Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 58 Shocking the world with one kick
In later generations of China, at the Cannes Film Festival every year, a certain piece of news would often come out: "XX movie starring XX has been featured in the Cannes Film Festival program." When paired with exquisite pictures, it sounded very classy. .

In fact, this is all a trick to fool fools.

As the name suggests, the program is a publication for the film festival. It is organized by a magazine called "Daily Screen". During the film festival, one issue is given out every day for free on site.

It publishes various information about the film festival, film information, behind-the-scenes, reviews, and... advertisements!
Anyone can advertise on it and clearly quote the price. It can be done for tens of thousands of dollars. If you are willing to pay 10,000+, you can get it on the cover.

The most important thing in the event directory is the "event directory rating" on the last page.

This rating is made by a group of film critics from eight to twelve media outlets, and is divided into five grades from one to four stars, with a perfect score of four.

This score is considered to be the benchmark for the Palme d'Or!

But actually...it's useless.

For example, in 2014, "The Life of Adele" came out and scored 3.6 points, setting a record for the program score, and finally won the Palme d'Or as expected.

Two years later, "Toni Erdmann" broke the record and scored 3.7 points, but didn't even get a cent.

That time, "I Am Blake," which won the Palme d'Or, only scored 2.4 points.

All in all, the Cannes Film Festival program is just a money-making thing.

But domestic film producers have used this ridiculous thing to cut a lot of leeks.

Now, the program has given "Shaolin Temple" a score.

3.5 points, shocking the audience!

This is the highest score in history. The crew of "Shaolin Temple" were so excited. Even the crew of "The Heroine" came to congratulate me. As a Chinese, I am honored.

It was the first time for everyone to come to the Cannes Film Festival and they didn’t understand the routines. They thought “Shaolin Temple” was going to win the grand prize.

Only Yang Ye was quite calm, because he knew that this crap was of no use, but since everyone was so happy, he couldn't ruin everyone's fun.

"It's rare to see you smile!" Yang Ye said to Xu Feng.

This cold-faced beauty was infected by the atmosphere at the scene and showed a rare smile, which was seen by Yang Ye.

Xu Feng's smile suddenly faded and he said lightly: "Because there is nothing worth being happy about."

"Life is a long road, there will always be times."

"Ok!"

During the entire screening period, the screening hall of "Shaolin Temple" was packed with people and the venue was full.In contrast, other exhibition halls were deserted and there were only a few visitors.

Because there were so many spectators, the organizing committee had to extend the screening time of "Shaolin Temple", causing the film to be shown over and over again until the day of the lottery.

No matter how advanced the film art is, the audience still likes to watch fun movies.

"Star Wars" won't appear for another two years, and "Shaolin Temple" is the most dazzling visual spectacle of this era, the most exciting movie among cool movies.

The volley kick at the end of the movie caused widespread discussion, and people wanted to know how it was done.

But Yang Ye won’t say it, so just guess!

The topic is traffic, and traffic is box office. As a time traveler, Yang Ye knows this truth.

Jiang Zhiqiang was extremely happy. He originally thought that helping Yang Ye sell movies would be a hard job. Who would have thought it would be so easy.

Those film producers are all vying to buy the screening rights of "Shaolin Temple", and there is no need to go around to promote it themselves.

Under this situation, Jiang Zhiqiang started to get Qiao, and he received all the cooperation intentions. As for the deal, we will wait until after the award ceremony.

Although Jiang Zhiqiang knows very well that in order to show that they have good taste, the judges will not award awards to more popular movies, but there has never been such a popular movie at the Cannes Film Festival.

This cannot be judged by convention. …

The Palais des Festivals in Cannes was not opened until 1982. It currently uses a celebration building built for the launch of the film festival 30 years ago.

However, there is no shortage of red carpet ceremonies. Yang Ye and Wang Yu protected Zhao Yazhi on the left and right as they passed on the long red carpet.

The audience outside the building was crowded because of the popularity of "Shaolin Temple". As soon as Yang Ye appeared, it immediately caused a commotion.

People chased him, shouting his name, until he disappeared at the end of the red carpet.

Yang Ye felt happy when he heard those calls.I thought to myself, am I so popular?Will a big pony come to my door and beg me to ride her?

When Zhao Yazhi heard those calls, she couldn't help but turn her face and looked at Yang Ye with pride, thinking to herself, this is my man, he is really great!
She didn't know that Yang Ye was currently thinking about stir-fried noodles.

The awards ceremony has begun.

Zhao Yazhi asked excitedly: "Brother, do you think we will win the prize?"

Yang Ye smiled and said: "Of course... not anymore."

"why?"

"So many ordinary audiences love to watch our movies, and if the judges give us awards, it seems like they have no taste."

"Ah, why is this? But our venue score is very high."

"The scores in the program are not judged by the film festival's judges. How could they take it seriously?"

Yang Ye spoke eloquently and looked very knowledgeable. Zhao Yazhi's heart felt chilled after hearing this.

Yang Ye had nothing to do, and started to tell General Zhao Yazhi how much the judges of the three major film festivals love to show off. All kinds of anecdotes came out of his mouth, and Zhao Yazhi was dumbfounded.

Yang Ye was playing vigorously when he suddenly heard Wang Yu say: "Young Master Yang, you won the prize."

"What?"

There was warm applause at the scene, and Yang Ye looked confused. He was too busy chatting with Zhao Yazhi and didn't even listen to what was being read on the stage.

"What award did you win?"

"I don't know, I don't understand English. Anyway, I heard it was called Shaolin Temple."

At this time, Hu Jinquan, who was sitting next to him, said with some envy: "Master Yang, this is the Supreme Technical Committee Award."

Yang Ye said oh and thought to himself, shouldn't this award be given to "The Heroine"?
It seems that the volley kick he used to use Diao Wia finally defeated Hu Jinquan's diving blow using a trampoline.

It's not that Hu Jinquan is not excellent, Xu Feng's attack is definitely a classic in film history.It's a pity that Yang Ye is a time traveler, and Hu Jinquan lost to the technology from the future.

Yang Ye quickly walked up to the stage amidst applause, took the trophy and certificate from the presenting guests, and delivered his acceptance speech: "Thank you to the jury for giving me this award, although I have never heard of this award."

He shrugged, shook the trophy in his hand, and the audience burst into good-natured laughter.

The Supreme Technical Council Award is not a permanent award. It was invented out of thin air at this Cannes Film Festival. In fact, it is an encouragement award. It has only appeared once in the history of Cannes.

Yang Ye continued: "Everyone must want to know how to complete the volley kick in the movie. It's actually very simple. A steel wire was wrapped around my waist. We used the power of the steel wire to complete this action. .As for why you can’t see traces of the steel wire, that’s because we used sunlight to hide the steel wire.”

Yang Ye solved the mystery that had puzzled many viewers for half a month, and immediately received a burst of warm applause.

The next thing has nothing to do with Yang Ye. Those regular awards will not be given to him.

Several people watched the award ceremony boredly. As soon as Yang Ye left the venue, he went to find Jiang Zhiqiang. He only said two words: "Increase the price!"

If you don’t increase the price after winning the prize, when will you wait?

(End of this chapter)