Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 682: Being an Idea King

"I love my daughter so much, she is the most beautiful life I have ever seen!"

"But every program is created for a purpose. If it doesn't have a purpose, it will be deleted. I want to save her!"

"You've never heard of the program and you understand fatherly love?"

Liu Hua was invited by Yang Ye to play a guest role in "The Matrix".

He played a program and together with another program, Amy Yip, they had a daughter, who was Liu Yifei.

The three of them are also the three protagonists of "The Man from Nowhere".

Yuqing Yip will play Liu Yifei's mother in "The Man from Nowhere".

The reason for looking for Veronica Yip was that after the acquisition of Fito, Veronica Yip became an artist of Yang Kee and needed support.

In "The Man from Nowhere", there is a close-up shot of Xiaomi's mother's body being sewn together after her organs were removed.

That scene was completely nude and had a strong visual impact, so it would be inappropriate to delete it, so we had to find a porn star to play the role.

Veronica Yip is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.

Under the camera, Liu Hua asked Yang Ye: "I can see that you are in love. Can you tell me what you are willing to give for love?"

"To give everything!"

"This may be the reason why you and I are here. Our emotions are not much different!"

After a conversation, Liu Hua and his family of three boarded the subway and left.

Yang Ye announced: "That's all for today, we're done!"

The staff began to pack up. Yang Ye held little Liu Yifei's hand and said to Liu Hua, "Hua Zai, A Yu, "Sunny Days" won an award in Venice. There will be a celebration party in a few days. Come and show your support!"

Yang Ye invited them, and they immediately agreed.

Liu Hua said: "Okay! I heard that Xia Yu is only fifteen years old?"

"Yes, the youngest Venice Film Festival winner in history!"

"That's amazing. His future is limitless."

Veronica Yip asked, "I heard that girl also won a Best Actress award?"

"Yes, Ning Jing is my goddaughter who I adopted from the mainland. She is very talented in acting and won the Best Actress Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

These two major film festivals were held one after the other, so we held the celebration banquet together.”

The San Sebastian International Film Festival is also a well-known film festival in Europe, second only to the three major ones. Ning Jing won the Best Actress award at the age of 22, which can be regarded as a blockbuster.

Ye Yuqing was full of envy, thinking that this girl would have a bright future if she had Yang Ye as her godfather.

Yang Ye chatted with Liu Hua and Ye Yuqing for a few words, then picked up little Liu Yifei and turned away.

Amy Yip looked at Liu Yifei's cute little face and thought, Oh, this is the one with a truly promising future.

Liu Yifei leaned on Yang Ye's shoulder and asked, "Dad, where are we going?"

"Go pick up your mom from get off work, and then go have a nice dinner! What would Sissi like to eat?"

"I want to eat... hot pot!"

"Okay, let's eat hot pot!"

Today's scene was filmed at a relatively remote station on the MTR.

After leaving the station and getting on the bus, Liu Yifei was a little tired from filming, so she lay on Yang Ye's legs and fell into a deep sleep.

Liu Xiaoli answered Yang Ye's call and got in the car at the designated location. Liu Yifei was still sleeping.

Yang Ye hissed, signaling Liu Xiaoli to speak more quietly.

Liu Xiaoli looked at this heartwarming scene between father and daughter, and felt quite relieved.

Yang Ye really did keep his promise and treated her daughter as his own.

She took the initiative to kiss Yang Ye on the face. Yang Ye smiled and asked, "Did you have a good day at work?"

"Pretty good, how about you guys?"

"Xiaofeng did a good job in his first filming. He is very talented."

"That's good. She loved performing when she was in kindergarten."

"It seems she inherited it from you. If she likes this line of work in the future, I will support her with all my strength."

Yang Ye's words were very sincere and touched Liu Xiaoli deeply.

"Husband, you are so kind!"

……

Although Hong Kong's film industry was declining rapidly, Yeung Kee was not affected at all.

The film "Sunny Days" invested and filmed by him won the Best Actor Award at the Venice International Film Festival.

Yang Ye's goddaughter Ning Jing also won the Best Actress award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

It can be said to be a double happiness!
Yang Ye booked the Fulinmen Restaurant to hold a celebration banquet, and made a high-profile appearance with Ning Jing, introducing them to the media reporters who came:

"This is my adopted daughter, Miss Ning Jing. She recently won the Best Actress Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. She is a very talented actress. Please take good care of her in the future!"

Yang Ye has been in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years and has started to adopt a goddaughter. The media reporters who came were very interested and took a lot of photos.

Ning Jing also smiled as bright as a flower, posing in various poses confidently, allowing reporters to take photos while answering their questions.

A reporter at the scene asked Yang Ye: "The two actors who are celebrating today are both from the mainland. Is Yang's focus going to shift to the mainland?"

Yang Ye replied very officially: "This year is a bumper year for Chinese-language films, and films from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong have won awards at many international film festivals in Europe.

Among Hong Kong films, Wong Kar-wai also won the Osara Award, which is the Best Cinematography Award, for "Ashes of Time". This is something to be celebrated.

As for Yang Kee’s focus, our vision is to be based in Hong Kong, radiate globally, and develop into an international film company.

So there is no question of where the focus will be shifted, we will continue to tap the potential of the Hong Kong film industry.

Recently I launched an 'Asian Rising Star Director' program, preparing to launch the works of five new directors.

Among them is "One O'Clock" by young Hong Kong director Wilson Yip. Please pay more attention to it."

As Hong Kong films began to decline, xenophobia began to arise. Faced with such a heart-breaking question, Yang Ye simply brushed it off.

Any place is always more tolerant when it is on the rise, but once it declines and lacks resources, xenophobia begins to spread.

During the golden decade of Hong Kong films, many artists from mainland China, such as Jet Li, Gong Li, Wang Fei and Leon Lai, were able to obtain first-line resources.

But after the decline of Hong Kong films, things have changed. They have become more and more conservative, and resources are always reserved for their own people first.

With the rapid rise of the mainland and the slowdown in Hong Kong's development, this sentiment has already begun to emerge.

This sentiment first broke out among women in Hong Kong. With the rapid economic development, feminism in Hong Kong began to awaken.

But Hong Kong men don't care at all. Their countermeasure is very simple, which is to marry brides from the mainland.

In 1994, there were newlyweds in Hong Kong, of which were brides from the mainland. Hong Kong women hated this to the core.

Hong Kong is just a city with a population of several million, so it was easy to deal with. But it became difficult for the mainland later on, with a population of over one billion, and even if all the eligible women in neighboring countries were drained out, it would not be enough.

Yang Ye decided to do something to bridge the rift between the two places.

After the celebration banquet, Yang Ye took his goddaughter back to his own residence and spent the whole night enjoying himself.

Among the women Yang Ye had slept with, Ning Jing's headlights were second only to Li Zhi and Halle Berry. They were heavy and felt first-rate.

"Sunny Days" will be released in Hong Kong at a later date.

The original version of this movie was released in Hong Kong in 1995, and the box office was only over million, which was not very ideal.

Now that Yang Ye has appeared in person to promote his goddaughter, it is expected that sales will be better. Yang Ji also introduced Tsai Mingliang's "Long Live Love" to be screened in Hong Kong.

The three Chinese-language films that shined at the Venice Film Festival this year, "Long Live Love," "Sunny Days," and "Ashes of Time," were released in Hong Kong at the same time, which was also a gimmick.

……

Yang Ye found Dong Qiao, the current editor-in-chief of Ming Pao.

After this year's Academy Awards, Yang Ye acquired Jin Yong's shares in Ming Pao and officially took over Ming Pao.

However, he promised Jin Yong that he would not change the Ming Pao's newspaper policies and guidelines, and the personnel of Ming Pao remained the same as before.

This is completely different from the original time and space when Yu Pinhai took over. After Yu Pinhai took over Ming Pao, he did a lot of cool things.

For example, he mortgaged Ming Pao to get a loan, then used the loan to lend money and opened a casino in Canada.

As a result, many old employees of Ming Pao were deeply indignant and left one after another, which had a great impact on Ming Pao.

Later, Yu Pinhai’s past misdeeds were exposed and he had to resign from the position of chairman, but the damage to Ming Pao was enormous.

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Ming Pao is a very good newspaper and has strong credibility among the Hong Kong middle class. Yang Ye does not want to change it.

In the six months since he took over, everything at Ming Pao remained the same. Even at board meetings, Yang Ye only allowed Deng Lijun to attend on his behalf, which made Jin Yong feel much more relieved.

However, Yang Ye wanted to use the resources of Ming Pao to do something else.

Yang Ye poured a cup of tea for Dong Qiao and said slowly, "Old Dong, I want to publish a newspaper. Can you help me plan it?"

Dong Qiao was stunned. Ever since Yang Ye took over Ming Pao, he had always been a hands-off boss. He only arranged a board seat for his woman Deng Lijun and then stopped caring about anything.

This made the old man in the newspaper very satisfied, so they continued to do things step by step. Unexpectedly, Yang Ye, who had been patient for half a year, finally took action.

Yang Ye looked at Dong Qiao's expression and said with a smile, "Don't get me wrong, I promised Mr. Jin Yong that I would not interfere with the Ming Pao's policy.

I want to start another newspaper, but there are many experienced journalists in the newspaper office, so I hope you can help me."

Dong Qiao felt relieved and asked, "What kind of newspaper does the lord want to publish?"

Yang Ye took a sip of tea and said, "Free newspaper!"

Dong Qiao almost choked on his tea and asked in surprise, "Free newspaper?"

"Yes, not only do we not charge any money, we even have to pay the sales channels."

"Then...how to make a profit?"

“Through advertising!”

"Advertisements? Our newspaper makes profits from advertisements!" Dong Qiao couldn't understand.

"Ming Pao's circulation has exceeded 120,000 copies, making it the leading newspaper in Hong Kong. How much more do you think it can grow?"

Dong Qiao thought for a moment and said, "The main readers of our Ming Pao are the middle class in Hong Kong. Given the population size of Hong Kong, this is almost the limit."

"What if I want to increase the circulation of the newspaper to 30?"

"That's impossible unless the population of Hong Kong exceeds 10 million. Wait, you said... free?" Dong Qiao began to understand what Yang Ye meant.

"Yes, it's free. Newspapers have always been purchased with money. If our newspapers are free, the circulation will naturally increase greatly.

As for profitability, if we can achieve sales of 300,000 or even 500,000 copies, our appeal to advertisers will naturally increase significantly.”

"I understand. This trick... seems to really work. The Sir's idea is indeed unique and he has thought of things that others have not thought of. I, Dong, deeply admire him!"

Yang Ye thought, what seemed possible was simply too possible.

This was Fei Li’s trick in the original time and space. Fei Li’s fruit newspaper was made free, and its circulation soared to 300,000 copies.

The circulation of Ming Pao was forcibly reduced to 90,000 copies, a decrease of one quarter.

The later rising Headline Daily had a circulation of over 700,000 copies, becoming the major newspaper with the highest market share in Hong Kong.

Fei Li had been secretly killed by Yang Ye, his company fell apart, and Fruit Daily would never be born again.

Well, this routine was first invented by Yang Ye.

It is a real joy in life to have someone kill you and still use his tricks.

The more Dong Qiao thought about it, the more he thought this was a good idea. He asked cheerfully, "So, what does the lord think the policy of our new newspaper should be?"

Yang Ye thought for a moment and said, "We, the descendants of Yan and Huang, are scattered across the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places. Not only can we not unite, but we are also alienated and attack each other, which is heartbreaking. Our newspaper's policy is... unity!"

Dong Qiao is a Malaysian. The Malaysian Chinese are the most united overseas Chinese group. They speak Chinese, write Chinese characters and remember where their ancestors came from.

Although they were not in the majority, they united and fought hard, and won the right to receive Chinese education, have independent Chinese schools, and have independent diplomas.

Chinese schools do not receive any government subsidies and are able to continue operating thanks to voluntary donations from the Malaysian Chinese Association, as well as support from Chinese groups, Chinese companies and Chinese media.

Therefore, Dong Qiao knew the significance of the word unity, and was deeply moved when he heard this. He offered Yang Ye a cup of tea and said, "I will fully support this matter. How about we name this newspaper "Huaxia Daily"?"

Yang Ye shook his head and said, "The name is too big, it's not suitable. Cultural influence should be subtle, which is the best strategy.

I want to call our newspaper "Headline Daily". We will use all kinds of explosive headlines to attract attention and increase circulation.

Once you make money and form a virtuous cycle, you can then do other things.”

Dong Qiao thought about it and agreed with it, saying, "Great!"

Next, the two discussed how this newspaper should be published and what resources should be mobilized.

People like Yang Ye control the Hong Kong entertainment industry and have a unique advantage in reporting entertainment news.

The Ming Pao's publishing channels were ready-made, and by transferring some key business personnel from Ming Pao and with Yang Ye's financial support, it would not be difficult to get this done.

But what effect can be achieved in the end depends on Dong Qiao's ability.

Anyway, Yang Ye was just giving an idea, and someone would naturally take care of the rest.

With Yang Ye's wealth, most of the time he just needs to be a king of ideas.

He comes up with ideas and then finds someone to implement them. If they succeed, he'll make a fortune. If they fail, it doesn't matter if he loses money.

This is also the difference between ordinary people and rich people.

Rich people have countless opportunities to trial and error, but ordinary people may not even have a single chance in their entire lives.

Even if you finally wait for the opportunity, if you fail once, there will be no recovery.

After talking with Dong Qiao, Yang Ye sent an internal notice to the group’s top management.

When recruiting people in the future, recruit more brides from the mainland.

Although these girls got married, they suffered from discrimination. Many of them couldn't even find a decent job and had no status in the family.

"Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai" directed by Ann Hui reflects this situation.

In fact, many of these girls are educated young people. In terms of their own abilities, their husbands may not be worthy of them.

However, when women get married, they always tend to marry into a family with good living conditions.

In this era, Hong Kong people earn much more than mainlanders. One month's salary is equivalent to a mainlander's work in a year.

So, there is nothing wrong with this kind of thing. Marry a man to get clothes and food.

There are also many educated women from rural areas in the mainland who marry useless men in the city just for a household registration.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Recruiting these girls is just a piece of cake for Yang Ye, but it can solve their predicament.

The economic base determines the superstructure. If they can make money, their family status will be improved.

Moreover, they are often hardworking and far better than the Hong Kong natives, which is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)