Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Early in the morning, Sachiko Kamachi came to the company and was soon taken to Yang Ye's office.

"Sachiko, long time no see!"

"Yes, it's been a year."

"This is for you!" Yang Ye took out a small box and handed it to Kamachi Sachiko.

"what is this?"

"Lijun really likes the song 'Spend This Life With You' that you wrote for her. This is the record she gave you. It has her autograph."

"Thank you!"

Sachiko Kamachi happily took the small box and her eyes smiled into crescents.

In this world, there are many unexpected connections between many seemingly unrelated celebrities.

For example, Izumi Sakai wrote songs for Teresa Teresa and was also the heroine in Akina Nakamori's MV.

"Spend This Life With You" was not a very auspicious song in the original time and space, but it still appeared.

Two years after Deng Lijun sang this song, she died in an accident. On the tenth anniversary of her death, Izumi Sakai covered this song to commemorate Deng Lijun. Two years later, she also died in an accident. So the Japanese media called this song a magic song.

However, this is just a forced association made by the Japanese media. Countless people have covered this song in later generations, and this song is often played at Japanese wedding banquets. There is nothing unlucky about it.

"Have you read the manga "Shiratori Reiko"?"

"I've seen it!"

"It has now been made into a live-action TV series, and Avex Music has been tasked with creating the theme song for the TV series. I have already written the music, so I'll leave the task of writing the lyrics to you!"

"me?"

"No confidence? I'm very optimistic about you."

"I will work hard!"

Yang Ye nodded, handed her the music score, and said with a smile: "This song will be your debut song, so you must take it seriously. Damn it!"

……

The biggest obstacle for Sachiko Kamachi's second debut is that she has taken many borderline photos before.

Therefore, the real name Sachiko Kamachi could no longer be used and was changed to Izumi Sakai.

But it’s no use changing it. As a star, you always have to show your face, and you will be recognized immediately when you appear on screen.

It would have been fine if he wasn't popular, but after the sudden hit of "Don't Give Up", he was immediately caught on the weakness and was badly criticized.

As a result, the national tour that had already been prepared had to be canceled at the last minute and the money had to be refunded.

Later, she simply changed her strategy and adopted mystery marketing, never appearing in public again, and her band ZARD also became a ghost band.

Regarding the ZARD band, they had a terrible time in the early days and had no fixed members. Later, after they became popular, Izumi, the lead singer, was attacked and had to go underground, so in the end, only Izumi was well-known.

In fact, ZARD had very frequent live events in the early days, and often went to Zhaori TV's flagship music program "Music Station" to promote new works.

ZARD appeared on this show seven times in total. Later generations said that Izumi Sakai only appeared in public seven times in her life, but this is not true.

……

This year's Spring Festival battle has attracted many great actors and the fight is in full swing.

"New Meteor Butterfly Sword" by Leung Cho-wai and Yeung Chi-kiung was quickly defeated.

Soon after that, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2" starring Lin Qingxia and Wang Zuxian was also criticized for being a poor imitation and suffered a disastrous box office failure.

This is just the beginning. Subsequent releases such as "New Crane Needle", "New Stained Sword", "The Sword of the Falling Sword" and so on all failed miserably, indicating that martial arts films have come to an end. In recent years, there have been too many and too sloppy films, and audiences have grown tired of them.

However, in this time and space, there was no falling out between Jet Li and Golden Harvest, and there was no replacement for Wong Fei-hung, so "The King's Wind" should not have failed.

In fact, the two Huang Feihong films "The King's Wind" and "Dragon City Fighter" directed by Zhao Wenchao were not bad movies themselves, it was just that the actors were not right.

As bad as it got, he took over Jet Li's role and made a sequel. The audience simply couldn't adapt to it and, based on their preconceived notions, they directly sentenced the movie to death.

Generally speaking, it is not impossible to change roles in popular movies, and many movies do so.

For example, in Xu Ke's Di Renjie series, after the film "Mystery of the Phantom Flame" became famous thanks to Liu Hua, the second film "The Mysterious Capital Dragon King" was replaced by Zhao Yaya, and the box office doubled.

This is because Xu Ke chose to restart and did not continue with the plot of "The Mystery of the Phantom Flame", but instead filmed Di Renjie when he was young.

In this way, the audience becomes psychologically able to accept it, because Liu Hua is too old and a younger person must be found.

Including many Hollywood movies, such as Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire played in a few movies, and his salary was so high that Sony could not afford it. So what to do? I will restart!

If Xu Ke had been smarter at the time and chose to restart, the Wong Fei Hung series might not have been ruined.

The cast has already been replaced, but they are still going to make a sequel. It would be unfair if it doesn't flop.

Zhao Wenzhuo was only 20 years old. When he was with 30-year-old Rosamund Kwan, there was no sense of couple at all, because Rosamund Kwan really looked like his aunt.

So where is Zhao Wenzhuo now? Yang Ye looked around and found that he didn't show up at all.

That’s right, “Fong Sai-yuk” was finished filming a long time ago, and there was no replacement for “Huang Feihong”, and he is still attending university at Beijing Sport University now.

Yang Ye didn't think about digging him out. He wasn't someone who had to be dug out. He just let it be.

However, if Zhao Wenzhuo had not appeared, then... "The Great Dragon" should have been Jet Li.

Well, with Jet Li's box office appeal, "Green Snake" will not fail.

……

"ATV wants to film "Kunlun"?"

Huang Xizhao has retired, and the current director of ATV is the newly appointed Chen Shufen.

This woman was fed up with Mona Fong when she was at TVB.

After transferring to ATV, the new official planned to give Fang Yihua a tough time.

Jin Yong and Gu Long have both made such a slew of films, so Chen Shufen wanted to come up with something new, so she thought of "Kunlun".

This was Yang Ye's famous work when he just debuted. Some people had wanted to film it for a long time, but Yang Ye had always suppressed their efforts.

This is because the male protagonist of "Kunlun", Liang Xiao, is a character who closely imitates Yang Guo, but is even crazier than Yang Guo, which has caused quite a bit of controversy.

Liang Xiao is of mixed Han and Mongolian descent. He has been lonely since childhood and has no sense of national identity or sense of identity.

When people asked him if he was Han, he said no. When they asked him if he was Mongolian, he shook his head.

After struggling in the underworld, he became disheartened and planned to live in seclusion in his father's hometown.

But he made a few friends, one of whom was the child of his father's childhood playmate.

Because these friends had signed up for the army, he wanted to protect them, so he went with them.

They were assigned to transport food and fodder, but were robbed by their arch-enemy Yun Shu and other martial artists, resulting in heavy casualties and their sister Axue was captured.

Liang Xiao went to save Axue, but saw that Axue was tortured badly by the martial artists. He also had a grudge against Yun Shu, so in anger he broke his bow and swore that if Yun Shu helped Song, he would destroy Song.

General Liang Xiao used the mathematics he learned in Tianji Palace in fighting, and was successful in every battle, eventually conquering Xiangyang.

However, after seeing the shameless actions of the Mongols in occupying Lin'an, he rebelled against the Mongols and tried his best to save the bloodline of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

In the end, he was neither Han nor Mongols, and was neither accepted by the inside nor the outside. Both sides wanted to destroy him, so he had no choice but to leave the Central Plains and travel west to Europe.

In the second part "Cang Hai", it is said that Liang Xiao and many martial artists from the Central Plains went to Lingao Island together.

They were unwilling to see China sink into oblivion, and vowed to expel the Mongols and restore the Han dynasty.

Liang Xiao used all his life's knowledge to invent a world-destroying artifact called "Qianlong".

Qianlong can trigger the power of tides, trigger floods, and attack cities and strongholds. The big cities in the world are all built on the coast and the banks of big rivers. It is not an exaggeration to say that this thing can "destroy the world".

After the "Qianlong" was built, it was used for the first time and destroyed three small islands. Everyone cheered, but Liang Xiao regretted it.

Because once the latent dragon is born, wherever it goes, cities will turn into swamps, all living things will be devastated, and humans will become fish and turtles.

But he was reluctant to destroy this magical weapon he had made with his own hands, so he and his wife Hua Xiaoshuang ran away with Qianlong.

In the third part of "Lingfei Jing", it is mentioned that Liang Xiao fled overseas and his later years were unknown. Because he created the "Zhouliu Liuxu Gong", he suffered a heavenly calamity and was struck to death by lightning.

Liang Xiao's life was full of contradictions. He could not live with the love he found, and he found it difficult to be filial to his relatives.

He hopes to be aloof from the world but is always involved in grudges and revenges. He has great talent but rarely applies it to the world. He is extremely intelligent but often acts on impulse.

All in all, it's screwed!

The reason is probably that Feng Ge was not content with just imitating Jin Yong, but wanted to surpass him, so he did what Jin Yong dared not do.

Liang Xiao destroyed Song, captured Xiangyang, and then changed his mind. In fact, it was a copy of the plot of Guo Jing who destroyed Khwarezm, captured Samarkand, and then changed his mind.

It’s just that Guo Jing destroyed a foreign country, so it’s just destroyed, and readers won’t think there is anything wrong with it.

Yang Guo was once on good terms with Kublai Khan, joined the Mongol camp, and wanted to assassinate Guo Jing to avenge his father, but he eventually stopped.

However, Liang Xiao rushed forward, captured Xiangyang, and destroyed the Song Dynasty.

This is a fucking novel for Chinese people. You destroyed the Song Dynasty, and this involves a question of stance.

The issue of stance will affect the evaluation of later generations. For example, Wang Meng's achievements should surpass Zhuge Liang.

But Zhuge's name is known throughout the universe, but there is almost no trace of Wang Meng.

This was naturally because Zhuge Kuang supported the Han Dynasty, while Wang Meng assisted Fu Jian, a foreigner.

Yang Ye wrote the novel "Kunlun" just because it imitated Jin Yong so much and could help him become famous quickly.

Later he realized the sequelae of the book, so even though some people wanted to film it, he refused and forced them not to do so.

As for the reason for not allowing filming, he never mentioned it and treated it coldly.

I didn't expect that after being cold for so long, Chen Shufen would bring it up again.

Yang Ye asked Chen Shufen: "Why don't you continue to film Jin Yong?"

"After filming The Deer and the Cauldron, the station suggested a two-year break. Now all the films are sold to Taiwan for filming."

Yang Ye wanted to laugh. The Jin Yong dramas produced in Taiwan were made with crazy and magical changes, and the actors used ridiculous muscles to shoot them. Although the ratings were good, they were always criticized badly.

Chen Shufen’s meaning is very clear. Remakes are easy to be criticized because the audience has preconceived ideas.

If Taiwan's three old TV stations feed shit to the audience first and then ATV shoots the show, the rate of negative reviews can be greatly reduced.

"Let's shoot!" Yang Ye hesitated for a while and finally nodded.

Since this novel appeared in this time and space and was written by Yang Ye, controversy about it is inevitable.

After entering the Internet age, it even became Yang Ye’s black spot and was criticized by black fans.

But this kind of criticism is not actually a bad thing, because it can prolong the vitality of the work.

For example, the criticism of Linghu Chong on the Internet in later generations actually prolonged the life of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer".

A novel that has been published for more than fifty years is still being hotly debated online. Its popularity is second only to the four great classics.

Chen Shufen was very happy that Yang Ye agreed to film "Kunlun".

Because when others proposed it before, Yang Ye rejected it. But when she just became the director, Yang Ye agreed, which was very respectful.

Chen Shufen asked: "Do you have any candidate in mind for the casting?"

After all, this is Yang Ye's novel, so she must ask Yang Ye's opinion.

Yang Ye thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think?"

Chan Suk-Fun said: "I think Koo Tim-lok can play Liang Xiao."

Yang Ye thought to himself, this woman has good taste. Gu Tianle is the best actor to play Yang Guo, and Liang Xiao wrote the role with Yang Guo as the main character, blending the images of Guo Jing, Linghu Chong, Xiao Feng and others, so it is most appropriate for Gu Tianle to play the role.

However, Yang Ye rejected this proposal. He shook his head and said, "No, Gu Tianle is not suitable. Let Zheng Yijian come."

"Zheng Yijian? Okay!"

Why choose Cheng Yi-kin instead of the more suitable actor Koo Tim-lok?

Because Principal Gu has a good reputation, if he plays such a controversial role, there will definitely be black fans in the future who will use this matter to attack him.

This is what Yang Ye doesn't want to see.

As for Cheng Yi-kin, he had a bad reputation because of his immigration to Japan. Whenever he was controversial, he was attacked. Yang Ye didn't bother to care.

"What about the heroine?"

There are three heroines in "Kunlun".

Liang Xiao loves Hua Xiaoshuang, Liu Yingying and Axue.

Xiaoshuang and Yingying need not be mentioned, but Axue is the eternal pain in his heart.

But Liang Xiao is not Duan Zhengchun, and he finally made a choice and fled overseas with Hua Xiaoshuang.

Yang Ye pondered for a while. Among the three heroines, Xiaoshuang was the gentle type, and he wanted to find someone who was approachable. Yingying was extremely beautiful, but aggressive. Axue was the cute and adorable type.

If it was filmed in the 1980s, Chow Wai-man, Wong Cho-yin and Yau Shu-zhen would be able to do the job.

However, Zhou Huimin is now a first-line singer, and Wang Zuxian and Qiu Shuzhen are both doing well in the film industry, so there is no need for them to condescend to film TV series.

"Let my three students play the roles. Elva Hsiao will play Hua Xiaoshuang, Liu Xiaohui will play Liu Yingying, and Yang Yuying will play Axue. Just tell them that I named them."

Chen Shufen was overjoyed. The actors handpicked by Yang Ye would become a gimmick when the TV series was broadcast in the future.

Yang Ye agreed to the filming and selected four main actors. Chen Shufen happily went to prepare.

Yang Ye thought of another thing. When he first met Zhao Yazhi, he was still serializing "Iron-Blooded Pride" in Ming Pao.

At that time, Fang Yihua wanted to buy the copyright and make it into a TV series, letting him play Liang Wenjing and Zhao Yazhi play Xiao Yuling.

Thinking of this, Yang Ye couldn't help but smile and called Zhao Yazhi.

"Zhizhi, let's make a movie together!"

Zhao Yazhi felt it was very sudden. She announced her retirement from acting right after filming The Legend of the New White Snake.

On the one hand, she is getting older, and on the other hand, Yang Ritian has gone to middle school, so she plans to spend more energy taking care of her son.

Zhao Yazhi asked curiously, "What kind of movie are you filming?"

“Do you remember the first novel I wrote?”

"You mean 'Iron Blood Pride'?"

"Yes, ATV is planning to make Kunlun into a TV series. I think we can make a cameo appearance and play Liang Xiao's parents."

When Yang Ye approached Zhao Yazhi to make a movie, she had fantasized that the two of them could film "Iron Blood Pride" together.

Yang Ye played the silly Liang Wenjing, and she played the unruly yet cute Xiao Yuling, who bullied him every day.

Recalling the past, his boyhood fantasy had actually become reality. Zhao Yazhi was stunned holding the receiver.

After a long while, she whispered on the phone: "Husband, we have known each other... for twenty years!" (End of this chapter)