Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"The Last Emperor" is really killing people!

At the beginning of this year, the global award-winning mode was launched.

Before the Oscars are announced, there are four film awards known as the "Oscar weathervanes"!
They are: Golden Globe Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and British Academy of Film Awards.

"The Last Emperor" received eleven nominations at the British Academy Film Awards and ultimately won three awards.

He was subsequently nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and won four awards in a row. The only award he missed was for Best Actor for Tony Leung Ka Fai.

This is certainly not because Liang Jiahui’s acting skills are not good.

As a Chinese actor, being nominated is already the limit!

Later, in Bertolucci's hometown of Italy, "The Last Emperor" received eleven nominations and won ten awards at the David Awards, the country's highest film award.

The one that lost was Chen Chong's "Best Actress". For a white-skinned girl, just the nomination is considered a win.

Soon after, both the Japan Academy Awards and the French Film César Awards awarded "The Last Emperor" the "Best Foreign Language Film" award!
"The Last Emperor" made it to the Academy Awards with a galaxy of honors.

As for the Hong Kong Film Awards...Although "The Last Emperor" was produced by Baiyang Films, it has pure Hong Kong blood.

But it is an English movie and its Mandarin version was dubbed later.

Since it is not a Chinese-language film, it does not meet the competition rules and was rejected.

This reason was very legitimate, and Yang Ye had nothing to say.

Others breathed a sigh of relief. "The Last Emperor" swept the world. If it had been forced into the selection, no one would have been able to play.

But...even though there is no "The Last Emperor", there is still "Terminator 2"!
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"knock off!"

Yang Ye called out, and the crew members began to pack up their things and prepare to leave.

In the dressing room, the three main characters Yang Ye, Hong Jingbao and Zhong Chuhong sat in a row and asked the makeup artist to help them remove their makeup.

Yang Ye said: "Sanmao, our crew has to stop for a while. If you have nothing to do, why don't you join forces with A Long, A Biao and the other three brothers to make a movie together!"

Hong Jingbao said happily: "Okay!"

In the past, when the three brothers joined together, they could always defeat Japan and South Korea. Hong Jingbao still misses them very much!

In fact, he is just a bonus. Without him, Chen Long can defeat Japan and South Korea alone!
Regarding the movies to be released this year, Stephen Chow has three movies, the three Hong Jingbao brothers have one movie, and Chen Long himself has one movie "Police Story 2".

Xu Ke and John Woo also have "The Flying Dagger" and "A Better Tomorrow", making a total of seven films.

It's basically unbeatable in the areas of comedy and action.

Yang Ye thought, let’s watch some more romance movies.

Last year I bought a Korean romance movie "The Unforgettable", and this year I'm going to buy "My Sassy Girl".

For the Sassy Girl, the heroine must be a stunning beauty.

Why can people accept a girl who beats her boyfriend every day and enjoy watching it?
Because that girl is Jun Ji-hyun, countless boys put themselves in her shoes and were willing to be beaten!

Yang Ye thought about it and felt that both Wang Zuxian and Li Jiaxin were more suitable.

Both of their classic looks are long straight black hair, very similar to Jun Ji-hyun.

The ideal type in most boys' minds is long straight black hair.

Let’s give it to Wang Zuxian, Li Jiaxin’s acting is so fucking terrible.

Moreover, Yang Ye didn't want to praise her too quickly, lest she become spoiled.

Yang Ye has not eaten Wang Zuxian yet, because Wang Zuxian cannot accept polygamy.

Yang Ye did not force her. For something like this to happen, one must be willing to do it.

As for Michelle Reis, although Yang Ye ate it directly, he was actually a little distant, which made Michelle Reis very distressed.

On the one hand, she felt that Yang Ye didn't pay much attention to her. After all, she was just a little girl and still yearned for sweet love.

On the one hand, she couldn't do without the luxurious life that Yang Ye provided her with, because he gave her too much.

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As for the male lead, he cannot be too handsome, he must have a nerdy vibe, he must have a talent for comedy, and he must have awesome acting skills.

There is no doubt that the most suitable candidate in Hong Kong is Zhang Xueyou.

Let’s give Zhang Xueyou another classic theme song "I Believe". When this love song is sung, isn’t the effect explosive?

This is a divine song that is popular throughout Asia, and Sun Nan has made it one of his masterpieces.

Let Zhang Xueyou sing it, and with the added bonus of the movie, this album will definitely sell like hot cakes, right?
Okay, okay, it’s decided.

Yang Ye thought about it, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Zhong Chuhong asked curiously: "What are you laughing at?"

"My wife is giving birth!"

"what?"

“Uh, no, I was just thinking about the lines for the movie and it just came out of my mouth!” Yang Ye shook his hand quickly.

Zhong Chuhong didn't believe it and asked, "Are you going to be a father?"

Yang Ye was at a loss for words for words, so he had to tell the story of the scene in The Mermaid where Deng Chao called the police.

After hearing this, Chung Chu Hong laughed so hard that her body shook with laughter. She slapped her thigh and said, "Are you really not coming up with this joke just to please me?"

Yang Ye rolled his eyes and said, "Even if it is, it means that I care about you very much!"

"Stop it, just focus on your Baihui. When are you going to shoot this movie? I really want to see it, hahaha!"

Yang Ye sighed. Damn it. In order to make up for this panic, he had no choice but to release Zhou Xingchi’s “The Mermaid” earlier!

It just so happens that Zhou Xingchi was previously given three movies to make this year, and now only "God of Gamblers" and "God of Gamblers in Shanghai Beach" are available. With "The Mermaid", this is considered to be the fulfillment of the promise!
"The Mermaid" was also very awesome back then, and it was a box office hit not only in China.

The film also saw box office success in Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, ranking second in the year in Vietnam.

Of the top ten movies in Vietnam’s box office that year, nine were Hollywood films and only one was a Chinese-language film. That was Stephen Chow’s reputation.

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Illustration: Vietnamese box office in 2016.

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However, although "The Mermaid" had high box office, its reputation was not very good.

In fact, the main reason why Zhou Xingchi’s later films have a bad reputation is that he himself doesn’t act in them.

Deng Chao's comedy level is far behind Zhou Xingchi's.

If Stephen Chow himself were to play the role in "The Mermaid"... it would be interesting!
Yang Ye suddenly became expectant.

In addition, as Zhou Xingchi's creative ability declined in his later years, he began to rehash old works and even plagiarize.

"The Mermaid" not only contains many old plots, but also many plagiarized scenes, which has been criticized and is also the reason for its bad reputation.

For example, the joke about being a prostitute. Lin Yun said she was a prostitute, and Deng Chao thought she was a prostitute, but he didn't expect that she was actually a roast chicken.

This meme comes from the 1998 movie "Love You 8 Hours Every Day" starring Liang Caowei.

Vivian Hsu said she was a prostitute, and Liang Caowei thought she was a whore, but it turned out that her family really sold roast chicken.

For example, when calling the police, those two funny guys, Wen Zhang and Li Shangzheng, drew all kinds of weird mermaid patterns on paper.

This paragraph was copied from One Piece, and therefore was laughed at by Japanese anime fans.

If "The Mermaid" is released now ahead of schedule, all the old jokes will become new ones, and the plagiarized jokes will become original. Wouldn't the reputation of the movie improve?
This is... old wine in a new bottle, it must taste great!

As for how to create the mermaid effect, don't be too simple, just use props.

Tom Hanks filmed "The Mermaid" in the 1980s, so that's no big deal!
The selling point of "The Mermaid" is not the special effects, the 3D feature is used just to make money.

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Because of a remark that was blurted out, a movie was about to be released early.

Seems a bit sloppy? Who cares!

After Yang Ye confirmed this, he said to Zhong Chuhong: "Ah Hong, please accompany me to an event tomorrow!"

Zhong Chuhong asked curiously: "What activity?"

"Opening ceremony!"

"Do you still need to stand up for others and attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony?"

“I’m a shareholder!”

"Oh, you're the boss again, congratulations!"

Zhong Chuhong readily agreed, and then asked, "Why do you want me to go?"

"By the way, after cutting the ribbon, I'll come back and continue filming."

"Okay!" Zhong Chuhong thought this reason was reasonable: "What kind of company do you run?"

"Satellite Company!"

"What?" Chung Chu-hung was stunned. Satellite company? It sounded very high-end.

"The name is Asia Satellite Corporation. We are going to launch a commercial satellite that will cover a vast area from Guam in the east to Egypt in the west, Australia in the south, and the Soviet Union in the north. Our main business is to provide satellite communication services to users in the region."

After hearing this, Hong Jingbao couldn't help but be secretly shocked. He was just making movies, but Yang Ye was already playing with such high-end things as satellites. They were totally on a different level!

Zhong Chuhong said in doubt: "You are really getting better and better!"

"Okay!"

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After the news of the establishment of Asia Satellite Corporation appeared in the newspapers, people in the Hong Kong entertainment industry looked at Yang Ye differently.

In the past, they thought that Yang Ye was the same person as them, both making movies, just a little more powerful.

However, when Yang Ye stood together with representatives from China CITIC, General Motors, and Japan Daito to unveil the Asia Satellite Corporation, he finally realized that they were completely different from them.

After the satellite company was unveiled, Yang Ye took the crew and flew directly to New York.

Due to time constraints, I will not attend this year's Golden Melody Awards.

The filming location for the New York scenes is, of course, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge.

This bridge appears in many Hong Kong films when New York is mentioned.

For example, in the movie "An Autumn's Tale", the Brooklyn Bridge appears again and again, almost becoming an image.

At this time, the crew of "The Last Emperor" had already arrived in the United States and began to cooperate with United Artists to carry out public relations activities to compete for this year's Academy Awards.

But they were on the East Coast, and Yang Ye was on the West Coast, so they were too lazy to meet up.

After "The Last Emperor" was released in North America at the end of last year, it only earned more than 700,000 US dollars at the box office, and hardly anyone watched it.

After sweeping the Golden Globe Awards, United Artists immediately added more screenings, and the box office took off, reaching more than 15 million US dollars in just one month.

After winning the Oscar, the box office revenue can be increased by at least 20 million US dollars.

This is why the Oscar is so valuable, because it is really worth money!
"Terminator 2" was also nominated by United Artists and was shortlisted for several technical awards at the Oscars.

However, Yang Ye does not plan to participate, so he will send Lin Qingxia to make the trip when the time comes.

Yang Ye has no time, so he has to hurry up and finish filming this scene, as he still has to go meet Wang An! (End of this chapter)