million viewers in France.

The number of viewers of "Fist of Fury" also reached 300 million.

It's just that once Bruce Lee died, no one could take over his banner, and kung fu movies fell into silence.

It was already more than ten years later when Chen Long rose to prominence.

By that time, Hollywood had basically taken shape.

Even someone as strong as Chen Long cannot recreate Bruce Lee's glory in the French market.

In his career, the highest box office in France was only 2 million with "Rush Hour 171".

However, "Rush Hour 2" was a movie in 2001, and the number of moviegoers around the world at that time had dropped several levels compared to the s.

Therefore, Chen Long is already very awesome.

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Due to the sudden emergence of Yang Ye, he seamlessly took over Bruce Lee's banner and continued to achieve brilliance in the French market.

It also helped Chen Long take shape ten years ahead of schedule and enjoy a great reputation in the French market.

"Food Truck" and "Drunken Master 2" starring him both received more than million viewers in France.

In particular, Yang Ye's "light kung fu", also known as parkour, has become popular in Europe and the United States in recent years and has a large number of fans.

Yang Ye and his gang continue to strengthen the concept of "Qing Kung" in movies. Every time an action movie comes out, they will inevitably show off one or two "Qing Kung" in the movie, attracting a large number of fans to watch.

Therefore, the power of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies in the French market is several times greater than before.

A few years ago, Jet Li also successfully entered the French market. Although not as powerful as Yang Ye and Chen Long, he was able to achieve an average of nearly one million visitors.

"Lover" has 500 million viewers in France, which is about 8000 million Hong Kong dollars.

However, the movie has not yet been released, and the final box office will probably reach 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

For Yang Ye, the box office of "Lover" is his new high in the French market in recent years. (End of chapter)