Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

The next day, major media outlets in Hong Kong rushed to report on the grand performance.

"Rock soul, shocking Hong Kong!"

“Chinese rock is sweeping Hong Kong!”

“Hung Hom, very Chinese!”

Many review articles have commented on this performance, and more cultural figures and musicians have expressed their opinions.

Everyone spoke highly of the enthusiastic response on the day of the performance, but also raised the question: "What happened?"

The rules at the Hung Hom Stadium were very strict, but they could not stop the tens of thousands of spectators who were determined to stand up.

They danced and roared with their hands and throats, stomped their feet and jumped. Even the media and security personnel who were accustomed to performances were caught up in the excitement.

Everybody is going crazy!
In this concert, people saw a lot of new things. The singers combined rock and folk songs, Qinqiang and Peking opera...

Classical and modern elements are integrated and displayed in a very novel way.

And all of these are inseparable from one place...BJ!

On this night, the performances by bands from Taiwan and Hong Kong were relatively standard, while the performances by bands from the mainland were more surprising.

The last performer to take the stage, Yang Ye, performed a masterpiece that combined Peking Opera with rock music, which was surprisingly related to BJ.

Why does such music appear in BJ?

Academy Award director Ann Hui Sum is an avid rock fan. She felt that what was presented that night was very special because it had both Western rhythms and Chinese flavor.

She was a person who took action, so a few days later, she packed her bags and went to BJ to find out what was going on.

A few years later, she made a movie about rock and roll, "BJ Rock and Roll".

The English word for rock is “Rock & Roll”, which is translated into “Music and Fury” in Hong Kong. The name of Beyond’s album “Music and Fury” comes from this.

"BJ Music and Fury" means "BJ Rock". The authorities felt that the name was inappropriate and demanded that it be changed. In the end, they used a homonym and changed it to "BJ Music and Road".

The performance that night influenced many people, and soon Taiwan would launch its own rock music festival "Spring Scream", which continued to develop into the most influential music festival in China, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.

But for the Three Masters of Mo Yan and others who participated in the performance that night, that was all.

These BJ local hooligans are suitable to stay underground. If you ask them to stand in front of the stage and abide by various business rules, they can't do it and can't adapt to it, so they soon stop.

Yang Ye didn't care about this. It was difficult to create a brilliant culture in a barren environment, and even if there was one, it would only be a flash in the pan.

Decades later, with the continuous development of the economy, a lot of music will eventually come out of the underground.

On the contrary, some gossip media commented on the song "BJ One Night" and said that Yang Ye was promiscuous and had affairs with as many as a hundred women in the mainland, which was extremely licentious.

Even when Yang Ye planned to release a studio version of "BJ's One Night" and invited the original female singer of the song, Liu Jiahui, to record it, it was also believed that he had taken a fancy to this girl and was trying to pick up girls again.

Yang Ye was not itchy even if he had too many lice, nor was he worried even if he had too many debts. He just let these people talk. Apart from explaining to the mothers of a few children that "Deep in the Hundred Flowers" was just a place name, he ignored everyone else.

A few days later, The Matrix officially premiered.

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The four movies starring Yang Ye last year grossed over 1 billion U.S. dollars worldwide, with explosive performance.

So much so that this year's "The Matrix" has attracted the attention of movie fans around the world even before it was released.

Since Hong Kong was the first place to release the film, some people even bought tickets to fly to Hong Kong to see it.

The premiere of "The Matrix" was held at the Poplar Cinemas in Mong Kok, and all the theaters were used to screen "The Matrix".

In addition to the guest sessions and media sessions, other sessions are also open to movie fans.

On the day of the premiere, the cinema was surrounded by crowds of people. People from the entertainment industry across Taiwan Straits and Hong Kong were proud to receive the invitation. They all attended in their best attire, vying with each other for beauty. It was even more lively than the Academy Awards.

Many overseas film producers also came.

Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia made an extremely rare appearance with their daughter Yang Xiao, which attracted a lot of media attention.

Yang Ye's children are only Lin Fengjiao, Zeng Huaqian, and a few children born to mainland actresses who have not been exposed.

This time, the two of them appeared openly with Xiao'er, and the media did not react in a sarcastic manner. Instead, they praised Yang Xiao.

They said she inherited her mother's beauty, had graceful manners, and had an excellent temperament.

After all, the last Fei Li who had been nagging Yang Ye had grass three feet high on his grave, so it would be more reliable to say something nice to him.

As for Lin Qingxia, she will announce her official retirement after finishing filming "The Matrix".

In the future I will concentrate on accompanying my daughter's growth and will not appear in the media unless necessary, so it doesn't matter.

Another leading actor, Ti Lung, also attended with his wife, Tao Minming, and son, Tan Junyan.

Tao Minming started dating Ti Lung when she was less than 14 years old. Ti Lung waited until she came of age and then married her. This is a typical cultivation system.

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The premiere was the same as usual, with interviews, interactions, and chatting about the filming of the movie.

The film's leading actors, Ti Lung, Ching Ha Lam, and Billy Chow all said that the film was super awesome and they were impressed by the director's creative ideas.

"The Matrix" involves two worlds, the real world and the virtual world. Simply put, future audiences can understand the virtual world in "The Matrix" as a large-scale online game.

There are three types of people in this online game: players, who are the protagonists; GMs, who are employees of the game company; and NPCs in the game.

The real world is fucked, and most humans live as slaves in the virtual world, providing nutrients for robots.

The few surviving humans live in a place called Zion and enter the virtual world to fight against the GM.

The protagonist Neo is a BUG and is almost invincible in the virtual world.

GM's method of dealing with them is simple and crude. Since they can't defeat them in the virtual world, they will find them in the real world and unplug the network cable.

In 1994, although online games already existed in the world, they were all in the form of text games, “Mud” in English and “mud” in Chinese.

The first true graphical online game had to wait until the release of Ultima Online in 1997.

The first Chinese mud game in the original time and space, "Xia Ke Xing", would not appear in Taiwan until the end of 1995.

However, Yang Ye has already made suggestions to Kingsoft. They are currently working on a muddy online game called "World of Martial Arts", which will be launched in a month or two.

For most people, it is incomprehensible that the protagonist in "The Matrix" can travel back and forth between the real world and the virtual world.

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Several leading actors praised Yang Ye highly, which invisibly raised everyone's expectations for the movie.

The official release of the film did not disappoint everyone.

The opening scene is a wonderful action scene.

Lin Qingxia was wearing a leather jacket and leather pants and sunglasses, and she beat up a group of policemen in a very cool manner.

The action style of "The Matrix" is in line with the previous "Kung Fu", giving the audience a sense of déjà vu.

Lin Qingxia has been filming action scenes for many years. Her movements are much more graceful than those of the original version of Carrie, and she is also more beautiful than Carrie.

Lin Qingxia was seen soaring into the sky, spreading her wings like a roc, and the camera slowed down to show her hovering in the air. Her posture was very cool, and she immediately received a round of applause. Then there was a cool parkour chase, which was very exciting.

Ever since Yang Ye named parkour "Qinggong", and he and his partners and disciples have been constantly demonstrating and promoting it in movies.

Qinggong has become a popular sport originated in China and is sought after by many young people around the world.

Yang Ye has recently been pushing for Qinggong to be included as a demonstration event in the 2000 Beijing Olympics. If successful, the influence of Qinggong will be taken to a new level.

After a wonderful competition scene, a large truck suddenly rammed towards Lin Qingxia.

Lin Qingxia did not choose to run away, but rushed into a public telephone booth frantically and picked up the phone.

With a "bang", the telephone booth was smashed to pieces by the truck.

The villain Chow Billy appears, but he says that Lin Qingxia has escaped, and orders to find the next target, Neo.

The audience was bewildered. How did Lin Qingxia escape after being hit like that?

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Yang Ye appears. His real name is not Neo, but a normal Chinese name.

But his online name is Neo, which is actually "One" written in reverse order.

Yang Ye is a normal person, but he always feels that the world he lives in gives him a very unreal feeling, so he begins to doubt the authenticity of this world.

Until he was guided by someone on the Internet, hunted by Billy Chow, and rescued by Lin Qingxia, who took him to meet Ti Lung.

Dillon gave him a pill and told him that the pill was actually a tracking program that "can lead us to your body."

Yang Ye was connected to the Internet. When he opened his eyes, he woke up in a petri dish with many metal sockets and tubes on his body.

At this time, a strangely shaped robot appeared. After confirming the target, it unplugged him and threw him into the wastewater pool.

When he woke up again, Dillon told him that the you with jacks all over your body is the real you, and the world you are in now is the real world.

The world you knew in the past is a virtual world created by computer programs. It is all fake. You are just living on the Internet.

You think it is 1995? Actually, it is 2195, and the world has already passed years.

One hundred years ago, humans invented artificial intelligence technology, which gave robots self-awareness.

Later, the robots formed their own machine empire and went to war with humans.

Humanity lost and machines took over the entire planet.

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When Dillon told Yang Ye about this, the audience immediately thought of the plot of "Terminator".

It also tells the story of computers gaining self-awareness and then destroying humans.

They all thought to themselves, Yang Ye really likes to play this game.

There won’t be any time travel later, and Yang Ye will have to protect the savior’s biological mother or something, right?
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Dillon continued to tell Yang Ye:
Humans were unwilling to accept defeat, so they covered the entire sky with dark clouds, cutting off the robots' most important energy source, solar energy.

A machine without electricity is just a pile of scrap metal, but machines are beginning to cultivate humans, using human bioelectricity as energy.

The Machine Empire built a matrix system that allows the self-consciousness of the humans they cultivated to live in the virtual network world and obtain the bioelectricity of their bodies in the real world.

In order to better keep humans in captivity, this matrix system is very real.

The humans they cultivated were half human, half machine, with many sockets on their bodies, plugged into network cables, and transmitting various neural signals to the human brain, creating real feelings, and even when they "died", their real bodies would die because of the realistic feelings.

When Ti Lung was narrating this part, the picture of the movie became very dark, with human petri dishes hanging on pipes like fruits hanging on trees.

A thing like a robotic arm picks humans one by one, just like picking fruits. It looks very creepy and inexplicably exciting.

This kind of plot and this kind of scene are very novel and shocking in this era.

Although Yang Ye used the same setting of robots destroying the world as the previous "Terminator", he told something new.

Dillon told Yang Ye that they were all humans who escaped from the petri dish and were unwilling to be enslaved by machines, so they chose to resist.

These humans in the real world are called hackers.

They plugged Internet cables around their necks, hacked into the matrix, and entered the cyber world, looking for awakened humans like Yang Ye to fight against the machine empire.

Many years ago, an omnipotent savior appeared in the matrix. He could rewrite the programs in the matrix at will. It was he who liberated the first group of people among them.

After his death, the prophet predicted that he would come back, that he would destroy the Matrix, and that Dillon would find him.

Dillon believed that this savior... was Yang Ye.

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Well, now everyone understands that this time Yang Ye is not protecting the savior, he himself is the savior.

He is indeed a man who likes to save the world!

The story is told very clearly, and once you get into it, the audience will quickly be drawn into the plot.

Words like program, matrix, code, and hacker sound very novel and give people a sense of awe.

Coupled with cool moves and gorgeous special effects, the overall viewing experience is still very good.

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Afterwards, Yang Ye followed Dillon into the Internet and began various martial arts training.

When Yang Ye watched this part in the original time and space, he didn't think it was very good, because the fight between the two Americans was too mediocre.

Even with the support of Yuen Woo-ping, knowledgeable audiences can tell at a glance whether you are a martial artist or not.

Now that it is Yang Ye and Ti Lung who are fighting, the viewing experience is much better and the audience is enjoying the show.

Learning skills has always been a common routine in Hong Kong action movies.

Especially Yuan Heping, there are learning scenes in almost every movie.

Like the "Drunken Master" in the 1970s, Chen Long was beaten up, so he worked hard to learn martial arts and finally took revenge.

In the 1980s' "Tai Chi Master", Donnie Yen's family was killed, so he became a disciple to learn martial arts and seek revenge.

In the 1990s' "Tai Chi Master", Jet Li also learned martial arts and then took revenge.

In the 2010s' "Once Upon a Time in China", Zhao Wenzhuo was still learning skills and taking revenge.

Yuen Woo-ping knows how to make this scene interesting.

After learning martial arts, it's time to start fighting.

After Ti Lung was captured, Yang Ye finally took action and fought with Chow Billy for three hundred rounds.

People suddenly discovered that although Yang Ye wrapped "The Matrix" in a sci-fi coat, it was essentially a Hong Kong martial arts film. (End of this chapter)