Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Inside the Chinese Theater, host Chris Tucker invited the main creators of "The Matrix Reloaded" to the stage for an interview.

Chris Tucker is Chen Long's partner in "Rush Hour" and he has a good talent for comedy.

As soon as Yang Ye saw this guy, he started thinking about whether he should bring out "Rush Hour" after "Men in Black" was released.

Yang Ye sat on the stage and introduced the two highlights of "The Matrix 2" to the audience.

The first scene is Yang Ye challenging one hundred Chow Billies. In order to shoot this scene, Yang Ye created a "virtual shooting" method.

Yang Ye found eleven stand-ins for Zhou Billy, and then spent several months having the stand-ins imitate Zhou Billy's every word and action, including his expressions and movement habits.

When the stunt doubles’ imitation of Billy Chow reached a level that satisfied Yang Ye, they began rehearsing the action scenes.

All the action scenes of Yang Ye fighting against a hundred Chow Billies were input into the computer using "motion capture" technology.

"Motion capture" can make action design more handy, and it is possible to design many actions that are difficult for ordinary people to do. Through computer modification, martial arts movements can be made to look more powerful and relaxed.

The second scene is a fourteen-minute long, most complicated highway car chase in film history.

Since all scenes had to be shot live, any mistake could result in tragic casualties among the stuntmen, so Yang Ye decided to use a "visual preview" system for choreography.

First, simulate an actual scene on the computer, then study the camera position and angle to find the best shooting method, and finally use animation to practice and make corresponding adjustments.

After doing this, people will find that the camera often seems to be placed in positions that have never been seen in previous car chase scenes, and the visual effect is amazing.

Yang Ye also said that in order to shoot this scene, he had been preparing and rehearsing three years before the filming of "The Matrix", and had also conducted experiments in the movie "Kung Fu".

Yang Ye's introduction made the audience extremely excited about the movie.

Afterwards, the host interviewed other main creators of the film.

Halle Berry, who also stars in The Matrix 2, attended tonight's premiere.

She talked a lot about the filming and her experience in China, praising Shenzhen and calling it a young city of miracles.

What the audience is most curious about is kung fu and light skills.

With the promotion of action stars such as Yang Ye, the fact that Chinese people know Kung Fu has almost become a stereotype.

The even cooler "Qinggong" has become a fashionable sport that young people are keen on and is sought after all over the world.

It was a foregone conclusion that "Wushu" would become a demonstration event in the 2000 Olympic Games.

Yang Ye is sending a team to the Olympics to do public relations, hoping that "Qinggong" can become a performance event in the 2000 Olympics.

At tonight's premiere, some props were prepared on site.

Yang Ye asked Li Lianjie to take action and show off his "Qinggong", which made the audience in the theater exclaim in amazement.

Chris Tucker asked Tom Cruise who was present today: "I heard that you once learned Kung Fu from Mr. Nick Young, so do you also know Qinggong?"

Tom Cruise once spent one month every year for five or six years going to Hong Kong to practice martial arts, and he really is good at it.

Moreover, this skill is very useful for filming movies. He has been training hard over the years and has never fallen behind.

So he also went on stage to show off. Although he was not as agile and nimble as Jet Li, he also looked very cool.

After reading it, Chris Tucker actually clasped his hands in front of Yang Ye and cried and begged to be his disciple.

This livened up the atmosphere and made everyone laugh.

After the interaction, the group walked off the stage and returned to their seats, and "The Matrix Reloaded" was officially screened.

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In the first part, Yang Ye awakened and understood the nature of the matrix.

Everything in the matrix is ​​code. When he was killed by Billy Chow in the matrix, he just thought he was dead.

In reality, he was not dead, so he was immediately resurrected on the spot.

At this point, he already had the authority to rewrite the program and easily killed Zhou Billy in seconds.

At the end of the movie, he also learns to fly.

The plot comes to the second part. Six months after awakening in the matrix, Yang Ye, Lin Qingxia and others live together in Yingzhou, the last human city in the real world.

They continued to enter the matrix and liberate more humans, and Yang Ye was therefore worshipped as a god by some people in Yingzhou.

When Yang Ye slept, he always dreamed that Lin Qingxia was being chased by secret agents and fell from a tall building, which made him uneasy.

The two also had a sex scene in the movie, but there was no exposure.

Lin Qingxia is the actress who has acted with Yang Ye the most. In "Terminator 1", "Terminator 2" and "Swordsman II", they were the male and female protagonists and they had a perfect understanding of each other.

At this time, humans received news that the Machine Empire sent 250,000 sentinels to attack Yingzhou, and humans decided to gather all their forces to resist.

In order to end the war, Yang Ye went to the Matrix to meet the Prophet.

The Prophet is a program in the Matrix that can predict the future. It is she who tells humans that a savior will come to save them.

Human beings believed the prophet's words and tried every means to find Yang Ye. Yang Ye awakened his power in the first part, making humans believe that he was the savior.

After arguing for a long time, they started fighting.

Yang Ye met the prophet's bodyguard Li Lianjie, and the two immediately started a wonderful fight.

Yang Ye and Jet Li are the two people with the best martial arts moves in the world, and their fight was carefully choreographed.

In this fight in the original version, the gap in martial arts levels between Keanu and Collin Chou was too big. Collin Chou had ten years of martial arts experience, while Keanu was just a rookie who had just started practicing.

In order to make the two people perform at the same level, Yuan Heping put a lot of effort into it, but the final result could only be considered mediocre.

Now if Yang Ye and Jet Li take over, the situation will be completely different.

The two of them performed various wonderful tricks and moves, which were pleasing to the eye and unforgettable.

After a battle with no clear winner, Jet Li admitted that Yang Ye was the savior and took him to see the prophet.

The prophet claimed that Yang Ye already had the ability to predict the future and asked him to find a program called Locksmith.

By unlocking the lock, the person can enter the source, which is the source code of the Machine Empire. If the savior enters the source, the war will end.

The prophet finished speaking and ran away. At this time, Zhou Billy, who was killed instantly by Yang Ye in the first part, chased after him.

At the end of the first part, he was clearly blown to pieces by Yang Ye, so how did he come back to life?

It turns out that in the first part, Billy Chow killed Yang Ye first, so Yang Ye should have been deleted from the matrix first.

As a result, Yang Ye came back to life and killed Zhou Billy.

This means that Zhou Billy was killed by Yang Ye, who had already been killed by him.

This creates a BUG!

The Matrix, where everything operates strictly according to equations, cannot handle this kind of BUG.

This resulted in Chow Billy becoming a program that could not be judged by the system.

Not only did Chow Billy refuse to be deleted by the system, but the original antivirus software turned him into a virus.

He can replicate himself indefinitely by continually infecting other programs and turning them into himself.

This theory is commonplace and nothing surprising to later audiences.

But in 1995, it was very new, very avant-garde, and very interesting.

The paper that called self-replicating programs viruses was not published until 1984, and the first antivirus software McAfee was not published until 1987. In The Matrix, Yang Ye created a virtual world, anthropomorphizing antivirus software and viruses, which can be said to be very creative.

What follows is Yang Ye's one-on-one battle against a hundred people. No matter how well he reasoned or how wonderfully he wrote the story, it is not as exciting as a hearty action scene.

In the first part, Billy Chow had an angular face and wore sunglasses, looking like a robot model.

His unparalleled physical fitness, strength, speed and invincibility tortured Yang Ye to death, leaving a deep impression on countless viewers.

If Yang Ye hadn't cheated at the end, there would be no second part.

In the second part, Yang Ye actually wants to fight 100 Chow Billies. How is he going to fight? The audience is looking forward to it.

Before the movie started, Yang Ye introduced this scene in detail, saying that he used motion capture and virtual shooting technology.

The so-called motion capture was used as early as the filming of "Terminator 2", but it was very crude at that time.

Now it has been upgraded again. Every protagonist and stand-in will wear specially made clothes, and the camera array will record every detail of the character's movements through these sensors.

Once the main action trajectory of a scene is completely captured, the director is given unlimited freedom.

The camera can be "placed" wherever he wants, and the freedom of editing is greatly increased.

For example, in this battle, a camera rotates around Yang Ye. Depending on the speed of the character's movements, the camera will "seamlessly" slow down or speed up, creating a dazzling visual effect.

This is a miracle that could not have been produced using traditional filming methods, and it gave the film's action scenes an unprecedented upgrade, with the audience all cheering in delight.

If this was shown in a Chinese cinema, it would definitely be a blast.

The most interesting thing is that many scenes in the movie seem familiar to Yang Ye’s previous movies.

For example, Billy Chow becomes a virus and can replicate himself instantly. The transformation process is quite similar to the transformation process of the "liquid metal" robot in "Terminator 2".

It’s just that the process of replicating itself like tar has a more industrial feel and looks cooler.

This is naturally due to the advancement of technology.

This fight between one and a hundred is quite similar to the fight between Yang Ye and the Axe Gang in "Kung Fu", and some of the camera positions are even the same.

Yang Ye said before the movie was shown that he had experimented with this shooting method in "Kung Fu", but now it is even cooler.

Therefore, after this scene, the audience had a consistent experience, and felt that Yang Ye was constantly improving.

After a fight, Yang Ye kicked the ground, and with a "whoosh" sound, he flew into the sky and slipped away.

Two years later, in another movie directed by Yang Ye, this cool flying move appeared again in a cooler form, once again giving the audience the feeling that Yang Ye was continuing to improve.

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Yang Ye gets rid of Zhou Billy and goes to find the locksmith with Ti Lung and Lin Qingxia, which triggers another fight.

This is an even more awesome highway battle than the previous one where one fought a hundred people.

This battle introduces a new villain, the Gemini virus.

These two people are very capable and very cool.
They can transform between corporeal and intangible forms.

As soon as they become virtual, they become illusory things.

After becoming invisible, they can simply leave only half of their body floating on the ground.

They can also pass through all obstacles, such as doors, windows, glass, walls, etc., nothing can stop them.

And every time they are attacked or hurt, they will immediately disappear from the physical body.

In this way, all damage is transferred or invalidated, which means that the Avatar is immune to all damage.

The ability of Obito in "Naruto" was probably inspired by here.

However, the inspiration for Gemini should have come from a multi-threaded virus that was popular at the time.

When this virus runs, it replicates itself into two or more processes.

When it is discovered by people or anti-virus software, if you shut down one of its processes, it will immediately copy itself into another process, and the same applies to deletion.

If you want to kill it, you must delete it at the same time, but even if you delete data in batches, you delete the data one by one, and shut down the processes one by one.

So this virus is very unsolvable.

The twins in the movie are just like this multi-threaded virus. Unless they are killed at the same time, they are immortal.

The final solution was for Dillon to shoot the car and send them flying.

As for why he died so hastily?
Because special effects are damn expensive.

Every second they appear, money is burned.

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The two action scenes bring the viewing experience of the movie to the extreme, so there is basically no need to worry about the box office.

The movie returns to the plot part. Yang Ye enters the source, comes to the core structure of the matrix, and meets the designer of the matrix.

The conversation between the two allows the audience to understand the truth of the world in the movie.

The designer told Yang Ye: No matter how sophisticated the design is, there will always be some "remainders". These remainders will accumulate more and more as time goes by, and will eventually affect the stability of the system and even lead to the destruction of the matrix.

Simply put, the designers found that no matter how the matrix is ​​built, there will always be a very small number of people in the matrix who realize that the matrix is ​​a virtual world.

These people have rebellious genes and a strong desire for freedom. When they discover the truth, they will find ways to resist.

If the resistance becomes more and more intense, it will eventually get out of control and lead to the destruction of the matrix.

In order to avoid this situation, the designer came up with a solution.

Yingzhou was built in the real world, and those who were unwilling to live in the matrix were expelled from the matrix and forced to live in Yingzhou.

And create for them the illusion that Yingzhou is a base for humans to resist machines.

Once Yingzhou grows strong enough to threaten the Machine Empire, they will destroy all the people in Yingzhou.

So, how can we get these humans to gather together peacefully instead of gathering strength to attack the machine empire?
Another advanced program in the Matrix came up with an idea: taking advantage of human superstition, it packaged itself as a prophet who could predict the future.

Since she, like the designer, has the highest authority, she can easily "predict" the future and even use her authority to "create" the future.

In this way, human beings will slowly come to believe in the prophets.

And when humans believe her, she will tell them:
If you want to save all mankind, you must rely on the power of the "savior".

If we find the savior, we can liberate all of humanity.

But in fact, the so-called "savior" is just to give hope to humans who want to escape from the matrix.

Let them not resist too much, but put their hope in the salvation of the Savior.

Well, this is actually the reason for the formation of religion and the core theory for various religions to prevail in the world.

It is also the main reason why rulers around the world have promoted various religions throughout history.

Throughout Chinese history, the common people's expectations for wise rulers and for honest and upright rulers are essentially the same.

The Internationale is still the best:
There has never been a savior, and we don't rely on gods or emperors.

To create human happiness, it all depends on ourselves! (End of this chapter)