Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"Gujiguji..."

"Drip drip drip..."

Xu Jinglei raised her head: "My phone is ringing!"

Yang Ye opened his eyes and said, "Answer it!"

Xu Jinglei hesitated for a moment, but still answered the call.

"Hey, um, what's up."

"I didn't do anything. I was eating... chicken legs, that is... braised chicken legs!"

"It's delicious. This chicken leg is quite big and very fragrant!"

"Lao Cui's performance tonight, guji, I'm not going, I have something to do!"

"I just took on a drama. The script was written by Lao Diao and his team. It's funded by Hong Kong and will be broadcast overseas in the future. It's very important. I'm thinking about the script!"

"Yeah, is that all right...Okay, bye!"

"Goo-goo! Goo-goo!"

Yang Ye asked comfortably, "Is it that Wang Shuo who called?"

Xu Jinglei stopped mumbling, looked up, and asked in surprise: "How did you know?"

Yang Ye smiled: "I also like to read some gossip news."

Xu Jinglei was even more surprised: "I thought that a big shot like you would only care about big things."

"We are all just ordinary people. Who is more noble than anyone else? Just keep eating!"

"Goojigji!"

Yang Ye suddenly thought of a song and couldn't help singing it: "We chose an all-you-can-eat restaurant for a date, and all the romance died in an instant, gurgling gurgling..."

Xu Jinglei ate very well while listening to Yang Ye's joyful singing.

……

Before the two sessions were held, Yang Ye left Beijing and returned to Hong Kong.

By this time the Spring Festival period has passed.

This year's Spring Festival movie schedule was very spectacular, with Yang Ye, Chen Long and Zhou Xingchi fighting against each other for the first time.

The movie released by Chen Long is "Police Story 4: Simple Tasks". This movie was originally supposed to be released last year, but the filming was postponed due to the filming of "Men in Black" and was dragged to this year's Spring Festival.

The movie released by Stephen Chow is "All's Well, Ends Well 97". This movie still follows the old routine of Wong Jing, a family-friendly movie with a lively atmosphere.

In addition to the leading actor Stephen Chow, there are also Wong Jing himself, as well as a number of stars including Chiao Hong, Francis Ng, Jacklyn Wu, Christy Chung and others to support the film.

Big-name stars such as Zhang Guorong and Zhou Huajian were also invited to make guest appearances.

The movie that Yang Ye starred in was "The Perfect Match", which he had previously filmed with Liu Xiaoli and her daughter.

In this movie, Liu Yifei plays two roles, a pair of twins with completely different personalities.

However, as the Spring Festival approached, Yang Ye fled Hong Kong, resulting in an awkward situation where the real owner did not show up at the premiere and only Liu Xiaoli and her daughter were present.

"The Perfect Match" itself is just a mediocre movie, and it is not Yang Ye's best action movie. It received average reviews after its release.

Some film critics criticized this as a commercial product. Although it is not a bad movie, after watching "The Matrix", it is really hard to accept such a movie.

Some film critics also said that this movie was made by Yang Ye specifically to promote Liu Yifei. It is not even an original story, but an adaptation of a German fairy tale.

The protagonists of the movie are the twins played by Liu Yifei, and Yang Ye is basically a supporting role.

Yang Ye loves her daughter deeply.

Fortunately, Yang Ye's name was so famous that many people bought tickets for him, and the twin girls played by Liu Yifei were indeed super cute. In the end, the local box office barely exceeded 30 million.

In the end, the top three of the Spring Festival were: Chen Long's "Police Story 4" ranked first with 4500 million, Stephen Chow's "All's Well, Ends Well 97" ranked second with 4000 million, and Yang Ye's "The Perfect Match" ranked third with 3000 million.

Among the three, only Chen Long produced his authentic Kung Fu movies, so it is not surprising that he defeated the other two.

"All's Well, Ends Well 97" is Wong Jing's style, not an orthodox Chow-style comedy. Otherwise, it would be difficult for Chen Long to beat Stephen Chow in Hong Kong.

As for the fact that Yang Ye only ranked third this time, he didn't care at all. He was just using his fame to promote Liu Yifei.

At this time, Xu Ke's "The Legend of Zu" had been completed and the post-production was almost done, and it was planned to be released in the summer.

Yang Ye had no confidence in the box office of "The Legend of Zu". Although the special effects of the movie were extremely outstanding and imaginative, the world view created by this movie was... too magical.

If the magic is too high, it means it is far away from humans, and the audience will feel unfamiliar with such a world and unable to empathize with it.

Most of the works that can truly break the circle are low-magic worlds, such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "A Song of Ice and Fire".

If your work is set in a high-magic world, you need to find ways to bring it closer to humans.

For example, in Journey to the West, there is a high level of magic, and the master and his disciples can only walk to obtain the scriptures.

You have to beg for food along the way, meet all kinds of people, and divide the luggage when you part.

The most difficult levels are not those powerful monsters, but the Kingdom of Women and the three fights with the White Bone Demon.

The Queen of Daughters is just a mortal, and the White Bone Demon is just a useless monster.

But these are the most famous and widely circulated dilemmas among the eighty-one dilemmas.

"Harry Potter" is also a world of high magic, but Harry still has to stay at his aunt's house miserably during the summer vacation.

Marvel movies are also set in a high-magic world, but Captain America is only slightly stronger than ordinary people. Even if he meets Thanos, he has to fight him on equal terms.

All of this, what the authors, screenwriters, and directors do, is to try to narrow the connection between humans and God in order to resonate with the audience.

The failure of DC movies lies in their inability to handle the issue of balance of combat power.

In BVS, in the final battle, Marvel Studios and Superman were extremely powerful, while Batman could only play a supporting role, which disappointed many viewers.

In "The Legend of Zu", although Xu Ke added human lines to the film, it was added very stiffly and looked very redundant.

Some people say that the human line should be removed. Then the box office will be even worse, and it is possible that no one will be interested in it.

How to join the human race is a very particular and learned matter.

It is necessary to add it, but if it is not added properly, it will become very fragmented, counterproductive and backfire.

For example, in the 523 Conferred Gods, in order to let Ji Fa show off, Yang Jian and Nezha were forced to play supporting roles.

Many people tolerated the first part, at least there was a highlight moment of breaking the door. I didn't expect that the second part was even worse, Ji Fa became a waste, and the woman was the one who made him act.

This is what happens in the high magic world, where humans are given more drama but no typical counterexamples are added.

Xu Ke's version of "The Legend of Zu" was originally planned to be shot in two parts, but in the end, it was cut into a 140-minute film for the sake of a compact plot.

After modification and re-scripting, the plot has become very different from the original.

The original heroine was Zhang Baizhi, who played two roles, Master Gu Yue and Li Yingqi.

Zhang Ziyi, who played the human character Cheng Le'er, only made a cameo appearance.

In the current version, since Zhang Baizhi and Zhang Ziyi have not yet made their debut, they have been replaced by Anita Yuen and Li Binbin, but the importance of these two characters has been reversed.

Cheng Le'er, played by Li Binbin, was adjusted to be the female lead, while Li Yingqi, played by Anita Yuen, only played a supporting role.

Yang Ye added a lot of scenes to the human character Cheng Le'er, giving her a complete growth line.

In the version revised by Yang Ye, Cheng Le'er was described as the reincarnation of Master Gu Yue.

Five hundred years later, she is a human general.

When Xuan Tian Zong and Dan Chenzi were evacuating humans, Cheng Le'er saw Xuan Tian Zong and his spiritual intelligence was awakened.

She vaguely saw some scenes from her past life, and in order to find the truth, she climbed up Mount Shu.

The masters of this generation of Tianlei Twin Swords, Li Yingqi (Anita Yuen) and Changkong Wuji (Wu Jing), failed to combine their swords and Li Yingqi died.

Baimei accepted Li Binbin as a disciple of Shushan, making her the new owner of Tianjian, and asked Wu Jing to teach her.

The scene in the original movie where Patrick Tam and Zhang Ziyi were flying with swords was transplanted to Wu Jing and Li Binbin.

Wu Jing no longer had that ugly bald look, but instead had the look of a cultivator dressed in white with a full head of black hair.

His personality was also transformed from a funny guy to a master, while Li Binbin's image was portrayed as a cute and lovely female disciple.

In short, it is about a cold male master and a cute female apprentice, a bit similar to Bai Zihua and Hua Qiangu.

While carrying out the daily life of master and disciple, Cheng Le'er would occasionally recall scenes from his past life memories and interact with Xuantian Sect.

On the eve of the decisive battle, Li Binbin went to Sanyuan Palace and retrieved his memories of his past life. His strength increased greatly, and he and Wu Jing joined forces to fight against the blood demon.

In the final battle, Li Binbin sacrificed himself and completely killed the Blood Demon's soul.

All in all, Yang Ye's adaptation gives the whole story a main line, which is not as scattered as the original version, with a hammer here and a hammer there, and you don't know who the protagonist is after watching it.

In terms of the story's perspective, it was also changed from the original parallel perspective to a perspective focusing on Li Binbin.

In her previous life, she was Master Gu Yue. After the decisive battle with the Blood Demon, she was reincarnated as a mortal.

Then, from a mortal's perspective, he climbed the mountain to seek immortality, became a disciple of Mount Shu, obtained magic weapons, and grew up step by step.

On the eve of the final battle, he regained his memories of his past life and his strength increased greatly.

He played a decisive role in the final battle with the blood demon, and finally sacrificed himself to eliminate the demon and defend the way!

Overall, after watching the rough cut, Yang Ye felt that it was smoother than the original version.

Some special effects have not been completed yet, so we will have to wait until the movie is released during the summer to know the final box office results.

It has come to this point, Yang Ye doesn't mind spending a little more money, so he said to Xu Ke, "Let's cut a version that can be screened as soon as possible and hold a premiere in Cannes!"

……

"The Legend of Zu" is almost finished, and now it's the turn of "Xiao Yao You".

This novel draws on the outline of "Harry Potter" and incorporates some settings from Shushan. It can be considered a combination of Chinese and Western cultures. After its release, it was quite popular.

The combination of Chinese and Western cultures does not mean being neither Chinese nor Western.

Most of the techniques used in modern novels come from the West, and traditional Chinese writing methods are actually used less frequently.

The typical writing style of a Chinese novel is like "Water Margin", with a medium story within a big story, and a small story within a medium story.

Use a story to introduce a character, and then use this character to introduce another character.

The main chapter of each character can be published as a separate book, just like a biography.

For example, "Ten Chapters of Wu" and "Ten Chapters of Song" in "Water Margin", and "Two Beauties in the Red Mansion" in "Dream of Red Mansions".

The Legend of Swordsman in Shu Mountain written by Huanzhu Louzhu is written in this style.

Liang Yusheng, who pioneered new martial arts novels, also wrote in this style.

When Jin Yong first started writing "The Book and the Sword", he also used this traditional writing style.

When writing The Legend of the Condor Heroes, the narrative style completely changed to Western style.

Jin Yong keeps the perspective on the protagonist, and then uses various flashbacks, interpolations, and cross-narrations to enrich the story and enhance the reader's reading experience.

In the later generations of Qidian.com novels, it became even simpler and more direct, with the focus basically fixed on the protagonist.

Jin Yong even introduced the writing style of stage plays, having all the characters appear in the same scene to enhance the conflicts in the plot.

For example, in Niujia Village, the "center of the universe", when Guo Jing and Huang Rong were recuperating in the secret room, almost all the named characters in the book had to come to Niujia Village for a visit and live in the same house with them.

This not only solves the problem of readers having to temporarily shift their attention away from the protagonist when the plot of a secondary character occurs, but also gives readers a kind of "God's perspective", creating a sense of voyeurism.

Although there are many excellent online novels in later generations, there are basically no novels that integrate the other world and the human world as well as "Harry Potter".

Because online literature is serialized and updated every day, the competition is very fierce. If the author wants to keep the audience's attention, he must pay attention to the pleasure of pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face.

Therefore, many authors choose to have the protagonist be constantly provoked by all kinds of inexplicable people, and then constantly fight back against these people, so that readers continue to pay money.

The disadvantage of doing this is that it ignores the creation of a world view. When it comes to film and television adaptation, there are very few successful examples due to its inherent deficiencies.

As for the female frequency, she only needs to talk about love (licking) and affection (dog), and other things are dispensable.

When Yang Ye copied later online novels, he chose Ghost Blows Out the Light because Ba Chang created a world that was bizarre enough and yet real and credible.

And then copying "Harry Potter" is, on the one hand, taking away a top IP in Europe and the United States, which is a loss at the same time.

On the other hand, it is difficult to find such a worthy adaptation in fantasy novels.

Also, this is a set of children's literature, and the story begins with the protagonist's childhood.

If you do it well, you can really reap the rewards of your life, from small to large. (End of this chapter)