Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 56 Movies
As soon as he arrived in Cannes, Jiang Zhiqiang used his energy to visit film producers from all over the world.

When he was a teenager, he followed his father and brother to major film festivals in Europe and the United States. It has been almost ten years now and he has met countless film producers.

After a series of connections, fifty or sixty European and American film distributors have been arranged to come and watch the film. Whether these distributors will buy it depends on how the film goes.

Yang Ye is not worried about this at all. The original version of "Shaolin Temple" is a global hit, breaking records wherever it goes, especially in Poland. The number of movie viewers has reached 500 million. After decades, it is still ranked first in Polish history. Ten, just tell me whether it’s fierce or not, right?

Yang Ye's film "Shaolin Temple" is not bad, and some scenes are more thrilling than the previous film.

In Hong Kong, after two rounds of screenings, the box office has successfully exceeded 1000 million.

In Nanyang, after Yang Ye swept the Japanese and Japanese martial arts circles, Golden Harvest re-released "Shaolin Temple". As a result, the box office records of all countries and regions were broken by "Shaolin Temple", and Bruce Lee had to settle for second place.

In Japan, Shaolin Temple has just been released, with a box office of an astonishing 34 billion, temporarily ranking first in the year.

In short, Yang Ye has surpassed Bruce Lee and become the number one superstar in Asia-Pacific.

Birds of a feather flock together and people divide into groups. So many people on the earth are divided into different groups according to different cultures. Each group has its own unique cultural atmosphere and living habits.

But there are also some things in common. These common things are nothing more than family, friends, lovers, etc.In short, they are universal values.

If a movie is to be accepted by people from different cultural regions, it must comply with this universal value.

What does "Shaolin Temple" promote?It is about resisting tyranny, avenging his father, and young love.

This is acceptable to people all over the world. People anywhere can easily understand this story when they watch this movie.

Later Hollywood blockbusters followed this formula very much. No matter how big the issue is, the family is always the first priority. we are family!

"2012" was about the destruction of the world, but in the end there was no grand narrative. It was all about saving the family from beginning to end!
"Avatar" tells the story of a war between two planets, but in the end the story is still about we are family!

Solving the problem of universal values ​​only unifies the threshold for viewing movies, and then we have to create spectacles.

If your movie can make the audience feel incredible when watching it in the cinema, and the adrenaline rushes with excitement, and then they are amazed and applaud loudly, then your movie will be successful.

Before the success of Hollywood special effects, the most awesome spectacle in the movie was Chinese Kung Fu.

From the 70s to the 90s, Hong Kong movies were said to be popular all over the world, but there were actually only three people who were really popular around the world.

That's Bruce Lee, Chen Lung and Jet Li, they all rely on action movies.

Although Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingchi and Liang Caowei are famous in the Chinese-speaking world, their popularity is almost non-existent outside the Asia-Pacific region.

"Shaolin Temple" is the most awesome spectacle in the world of cinema today!

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While Jiang Zhiqiang was inviting film distributors everywhere, the crew of "Shaolin Temple" also set up a booth in Cannes to promote the film.

There are many movie lovers who come to Cannes every May. If the screening of the movie can be loved by the audience, it will be a great plus for the film distributors.

Yang Ye is naturally the hands-off shopkeeper on these matters, and Zhao Yazhi, Hu Yinmeng and a few staff are busy with them.

A few days later, Kadokawa Haruki also came to Cannes. He knew that Yang Ye was here, so he came to visit.

Yang Ye asked: "Why did Mr. Kadokawa also come to Cannes?"

Kadokawa Haruki said: "Of course I'm here to buy movies, otherwise my movie theaters would be empty."

Yang Ye said: "You can take the photo yourself, you are not short of money anyway."

Kadokawa Haruki's eyes lit up and he laughed and said: "This is a good idea. I will try it when I get back."

Just give it a try. This guy became a director after he returned home, and he really made a classic.

Looking at this person's life, Yang Ye often feels that he is also a time traveler.

Kadokawa Haruki took a sip of coffee and asked: "Does Yang Sang have no plans to make a new movie?" Yang Ye said: "Of course!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a few storyboards he had drawn with him and showed them to Haruki Kadokawa.

Kadokawa Haruki watched it with great interest and said in surprise: "Yang Sang, do you want to remake "Fist of Fury"?"

Yang Ye nodded and said, "Yes, I rewrote the plot and rearranged the martial arts movements."

Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" is the first work in the "Chen Zhen" series. Chen Zhen actually has no deeds in history.

It was Luo Wei who asked Ni Kuang to write a movie script. Ni Kuang discovered the name Chen Zhen when he was browsing Huo Yuanjia's obituary. He thought the name was very nice, so he made up such a story.

Later, after continuous interpretations by Bruce Lee, Bruce Leung, Jet Li, Zhen Zizi and others, it became a well-known story, just like Chen Zhenzhen actually did it in history.

Yang Ye roughly told Kadokawa Haruki the story of the new version of Fist of Fury.In the new story, Chen Zhen's identity has become a Chinese student studying in Japan. He also has a Japanese girlfriend, Mitsuko Yamada, and has a good relationship with Japan's karate master Fumio Funakoshi, who is also a teacher and friend.

This reflects the dominant idea of ​​normalizing diplomatic relations between China and Japan, that is, treating Japan in two and distinguishing ordinary Japanese people from militarists.

The big boss in the movie, Tsuyoshi Fujita, is a typical militarist.

From a plot perspective, this is much smarter than blindly pumping out emotions.

On the later movie website Douban, the rating of Jet Li's "Fist of Fury" also surpassed Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury".

Chen Zhen has dozens of versions, and the only one that surpasses Bruce Lee's version is Jet Li's "Fist of Heroes".

In fact, after filming "Shaolin Temple", Yang Ye no longer wants to take advantage of Jet Li. There are so many wonderful action movies, it is only fair that one person takes a little of them.

But... there are too many classics by Jet Li.Moreover, Yang Ye has now established the image of a national hero and a great master.

Chen Long's action movies with jokes and slapstick were not suitable for him, so he had to give up.

Anyway, Chen Long has already signed a ten-year contract of renunciation with Yang Ye, so let him take the picture on his own.

On the other hand, after Yang Ye swept the Japanese martial arts world, his fame in the Chinese world skyrocketed. If he wanted to monetize his traffic, the simplest and most direct way was to make a movie about beating Japanese people.

The audience is excited. If a movie like this is made, the box office will explode unless it explodes.

If he wants to beat up the Japanese, Yang Ye has two choices. In addition to this "Fist of Heroes", there is also the "Ip Man" with Zhen Tan.

I'd like to give ten, which is pretty good.

Then why not choose Ip Man, but choose Chen Zhen?

Because Yang Ye compares again and again, he still feels that "Fist of Heroes" is more exciting.

"Fist of Heroes" is not like other Sino-Japanese duel films that rely on inciting national emotions to stimulate the audience.

Chen Zhen in the film acknowledges the power of science and uses modern scientific fighting concepts to transform traditional martial arts. After discovering that there is something fishy about his master's death, he immediately opens an autopsy to find out the cause of his master's death.

In the final BOSS battle, the audience is told very clearly how the protagonist uses technology to defeat his opponent when he is weak, rather than relying on the explosion of the small universe.

The interpretation of history in "Fist of Heroes" is also very fair and objective.

For example, Chen Zhen was a representative of the large number of talents who studied in Japan and later became China's elite, Tsuyoshi Fujita was a representative of the young soldiers who wanted to invade China, and Funakoshi and the consul were the epitome of some pro-China and Lianhua people at that time.

All in all, "Fist of Heroes" is worthy of being a textbook for kung fu movies.

If Yang Ye wants to copy, of course he will copy the best one!

Yang Ye said to Haruki Kadokawa: "I hope to invite Momoe Yamaguchi to play the heroine of this movie, Mitsuko Yamada."

(End of this chapter)