Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 53 Of course let me come

Yang Ye returned to the company and saw Hu Yinmeng sitting in the tea room eating rice rolls. He asked with a smile: "What did you eat last night?"

"Instant noodles!" Hu Yinmeng didn't even raise his head.

"Be kind to yourself." Yang Ye said solemnly and walked to the office.

Hu Yinmeng snorted, took the chopsticks and poked Yang Ye's back in the air, as if Yang Ye had been stabbed to death by her.

It was nice to have an assistant. Yang Ye found that his desk had been wiped clean and he had made a cup of hot tea.

As for the grids that Yang Ye asked Hu Yinmeng to draw, she had already drawn them and stacked them neatly on the table.

"Damn! She's quite serious!"

Yang Ye complained and began to draw the storyboard script seriously.

The composition, lens editing, and action design of later movies are much better than those of this era.

Therefore, in order for the staff to complete the task better, Yang Ye's shots must be drawn in extremely detail.

Fortunately, this is not difficult. Yang Ye only needs to adjust the movie scene and follow the painting.

After painting for more than an hour, Yang Ye stood up and moved around, threw the script aside, and began to think about what song to write for Teresa Teng.

In fact, the most cost-effective way is to open a record company yourself and then bring Teresa Teng into it.

With Teresa Teng as the pillar, she is making a lot of money. The number one singer in the Chinese-speaking world is no joke.

However, Deng Lijun had only signed with PolyGram for two years, and PolyGram also helped her develop in Japan, and she was doing well.

Yang Ye himself also signed PolyGram. There is no need to leave before the contract expires. It is good to use PolyGram for promotion in the early stage, which saves a lot of trouble.

Besides, the time is not ripe yet, the film career is the top priority. Only when the film career is stabilized can we have time to set up a record company.

Yang Ye took out a five-line music book from the drawer and wrote the words "Walking on the Road of Life".

This is Teresa Teng's most classic Cantonese song. Since she is going to release a Cantonese album, this song is definitely indispensable.

The original work of "Walking on the Road of Life" is "ひとりGetting Started" (Getting Used to Loneliness) released in 1980 by Miyuki Nakajima, who is the biggest contributor to Chinese pop music.

"A Walk on the Road of Life" by Teresa Teng, "The World" by Faye Wong, "So You're Here Too" by Rene Liu, "First Dream" by Weiqi Fan, "The Favorite" by Vivian Chow, "Sad Pacific" by Ren Xianqi...

So many songs that can be called the masterpieces of these singers are all covers by Miyuki Nakajima.Miyuki Nakajima's songs have made a lot of Chinese singers famous.

Before the emergence of four people like Zhou Wang Taolin, the Chinese music scene was almost a sea of ​​covers, and countless singers made a living by covering foreign songs.

The hardest hit areas for cover singing are Miyuki Nakajima, Koji Tamaki, and Shinji Tanimura.

In the 80s and 90s, these three people held up half of the Chinese music scene.

Yang Ye decided to catch these three people and copy them.

Oh, and that bastard Kondo Masahiko, Nakamori Akina and Matsuda Seiko, the two most powerful singers in Japan in the 80s, all caused trouble to him.

Damn it, of course, let me do this kind of thing!
If I don’t finish copying all the good songs you wrote, I’ll have traveled through time in vain.

Yang Ye was lying on the table writing a song when there was a knock on the door outside.

"Please come in! Sister Meng, why are you here?"

"I was on my way to the set. I passed by the company and came over to see if you were there. Are you writing songs?"

"Well, Teresa Teng wants to create a Cantonese album and asked me to help her write songs."

"Teresa Teng sings a Cantonese song? That's great. I haven't heard her sing a Cantonese song before. By the way, you agreed to invite me to the concert, but you didn't count." "Uh... this is not a concert in Taiwan. Yes. I will hold one in Hong Kong this year, and I invite you and your brother-in-law to go together."

"Then I'll wait. Your "Kunlun" has been serialized to the last volume. Pan Yuesheng asked me to ask you, are you still writing new books?"

Yang Ye thought for a while, and in order to obtain Jin Yong's copyright in the future, on the one hand, he would rely on Xia Meng, and on the other hand, he would also need to have a good relationship with "Ming Pao".

Therefore, I have to continue writing novels.And there is nothing wrong with getting famous and profitable by writing novels.He nodded and said, "Write!"

"Oh? What to write next?" Xia Meng became interested.

"Write a sequel! Didn't Jin Yong write a trilogy of Condor Shooting? I'll write a trilogy too."

"Planned?"

"Well, my trilogy is called 'The Classic of Mountains and Seas'. "Kunlun" is the mountain, and the next part is the sea. The title of the book is "Canghai". In the story of "Canghai", the protagonist will travel around the world. To experience greater adventures.”

"The whole world? That sounds exciting!"

In today's martial arts novels, the protagonist's activities are generally limited to China, and at most go to the surrounding Japan and Nepal.Jin Yong let Zhang Wuji be born on a small island in the far north, which was far enough.

In "Kunlun", Liang Xiao travels across Europe, which can be regarded as broadening the scope of activities of the protagonist in martial arts novels.In the next book "Cang Hai", the protagonist actually wants to travel around the world?
Not a single word was written in "Canghai", and Xia Meng already felt that the book was going to become popular again.

"Sister Meng, are you going to Cannes?"

"I'm not going. I still have to watch Aaron's "Drunken Master". The production team of this movie are all old people from Phoenix Company. Aaron and Yuan Heping are both newcomers. If I'm not around, they won't be able to control them. those people."

Yang Ye nodded and smiled: "That's right. But after "Drunken Master" is released, Aaron's words should be settled."

"So confident?"

"You participated in the entire filming, didn't you know?"

Hearing this, Xia Meng couldn't help but laugh: "The scenes you designed are so funny. I don't know how you came up with them. Aaron is indeed a talent. I watched them filming on the spot and laughed until my stomach hurt. .”

"So, it will definitely succeed this time."

"To be honest, in Hong Kong, everyone makes movies very quickly. A movie can be shot in ten days and a half. It is extremely rare for a movie like ours to take several months or even half a year."

Yang Ye said: "It's rare. In the future, as long as I personally star in a movie, the investment will be higher than the box office of the movie they made. In this case, they will never be able to catch up with me, and they will always be able to look up to me."

Although high investment means high risk, it also means high return.

Yang Ye can minimize risks by copying classic movies from later generations, so he dares to play this way.

When later generations talk about Hong Kong movies, they always like to talk about "double-week success" and Liu Dehua and Liang Caowei.

In reality?Only [-]%.

In the 90s, Chen Long's investment in a movie was hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. What about others?The total box office of a movie is less than [-] million Hong Kong dollars, how can it be compared?
Chen Long's 1995 movie "Red Zone" grossed HK$9 million at the global box office. How do you want others to play with this?
Yang Ye just wants to achieve this effect. There is no point in dancing in this small pool in Hong Kong. He wants to be a superstar in the world.

Yang Ye saw that Xia Meng's eyes were a little worried, probably because he was worried that he would slip up, so he smiled and said: "There is also Hu Jinquan. He makes a movie for four years, and we only shot for eight months."

Xia Meng said: "Then do you know what happened to his movie "The Heroine"?"

"But you can't deny that "The Heroine" was really well shot."

"That's true... I heard that Hu Jinquan is going to Cannes this time. "The Heroine" suffered too much loss. He was not convinced, so he cut a three-hour version and sent it to Cannes, and it was shortlisted."

"That's just right, I can meet this great director."

(End of this chapter)