Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye briefly explained his thoughts to Chen Yulian, and said solemnly: "Sister Lian, philanthropy is easy to say, but it is extremely difficult to put it into practice. You may spend your whole life doing this. Inside, you have to think clearly.”

Chen Yulian's character is not suitable for the fame and fortune fair of the entertainment industry. Her acting skills are also average. She can gain some fame because of her outstanding temperament. If she continues to act, she will not achieve greater development.

Chen Yulian thought for a moment and said, "Brother Ye, you are a person with great love, and I am willing to help you!"

Yang Ye shook her hand and said with a smile: "You are not helping me, you are helping those children. I thank you on behalf of the children!"

"It's all your money, I should thank you!"

"We are one body, what else can we say about each other?"

……

Due to the rapid development of domestic computers, Shenzhen has now formed a related industrial chain.

The butterfly effect triggered by this caused some future technology giants to come to Shenzhen in advance to look for opportunities.

Yang Ye's main purpose of coming to Shenzhen this time was to make an appointment with one of them.

This person is Qiu Bojun, a good friend of Rebus and the number one programmer in China in the 1980s.

He single-handedly wrote the office software WPS, and later established Kingsoft Corporation, which developed a series of classic games such as "Swordsman Love".

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The Guomao Building, 50 stories high, was the tallest building in Shenzhou in the 1980s. If you haven’t visited Guomao, you don’t have to be in Shenzhen!

From the Xuan Palace Restaurant on the rooftop, you can see Hong Kong Sheung Shui, Luo Wu Port, mangroves, Shenzhen Bay...

As for the price, in this era, it is of course extremely expensive and not affordable for ordinary people.

Yang Ye and Chen Yulian were sitting by the window, looking at the scenery outside and drinking morning tea comfortably.

At this time, Shenzhen was a big construction site, with construction going on everywhere.

Not long after, a young man in simple clothes came over, led by the waiter.

"Hello, Mr. Yang, I am Qiu Bojun!"

Yang Ye stood up and shook hands with him enthusiastically: "Hello, Mr. Qiu, please sit down!"

Qiu Bojun nodded and sat down at the dining table in a polite manner.

Chen Yulian took the initiative to stand up and help Qiu Bojun pour tea. Qiu Bojun recognized this as Xiao Longnu and was immediately flattered. He held up the tea cup and said, "Thank you, Long..."

He originally wanted to say thank you to Miss Long, but suddenly he thought that she was just playing the role of Little Dragon Girl on TV, and her surname was not really Long, so he quickly shut up.

But I felt this was too impolite, so I couldn't help but scratch my head in embarrassment.

Chen Yulian smiled and said, "My surname is Chen!"

Qiu Bojun said quickly: "Hello, Miss Chen!"

"Hello!" Chen Yulian nodded, said nothing more to him, and just lowered her head to drink tea.

Yang Ye handed the menu to Qiu Bojun and said, "You're welcome to order something to eat."

Qiu Bojun looked at the expensive menu and was speechless. He ordered a barbecued pork bun and gave up.

Qiu Bojun said seriously: "Mr. Yang, I received a call from you yesterday and asked me to meet here. Do you have anything to do with me?"

Yang Ye said: "I have read several papers you published. They are very insightful and I have a brief understanding of you. I think you are a very talented young man. I have a business and I want to talk to you."

"With me? Talking about business?"

Qiu Bojun was puzzled. Yang Ye was an international celebrity, but he was just a poor boy. He didn't know what Yang Ye could talk to him about.

"Eat first, come back to the hotel with me later, and I'll show you something."

"Ok!"

……

The hotel where Yang Ye stayed.

Yang Ye brought out Tetris, played a few games in front of Qiu Bojun, and asked, "Have you seen this?"

Qiu Bojun said: "This program is very exquisitely written!"

Yang Ye wanted to laugh a little. Damn it, as expected of a programmer, this person’s reaction was not that this game is very fun!
Yang Ye took out another small box, played a few games in front of Qiu Bojun, and said, "This little thing is called Game&Watch. It is a portable game console invented by the Japanese company Nintendo."

The inventor of Game & Watch is Gunpei Yokoi of Nintendo, who is also known as the father of handheld consoles.

It is said that one day when he was riding the Shinkansen, he saw an office worker who was playing with an electronic calculator out of boredom on the train, so he had a sudden idea and invented a portable game console called Game&Watch.

This is the world's first handheld console, and its name comes from video games (Game) and digital quartz watches (Watch).

It was released in 1980 and sold for 6000 yen at the time. Within three years, a total of 3200 million units were sold, and Nintendo made a fortune with this.

After both things were displayed, Yang Ye said: "I hope to be able to create a handheld game console for playing this Tetris. Do you think it can be done?"

Qiu Bojun thought for a while and said, "If we transplant this game from the computer to a micro-game console, we can do it.

But our country currently does not have the corresponding manufacturing capabilities. For example, the LCD screen of this game console cannot be produced. "

Yang Ye said: "You don't have to worry about this. China is developing panel technology and has made good progress. Just ask them to supply it when the time comes. Oh, don't tell anyone about this."

Qiu Bojun was shocked. This sentence meant... Yang Ye knew the national policy.

Yang Ye said: "Xiao Qiu, I hope you will lead the team to develop this product. Do you have confidence?"

"Me?" Qiu Bojun was so excited that his heart was beating.

Yang Ye drew a big picture for him: "I am going to set up a company in China. I hope you can be my partner and lead the team to make this product for me."

For Qiu Bojun, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, just like when he later met Zhang Xuanlong from Hong Kong Jinshan Company.

At that time, Zhang Xuanlong rented a room for Qiu Bojun in a hotel in Shenzhen. Qiu Bojun spent more than half a year in this room, working hard to write WPS by himself, and was directly promoted to the vice president of Kingsoft Company.

Yang Ye just copied Zhang Xuanlong's approach to Qiu Bojun.

Suddenly a big pie fell from the sky, which made Qiu Bojun's head dizzy. However, he quickly calmed down and solemnly accepted the task.

Yang Ye is not worried at all that Qiu Bojun can't complete this task, because... he will provide technical support when necessary, and then he will say that it was stolen from Nintendo.

Nintendo is currently developing a new generation of handheld console Game Boy. This gadget was released in 1989, priced at 12500 yen, with cumulative sales of 1.2 million units. It can be called a miracle machine!
Yang Ye's handheld console needs to be released before the Game Boy. The Game Boy without "Tetris" will be vulnerable to him!
Of course, "Tetris" alone is not enough to make a handheld console. After all, it is still a bit monotonous. Yang Ye plans to transplant the classic game "Pac-Man" into it.

Yang Ye said: "You first resign from Sitong Company, then register a company and start recruiting a team. In a few days, I will send you a financial accountant to make an initial payment of five million. The subsequent funds will be directly Just pay the bill.”

Qiu Bojun nodded and said, "What is the name of our company?"

Yang Ye said: "Nintendo has made a fortune by relying on handheld consoles. We also make handheld consoles, so let's call it Kingsoft Game Company!"

As for Hong Kong, there is already a Kingsoft company? That company has gone cold.

Kingsoft Company in Hong Kong sells computers, and there are only a dozen people in the company.

Their computers can be understood as assembly machines of later generations. IBM computers sell for 3 Hong Kong dollars each, while Kingsoft computers only sell for Hong Kong dollars. Although their performance is poor, they are cheaper.

However, due to the rise of domestic computers, Kingsoft Computer has not taken off at all. Kingsoft originally had a business of selling chips.

In the early 80s, Western countries still used the "Paris Coordination Committee Agreement" to restrict China's technology imports.

Zhang Xuanlong has connections and can get chips from the United States. Although the quantity is small, the profits are huge when these chips are sold to the mainland.

However, this business has not been started because of the existence of Yang Ye's BUG.

Without the two core businesses, this company has long since gone cold.

……

After returning from Shenzhen, "God of Gamblers" has been put into production. The local box office has reached 3240 million, temporarily ranking first in the year.

Xu Ke's "Dao Ma Dan" was released next to the film and the box office was good.

Zhu Lin appeared in two popular movies one after another and was remembered by Hong Kong audiences.

If she were not a mainland actress, she would be getting a lot of film offers now.

Regarding the box office information, Yang Ye just glanced at it and didn't take it to heart.

Yang Ye said: "Yinyin, go back to Taiwan, find our dad, and pick up all the previous connections."

Hu Yinmeng said: "What are you going to do?"

"Taiwan has too much money and no place to go. The only way is to invest in the mainland. Both sides of the Taiwan Strait will definitely open up further, and I will take this opportunity to unblock Taiwan."

"How do you know? Can't they invest in America?"

"My silly wife, don't even look at it. The Japanese are almost ruined by the Americans. How can the Taiwanese have the courage to go? They can only go to the mainland. Hong Kong businessmen are now making a lot of money in the mainland. Do you think Are they not jealous?"

Yang Ye said "Silly Wife", but Hu Yinmeng felt inexplicably happy and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll just go. How long will you go to the United States this time?"

Yang Ye thought for a while: "Five months!"

Hu Yinmeng touched his belly and said, "That's not bad!"

Yang Ye was stunned and said happily: "You have it?"

Hu Yinmeng smiled and nodded. Yang Ye was overjoyed, picked her up and spun her around, saying proudly: "I just said my marksmanship is very accurate!"

……

Yang Ye, Lin Qingxia, Xiao Wu Jing, as well as the staff of Baiyang Company and the technicians of Ziqi Company, went to Los Angeles with various mechanical models.

The plane flew over the dilapidated Kowloon Walled City and rushed into the sky. Lin Qingxia glanced at Hong Kong at her feet and sighed: "It takes so long this time, I really can't bear to leave Xiao'er!"

Neither Yang Ye nor Lin Qingxia was in Hong Kong, so Yang Xiao naturally entrusted it to her aunt, Lin Li.

Yang Ye comforted: "Xiao'er is taken care of by her eldest sister. She can also play with her cousins. It's good. You don't have to worry."

Lin Qingxia hummed. Although she couldn't bear to leave her daughter, she could stay with Yang Ye for half a year this time, which was actually not bad.

It would be even better if a family of three could come together.

It's a pity that they didn't go there to play. Taking their daughter would be too much of a delay.

The plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport. Shay personally went to the airport to pick him up. When he came up, he gave Yang Ye a bear hug and laughed loudly: "Brother, we are rich!"

When the Atari 7800 was first launched, sales were not very good because the previous Atari 5200 was so fucked up that it left many users with a psychological shadow.

However, as United Artists spent a lot of money on marketing, they secretly promoted "boycott Japanese products and support domestic products", coupled with good feedback from early users.

Step by step, the reputation was reversed, and sales began to rise steadily. In less than half a year, more than four million units had been sold, and the new game "Contra" was also very popular.

The final price of the Atari 7800 was US$298 per unit. Coupled with the sales of game cartridges and various peripherals, sales exceeded an astonishing US$ billion in half a year.

You can really make money by making games, so what kind of movies can you make? Xie Yi smiled crookedly, no wonder he had to come to pick him up in person.

The entertainment industry can be divided into three major sectors: music, movies, and games.

In terms of making money alone, music is smaller than movies, and movies are smaller than games.

According to the annual global revenue report of later generations, the revenue capacity of games is about three times that of movies and six times that of music.

This is actually not difficult to understand.

To listen to music, all you need is ears;

When watching a movie, in addition to your ears, you also need your eyes;
When playing games, in addition to ears and eyes, hands are also needed to create a more immersive experience.

Of course, some movies also require hands.

Yang Ye said calmly: "Atari 2600 sold 3000 million units, where are we now?"

Shea felt satisfied when he thought about it. The Atari 2600 brought Warner a net profit of 20 billion US dollars. It was the net profit of Taima. How much money should we make with this version of the 7800?
Many of the Hong Kong staff who came with Yang Ye can understand English. After all, they are from a British territory.

These people were shocked when they heard that the game console produced by Yang Ye had sold for more than one billion US dollars. Then they all congratulated the boss and shouted that the boss was awesome!
After making money, Yang Ye was not stingy. After everyone got over the jet lag, he booked a bar and had a night of partying.

As a result, after a night of fun, I was jet-lagged again!
……

John Woo has arrived in Los Angeles in advance to make some preparations with the help of Shea, mainly selecting some supporting roles.

The plot setting of Yang Ye's version of "Terminator 2" is that the last mechanical arm in the first part was obtained by the United States, so the United States used this arm to develop "Skynet".

Yang Lisa also came to the United States with her son Yang Han. She found that computer technology in the United States was advancing rapidly, and she doubted that Skynet would be born again.

In order to stop all this, she made explosives to blow up a computer company. As a result, she was locked up as a mental patient. Yang Han was adopted by an American family.
There are four main characters in this "Terminator 2".

The T800 wearing Li Kai's skin is played by Yang Ye.

Lisa Yang, played by Lin Qingxia.

Yang Han, the son of Li Kai and Yang Lisa, is played by Wu Jing.

The villain Terminator T1000 that their "family of three" has to deal with is played by Zun Long.

Yang Ye initially considered finding a big white man to play the role of T1000, because generally speaking, villains look more ferocious than the villains, and the audience will have a better sense of involvement.

However, he quickly rejected this idea, because T1000 is actually an agile BOSS, and if you find a big man, it would be a bit nondescript.

Later, I considered casting the original star Robert Patrick. The T1000 played by this person was stylish and very handsome.

But Yang Ye thought twice and gave up because he thought...it would be better to find an all-Chinese class.

In the movie "Terminator: Genisys", Korean actor Lee Byung-hun also played the role of T1000. He seemed to be stylish and capable of acting.

If replaced by a Chinese, Zunlong would undoubtedly be the most suitable candidate.

Zun Long was once rated as the most handsome gangster by the American media because of the movie "Year of the Dragon". Moreover, he was born in a theater troupe and his movements are very chic. He is simply a perfect candidate.

If Zun Long plays the role, he will definitely be better than Li Byung Hun!
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PS: Writing "Terminator 2" requires collecting a lot of information, and the workload is huge, so there is only one chapter today, sorry.

Illustration: Li Byung-hun version T1000 (end of this chapter)