Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 83 Chatting up a foreign woman

PS: Sorry, the chapter posted in the morning was blocked. After a long time of editing, the unblocking failed. I can only wait 48 hours to apply for unblocking again.

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Chen Long came to Yang Ye for advice with the script he had saved.

Yang Ye read it carefully and thought to himself, isn't this "The Strange Move of Laughing Fist"?It turns out that he had thought about shooting this thing so early.

But to put it bluntly, there is nothing surprising. "The Strange Move of the Laughing Fist" was originally a movie imitating "The Drunken Master".

Since Yang Ye had produced "Drunken Fist" in advance, it is understandable that "Laughing Fist" came into being.

There's nothing much to say about the plot of "Laughing Fist and Strange Moves", it's just an imitation anyway. Some useful plot points in "Drunken Master" were also reused by Chen Long, such as pretending to be a woman.

But Chen Long also designed many novel routines, such as using chopsticks to put food into his mouth during a fight, which is very interesting.Countless film and television works of later generations have imitated this scene, the most typical one being "Kung Fu Panda".

Influenced by Yang Ye's always making the storyboards very detailed, Chen Long's script is also very detailed in this era. Many moves and other things are clearly marked. However, Chen Long's drawing skills are too bad, so it looks a bit messy. .

Yang Ye smiled and said: "Aaron, there is no need to make the script so detailed. Many things can be improvised."

Chen Long scratched his head and said, "But I, Young Master, you and Director Hu Jinquan have all filmed movies. Your storyboards are clearly drawn."

Yang Ye said: "This is different. Qi Baishi said that those who learn from me will live, and those who imitate me will die. I am following the route of a martial arts master. In order to show the style of a master, I must design my movements in advance to ensure perfection. But you are following the path of the market. If everything is planned in advance for the people's route, it will appear very deliberate and not people-friendly enough.

You must learn to adapt to local conditions and make good use of all available equipment around you, including pots and pans, poles and benches, everything.Think about how the scene in Drunken Master where Huang Feihong and Su Qier fought Tietou Gong was designed. "

Chen Long admires Yang Ye very much, not only because Yang Ye's own movies are selling well all over the world.

What's more, the "Drunken Master" tailor-made for him by Yang Ye has sold like crazy in the Asia-Pacific region. This time, he also took advantage of the opportunity of film dealers from various places to watch Yang Ye's new film to sell the European and American copyrights.

Later, Chen Long and Yuan Heping made a movie called "Snake" that imitated "Drunken Master", and the box office was much worse.

"Drunken Master" sold a super high box office of 20 billion yen in Japan, while "Snakehead" only sold more than 4 million yen. The gap is too big.

Moreover, Yang Ye not only gave him unreserved guidance, but also trusted him very much. For example, when he was asked to be the director this time, he directly delegated power and gave him creative freedom to do whatever he wanted.

Chen Long had worked with Luo Wei before, and he didn't dare to have any objections to Luo Wei. He would do whatever Luo Wei asked him to do.

It is precisely because of this that he remained unmoved when faced with poaching from Shaw Brothers and Jiahe. He had so much to learn from Yang Ye.

And it’s the kind that you can use every little bit you learn.

Although Chen Long rarely studied, he was a smart man. He vaguely felt that Yang Ye was inspiring him and guiding him to a prosperous road.

He left because he was stupid.

Yang Ye is different from Chen Long's former boss Luo Wei. In front of Chen Long, Luo Wei is the elder, senior, godfather, and giant in the film industry.

Chen Long must not have any objections to Luo Wei's instructions. If he does, it will be offensive, and Luo Wei will get angry and scold him bloody.

In fact, Luo Wei knew about Chen Long's talent, but after experiencing the Bruce Lee incident, he was a little worried that the same thing would happen again.

After filming "Big Brother" and "Fist of Fury" that year, Lo Wei regarded himself as Bruce Lee's mentor, but Bruce Lee felt that Lo Wei was a scumbag and didn't listen to him at all on the set.

The relationship between the two became very tense.

Luo Wei's meaning is very clear, I am the director, you have to listen to me, otherwise if you do what you want, you will be the director!
Bruce Lee said that he would do whatever he wanted, and Golden Harvest also decided to support Bruce Lee in directing a movie and let him show off his talents.

Luo Wei scoffed at this, waiting to see the joke.

However, Bruce Lee directed and starred in "The Way of the Dragon," which broke box office records and made Luo Wei's face swollen.

Perhaps for this reason, during the years when Chen Long followed Luo Wei, whenever he showed off his comedy talent, Luo Wei would get furious.

In his subconscious, he was probably afraid that the Bruce Lee incident would happen again.

But Yang Ye has no need to suppress Chen Long. Chen Long is a genius. Yang Ye is eager to develop his potential, so he suppresses him because of his brains.

So Yang Ye directly gave Chen Long creative freedom and let him make his own films and practice.

"In short, the choice of fighting scenes must be ordinary. The more familiar the place is to the audience, the better. Furniture stores, vegetable markets... are all wonderful places, because this way the audience can have a sense of involvement. When designing the action, the scene must be The environment is integrated into it. For example, your script is designed to fight with chopsticks and put food into your mouth. It is very interesting. It is not an exaggeration to call it a classic..."

Yang Ye continued to inspire Chen Long, and Chen Long listened very seriously, nodded repeatedly, and found a note to write down the key points that Yang Ye said.

The two were talking happily when Lin Qingxia and Xu Feng walked in. They remained silent and stood by quietly listening.

Yang Ye knew they were coming, but pretended not to know and talked even harder.

Invisible coercion is the most deadly.

Yang Ye's endless ideas not only made Chen Long beam with joy, but also made the two beauties' eyes sparkle.

Seeing that they were done pretending, Yang Ye took the opportunity to drink water and suddenly spotted the two of them and asked in surprise: "When did you two come?"

Lin Qingxia looked at Yang Ye with admiration and said with a smile: "I've been here for a while. I saw you guys discussing the script, so I didn't bother you."

Yang Ye looked at his watch and said, "It's dinner time, let's go eat, and Aaron will go too."

Chen Long smiled and said, "Okay, Sister Feng and I haven't seen each other for a long time."

In 1969, Chen Long filmed on the set of "The Heroine", but at that time he was just a supporting role, while Xu Feng was the heroine.

Xu Feng has a good personality, she just doesn't like to talk.She did not look down on Chen Long, and the two became good friends.Chen Long later fell in love with Xu Feng's sister Xu Jie.

The four of them found a restaurant to eat. Lin Qingxia said: "Tomorrow, Sister Feng and I will go back to Taiwan."

Yang Ye said: "In such a hurry? I even said I would take you around Hong Kong."

"The filming of "The [-] Heroes" is about to start, and we will all be there."

"Eight Hundred Heroes" is a China Film drama, which is equivalent to Taiwan's main theme movie. It tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai and the deeds of the Eight Hundred Heroes who defended the Sihang Warehouse.

Many years later, mainland director Guan Hu also made a version called "Eight Hundred".

Today's three major actresses in Taiwan, Lin Qingxia, Xu Feng, and Sylvia Chang, have all been named to participate.

"This is a war scene, there will be explosions and stuff, so be careful."

"I will." Lin Qingxia responded sweetly, and Yang Ye's concern made her feel very good.

"I'm going to the United States in a few days. During this time, you two will be filming together. Afeng, you can teach Qingxia how to practice martial arts. Is that okay?"

"Okay!" Xu Feng agreed.

In fact, Xu Feng doesn't know martial arts, but she has done many martial arts scenes and has rich experience.

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At the end of February 1976, there was one month left before the 2th Academy Awards ceremony.

Yang Ye took Hu Yinmeng to the North American continent and arrived in Los Angeles.

Yang Ye saw Xie holding a sign from a distance and walked over pushing his luggage.

"Hi, Nick, welcome to America!" Shay laughed and gave Yang Ye a bear hug.

Then he greeted Hu Yinmeng obscenely: "Terri, you are so beautiful!"

After putting away their luggage, Shay drove them to the reserved hotel.

That night, Xie Yi picked up the wind for Yang Ye, and the three of them drank in a bar.

Shea said: "Hollywood filmmakers like to come to this bar. You see, that guy's name is Spielberg. He directed the movie "Jaws" last year, which was a hit."

Yang Ye was a little excited when he saw the Hollywood super director and almost asked for his autograph.

Then I thought about it, Lao Si is just emerging now, am I so excited?
Then I began to think about whether to take advantage of Spielberg. Spielberg has so many great movies, so I just picked two of them. Isn’t that too much?

Pick up "ET" first?Jurassic again?Or Raiders of the Lost Ark?
For Yang Ye, special effects and technology are not problems. The problem is the limitations of the times, which prevent him from going too far. That's all.

Yang Ye stopped drinking as he pondered this matter.

Xie Yi wanted to talk to him, but was stopped by Hu Yinmeng.

"He might have an idea, so don't disturb him."

"Then let's drink, Terri, you're so charming!"

Hu Yinmeng smiled and said: "You want to date me? I am his lover!"

"Oh NO!" Shay screamed strangely: "It's true, let me tell you, how could Nick keep such a beautiful lady by his side?"

Since Hu Yinmeng said that she had an affair with Yang Ye, Xie Yi immediately gave up the idea of ​​having sex with her and started talking to Hu Yinmeng about Yang Ye's movies.

But we couldn't chat that day, because there were always people coming to talk to Hu Yinmeng, which interrupted their chat time and time again.

Hu Yinmeng's typical Chinese appearance is really a favorite of Americans.

After Yang Ye thought about how to get Spielberg's wool, he looked back and couldn't help complaining: "Are you too popular?"

Hu Yinmeng said innocently: "It's not my fault. But when I was in Taipei, I sang in a bar, and they talked to me in the same way."

"What happened next?" Yang Ye asked.

"I quit!" Hu Yinmeng said.

Yang Ye was very satisfied with this answer, and suddenly complained: "Why don't any big horses talk to me?"

Hu Yinmeng said: "Boss, you don't want to listen to me tell the truth!"

"What?"

"I heard that among the three major races, white men and yellow women are the most popular, and people talk to them wherever they go. Yellow men and black women are the least popular, and basically no one cares about them."

"Fart, I'll seduce a foreign woman right now to show you." Yang Ye refused.

He looked around for a long time, found a target, leaned over, and said in his translator-like French: "Hello, Isabelle, can I buy you a drink?"

Isabel Adjani sat alone in the corner, looking at Yang Ye's oriental face, and said with interest: "You are the first oriental to talk to me!"

(End of this chapter)