The Spring Festival schedule is deserted, with not a single movie that has sold over RMB 40 million.
The local box office of Zhou Xingchi's "Lord of Destruction" was only over 30 million.
The funny thing is that this movie is a little different from the original time and space. Because of the existence of the BUG Yang Ye, the character played by Wu Mengda is the descendant of the "Demon King of the Empire".
He also hung a photo of Yang Ye at home. He Jinyin’s initiation ceremony in ancient Chinese boxing was to worship Yang Ye.
Today, Yang Ye has long become a pop culture symbol. In some Japanese comics, he is the ultimate BOSS.
In the game "Street Fighter", there is a fighter named "Jueyuan" who looks like a monk.
When Fatty Wang was filming "Super School Bully", he once had a whim and invited Yang Ye to guest star as Jue Yuan, but Yang Ye said he was unavailable.
Yang Ye continued to be busy filming his "The Matrix". In order to save money and trouble, he directly chose to shoot three films in a package.
In this way, we are filming and doing post-production at the same time. We plan to release one film every year in 1994, 1995, and 1996.
One advantage of filming "The Matrix" is that you don't have to travel around. Most of the time, Yang Ye squatted on the set in Shenzhen.
After finishing work, I would fly directly back to Hong Kong by helicopter. I would be there in minutes, so I could balance my work and life.
But it’s not easy, because this movie is all about fighting scenes.
Among the four leading actors, it goes without saying that Yang Ye and Zhou Bili are very talented.
Although Ti Lung is old, he is a Wing Chun master and a first-class martial arts student. He practices diligently every day and there is no problem with his action scenes.
Only Lin Qingxia is not a professional fighting star, but she has a lot of martial arts moves in this movie.
If you want to take good-looking photos, you can only rely on a stand-in. Lin Qingxia is mainly responsible for posing.
As a stand-in for women, female martial artists are naturally the best, but female martial artists are very rare because this line of work is too hard.
After Yuan Qiu, the best female martial artist in Hong Kong was Li Hui. She was from the Yuan family class, so it was no problem to call her over.
But she was injured, so she could only use a male martial artist.
Sometimes Yang Ye felt that the martial artist was not good at replacing him, so he would put on women's clothes and play in person.
If it were anyone else who wanted Yang Ye to be a substitute, that would be a dream.
But my wife is different. This is the fun between husband and wife.
The last time Yang Ye served as a stand-in for someone was when he was filming "Kill Bill" for Adjani.
Fortunately, Lin Qingxia has been filming martial arts movies all year round, and is very good at posing and other things.
"Kung Fu" and "The Matrix" are both works by Yuan Heping. The characteristic of his martial arts is that he has many romantic designs.
For example, the various poses that Jet Li poses in "Once Upon a Time" are actually useless, but they look very cool.
As for Lin Qingxia, she is also very good at putting on all kinds of cool looks when filming. It is really suitable for her to play the role of Trinity.
The film has not been finished yet, Lin Qingxia has only watched some rough cuts, and already understands that this movie is not trivial.
Before going to bed one night, Lin Qingxia chatted with Yang Ye about movies, and Yang Ye said in a disgusting manner: "This is our final film, and I want it to shock the world!"
"We, you also want to take a rest?" Lin Qingxia was shocked. Yang Ye was in his prime, but he would actually choose to take a rest?
Yang Ye shook his head: "I am already forty years old and I don't want to fight on the screen all the time.
I will still make movies in the future, but I probably won't be the leading actor again.
< br>I also want to spend more time with you and Xiao'er! "
"That's it! I agree with the first two sentences, but don't make any promises if you can't do it!"
Lin Qingxia thinks it's okay if Yang Ye doesn't act. , action actor is a dangerous job after all.
Even Yang Ye suffered from minor injuries, although he had never suffered any major injuries.
As for Yang Ye’s promise to spend more time with her and her daughter in the future, Lin Qingxia didn’t believe it.
She clearly knows what kind of virtue Yang Ye is, although she has accepted her fate and will follow Yang Ye in her life.
Yang Ye was a little embarrassed and added: "I really think so!"
Lin Qingxia said: "Although you are talking nonsense, Xiaoer is about to enter puberty. As a Father, please pay more attention to her.”
Yang Ye patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, any bastard dares to take advantage of our Xiao'er, I will break his neck!"
Lin Qingxia rolled her eyes: "Then Xiao'er will never die. Are you getting married?"
"Uh..."
Yang Ye has nothing to say, and falls asleep under the quilt!
The next morning, Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia were preparing to go out to start work, when Yang Ye's cell phone rang.
Yang Ye pressed the answer button. It was an overseas call from Xu Feng. She said happily on the other end: "Husband, we won an award!"
"What award did we win?"
"Farewell My Concubine" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film!"
Unlike other film awards, "Farewell My Concubine" is a project completely led by Xu Feng. She used this The movie proved my vision, so I am naturally very happy.
Yang Ye smiled and said: "Congratulations! Congratulations! Wife, you are really amazing. So many people bought Li Bihua's novels and made them, but only yours was the most successful."
Xu Feng said happily on the other end of the phone: "It's mainly due to Ah Rong and the other leading actors, as well as director Kai Ge."
In recent years, Li Bihua's "Rouge Button" and "Pan Jinlian's Past and Present Life" ", "Qin Terracotta Warriors", "Farewell My Concubine", "Green Snake" and "The Tempting Monk" have been put on the big screen one after another.
"Farewell My Concubine" is undoubtedly the most successful, with more box office and awards than the other films combined.
Since "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or, it has not only been released globally but also won awards around the world.
Before winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, it had already won the Japan Film Academy Award, the Korean Film Blue Dragon Award, and the American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In addition, the National Society of Film Critics and the three major film critics associations in New York, Los Angeles and Boston all awarded the best foreign language film to "Farewell My Concubine".
Yang Ye snorted and said in his heart: "This wave, Brother Kaizi is probably going to explode."
Yang Ye ordered: "The next one is Brother Kaizi's Movie, don’t be the main cast member!”
Xu Feng is on the other end of the phone I was stunned for a moment and asked: "Why? Shouldn't we strike while the iron is hot?"
Yang Ye explained: "Brother Kaizi, I have been in contact with him. This person is extremely conceited. In the past, you might have Can suppress him.
After this time, it will be impossible. There is no need to proceed with a project that cannot be controlled.
Anyway, since he has won so many awards this time, there will be no shortage of investment for his next film. Whoever wants to invest can just invest. ”
Xu Feng had more contact with Brother Kaizi. She was the one who insisted that Brother Kaizi direct it. How could she not understand Brother Kaizi’s character?
At the beginning Regarding the script of the movie, Brother Kaizi argued with various parties for a long time. Finally, Chen Huaikai spoke and he chose to compromise.
Xu Feng is a smart man. After thinking about it for a while, he understood and said: " All right! ”
In fact, Yang Ye didn't say anything, he didn't want to hurt Xu Feng.
"Farewell My Concubine" has won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film consecutively. It is more powerful than the original film. In addition to using professional public relations, Hollywood is opening its market to mainland China. return.
"Farewell My Concubine" has not yet been released in North America. If it wins the best foreign language film, it can at least increase the box office by another 10 million US dollars, which is real money.
...At this year's Academy Awards, Steven Spielberg won the Best Picture and Best Director for "Schindler's List".
"Jurassic Park" also won three awards for Best Impact Effects, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Editing.
Yang Ye personally called him to congratulate him. Not long after, the Hong Kong Academy Awards also started!
This year’s Academy Awards have great changes compared to the original time and space.
One is that Yang Ye has a total of four films shortlisted, with a total of twenty nominations.
The other is that Brother Kaizi entered the Academy Awards with "Farewell My Concubine" and received 11 nominations.
"Farewell My Concubine" is a film produced by a Hong Kong film company and co-produced with mainland China. The male protagonist Leslie Cheung is also a native of Hong Kong. It is said that this is a Hong Kong film.
However, the Academy Awards of the original time and space have some restrictions. For films participating in the Academy Awards, half of the main creators must be Hong Kong people.
"Farewell My Concubine" was judged to have impure blood and was not considered a Hong Kong film, so it was not shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
And now it has entered with the power of sweeping all major film awards around the world, and it has suddenly become the biggest favorite at this year's Academy Awards.
In addition, it has been a hundred years since the Lumiere brothers in France invented cinema in 1895, and various celebrations have been held around the world.
As the world's second largest film base and the center of the Chinese film industry, Hong Kong is no exception, so this year's Academy Awards are extra grand!
In previous years, there would be many Academy Awards members who did not come to attend, but this year they all appeared.
Filmmakers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places gathered together so happily that they could hardly walk on the red carpet, dazzling the audience.
Yang Ye was shortlisted for four films this year, and he finally chose Guan Zhilin as his red carpet companion.
As soon as the two appeared, they immediately attracted a large number of reporters, and the flashlights flashed continuously.
It was rare for Guan Zhilin to attend public events with Yang Ye, happily posing in various poses for reporters to take photos.
The reporter asked Yang Ye that with so many films nominated this year, is he confident in winning the award?
Yang Ye said speechlessly: "I got a total of twenty nominations, but I couldn't win a single award. That's too bad, right? Which newspaper do you belong to?"
He and The reporter joked for a while, then walked into the venue with Guan Zhilin on his arm.
Guan Zhilin was also shortlisted for Best Actress for "Speed" this year. She was in a very happy mood and asked Yang Ye excitedly: "Brother Ye, do you think I can win the Best Actress this year?"
Yang Ye directly gave up her hope: "No chance!"
Guan Zhilin stomped her feet angrily: "Don't be so direct!"
Yang Ye didn't respond to her, he saw the guests sitting there Jin Yong, who was at the table, walked over with Guan Zhilin.
"Cha Sheng, when are you free, let's have tea together!"
Jin Yong smiled and said, "I've been waiting for you to contact me!"
Yang Ye smiled and said: "Then tomorrow!"
"Okay!"
The two chatted for a few words, and Yang Ye took Guan Zhilin back to his seat.
Guan Zhilin said curiously: "Brother Ye, are you looking for Jin Yong to make another martial arts movie?"
Yang Ye shook his head: "Jin Yong's copyrights are all in my hands. I will use them. Do we need to find him? It’s about the acquisition of Ming Pao.”
"So you want to buy the newspaper? Will Jin Yong sell it to you?"
"Jin Yong is old and has long been interested in retiring. His children are unwilling and unable to inherit "Ming Pao", so they have no choice but to sell it.
Originally he was optimistic about Yu Pinhai, but I exposed him as a bad boy. Since then, he has been waiting for me to speak!"
"Then why didn't you take advantage of the opportunity to acquire Ming Pao after you exposed that Yu Pinhai?"
"The newspaper media is the sunset? I’m not very interested in the industry, and I changed my mind recently.”
"That's it!"
......
The stars are shining in the Coliseum!
The two emcees, Cen Jianxun and Deborah, took the stage together, and the award ceremony officially began.
The two exchanged polite words first, and then Deborah said: "A hundred years ago, the Lumière brothers shot the world's first film, "The Train Arrives."
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Shum Jianxun continued: "Over the past 100 years, filmmakers from all over the world have worked hard to open up the mountains and forests. Film has developed into one of the arts with the widest audience in the world."
"At this year's Academy Awards , we have prepared a special song dedicated to all of us filmmakers, both present and absent! ”
"This song is written and composed by Mr. Yang Ye, the pride of our Chinese film industry. The name is..."
The two said together: ""Love Letter to Filmmakers", please sing it Miss Teresa Teng! ”
Teng Lijun, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared on the stage in a dress, which immediately aroused warm applause.
Since the first "Voice of China", Teresa Teng has never appeared in public again.
Her asthma cannot be cured and requires constant conditioning.
In the original time and space, in order to make money to support her family and support her boyfriend, she kept accepting business and acting roles everywhere.
High-intensity work is the cause of unfortunate death.
Now that she is a mother, she lives peacefully with her two daughters. She can maintain a prosperous life without having to work, and her physical condition is much better.
Teresa Teng took the microphone and walked onto the stage. Because of her rich and stable life, her whole body became more rounded, graceful and luxurious.
The music started playing, Lijun Teng raised the microphone, and she sang a love letter to the filmmakers affectionately:
How many people love the grace you left on the screen, how many people I love your independent attitude.
Your eternal innocence, innocent expectations, and self-admiration helplessness.
Who understands the sadness you carefully hide, who understands the memory on your faded face.
You are flawlessly chic, but the fear in your heart slowly seeps out.
You are pursuing eternity hard, but your life is bumpy and unpredictable.
You foolishly pursue perfection, but you keep getting misunderstood, hurt, given up, and blamed.
Why be sad, why mourn, why worry and suffering, why laugh, curse, hate and love.
The human world is just a place where you live, the Milky Way is where your soul wanders.
The world is just your invisible dream, an earthly dream left accidentally.
Dream of bright silver with the outer body.
Dream within a dream with another body!
......
Movies are the art of dreaming. The phrase "dreaming of silvery dreams" in the lyrics means creating movies.
"You foolishly pursue perfection, but you keep getting misunderstood, hurt, given up, and blamed. Why be sad, why mourn, why worry and suffer, why laugh, scold, hate and love."
This lyrics, word for word, reflects the ups and downs and life accumulation of a generation of filmmakers.
The beautiful and moving music paired with Teresa Teng’s soulful singing made the filmmakers present feel infinite emotion!
On the big screen, Yang Ye's figure appeared. People looked at this greatest hero who led Chinese-language films to the world, and they all showed deep respect! (End of this chapter)