Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

John Woo took on the task of making "Terminator 3" and went to the United States to prepare for it.

Yang Ye began to carry out a series of reforms in the company.

There are too many big-name artists in the company, and it’s difficult to divide the pie among them.

Now that the market is booming, capable people are eager to try their luck and hope to go out and work on their own.

It is impossible to block it, so the senior management of Yangji began to discuss, hoping to come up with a solution that would satisfy both parties.

The best solution they decided upon was to open personal studios for those big-name artists.

But several existing studios actually hope to go a step further and transform into independent companies.

For example, Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China" was released last year. The excellent quality, the reputation he had accumulated over the past decade, and the strong distribution capabilities of Baiyang Pictures enabled the film to be released in North America and the mainland, and ultimately grossed $4000 million worldwide, more than double the original time and space.

With such impressive results, he got a little too little according to the studio's profit-sharing agreement.

Many overseas film producers have contacted him, trying to persuade him to go solo.

Jet Li rejected all these instigations, because he and Yang Ye had the noble relationship of master and disciple, and he was raised by Yang Ye, so he did not dare to leave his master easily.

But no one knows what he is thinking.

Moreover, Yang Ye couldn’t use the loyalty between master and disciple to trap others for their entire lives, so he had to give them what they deserved.

Everything in this world is about profit. It is not uncommon for fathers and sons to turn against each other for profit, and for fathers and sons to be murdered, not to mention the relationship between master and apprentice.

Yang Ye did not comment on these opinions and let them discuss them first. He did not express his opinion as he was busy sowing seeds recently!

When Yang Ye stayed in Hong Kong, he basically had no time to rest. There were a lot of things to do and Jill was busy.

In addition to his wife in Hong Kong, several women in Shenzhen would sneak to Hong Kong from time to time.

He Qing witnessed the listing of United Artists in New York. Seeing Yang Xi become a billionaire at such a young age, she was very jealous and secretly decided to give birth to a son for Yang Ye.

So, recently I have been running to Hong Kong every few days to ask for sex.

……

In the screening room, Yang Ye and Zhu Lin sat together watching "The Myth".

Zhu Lin watched the movie intently.

Yang Ye had told her the story in the dream and said that she was the person in the dream.

I never thought that this story would be made into a movie one day.

However, the princess in the dream has been replaced by someone else.

The movie ended and the theme song started playing: "Let love be the flower that blooms forever in your heart and mine. Travel through time and space without bowing your head and never give up on your dream..."

Yang Ye explained to Zhu Lin: "This time when planning the Korean industry, this story is more suitable, so I used it. I..."

Zhu Lin asked, "Are you... apologizing?"

"Uh...yes!"

"To be honest, I am a little unhappy. You once said that this was a story from your dream and that I was the person in your dream. But the movie was made without me."

"I……"

Just as Yang Ye was about to speak, Zhu Lin stretched out her slender jade fingers and pressed his lips.

"But I can understand it. After all, I am old and not suitable for this role."

Yang Ye held her hand and said, "Nonsense, you are still as beautiful as when I first met you, how have you aged?"

Zhu Lin touched her face and said, "Who doesn't get old?"

"I've been traveling around the world most of the time, leaving you alone in Hong Kong. Are you lonely?"

"It's OK. When I'm filming, I'm filming. When I'm not working, I travel and read. I also often take time to go back to the mainland to visit my family."

"Let's have a baby, okay?"

"what?"

Zhu Lin is a DINK and she has no plans to have children.

"I think...our child can stay with you while I'm away."

Zhu Lin lowered her head and thought for a while, then said, "I'll... think about it."

Since he said he was considering it, that meant he was willing. Yang Ye took her hand and said, "Let's go home!"

……

In the recording studio, Elva Hsiao is recording her album.

It has been more than a year since the first season of The Voice of China, and Elva Hsiao became the last of the top four contestants to release an album.

At the beginning, it was because Yang Ye was busy and it took up a lot of time.

Later, Yang Ye decided to shoot idol dramas to help his students gain popularity. He first asked Leon Lai to partner with Yang Yuying in "Star Dream Romance".

Later, he planned to take advantage of the Korean drama series "Autumn in My Heart" and asked Koo Tim-lok to partner with Elva Hsiao to film "Autumn Fairy Tale".

At that time, Yang Yuying's album had already been released, but Su Huilun's had not yet been released, so she might as well wait until the drama was aired before releasing the album to take advantage of the popularity.

"Star Dream Romance" is currently on the air and has very good ratings.

"Autumn Fairy Tale" is planned to be released after the filming of "Star Dream" is completed.

At this time, Yang Ye also came back, and Su Huilun's album entered into intensive production.

"Can I please stop imitating the quacking of a duck?" Elva Hsiao said to her producer Zheng Huajuan with a frown on her face.

Rolling Stone has four major producers. In addition to the three big guys, there is also a female producer, Zheng Huajuan.

She wrote Liu Xiaohui's famous song "Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division" and Lin Zhixuan's famous song "Mona Lisa's Tears".

Zheng Huajuan shook her head: "No, this arrangement was made by Jazz himself."

The song they were recording was called "Duck". It was originally a Korean song, but Yang Ye had given it to Elva Hsiao for her album.

In the song, Tarcy Su was required to imitate the sound of a duck, but she felt it was embarrassing and therefore was unwilling to do so.

But since it was Yang Ye who composed the song, Elva Hsiao had no way to resist and could only say, "Okay...Pfft!"

Elva Hsiao had a sad face at first, but suddenly she laughed out loud.

I don't know when Yang Ye walked in. When he saw them recording "Duck", he suddenly twisted on the spot, just like a duck, which looked very funny.

"How do I do the duck dance?" Yang Ye said.

"How interesting!" Elva Hsiao said with a smile, but couldn't help but wet her eyes.

She didn't expect that the teacher would actually perform the duck dance herself to allay her worries, which touched her deeply.

"Would you like to dance together?"

"Okay!" All her worries disappeared and she became playful. She didn't care that the dance didn't look like a lady at all and started dancing following Yang Ye's instruction.

This dance was very funny. The more she danced, the more she wanted to laugh. She couldn't help but complain, "Teacher, how could you come up with this kind of dance?"

"What's the big deal? I can also dance the horse dance. Do you want to learn it?"

"What is the horse dance?"

Yang Ye and the female students were having fun when Li Zhi suddenly called and said, "Last night, someone broke into Yonggao Company and robbed the negatives of their movie All's Well, Ends Well."

"Got it!" Yang Ye hung up the phone.

Finally waited!
Company executives have recently been studying various options to cope with the increasingly volatile situation.

Yang Ye said nothing, because he was waiting, waiting for All's Well, Ends Well to copy the robbery incident.

The gang's lawlessness to the point of openly breaking into homes and robbing is a good deterrent to those big-name stars who are ready to make their own moves.

Without the protection of a big company, how will you face harassment from the community?
Yang Ye left the recording studio and called Chui Shui Qiang: "It's time to close the net over Cai Ziming!"

……

Wong Jing sat in Yang Ye's office and told Yang Ye how the copy was stolen.

"At 11pm last night, three robbers broke into our editing room with knives, tied up several editors, and forced them to hand over the negatives of All's Well, Ends Well.

The negatives had to be refrigerated, so they were all locked in the freezer. Director Gao Zhisen was called out by Yu Rentai for a late-night snack, and the editors had no idea where the negatives were.

Those robbers didn’t know what film was. They rummaged around in the editing room for a while, snatched a few rough films and left.”

Yang Ye nodded and said, "Your disciple is really lucky. Those robbers were so arrogant. If he hadn't gone out for a midnight snack, he might have lost his life. It was Yu Rentai who saved him."

"Who said it wasn't true?" Wong Jing was still frightened by this incident.

"All's Well, Ends Well" is a New Year's blockbuster that was produced at a huge cost. If the negatives were really stolen, it would cost at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars to redeem them.

What's more, negatives are very delicate and robbers don't know how to preserve them. If they are robbed, they may be destroyed and there is no point in redeeming them.

Then Wong Jing would lose all his money.

Yang Ye asked: "What is your purpose in looking for me?"

"Hong Kong gangs are too arrogant. In order to force people to make movies, they point guns at people, mail bullets, kidnap celebrity agents and intimidate them. They use all kinds of methods, and now they are even breaking into homes and robbing people. I want to organize artists to take to the streets and hold an anti-gang parade. I hope you can support me, Sir!"

Most of Hong Kong's big-name artists are here with Yang Ye, and they are well protected.

Ever since Yang Ye dealt with Cai Ziming and made an example of him, those societies didn't dare to mess with him.

If Huang Baiming wants to accomplish this, he must get Yang Ye's approval, otherwise he can't do it.

Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, “The Hong Kong film market is booming right now, and those gangs are entering the market one after another, making films to launder money and making money. In order to compete for stars and producers, they will do anything.

Hong Kong is about to be returned to China, but the foreigners are only concerned with making money and not doing anything about it. We can only rely on ourselves. I support you."

"grateful!"

As their own vital interests were involved, the eight major guilds, including the Hong Kong Cinema Alliance, Directors Guild, Screenwriters Guild, Producers Guild, Actors Guild, and Martial Arts Guild, immediately mobilized.

On January 1992, 1, the Hong Kong entertainment industry launched a massive march that shocked the world - an action by the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry to protest against violence in the film industry.

At Yang Ye's call, nearly a thousand stage and backstage staff from all over Hong Kong gathered in Central and swore to set off, on a much larger scale than in the original time and space.

Yang Ye, Chen Long, Huang Zhan and others linked arms and led the way. Their slogan was: "We will no longer swallow our anger! We must resist the oppression of the underworld!"

To be honest, it's a bit funny that Yang Ye himself is the leader of the society.

……

ATV, TVB, and major newspapers in Hong Kong all sent reporters to cover the event on site.

Some artists denounced the arrogance of the community in front of the camera and denounced the inaction of the Hong Kong government.

Jiang Zhiqiang, a representative of the Cinema Alliance, accused the society of releasing poisonous snakes into theaters to scare away audiences and force theaters to show their bad films.

Nan Yan from the Screenwriters Association accused the society of kidnapping screenwriters and not releasing them until they finished writing the script.

Amy Yip from the Actors Guild accused the union of forcing her to film a nude third-level film and said that if she refused, her face would be destroyed. She had no choice but to film it.

This woman was smart and took the opportunity to clean herself up.

Many artists have come forward to share their own experiences, saying that they have been threatened by triad groups, and that triad groups in Hong Kong do not abide by martial ethics. They said that filming is allowed but they must abide by the rules.

Liu Hua said that he once had a gun pointed at his head. "I am very good at fighting in the movie, but behind the scenes I could be shot to death at any time!"

Directors Guild President Chan Yan-kin, who once served as a superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department, stood on a high ground with a megaphone and denounced the police force for their inaction: "The police replied to us, 'If you don't report the case, we can't take action.' We asked in return, 'If we report the case, will you fully protect us?' But they said, 'We don't have enough manpower and can't protect you for a long time.' Is this reasonable?"

The group marched to the police headquarters in Wan Chai, where Yang Ye submitted a petition letter to the Commissioner of Police in person and led representatives of the eight major associations to negotiate with the police.

Yang Ye has a huge social influence and was knighted by the Queen herself. He brought so many people with him and created such a big scene. The police force is under a lot of pressure and they must give an explanation.

So, half a month later, the police launched an anti-gang operation and vigorously improved the public security in Hong Kong.

The young and dangerous gangsters in Hong Kong suffered a lot and were thrown into prison in large numbers.

Not long after, flour merchant Cai Ziming was intercepted by the police while doing business with someone.

The two sides engaged in a fierce exchange of fire, and Cai Ziming was shot dead on the spot by the police in the chaos!

……

Cai Ziming would have died neither early nor late, but died in this extraordinary period.

Many people couldn't help but think of Yang Ye's punishment of Cai Ziming a year ago.

At that time, Yang Ye directly ordered the ban of Cai Ziming's Fuyi Film Company.

Later, people caused trouble in Cai Ziming's restaurant and bath center, forcing Cai Ziming to go back to selling flour and eventually die.

Although this guy deserved to die, some people are still frightened.

Because the timing of Cai Ziming's death was so strange, many people couldn't help but wonder if it was Yang Ye who did it.

If so, then Yang Ye’s energy is too great.

Of course, more people disagree. Cai Ziming was intercepted by the police while selling flour and was beaten to death for resisting arrest. It had nothing to do with Yang Ye.

It was not until not long after that, when Cai Ziming's girlfriend Chen Kaixin returned to the entertainment industry, starred in a TV series, and became the leading actress, that these people began to realize the joy of the situation.

Because the reason why Cai Ziming was intercepted by the police was because of the clues provided by Chen Kaixin.

It was obvious that Yang Ye bribed Chen Kaixin and killed Cai Ziming.

But in this matter, Yang Ye was a non-stick pan. Not only was he not guilty, he was actually meritorious.

Moreover, Yang Ye did not shy away from people. He promoted Chen Kaixin as the leading actress, which was obviously telling others that I was the one who killed Cai Ziming.

Cai Ziming's death is just the beginning. Soon everyone will know how terrible it is to offend Yang Ye! (End of this chapter)