Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 658 Hidden merit and fame

Some people would say that it was too early for China to bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics.

However, this is not something that can be done on a whim.

After the 1990 Asian Games were a complete success, given that many sports facilities were already available, a question arose: "Can China bid for an Olympic Games?"

No one answered on the spot, but a group was set up to analyze and study the feasibility of this matter.

The research team collected and organized the various requirements for hosting an Olympic Games in terms of hardware, software, finance and technology.

Various requirements in municipal construction and urban modernization services are taken into consideration.

The actual capabilities in areas such as television broadcasting and international air transport capacity were discussed.

Issues in environmental protection and national quality were assessed.

Studied various needs in reform and opening up.

Experts at home and abroad are sincerely invited to provide opinions.

Finally, two conclusions were drawn: First, China has the ability to host a Summer Olympics.

Second, the Chinese people are willing to give due support and contribution to this end.

It took a whole year to come up with the answer: Yes!
So, at the end of 1991, the bid for the Olympic Games was officially launched!

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On September 1993, 9, the host city of the 23 Summer Olympics will be finally decided in Monte Carlo, the casino city of Monaco.

The International Olympic Committee stipulates that each bidding city can send an Olympic bid delegation of about 200 people to participate.

The members of the Chinese delegation are mainly government officials, celebrities from the business and literary and art circles, as well as compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and celebrities from overseas Chinese.

Yang Ye, as the image ambassador of China's Olympic bid and a member of the delegation, also brought Liu Xiaoli and An Feng with him.

Liu Xiaoli is a famous person in the dance world. She is fully qualified to join the delegation. As for Xiao Anfeng...

There is a children's choir in the delegation. They are led by their teachers to promote Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games on the streets of Monte Carlo every day!

Yang Ye stuffed Xiao Anfeng in. Her mother taught her to sing and dance well. As long as she gets used to the choir, she will perform very well!
Liu Xiaoli was very satisfied with Yang Ye's arrangement, because it was a very good resume for An Feng's life.

Liu Xiaoli and Yang Ye have held their wedding in a church in Monaco. Although Yang Ye was just fooling her, for Liu Xiaoli, she had just gotten out of a marriage full of conflicts, and a super-rich man came to take over and treated her and her daughter so well. She felt that her life was so lucky.

As for Xiao Anfeng, she liked Yang Ye, her new father, very much. Now it was natural for her to call him dad, although she still missed her biological father.

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In the 1990s, the International Olympic Committee had not yet introduced anti-corruption regulations. Members could form groups to visit each bidding city, and the bidding cities could also find reasons to visit the members and canvass for votes.

In other words, you can give benefits to the committee members within the rules and get them to vote for you.

For example, during the Atlanta Olympics, Americans provided free heart surgery to a member of the IOC.

At that time, the son of another committee member was studying in the United States, and the United States gave him a scholarship of $120,000.

Many foreign organizations use this routine these days. For example, at international film festivals, many directors and actors will give gifts to the judges in the hope of winning an award.

When Yang Ye was the chairman of the jury at the Venice International Film Festival, many people gave him gifts, and some even gave him X. Unfortunately, Yang Ye had already accepted Gong Li's X bribe, so he could only ignore the others.

In the original time and space, China had a sure win in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and IOC President Samaranch also very much hoped that China could win.

But in order to win, Australia carried out a series of bold moves.

First, they offered sports training scholarships to African countries and invited African athletes to train in Adelaide.

11 athletes and coaches from 400 African countries attended a special Olympic training camp in Adelaide.

Their accommodation, food, training, transportation, medical care and other expenses were all paid for by Australia, totaling more than 200 million US dollars.

This is clearly an attempt to give benefits to these 11 African countries in the hope that they will vote for them, but this is all within the rules.

Secondly, two days before the final vote, Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates hosted a banquet for two African members of the IOC, Mukla of Kenya and Nyangweso of Uganda, and gave them each $35000 to vote for Sydney.

Giving money indirectly like the Americans do is reasonable, but directly giving money like the Australians do is against the rules.

Once you understand Australia’s routine, it’s easy to deal with!
The very day after John Coates hosted a banquet for Mukla and Nyangweso, photos of him paying bribes on the spot were disclosed by the news media.

Many things only weigh two ounces if they are not made public, but they weigh a thousand pounds once they are weighed.

The evidence was conclusive, even the photos of receiving the money were released, and John Coates was in an embarrassing state.

Faced with public pressure, Mukla and Nyangwiso announced their withdrawal from the final voting conference.

The final round of voting will be in one day, and no matter what Australia does, it will be too late.

The evidence of John Coates' bribery was secretly photographed by Yang Ye and sent anonymously.

No one knew that he played the most crucial role in it.

Yang Ye held back until the very end before delivering the fatal blow, hiding his merit and fame.

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"bengjing!"

On September 9, after the final round of voting, Samaranch announced the host city for the 23 Summer Olympics!
"We win!"

The Chinese delegation cheered, hugged each other, and celebrated wildly. Many people cried!
On that day in the original time and space, everyone cried. It was a sad cry, the sound of shattered dreams!

And now I am crying with excitement, tears of excitement!

Reporters from the Chinese media who followed along took many exciting photos at the scene.

One of the photos shows Wu Jingguo from Taiwan and He Zhenliang from mainland China hugging each other and crying excitedly.

Taiwan is also a member of the International Olympic Committee, and He Zhenliang and Wu Jingguo each have voting rights.

While wiping away tears, Wu Jingguo said: "When I came here, my father told me not to forget that I am Chinese. I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten!"

In order to win Wu Jingguo's vote, Australia promised him a lot of benefits and even threatened him with direct flights from Taiwan to Sydney.

But he resisted the temptation and pressure and cast his vote for BJ! The news spread back to China and around the world, and Chinese people at home and abroad were excited.

Many people are celebrating this good news wildly.

Many people began to discuss what the 2000 Summer Olympics would be like.
Who will be the director of that Olympics?

It seems... there is only one candidate!
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In Monte Carlo, the race to host the Olympic Games was full of twists and turns.

in the country, discussions about the first Zhuhai Film Festival are also in full swing.

Among them, Yang Ye's suggestion to use the Golden Horse Awards model to hold a film festival covering Chinese people around the world sparked widespread discussion.

Among the three major awards of Chinese-language film festivals in later generations, the Golden Horse Award was considered to have the highest gold content for a long time, and Chinese-language filmmakers were also proud to win the Golden Horse Award.

This is because the Golden Statue and Golden Rooster Awards have obvious geographical restrictions, while the Golden Horse Awards have a wider selection scope.

I have already mentioned in the previous article that the Golden Rooster is a piece of crap, so I won’t go into details. Here I will only talk about the Golden Statue and Golden Horse Awards.

After 1996, the Golden Horse Awards no longer had any regional restrictions. It only required that half of a film's dialogue be in Chinese, or that the director and half of the main creative staff be Chinese, in order to be eligible to compete.

This makes the Golden Horse Awards' nomination and award lists diverse every year, and more interesting to watch than the other two awards.

In 1996, Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days" swept the Golden Horse Awards, starting the mainland film industry's crazy award-winning mode.

Unlike the Hong Kong Film Awards, which has a large film union and adopts a one-person-one-vote system, the Golden Horse Awards adopts a small jury system.

What is the difference between the two? The Academy Awards seem to be fairer because many people choose together.

But the disadvantage is that it is easy to vote based on personal connections. Many people follow the crowd when voting, or even vote in groups, and do not pay attention to the film itself, which makes the Academy Awards eventually become a pork-barrel award based on seniority.

For the Golden Horse Awards, 11 judges and 6 finalists discuss with each other, and the award-winning factors sometimes depend on the personal preferences of the judges.

Also, there was a period of time when mainland and Hong Kong films were too strong and often swept away all the awards.

At this time, in order to save Taiwan's face, the Golden Horse Awards will deliberately give an award to Taiwanese filmmakers.

For several years, at least one of the best actor and actress awards must be from Taiwan.

For example, at the 51st Golden Horse Awards, Gong Li was the most popular candidate for Best Actress, but because of this unspoken rule, she lost to a Taiwanese actress. Gong Li got angry on the spot and said that the Golden Horse Awards were a piece of crap.

What are the benefits of the Golden Horse Awards? It has a strong predictive power, can encourage film practitioners, and can discover new directors, new actors, and new aesthetics.

Movies and performances are actually very subjective and emotional things. When a work comes out, many people's evaluations will often vary greatly.

Many people think it's a great movie, while others would say it's lame.

A movie that many people think is lame may also be said to smell really good.

But in general, the aesthetic ability of ordinary people is generally not as good as that of professionals, and professionals can often discover new things that ordinary people cannot see.

The Golden Horse Awards is far more capable than the other two awards in discovering new talents, and many Chinese-language filmmakers have stood out because of the Golden Horse Awards.

For example, Baoqiang won the Golden Horse Best Newcomer Award for his first film, which attracted the attention of the film industry, led to his acquisition of the resources for "A World Without Thieves", and made him an instant hit.

Hall of Fame actors like Maggie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Leung Cho-wai, and Chow Yun-fat, as well as film masters like Li An and Xu Ke, all won their first trophy from the Golden Horse Awards.

As these new forces in the film industry grow, they will be grateful for the support of the Golden Horse Awards.

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In the vast China, there is no longer a film award worthy of praise.

It is a historical inevitability that the Golden Horse Awards will become a niche, because with the rise of the mainland, Taiwan will inevitably turn from openness to conservatism.

Yang Ye supports the Zhuhai Film Festival and has a vision. He hopes to create a film award regardless of region in the mainland in advance to support the development of Chinese-language films.

He didn't know whether he could succeed, but he still wanted to give it a try, so he sent Xu Feng over and offered his suggestions.

The original Zhuhai Film Festival was aborted after only two sessions because there were too many domestic film festivals at the time and they needed to be cut down. The Zhuhai Film Festival was the smallest in scale and had no background, so it was abandoned.

For Yang Ye, it would be fine if he didn't do it, but if he was going to do it, he would make the most of it.
At this discussion meeting, Xu Feng expressed the hope that the Zhuhai Film Festival would not only cover both sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places, but also reach out to accept and select films from home and abroad with Chinese as the main creative staff, and develop towards the goal of becoming an "International Chinese Film Festival".

Mayor Li was very excited by this suggestion. If this could be done, it would be a political achievement. Even if it could not be done for the time being, there would still be a development goal!

After heated discussions, some rules of the Zhuhai Film Festival were finalized.

The purpose of the event is to promote the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, strengthen the exchange of film culture and art at home and abroad, and promote the prosperity and development of China's film industry.

Selection scope: Films produced in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau with Chinese as the main creators. If the dialogue is not in Mandarin, subtitles are required.

Award judging method: The organizers will hire 13 professionals from the Chinese film industry to form a jury to decide the major awards of the film festival.

So what is the name of this award?

Because the totem of the Chinese nation is the dragon, and the Zhuhai Film Festival covers Chinese-language films at home and abroad, it is called... the Golden Dragon Award!

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After the Monte Carlo voting results came out, the Chinese delegation celebrated wildly.

The scene of Yang Ye holding Xiao An Feng was captured by the media and appeared in the news media.

Someone exclaimed that Yang Ye had another illegitimate daughter.

Yang Ye had long been immune to this kind of thing. He was too lazy to explain and simply accepted it. After all, An Feng now had the surname Yang.

After returning to Hong Kong, Yang Ye gave Xiao Anfeng a nickname, Xixi, and made a promise with Xiao Anfeng: "Only Dad can call him by this nickname, don't tell anyone else!"

When in Monaco, Yang Ye took Liu Xiaoli and her daughter out to play whenever he had free time, and treated Xiao Anfeng even better than her biological father.

Xiao Anfeng naturally liked Yang Ye more, and with Liu Xiaoli's education, she had already accepted this new father.

Now Yang Ye gave Xiao An Feng a nickname. In her opinion, this was a sign of her new father's love for her, so she nodded vigorously and said, "Dad, I know. This is our secret. I won't even tell Mom!"

When she spoke, her two black eyes flickered, which was simply adorable. Yang Ye touched her head lovingly, took her little hand and said, "You are such a good daughter. Come on, Daddy will take you to eat ice cream!"

(End of this chapter)