Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 622: No Gene Injection

After the riots ended, Yang Ye led the crew to continue filming "Terminator 3".

The news that Yang Ye led the Chinese in Chinatown to fight against riots and protect their property was reported by the North American media and quickly spread to the Chinese world.

Of course, incidents of Koreans organizing themselves for resistance were equally well publicized.

The group that caused the riot was mainly blacks and Mexicans. White people stayed out of it, but there were also many who took advantage of the chaos to fish in troubled waters.

They were mainly targeting Koreans, and the Chinese were the ones who were caught in the crossfire.

But in the end, the Asians performed well. They united to resist and dealt a heavy blow to the rioters.

When lives and property are violated, men pick up guns, stand up, take to the streets and rooftops to protect their property. This is an act of courage, absolutely just, blameless and worthy of respect.

Yang Ye is not a person who is afraid of trouble. He is one of the richest people in the world. Since the matter has been blown out of proportion, he simply hired a group of internet trolls to praise himself in the newspapers.

In those days when there was no Internet, the commentary articles in major newspapers were very authoritative.

Those writers took Yang Ye's money and flattered him, saying that although Yang Ye was not an American citizen, his behavior embodied the American spirit!

When interviewed by reporters, Yang Ye expressed his absolute support for the pursuit of racial equality, but believed that the use of violence, beating, smashing, looting, burning and killing innocent people was a pure criminal act and should be severely punished.

The handsome photo of Yang Ye standing on the roof and firing a gun attracted a lot of fans.

This is not a movie, this is real war.

Many female fans combined Yang Ye with his image in the movies, and exclaimed that he was truly an invincible man.

He is still so rich. I heard that he likes to have children. His children can all get a lot of property, so...

"Nick, I love you!"

A hot girl was stopped by the crew of "Terminator 3", but she continued to shout and madly confessed her love to Yang Ye.

Yang Ye had a headache. He looked at Wu Yusen and asked, "Which one is this?"

John Woo said with some amusement: "The fifth one."

Ever since the news became a big deal, women have been coming to the set of Terminator 3 from time to time to madly confess their love to Yang Ye, saying that they want to be with him and give birth to his children.

This seriously affected the filming progress of the movie and caused the crew a lot of annoyance.

Yang Ye sighed: "Old Wu, modify the plan and shoot the studio part first!"

"Okay, this is the only way!" John Woo was helpless.

……

"What a fucking hunk that fell from the sky!"

On the streets of Singapore, a man looked at the photo of Yang Ye shooting in the newspaper and was filled with admiration.

"so hot!"

The woman next to him took one look at the photo of Yang Ye shooting in the newspaper and immediately became infatuated with him.

The man glanced at the girl beside him, and his favorable impression of Yang Ye immediately weakened by three points.

In the Chinese world, especially among overseas Chinese communities, this battle earned Yang Ye great fame.

When he swept across Japanese martial arts, he was hailed as a national hero by many Chinese media.

After this battle, he was even called a tough guy sent from heaven and a savior of the nation.

Yang Ye's actions have greatly encouraged many Chinese people.

Although some older, mature and conservative people criticized him for being too flamboyant.

But among young people, his popularity has reached its peak.

If he had a movie coming out now, even if it was a piece of crap, it would still do well at the box office.

……

Some blacks and Mexicans were very angry about the Asians' great victory, and some groups even threatened to retaliate.

But the United States has just dispatched its troops and arrested more than 10,000 of the most violent offenders.

Those people don't dare to cause trouble anymore, so they just talk big and don't dare to take any action for the time being.

Moreover, the Asians performed so well this time that they had no chance to fight back, and they were actually a little scared.

America is a country that brings together immigrants from all over the world, with many ethnic groups and a society where the strong prey on the weak.

Here, as long as you show weakness, you will be bullied. If you are strong, he will be afraid of you.

The Chinese way of giving in and valuing harmony simply doesn't work here.

There was once a Chinese guy who practiced boxing and was very good at it.

But when he fights with others, he usually stops when he gets the chance.

It’s just like what is written in martial arts novels, where one can obviously win but still lets the other person win on purpose to avoid embarrassing the other person and to save their face.

There are also a few words of acknowledgment, admiration, etc., and then they understand each other and become harmonious.

After this guy did this a few times, a black guy in the boxing gym looked down on him and started provoking him at every turn.

Sometimes when he isn't paying attention, I'll step on him or something.

Later, the young man got angry and challenged the black guy to a duel, and beat him up on the spot.

The black guy was very surprised. He asked the Chinese guy, why are you so good but you don’t show it?

Then this guy became good friends with the Chinese guy, and was very enthusiastic and polite every time he saw him.

Once, a Chinese guy wanted to buy a pair of sneakers, but the black guy said it was not necessary and ran to buy him a pair for free.

Although this is just a very simple story, it shows that this is a society where the strong prey on the weak and only respect the strong.

Many Americans are keen on fitness because if you have a muscular body, others will tend to stay away from you.

……

On the other hand, Yang Ye began to win over the upper class in North America.

Now that Yang Ye has reached this level of wealth, it is impossible for him to have everything to himself.

At this time, you should win over the powerful and wealthy, share interests, and let them protect you.

The method is very simple. Yang Ye decided to establish a private equity investment fund.

A private equity fund is an investment fund that raises funds from specific investors in a non-public manner and invests in specific targets.

This thing is easy to get, anyone can apply for it, and Yang Ye got the license in minutes.

The difficulty lies in who will invest money in your fund?

Yang Ye made his debut in 1973 and has been successful in the past 19 years, becoming the world's second richest man.

As the news of his plan to set up a private equity fund came out, it immediately caused a great response among the wealthy people in the United States.

Yang Ye not only demonstrates dominant strength in the entertainment industry, he is also very capable in the investment field.

He has taken advantage of major financial events several times and made a lot of wealth.

Although he is relatively low-key in this regard, every time others eat the meat, he drinks the soup and runs away with a handful of scoop.

But many people still noticed his existence.

Now that he is setting up a private equity fund, naturally there are many people who want to get on board.

However, it is not that easy to join. Yang Ye's private equity fund has an entry threshold and requires an assessment of strength. According to Forbes magazine's statistics in 1990, the wealth of the 400 richest people in the United States is about 2725 billion US dollars, of which 10 people have a net worth of more than 66 billion US dollars.

The Chuanpo family is not among these 400 people.

Only those with a net worth of over 1000 million US dollars are eligible to invest in the Yang's Private Equity Fund founded by Yang Ye, and the minimum investment is million US dollars.

Although Yang Ye's tone was very arrogant, many people still came to him to test the waters.

Yang Ye became busy. Apart from filming every day, he followed his fund manager John Paulson to various high-end occasions and communicated with some wealthy people.

John Paulson is the future "Wall Street Short God". In the original time and space, he took advantage of the 2008 US subprime mortgage crisis to short the housing market and made a huge profit of 37 billion US dollars in a year.

John Paulson is not yet 40 years old and is not well-known in the investment world.

But after years of experience in the workplace, he has developed outstanding financial analysis skills and a unique investment mindset.

Yang Ye chose John Paulson as his partner because he valued his abilities.

It is impossible for Yang Ye to operate this fund all the time, so he usually leaves it to Paulson for management. He only needs to take action at critical moments.

In less than a month, Yang Ye raised nearly 200 million yuan.

He invested part of it in the stock market, real estate, gold and other areas.

Part of the funds is used to invest in some newly established Internet companies.

Part of it was used to invest in United Artists' films, including $30 million for "Jurassic Park."

Investing in the stock market, real estate market and gold is a routine operation, which gives Paulson something to do.

Investing in Internet companies is like playing the long game and catching big fish.

Investing in "Jurassic Park" produced surprising results in a short period of time.

After all, Yang Ye is a genius in the film industry. What else could he invest in if not movies?

Yang's fund not only invests in films produced by United Artists, but also in films produced by other companies.

Although the film industry makes money, it is also extremely risky and if you are not careful, you can lose everything.

Therefore, film companies generally raise funds to make movies, and keep their own money for stock trading, real estate, and other things.

For Yang Ye, he knows exactly which movies make money and which movies lose money, and investing in this kind of thing is really a win-win situation.

What's more, he is a senior industry insider. The dirty tricks used by film companies to defraud investors are completely useless to him and he can expose them in minutes.

……

Since Yang Ye didn't want to be harassed, the crew modified the plan and switched from outdoor shooting to indoor shooting.

The most important fight scene in the interior scenes is the bathroom battle at the end of the movie.

This scene is very violent. Sometimes T850 grabs TX and smashes it around, and sometimes TX grabs T850 and smashes it around, smashing the whole scene to pieces.

This scene only lasts one minute in the movie, but it took more than a week to shoot.

The main difficulty in filming was that Yang Ye and Halle Berry could not film together.

Because Yang Ye couldn't really grab Halle Berry and smash her around. No matter how many Halle Berrys there were, they wouldn't be enough for him to smash.

And it is impossible for Halle Berry to hold Yang Ye and bump him around, but it is more like Yang Ye holding Halle Berry and bumping him around.

So, this is when the model comes into play.

Against a green screen background, Yang Ye holds a foam torso and pretends it is Halle Berry's body.

Then throw her against the wall, and the wall? It will be destroyed in the form of computer special effects.

Finally, the foam torso was replaced with a digital double of Halle Berry.

And vice versa!
This type of shooting is very complicated and is currently in the experimental stage in Hollywood, but Zi Qi Company has been preparing for it for a long time.

Before shooting, the director team must communicate with the special effects team, plan all the shooting scenes in advance, and have a clear understanding of them.

The most difficult part was the interaction between the two actors, the replacement of the digital double, and the handling of the wall.

It is extremely difficult to switch between real-life shots and digital doubles without making people notice the flaws, given current technology.

Although it is only a one-minute shot and only takes a few days to shoot, it takes at least half a year to complete.

As for the production of digital doubles, human motion capture technology is used.

The special effects team put Halle Berry in a bodysuit and tied glowing dots to her body.

Then we asked her to do various movements and expressions, and used a high-speed camera to record the trajectory of key points of the limbs during human movement.

Then export all the track points into files to further correct errors such as jitter.

Finally, we use 3D software for modeling, mapping, rendering and output to restore the actors’ facial expressions and body movements to the greatest extent possible.

People will see all kinds of realistic scenes on the big screen.

……

Halle Berry is still a small actor and she has never experienced such a shooting.

Although she and Yang Ye had many rival scenes and action scenes, most of the time, she performed alone under the green screen, blue screen, and black screen without props.

Halle Berry has not received systematic acting training and is not a professional, which makes it very difficult for her.

Many times, she simply didn't know what to do.

Although John Woo is a director, he has no relevant experience.

At this time, only Yang Ye could take action.

Fortunately, Harry has a good understanding of acting and often understands things quickly. He is a talented actor.

She learned very quickly, which made Yang Ye very satisfied.

In addition to her acting skills, Yang Ye was also very satisfied with her body.

Halle Berry is a mixed race of Caucasian and black, so she is not very black, but according to the theory of blood lineage, she is still classified as black.

Her mother was a nurse in a mental hospital and her father was a handyman in that hospital.

However, under the black man's sweet talk, the white nurse lost her virginity and then became pregnant with his child.

After the two got married, Harley's father revealed his true colors. Not only did he throw the burden of the entire family to Harley's mother, he also beat her violently whenever they disagreed with him.

According to Hallie's recollections as an adult, her mother had been beaten by her father almost every day since she could remember, and he was basically merciless, as if he really wanted to kill her.

However, Halle Berry did not seem to learn from her mother's lessons. After she grew up, she entered the entertainment industry and soon fell in love with black actor Wesley Snipes.

However, it wasn't long before Wesley's true nature was revealed. He would beat her up for no reason, which pierced her eardrum and caused her to become deaf.

Just when Harley was feeling very miserable, she was inexplicably chosen by Yang Ye to star in "Terminator 3", and then inexplicably got together with him.

Although Yang Ye has strong fighting power, he respects women very much and never hits them, which makes Harley completely fascinated by this man.

Although Yang Ye led the Chinese to kill black people during the Los Angeles riots, she had no opinion at all. Instead, she thought that Yang Ye's shooting posture was really awesome.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that she is a woman. Most of the time, men have stronger racial concepts, while women don't take it so seriously.

During the time when filming resumed, Yang Ye was often with Harley.

However, Yang Ye still held on to his bottom line and did not inject Chinese genes into her.

(End of this chapter)