Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

The source of Dongjiang River is in Jiangxi. It is very suitable for this song to be sung by Yang Yuying from Jiangxi and Liu Xiaohui from Hong Kong. Their sweet voices have also touched countless people.

After they finished singing, each of them took a donation box and walked off the stage to collect donations.

Sweet girls have preferential treatment, let alone disaster relief.

Everyone put money into their donation boxes, and soon they were full.

At the charity performance, the stars performed various tricks. Alan Tam donated 300,000 yuan on the spot and performed a performance in which he sang and shot a football at the same time.

Liu Hua performed the stone-breaking performance with his chest, while Stephen Chow performed a special skill for him. Cheng Kui-an banged a few times, and Andy Lau vomited blood on the spot. The audience was scared to death. He shouted: "Blood is thicker than water."

This is actually a theatrical effect. The stone is actually plaster and the blood plasma spit out is a prop, but the effect is great and a lot of donations have been raised.

Sam Hui made many appearances and used large photos to show the current situation in the disaster area, allowing Hong Kong citizens to empathize with the suffering in the disaster area; he called on citizens to temporarily reduce entertainment and save money to donate to the disaster area.

Wu Siyuan led dozens of directors from the Hong Kong Directors Guild to the stage, first donating 1 yuan on behalf of the Directors Guild, and then each director donated 61 yuan, for a total of yuan.

Wang Jie had originally only prepared a check for $100,000, but when he saw the crowd was so enthusiastic, he felt embarrassed and added a zero on the spot, making it $1 million.

Sylvia Chang arrived at the scene at a critical moment and went straight to the stage holding her son. She coaxed the child while singing "Childhood".

Mimi Chu and four others dressed up as Teresa Teng to entertain the audience, and they all lip-synced. Then Teresa Teng herself appeared, and the scene was quite magical.

Lin Qingxia and Yang Ziqiong starred in Legend of White Snake, one played the Green Snake and the other played the White Snake.

Someone asked Chen Long to do five somersaults and donate 25 yuan. Chen Long did seven somersaults on the spot, and the man had to donate 35 yuan.

Gong Li never sings, but when someone offered her 100,000 yuan, she immediately went on stage and made a fool of herself. Oh my God, Wang Zuxian was second.

Leon Lai rushed to the charity concert from the filming site, performed a few shows and was about to leave. A wealthy woman offered him $500,000 to sing, so he immediately returned to the venue to sing.

But because he was too tired, he accidentally broke his voice. Later, many people used this incident to mock him as the little prince of broken voice. Damn, these people have lost their conscience!
Yang Ye was the busiest, because he was the most famous and had the identity of a singer, so there were always rich women paying him to sing, so he had to go on stage constantly and sing one song after another.

Then, because of his status as a member of a martial arts clan, some rich men paid him to perform martial arts, so he had no choice but to perform all kinds of martial arts, including Hung Gar and Tan Leg.

Not long ago, United Artists Pictures went public in New York, and photos of Yang Ye opening champagne at the event were sent back to Hong Kong.

It was only then that people in Hong Kong realized that this guy was actually the boss of United Artists Pictures.

In addition, he recently acquired BMG, the world's fifth largest music company, for 600 million US dollars.

Many people began to speculate whether he was the richest man in Hong Kong.

By spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can have the richest man in Hong Kong perform for you. This kind of fun is not always available, so everyone is in high spirits and the more they play, the more excited they become.

After all, the big families in Hong Kong are all high and mighty, and only Yang Ye is so approachable and so fun.

Just then, Yang Ye had just sang a song "Every Day of My Life" with Elva Hsiao and was about to leave the stage when a wealthy woman offered him $200,000 to sing "Pearl of the Orient".

"Fuck, are you going to kill me to satisfy me?"

Complaining as much as he could, Yang Ye had no choice but to go on stage and sing again.

After he finished singing, Deborah asked him, "Can you handle it?"

Yang Ye patted his chest and said, "I can handle it!"

Deborah said to the audience with some concern: "The Sir has done enough for the victims, let him take a break!"

Amidst warm applause, Yang Ye bowed to the audience, stepped off the stage, and hurried back to the set.

Yang Ye was responsible for directing the last scene of "The Banquet", which featured many stars.

Yang Ye's scheduling ability is recognized to be the strongest, so letting him shoot will be the most efficient.

When Yang Ye arrived at the scene, the stars who had just finished performing at the charity concert were already in place.

For a movie like this that is rushed to the limit, the camera position, lighting, and so on are not that particular.

After observing the scene, Yang Ye directly divided it into four areas and assigned them to four executive directors, while he was in charge of the coordination.

In order to save trouble, most of the actors in the show used various memes.

On this side, Fei Fei and Uncle Pao came on stage with their three daughters including Li Lizhen. They did not forget to redeem lottery tickets while eating, playing a trick on the TV series "The Rich and the Powerful".

On the other side, Gong Li, who played the waitress, brought up a plate of boiled chicken. Xu Guanwen and Zhou Xingchi fought over the chicken head, hinting at the handover between the old and new comedy kings.

Leon Lai and Ng Man-tat were cooking, and they directly took out the characters and looks from the new movie "The Lucky Stars" they were currently filming.

Zhang Xueyou asked Wang Zuxian, "Do you know I'm waiting for you?" Wang Zuxian replied, "I love you more every day." These are all the names of Zhang Xueyou's songs.

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The charity performance lasted two days, raising about 60 million on the first day and about 30 million on the second day. Tobacco tycoon Uncle Ho donated 30 million, for a total of 120 million.

Among the celebrities and artists present, the popular ones donated tens of thousands to two or three hundred thousand each, while the less popular ones donated only a few thousand to more than ten thousand.

Before the charity performance, Xia Meng announced that Baiyang Company would donate as much as the stars donated. In the end, they donated 10 million.

The entire charity performance raised more than 1.3 million Hong Kong dollars.

In less than ten days, this city with a population of only 600 million raised more than million yuan in donations for compatriots from the mainland.

A week later, the cinema alliance urgently coordinated 30% of the screening schedule to show "The Banquet", which finally recorded a box office of more than 2300 million Hong Kong dollars.

A week later, Taiwan's CTS held the "Send Love to the Mainland" evening party at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and Yang Ye again brought a large number of Hong Kong stars there.

This time, donations from all walks of life in Taiwan to the mainland amounted to approximately NT$800 million.

Macau, with a population of only a few hundred thousand, also donated 20 million Macau patacas.

At this moment, both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the four places are united as one and closely connected, perfectly interpreting the words "blood is thicker than water".

Comparing it to the situation decades later, where people dislike each other, attack each other, and mock each other online, and think that the other person is an idiot, it is really sad.

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Yang Ye was extremely busy. Although it was the summer season, the post-production of "The Myth" had not been completed yet, so it could not be released and would have to wait until Christmas.

At this time, Yang Yuying's album was finally released. With her sweet voice and dynamic dance, she was immediately regarded as the dream lover by countless boys, and sales naturally soared.

From now on, Yang Yuying will be the leader of sweethearts. The Taiwanese singers like Jolin Tsai, Cyndi Wang, and Rainie Yang will all have to step aside. No matter their singing skills, looks, or voice, they are incomparable.

Only Elva Hsiao's album has not been completed yet, mainly because Yang Ye is too busy.

However, Elva Hsiao had no objection and followed Yang Ye to perform charity shows everywhere during this period.

Good things are worth waiting for. Lao Lang, Liu Xiaohui and Yang Yuying’s albums have all received such good responses, so hers will naturally not be bad either.

After returning from the charity performance in Taiwan, Yang Ye began to prepare for the filming of "Kung Fu".

When he left Shanghai four months ago, he gave the blueprint of Pig Cage Village and asked Shanghai Film Studio to help build the shooting scene.

Yang Ye positioned "Kung Fu" as an autobiographical film, but he deliberately made it seem ambiguous.

For example, Yang Ye was born in Kowloon Walled City. Since it is an autobiographical film, it should be filmed directly in Kowloon Walled City.

But he insisted on moving the filming location to Shanghai and even built a Pig Cage City there.

Compared with Kowloon Walled City, Pig Stable Walled City is very simple, with only an "A"-shaped house.

This type of house has a spacious courtyard in the middle, like a large square.

Surrounded by five-story buildings in a grayish earth color, it is like a "besieged city". Standing in the courtyard and looking up, it is like a frog in a well looking at the sky.

This type of house already exists in Shanghai, such as the famous Longchang Apartment.

However, it was obviously impossible to rent Longchang Apartment for filming. Longchang Apartment is in the city and there are hundreds of households living in it, which makes coordination too troublesome.

Therefore, Yang Ye asked Shanghai Film Studio to help build one in the suburbs of Shanghai.

Building this thing is so simple that the Shanghai Film Studio only took one month to complete it, but it takes some effort to make it look old.

Yang Ye was busy selecting the actors, starting with the Fire Cloud Evil God, then Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu.

This was naturally based on the original version, and soon, Liang Xiaolong, Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu received invitations.

Then there was the protagonist’s partner, Fatty. Yang Ye first considered Zheng Zeshi, but then gave up.

Because Zheng Zeshi is too old and doesn't take good care of himself, he looks too old.

Then he simply changed his mind and replaced him with Xu Jinjiang.

When Xu Jinjiang plays a villain, he looks ferocious, but when he plays a stupid role, he is also very funny. He is the right one.

Brother Chen, the Brother Chen played by Chen Guokun is very distinctive, but he has not made his debut yet. Yang Ye thought about it and chose Wu Zhenyu.

Wu Zhenyu's performance of this perverted boss is simply stunning.

Wu Zhenyu had not yet made a name for himself and was just a small actor. When he heard that Yang Ye had chosen him to act in a movie, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.

Then there are the three great masters of the city.

Kuliqiang, Zhen Zidan is really a perfect fit for the role, it's a pity that he is too famous.

As soon as he appeared, everyone knew he was a master, and the suspense of his hidden prowess was lost.

Yang Ye chose Chin Kar Lok to play the role. Chin Kar Lok has always been Yang Ye's personal stand-in. It's time to give him a chance and let him come to the fore.

Moreover, Chin Kar Lok is well-known for his excellent leg skills. In "Dragon Gate", when Chen Long's kicking was not good enough, Chin Kar Lok was asked to kick.

Letting him perform the Twelve-Move Tan Leg is the best use of his talent.

As for the fried dough sticks, Yang Ye went straight to the original version, Dong Zhihua.

Dong Zhihua came from a drama background and was originally considered for the role of Sun Wukong in the 86 version. His stage play “Havoc in Heaven” was very famous, but later the role was taken by Teacher Liu.

Later, the famous director Chang Cheh went to the mainland to establish the third generation of the Chang Clan, and Dong Zhihua became Chang Cheh's disciple.

Chang Cheh promoted Dong Zhihua and made many movies with him, including Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, in which Dong Zhihua played the role of Monkey Za.

It’s just that Chang Cheh was out of date and all the movies he made were flops, so Dong Zhihua did not become popular.

But he does have the strength. In "Kung Fu", his stick skills are superb and are not inferior to Teacher Liu.

So Yang Ye asked Zhang Che to get this person over.

Dong Zhihua’s wife is very famous, she is the mainland’s top agent Wang Jinhua. They have a son named Dong Zijian, who is an excellent actor.

Then there is the weird tailor. This is also simple and can be done directly according to the original version by Zhao Zhiling.

When Yang Ye just debuted, he helped Chen Long create "Drunken Master", and Zhao Zhiling played a role in it at that time.

This guy is almost fifty now. When he starred in the original "Kung Fu", he was already in his sixties and his body is really great.

There is another master advisor, Wu Mengda. Yang Ye likes to use Wu Mengda very much because of his good acting skills and he can play any role.

Wu Mengda appeared in his movies several times.

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After the actors, costumes and other things were confirmed, the group set off for Shanghai in mid-August to officially start filming "Kung Fu".

Also traveling with the "Kung Fu" crew were dozens of Hong Kong entertainment stars, including Alan Tam.

They are going to Shanghai to participate in the charity performance for disaster relief to be held in Shanghai on August 8.

Since there were too many people, Yang Ye directly chartered a plane.

After arriving in Shanghai, the Hong Kong artists were warmly welcomed and arranged to stay at Shanghai's first state guesthouse, Jinjiang Hotel.

Yang Ye came with a film crew. He made other arrangements and stayed at the Peace Hotel with his crew.

The charity performance was very successful. Stars from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong brought an audio-visual feast to the citizens of Shanghai and raised more than 10 million yuan in donations.

After the charity performance, the organizers held a dinner for the artists who came to participate in the charity performance, and celebrities from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao attended.

Hong Kong stars of that era were very high-class in Shanghai, and as soon as Yang Ye and his group entered the banquet hall, they were warmly welcomed.

Yang Ye had a special status and was arranged to sit at the same table with the leaders of the organizer.

Hong Kong stars of higher status, such as Alan Tam, were accompanied by big-name mainland artists such as Chen Daomin and Gong Li.

Yang Ye actually doesn't like sitting at the same table with his boss. If possible, he would rather sit at the table with the children.

Or it would be nice to sit at the same table with Gong Li and chat together.

Yang Ye casually chatted with his leader, drank some wine, ate some snacks, and the atmosphere was pretty good.

When the banquet was over, some waiters couldn't help but go up to the stars to ask for autographs and take photos.

The famous Hong Kong stars, in particular, were surrounded by crowds of people.

When Hong Kong stars come to the mainland, they naturally want to show their attitude of being like one family between Hong Kong and the mainland, and they accept all requests for autographs and photos.

Yang Ye was surrounded by a group of girls, who were signing autographs very quickly, when suddenly, there was a commotion at the next table.

Alan Tam was sitting at the next table. He was also very popular and was surrounded by a group of girls, who kept asking for autographs.

He just signed his name for a girl, but the girl asked, "Can you sign my Chinese name for me?"

Alan Tam shook his head and said, "Sorry, my signature is always in English."

The three words "Alan Tam" have many strokes, so he always signs his name to people as "Alan", which is simple and convenient.

In Alan Tam's own words, "Because signing is faster, I can take care of more people. If someone asks me to sign in Chinese, I will sign, but if there are too many people, I will decline."

"Okay, thank you!" The girl was a little disappointed, but still said thank you and prepared to leave.

At this moment, Chen Daomin, who was sitting at the same table, stood up, pointed at Alan Tam's nose, and shouted angrily: "Are you still Chinese?"

Alan Tam was confused. What happened to me?

Chen Daomin became even angrier when he saw Alan Tam remained silent, and called out to his companions, "Let's go!"

Just walk away!

Gong Li saw that things were not going well, so she quickly pulled Chen Daomin and said, "Isn't this bad?"

Chen Daomin shouted angrily: "If you need anything from them, then stay. We are leaving!"

Gong Li was very embarrassed. She was from the mainland, but she was living in Hong Kong. For a moment, she didn't know whether to leave or stay. She could only stand there and watch Chen Daoming and his group go away. (End of this chapter)