Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

After receiving the award, Yang Ye did not leave the stage because the host asked him to present the next award, the Professionalism Award!
This is a new award added on the tenth anniversary of the Academy Awards, and it is also a unique award for the Academy Awards.

Yang Ye stood in front of the microphone and said: "Every year's Academy Awards is star-studded, with directors and celebrities gathering together.

But the prosperity of the film industry is not only due to those of us who look glamorous in front of the public, but also to the hard work of many unknown workers behind the scenes.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Academy Awards, and the organizing committee has specially set up the Professionalism Award.

Used to honor those film workers who are serious, responsible and hardworking.

There is no humble work in the world, only humble hearts. Salute to you! "

Yang Ye's words aroused warm applause from the audience. In this glamorous and competitive stage, the Academy Awards was able to focus attention on unknown corners and show its warmth.

In later generations, the winners of the "Professional Spirit Award" are mostly behind-the-scenes film staff, covering all types of jobs in the film industry.

There are script supervisors, makeup artists, dubbing artists, production managers, lighting technicians, agents, still photographers, film developers, prop masters, movie poster designers, action directors, martial artists...

One year, the award was given to a tea worker, who was the staff member on the set responsible for serving tea, water and lunch boxes.

Award-winning Yang Ronglian, also known as Sister Lian, has been in the industry for 30 years and has worked on hundreds of films. She is very familiar with the tastes of Hong Kong's famous actors and directors.

Koo Tim Lok praised her for taking good care of everyone, and Chen Long flew back to Hong Kong from the United States to present her with the award.

When Sister Lian received the award, the audience stood up and applauded spontaneously.

Sometimes, the "Professional Spirit Award" is also given to senior actors, such as Anita Mui and Teresa Shum, but both of them were awarded posthumously.

Yang Ye opened the list of winners and read aloud, "The winner of the Professional Spirit Award is... Zhu Rihong! Congratulations, Eighth Sister!"

When they heard Zhu Rihong's name, Mai Jia, Wong Jing, Shek Tin, Sam Hui, Sammo Hung, Johnnie To, and Stephen Chow... many well-known filmmakers stood up and led the applause.

Amidst the warm applause, a short and fat lady stood up and walked towards the stage excitedly.

Zhu Rihong's job is very ordinary, she is a script supervisor.

She has been in the industry since the 1950s and has been working as a script supervisor. She is the script supervisor queen in Hong Kong and has worked on 500 films in her career.

Because she is the eighth child in the family and has a lot of experience in the industry, all big stars and directors call her the Eighth Sister.

Zhu Rihong took the little golden man from Yang Ye's hand, stood in front of the microphone, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

“Thank you very much, thank you very much to the Academy Awards for giving me this Professional Spirit Award.

I entered the industry at the age of 18. I still remember the first day I arrived at the set to work, which was a kung fu film directed by Wang Tianlin.

A martial artist got burned while jumping through a fire ring. I was so shocked that an accident happened right after he started working.

At that time, I didn't know how to be a script writer, so I asked someone how to read the notices.

Unexpectedly, she said that she didn’t even know how to read the notice, so how could she be a script writer?

In a rage, I found a lot of stage notes to read, and gradually something clicked.

I have been in this industry for forty years. I have a bad temper and often swear at people. If they give me respect, they call me Eighth Sister, and if they don't, they call me Stinky Eight.

But I am not targeting anyone but the issue. I just hope to do my job well.

I love movies, I am married to movies, and I will keep doing it, thank you!"

Zhu Rihong has been working in the film industry for forty years, working diligently. Almost all the famous filmmakers in Hong Kong have worked with her and know her.

Seeing her win the award today, everyone was happy for her and gave her a warm round of applause!
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This year, the number of awards at the Academy Awards has increased to 21. In addition to the "Professional Spirit Award", "Best Sound Effects" and "Lifetime Achievement Award" have also been added.

Among them, the "Best Sound Effects" award was won by "Mojin: The Lost Tomb", and the "Lifetime Achievement Award" was announced at the last moment.

Everyone won technical awards, and Pau Tak-hei defeated all his opponents to win the Best Cinematography award.

The little-known Situ Weiyong defeated a number of big names including Yip Kam Tim and won the "Best Art Design" award.

Purple Air Company has always won the best visual effects award, but other special effects companies have now emerged in Hong Kong.

For example, a “new visual effects studio” recently opened.

Yang Ye did not suppress it, but instead asked Ziqi Company to throw some outsourced work over there.

In the San Francisco Bay Area of ​​later generations, there are many special effects studios of all sizes.

They basically work for large special effects companies such as Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain, and Sony Graphics.

Industrial Light & Magic only does the most difficult parts themselves and outsources some basic work, which saves a lot of money.

This is also the future development direction of Ziqi Company.

In the future Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Greater Bay Area, Ziqi Company will gradually outsource its current work to form a huge industrial chain.

Just like a large factory, it has many large and small suppliers downstream.

Best Action Director is the most competitive award every year.

Even though Yang Ye has greatly improved the living environment of Dragon and Tiger Martial Artists, it is still a high-risk profession.

No matter life or death, if you refuse to accept the challenge, just fight back. Everyone is vying for face and comparing the difficulty of various tasks every day.

The best action director award every year is everyone’s moment to show off, with the winners feeling proud and the losers feeling dejected.

In the end, the little golden man was taken away by the Cheng family.

The Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards went to two talented actors, Leung Cho-wai and Cecilia Yip, respectively.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai has a restrained acting style, and the general audience cannot feel his acting skills and would think that he is not as good as Tony Leung Ka-wai.

If you want to experience Liang Caowei's visible acting skills, you can watch "Rebecca", in which he won the Best Supporting Actor award.

Although Liang Caowei is a supporting role in the movie, he shines so brightly that the protagonist Kenny Bee seems non-existent.

As a supporting role, it is not right to steal too much limelight.

But Liang Caowei was only a guest star at first, and it was director Patrick Tam who discovered that he acted well and gave him more scenes.

The more he liked it, the more he liked it, and finally Kenny Bee turned into a clown.

This is a bit like "A Better Tomorrow" in its original time and space.

Chow Yun-fat initially only made a cameo appearance, but Mark was so good that John Woo kept giving Chow Yun-fat more scenes.

The more I like it, the more I like it. In the end, Ajie, played by Zhang Guorong, turned into a clown.

But Zhang Guorong’s acting skills are much better than Kenny Bee’s, and he can handle Chow Yun-fat’s role. It’s just that the character of Ajie is not good enough.

With the presence of Ti Lung, it doesn't feel out of place that Ma Jia becomes the protagonist in the end.

In "Rebecca", Liang Caowei made Kenny Bee look useless. The whole movie became a one-man show for him, but his role was not important enough, which ultimately led to the complete failure of the movie!
Despite this, the film's shots, art, and editing are still very commendable, and director Patrick Tam is worthy of being a representative of the new wave of Hong Kong films.

Later, the King of Sunglasses became famous all over the world, but in his films, one can clearly see traces of Patrick Tam's style.

The two are master and apprentice, and Patrick Tam's aesthetic style constitutes the aesthetic enlightenment for Wong Kar-wai to use lenses and colors to write about urban separation and the melancholy of the times.

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The two music awards, the Best Film Original Score went to Luo Dayou, and the Best Film Song went to "With Love" composed by Lowell Lo and sung by Su Rui.

After that, it was time for the most anticipated Best Actor and Best Actress awards.

The nominees this year include Zhang Manyu from "The Woman Who Never Takes Off His Socks", Gong Li from "50 First Dates", Zhang Aijia from "A Lang's Story", Liu Jialing from "The Liar", and Zhong Chuhong from "Mojin: The Lost Tomb".

This was the first time Liu Jialing was nominated for the Academy Awards. She then waited for 21 years before winning the Best Actress award for her role in Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. It was a long wait.

"50 First Dates" is a movie produced by Yang Ye. After its release last year, it grossed over million in Hong Kong and sold well overseas. The movie was filmed at Hong Kong Ocean Park, and the sea lions and penguins in the park also appeared in the film to show their cuteness, which attracted a lot of goodwill.

The result is that Ocean Park is doing booming business and is packed with visitors. The sponsorship fee paid by Ocean Park is really worthwhile.

Gong Li plays a girl with amnesia in the film, and she does a great job.

However, there was a huge loophole when the Academy Awards were established in this time and space.

Today's China is no longer a unified country, and Chinese-language films are divided into several parts. When it comes to important awards, everyone will more or less stick together.

Mainland China's film industry is too weak, and it will be hard for it to win an award based on voting.

Yang Ye had no choice, as he was the one who proposed this rule in the first place, and everyone later unanimously agreed to it.

Hong Kong actors are the strongest now, so it is impossible to change the rules.

But this is not a loophole. The Oscars have been established for many years, and people of color have not been able to win awards.

Every country has its own problems due to historical reasons.

This situation will be reversed within ten years, and this is all we can do now.

At this stage, Gong Li wants to win the Academy Award, unless Yang Ye helps her cheat.

But if Yang Ye keeps helping his own actors cheat, then there is no need to continue holding the Academy Awards.

So far, Yang Ye has only used his influence to secure Wang Zuxian's Best Actress award, which is already an exception.

Moreover, Wang Zuxian’s performance that time was very good, so he deserved the title and no one said anything.

Shirley Young, played by Cherie Chung, is a character that has never appeared in the history of Chinese-language films and is of great groundbreaking significance.

Sylvia Chang gave a normal performance in "A Lang's Story". Her acting has always been stable, but her ceiling is not particularly high.

If you meet a very strong opponent, you can only run along.

At last year's Golden Horse Film Festival, Manyu Cheung defeated Sylvia Chang and Cherie Chung to win the Best Actress award, which represented that her acting skills were beginning to mature.

At this year's Academy Awards, her opponents are Sylvia Chang and Cherie Chung.

Plus, Gong Li and Liu Jialing are both from the mainland.

Therefore, in the competition for the Best Actress at this year's Academy Awards, Manyu Cheung is the biggest favorite.

"The winner of Best Actress is... Zhang Manyu, congratulations Maggie!"

Chung Chuhong in the audience was a little disappointed, but she still stood up to celebrate for her good friend.

The two girls had been separated for eight years in the original time and space, but now the relationship has not changed and they are still as close as sisters!

Compared to the competition for Best Actress, the competition for Best Actor is more intense, because movies have always been a man's world and women are just embellishments.

The organizing committee did something cool and invited Madhuri Dixit to the stage to present the Best Actor award.

Several overseas guests were invited to the stage tonight to present awards. The organizing committee will make news by finding an Indian girl to present the award to the Best Actor.

Madhuri Dixit came on stage and greeted the audience. Chen Xinjian asked him, "I heard that Miss Madhuri will come to Hong Kong to make a movie soon, is that right?"

Madhuri said: "Yes, I will be acting in Sir Nick Young's new film The Myth. Hong Kong films are the light of Asia and I feel very honored to be acting in this film."

This wave of advertising was well done, Yang Ye was very satisfied, and Chen Xinjian was very good at handling things.

After a few awkward chats, the big screen began to show the wonderful performances of the actors nominated for Best Actor in the movie.

"The nominees for the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor are: Chow Yun-fat from "A Lang's Story", Chen Long from "Miracle", Hung King-pao from "Eight Taels of Gold", Hui Koon-man from "Family Fun", and Leung Ka-fai from "A City of Sadness."

Five films were shortlisted, four of which were from Hong Kong and one from Taiwan.

"A City of Sadness" was invested and filmed by Xu Feng after Baiyang Pictures was unblocked and he returned to Taiwan to restart the Taiwan branch.

So, although this is a Taiwanese movie, the funding comes from Hong Kong and it still has Hong Kong blood.

The difference between it and the original time and space is that the male protagonist is changed from Liang Caowei to Liang Jiahui.

In this time and space, Liang Jiahui has become the leading actor in art films in the Chinese film industry since his movie "The Last Emperor" swept the world.

Because "The Last Emperor" is such a great work, it swept the Oscars and won many awards at the British, Japanese and Italian David Awards. It can be said that it has swept the world.

Nowadays, when people have a good script, they think of Liang Jiahui first. However, Liang Jiahui’s salary is not cheap, so it is not easy to invite him.

Liang Caowei is far worse. Although his acting skills are good, his acting skills need to be supported by works. Without awesome works, everything is in vain.

Liang Jiahui in the original time and space had a fatal problem. Although his acting skills were very good and comprehensive, he lacked good works.

When the Liang family performs well, the works are not good, for example "Black Gold", there are countless famous scenes, such as riding in a Mazda, severe kidney deficiency... and the other protagonist Liu Hua is reduced to ashes in seconds.

But the movie "Black Gold" is actually very bad. Without those famous scenes, it is nothing.

When his works are awesome, he is not the highlight of the movie. For example, "Ruan Lingyu" is basically a one-man show by Maggie Cheung, and he is just a foil.

Therefore, there is always a gap between him and the great actors.

The depth of Liang Caowei's works is much greater than that of Liang Jiahui.

The three best films at the Venice Film Festival alone were "A City of Sadness", "The Rickshaw Man" and "Lust, Caution". It was for this reason that Venice later awarded him a "Lifetime Achievement Award".

Now that time and space have changed, Yang Ye sent Liang Jiahui to the crew of "The Last Emperor" to play the role of Puyi, making him famous all over the world.

When Baiyang Pictures returned to Taiwan, it immediately invested in Hou Hsiao-hsien's "A City of Sadness", and naturally used its own family members as the protagonists.

Hou Hsiao-hsien did not disappoint. At the Venice Film Festival a few months ago, "A City of Sadness" won the Best Film award.

At the subsequent Golden Horse Film Festival, "A City of Sadness" also won the Best Director and Best Actor awards.

However, to be on the safe side, Xu Feng did not nominate Liang Jiahui when registering for the Best Actor at the Golden Horse Film Festival, but instead nominated Taiwanese actor Chen Songyong.

In the end, Chen Songyong won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.

Now that he has returned to compete in the Academy Awards, Xu Feng once again chose Hong Kong actor Leung Ka Fai when registering.

This localization trick is played very well, that is, to maximize the winning rate of their own actors.

Madhuri opened the envelope and saw several finalists were quite nervous.

Among the five candidates, Chen Long, Chow Yun-fat and Xu Guanwen all desperately desire the Hong Kong Film Award because they have never won one.

Liang Jiahui and Hong Jingbao are slightly better because they have won it before, so the expectations are not that high.

Xu Guanwen was the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Actor in the original time and space, but he has nothing to do with this time and space.

The biggest favorite this time has to be Leung Ka Fai. Hong Kong people still recognize the power of the Golden Lion for "A City of Sadness".

As for Chow Yun-fat, he is a bit unlucky. In the original time and space, Taiwanese films like "A City of Sadness" were not eligible for the Academy Awards, but now... they are.

"A City of Sadness" was nominated with honor, and Leung Ka Fai's performance was remarkable.

Since there were several foreign guests on stage to present awards this time, the list of winners has Chinese and English translations.

Madhuri reads: "Tony Leung!"

Hearing his name, Liang Jiahui stood up excitedly.

But Zhou Runfa, who was not far away, had a lonely look on his face.

It's just his bad luck that he offended the abbot! (End of this chapter)