Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

The winner turned out to be Gong Li!
This result surprised many people, even Gong Li herself was very surprised.

When it comes to performance, Qiu Ju and Ruan Lingyu each excelled in their own way, and whoever won was well-deserved.

However, considering that the majority of the Academy Awards members are Hong Kong filmmakers, this result is very surprising.

However, there is nothing to say. Mainland actors have been nominated several times over the years and lost every time.

If that's the case, why let them be shortlisted? It's also suspected of discrimination.

The fairness of the Academy Awards has also been criticized repeatedly.

This was a flaw in the original design, and to this day, it can only be solved by time.

With more and more members from the mainland and Taiwan, it is only a matter of time before things are put right.

Besides, the Academy Awards was originally an award created by Hong Kong filmmakers. Hong Kong films are very strong now, so it is normal for them to take more and occupy more.

The nominees for Best Actor were Leung Ka Fai, Stephen Chow, Chen Long, Jet Li and Xiang Huaqin.

Among the five people, Xiang Huaqian is just here to make people laugh, and the other four are all very strong.

In the original time and space, it was the Liang family that won the award. To be honest, Yang Ye felt that it was not right.

The award-winning film for Liang Jiahui was the comedy film "92 Black Rose vs. Black Rose".

Although Leung Ka Fai is very good at comedy, it is Stephen Chow who is the real king of comedy.

How could Lu Qi, played by Liang Jiahui, be better than Su Qier, played by Stephen Chow?
Anyway, Yang Ye didn't vote for Liang Jiahui. He voted for Jet Li in "Once Upon a Time in China 2".

Yang Ye has always felt that Jet Li's Huang Feihong deserves the Best Actor award.

On the stage, the award presenter Ti Lung announced: "The winner of the Best Actor award is... Chen Long for "Police Story 3: Super Cop". Congratulations, Aaron!"

In the guest seats, Chen Long stood up suddenly.

At last year's Golden Horse Film Festival, Chen Long won the Best Actor award for "Police Story 3: Super Cop".

But compared to the Golden Horse Award, what Chen Long wants most is the Hong Kong Film Award.

Because he is a Hong Konger and a representative figure of Hong Kong films.

In the original time and space, Chen Long has been in the film industry for fifty years and was nominated for the Academy Awards ten times, but never won.

But now, Chen Long finally got what he wanted.

Chen Long excitedly stepped onto the podium. Dillon presented him with the golden statue and said with a smile, "Congratulations, Brother Long!"

Chen Long excitedly took the trophy and responded: "Thank you, Brother Long!"

There was a burst of laughter from the audience. Ti Lung gave up his seat and stood aside to let Chen Long give his acceptance speech.

Chen Long stood in front of the microphone and raised the trophy suddenly, which immediately triggered a warm applause from the audience.

Chen Long has been in the film industry for 20 years and has brought Hong Kong films to the world. He has made outstanding contributions and deserves a Best Actor award. Everyone's applause is sincere.

After twenty years, his dream finally came true. Chen Long, who has always been at ease in front of the camera, is now a little nervous.

He licked his lips, thought for a while, and then said, "My mind is blank right now, I don't know what to say. First of all, I really want to thank all the judges for their kindness to me.

Two years ago, I told myself that I wanted to break through myself, so in the movie "Supercop", we made many thrilling attempts.

I didn’t expect that this attempt would bring me this award. This represents everyone’s recognition of our film. Thank you!”

Chen Long raised the trophy again, and the audience responded with applause.

"I don't think that my winning this award means that my acting is good, unless you give me another award next year, it will prove that my acting is good!"

"Hahahaha!" Tens of thousands of audience members at the Hong Kong Coliseum burst into laughter.

"Speaking of acting, 13 years ago at the first Academy Awards, the winner of the Best Actor award was Sir Yang Ye. At that time, he said something that I still remember.

He said that we action actors also have acting skills, because performance is a whole, body movements are also part of the performance, and action scenes can also convey emotions.

If an actor's sad crying scene can make the audience cry, it means he has good acting skills. If an actor's wonderful fighting scene can make the audience's blood boil, it also means he has good acting skills.

I hope that next year's judges will realize that action is also acting, just like this year. Thank you, thank you!"

Chen Long kissed the little golden man for the last time and walked off the stage with a breeze.

The competition for Best Director and Best Film is very fierce.

The nominees are Zhang Zhiliang's "Prisoners in Cages", Guan Jingpeng's "Ruan Lingyu", Zhang Yimou's "Qiu Ju Goes to Court", Xu Ke's "Once Upon a Time in China II", and Yang Dechang's "A Brighter Summer Day".

These five movies are all classics in film history. In the evaluation of later generations, each of them is rated above eight points. Any award won by any movie and any director can be considered well-deserved.

In the end, Cheung Chi-liang won a great victory, taking home the Best Director award, while Prisoners in Cages also won the Best Film award.

The so-called caged people are a social phenomenon in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is densely populated, and many old, weak and poor people live in beds in old buildings with extremely high population density (they call them men's apartments), each surrounded by barbed wire, commonly known as "cage houses", and these people are "cage people".

The plot of "Cage People" is very ironic. The cage houses are about to be demolished, and the caged people who have nowhere to live begin to find ways to protect their "dog cages".

The award for "Prisoners in Cages" is well-deserved because it inherits the realistic tradition in Hong Kong film history that focuses on the suffering of the lower classes, and is a "model of realistic films" in Hong Kong films!
The Best Film award ceremony is the most lively, because it is an honor shared by all the film's creators, and everyone often goes on stage together to receive the award.

"Prisoners in Cages" is a film produced by Silver Metropolis Entertainment. After the award was announced, Silver Metropolis' leaders, director Peter Chan, actor Wong Ka Kui and others went on stage to receive the award and took turns speaking.

Yang Ye looked at Huang Jiaju standing in front of the microphone and suddenly thought of what to ask him to do.

……

At the subsequent Academy Awards dinner, Chen Long became the absolute focus. People from the entertainment industry and the press came one after another to congratulate him.

Yang Ye was sitting in a corner, and called Huang Jiaju over and asked, "Are you interested in making a movie?"

Huang Jiaju said doubtfully: "Boss, I don't know Kung Fu."

“It’s not a kung fu movie, it’s a comedy.”

"Comedy?"

"Well, technically, it's a musical."

After learning the lesson from Sanmao last time, Yang Ye took great pains to save Huang Jiaju this time.

Yang Ye decided to carry out a saturation rescue and make a movie for the four boys to shoot, so that they would stay in Hong Kong this year and could not go anywhere.

“I got the inspiration for this movie after watching your performance in “Prisoners of Cage”, which also tells a story about fighting against demolition.

In order to protect a rock bar, a young man invited an agent to gather a drummer, bassist, guitarist, and keyboardist to form a rock band..."

In Yang Ye's opinion, as long as Da Peng's "Sewing Machine Band" was slightly modified and given to Wong Ka Kui and others to perform, it would be very suitable to be made into a musical film.

After all, "Sewing Machine Band" even used songs from the band Beyond.

Dapeng chose Beyond's song mainly to sell sentiment. His movie received a lot of praise in the original time and space, but he had to pay off the debt of his previous "The Pancake Man", resulting in not very high box office. After watching "The Pancake Man", many people no longer trusted Dapeng.

For Yang Ye in the original time and space, he thought Dapeng was indeed not trustworthy.

Because Dapeng plagiarized and stitched too much.

"The Pancake Man" was all stitched together, and when it came to "Sewing Machine Band", it became even worse and was a blatant plagiarism.

The plot of "Sewing Machine Band" is basically copied from the American Illumination Entertainment's musical animation "Sing". It is also about an idealistic protagonist who uses non-mainstream means to find a group of musical partners.

The personalities of these partners are also extremely similar. Some have just broken up with their love, some are pursuing their musical dreams but have always been opposed by their families, and some have musical dreams but are asked to follow in their father's footsteps.

There is also a building that symbolizes the musical dream. "Sing" is a theater, and "Sewing Machine Band" is a large guitar sculpture.

The main plot of the entire movie is to protect this building.

All the buildings were not saved, the team scattered, and the protagonist felt extremely guilty.

Then his musical dream was awakened again and he brought the performance team together again.

And the final ending is a "ruins concert" held on the ruins of the building, which brings the whole movie to a climax!
Everyone's dream comes true and they reconcile with life, and on the ruins, a larger and newer building rises from the ground, with the same happy ending.

But this is not important, because Yang Ye is a plagiarist and he doesn't mind plagiarism at all.

Yang Ye gave a brief account of the story, which deeply moved the passionate young man Huang Jiaju.

In fact, Wong Ka Kui did not have much passion for acting. He was willing to act only to gain some fame and help the band gain some popularity.

However, the movie that Yang Ye mentioned seemed to be tailor-made for him.

He was sure that he was the rock youth with dreams in the movie.

So, this film project was finalized, and the title was... "Beyond"!
It was initially decided that all the actors in this movie would be rock singers.

Wong Ka Kui played the rock youth, and the scumbag agent was Simon Yam.

The old guitarist played by Han Tongsheng in the Sewing Machine Band was played by Danny Summer.

Danny Summer is the rock godfather of the Hong Kong music scene. He is the father who was stabbed to death by Wu Jing in "SPL". Wong Ka Kui himself also respects him very much.

Let Faye Wong play the rock girl played by Nazha.

The other two drummers and keyboard players were Yip Sai Wing and Wong Ka-Chung.

As for Wong Ka Keung, he looks too much like Ka Kui and it would be distracting to be in the same movie, so there is no place for him.

Of course, the songs used are Beyond's classic songs.

"Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies" is the theme song of the movie.

Other songs like "Glorious Years" and "Goodbye Ideal" were all added.

How can this not look good?
……

With the addition of another project, Yang Ye felt that he was too busy.

He gave the story outline of "Beyond" to the Screenwriting Center and asked them to write the script.

Then Chen Kexin was brought in as director and Xu Jie as producer.

The task of finding actors and confirming their schedules was left to Xu Jie and Chen Kexin.

After a little preparation, he took Zhao Yazhi and Nicholas Tse to the mainland to guest star in "Kunlun".

Chen Shufen acted very quickly. She actually acted first and asked for permission later. When she went to find Yang Ye, she had already had someone write the script for "Kunlun".

As soon as Yang Ye agreed, he immediately began to prepare, selecting the location, casting, making the makeup, and making the props...

After two months, all the preliminary preparations were completed and we could start work as soon as Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi joined the team.

Although it was called a guest appearance, Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi actually played the main role in "Kunlun Prequel".

"Kunlun Prequel" is a miniature version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Liang Wenjing, played by Yang Ye, is a character similar to Guo Jing, while Xiao Yuling, played by Zhao Yazhi, is a little witch, a bit similar to Huang Rong.

Nicholas Tse plays their son Liang Xiao, who is the childhood of Zheng Yijian.

In the original movie "Chinese Hero", Nicholas Tse played the son of Zheng Yijian.

"Kunlun" is planned to be filmed into 40 episodes, the first three episodes are "Iron-Blooded Pride", which is roughly equivalent to the content of a movie.

In this part, Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi are the absolute protagonists.

The next two episodes are about Liang Xiao’s family of three.

That is to say, Yang Ye will act in 40 out of 5 episodes.

The TV series was shot very quickly and was not as detail-intensive as the movies. Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi are both veteran actors and a couple, so they naturally had a rapport during the filming.

In Yang Ye's debut film "Shaolin Temple", Yang Ye and Zhao Yazhi played lovers.

Later in the ATV version of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", he made a guest appearance as the young version of Xiaoyaozi and Li Qiushui's sister, and they were also a couple.

This time in "Kunlun", they play Liang Wenjing and Xiao Yuling again, which is their third pairing and they are a couple again.

In fact, the two of them are old and not very suitable for playing these two roles, but it doesn’t matter, they are just pretending to be younger.

Hong Kong artists all take good care of themselves, especially Zhao Yazhi. She is 40 years old but still looks like a girl. Her shelf life is super long!
Yang Ye has been practicing martial arts for many years, so it goes without saying that he takes good care of his body.

……

Liang Wenjing's storyline ended just a few chapters into Kunlun.

At this moment, Yang Ye was lying on the ground, took a deep breath, and said, "Xiao...er..."

Liang Xiao, played by Nicholas Tse, quickly leaned over and heard Liang Wenjing muttering intermittently, "Don't... don't... bully... good... people..."

He couldn't catch his breath. Thinking of the past with Xiao Yuling, he sighed softly, slowly closed his eyes, and died.

"Crack!"

Yang Ye turned over and sat up from the ground.

After half a month of filming, his role came to an end.

The director announced: "Congratulations to Sir and Sister Yazhi on finishing the filming!"

The crew suddenly burst into warm applause. Elva Hsiao and Liu Xiaohui each held a bouquet of flowers and walked forward to give them to the two.

Yang Ye took the flowers and said with a smile: "Dinner tonight, it's my treat!"

After removing her makeup and changing into her own clothes, Yang Ye felt relaxed.

When Zhao Yazhi and I came out of the crew, Zhao Yazhi asked, "Husband, will you go back to Hong Kong with me?"

Yang Ye shook his head: "I have to go to Beijing to shoot an advertisement."

Zhao Yazhi asked curiously, "What advertisement?"

"The mainland was bidding to host the 2000 Olympic Games and invited me to be a publicity ambassador and shoot a series of Olympic promotional ads."

Zhao Yazhi said happily: "This is a good thing!"

"Well, since we are in Chongqing, I will accompany you to visit the Three Gorges tomorrow. We will take a cruise from Chongqing, and after we finish touring the Three Gorges, you can return to Hong Kong from Wuhan."

"Okay, I've always wanted to visit the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River!"

It takes a week to travel in the Three Gorges. It is rare for two people to stay together all the time, so Zhao Yazhi is very happy.

Little did they know that Yang Ye had other plans! (End of this chapter)