Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

As usual, there are three days off during the Spring Festival. Yang Ye ignores everything and stays at home with his family.

After the holiday, the crew resumed work as normal. Yang Ye arrived at the crew early in the morning and sat in his director's chair with a pile of red envelopes next to him. He gave one to everyone he met.

"Ah Hong, Happy New Year!" Yang Ye said, giving out a red envelope.

"Thank you, boss. Happy New Year and may you make fortune!"

Cherie Chung happily took the red envelope and put it away.

"Get your passport ready. We're going to New York in half a month!"

"Okay, how long will we take to shoot this play?"

"It's too early. The filming won't be finished until June!"

"Will it take that long? I feel like we've almost finished filming our scenes."

"There are wind disasters in the spring on the grassland, and the scenery is not good. So after returning from the United States, the crew temporarily disbanded and waited until the summer to shoot the last part."

I've never heard of Cherie Chung. There was also a case where the crew disbanded halfway through filming a movie. How much money was wasted!
"There's nothing I can do. I don't have the right time. Besides, I have to go to the Soviet Union. This is the only way."

“What did you go to the Soviet Union for?”

"Filming!"

“You went to the Soviet Union to film?”

"Yeah, make a World War II movie and I'm the leading actor!"

Cherie Chung found it magical. In her eyes, the Soviet Union was a very mysterious country.

I didn't expect that Yang Ye could actually go there to act in a movie and play the leading role. He is really amazing.

"Let's go to the movies after work tonight?" Yang Ye said casually.

"What are you looking at?"

"God of Gamblers, I heard that Sing Zai's performance was hilarious!"

"You don't know if it's funny or not?"

"I didn't see it, how would I know?"

"Okay!" Cherie Chung didn't think too much about it.

Yang Ye continued to send out red envelopes while chatting casually with Zhong Chuhong.

Not long after, all the more than one hundred people who came to the crew to work that day received their money. More than one thousand yuan was distributed, which is really a huge sum of money!
"Young Master Yang, the light is ready!"

"Let's get started!"

……

Yang Ye and Zhong Chuhong disguised themselves and sneaked into the cinema. They sat down in their seats and the subtitles had just finished appearing.

The movie begins at Kowloon Station, where Ah Sing, who has just arrived in Hong Kong from Guangzhou, buys soda with RMB coins.

A policeman ran over and complained: "Mainland boy, what are you doing? You are crazy to buy Hong Kong soda with RMB!"

"Comrade, I don't have any Hong Kong dollars, and I don't want this to happen."

"Who is your comrade? See my uniform? Call me officer!"

"Officer, I've been waiting here for a long time. I'm very thirsty. Can you lend me some money? My uncle will return it to you when he comes."

"What's the point of begging me? If you want a soda, beg this machine!"

"Okay!"

Ah Xing actually went to the vending machine to ask for help. "Boss, can you lend me a can of soda?"

The police watched the joke from the sidelines while Ah Xing closed his eyes and pressed the vending machine with both hands.

There was a flash of electricity in his hand, his eyes opened, and with a "bang", a can of soda fell down.

"Thank you, Boss Ji!"

The police officers were dumbfounded, how could they really beg for it?
The audience in the theater was surprised and amused.

Some people whispered, "Does this Ah Xing have inner strength?"

"What kind of internal energy can be used on vending machines?"

It didn't take long for everyone to understand that Ah Xing could actually see through things.

"It's not internal strength, it's a special ability!"

With such amazing skills, it was natural that Wu Mengda took him to the casino to make money.

However, he didn't make any money, but instead encountered many problems, which made the audience laugh.

In fact, the nonsense in "God of Gamblers" was not as obvious as it was later, and many iconic things were not included.

The jokes in the movie are logical. For example, when Wu Mengda was about to perform the "Thirteen Yao" trick, he was held down by the police.

Wu Mengda went to bet on horses, but because he didn't believe what Ah Xing said, he didn't buy any tickets, and in the end he won.

When he went to ask for the second time, because someone was following him, he asked Ah Xing to write it down. Then Ah Xing wrote a 9, and Wu Mengda bought a 6.

Although these jokes are funny, they are all reasonable!

And the most important thing is that his jokes are very smooth and follow the plot.

Before this, Hong Kong comedies often tried to cram in some irrelevant jokes for the sake of being funny, which made the comedy inferior.

The plot setting of "God of Gamblers" is also very ups and downs.

In order to collect money for his daughter's surgery, the fishmonger Sheng listened to a rumor and used the money to bet on horses, and ended up losing everything.

Ah Xing was a very kind young man. After learning about this, he used his special ability to rub off the numbers on the lottery ticket.

Then Ping came to Xing and asked him to help her rub her breasts bigger because she wanted to have breast augmentation.

Ah Xing said I could only rub it smaller and smaller. Ah Ping said that was fine, I just wanted to rub my butt smaller.

And here a weakness is set for the protagonist. After rubbing it once, he needs to rest for a while, and there is a CD.

It just so happened that King Qian Hongguang invited them at this time, and they would die if they didn't show their skills.

So the uncle and nephew began to imitate the God of Gamblers and even gave themselves the nickname "God of Gamblers".

When it came to Hong Guang, it definitely wasn't going to work and he almost got exposed.

Just at this moment, Ah Xing's dream lover Qi Meng appears, and Ah Xing is ready. One thing leads to another, and the jokes are all interspersed along this line, which is really wonderful.

Liu Zhenwei finished the entire script in just five hours, it was like he was helped by God.

……

There were bursts of laughter in the cinema. Cherie Chung was a carefree person. She was already lying on top of Yang Ye, laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten her back.

Yang Ye had no idea how many times he had watched this in his previous life. Although this version was a little different from the original one, it was basically the same.

So Yang Ye hardly looked at her, but the beauty in his arms was moving around, and the touch was really good.

To be honest, there are many beautiful women in his family, so it shouldn't be like this.

But men, that’s how it is, what you don’t have is always the best!

For example, he once gave Yang Ritian a very exquisite authentic Transformer.

However, Yang Ritian stared at the fake Ultraman in the hands of a child on the roadside.

Yang Ye was very angry and said, "Isn't your Transformer more fun than his Ultraman?"
But Yang Ritian confidently said, "I have never played that game!"

……

In the end, Ah Xing only had three of his four aces. If he wanted to win, he had to rub the three into an A.

At the critical moment, Qi Meng appeared, and Ah Xing was immediately possessed by magical powers and began to shuffle the cards.

After rubbing and rubbing for a long time, "Dear audience, four aces!"

Ah Xing showed his bottom card, and it was still a fucking three.

Hong Guang laughed loudly: "You think you can win my flush with three aces? You're dreaming!"

The cards turned over… “Huh?”

It turned out that Ah Xing had given the Ace of Spades to Hong Guang.

This reversal was very well done and there was an immediate burst of warm applause from the audience!

……

The audience left one after another, but Yang Ye and Zhong Chuhong remained seated.

They could leave only after everyone else had left.

"Did you write this script?"

"No, isn't there a credit line for the screenwriter?"

"Youcai? Ji'an? These are pseudonyms, right? Who are the real people?"

"I do not know!"

"Liar!"

"You really want to know?"

"Of course, everyone would be curious, right?"

"Kiss me and I'll tell you!"

"No way, you are so old, and you still play this kind of trick?"

"Uh..." Yang Ye was suddenly embarrassed.

"Boom!"

Zhong Chuhong suddenly came over and pecked Yang Ye on the face, and said sarcastically: "Childish ghost! Okay, tell me now!"

“Hehe!” Yang Ye was very satisfied and said, “Ji’an is Liu Zhenwei!”

"So it's him! Then who is Oil Rape?"

"Then you have to kiss me again!"

"Go to hell, I know it's you without any guessing!"

Cherie Chung said this, stood up and left!

Yang Ye followed behind, and just as they were leaving the theater, Zhong Chuhong suddenly turned around and said, "Ah, I really don't know what's wrong with your head!"

……

Among the five movies released during the Spring Festival, Golden Harvest's "One Wife, Two Husbands" was the first to fall behind, with a box office of less than 10 million yuan, becoming cannon fodder.

This is how the Spring Festival period is. If your attendance is not good, your screening schedule will immediately be taken up by other films. Cinemas need to make money.

If this movie had Cherie Chung like in the original time and space, maybe it would still be fun. But as it is now, it is simply not worth it.

Following closely behind was Wang Jing's "The Romance of the Condor Heroes 2", which grossed over 12 million.

Half a month later, "The Rich and the Powerful" also withdrew from the battle, with a box office of 19 million and only 20 million during the Spring Festival, which greatly disappointed Debao.

The box office of these three movies are all lower than that of the original time and space, naturally because the sudden appearance of "God of Gamblers" squeezed their screening space.

At this time, the box office of "God of Gamblers" has reached 30 million, and "Eight Stars Reporting Happiness" is closely following with 28 million, and the competition is very close.

……

Zou Wenhuai sighed: "Who would have thought that Yang Ji would suddenly launch a newcomer and actually have the effect of dominating the Spring Festival period!"

Ho Kuan Chang said: "This Xingzai cannot be said to be a newcomer, he has been in Yeung Kee for many years, he started out as an emcee and later filmed many comedy TV series.

It was a natural thing for Yang Ji to promote him. And Yang Ji’s promotion this time was so strong, with dozens of celebrities recommending it, which was also one of the reasons for the box office success.”

Zou Wenhuai said: "Another strong player has been added. Xinyicheng is in trouble now. It's funny, Yangji has so many big-name stars and even runs an agency, but we can only stare at them and can't use them!"

Ho Kuan Chang said: "The key is that they are still not able to be poached. Ah Ye took them to release records, do commercial performances, and go to the mainland, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea to make money, and they made a lot of money.

Ah Ye can even send people to Hollywood for development. This guy has so much power that all those people are completely devoted to him!"

Zou Wenhuai said: "The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office has already given the news. You should go to the mainland this time. I have to go to Taiwan!"

He Guanchang asked, "What are you going to Taiwan for?"

Zou Wenhuai said: "Jianfeng has passed away, Taiwan has changed its owner, and the opportunity for Aye to be unblocked has come. Taiwan's film distributors are trying every means to promote Aye's unblocking. I am going there this time to discuss this matter with Taiwan's film distributors."

He Guanchang couldn't help but sigh after hearing this: "It's fine that the Taiwanese film producers are trying every possible way to help Ah Ye get unblocked. As Ah Ye's rivals, we are also helping him get unblocked. Ah Ye himself is sitting on the Diaoyutai, not in a hurry at all. What do you think... is this a problem?" (End of this chapter)