Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 523 Girl’s Confession

As the theme song of the hit movie "My Sassy Girl", it touched countless people and it was reasonable for it to win the award.

As the creator of "I Believe", Yang Ye went on stage to receive the award with singer Zhang Xueyou.

Zhang Xueyou naturally let Yang Ye speak first. Yang Ye held the trophy and said into the microphone, "I thought I only needed to sit in the audience and clap my hands tonight, but I didn't expect to be able to go on stage and receive an award. However, Jacky's singing contributed greatly to the popularity of this song."

Zhang Xueyou said modestly: "No, no, it's mainly because Mr. Yang wrote a good script, the song was well written, and Director Du shot the movie well. Moreover, the heroine of our movie is Xiaoxian. These factors made this song so popular. In short... it's a good deal for me!"

There was a burst of laughter and enthusiastic applause from the audience. Zhang Xueyou took advantage of the situation and said, "I just don't know if there are still opportunities like this to be picked up?"

Yang Ye did not answer, but asked the audience: "Everyone, do you think so?"

"Yes!" the audience responded thunderously.

"Well, this year we will also produce a love movie called 50 First Dates, and you will be the male lead!"

Zhang Xueyou was delighted: "Everyone, please bear witness for me!"

The Hong Kong Coliseum was filled with a joyful atmosphere. Yang Ye walked off the stage, while Zhang Xueyou stayed on the stage to sing "I Believe".

After he finished singing and stepped down from the stage, he went back up before he could even sit down because he won the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in "As Tears Go By".

The phrase "Eat shit on you" can still be popular on the Internet decades later and become an emoticon giant. It can be said that it deserves the award.

When it came to the four most important awards, the organizing committee invited the long-lost director King Hu and the martial arts queen Cheng Pei-pei to present the Best Actress awards.

King Hu was in poor health and had been recuperating in recent years. He had little money, and his daily life was taken care of by his two disciples, Cheng Pei-pei and Xu Feng.

The old man has been busy all his life, but he has neither property nor children. However, his disciples are all very filial, no worse than his own children.

He went to Taiwan with two thousand dollars in his pocket. As a result, Shi Jun, Qiao Hong and others treated him to meals every day and rushed to pay the bills. After staying there for three months, he still had two thousand dollars in his pocket when he came back.

During this period, his condition improved. Xu Feng knew that his mentor was bored, so he asked him to come out of retirement to make a movie. Naturally, Hu Jinquan readily agreed.

Yang Ye knew that King Hu's lifelong dream was to film "The Blood and Tears of the Chinese Workers", but this was a film that was destined to lose money.

In order to raise funds, King Hu traveled around the world for more than ten years before he finally got investment from the United States with the help of John Woo.

Unfortunately, before filming began, he had a physical examination and was found to have heart problems, so he underwent surgery, but ended up dying in the hospital.

With his heart condition, even if he didn't die on the operating table that time, he probably wouldn't be able to withstand the high-intensity work of directing.

When Xu Ke asked him to film "Swordsman", he had to be carried by someone during the filming.

Yang Ye knew that King Hu would not live for many years, so he told Xu Feng directly: "Old Hu has been very kind to you. Let him shoot whatever he wants. He can make some compensation if he wants!"

This touched Xu Feng deeply, because the films produced by Baiyang Pictures rarely lost money.

Generally, only low-budget movies that train new talents will lose money, while carefully produced blockbusters are almost always profitable.

Yang Ye knew that King Hu wanted to shoot "The Blood and Tears of the Chinese Workers" and that the film would lose money, but she still agreed to shoot it because King Hu was kind to her.

Cheng Pei-pei helped King Hu onto the stage, and there was an immediate burst of warm applause from the guest seats.

King Hu is the pioneer of martial arts films. Everyone who makes martial arts films follows the path he pioneered.

This was equivalent to King Hu rewarding everyone with a meal, so naturally everyone respected him very much.

The master and his apprentice chatted for a while, and King Hu said, "Let's take a look at the shortlist first!"

On the big screen, wonderful scenes flashed by.

The voice-over read out in order: "The nominees for the 9th Academy Awards for Best Actress are... Anita Mui for Rouge... Maggie Cheung for As Tears Go By... Carol Cheng for Threesome... Wang Zuxian for My Sassy Girl... Gong Li for Red Sorghum!"

Among the five names on the list, the most popular ones are Anita Mui and Gong Li. Anita Mui is a local superstar, while Gong Li has the reputation of being the Berlin Film Festival winner.

Another person worth looking forward to is Zhang Manyu, because she finally got it.

Before this, Maggie Cheung could only play the role of a noisy and cute girl in movies, like Amei in "Police Story".

Other than that, I don’t know anything else.

In the movie "As Tears Go By", Maggie Cheung suddenly became simple, gentle and full of spirit, which was a complete transformation.

By the way, Yang Ye actually quite liked Zhang Manyu in the past. The scene where she was pulled down from the little sheep by Chen Long was something he could never get tired of watching.

However, if Zhang Manyu had remained at that stage, she would have been eliminated from the film industry in a few years.

Fortunately, she met the King of Sunglasses, who believed that Zhang Manyu had the most beautiful figure in Asia, but Zhang Manyu did not believe it at all.

Later, Wong Kar-wai proved this to her. In In the Mood for Love, Manyu Cheung wore a cheongsam, swaying gracefully and full of charm.

After the nomination clip was played, the atmosphere became tense.

In fact, Best Actress is a more important award than Best Actor.

Because male actors can prove themselves with box office results. If you are a box office superstar, it doesn't matter if you don't get any awards.

But if you can't prove yourself at the box office, it's useless no matter how many Best Actor awards you win.

The box office appeal of female stars is often a joke.

If you want to prove your worth, you can only rely on awards.

Otherwise, just wait to be called a vase!

Cheng Pei-pei opened the list of winners, and King Hu took a look and read out, "The winner of the Best Actress award is... Wang Zuxian, My Sassy Girl!"

Wang Zuxian looked incredulous. She had never thought that she would win the award.

The other four female stars, except Maggie Cheung, could not hide their disappointment.

It's not that Zhang Manyu doesn't want to win an award, but she has always been criticized for her poor acting skills and being a vase. She is very happy to be nominated this time, and she has never thought about winning an award.

After all, there is Gong Li who has come in with the reputation of being the Berlin Film Queen.

Although he was confused, Wang Zuxian soon became excited, as everyone knew, he was happy to win the award.

I celebrated with the crew and went on stage to receive the award.

Wang Zuxian took the golden statue from King Hu and said politely, "Thank you Director Hu, thank you Sister Peipei!"

Then she walked to the microphone and gave her acceptance speech somewhat nervously.

Yang Ye looked at Wang Zuxian on the stage with mixed feelings.

To be honest, with Wang Zuxian's level of performance, there is no way she could have won over Anita Mui and Gong Li.

The reason why she was able to win the Best Actress award was because... Yang Ye secretly manipulated the results of the competition.

To date, Yang Ye has increasingly discovered that the Academy Awards selection rules set back then had a fatal flaw.

That is...China today is actually divided into three parts: the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

It is human nature to like to form groups, so the members of the Academy Awards are naturally divided into three groups: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Among them, Hong Kong has the largest number of members. If they don’t want someone to win the award, they can do it as long as they communicate with each other and work together.

If you want someone to win an award, you can easily influence the outcome by doing targeted public relations.

This is what happened last year, when Taiwanese filmmakers united to show their support for Yang Ye and allowed "Terminator 2" to sweep the Academy Awards.

However, everyone benefited from the result that time, so no one had any objections.

This time...

Yang Ye hinted at the Academy Award members who came from Bai Yang’s agency, and also hinted at filmmakers from Taiwan.

With the combined efforts of both parties, Wang Zuxian will secure the award.

The reason why Yang Ye helped Wang Zuxian cheat was because this was the limit of Wang Zuxian's performance.

If I don’t win the award this time, I will never have another chance in the future.

For Wang Zuxian, eating delicious food and playing games are the main points of life, while making movies will have to wait until later.

Therefore, her acting skills will hardly improve much in the future.

After all, her acting skills rely on her talent, not her acquired efforts.

In fact, if one wanted to help Wang Zuxian cheat, it would have been most appropriate when she was nominated for Best Actress for "A Chinese Ghost Story" last year, and it would have been most convincing for her to win the award at that time.

But Yang Ye didn't have this idea at that time.

Yang Ye actually didn't want to undermine the fairness of the Golden Melody Awards and the Golden Image Awards. This time, it was just a little bit of his... selfish motive!

Looking at Wang Zuxian, who was smiling like a flower on the stage, Yang Ye suddenly realized that some changes were taking place in him.

Things that he had disdained and been unwilling to do before, he now did without any scruples.

For example, he instigated Qi Qin and Wang Jie to compete with each other, and he manipulated the Academy Awards this time.

Power can make people lose themselves, and Yang Ye immediately became alert.

Having lived two lives and still using cheats, Yang Ye has been reminding himself over the years to stay calm and not get cocky.

He didn't know what he would look like if he swelled up.

With the knowledge he possesses, that might... be a terrifying destructive force.

In fact, he has so many women because, on the one hand, he is really a LSP. On the other hand, it is also a kind of release.

If a person has huge wealth and also has huge influence in an industry.

He doesn't play with women and has no black spots at all.

Then he is most likely doing something even more terrible.

For example, the "saint" Wang Mang was actually plotting to seize power.

On the stage, Wang Zuxian gave a long list of thanks, including her parents, her teachers when she was a trainee, her teammates, her colleagues in the company, the director who helped her, her colleagues in the Sassy Girl crew, and finally...

"I want to thank Brother Ye, Sir Yang Ye! Thank you for taking care of me, loving me, and tolerating me for so many years. If it weren't for you, the world wouldn't know the three words Wang Zuxian. I love you!"

Wang Zuxian didn't know if he was stimulated by Yang Ye's recent gossip, but he actually confessed publicly on the podium.

Fortunately, she is not stupid. These three words are somewhat ambiguous. You can understand them as love between men and women, or as love between brothers and sisters, or as gratitude for someone’s kindness.

It depends on the situation, very flexible.

But Yang Ye knew that when Wang Zuxian said “I love you”, he was really confessing his love to him.

Being confessed by such a stunningly beautiful girl, who was also the girl he liked, Yang Ye felt his heartbeat speed up.

At this time, everyone started to make a fuss, and Wang Zuxian walked off the stage with a red face.

Looking at Wang Zuxian who was "fleeing in panic", Yang Ye suddenly thought of a big trouble.

Helping Wang Zuxian to cheat was already a bit of a screw-up, and now with Wang Zuxian's confession, it's almost certain that Yang Ye manipulated the Academy Awards.

(End of this chapter)