Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

When Hong Jingbao and Mai Jia got together to work on "The Best Lucky Star", Yang Ye didn't take it seriously at all. Anyway, Hong Jingbao had left, so he just took a side shot.

But the people in New Art City were so angry that Mai Jia was one of the bosses of New Art City. He went out to make extra money by himself, and also used the company's IP. What's going on?

Originally, the people in Xinyi City had resentments against each other because of the uneven distribution of the spoils. Now, Mai Jia has completely intensified the conflict.

The conflicts in Xinyi City are not only between the three shareholders, Mai Jia, Shi Tian, ​​and Huang Baiming, but also the boss behind the scenes, Lei Juekun.

There are also many conflicts between them in front of the stage and behind the scenes.

The actors in front of the stage feel that the box office success depends on us, and we should get more money.

The directors behind the scenes also felt that if we didn't make the film, you would be a loser.

There has never been a reasonable distribution mechanism.

In this case, some people began to leave, such as Huang Baiming's apprentice Gao Zhisen.

Gao Zhisen wants to make a movie called "Wealth and Fortune", which tells the story of the changes in Hong Kong's ordinary people after they win the Mark Six lottery and become rich.

Huang Baiming disagreed, because at that time Hong Kong was developing rapidly and was in its golden age. People were full of confidence and preferred gorgeous things.

When making a movie, you need to choose the most beautiful actors, the most beautiful scenery, and the most gorgeous costumes. Otherwise, you will be discrediting Hong Kong.

Hey... does it feel familiar?

Huang Baiming calls this kind of movie a "beautiful shirt movie", while "Rich and Rich" talks about the bottom class, talks about trivial matters, and has no clue, so it is a "bad shirt movie".

Gao Zhisen went to Debao in anger.

After "The Best Lucky Star", Mai Jia, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming started a cold war and stopped talking to each other.

In the office, we just read newspapers individually and basically can't decide on anything. Naturally, the previous collective creation model cannot be continued.

So we started to work alone, nominally still under the New Art City brand, but we would make our own movies without interfering with each other.

At this time, the gap between the three people emerged. Huang Baiming was the strongest, and the "Eight Star Announcement" series was almost exhausted.

Mai Jia is also good. Together with Lin Lingdong, they created the "Wind and Cloud" series, which was very popular.

Shi Tian is an actor, and his creative ability is the weakest. He can't do it without Huang Baiming and Mai Jia.

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Not long after "Kill Bill 2" was released in Hong Kong, Adjani continued to travel to Europe to promote the film.

Yang Ye took Wang Zuxian and joined Jean Jacques and arrived in Moscow.

At this time, in the Soviet Union, due to the old man "Xun Zong" who took the lead in corruption, officials were tenured for life, and they even clearly marked their prices and sold their offices for titles, making the entire country extremely corrupt.

On one side, the people are miserable, on the other side, holiday villas are rising on the Black Sea.

Although it is still a global power, it is powerful on the outside and weak on the inside, and is facing many crises.

Yang Ye is still a bit high-profile in the world of film circles. After all, he has won two of the top three films in Europe and also won an Oscar.

The Soviet Film Bureau was quite enthusiastic about his and Jean-Jacques' visit and sent an official to receive them.

The great director Nikita Mikhalkov and the great star Irina Alfarova were also invited to accompany them.

Nikita is well-known in the international film industry. He has won the three major European film festivals many times and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Europe and the United States call him the "Spielberg of the Soviet Union".

Yang Ye once met this person at the Cannes Film Festival.

Irina was dubbed the "Russian Goddess" in the Soviet Union, and she was also very famous in China in the 1980s. CCTV often showed her films.

Everyone should have seen "Charlotte". There are two celebrity posters in Charlotte's room.

One is posted on the wall, it is Zhang Guorong. One is posted on the door and it is Irina.

When Charlotte sang "Those Flowers" by Pu Shu, she sang "The laughter reminded me of my flowers" and gave a special close-up of Irina's poster.

The subtitles and shots here are all deliberately designed.

It seems that the director's "goddess" when he was young was Irina.

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Illustration: A still from "Charlotte".

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Yang Ye and Jean Jacques went to the Soviet Union to shoot "At the Gate", which is somewhat similar to Bertolucci's trip to China to shoot "The Last Emperor".

At this time, some internationally renowned directors like to search for inspiration all over the world, and they often make movies across borders.

At that time, human beings were shrouded in the shadow of the Cold War, but they tended to be more positive about life and showed strong vitality.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Cold War ended, and the world seemed to usher in peace, this mentality disappeared.

The reason is probably because after one family became the dominant one, the capitalists no longer had any worries, so they became even more unscrupulous!
If you want to ask when the American people lived the best, it was during the Cold War. At that time, in order to show the superiority of the system, the United States was really good to workers and was really willing to give out benefits.

A family of three, with one person working, can live in a small building, drive a car, and go on vacation every year.

After the United States became invincible, the lives of ordinary people worsened year by year. The gap between the rich and the poor became wider and wider, and wealth became more and more concentrated. People were unable to resist, and they gradually began to suffer.

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Yang Ye and his group didn't do much when they went to Moscow. They held two symposiums and exchanged ideas about film art.

Then we visited some of the places of interest in Moscow.

Yang Ye said that he wanted to see Lake Baikal, and he complied with the request and took a flight there for a tour.

On the shore of Lake Baikal, Irina said to Yang Ye: "Yang, I heard that you are a famous musician. After seeing such beautiful lakes and mountains, will you write a song for it?"

Yang Yexin said, isn’t this simple? The song "Lake Baikal" came on the spot.

When the Soviet beauty heard it, the song was ethereal, melodious, and extremely beautiful. It was actually in Russian style. She was immediately shocked and admired Yang Ye so much.

It is said that Li Jian of later generations went to visit Lake Baikal and was accompanied by the Russian ambassador.

At that time, the ambassador invited him to write a song, and he started writing it on the spot.

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After returning to Moscow, it was time to get down to business.

China's film system is copied from that of the Soviet Union, that is, one film studio per large area.

Yang Ye and Jean Jacques mainly talked with Moscow Studio this time.

They said they would invest US$20 million to build (part of) Stalingrad during World War II with the help of Moscow Studios and use it as the main filming location for the movie.

After the filming is completed, donate it to the Moscow studio, they should use it.

Why not just go to Volgograd and shoot on location? Because Moscow has more complete supporting facilities and is more convenient.

Then actors and other things will be found directly at Moscow Film Studio.

After discussing these matters and signing the contract, Yang Ye acted as a hands-off shopkeeper and left Jacques to do preliminary preparations in the Soviet Union.

Jean Jacques is the director anyway.

The filming of "Attack on the Wall" will start in a year at the earliest.

After the movie was settled, Yang Ye was going to pick up the money.

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If you had to choose one of the most famous video games in the world, it would undoubtedly be Tetris!
This game is almost the most well-known game IP in the world. Its extremely low operating threshold and extremely high content depth have made it never fade away since its birth.

In the era of handheld consoles and quasi-smartphones, Tetris is a standard feature of almost all electronic entertainment devices.

The inventor of Tetris is Alexey Pajitnov, a programmer at the Moscow Science and Technology Center.

This name is too long, so I’ll just call it “Lao Pa” from now on. Lao Pa liked to play jigsaw puzzles. In 1984, he got inspiration from it and typed out the code of "Tetris".

In 1985, he ported Tetris to personal computers, and Tetris began to spread in socialist countries.

Not long after, a British guy named Stan discovered the business opportunity. Since he couldn't find Lao Pa, he made a fake power of attorney and sold it all over the Western world, making a lot of money.

Atari bought this fake copyright and later transferred the copyright to Sega. After Sega obtained the copyright, it developed its own Tetris.

Tetris became popular all over the world within a few years, and by 1988, the Soviet Union finally got wind of it.

After many inquiries, the Soviet Foreign Trade Association found out the relationship between Tetris and Lao Pa, so they sent people to Lao Pa's workplace to ask what was going on.

The Soviet Foreign Trade Association just wanted to understand the situation, but when Lao Pa heard that someone was coming from above, he was frightened.

After all, he is a national civil servant, and it is a very sensitive act to interact directly with people in capitalist countries.

It's over now. If you don't give in, won't you go to the Siberian steppes to herd sheep?

So Lao Pa explained everything about his development of Tetris.

In order to prove his loyalty to the Soviet Union, Lao Pa also handed over Tetris to the country.

The country was very pleased and rewarded Lao Pa with a house.

To be honest, it's quite generous to ride a horse, at least it's not 500 yuan and a banner.

After the Soviet Foreign Trade Association obtained the copyright, it made a genuine Tetris and sold it everywhere.

This time I was really prosperous, and I suddenly started counting money until my hands cramped.

As soon as the genuine version came out, those people outside who created fake copyrights suddenly panicked.

Suddenly, people from all walks of life gathered in Moscow, all trying to obtain overseas copyrights.

In the end, Nintendo had the last laugh and spent two million dollars to successfully obtain the copyright.

The most powerful legal department in the Eastern Hemisphere immediately dispatched to sweep away all counterfeit goods on the market.

At this time, Sega had just completed the Tetris arcade game, and could only seal it up with tears in their eyes, losing all their money. How could it be such a tragedy?

After Nintendo became the dominant player, it released GameBoy, a handheld game console equipped with Tetris.

The price in Japan at that time was 12500 yen.

In North America, it is bundled with a battery, data cable, and headphones for $89.

The price in China is 588 yuan.

It was so expensive that it sold 3000 million copies.

Mahler Gobi, using two million US dollars in exchange for billions of dollars in profits, Nintendo is really making money.

The various versions of Tetris in later generations are collectively estimated to have sold more than 100 million copies.

The licensing of Symbian in the mobile phone era and the number of downloads in the Internet era are simply impossible to calculate.

Now, Tetris has just emerged, and the Soviet Union doesn't even know about it. Yang Ye just spends some money and buys it back to make money!
Why didn't Yang Ye write the Tetris program earlier, or even rename it Chinese Tetris, and play it himself?
Because there are so many projects that can make money in this era, and not all of them need to be collected, and there is no end to them.

It's like there are too many beauties in this era, and Yang Ye doesn't have to collect all of them.

Yang Ye had never thought about collecting this thing before, but this time he came to the Soviet Union to discuss things, which reminded Yang Ye of this matter.

Then just grab the grass and hunt the rabbits, just pick them up casually.

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Yang Ye did not have direct contact with Lao Pa. In a socialist country, it would be more sensitive to do so, and he might have to enter the Lubyanka to provide food and accommodation.

Lubyanka was the seat of Soviet intelligence.

Yang Ye told Sergey Korchakin, the official in charge of receiving him: "I have seen a game called "Tetris" in the United States. It is very interesting. It is said that it was invented by a Russian. Can I meet him? ?”

Sergey Korchagin said he had never heard of it: "Where did you see it?"

"In America, New York!"

Sergey Korchagin said he needed to find out about this.

By the time Yang Ye and his party returned from Lake Baikal, they had already found Lao Pa.

Lao Pa didn't want to go to Lake Baikal to herd sheep, so he readily admitted the matter and handed over Tetris to the state.

Since Tetris at this time did not produce the huge economic benefits that it did two years later, the Soviet Union did not take this thing seriously.

So Lao Pa didn't get a house like he did in the original time and space, which was such a tragedy!

Later, Yang Ye approached the Foreign Trade Association, hoping to get authorization from Tetris.

The people from the Foreign Trade Association were also very happy. After all, Yang Ye gave a lot, and the two parties signed the contract quickly.

In this way, Yang Ye spent one million US dollars to obtain the exclusive overseas copyright of Tetris from the Soviet Foreign Trade Association.

Now those people who are making fake contracts outside should just wait and see. The legal department of Baiyang Company is not a vegetarian either!
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Everything went well in the Soviet Union, and Yang Ye returned to Hong Kong without stopping.

At this time, "Kill Bill 2" has been put into production, with a box office of 1960 million in Hong Kong, slightly more than the first film.

However, the majority of "Kill Bill" is in North America and France. The box office in Hong Kong is not enough to fill the gap, and Yang Ye doesn't care much.

After "Kill Bill 2" is finished, "God of Gamblers" will be released next.

It is scheduled to be released on August 1986, 8, replacing the original schedule of "A Better Tomorrow".

According to the usual practice, Yang Ye's self-directed and self-acted movie will have a premiere.

In order to accommodate Yang Ye's time, Baiyang Company directly squeezed the premiere and release date on the same day.

After a few months, Zhu Lin finally saw Yang Ye again. She held Yang Ye's arm and walked briskly on the red carpet, listening to the cheers of the fans around her and feeling very happy.

After entering the theater, Yang Yecai asked: "Have you missed me?"

"Think about it, where have you been?"

"A trip to the Soviet Union."

"The Soviet Union? What are you doing there?"

"Let's talk about making a movie over there! Last time I returned to Hong Kong from the United States, I was in a hurry, so I didn't bother to see you. How was the filming of your movie "Dao Ma Dan"?"

"It's finished. I'll be returning to the mainland in two days."

"Then I'll spend the next two days with you!"

"Ok!"

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Wang Zuxian held Liu Hua's arm and walked behind Yang Ye and Zhu Lin. She looked at Zhu Lin's back with a little envy.

In the past few months, she had been staying with Yang Ye every day, getting along day and night, and they were intimate.

As soon as she returned to Hong Kong, Yang Ye abandoned her and walked on the red carpet with someone else on her arm, which made her a little disappointed.

Liu Hua asked: "Xiaoxian, I heard that you went to the Soviet Union. Is it fun?"

"Of course it's fun. We went to Moscow and Lake Baikal. The scenery there is very beautiful. Brother Ye even wrote a song called "Border of Lake Baikal". It's so good. I'll sing it to you another day!"

Liu Hua said quickly: "I'll listen to it again when Mr. Yang releases his album. If I listen to it now, it won't be fresh by then."

Wang Zuxian's eyebrows stood up: "Humph, if you think my singing is ugly, just say so and ignore you!"

After saying that, he threw away Liu Hua and left with "dengdengdeng". (End of chapter)