Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Yang Ye's TV company now produces about 30 TV series a year to supply Asia Television and Star TV, as well as TV stations in some countries and regions in Asia.

After entering the 1990s, due to the development of technology, various TV stations have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they all need TV programs to attract audiences or even fill their time.

In addition to filming its own films, Baiyang Television Company also invests in film and television companies in mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and even Japan and South Korea.

While providing funding and advanced experience, they also help their own artists enter the other party's market.

For example, Leon Lai, the little prince of Yang Kee's television, became very popular in Japan with Yang Ye's TV series "Hong Kong Love Story", "Full House" and "Long Vacation".

Not only did he receive a large number of endorsements in Japan, he was also directly invited by Japanese TV stations to film several Japanese dramas, each of which had high ratings.

Now Leon Lai is too lazy to make movies, because for him, there are too many mountains above his head and he cannot compete.

When it comes to filming TV dramas, he is the number one in Asia and has no rivals at all.

Although his pay for filming TV series is not as high as that of top Hong Kong stars, TV series mainly attract women, making it easy to cheat them.

This made him a darling of advertisers, and he had countless endorsements and made a lot of money.

In this era of decline of Hong Kong films, his achievements have made countless movie stars jealous.

To put it bluntly, everyone is out to make money. Movie stars are more powerful than TV stars simply because movie stars make more money.

But he earns more from TV shows than you do from movies now, so what qualifications do you have to look down on him?
In addition to Leon Lai, Wang Fei, who became famous in Japan for her music, was named Asia's most powerful singer by Japanese media and was also invited to film several Japanese dramas.

Several members of Girls' Generation have also filmed Japanese dramas, such as Xiao Long and Yi Nengjing.

Among the more than 3 TV series produced every year, 5 to will be flagship dramas.

These dramas all have big casts and huge investments, aiming to create hits.

Jin Yong's dramas and Gu Long's dramas are naturally the main ones, as well as the classic Japanese and Korean idol dramas that Yang Ye occasionally picks up, some classic dramas of later generations, and the scripts carefully crafted by the Screenwriting Center itself.

In addition to broadcasting their own dramas, ATV and Star TV will also appropriately introduce some foreign dramas to enrich the audience's horizons.

Covering ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, the flexible and diverse themes and the occasional hits can meet the needs of all age groups, making countless audiences become loyal fans of Yangji.

Yang Ji also uses satellite signals to transmit Star TV's television signals to Europe and the United States, making local Chinese people also loyal viewers of Star TV.

Although ATV does not have as wide a viewing range as Star TV, it can dominate the Pearl River Delta and has a considerable audience.

Under such circumstances, the TV series planned by Yang Ye himself every year are very popular, and even movie stars will rush to act in them.

Therefore, although Anita Yuen is now a popular movie star, she doesn't think it's strange that Yang Ye asked her to act in a TV series.

Even a newcomer in the film industry like Wu Jing, who had starred in several popular movies with Yang Ye, started out by filming TV series after he became an adult.

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At the beginning of the new year, Yang Ye began planning his film and television projects for the year.

Since there are fewer film projects and more TV projects now, I will have a meeting with the TV companies first.

When Yang Ye held this kind of meeting, he would usually throw out a few projects and ask them to execute them.

This year there are mainly four TV projects, one of which is the Republican drama "April in the World".

Yang Ye personally selected Anita Yuen, Zhou Xun and Yi Nengjing as the three leading female characters.

As for the male protagonist, Yang Ye asked Xu Xiaoming to go to the mainland to find Huang Lei.

At this time, Huang Lei had long hair and was still pretending to be a literary young man, which was very different from the characters of the Divine Calculator and Huang Xiaochu in later generations.

In the movie "Midnight Song" released by Wong Jing's Oriental Film Company last year, he also played the second male lead and acted with Zhang Guorong.

One is the urban drama "Armed Reaction".

Yang Ye introduced: "Last June, female police officers in Hong Kong began to carry guns on duty. I thought this was a good subject, so I specially planned this TV series."

Everyone's eyes lit up. This topic is good and closely follows current affairs.

In Cantonese, "陀" means "to carry or to carry on the back". For example, pregnancy is also called "陀住个苏虾 (carrying a child)".

"Senior sister" is often used to refer to female police officers. "Armed police sister" means "female police officer with a gun".

"Armed Reaction" is a classic in Hong Kong dramas and is very good.

Yang Ye had been holding back from pulling it out because the time had not come yet.

In this era, Hong Kong's urban dramas are more lifelike and like to use the camera to show the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of ordinary people.

In Hong Kong, where there is no regulation that female police officers can officially carry guns while on duty, filming "Armed Reaction" would be too absurd and not realistic enough.

One is "A Step into the Past".

Yang Ye said: "Last year's "Love Across Time and Space" was very popular. Let Huang Yi hurry up and finish "A Step into the Past".

As for the leading roles, we will use the original cast of The Return of the Condor Heroes. Koo Tim-lok will play Xiang Shao-long, Fu Ming-xian will play Wu Ting-fang, and Li Ruo-tong will play Qin Qing. Let the three of them continue their past relationship.

Li Tiansheng wanted to laugh, but asked, "I have read the novel A Step into the Past, isn't the heroine Ji Yanran?

As for Qin Qing, she is just a supporting role, and she doesn't have many scenes. Are you going to delete Ji Yanran and promote Qin Qing to the position of the heroine?"

The original work of "A Step into the Past" is extremely pornographic, and is a definite pornographic book.

Xiang Shaolong has four wives, three concubines, and countless women, including Zhao Pan/Ying Zheng's two biological mothers.

Well, because in this novel, the real Ying Zheng was already dead, and the later Ying Zheng was impersonated by Zhao Pan.

Xiang Shaolong slept with both Zhao Pan's biological mother and Ying Zheng's biological mother, so... he has two biological mothers.

When Yang Ye was in middle school in his previous life, he watched "A Step into the Past" and it made him so dizzy.

At that time, I envied Xiang Shaolong and hoped to become a man like him.

Finally one day, he traveled through time, his dream came true, and he really became a man like Xiang Shaolong.

Yang Ye said: "Xiang Shaolong has too many women, and Huang Yi's writing skills are not as good as Jin Yong's, and the women he writes about have no characteristics, so they need to be merged and deleted.

The role of Ji Yanran should be combined with the role of Widow Qing. By the way, the roles of Lian Jin and Lao Ai should also be combined and let Jiang Hua play them. "

There was still a lack of an idol drama, so Yang Ye took out a classic Korean drama "Boys Over Flowers".

This Korean drama is adapted from the Korean classical literature "The Tale of Chunhyang", but the story background is moved from ancient Korea to modern South Korea.

The status of "The Tale of Chunhyang" in Korean literature is equivalent to that of China's "Dream of the Red Chamber" and Japan's "The Tale of Genji".

This story is also widely circulated among the Chinese people and has been adapted into classic repertoires such as Peking Opera, Ping Opera, Chaozhou Opera, and Huangmei Opera.

In that case, why not take advantage of it? Just change the story setting to modern Hong Kong.

Yang Ye personally chose Jia Jingwen to play Chunxiang.

The last time he filmed "Young Justice Bao", Yang Ye personally chose Jia Jingwen to play the second female role.

Jia Jingwen called Yang Ye to express her gratitude, and Yang Ye also said that there was a chance for her to play the leading female role.

The role of Chunxiang is just right for Jia Jingwen, so she was chosen.

Of course, resources cannot be given for free, Yang Ye plans to find an opportunity to eat her up.

Of course, one must live a carefree life when traveling through time. Yang Ye, a LSP, will not let go of such delicious food.

Speaking of Jia Jingwen, Yang Ye suddenly thought that her best friend Gao Yuanyuan should also show up. …

When Rosamund Kwan gave birth to a child, it caused a sensation in the city, and hundreds of reporters were lurking outside the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.

Some people even try to find ways to sneak in or bribe hospital staff.

But Yang Ye is a super big customer of the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. He has many children and every year when he has a headache or fever, he comes here to see a doctor, which costs a lot of money.

The hospital has implemented the most stringent security measures for Rosamund Kwan and even formed a delivery team specifically for her to ensure that the news would not be leaked.

Since Rosamund Kwan attracted the attention of all media reporters, few people knew about Anita Mui's childbirth.

Moreover, she followed Yang Ye only after Fei Li's death, and it was never made public.

Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Island.

Yang Ye changed his clothes and followed the medical staff into the delivery room. This time he was there to accompany the birth in person.

A few hours later, the baby was finally born.

Yang Ye cut the umbilical cord himself, and the nurse helped to wipe it with a towel and handed it to him.

Yang Ye held the child in his arms, looked at her lovingly, then held her to Lan Jieying's side and said softly, "Yingying, we have a daughter."

Anita Mui gave birth naturally. After fighting for several hours, she was almost exhausted and had no strength to speak.

She turned her head slightly and glanced at the wrinkled child in Yang Ye's arms, and a soft maternal light immediately lit up in her eyes.

Yang Ye asked the child to apply the patch to Anita Mui and then handed it over to the medical staff.

This is his fifteenth child and sixth daughter, including his stepdaughter.

Not long after, Anita Mui was sent to the ward, and the child was cleaned and brought over, placed on a small bed next to the hospital bed.

Yang Ye sat beside the bed, holding Lan Jieying's hand, and said softly: "Yingying, thank you!"

Lan Jieying had long regarded Yang Ye as her destined man. Now that she had given birth to a child for him, the two were tied together and could not be separated for the rest of their lives.

She asked, "Husband, what is our daughter's name?"

There are not many words left!
Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, "Call me Yang Yan!"

"Lingling, it sounds so good!"

Anita Mui was very satisfied with her daughter's name.

At this time, Zeng Huaqian came in with a food box and Yang Liulang.

Yang Liulang called out "Dad", then ran to the crib with great interest, looked at the little baby on the bed, and said, "Is he a brother or a sister?"

Yang Ye said: "It's my sister!"

"Great, I have a sister!"

Yang Liulang is eight years old and has become accustomed to this big family.

Although this sister was not born by his biological mother, he was very happy.

Zeng Huaqian put the lunch box on the table, sat next to Yang Ye, looked at Lan Jieying lying on the bed and said, "You must be very tired!"

Lan Jieying nodded slightly: "Yeah, I feel like I have walked through the gates of hell."

"I stewed some bird's nest for you to eat."

Yang Ye hurried over to open the food box, filled a bowl of bird's nest, and sat beside her to feed Lan Jieying.

It was the first time that Anita Mui was fed by Yang Ye. Zeng Huaqian was watching from the side. She felt a little uncomfortable and said, "I...I will drink it myself."

Yang Ye didn't care about that and said softly, "Be good, open your mouth!"

Zeng Huaqian didn't care. Yang Ye had a lot of women and she couldn't handle the jealousy.

What's more, Lan Jieying had a good relationship with her, and the two of them helped each other in the Yang family, so she had someone to rely on.

She smiled and said, "If he wants to feed you, just let him. You worked so hard to give birth to your child for him, you should let him serve you."

Yang Ye said: "Ah Qian is right, it is my duty to serve you."

Inside the room, Yang Ye fed Anita Mui bird's nest one spoonful at a time, while Zeng Huaqian leaned beside Yang Ye and talked to Anita Mui. Yang Liulang lay on the small bed and looked at little Yang Yan with great interest. The scene was very warm.

For a moment, Yang Ye thought that even if he only had the two of them in this life, it would be enough.

A lovely wife and concubines, both sons and daughters, loving sisters, a harmonious marriage, what a perfect life!

……

Lan Jieying quietly gave birth to a daughter for Yang Ye, but Guan Zhilin had not started yet.

Yang Ye began to meet with film companies and launch new film projects.

“Due to various reasons, Hong Kong’s film industry has been shrinking in the past two years, and the number of film projects has been decreasing.

I took many people who were unable to start work to Shenzhen Guangming Film and Television City to shoot TV series.

It can be considered as giving them a bowl of rice to eat, but we still have to continue shooting our film. This year's project is a little different from the past.

In the past, we would first think of a project, film it, and if there was money to be made, we would make a sequel.

Many movies even have their endings written off from the beginning, which makes it difficult to make sequels even if they are box office hits.

When I was shooting The Matrix, I made a change. I planned the contents of the three films from the beginning and then shot them directly.

This not only saves filming funds, but also maintains the continuity of the story.

However, the risk of duplicate shooting is too great, and ordinary projects cannot afford it.

So I try to balance it out and plan out the three steps when a project is proposed.

Then we will try to shoot the first part and prepare for the second part. Once it is successful, the second part will be started immediately.

In this way, the film will have continuity, the actors will continue to have work, and the box office will be guaranteed to a certain extent. What do you think? "

Yang Ye said a lot and finally asked for everyone's opinions.

In fact, what opinions can everyone have? Who would object to the plan proposed by you, Lord Yang?
So they all echoed and flattered Yang Ye, praising him for his vision and foresight.

Then Yang Ye began to propose the four major projects he had planned.

The first one is "Crime City" which has been prepared for a long time, and Hong Jingbao was invited to create the "Bi Dou Xia" series.

There's not much to say about this. Sammo Hung and Zhao Wenzhuo have already made time for the film. The director is Johnnie To, and it won't be long before filming starts.

The second is the racing movie, the Fast and Furious series.

Yang Ye said: "Although Aaron's previous film Thunderbolt failed, it gave us a lot of experience in filming racing movies.

So when Andy Lau starred in "Chariots of Fire", the motorcycle racing scenes directed by Ah Xian were much better.

I have also planned a racing movie series, and I hope Andy Lau and Louis Koo will star in it.

Hua Zai is a criminal who uses racing cars to rob, and Gu Zai is an undercover police officer..." (End of this chapter)