Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 29 Wia Elimination Technique

The crew of "Shaolin Temple" returned to Taipei soon.

In the China Film and Television City, Yang Ye summoned more than 300 extras to shoot the scene where Li Shimin led the army into the Luoyang Palace.

Yang Ye arranged a wide-angle lens from a high place. In the lens, an army with a Tang flag was chasing an army with a Wang flag.

Then, Li Shimin, fully armored, rushed up the steps of the palace first, brandishing his sword and shouting: "Kill!"

The Tang army poured in like a tide, and it was considered complete.

It is not easy to arrange so many people. Fortunately, the assistant director of the crew is an old man hired by Xia Meng from Phoenix Film Company. He has rich experience, so Yang Ye leaves full responsibility to him.

Yang Ye's role as director is somewhat similar to that of later generations such as Han Er and Guo Si.

He is more like a project manager, convening a group of elite talents in the industry, and then he makes requests, and these people are responsible for implementation.

The assistant director directed more than 300 extras to shoot for several days, and finally it was done!

As Yang Ye closed the camera in person, the staff on the scene shouted loudly: "It's finished!"

It took a full nine months from the beginning of preparation to the current shutdown. This film with the highest investment in Hong Kong film history has finally been completed.

How can we not be excited that so many people have come together and worked together for nine months?
Yang Ye said: "We will go back to Hong Kong tomorrow. Aaron, you guys, get ready and reshoot immediately when we get back. Time is tight, I will only give you one week to reshoot. If you can't finish it, we will cancel it."

Chen Yuanlong, Yuan Biao and others immediately expressed their understanding.

After coming to Taiwan, Yang Ye suddenly proposed using wires to assist in shooting some difficult shots, and said there was a way to eliminate the traces of wires.

Therefore, the previous battle in Shaolin Temple was a little dull. Hong Jingbao proposed reshoots, and Yang Ye thought about it and agreed.

During the battle in Shaolin Temple, Jue Yuan was not present. He asked Li Shimin to move reinforcements. This was the highlight moment for the other stick monks.

Therefore, Chen Yuanlong, Yuan Biao and others who had outstanding performances in that scene racked their brains to design an awesome scene for themselves.

Yang Ye means, since you want to show off, then go ahead and show off!

After all, they have already spent so much money, so they don’t care about taking a few more shots, just let them worry about it.

……

Yang Ye stayed in Taiwan for one more day before leaving. He met with Teresa Teng.

Teresa Teng said with a smile: "Your crew has left, why are you staying alone to meet me? You don't want to chase me, do you?"

"I will chase you, do you dare to agree?"

"Dare!"

"Uh... let's get down to business. I wrote a few songs. Do you want to listen to them?"

Teresa Teng's eyes lit up and she said, "Of course I'll listen. I didn't expect that you'd be busy filming movies every day and still have time to write songs."

Yang Ye said: "One day when I was tired from filming, I was sitting by the river to rest. I saw a few shepherd boys playing happily. I was inspired by this and figured out a new tune."

Deng Lijun perked up: "Then I'm all ears."

Yang Ye strummed the guitar and sang the song "Country Road".

After singing, Yang Ye pressed the strings and asked, "How was it?"

Deng Lijun closed her eyes and said: "It's very beautiful. I seem to see the sunset, the sunset, the path in my childhood, surrounded by weeds. Sometimes there are yellow leaves and sometimes there are not. There is a carefree me, or there is not." No one but the wind..."

She suddenly opened her eyes and said, "It sounds so good!"

"Um, don't rush to praise me yet. I just want to ask, what do you think of the style of this song?"

Deng Lijun pondered for a while and asked: "This is the only song? Is there any more?"

"Yes, then I will sing another song." "Okay!"

Yang Ye sang another song "Four Rhymes of Nostalgia":
Give me a ladle of Yangtze River water, Yangtze River water
The wine-like Yangtze River water

The taste of drunkenness is the taste of nostalgia
Give me a ladle of Yangtze River water, Yangtze River water
……

"Is this a poem from Yu Guang?"

"Ok!"

Teresa Teng hummed a few words softly and said with admiration: "Your two songs have broken the previous limitations of old Shanghai and traditional folk songs musically, and highlighted the simple, plain and catchy style of the works. At the same time, It also borrowed some features from Western folk songs. Oh my God, you created a completely new style of music."

Yang Ye said calmly: "I want to promote this kind of music. I wonder if you are interested in participating together."

"Of course I do. Does this style of music you created have a name?"

"Yes, I call it...Chinese folk song!"

Why are they called Chinese folk songs?
Because along with the rise of Taiwan's folk song movement, there is also Taiwan's local consciousness.

Yang Ye wants to eliminate its local consciousness and emphasize its Chinese attributes.

"Chinese folk songs... Well, I have fallen in love with this style of music. Please write more songs and listen to them."

Deng Lijun grabbed Yang Ye's arm and shook it. Yang Ye immediately begged for mercy: "Stop, stop, write, write, write, stop shaking."

Yang Ye touched his bald head and said, "I'm busy! I have to go back to Hong Kong to do the post-production of the movie and be busy with the release of the movie. Then I have time to write songs. How can I get next year?"

Deng Lijun thought for a moment and said, "That's just right. Anyway, I'm going to Japan next and I won't be back until the end of the year."

In 1974, Teresa Teng became the third Chinese singer to enter the Japanese music scene. She successfully opened the Japanese market with her song "Airport", which sold 70 copies and won the annual "Japanese Record Awards New Singer Award".So this year, she has to fly frequently to Japan to participate in various activities.

"When is your movie coming out?"

Yang Ye thought for a while: "I hope it can be released on New Year's Day."

"Then I'll go watch it then! I'm particularly curious about what a movie made with 300 million Hong Kong dollars would look like."

"That's great, I'm going to have a premiere, and I'll invite you to come and attend."

"Okay, it's a deal!"

……

After returning to Hong Kong, Yang Ye took Chen Yuanlong and others to complete the reshoots in less than ten days, and then re-edited the film.

Since most of the film was copied from the original version and there were no useless shots, the editing work was very simple and quick.

After the movie was re-edited, everyone watched it together. This movie can be described in one word: It’s awesome!

Now there is only one problem left: there are nine lenses, and traces of Wia can be clearly seen.

Yang Ye said at the beginning that he had a way to eliminate Wi-A, so when Yuan Heping and Hong Jingbao designed the Wi-A lens, the strategy they adopted was to hide it as much as possible. If it couldn't be hidden, then don't hide it.

Everyone looked at Yang Ye, who solemnly said: "Give me a month."

How does Yang Ye eliminate the traces of Wia?

He was going to... write a piece of software.

In this era, integrated circuit computers have appeared and are relatively advanced. External memory uses large-capacity soft and hard disks, and optical disks have begun to be introduced.In terms of software, the operating system continues to develop and improve, and has entered the field of text and graphics processing.

In addition to having his own brain, Yang Ye also owns a computer.With "Shenwei" providing technical support, it is not difficult for Yang Ye to write a graphics processing software using existing equipment.

Therefore, Yang Ye’s way to eliminate the traces of Wia is very simple, that is... P out.

(End of this chapter)