Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"A Love Letter to Filmmakers" is about movies, but it allows many viewers to see their own lives.

"How many people love the grace you left on the screen, how many people love your independent attitude..."

This paragraph is written for the actors!

On the screen, actors display their beauty, sadness, and self-admiration for everyone to see.

When Deng Lijun sang this part, classic scenes from the movie featuring Yang Ye, Lin Qingxia, Zhang Guorong and others appeared on the big screen.

"You are desperately pursuing eternity, but life is full of ups and downs and regrets..."

This paragraph is written for the director!

The director created a movie and a dream.

His life is bumpy and unpredictable, but he has strict requirements for dreams.

In pursuit of perfect sadness, sorrow, worry, pain, laughter, scolding, hatred and love.

But always being misunderstood, hurt, abandoned and blamed.

When singing this part, the big screen showed behind-the-scenes footage of directors including Yang Ye, Ann Hui, and Xu Ke at the filming location.

And the chorus part:
"The world is just a place where you live, and the Milky Way is where your soul wanders."

As soon as this line of lyrics came out, actors like Zhang Guorong, who believed that "drama is more important than anything else", burst into tears.

This human world is just his parasite; the world in the movie is where his soul truly resides.

"The world is nothing but your invisible dream, a dream left behind by chance. Dreaming of silvery bright colors with a body outside of your body, dreaming of dreams within dreams with a body outside of your body!"

This line of lyrics moved many directors.

The phrase "using a body outside of one's own body to dream a silvery dream" means that the director relies on the actors to create the dream.

This chorus is sung from the singer's perspective and is addressed to all filmmakers.

The singer represents the audience, and she is also brought into that silvery dream by the director and actors.

After singing the song, Deng Lijun said to the filmmakers in the guest seats: "Thank you for bringing us a good dream.

This dream seems to be related to me, but it also seems to have nothing to do with me. It is just a beautiful dream after all. Goodbye! "

She bowed towards the guest seats and slowly left.

She said this from the audience's perspective.

Her slowly departing figure was like an audience member leaving after watching a movie.

Many directors and actors at the scene stood up and applauded loudly with tears in their eyes.

This song explains everything about the movie from the perspectives of actors, directors and audiences.

Although the title of the song is a love letter to filmmakers, everyone seems to be able to see their own life in this song.

By the end of the song, it had transcended the scope of filmmakers and was sung for everyone.

"The world is just a place where you live, and the Milky Way is where your soul wanders..."

Many people who hear this line of lyrics feel that it is a poem written for themselves.

Therefore, not only the filmmakers at the scene were moved by this song, but other audiences were also moved by this song.

It is no wonder that many filmmakers at the scene expressed deep respect when they saw Yang Ye appear on the big screen.

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After Teresa Teresa sang "A Love Letter to Filmmakers", today's "Best Newcomer Award" was presented, and the winner was Wu Xingguo.

Wu Xingguo is the treacherous Xu Xian in "Green Snake", but his award-winning film "The Tempted Monk" was adapted from Li Bihua's novel.

Originally, the 1994 Academy Awards was a weak year, with not many competitive films, allowing Derek Yee's Love in a Fallen City to win big.

But now with the addition of Yang Ye, Kaizige, Li An and others, it has become a big year.

"Kung Fu", "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Wedding Banquet" all have a lot of nominations, so "Love Unforgettable" doesn't seem to stand out much.

The awards were presented one by one, and Yang Ye's "Kung Fu" was the first to win the "Best Visual Effects" and "Best Sound Effects" awards.

He then defeated Cheng Xiaodong, Jacky Cheung and Yuen Kwai to win the "Best Action Choreography" award.

Kaizi Ge's "Farewell My Concubine" won two major awards: Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.

Art and photography are the strongest points of Kaizi Ge's movies. This doesn't mean that you will be invincible just by hiring a great art director and photographer.

Because the movie presents the director's will, art, costumes, and photography all need to cooperate with the director to achieve the best effect.

For example, Kaizi Ge’s "Legend of the Demon Cat" and Guo Xiaosi’s "Onmyoji" are from the same art direction team, but the results they present are very different.

Brother Kaizi has profound attainments in aesthetics. Starting from his first film "Yellow Earth", he has always been able to present excellent visual effects.

Another great director, Li An, had very rough early films in this regard.

However, Li An made rapid progress and with the assistance of a strong Hollywood team, he became very powerful after filming several movies.

Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu, who won the Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards at last year's Golden Horse Awards, both lost this year.

The Best Supporting Actor award went to Ge You from Farewell My Concubine, while the Best Supporting Actress award went to Feng Baobao from Love Unforgettable.

In the Best Screenplay award, Yang Ye was nominated for two films, "Kung Fu" and "Speed".

But in the end, "Farewell My Concubine" defeated "Kung Fu", "Speed", "The Wedding Banquet" and "Love Unforgettable" to win the Oscar.

This award was a bit embarrassing for Kaizi because he had insisted on revising the script in the first place.

Brother Kaizi has his own cognitive misunderstanding. He has a good literary style, so he is very confident in literature and often can't help but make comments on the script.

But he never understood that being a good writer and being able to write a script are two different things.

It’s just like the online literature on Qidian in later generations. Some people have average writing skills, but their stories are wonderful, and they make a lot of money.

Some people write articles in extremely gorgeous shapes, but the plots are dull and boring to read, so naturally no one is interested in them.

The Best Costume Design award went to Japanese woman Emi Wada.

Luo Dayou won the Best Original Song award for "Woman's Heart", the theme song of "The Heroic Trio".

The Best Original Score award went to Liu Yida of Tat Ming Pair.

"Kung Fu" did not sweep the Golden Horse Awards as it did last year.

After all, the scope of the Hong Kong Film Awards is larger than that of the Golden Horse Awards, and there are more strong contestants.

Moreover, the judging mechanism is one person one vote, which is affected by various factors and can easily lead to a pork-splitting effect. "The winner of the Best Editing Award is... Lin An'er, Kung Fu!"

Lin An'er was nominated for Best Editing for two films, "Once Upon a Time in China III: Return of the Lion King" and "Kung Fu", and ultimately won for "Kung Fu".

As the only female editor in the Chinese film industry, she stole the spotlight at this year's Academy Awards.

After she gave a speech to express her gratitude for the award, she happily walked off the stage holding the trophy. Yang Ye asked her, "Have you gone home?"

Lin An'er smiled and said, "Yes, I called my brother first. He said that my mother has been regretting since I left. So I went home for dinner, and our family got back together."

“Do they recognize your work now?”

“Approved!”

"Congratulations! Nothing is more important than a family understanding each other!"

"Yes!" Lin An'er nodded heavily: "Sir, thank you!"

"This is your own ability, why are you thanking me?"

"You gave me the chance. Otherwise, I don't know when I can see my mother again."

"So you have a good relationship with your mother? She said before that she wanted to sever the mother-daughter relationship with you. I thought she favored boys over girls."

"No, she loves me very much. She just has old-fashioned ideas and is prejudiced against our industry."

Yang Ye and Lin An'er were chatting while Anita Mui performed the song "A Woman's Heart" and received the last four awards.

The Academy Awards reached its most anticipated segment, and the TV station's ratings began to soar.

Anyone who is interested in movies wants to know who the newly crowned Best Actor and Best Actress are.

Leung Ka Fai and Cheung Kwok Yung were invited to the stage as award presenters to announce the winner of this year's Best Actress.

Both of them appeared in white suits. Liang Jiahui joked at the beginning that Zhang Guorong could be nominated for half the leading actress.

Zhang Guorong teased Liang Jiahui about the new generation of cardigan monster in "A Chinese Odyssey".

After a round of banter between the two, the big screen began to play the highlights of the Best Actress nomination.

The voiceover introduced: "The nominees for Best Actress are... Josephine Siao for "The Money-Grobbing Couple", Gong Li for "Farewell My Concubine", Rosamund Kwan for "Speed", Ng Ka-li for "Heart of Steel", and Yoyo Yuen for "Love Unforgettable".

Among the five people, Josephine Siao and Gong Li have already won the Hong Kong Film Awards and are in a more peaceful state of mind.

Last year, Wu Jiali won the Best Actress award at the Golden Horse Awards, beating out Annie Yuen for her performance in A Heart of Steel.

But she hopes to win the more influential Academy Award, and is very nervous.

Rosamund Kwan has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress before, but this is her first time being nominated for Best Actress.

Although Yang Ye said she had no chance, she did not give up and was very nervous.

Yuan Yongyi is a novice, but her mentality is the most peaceful.

I lost at the Golden Horse Awards last year, and the competition for the Golden Image Awards is even greater, so it's even more impossible.

After the clip was played, Liang Jiahui was still playing around with the mentality and refused to announce the list, which made several of the nominees uneasy.

Zhang Guorong complained: "It's time to award it, hurry up, stop nagging!"

Liang Jiahui then opened the list of winners, and took a look at it with Zhang Guorong, and said, "The winner of the 14th Academy Awards Best Actress is..."

A burst of tense music played, and the screen switched to several finalists. Zhang Guorong held the little golden man in his hand and announced: "Yuan Yongyi!"

As soon as the list was announced, there was applause from the audience. Qin Pei and Er Dongsheng clapped their hands crazily, as if they were marrying their daughter.

In fact, the reason why Anita Yuen was able to win this award was not because of her great acting skills. She was just a newcomer who mainly acted out her true colors. At most, she had some talent, but her acting skills were not important.

The main reason is that the character of Amin is so good. Although he suffers from a terminal illness, he is optimistic and lively by nature and is full of persistence in life, which has touched many people.

The role and the actor complement each other. If an actor is suitable for the role and can bring out the characteristics of the role, the role will be established.

If it's not suitable, then you have to make up for it with your acting skills. If the role itself is bad, then no matter how good your acting is, it will be useless.

Therefore, many actors in later generations who have status or connections would try every means to change their scripts in order to make the characters they play more attractive.

As for whether doing so will ruin the overall effect of the movie, that doesn’t matter!
Yuan Yongyi got a good role, and she seized the opportunity and did not waste the role, so she won the award.

Yuan Yongyi walked onto the stage excitedly. She was also wearing a white dress and had neat short hair. She stood with Liang Jiahui and Zhang Guorong, looking like three brothers.

Yuan Yongyi held the trophy and said, "I want to thank my mother first! I also want to thank Sir Yang, the director, and more than 100 colleagues in the crew. You taught me a lot. I also want to thank many directors. You gave me many opportunities. Thank you!"

93 and 94 were the highlight years for Anita Yuen, who starred in such well-known films as Love Unforgettable, Sword of Royal Blood, The New Difficult Buddies, Rich Family, Princess Agents, From Beijing with Love, and House of Fortune.

After starring in "Thunderbolt" in 95, his career went downhill.

The rumor online is that she offended Chen Long by making this movie.

After filming of "Thunderbolt", there were a few shots that were not so good, so Chen Long notified Anita Yuen to reshoot them, but Anita Yuen stood Chen Long up.

Chen Long is a big shot in the film industry, but a little girl actually dared to stand him up. This was really intolerable to him, and in a fit of rage, he banned Yuan Yongyi.

Later, Yuan Yongyi had no more movies to shoot, so she could only shoot TV series.

This incident has been circulated on the Internet, and the popular comments in the comment section are generally like this: Fang Shilong must have wanted to take advantage of Yuan Jingjing, and since she didn't let him, he blocked her.

In fact, this is a rumor. This revelation was made by Chen Long when he was promoting "The Chinese Zodiac".

He didn't say the name, he just said he wanted to find that actor to add a few lines. But after waiting for a long time, no one showed up, so he found another girl to add the lines.

Chen Long's original words were: "I ignored her. Later, when I was in a directors' meeting, I said, 'I want to complain about someone. She is like this. She can't even deliver two lines.'

Immediately another director said, "Yes, she did this and that in my play last time." All the directors present heard it, and she immediately disappeared from the film industry.

This person is currently filming some TV series in the country."

After Chen Long broke the news, the onlookers suspected many people, such as Gao Yuanyuan, Zhang Baizhi, Kara Hui, etc.

Finally, the target was locked on Yuan Yongyi because, overall, Yuan Yongyi was more suitable.

But this simply does not stand up to scrutiny!
Because in the few years after Anita Yuen filmed "Thunderbolt", several movies were released every year and her schedule was full. There was no question of her disappearing from the film industry.

In addition, Yuan Yongyi often appeared in the Jackie Chan Charity Cup racing competition. From 95 to 04, Yuan Yongyi was present in every racing competition of Jackie Chan.

Yuen Wing-yee also starred in the film Dragon Fire, produced by Chen Long.

This shows that Yuan Yongyi had a very good relationship with Chen Long and had never offended Chen Long.

Chen Long's so-called revelation might be a deliberate attempt to stir up trouble in order to promote "The Chinese Zodiac".

Anyway, he didn't mention any names, so you can guess!
As for Yuan Yongyi's switch to TV dramas, it was because Hong Kong films were not doing well, so she tried TV dramas. As a result, "Mulan" became a big hit, so she continued to make TV dramas! (End of this chapter)