Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

There are three main characters, and each of them has to play two roles.

Yang Ye was fine, he kept a straight face most of the time.

Zhang Guorong and Zhang Manyu are sometimes affectionate and sometimes hysterical, and they are in the same scene, like they are schizophrenic.

For example, Zhang Manyu, who was an elegant and beautiful painter in the last second, turned into an angry plastic surgery substitute in the next second.

Although she can switch between the two roles with ease with her acting skills, she is prone to laughing.

This was a kissing scene. Zhang Manyu said to Yang Ye, "Can we use a different location for this kissing scene?"

Yang Ye asked: "Why, you two are so familiar with each other, and this is not the first time you have filmed a kissing scene?"

Zhang Guorong and Zhang Manyu have worked together many times and kissed on the big screen more than ten years ago.

Zhang Guorong asked, "Am I too handsome? Are you afraid that you can't control yourself?"

"You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth!" Zhang Manyu punched Zhang Guorong hard, then turned to Yang Ye and said, "I have had a toothache these past two days."

Yang Ye shook his head: "This scene is very important, we can't use a borrowed position." Then he said to Zhang Guorong: "A Rong, kiss it later!"

"OK!"

"OK!"

The two leading actors agreed, all departments were in place, and filming began immediately.

After the script supervisor clapped the cue, the two of them entered the role in an instant. Zhang Guorong hugged Maggie Cheung from behind, kissed her neck, and then moved up to kiss her lips.

Zhang Manyu was indifferent at first, but after a while she turned her head and responded fiercely.

The two of them were entangled with each other, gnawing and gnawing, and they were very absorbed in it, completely ignoring the existence of the staff on the scene.

Yang Ye stared at the monitor and suddenly thought, Zhang Manyu is so cute, how could I let her go back then? I was really blind!
Now that she is successful, rich and powerful, it is difficult to win her over.

Yang Ye's stamp collecting addiction kicked in, and he suddenly felt a little sour. He clapped his hands and said, "Alright, alright! That's enough. This isn't a pornographic film!"

He said something sour, but Zhang Guorong and Zhang Manyu heard it as a joke.

The two separated their bodies, and Zhang Guorong asked, "Boss, are you jealous?"

Yang Ye rolled his eyes: "Do I need to be jealous? I'm the director. I'll add a scene tomorrow and kiss Ah Yu for ten minutes!"

Zhang Manyu was horrified: "Please spare me!"

"Wouldn't it be nice to have a kissing scene with me?"

"It's okay to shoot a kissing scene, but who wants to kiss for ten minutes? Even having sex doesn't take that long."

Zhang Guorong asked, "The man you met is too bad, isn't he?"

Zhang Guorong loves to brag about this kind of thing. He once said in front of a reporter, "If I want, I can handle more than a dozen girlfriends. Believe it or not!"

Yang Ye was speechless: "Won't that make my skin rubbed?"

Wang Zuxian, who was watching the show on the side, was even more speechless: "Hey, can you guys stop being so filthy!"

Yang Ye laughed. "Okay, let's call it a day. Who's turn is it to treat us today?"

Zhang Guorong was chatting happily, and said with a hint of unsatisfied interest: "It's me!"

Yang Ye said to Chen Musheng, "Ah Sheng, pack up quickly and we'll go together later."

Chen Musheng thought, there are two men and two women, it would be redundant for me to be in there, so he said, "I won't go. I want to sort out the footage I shot during the day tonight."

"Thank you for your hard work!" Yang Ye was just being polite.

……

Four people drove a car and sped along the road.

It was late autumn, and the maple trees on both sides of the road were as red as fire.

Under the setting sun, the whole city seems to melt into the sunset.

Zhang Manyu looked at the scenery outside the window and exclaimed: "It's so beautiful here!"

Wang Zuxian said: "Didn't you say last time that you wanted to immigrate? Come here and keep me company!"

Zhang Manyu thought for a moment and said: "If I retire from acting in the future, I might move to France!"

Yang Ye complained: "What's so good about France? The roadside trees are all French plane trees. In autumn, the thorns are all over the sky. It's better to have maple leaves all over the ground here."

Zhang Guorong was driving and said, "We can go to Quebec, which is a French-speaking area."

Yang Ye said: "It's close to the Arctic Circle. It's freezing cold. Who would want to go there?"

Zhang Manyu asked Yang Ye: "If you retire in the future and want to immigrate, where will you move to?"

These few of them are all superstars, and there are so many people who know them. If they retire, they would tend to immigrate and live a quiet life.

Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, "I'm not going anywhere. I'll just stay in Hong Kong."

“What if I had to choose one?”

"Shenzhen!"

The three of them were speechless for a moment. It was so close, it seemed as if they had not moved yet.

When the car arrived at Chinatown, Zhang Guorong asked, "Which store are we going to?"

Yang Ye said: "Ah Yu has a toothache, it should be due to internal heat, eat something light!"

Zhang Manyu sighed: "I really can't stand eating Sichuan food with you every day!"

The four of them found a Cantonese restaurant and ordered no seafood or anything, but some light porridge and side dishes.

After a while, the dishes came and the four of them ate and chatted.

The crew of "Wushuang" has been in Vancouver for more than half a month. The filming here is almost complete and they will go back in a few days.

Yang Ye gave priority to filming the Vancouver section because of Canada's climate. Otherwise, by the time the Hong Kong section was finished, there would have been heavy snow there.

Zhang Guorong drank his porridge and sighed, "We just talked about retirement in the car. I don't plan to retire. Living an idle life every day is too hard for me."

Zhang Guorong once retired for a period of time and moved to Canada, but he found it too boring to just eat and sleep every day, so he went back to Hong Kong to continue being a star.

Zhang Manyu said: "I think what Xiaoxian said is very right. As actors, it is enough for us to leave our best images on the screen. I don't want my fans to see me getting old on the screen."

Zhang Guorong said: "Actually, I also mind growing old in front of the screen. Boss, do you mind too?"

Yang Ye nodded: "Yes!"

After the completion of "The Matrix" series, Yang Ye helped Chen Long and Tom Cruise direct two action films, in which he himself did not appear.

In Xu Ke's fantasy trilogy, he made guest appearances as the Sword Master and Changmei in "Feng Yun" and "The Legend of Zu", and died twice.

Although "Green Wasp Detective" filmed with Ayumi Hamasaki is an action film, it was just to help Ayumi Hamasaki make her debut.

Afterwards, he filmed "The Perfect Match" with Liu Xiaoli and her daughter, showing their affection.

This time when filming "Wushuang", I decided to go all out. I had already taken away so many representative works of Chow Yun-fat, so I might as well make him bald.

There is also "Happy Journey", a magical adaptation of "Harry Potter". He only served as the director and did not appear in the film.

In short, after "The Matrix Trilogy", Yang Ye has been gradually downplaying his identity as an action star and moving from the front stage to behind the scenes.

So when Zhang Guorong said that Yang Ye minded, Yang Ye admitted it directly.

Yang Ye loves movies, so even though he is super rich, he has never thought of quitting. But he doesn't want to be like Chen Long, who is 70 years old and has white hair, but is still fighting on the big screen.

Zhang Guorong said: "So, I decided to learn from you. I plan to move from the front stage to behind the scenes. I want to... be a director!"

“Clap, clap, clap!” Yang Ye clapped: “Good idea!”

Zhang Manyu hit him mercilessly: "Can you do it?"

Zhang Guorong's personality is confident and narcissistic. He said: "I have made more than 70 movies. How can I not know how to be a director?"

Wang Zuxian echoed, "Brother is so smart, he can learn it just by watching!"

Zhang Guorong raised his eyebrows and said happily: "Xiaoxian still understands me. If I make a movie, can you be the heroine?

Wang Zuxian said without giving any face: "No!"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Manyu laughed out loud.

Zhang Guorong ignored her and continued to coax Wang Zuxian: "Believe me, I will make you the best actress!"

Wang Zuxian was unmoved: "I've already got it."

Zhang Guorong was poured a bucket of cold water by Wang Zuxian, and was very depressed. He turned around and looked at Zhang Manyu again.

Zhang Manyu said: "I have taken it too!"

"Hahaha!" This time it was Wang Zuxian's turn to lose control.

Zhang Guorong said helplessly: "I am serious, are you sure you don't want to help?"

Yang Ye did not laugh, because Zhang Guorong was not joking, he was serious.

Leslie Cheung is already over 40 years old. He has always been very concerned about his appearance and is afraid that the audience will see him getting old one day.

Coupled with the rise of a group of younger generations and the decline of Hong Kong films, his performance opportunities decreased, so he decided to become a director himself and take control of his own destiny.

Zhang Guorong believes that being an actor is just a pawn and the director is the soul of the entire film.

Yang Ye asked, "If you became a director, what award would you most like to win?"

Zhang Guorong said: "Of course it is the best film, which means the whole team is great."

In the original time and space, Zhang Guorong struggled for many years to pursue his dream of becoming a director.

He probably had this idea around 1997, and later found the famous mainland writer He Jiping to write the script.

He Jiping is a famous talented woman, and her most classic works are "Legend of the New White Snake" and "New Dragon Inn".

The later "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", "The Warlords" and "Evil Does Not Suppress Justice" are also very famous.

He Jiping wrote the script according to Zhang Guorong's requirements. The name of the movie was "Stealing Hearts".

The story takes place in Qingdao in the 40s. It is a film about the emotions of an artist, and the ending is a sad and beautiful one full of regrets.

After the script was completed, Zhang Guorong went through many twists and turns and finally found investment and finalized the actors.

The male protagonist is himself and the female protagonist is Ning Jing.

Zhang Guorong had previously worked with Ning Jing on two films, "Red Lovers" and "New Shanghai Bund", and admired Ning Jing very much.

The second male lead is Hu Jun. After watching "Lan Yu", Zhang Guorong went to find Hu Jun, praised him for his good acting and invited him to star in his new film.

In addition, Chen Daoming, Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Wen and others also made guest appearances.

When Zhang Guorong went to Qingdao to inspect and select locations, Huang Xiaoming accompanied him. Huang Xiaoming also invited Zhang Guorong to his home.

Zhang Guorong initially decided to set the story in Qingdao because he had seen some postcards and picture albums of Qingdao.

I feel that this city has a strong cultural atmosphere and many quaint buildings and landscapes.

But when he got there, he found that Qingdao had already been modernized and there were high-rise buildings everywhere.

So he decided to revise the script. After he finally finished revising it, the plot outline was leaked by Hong Kong media.

Zhang Guorong had no choice but to revise the script again. However, just before filming began, the investor was found to have financial problems and was arrested.

A series of setbacks resulted in the failure of "Stealing Hearts" to be sold and shelved indefinitely.

At that time, Zhang Guorong's depression was already very serious, and the failure of "Stealing Hearts" made him depressed and resentful.

A few months later, he ended his life in a tragic way.

A movie has been in the works for several years but has not been completed. The apparent reason is that Zhang Guorong pursues perfection and wants to make a big splash, but he is unlucky and various problems always arise during the preparation and filming process.

But in reality, it was because he had not overcome the mentality of being a novice creator.

Most of the novice creators, when they are about to create a work, will feel that they are extremely awesome and that their work will definitely be a hit.

For example, when it comes to writing novels, most novices are full of confidence before they even start writing, and think that the novels they write will be amazing.

Before I start writing, I start to imagine and conceive all kinds of things. All kinds of wonderful ideas keep popping up in my mind. It's awesome.

When I actually started writing, I found myself so confused that I couldn't write anything at all.

Even if I have written it, I often waste a lot of time racking my brains, picking out sentences, and writing because a sentence is not beautiful enough.

After writing a few paragraphs with great difficulty, I felt that the plot in some place was not perfect enough, or a new idea came to my mind, so I went back to the beginning and made some revisions.

After making this change, I suddenly felt that neither this nor that part was good, so I kept changing it over and over again...

The vast majority of people will stay at this step throughout their lives.

Because after repeated revisions and spending a lot of energy, his initial creative passion will be exhausted, so that his novel will be shelved before it sees the light of day.

A few people go beyond this step and write and publish novels that they think are very awesome.

But he found that the opposite happened and no one was interested in his novels, so he lost heart.

Among those who are upset, most will angrily criticize the readers for being ignorant and incomprehensible people who simply cannot understand his novels.

Only a few people will realize that their writing is not good and choose to cheer up and try again.

Only those who are one in a million and have extraordinary talent can overcome these obstacles and setbacks and make a name for themselves.

Yang Ye is essentially a plagiarist, but he understands this mentality very well, so he said to Zhang Guorong: "You know I made my debut by writing novels, right?"

Zhang Guorong said: "Of course I know that, you wrote "Kunlun" after all."

Yang Ye said: "Before writing "Kunlun", I was a fan of martial arts novels. I have been reading martial arts novels since elementary school, and I am so intoxicated by them.

After I graduated from high school, I started writing novels. At the very beginning, I wanted to write a masterpiece that would surpass the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long and become a sensation.

To this end, I demanded that everything be perfect, so I revised it over and over again, over and over again, for several years, but I didn't get anything done.

Later, I got the hang of it. I copied Jin Yong and finally created a book called Kunlun. "

Zhang Guorong listened to Yang Ye's words and said thoughtfully: "Are you trying to wake me up?"

Yang Ye said seriously: "If you want to be a director, you must overcome the mentality I just mentioned.

Nothing is perfect in this world. Jin Yong's novels have a lot of bugs, and my movies also have many flaws.

If you demand that everything is perfect, then you will keep going into ruts and you may never make a movie in your life, you may not even be able to start the camera.”

Yang Ye is an experienced person, and he is speaking from his own experience. Moreover, his later achievements were so dazzling that Zhang Guorong had to admit it even if he was not convinced.

"Thank you, I'll remember that!" (End of this chapter)