Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Hong Kong filmmakers have made contributions to mainland films.

Its main contribution comes from the co-production system that emerged after Hong Kong and the Mainland signed the Services Trade Agreement in 2003.

The co-production system stipulates that if half of the main creative staff of a Hong Kong film are from the mainland, it can enjoy the same treatment as a domestic film.

For example, if the male lead is from Hong Kong, then the female lead must be from the mainland.

From that time on, Hong Kong filmmakers began to move north collectively.

Although they made a lot of bad movies and cheated mainland investors to death.

But in this process, a large number of film talents were also cultivated for the mainland.

Firstly, in order to meet the standards of co-productions and enter the mainland market to make money, Hong Kong films sacrificed their own female stars and produced the mainland's "Four Dan and Two Bing".

In addition to these front-stage stars, what is more important is the training of many behind-the-scenes practitioners.

It’s a very simple truth: recruit people wherever you start work.

As Hong Kong filmmakers continued to move north, they naturally brought the skills of Hong Kong films to the mainland through their work.

Young people from the mainland join the crew of co-production films, and after some experience, they can gradually become independent.

Many professional jobs such as editing, martial arts coordination, art direction, and props were brought up by Hong Kong filmmakers.

For example, in the martial arts industry, countless young people from the mainland started as followers, then moved up to the periphery, and finally became martial arts instructors and directors.

For example, Qin Pengfei, the director of the "Arrogant" series and the "Northeast Police Story" series, started out as a martial arts stuntman following Dong Wei.

Qin Pengfei started to work with Dong Wei in the films "War of War", "Painted Skin", "Mulan", "The Siege of the City", "Mystery of the Phantom Flame", "Sword Rain" when he was a teenager...

I kept doing this for ten years, and when I starred in Going Down with the Tigers, I was officially promoted to martial arts instructor, and then to director.

The series of works he collaborated on with Xie Miao, although they are online movies, can also be regarded as sincere works of domestic action films.

Qin Pengfei said in an interview: "In my impression, there are very few people who have worked hard independently without guidance from Hong Kong.

In recent years, some kids may have followed mainland action directors, but the action directors above them also learned from Hong Kong directors.”

As one thing grows, another shrinks. A large number of practitioners moved north, and only a few remained in Hong Kong. The result was the hollowing out of Hong Kong's film talent pool.

In the end, Chin Kar-lok was the only one left among Hong Kong's local martial arts directors who still persisted.

Not many young people join in because it is tiring and has no future, and only a few films are started in a year.

……

In the past two years, Baiyang Television Company has used a large number of newcomers from the mainland when filming TV series.

Mainland actors such as Zhou Jie, Xu Zhen, Zhou Xun, Li Binbin and Ning Jing quickly became famous as a result.

But the influence of TV dramas is ultimately limited. If we want to create a cultural trend, we still have to rely on movies.

At present, mainland films are mainly produced by state-owned studios, with an annual output of around 100 films and low production costs.

With this scale, it is difficult to attract any talent.

Therefore, it is imperative to define film as an industry and allow private capital to enter.

For several days, Yang Ye met with several leaders of China Film Group Corporation and the Film and Television Department and explained the pros and cons of the matter.

The idea behind mainland China's reform and opening up has always been to exchange markets for technology, and Yang Ye's proposal fits perfectly with this idea.

Yang Ye has extraordinary influence in the cultural field, and the cultural department is eager for him to come in and invest.

The final decision was to let Hong Kong filmmakers turn this matter into a proposal and bring it up at this year's National People's Congress for public discussion.

Although Hong Kong has not yet officially returned, it still has representatives to the National People's Congress.

Hong Kong's National People's Congress representatives belong to Guangdong, and the representative of the film and television industry this time is Sister Wang Mingquan.

So Yang Ye stayed in Beijing for a few more days, continuing to communicate with several leaders while waiting for his sister to come to the meeting and discuss it with her in detail.

Of course, he continued to hang out with Wang Fei these days. It turned out that this guy never lacked women wherever he went.

He is such a God of Wealth squatting in Beijing, and many people in the Beijing entertainment circle have tried their best to find a way to meet him.

However, what Yang Ye didn't expect was that the first person he met was actually from Hong Kong.

……

Maxim's Restaurant.

Yang Ye and Wang Fei sat in a corner drinking tea.

Such an expensive restaurant, with few customers, is very quiet, perfect for flirting.

Yang Ye told a joke seriously: "A man went to the hospital to have his appendix removed.

This job is usually done by a female nurse. If the female nurse happens not to be available that day, a male nurse will be asked to do it.

After the male nurse shaved, he came back and told the female nurse, "You never thought someone would tattoo something there, did you?"
The female nurse asked, is this true or false?
The male nurse said, if you don’t believe me, go and see for yourself, the tattoo on his body is the word ‘月’.

The female nurse then went to check and came back to tell the male nurse that there was a word but you read it wrong, it was clearly the word '日'."

Wang Fei covered his mouth and laughed, "I used to think you were a great talent and I admired you very much. But it turns out that you are not a decent person and you can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth."

Yang Ye said innocently, "I didn't come up with this. Uncle Chan wrote it in his Unwritten Collection. I'm just telling you about it."

Wang Fei rolled his eyes and said, "They are just bad friends indeed."

"The Collection of Uncivilized People" is a book of obscene jokes written by James Wong. Uncivilized people means not serious.

This book is very famous in Hong Kong. Wang Fei has heard of it but has never read it. He couldn't help but ask, "Are all jokes like this in it?"

Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, “It’s not all dirty jokes. There are also poems he wrote. I’ll read them to you!”

Huang Zhan was a master of lyric writing and had also written songs for Wang Fei. Wang Fei admired him very much and immediately listened attentively.

Yang Ye took a sip of tea, gathered his emotions, and began to recite:
"Miss, you can give birth to a child quickly, and you can have a baby right after you get married.

And she gave birth to three children in her lifetime, all of them fat, white and well-behaved.

Unfortunately, there are serious problems in raising the child, and the third child cries every day.

Because my mother is alone, she was born with only two breasts.”

"puff……"

Wang Fei thought it was some serious poem, but it turned out to be this kind of stuff.

He couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea, which sprayed all over Yang Ye's face.

“Ouch!” Wang Fei quickly took a tissue to wipe Yang Ye’s face: “Don’t blame me, it’s all your fault for not being serious.”

Yang Ye didn't care and said calmly: "Are you seeking revenge for what happened last night?"

“Bah!” Wang Fei threw the tissue on Yang Ye’s face: “I don’t want to play with you anymore!”

The two were playing around when two people walked in from outside. Yang Ye took a look and pulled Wang Fei aside, saying, "Stop playing around. There are guests coming."

Wang Fei quickly sat down and pretended to drink tea.

The two men said something to the waiter, and the waiter led them towards Yang Ye.

Walking in front was a girl of medium build and innocent appearance.

The man behind is tall, has long hair, and looks sunny and handsome.

The girl said politely, "Sir, Sister Fei, hello. My name is Cai Yinong, and Aunt Shi introduced me here."

Yang Ye smiled and said, "Hello Yinong, Nan Sheng told me about you, who is this?" The young man quickly introduced himself; "Sir, Sister Fei, hello. My name is Li Yapeng, I'm an actor, and I'm currently filming a TV series with Miss Cai."

Yang Ye nodded and said, "Please sit down!"

After the two sat down, each ordered a cup of coffee and quickly started talking about business.

Yang Ye took a quick look at Cai Yinong and thought, "No wonder she signed Liu Shishi in the future. The two look at least 70% similar."

Yang Ye asked: "Yinong, have we met before?"

Cai Yinong smiled and said, "I met you at the company's annual meeting. I even talked to you."

Yang Ye nodded: "I see, you started your own business at such a young age, that's amazing."

Cai Yinong started to work in society after graduating from high school. She started as a tabloid reporter and later entered the film industry, working as a distributor with Shi Nansheng. She was also responsible for the distribution of Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China" series.

Later, she resigned and started working on her own. It happened that Hong Kong returned to China, and they planned a TV series, and Cai Yinong became the producer.

The TV series is called "Beijing-Hong Kong Love Line" and tells the love-hate relationship between a Beijing family and a pair of siblings from Hong Kong.

The starring actors are Jacklyn Wu and Moses Chan from Hong Kong, and Li Yapeng and Gong Beibi from mainland China.

However, when the TV series was halfway through filming, the investor suddenly withdrew his investment.

If she couldn't get the money, she would have to stop working. Cai Yinong had no choice but to find her former boss Shi Nansheng.

Shi Nansheng thought Cai Yinong was a talented person, and Yang Ye happened to be in the capital, so he told Yang Ye about it.

In Yang Ye's opinion, Cai Yinong came from a poor family. For a woman to be able to gain a foothold in the entertainment industry after working hard, she must have some ability, so he asked Cai Yinong to come and see him.

But I didn’t expect that Li Yapeng would also follow.

What are you doing here? Are you here to see how I play with your wife? Oh, I've played with your girlfriend, too.

In fact, it is very simple. Li Yapeng has always felt that he is a business genius. He does not want to be an actor, he just wants to be a boss.

He liked to make connections everywhere, so naturally he didn't want to let go of the chance to meet Yang Ye this time, so he pestered Cai Yinong and followed him.

In fact, connections are only useful if you have something that others value.

If you don't have the ability and your family has no connections, it's of no use even if you know someone.

Yang Ye still had some respect for Li Yapeng's ability to pick up girls and make a living by doing nothing.

For example, he hooked up with Ke Lan, a girl from a wealthy family. Ke Lan used her connections to tailor a TV series for him, which made him a bit famous.

Later, Ke Lan went to Hong Kong Phoenix TV to be a host, but she still thought about him.

He also helped him to get the leading male role in the Hong Kong TV series "Beijing-Hong Kong Love Line".

There is a saying on the Internet in later generations, "Whoever Wang Sicong fucks becomes famous, and whoever Feng Shaofeng fucks becomes famous."

In fact, the ones Feng Shaofeng fucked were just moderately popular, but Li Yapeng was the one who fucked whoever was popular.

The future ones are China's top supermodel Qu Ying, top film queen Zhou Xun, and top singer Wang Fei.

In fact, Li Yapeng could have lived a carefree life by just living off others and hanging around in the entertainment industry.

Unfortunately, he insisted on doing business and becoming a boss, but he ended up failing at everything and became a deadbeat.

Although Li Yapeng is great at picking up girls, he is nothing in front of Yang Ye. He only needs to spend money and everything will be done.

As for other aspects, Yang Ye didn't like anything, so he had no interest in Li Yapeng.

Zhou Xun and Wang Fei, whom Li Yapeng had the chance to sleep with, were already in Yang Ye's bed.

Li Yapeng wanted to take this opportunity to show off his business talent in front of Yang Ye.

For example, he once organized a performance for rock singers from Beijing to WLMQ and made some money.

Yang Ye, however, had no interest at all and just let Cai Yinong talk about business.

Cai Yinong knew that Yang Ye was willing to see her, so she gave face to Shi Nansheng and immediately interrupted Li Yapeng to talk about the TV series she was producing.

Yang Ye listened for a while and said, "It's a good idea to use the historical event of Hong Kong's return to China to produce a TV series. I will invest in this project."

Then he wrote a phone number to Cai Yinong and said, "Just call this number and someone will take over from you."

Cai Yinong answered the phone and naturally expressed his gratitude profusely.

Yang Ye took the opportunity to poach people: "Yinong, I learned about your situation from Nan Sheng, she praised you as a talent.

I just heard about your plan for "Beijing-Hong Kong Love Line". It is well organized and clear in thought, which is really good.

If possible, I hope you can come back to work at Yangji. If you like being a producer, the company can open a separate studio for you."

Cai Yinong was stunned. Yang Ye spoke personally, which gave her a lot of face, and the conditions he offered were also good.

She wanted to agree, but was a little reluctant. If she didn't agree, it would mean she was not giving Yang Ye face. If Yang Ye got angry...

Yang Ye said, “Don’t worry, you can think about it first and wait until the TV series is finished.”

Since Yang Ye had said so, Cai Yinong had nothing to say, so he nodded, indicating that he would seriously consider it.

After the two left, Yang Ye stretched and said, "See one more person, let's go ice skating in Houhai."

Wang Fei was surprised and asked, "You can skate?"

"No, teach me!"

"I thought you knew everything!"

Wang Fei felt that Yang Ye was omnipotent and finally found something that he couldn't do.

Thinking about how Yang Ye would be unable to stand steadily when they get to the ice rink, I inexplicably felt like laughing.

Yang Ye said: "I was thinking that you must be tired from taking care of your mother every day during this period of time, so I accompanied you to relax."

After hearing this, Wang Fei felt that Yang Ye was very considerate to her and felt warm in her heart.

But she felt a little melancholy, because she knew that when they returned to Hong Kong, Yang Ye would be busy with his own affairs and they might not even be able to meet.

She leaned on Yang Ye's shoulder, hoping that time would go slower.

She thought about the meeting with Cai Yinong just now, and suddenly said, "You didn't seem very happy just now?"

Yang Ye said: "There is one thing, I only agreed to see Cai Yinong, and this girl brought someone here for no apparent reason. Do you think anyone can see me?"

"That guy looks quite honest!"

"He looks simple and honest, but he has many tricks on his mind. You should stay away from such people in the future, or he will sell you out and you will have to count the money for him."

Yang Ye slandered Li Yapeng and gave Wang Fei a shot of prevention.

Wang Fei said "Oh" and asked, "Who are you going to meet later?"

Yang Ye said: "He is just a talker."

"Are you just talking nonsense?"

"Well, the one who looked honest just now, and the one who looked smart later, are not good people. Stay away from them and don't be fooled."

Wang Fei was a little speechless: "Am I so easy to fool? Since you don't want to see the honest one, why do you want to see the smart one?"

"That simple-minded one is useless and a waste. This smart one is useful and can help me make money."

"All right!"

The two chatted for a while, and then a small, monkey-like man came in with a computer bag on his back. (End of this chapter)