Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 73 This Can't Blame Me
In Yang Ye's previous life, he met a girl from the north while playing a game. She took the high-speed train for more than 1000 kilometers to Yang Ye's city and spent a summer vacation with Yang Ye.

School was about to start, and Yang Ye went to the high-speed rail station to see her off. She looked at Yang Ye and said a line from "Cape No. [-]" with a serious face: "I stay, or you come with me!"

Now, when Momoe Yamaguchi said the lines in "Fist of Heroes" seriously, Yang Ye instantly remembered the girl from his previous life.

Young girls always have unrealistic fantasies, feeling that they can risk their lives for love and abandon everything.

At such a moment, what Yang Ye has to do is to follow her, accept her, and not let her feel that her sincerity has been betrayed.

The cold rain slapped against the glass of the phone booth, and the two of them kissed heartily in the cold wind...

When the rain was a little lighter, Yang Ye took Yamaguchi Momoe home. She sat on the back seat of the motorcycle and looked at the neon lights of the city. The wheels drove through the streets, splashing water droplets. It was clear that everything was cold. It was cold, but she felt unusually warm...

"Takako, bring me a blanket."

The two of them were soaked in the rain. Yang Ye pushed Yamaguchi Momoe into the bathroom and said, "Take a hot bath first."

Then he ordered Sister Zhou to make ginger soup.

After that, I went back to the room, took a shower, and changed my clothes.When he came out, he saw Yamaguchi Momoe wrapped in a blanket and sitting on the sofa in the living room, looking at him and smiling, with bright black eyes.

Sister Zhou had already cooked the ginger soup. Yamaguchi Momoe took a sip and said with a bitter face: "It doesn't taste good."

"I want to drink it too." Yang Ye said and drank a bowl by himself.

"Oh!" She finished the drink obediently.

……

"Jun Ye!"

Yang Ye was lying on the table writing something. When he turned around, he saw Yamaguchi Momoe standing at the door with a smile on her face, and waved to her.

Yamaguchi Momoe came to Yang Ye's side with brisk steps, and Yang Ye hugged her and let her sit in his arms.

"What are you writing?"

“Write a song to sing at the movie premiere!”

Yamaguchi Momoe hummed a few lines along with the score, and her eyes lit up: "It sounds very nice. Can you tell me what the lyrics mean?"

"Uh..." Yang Ye hesitated for a moment and then told the truth.

Baiyang Pictures has held two premieres so far, and the leading actors have all come on stage to sing the theme song, and this time is no exception.

However... the movie "Fist of Heroes" did not have a theme song, so Yang Ye had to find one from somewhere else.

At first, Yang Ye wanted to use the theme song "Tuba is China" from Liang Xiaolong's version of "Chen Zhen", but he felt that this song was not as exciting as the theme song "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" from "Huo Yuanjia", so he simply used "Wanli" The Great Wall Will Never Fall."

Yamaguchi Momoe listened to the lyrics and sighed: "It would be great if there had never been a war between our countries!"

Yang Ye used the teacher's rhetoric and said: "These are all crimes committed by those militarists and have nothing to do with the ordinary Japanese people. The Chinese and Japanese must draw a clear line from the Japanese militarists. We In the movie we shot, they were all clearly distinguished.”

Yamaguchi Momoe raised her head, looked at Yang Ye with admiration, and said seriously: "Mr. Ye is such a broad-minded person!"

Yang Ye chuckled and said, "Okay, go to sleep. After being rained on for so long, have a good sleep."

Yamaguchi Momoe struggled for a moment, blushed, and gritted her white jade teeth and said, "Mr. Ye, don't you want to sleep with Momoe?"

This expression was innocent with a bit of temptation, innocent with a bit of coquettishness, Yang Ye couldn't help but swallow his saliva, he said with some embarrassment: "You are still young!"

Yamaguchi Momoe got off Yang Ye's lap, turned around in front of him, and said with a smile: "Ye Jun, Momoe... is still a virgin!"

As she spoke, she pulled her shoulders with her hands, and her nightgown fell to the ground like water...

Yang Ye sighed secretly: God, you really can't blame me!

……

The premiere of "Fist of Heroes" was held as usual at the Hong Kong City Hall.

This time, in addition to ordinary ticket-buying audiences, there were also film producers from all over the world. The huge sales of "Shaolin Temple" made Yang Ye's new film a hit.

Especially the recent hot sales in North America have attracted the attention of major Hollywood companies. Fox and Warner, who had not reached an agreement with Yang Ye before, also sent people this time.

This made Xie Yi very nervous. "Shaolin Temple" made him a lot of money. He couldn't lose Yang Ye, a cash cow, so he put down the work at hand and came to Hong Kong again.

After holding two consecutive premieres, the pattern has been fixed. First, the main creators of the film will appear on stage to meet the audience.

Then the host conducts a simple interview with the creator, the creator performs a program, and the main film starts to show.

After watching the movie, the main creator came back on stage, interacted with the audience, answered a few questions, and that was it.

This novel method is very popular. The Xu brothers imitated it once last time. Xu Guanjie went on stage to sing in person, and all the movie tickets were sold out.

Shaw Brothers also wanted to follow suit and did it once at Lee Stage, but the effect was very dismal.

If you don't have a famous star, you will be humiliating yourself if you do this.

Yang Ye came on stage with the main creators, and the audience immediately cheered. Most of them were shouting Yang Ye's name, and many people were shouting the names of Chen Long and Yamaguchi Momoe.

After "Drunken Master", Chen Long also became a big star.Momoe Yamaguchi is famous all over Southeast Asia, not to mention.

There were cheers one after another, and the emcee Zhang Mary had to wait until they finished shouting. Film producers from all over the world sitting in the front row looked back at the enthusiastic audience and couldn't help but nod secretly. It seems that Yang Ye is really a superstar in Hong Kong.

The audience shouted more and more enthusiastically, with no intention of stopping. Yang Ye had no choice but to step in and ask everyone to pause.

The emcee Zhang Mary said with a smile: "It seems that our celebrities are so popular."

Yang Ye smiled and said, "Thank you all for your support."

Mary Zhang: "I noticed that there are many special guests in the audience today?"

Yang Ye said: "Yes, they are all film producers from all over the world."

Mary Cheung exaggeratedly said: "Our Hong Kong movies have been sold all over the world. As a Hong Kong person, I am really proud! Thank you, Mr. Yang, for letting the world know Hong Kong."

The audience in the audience were also proud and applauded one after another.

After everyone finished applauding, Mary Zhang smiled and said, "It's our tradition at the premiere. Do you know what's next?"

"Sing! Sing! Sing! Sing!" The creators all laughed and walked off the stage, leaving Yang Ye alone on the stage.

Yang Ye was not polite, took the microphone and started singing:
Sleeping for a hundred years, the people of the country are gradually waking up.

Open your eyes!Watch carefully!Who wants to be a captive?
Because of shrinking and forbearance, people's arrogance is growing day by day.

Just scream!Shout loudly!The entire country is under attack!

It has always been the case that if robbers want to invade, they will eventually die.

The Great Wall will never fall down, and the Yellow River will flow for thousands of miles.

The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the peaks and ridges are colorful. How does my country look like it is infected with a disease?

……

This song is full of righteousness, and the movie to be released today is "Fist of Heroes", which is about attacking the Japanese. After listening to it, everyone in the audience was excited, as if they were drunk.

While the audience is looking up, the movie starts right away.

After the subtitles came out, Kyoto University in Japan immediately appeared on the screen. Several students raised their arms and shouted: "Japan belongs to the people, not to the emperor, nor to the army. Long live the people!"

This left the audience confused.

"Why is it in Japan? Shouldn't it be that Huo Yuanjia died and Chen Zhen went to the funeral at the beginning?"

"But these words make sense."

Next, Chen Zhen showed up and turned out to be an international student.

Bruce Lee's version of Chen Zhen has a famous line: "I study less, you don't lie to me!"

This "Fist of Heroes" has completely changed. Chen Zhen is not only literate, but also went to Japan to study and learn advanced scientific knowledge.

"Damn, why have you turned into a student?" Some viewers were immediately dissatisfied.

"Wow, Momoe-chan is kawaii!" Another audience member was completely concerned about this and couldn't move his eyes away from Yamaguchi Momoe.

The dissatisfied audience quickly shut up. Chen Zhen was driven away by the Black Dragon Society warriors. In a fierce fight, all the Japanese warriors were beaten to pieces, and they lay on the ground crying and howling.

The audience exclaimed: "I'm so embarrassed!"

After beating up the Japanese samurai, Chen Zhen received the news that Huo Yuanjia was dead and decided to return home for the funeral.

The following conversation between Chen Zhen and Guangzi sets the tone for the theme of the movie.

Photon: "Let me tell you, if you don't come back for a long time this time, I will never wait for you."

Chen Zhen didn't speak, just nodded.

Photon: "Chen Zhen, will you come back?"

Chen Zhen looked at the Japanese troops who were getting on the ship to go to China and said: "When they leave China and return to Japan, I will come back to you."

"But when the Japanese came to Qingdao, they attacked the Germans."

"You have to understand that Qingdao is Chinese territory, and the Japanese and Germans are both invaders."

"Chen Zhen, do you really hate the Japanese that much?"

"I don't know. Photon, growing up in this era, you and I have no choice. Please take care!"

After Chen Zhen finished speaking, he turned around and left.Guangzi called Chen Zhen's name from behind, but he didn't look back.

At this point in the movie, the image of Chen Zhen who puts the country's justice first and is willing to give up his children's personal relationship is fully revealed.

Later, Chen Zhen caused a scene in the Hongkou Dojo, dueled with Huo Ting'en, debated martial arts with Fumio Funakoshi, and fought against the robot Takeshi Fujita. Every battle was extremely exciting.

Especially the final battle with Tsuyoshi Fujita, which made people's palms sweat and made their hearts twitch.

"Fist of Fury" does not use national emotions to beat the audience like "Fist of Fury". In this movie, every Japanese has a different image.

There are kind and lovely Japanese girls, there are respected Japanese warriors, there are despicable and evil Japanese militarists, there are sober-minded Japanese consuls...

Although the Hong Kong audience may not necessarily buy into these painstakingly designed characters, the exciting and thrilling fights still received overwhelming applause.

After the movie ended, the audience gave him warm applause.

As for the film producers who came from all over the country, their eyes were filled with excitement.

A Fox representative exclaimed: Oh, buy it!This is the most exciting Kung Fu movie ever made, more so than Shaolin Temple.

Yang Ye breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he was a little worried about whether the audience would buy into "Fist of Fury" when Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" was ahead.

……

In 1992, Jet Li had a falling out with Jiahe due to salary issues, and formed his own Zhengdong Film Company. Zhengdong Film Company only made five movies before going bankrupt.

The five movies are "Fang Shiyu", "Fang Shiyu 2", "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and "Jingwu Heroes".

In addition to the first two films making money, the last three films were all flops, especially the last one, "Fist of Heroes", which directly bankrupted Zhengdong Company.

But the next three movies were regarded as classics of kung fu movies by later generations.

After "Fist of Heroes" hit the market, director Chen Jiashang called Jet Li to apologize, saying that he had messed up.

Li Lianjie comforted him that it was okay, saying that this was the most perfect movie he had ever made.

Later, "Fist of Heroes" sold [-] million Hong Kong dollars at the box office overseas. Not only did it successfully recover its costs, it was also considered one of the greatest action movies in history.

Now, this movie is 18 years ahead of schedule. In 18 years, the evolution of kung fu movies has been earth-shaking.

When the current audience watches "Fist of Heroes", the shock it brings is like when Li Hongzhang visited New York and traveled directly from ancient times to the present.

This time, Yang Ye made the right bet again!

(End of this chapter)