Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye thought that it would be a good idea to let Zhang Peiren, Chen Jiantian and others go to the mainland at this time.

Otherwise, who knows when those bastards will come out.

Yang Ye had no interest in going to dig them out himself.

The discussion has been finalized and everyone has their own division of labor.

Duan Zhongtan returned to Taiwan, Chen Jiantian went to Guangzhou, Zhang Peiren went to Beijing, and Zheng Donghan stayed in Hong Kong and personally served as the producer of "The Voice of China".

While Zheng Donghan had to do the preliminary preparations for The Voice, he also had to contact those top celebrities to see who could come and serve as a mentor for The Voice.

Yang Ye only gave advice and then acted as a hands-off manager.

You just need to pay attention to the progress occasionally and check it.

……

After everything was ready, "Invincible in the East" was finally announced to start filming.

Meanwhile, Enemy at the Gates is finally starting to hit theaters across Asia.

The rights to this film were sold out at the Berlin Film Festival.

However, the copyrights of Yang Ye’s films are not sold directly in many markets.

In North America, United Artists is responsible for distribution, in Japan, Kadokawa Pictures is responsible, and in mainland China, China Film Corporation is responsible for distribution, all of which adopt a profit-sharing model.

The profit-sharing model has also recently begun in Taiwan.

In Nanyang, the Baiyang Issuing Company operates it itself.

Only Europe and Latin America sell copyrights directly.

Before the advent of the digital age, profit sharing was actually less convenient than selling copyrights.

Because the box office is too difficult to verify.

The reason Yang Ye can play this game in large markets like North America and Japan is because he is too deeply involved with United Artists and Kadokawa. No one else can do it.

United Artists is basically his. He has a stake in Kadokawa, and Kadokawa has also invested in several of Yang Ye's companies.

As for the mainland market, box office theft is rampant and cannot be stopped at all, so Yang Ye can only let it go.

Moreover, effective box office revenue can only be collected in cities; not a penny can be collected in rural areas. It is purely a charity.

However, Baiyang Cinema Chain has already expanded into the mainland, and with the operation of modern multi-hall cinemas in the mainland, the losses can be recovered to some extent.

Besides, in just a few years, we will enter the digital age.

The box office of "Enemy at the Gates" was still good, and the film was impeccably made.

After the film was shown in various parts of Asia, people exclaimed that there was such an unknown yellow-skinned gun god during World War II.

The audience in East Asia was really excited to see Yang Ye shoot a German guy one by one on the big screen.

Especially in mainland China, "Enemy at the Gates" caused a huge sensation.

For a long time, China has always regarded the Soviet Union as its big brother.

Now seeing Yang Ye showing off in a Soviet movie, the excitement and pride I feel are really indescribable.

……

Beijing, Xidan.

A silly young man with long hair was pushing a 28-bar bicycle and walking carefully along the road.

This guy has a face full of flesh and is very ugly.

Behind him, a young literary man with shorter hair was carefully holding the speaker on the back seat of a bicycle.

This artistic young man looks a little more handsome than the previous stupid young man, and has a mole on his face.

The stupid young man pushed the cart and said, "Brother Wolf, please be steady. I sold my body to buy this speaker. If it breaks, I will be very angry with you."

The artistic young man said, "Go to hell with you. Are you selling your body? I think you are just asking for it. Tell me the truth. Did you take the opportunity to harm the girl?"

The idiot youth said smugly, "You have no conscience. This speaker costs 400 yuan. If I don't help you, you can only sell blood."

The young man thought that this was true, so he said seriously: "Don't worry, I will protect it with my life!"

The two young men formed a rock band called "Bronze", which mainly played heavy metal style.

The artistic youth is the lead singer, his name is Wang Yang. He likes to sing Qi Qin's songs, and he sings the song "Wolf" especially well, so everyone calls him Lao Lang.

The idiotic young man is the drummer. Needless to say, it is Lao Lang’s good friend Ai Da Jin.

After the band is formed, the most important thing is to get a set of professional equipment.

But these days, these things are too expensive and not affordable for a few students like them.

They tried every possible way to achieve this, and bassist Jiang Tao even sold his blood.

The speaker they are pushing now is worth four hundred yuan. It was obtained by Ai Da Jin sacrificing his looks and mobilizing the girls in their school to help raise funds.

Hey, where does this ugly guy get his sex appeal from?

Although this guy is ugly, he can write a very good poem.

You only need to look at the lyrics he wrote later to see that they are absolutely brilliant.

These days, everyone is so poor that only their ideals remain.

When it comes to picking up girls, poetry is better than money.

It was fifteen kilometers from Xidan to the Wudaokou Vocational and Technical College where Ai Dajin studied. The two of them walked for several hours, pushing the speakers.

"I can't walk anymore, let's take a break!" said Ai Dajin.

The old wolf asked: "How far is it?"

Ai Dajin looked around and estimated, "It's probably about three miles away!"

Lao Lang hummed, and the two of them stopped their bicycles, carefully removed the speaker, and then sat down on the curb.

Wudaokou Street was very busy. Lao Lang looked at the Workers' Club across the street, exclaimed, and said, "When did this movie come out?"

There was a large cinema in the Wudaokou Workers' Club, which was one of the eight major cinemas in Beijing at that time.

Ai Dajin followed his gaze and saw a huge movie poster hanging on the club's outer wall. It was the newly released "Enemy at the Gates". There were three faces on the poster. On the left was Ivanov, who played the political commissar, in the middle was Yang Ye, and on the right was Irina.

At the bottom of the poster is a battlefield filled with smoke and the back of a soldier holding a sniper rifle.

Ai Dajin uttered an "oh" and said, "It's been several days."

"Does it look good?"

"I heard from the guy who sleeps on the bunk above me that this movie is really awesome! But we've been trying to raise money to buy a stereo recently, so we haven't had time to watch it."

"I'll call Pansy, and the three of us will go and see it together."

The short guy was amused: "You still have money?"

They even spent their meal money to get the equipment.

The old wolf scratched his head: "Pan Qian has it."

Pan Qian is Lao Lang's girlfriend. They fell in love at first sight when they were in high school and started dating. Ai Da Jin has become accustomed to being a third wheel.

……

A day later, the three of them sat in a small restaurant to eat, and of course Pan Qian treated them.

They had just finished watching "Enemy at the Gates" and were chatting about the content of the movie while eating.

Ai Dajin said with great excitement: "This movie is so awesome. The competition of endurance and intelligence between the two snipers, as well as the analysis of human nature and will in war, are very exciting and very profound."

Lao Lang said: “I think the pentakill at the beginning is awesome.”

Ai Dajin nodded in agreement: "Yes, that scene was handled very cleanly and beautifully. It is definitely one of the most exciting sniper scenes in movie history..."

Ai Dajin was spitting all over the place and talking a lot of nonsense, praising all kinds of shots and scenes.

Lao Lang said: "I never knew that there was such a yellow gun god on the Soviet-German battlefield."

Ai Dajin said, "This is the greatness of Yang Ye. He discovered the hero Xie Miao, made a movie, and presented it to the world. The key is that the Soviets were very cooperative. The heroine of this movie is actually the Russian goddess Irina."

Lao Lang asked, "You still have Irina's poster in your dormitory, right?"

Ai Dajin chuckled and said, "Who doesn't love beautiful women?"

Lao Lang said: "He is really awesome. Last time he starred in the movie 'The Lover' with the French Rose Sophie Marceau, and this time he starred with the Russian goddess Irina."

Ai Dajin slapped his thigh and said, "There is also Yamaguchi Momoe from Japan in Fist of Fury. I found that whenever he collaborates with foreign stars, they are always the top stars of that country."

Ai Da Jin was a die-hard fan of Yamaguchi Momoe. Many years later, he mentioned Yamaguchi Momoe in "Xiao Shuo" and quoted the lyrics of Li Zongsheng to describe her: "No matter how beautiful the spring breeze is, it can't compare to your smile. People who haven't seen you won't understand."

Pan Qian rolled her eyes and said, "Are you guys really jealous?"

Ai Dajin immediately said seriously: "We are mainly appreciating Yang Ye's film art."

Lao Lang echoed: "Yes, he shows the spirit of us Chinese people."

Pansy said: "I think the love story of Semyon and Tanya is very touching, especially the ending of the movie, when Semyon pays tribute to his lover on the banks of the Volga River after the war. That song is so sad."

Ai Dajin nodded and said, "That's a Russian-style song composed by Yang Ye. It's very well written."

Lao Lang also liked the song "The One I Love" and couldn't help humming it softly, but he couldn't remember all the lyrics.

Seeing this, Pan Qian took out a small notebook and handed it to Lao Lang.

When Lao Lang saw it, it turned out to be the lyrics. He was surprised and asked, "Did you write it down?"

"I know you like it!"

Pan Qian is a top student at Peking University with a relatively high IQ, so it is not difficult for her to memorize the lyrics quickly.

Lao Lang had a good sense of music and still remembered the melody. He sang along with the lyrics:

On the flower-filled riverbank, the soldiers followed her gaze that carried the scent of flowers.

The mountains and rivers are broken, and love grows solemnly in the smoke of gunpowder.

Come on girl, hug the one you love most.

A promise, a river, an endless fragrance.

Beautiful birch forest, please sing your wind sounds.

No matter how far away the wind and clouds are, they can stop the one you love from being on the road.

Time flows silently, and the years are beautiful because of love. My pain, your eyes, your heart...

Lao Lang's voice was clear and clean. Although he was just singing a cappella, his brothers and lover beside him were still mesmerized by it.

After the song was over, Pansy looked at Lao Lang affectionately, with a look of obsession on her face.

Shorty sighed, "Brother Wolf, everyone else is singing, but you are the only one who is singing!"

Lao Lang said, "How about I sing this song when we perform later?"

"Huh? Aren't we heavy metal?"

Lao Lang said: "To be honest, I sing heavy metal just to show off and have face. I still like this kind of songs. I also like the song "When You're Old" from "Lover"."

Pan Qian said: "Yes, he often sings it to me."

Shorty scratched his head and said, "Actually, I don't really like rock, let alone heavy metal. I just think singing this is cooler!"

Pan Qian complained, "It's convenient for picking up girls, right?"

Ai Dajin just chuckled and didn't respond to her.

Soon after, the Bronze Band began to perform with Lao Cui, Tang Dynasty and Black Panther.

This made them so proud that they boasted to everyone they met that they had performed on the same stage with Lao Cui.

In fact, they were just warm-up guests.

The audience had not yet entered the venue and were still eating melon seeds and looking for seats, so they went up to warm up the atmosphere.

When Lao Cui comes on stage and the audience cheers, they should get out.

Little did Lao Lang know that his decision to sing "The One You Love" and "When You Are Old" on stage would soon change his life.

Many talented singers who have yet to make it big are gathering across the Taiwan Straits and in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. One summer from now, they will rock the entire Chinese music scene. (End of this chapter)