Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 741: Blackening the Vietnamese Again

When Yang Ye was trapped, the three-person team consisting of Lin Qingxia, Ti Lung and Li Lianjie was also trying to find ways to rescue him.

After a battle that dazzled the audience, Lin Qingxia appeared at the station and hugged Yang Ye tightly.

Afterwards, Yang Ye entered the matrix world to meet the prophet and ask for more truth.

The prophet told Yang Ye that the savior was actually a program born from the source code of the Machine Empire.

His authority is not limited to the Matrix, a subsystem of the Machine Empire, but goes beyond the Matrix and includes the entire Machine Empire within its scope of authority.

Therefore, even in the real world, Yang Ye can indirectly send instructions to the machines belonging to the Machine Empire through the source code, thereby sensing these machines and interfering with their actions.

In the matrix, the prophet and the architect are opposing entities. The architect is responsible for maintaining the balance, while the prophet is responsible for disrupting the balance.

On the other hand, Agent Zhou Billy, who was destroyed by Yang Ye in the first part, has turned into a super virus.

He is constantly infecting various programs, turning them into himself, and his goal is to destroy everything.

If he is not stopped, both the human world and the machine world will be destroyed by him.

At the same time, the robot army has approached the human base Yingzhou, ready to destroy the humans there.

Naturally, humans would not surrender and would fight back hard, engaging in a life-and-death struggle with the army of machines.

But humans are no match for robots after all, and they place their last hopes on Yang Ye.

In order to save mankind, Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia decided to drive a spaceship to the Machine Empire.

However, Zhou Billy infected a human who entered the matrix, and with the help of this human's body, he came to the human world through the Internet cable.

Zhou Billy tricked Yang Ye and burned his eyes.

Fortunately, even in the real world at this time, Yang Ye can connect to the source code and perceive all the components of the machine world.

So, even though he was blind, he could still sense Chow Billy's presence and successfully kill him.

But this is just one of Billy Chow's clones, he has countless clones.

Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia continued to head towards the Machine City, but were intercepted by the Machine Empire's defense system.

In an instant, thousands of machine cannons fired at the same time, and countless machine bombs flew towards Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia's spaceship.

However, Yang Ye sent a self-destruct signal to the source code, ordering all these machine bombs to explode.

Yang Ye stretched out his hand in a very cool manner, and the machine bombs flying towards them exploded one after another.

In an instant, brilliant fireworks filled the entire movie screen.

Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia's spaceship was speeding through the fireworks, which had a breathtaking beauty.

But there were too many of them. In addition to the machine bombs, there were also countless robots. Yang Ye was unable to destroy them all.

So they flew the spaceship out of the clouds.

As mentioned in the first part, the clouds were created by humans to deal with machines, and they contain strong electromagnetic fields.

The magnetic field caused the machines to malfunction, and all the robots that followed the spacecraft were paralyzed.

Above the clouds, Lin Qingxia saw the real sun for the first time.

She marveled at the beauty of the scenery, however, their spacecraft was also paralyzed.

The paralyzed spacecraft fell rapidly from the clouds, and Lin Qingxia unfortunately died.

After the two parted ways for life and death, and after a period of love, Yang Ye arrived at the Machine City alone and met the Machine Emperor, the supreme ruler of the Machine Empire.

Yang Ye told the Machine Emperor: Zhou Billy's super virus has become so powerful that the machines cannot control it, and soon he will come out of the matrix and invade the entire machine empire.

By then, all machines will be occupied by Zhou Billy, and the machine empire will be destroyed, and only he has the ability to destroy Zhou Billy.

He offered the Machine Emperor two choices: let himself enter the Matrix and help it destroy Chow Billy.

The condition is not to restart the matrix and stop attacking the human world Yingzhou, so that machines and humans can reach peace.

Otherwise, both sides will be destroyed and robots will destroy the human world.

But as a super virus, Chow Billy will also infect the entire machine empire, and machines and humans will perish together.

In the end, the Machine Emperor chose to reach a reconciliation with humans and let Yang Ye enter the matrix to eliminate Zhou Billy.

After Yang Ye entered the matrix, he found that Zhou Billy had already controlled the entire matrix at this time, and almost all humans and programs in the matrix had been infected by him and turned into himself.

At this time, Billy Chow had become extremely powerful, and the two began a fight to the death.

This battle that lasted for ten minutes was considered very exciting in the original version, but Yang Ye's version was upgraded again and was even cooler than the original.

The original version mainly consisted of one-on-one fights, while Yang Ye's version added group fights.

In the first part, Yang Ye beats up a Chow Billy.

In the second part, Yang Ye beats a hundred Zhou Billys.

In the third part, Yang Ye beat 100 million Chow Billies.

Yang Ye transforms into Superman, flies at high speed, and constantly uses his authority to influence and destroy Zhou Billy.

The whole city was filled with explosions. Countless Chow Billies exploded in series, like countless rising fireworks. The scene was very spectacular.

However, this high-energy scene did not last long, and facing the real body, one still had to rely on hand-to-hand combat.

In the end, Yang Ye was defeated by Zhou Billy.

Zhou Billy's goal was to copy everything, so he copied Yang Ye into himself.

However, he didn't know that Yang Ye entered the matrix from the Machine Emperor.

When Yang Ye was occupied by Zhou Billy, the data of the two were connected together.

The Machine Emperor cracked Zhou Billy's code through Yang Ye's code.

The Machine Emperor immediately deleted Yang Ye, and Zhou Billy, who was a super virus, was also deleted.

Thus, Yang Ye and Zhou Billy died together.

In Yingzhou, the machine army has broken through the last line of defense of mankind.

But at the last moment, they stopped and retreated en masse.

Since then, Yang Ye has completed the mission of the savior, and humans and machines have lived in peace.

Finally, Yang Ye's dead body in the real world was recovered by the machines, and the matrix also achieved a qualitative upgrade for the first time.

Xiao Liu Yifei was originally the child of two programs who fell in love, and there was always a risk of being deleted.

After the matrix was upgraded, she was no longer afraid of being deleted and could be assigned work.

She chose the program to create the morning glow. She looked at the gorgeous morning glow in the new matrix and firmly believed that Yang Ye would come back.

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Overall, "The Matrix Revolutions" is mediocre compared to the previous two films.

The first part amazed the world with its super powerful setting, and the second part had a comprehensive upgrade of fighting and special effects, which was dazzling to watch, so it also received super high box office.

In the third part, the main characters' roles became smaller, and half of the focus was devoted to depicting the battle between humans and the machine army.

Although this part was filmed in a tragic way, it is a bit off topic, and people still prefer to watch the protagonist show off.

But Yang Ye, as the protagonist, performs a bit aggrieved.

At first, I was stuck at the station and couldn’t get out, and had to rely on others to rescue me.

Later, he was ambushed and his eyes were blinded.

In the end, he did not win the duel with Chow Billy, but ended the battle by cheating. The title said it was a revolution of the matrix, but in the end, there was no revolution.

It was not like what the audience expected, that Yang Ye led the human army to overthrow the machine empire.

Instead, a deal was made and a so-called balance was reached.

Without Yang Ye, humans will not be able to check and balance the machine empire.

It is actually very easy for the Machine Empire to turn against them.

It’s just that machines have been simulating humans, and they still need humans, so a balance has been reached temporarily.

In essence, The Matrix is ​​not really about humanity, but about the evolution of artificial intelligence machines.

Just like the process of human evolution from apes to civilized people, when humans evolved to the end and were destroyed by the intelligent machines they invented, the intelligent machines began their own evolution.

In "The Matrix Revolutions", there is a sentence that is repeated over and over again: everything has a beginning and an end.

Human civilization has a beginning and must have an end. The end of human civilization is the beginning of machine civilization. So what about machine civilization?

It has begun to evolve, so it must have an end. What is the beginning of its end?
Speaking of which, humans created machines, machines defeated humans, and then began to imitate humans.

If machines eventually become exactly like humans, what is the point of it all?
The "Matrix" series is not just mindless fun, it has deep philosophical connotations. After watching all three movies, it is still very thought-provoking.

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Although "The Matrix Revolutions" is a bit bland compared to its predecessor, it is still a wonderful sci-fi action blockbuster and is still warmly welcomed by movie fans.

During the entire Zhuhai Film Festival, the exhibition hall of "The Matrix Revolutions" was always crowded and bustling.

The other 40-odd films on display were a little quiet.

However, Yang Ye left after the premiere and did not attend the subsequent award ceremony.

Although "The Matrix Revolutions" participated in the Zhuhai Film Festival, it did not register for the competition.

Therefore, the final award ceremony had nothing to do with Yang Ye.

Yang Ye returned to Hong Kong, and Yang Liping also went to the Australian Consulate in Guangzhou to get a visa.

So they took a few staff members and flew to Sydney.

After arriving in Sydney, we drove to the nearby Blue Mountains National Park.

This place is very beautiful, with steep peaks, deep valleys, grasslands and waterfalls. It is an ideal location for photography.

This MV was created based on the lyrics, telling the story of Yang Ye who accidentally fell into a paradise on earth while collecting folk songs in a foreign place.

He is rescued by a beautiful heroine, and gradually falls in love with her under her careful care.

However, in order to fulfill his musical dream, Yang Ye had to leave this paradise.

There is a custom in Diqing that when a girl is getting married or leaving home, her parents will wash her hair to represent their everlasting longing for her.

So in this MV, there is also a scene where Yang Ye helps Yang Liping wash her hair.

Yang Liping has beautiful hair, so this scene was also shot very beautifully.

It took two days to shoot the MV. The two stayed for a few more days before returning home with a feeling of not having enough.

When we arrived in Hong Kong, it was already Christmas Eve.

This year's Christmas season is quite lively. In addition to Yang Ye's "The Matrix Revolutions", there is also Stephen Chow's new work "The God of Cookery"; "God of Gamblers 3: Young Gamblers" directed by Wang Jing and starring Leon Lai; and "3% Feeling" directed by Ma Weihao and starring Cheng Yikin and Sammi Cheng.

Among the three movies, except for Zhou Xingchi who has a fighting role, the other two are just for show.

Although Cheng Yikin became a rising star in the film industry with the "Young and Dangerous" series, his influence is still far behind that of Yang Ye and Zhou Xingchi.

In recent years, Leon Lai has become the king of TV dramas, but he has never had much appeal in the field of movies.

Moreover, since Teresa Teresa is still alive and well, Leon Lai's masterpiece "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" did not appear, but instead became a movie called "Big City, Small Love".

In the original time and space, after Teresa Teresa passed away unfortunately in 1995, the Chinese entertainment industry launched various activities to commemorate Teresa Teresa.

It was against the backdrop of the unfortunate death of Teresa Tang on the eve of Hong Kong's return to China that Chen Kexin created his classic work "Comrades: Almost a Love Story".

"Comrades: Almost a Love Story" is a classic Chinese-language romance film and won nine awards at the Academy Awards that year.

This film won both the Best Film Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards, and Maggie Cheung also won Best Actress at both the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards for this film.

On the later Douban website, 60 people gave it a high score of 8.9.

"Big City, Small Love", which replaced "Sweet Honey", is actually the original script of "Sweet Honey".

Chen Kexin has always wanted to make a story about immigration to reflect the rootless state of Hong Kong people.

He chose the period from 1985 to 1995 because it was Hong Kong's golden decade.

When screenwriter Anxi was writing the script, he did not initially plan to use Teresa Teresa's songs.

But not long after I started writing the script, news came that Teresa Tang had passed away.

Anxi believes that "looking at the Chinese world, only Teresa Teng can transcend cultural and regional barriers and be admired by everyone."

So he wrote Teresa Teresa into the film and had her run through the entire movie, which achieved very good results.

And now, since Deng Lijun is alive, Anxi's script can be written according to the original ideas.

This "Big City, Small Love" has lost its special significance and is just an art film with good reputation.

After its release, it paled in comparison to "Comrades: Almost a Love Story", audiences did not buy into it, and the box office flopped.

Leon Lai's influence in the film industry is even smaller than in the original time and space.

It’s not that these movies are unaware that “The Matrix” will be released on Christmas, nor are they stubborn, but they have no choice but to avoid it.

Yang Ji seems to have taken medicine this year, and has been producing blockbuster movies continuously since the Spring Festival.

Yang Ye herself is as prolific as a sow, with "The Green Cop", "Men in Black" and "Mission Impossible" being released one after another.

After the summer vacation, in September, October and November, Yang Ji released three blockbuster films, "Taxi", "Criminal Investigation Files" and "SPL 2".

"Taxi" is a racing movie, but it takes a comedic route. Liang Jiahui has a good ability to comedic roles, and the movie earned more than 20 million at the local box office.

In October, "Criminal Metropolis" was released. Neither Hong Jingbao nor Zhao Wenzhuo had much box office appeal, and although Anita Mui was in the cast, she was just a cameo, so no one was optimistic about it.

Unexpectedly, Hong Jingbao changed his route. He was no longer the short and fat teapot-like idiot who looked like a fool before, but acted like a nimble fat man when fighting.

When he fights now, he no longer uses those fancy moves he used to.

To defeat the enemy, all it takes is a simple and plain fight.

The audience was confused, yet inexplicably felt great.

The Vietnamese guy played by Zhao Wenzhuo is extremely cruel, stabbing throats and amputating limbs in various ways, which makes people's scalp tingle.

At the beginning of the movie, a subtitle introduces the background of the story: "Since the 1970s, about 200,000 Vietnamese refugees have poured into Hong Kong. They gathered in the Pillar Point area and formed gangs of all sizes."

In Hong Kong films, the image of Vietnam and the Vietnamese is often negative, with war, crime, poverty, tragedy, and an overall gloomy tone.

So when Yang Ye was watching a movie, if the villain was from mainland China and it was difficult to handle, he would just make him Vietnamese.

For example, the "Crime City" in October this year is about Hong Jingbao fighting the Vietnamese.

In November's "SPL 2: Breaking the Army", Donnie Yen once again played three Vietnamese brothers.

There's nothing wrong with setting the villain as a Vietnamese, but after seeing this happen so many times, it's inevitable that people will wonder if this guy has some deep hatred with the Vietnamese.

Many years later, a netizen raised this question on Tieba.

Yang Ye's die-hard fans replied: "Sir sir held a concert in Saigon that year, and that idiot Le Duan forced him to sing, and then he made a movie and vilified Vietnam for eighteen times!"

(End of this chapter)