Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Zhou Xun has been in Hong Kong for a week and was arranged to live in Yangji's dormitory.

When she came to Hong Kong, Li Zhi went to pick her up personally, and Li Zhi also arranged all subsequent matters personally.

Yang Ye did this because Zhou Xun came from the mainland and could easily be discriminated against by those Hong Kong girls.

Although people in big cities are xenophobic and like to discriminate based on regional differences, they are all very sensible.

Li Zhi personally sent Zhou Xun to the dormitory to live, which showed that she was of high status. Naturally, no one dared to mess with her. Instead, they were all very polite to her.

The so-called regional discrimination and xenophobia is actually the contempt of the class that looks down on the poor and thinks they are superior.

There is also a sense of crisis, worrying that the influx of outsiders will take away their jobs and social welfare.

In the 1990s in Hong Kong, the most xenophobic people were Hong Kong girls, who madly discriminated against mainlanders who came to Hong Kong to make a living.

Because the society is highly developed, they have become a generation with awakening feminism.

But their awakening is useless, because Hong Kong men turn around and marry mainland women.

Although Yang Ye did not show up in person, Li Zhi is from mainland China and speaks Mandarin.

This made Zhou Xun feel somewhat at home in this city where Cantonese and English are spoken.

Li Zhi was very busy and actually had little time to care about Zhou Xun's affairs. At first, she thought Zhou Xun was Yang Ye's woman, but later she found out that she was not, which was quite strange.

Li Zhi asked Zhou Xun to communicate more with people around him and integrate into the city as soon as possible, and then he went about his own business.

After Zhou Xun settled down, he was arranged to learn Kung Fu at Yang's Martial Arts Hall.

Zhou Xun's appearance is not top-notch, so if she wants to make a name for herself in the Hong Kong circle, it is necessary for her to have some skills.

She majored in folk dance at Zhejiang Art School and was the lead dancer in the school's performances.

It is very easy for a dancer to switch to being a female dancer, all you have to do is learn the stance well.

Yang Ziqiong originally studied ballet. After studying with Hong Jingbao for a period of time, she transformed herself into a fierce fighting girl.

Not long after, the Spring Festival was approaching and Zhou Xun was preparing to go home for the New Year, but he received a call from Yang Ye, saying that he would treat her to dinner the next day.

Zhou Xun has been in Hong Kong for so long, but Yang Ye has never shown up, but now he finally shows up.

The next day, Yang Ye drove to pick up Zhou Xun and took her to the Kowloon Typhoon Shelter Restaurant.

When Zhou Xun saw Yang Ye, he greeted him politely and, like everyone else around him, called him "Sir".

Logically speaking, after Yang Ye had played with her and even pulled up his pants without even recognizing her, she should have hated Yang Ye to death.

But Yang Ye brought her to Hong Kong to film a movie and let her be the heroine. She should be grateful to Yang Ye.

She couldn't find a balance between love and hate, so she didn't know how to face Yang Ye.

The key point is that Yang Ye's attitude towards her is also very subtle. If Yang Ye told her directly, "If you sleep with me, I will let you be the protagonist, and this is a deal," it would be easier to say.

But Yang Ye was not like that. He obviously took good care of her and cared about her.

Yang Ye's behavior is actually a bit crazy.

Zhou Xun couldn't understand Yang Ye's logic, but she would not fall out with Yang Ye, because Yang Ye was clearly her benefactor.

Even if Zhou Xun racked his brains, he would never have thought that Yang Ye was a time traveler and a die-hard fan of hers.

Sleeping with her is to fulfill my dream, helping her is because she has potential.

Yang Ye never mentioned what happened that night, and asked casually, "How have you been lately?"

"It's OK. I practice martial arts every day, learn Cantonese, and go to the set to watch them film. It's very fulfilling."

"Today I am inviting the main creators of The Sea to dinner. The producer, director, and leading actors are all here. Let's get to know each other."

"Oh!"

"Have you read The Great Ocean?"

"I had only heard of it before, but never watched it. I watched it twice recently."

"That's fine. 'Cang Hai' is one of my early novels. It's not very well written. The character of Yao Qing, although she's the first female lead, is actually not very likable. How to play her in a way that people don't hate her is very challenging. You have to work hard!"

Soon, we arrived at the restaurant where we were treated to dinner.

Yang Ye and Zhou Xun actually arrived earlier, but they didn't expect that everyone was already waiting there. When they saw Yang Ye, they all greeted him respectfully.

There are many celebrities here, all of whom Zhou Xun had seen on TV before, like Julian Cheung and Tim Koo, who are very popular in mainland China.

Zhou Xun had been here for so long that he had long understood that Yang Ye was the local emperor of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Those big Hong Kong stars who are usually high and mighty in the eyes of mainlanders become very well behaved when they see him.

Yang Ye ignored the big stars and said to one of the old men, "Uncle Tian, ​​you came early!"

The old man was flattered and said, "Sir, you can just call me A-Tian."

Yang Ye smiled and said, “You are my elder. When you entered the industry, I was still playing in the mud. It is only natural for me to call you uncle!”

This old man is called Li Tiansheng, and he is TVB’s gold medal producer.

In the original time and space, mainland audiences were not very familiar with the two rounds of Jin Yong dramas in the 1970s and 1980s. The most familiar one was the one in the 1990s, and the one who led this round of remakes was Li Tiansheng.

94 The Legend of the Condor Heroes starring Julian Cheung and Athena Chu, 95 The Return of the Condor Heroes starring Timmy Koo and Li Ruotong, 96 The Smiling, Proud Wong starring Danny Chan, 97 The Dragon King starring Felix Wong, 98 The Deer and the Cauldron starring Michael Chan, and 99 The Snow Mountain Flying Fox and 2000 The Sword of Blood and Valour.

除了94射雕因为内地没有正式引进，名气较小。后面的95射雕、96笑傲、97天龙、98鹿鼎都被内地观众誉为经典。

In fact, this round of remakes by Lee Tim-shing does not have a very good reputation in Hong Kong, because people are nostalgic and like to have preconceived ideas.

The Hong Kong audiences in the 1990s all missed the Jin Yong dramas of the 1980s and considered them to be classics.

Yang Ye wanted to shoot a second round of Jin Yong dramas to create a new group of stars. He also wanted to differentiate it from the previous batch of Jin Yong dramas produced by ATV, so he ordered Zhong Jinghui to poach Lee Tim-sing.

Because of this matter, Fang Yihua was very angry.

A producer was parachuted in to lead the filming of "The Sea", and everyone at ATV was confused.

Didn’t we do a good job in the past? We have been suppressing TVB all these years!

But Yang Ye had his own reasons. He didn't need to explain to anyone, and no one dared to question his decision.

Li Tiansheng attached great importance to being able to supervise "The Sea", and he fully respected his teacher that Yang Ye directly decided on the male and female protagonists.

"Cang Hai" is Yang Ye's novel, and Yang Ye has the final say.

It was a rare occasion that Yang Ye was around, so everyone wanted to show off and expressed their opinions on the roles they were going to play.

In fact, Yang Ye did not attach much importance to the adaptation of "The Sea". He was just warming up for ATV's second round of adaptations of Jin Yong's dramas.

"Cang Hai" mainly focuses on the two male protagonists Lu Jian and Gu Zhen. Although there are many female characters, they don't have many roles and their personalities are not distinct.

Zhou Xun and Li Ruotong just made a brief appearance, the main event is yet to come.

Generally speaking, when ATV shoots TV series, they select actors from the Baiyang agency.

But this time, Yang Ye brought a girl back from the mainland and cast her as the leading female role.

The other female lead, Li Ruotong, is not an actor from Yang Ji. She was an artist signed by Johnnie To after he became independent, although Johnnie To is also from the Yang Ye faction.

Li Ruotong was originally a flight attendant. She entered the entertainment industry in 1990 and also starred in "Monster City" produced by Xu Ke. Although she played a supporting role, she was super beautiful in it.

She had just returned from the mainland after filming "Burning Red Lotus Temple" and was chosen by Yang Ye to star in "Cang Hai".

Although she was a little confused, she still came happily.

Everyone who enters this circle does it for fame and fortune, and being noticed by Yang Ye means you have become rich.

After Yang Ye introduced Zhou Xun and a group of Hong Kong people to each other, he ordered the meal to start and everyone chatted while eating.

The dishes were served one after another, and a waiter brought a plate of beef and placed it right in front of Gu Tianle.

Yang Ye said subconsciously: "Put it here, he doesn't eat beef!"

The waiter said "oh" and said sorry, then moved the table to another place.

Gu Tianle was very surprised because he really doesn’t eat beef. He didn’t expect that the boss knew his preference and he was very touched.

In fact, Yang Ye's reaction was just a subconscious one, because Gu Tianle's words "I don't eat beef" became widely circulated on the Internet in later generations.

Regarding the fact that Gu Tianle doesn’t eat beef, it is said that he used to love beef the most.

But one time his father was seriously ill, he made a wish to the Buddha that if his father's illness could be cured, he would not eat beef.

Later, his father recovered from his illness, and in order to fulfill his vow, he really stopped eating beef.

The joke in "The Brink" might have been deliberately created by the director because of Gu Tianle's habit of not eating beef.

So what is Gu Tianle's favorite dish? Fried chicken.

This is a traditional Cantonese dish. Gu Tianle once wrote an article saying that when he goes to a restaurant, fried chicken is a must-order.

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The Spring Festival is just a few days away.

This year's Spring Festival period is somewhat different from the original time and space, and it seems a bit deserted.

Leading the way is the Lunar New Year film "The Rich Family" directed by Gao Zhisen and starring Huang Jing, Zhang Guorong and others.

Every Spring Festival, Wong Jing makes a Lunar New Year film to make money, and this year is no exception.

There is also "Citibank Shaolin" directed by Liu Zhenwei and starring Chow Yun-fat, "King of Destruction" directed by Stephen Chow, and "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" directed by Jet Li.

And a very boring movie "The God of Gamblers: The First Coming".

The two most important movies in the original time and space, "God of Gamblers 2" and "Drunken Master 2", had already been filmed by Yang Ye and Chen Long, but neither of them appeared in this year's Spring Festival.

Chen Long did not release any movies during this year's Spring Festival because he was busy with other things.

It feels like the cold winter of Hong Kong film and television industry in the second half of 1993 has not yet passed.

Although Yang Ye was very powerful last year, he was the only one who was powerful and others could only watch.

At this time, "Speed" had been successfully released in Hong Kong, and the local box office exceeded 50 million Hong Kong dollars.

杨叶在1993年推出的《功夫》、《生死时速》、《终结者3》、《中南海保镖》四部电影，分别以6200万、5000万、4800万、4100万包揽香港票房榜第一、三、四、五名。

As for the second place "Jurassic Park", although Yang Ye was not the director or the leading actor, he was credited as the screenwriter and the movie was also produced by him.

Due to his enormous fame, many people still count this film as his work.

People think that Yang Ye gave up directing the film just because "Jurassic Park" is not an action movie. If he had directed it, the box office would not have been bad.

Except for the early "ET the Extraterrestrial", all the films directed by Yang Ye in his career are action films.

Yang Ye once said that "ET the Extraterrestrial" was an accident and he would still focus on action films in the future.

Later, he really kept his promise. Except for the three films "Seediq Bale", "Enemy at the Gates" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", which were war themes, the others were action films.

And in every movie he directed, he played a macho man, making countless men's blood boil and countless women scream.

Yang Ye is now truly the world's toughest man.

Hollywood's Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others all have to step back a little.

If you don’t agree, let’s challenge him in a one-on-one duel!
1994 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of film, and many movie fans were looking forward to what kind of movie Yang Ye would bring this year.

……

This year, the Yang family had another baby. Zhu Lin gave birth to a son for Yang Ye.

Yang Ye felt that he was a bit like Zhu Hao in "Fog City", with so many wives and children that he couldn't even keep track of them all.

However, Yang Ye was still very enthusiastic about being able to continue his genes crazily.

It is said that King Zhongshan Liu Sheng had more than 120 children. How could that be possible?

The more the better, as long as you can afford it!

The Spring Festival movie season passed in a mess, with all major films performing poorly, with not even one grossing over 40 million.

Yang Ye, Zheng Donghan and others rang the bell at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with great enthusiasm, and Bluebird Music Group was successfully listed.

Blue Bird Music Group's business spans across Asia and Europe, and because its boss is Yang Ye, who is well-versed in the entertainment industry, it is favored by investors from all walks of life.

Its stock price skyrocketed upon listing, and its market value soon exceeded 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Next, Yang Ye plans to extend Bluebird Music Group's reach to North America and build it into a global music group.

To achieve this goal, the first step is to take over the copyright from Michael Jackson.

MJ owns the copyright to 4000 songs from ATV Music, most notably those by the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

This is a huge fortune, but also the root cause of MJ's death.

As a black man, MJ is like a child carrying gold through a busy street, he must die.

In 1995, Michael Jackson fell into financial crisis.

Michael Jackson was signed to Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony.

In order to produce a new album, Michael Jackson went to Sony to borrow money, and Sony set its sights on the copyrights in his hands.

Eventually, Michael Jackson sold half of ATV Music to Sony for around $1 million.

The two parties jointly established a Sony/ATV music copyright agency, each holding half of the shares.

In 2006, Michael Jackson once again fell into financial problems and bankruptcy crisis. He reached a deal with Sony, which provided Michael Jackson with new loans and reduced the amount of loan repayments, thus helping Jackson overcome the financial crisis.

As a condition of the transaction, Sony retained the option to acquire the remaining 50% of Jackson's shares in the future.

If Sony buys the remaining shares, it will have full ownership of the Sony/ATV catalog.

Jackson's copyright to his songs was valued at around $10 billion at the time.

Once MJ goes bankrupt, the copyright in his hands will belong to Sony.

Thus, MJ's ordeal began. The various accusations of child molestation were all related to this! (End of this chapter)