Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Not long after Chen Long entered the venue, Spielberg walked onto the red carpet, causing a stir again.

Old Stoudemire was one of the four major Hollywood directors in the 1980s and a major contributor to the Hollywood Renaissance. He was still very prestigious.

His appearance made many Hong Kong media at the scene feel proud, and they came forward to take pictures and interview him.

The Academy Awards organizing committee also gave face to Sildenafil and arranged for Lin Qingxia to be his female companion.

With films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Terminator" series, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Lin Qingxia now firmly sits on the throne of Asia's number one actress and is also very famous in Europe and the United States.

At the beginning of the year, Yan Hao invited Sanmao to write a movie script. Sanmao wrote "Red Dust" based on Zhang Ailing's story.

Originally they wanted to invite Lin Qingxia to play the leading female role, Shen Shaohua, but in the end because Lin Qingxia's salary was too expensive, they had to settle for the second best and chose Sylvia Chang.

The reporter asked: "Mr. Spielberg, you and Lin Qingxia are attending the Academy Awards together this time. Do you have any plans for cooperation?"

Spielberg smiled and said, "Yes, I plan to invite Ms. Lin to star in my new film."

This was truly earth-shattering.

Is Ching-Hsia Lin heading to Hollywood? Or is she going to star in Spielberg's new film?

Recalling the previous news about Yang Ye going to the airport to pick someone up, everyone immediately confirmed that this was indeed going to be a big deal.

The reporter immediately asked about the details of the movie, but Old Si was very cunning and refused to say more, only saying that it was still in the preparation stage.

The reporter then asked Lin Qingxia, but Lin Qingxia played Tai Chi and said she couldn't say.

The news has to be released bit by bit. How can we have fun if it is all said at once?
The media did not ask too many questions. After so many years, they already understood Yang Ji’s routine.

In short, this will be a long-term news story. As long as you follow it, there will be plenty of content to report and you don’t have to worry about readers not buying it.

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It is true that Spielberg invited Lin Qingxia to star in his new film.

She will play Sayuri's teacher Mamiu in "Memoirs of a Geisha".

The role of Yuan Shikong is played by Yang Ziqiong.

Memoirs of a Geisha is ultimately a Hollywood movie, and the range is very narrow when it comes to casting.

In the original time and space, Old Si finally chose three Chinese actresses, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and Yang Ziqiong, to play the role instead of Japanese actresses.

Because there were no famous Japanese actresses in Hollywood at that time.

Considering the fame of the actors, Zhang, Gong and Yang were almost the only solutions at the time.

In this time and space, the only Asian actress who is truly famous in Europe and the United States is Lin Qingxia.

Hollywood also admired Lin Qingxia's beauty and described her as "the Greta Garbo of the East"!
Garbo is one of the greatest actresses Hollywood has ever seen.

Lao Siben came to Asia to cast, and his casting range naturally included Hong Kong.

At the welcome dinner the day before yesterday, after Lao Si came into contact with Lin Qingxia, he suddenly began to sigh.

Yang Ye was puzzled and asked him why he was sighing.
Old Si said: "If it was Lin during the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon period, she would be the perfect candidate for Sayuri."

Yang Ye was shocked. Lao Si was indeed a great director. He had a sharp eye. The Yu Jiaolong and Sayuri in the original time and space were played by the same person.

It’s a pity that Lin Qingxia is already an auntie now, so Lao Si had to settle for the second best and invite Lin Qingxia to play Zhen Miyu.

Lin Qingxia was very surprised, but after learning that the script was written by Yang Ye, she agreed.

Although she is not the protagonist, since it is a movie planned by her husband, she doesn't care.

It's easy to agree, but you will suffer the consequences.

Because I have to play the role of a geisha, a top-level one at that, so I have to have all kinds of performance skills.

For example, when catching and throwing a fan, one must practice until it is as smooth as flowing water and fluttering like a butterfly.

In order to master this move, Gong Li is said to have practiced for five months, throwing the fan two thousand times every day.

Yang Ye was delighted to see Lin Qingxia play the role of Zhen Meiyu.

The purpose of making movies is to make a profit. Lin Qingxia is very famous in Europe and the United States, which is of great help to the box office of the movie.

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The Hong Kong media had a great time interviewing Spielberg, but the Korean media on the side were a little envious and jealous.

Ah Xi, even Spielberg came to Hong Kong to attend the Academy Awards. When will our Korean films catch up with Hong Kong?

As the ultimate boss of the Hong Kong film industry, Yang Ye did not move with the crew, but was the last one to show support.

When others walk the red carpet they either have a female companion or walk alone, but this guy has two female companions.

Holding the charming Indian actress Madhuri in his left hand, and the petite Korean girl Choi Jin-sil in his right hand, he is really the envy of others.

The three stopped for an interview. This was Madhuri's second meeting with the Hong Kong media, and this time it was a formal occasion.

She showed a charming smile and waved to everyone: "Lei Menghou, I am Madhuri, I love Hongkang!"

The reporters were delighted and interviewed Madhuri, leaving Yang Ye and Choi Jin-sil aside.

Both Hong Kong and India were British colonies. People with a little culture in these two places can speak English, so there is no language barrier during the interview.

Through this brief interview, the reporter learned some more information.

It turns out that this is a costume war blockbuster.

Yang Ye plays an ancient general, while Madhuri and Choi Jin-sil play an Indian princess and a Korean princess respectively.

This plot... is inexplicably a little outrageous.

North Korea is in the northeast, and India is in the southwest, thousands of miles apart. How the hell did they get together?
But because of this, everyone is more looking forward to it.

The Korean reporters at the scene were particularly happy, as they were very concerned about Choi Jin-sil's development in Hong Kong.

Yang Ye’s movies are distributed worldwide, which means Choi Jin-sil will also have to follow him to become famous around the world.

After Yang Ye and his group entered the venue, Cui Zhenzhen said to Yang Ye: "Brother Ye, I'll go get ready!"

"Well, go ahead, come on!"

"Okay!" Choi Jin-sil smiled sweetly and walked away quickly.

Hong Kong films are so prosperous, and it also happens to be the 10th anniversary of the Academy Awards, so naturally it has to be a big event.

Girls' Generation was invited to perform the opening show, and they will also use the Academy Awards stage to release the title song of their final album.

After the final album is released, they will hold a farewell tour.

From now on, the members will develop independently and will not reunite unless there are special circumstances.

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After all the guests arrived, the audience began to enter the venue. The more than 10,000 seats were all filled.

Soon, the award ceremony began.

"The 10th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, jointly organized by the Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association, the Hong Kong Film Directors Guild, and the Hong Kong Radio, is now beginning. Please welcome the emcees, Chan Yan-kin and Sham Kin-fun."

Chan Yan-kin is a director, and Sham Kin-fung is the curly-haired guy in the Lucky Stars series. He is actually a very good producer and acting is just a hobby for him.

This was the first time they hosted the Academy Awards this year, but because they did a great job, they continued to host the awards for several years.

After the two of them went on stage and joked for a while, Chen Xinjian said, "Curly, did you know that Girls' Generation's new album is about to be released?"

Cen Jianxun looked expectant: "Really?"

"Of course it's true, they will dedicate the debut of their new album to our Academy Awards!"

"We welcome Girls' Generation to sing "Love! Love! Love!" for us."

Nine beautiful girls wearing sexy short skirts came on stage and danced the Broadway Mambo.

No answer, no answer, where is true love? My love, my love, could it be him?

Think hard, think hard, but there is no answer!

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Girls' Generation has always been a dance music group. The original version of this song "Love!Love!Love!" is "Stop Stop Stop" by the Ukrainian super girl group "Saint Girl Group".

The "Saint Girls Group" became popular in the CIS countries with this song at the time, and later released an English version, which became popular in Europe and the United States.

Later, Linlin covered this song into a Chinese version, "Love Love Love", which became popular in the Chinese world.

However, taking the acceptance of the Chinese world into consideration, the lyrics of Linlin's version were changed to a girl's fantasy, and the MV also features a pink mambo dance. Compared with the original version that flaunts sexiness, its expressiveness is still a little worse.

No matter what, Yang Ye picked this song as the title song of Girls' Generation's last album, which is still very important.

After all, it is a divine song that became popular all over the world in its original time and space, and it fits in very well with Girls' Generation.

Sure enough, as soon as this song came out and this dance started, it immediately caused a sensation and the audience responded enthusiastically.

Yang Ye looked back and thought that this wave was stable.

Girls' Generation's performance got the award ceremony off to a good start. The two emcees returned to the stage and praised Girls' Generation.

Chen Xinjian then said: "This year is the 10th anniversary celebration of our Academy Awards. We are honored to invite many overseas colleagues to attend the ceremony."

Sham said: “We are even more honored to have invited some of these distinguished guests to announce the winners tonight.”

Chen Xinjian said: "First, we would like to invite the great Hollywood director Mr. Steven Spielberg to announce the best newcomer for us!"

There was warm applause from the audience. Old Si walked onto the stage, said a few polite words, and then asked everyone to look at the big screen.

This year's nominees for Best Newcomer include Jiang Hua from "May We Live Together Forever". Jiang Hua previously filmed TV series for ATV. This is his first time on the big screen. The nomination shows his strength.

Shan Liwen in "The Past and Present Life of Pan Jinlian". This is the first time that Shan Liwen plays Ximen Daguanren.

From then on, he had a good time. He played Ximen Qing seven times in his career and became a professional actor of the rich official.

Apart from "The Past and Present Life of Pan Jinlian" which is a serious movie and "The Golden Lotus" which is a serious TV series, the rest are all Category III films.

It is true that Ximen Qing is permanent, but Jin, Ping and Mei are changing like water.

In fact, Shan Liwen is a rock singer. He formed a band called "Blue Warrior". He has long hair and curly hair, and imitates the Beatles.

Huang Kunxuan, the child actor in "A Lang's Story", is a very famous child star. He later played the young Zhang Wuji in Zhou Haimei's version of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.

Long Fang in "The King's Avatar" is the traitor Gao Yi in "God of Gamblers".

In the original time and space, "The King's Avatar" came first, and after its huge success, "God of Gamblers" was born.

Now, Tian Gang and "The Supreme" have become follow-up works.

However, "The King's Avatar" was still very successful, and made it into the top ten of the Korean film box office of the year with 37 moviegoers in Seoul.

Li Jiaxin in "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Lost Tomb" is a departure from the disgusting zombie image in traditional tomb-raiding films. She appears as a cold and enchanting figure, leaving the audience deeply impressed by her beauty and stunning them.

At this moment, the wonderful clip playing on the big screen is the scene where Hu Bayi unveils the female corpse.

After more than half a year, it still looks amazing!
Spielberg looked at the list of winners, pointed to the big screen and said, "I watched Mojin last year and was very impressed by this scene in the movie. It's a very ingenious design."

Having said that, the winner of the Best Newcomer award is about to be announced.

"The winner of Best Newcomer is Michele Lee!"

Li Jiaxin was so happy that she won the Best Newcomer award for her first film. She stood up happily, turned around and waved to the audience, then went on stage to receive the award.

Ding Sitian was also one of the most acclaimed characters in the original time and space, mainly because of her good design.

Another well-received role of Baibi is Yin Ruiji in "Shendu Dragon King", also thanks to his design.

In fact, a good director can use some methods to cover up the shortcomings of actors' acting skills.

Li Jiaxin is widely acknowledged to have no acting skills, "she is beautiful but has no soul."

But in Xu Ke's "Wicked City", when Li Jiaxin suddenly looked up in the rain, who cares about her acting skills?

If an actor doesn't perform well on the screen, the director is the one who bears the biggest blame, because... since the performance wasn't good, why did you let it go?
Of course, many times the director is helpless. The people are stuffed in by the investors, and the film never passes. Reshooting wastes the budget, and the investors are unhappy, so he can only give up.

Li Jiaxin respectfully took the little golden man from Old Si, kissed the planet on it, and began to give a speech of thanks:

“Four years ago, I met my current boss, Mr. Yang Ye, by chance at Huang Helin Advertising Company.

As soon as he saw me, he asked, Michelle, do you want to make a movie?
At that moment, it was like a dream.

But I knew he was an internationally renowned director, so I nodded vigorously.

The movie he was talking about was "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Legend Begins", and the role he wanted me to play was Ding Sitian.

I would like to thank the judges of the Academy Awards for awarding me the Best Newcomer award.

Thanks to the movie, it changed my life.

Thank you to my boss Mr. Yang Ye for your recognition. I am where I am today because of you. I will never betray you!"

The last sentence was a statement of loyalty to Yang Ye.

Amidst warm applause, Li Jiaxin walked off the stage and returned to her seat. When she passed by Yang Ye, Yang Ye stood up and hugged her gently.

Since she had shown her loyalty, Yang Ye would of course reward her.

"Wow!"

The on-site coordination immediately turned the camera to the scene of the two people hugging each other, and there was a sudden booing in the audience and some people whistled.

Huang Zhan, who was sitting not far away, watched this scene and said enviously, "This boy is so lucky!"

Next, the Best Editing award was presented, and the winner was surprisingly Yang Ye from "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy".

The war scenes in "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" and the final operation of hijacking an airplane are unique in current Hong Kong films.

Editing is the secondary creation of a movie and is very important.

At present, editors in Hong Kong have no such experience and cannot cut it well, so Yang Ye simply did it himself.

In the end, because he did so much, the editor refused to sign his name.

There was no editing major in early film schools, and editing classes were included in the directing department's curriculum.

All directors know how to edit, and famous directors are also masters of editing.

John Woo often battled wits with editors. "Hard Boiled" was too long, but he was reluctant to cut it.

Editor Hu Dawei told you to go buy some dessert.

As soon as John Woo left, he started cutting, and when John Woo came back, the excess footage had been cut off.

John Woo had no choice but to watch from the side. Two days later, he said he wanted to eat dessert and asked Hu Dawei to buy it for him.

Hu Dawei bought some desserts and John Woo added in the parts that Hu Dawei had cut out.

When Zhang Yimou was filming, he had already thought about how to edit the film.

Even if the filming is different from what he originally imagined, he has already thought about how to edit it, and the editor just needs to do it according to his requirements.

Xu Ke likes to let the editor cut it first. He doesn't care. After cutting, he goes back to review it and then revise it with the editor.

Among directors of this era, there are many who come from professional backgrounds, as well as many who come from independent backgrounds.

Most of those who can become directors have worked in various positions and are familiar with editing.

Decades later, singers, hosts, writers, crosstalk performers, and sketch performers all become directors, but they no longer understand the content of these professions.

All in all, it is not surprising that Yang Ye, as a director, won an editing award. (End of this chapter)