Hong Kong filmmakers have not learned the lessons of how they deceived Taiwanese investors and lost the Taiwan market.
Ten years later, the mainland and Hong Kong signed a trade in services agreement, and Hong Kong filmmakers collectively moved north.
The style of painting at that time was like this: You bunch of local coal bosses, take out your investment and tell me which female star you want to support. Don’t ask about other things, just wait and make money.
Although it's a bit rough, but then again, for filmmakers, this is the best investor.
Screenwriter Wang Hailin once said: "To this day, I still miss the days when coal bosses were investors. Apart from asking for actresses, they had no other requirements and never interfered with our creation..."
Wang Hailin also said that at that time, investors would talk to their screenwriters about scripts, or they would negotiate in the foot-washing room, pinching their feet while talking. Or we can talk in a nightclub, drinking and talking.
All consumption is paid for by the coal boss.
The coal boss is not stupid, so why is he willing to be treated as a villain?
Because their money comes from a somewhat shady source, and they can launder it by making movies. Playing female stars is actually just incidental.
On the other hand, Hong Kong filmmakers moving northward, although it has deceived investors, has a positive impact on the upgrading of the mainland film industry.
Wei Junzi, a famous mainland filmmaker, later made a documentary called "Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Master", which clearly showed that almost all mainland martial arts commanders were brought up by Hong Kong martial arts commanders.
Another important type of editors, Lin An'er and Hu Dawei, have also brought out many mainland editors, such as editor Kong Jinlei, who won the Golden Horse Award for "Massage".
Yang Ye doesn't need these investors. He doesn't like the coal boss's money at all. The film and television projects he invests in are basically under his control.
Over the years, most of the movies Yang Ye has invested in have not only been box office hits, but have also won numerous international awards. Everyone admires his sharp vision and wants to follow him and get a piece of the pie.
But Yang Ye doesn't want anyone's investment. Overseas, he usually chooses to cooperate with large companies and consortiums.
For example, Japan's Kadokawa Haruki, South Korea's Lee Mi-kyung, and the United States' Dana White are wealthy people. They control large companies and have a certain amount of energy in the country.
Before Yang Ye was banned by Taiwan, he only cooperated with Taiwan's China Film Group.
After the lockdown was lifted, it also accepted investment from eight major film companies, just to consolidate the Taiwan market.
Therefore, although the eight major film studios have fallen out with Hong Kong filmmakers, they have always had a good relationship with Yang Ye, and Yang Ji's movies can still enter Taiwan unimpeded.
When he arrived in the mainland, Yang Ye only cooperated with local governments and state-owned film studios.
So this time, Yang Ye plans to attract Hong Kong filmmakers to film in Shenzhen, and it is all under his control, and he will not let these people mess around.
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After Yang Ye met the mayor, preparations for the promotion activities of Guangming Film and Television City began.
He continued to shoot his movies in Guangming Film and Television City.
I work during the day and go back to Hong Kong to spend time with my family at night.
Occasionally, I would stay in Shenzhen to accompany He Qing and the others.
He Qing likes filming very much. She hopes to continue filming when her children are older, and Yang Ye will follow her.
Fu Yiwei is not interested in filming. She only likes money and wants to do business.
She was doing business in the original time and space with no enthusiasm and no plan. She felt that Lin Qingxia's husband was very rich, so she decided to be an agent for his products. In the end, she lost everything and had to go out to film again.
However, she later started a business again, and this time she learned her lesson, grew it from a small age, and continued to operate it step by step, achieving good results.
Yang Ye had no objection to Fu Yiwei's desire to do business. He thought about it for a while and said, "Otherwise, you can go into the catering industry!"
The best way for a celebrity to start a business is to start a business in the catering industry. There is no threshold, you can start a business if you have money, and you can also use your fame to cut leeks.
Fu Yiwei asked: "You mean, let me go to your typhoon shelter restaurant?"
Yang Ye shook his head: "There is someone else in charge of the Typhoon Shelter Restaurant. It is well run. How could you be allowed to fly in?"
"What to do?"
“Make fast food!”
"Fast food?"
Fu Yiwei was confused. I am a big star after all. You want me to sell fast food?
"Don't underestimate fast food. McDonald's and KFC are fast food. McDonald's is one of the Fortune 500 and has chain stores all over the world.
Four years ago, the first McDonald's opened in Shenzhen and it is still the most profitable restaurant in Shenzhen. ”
After saying this, Fu Yiwei suddenly felt embarrassed, and she realized how stupid she had just been.
How could a rich man like Yang Ye talk about any small business?
Yang Ye said casually: "McDonald's can be sold all over the world because of their standardized management.
Their flagship product tastes almost the same anywhere in the world.
Let’s follow this model and build a standardized Chinese fast food chain brand.
The first goal is to have our stores in all major cities across the country, forming a large-scale fast food trust, and then expand overseas. ”
Although Yang Ye was just bragging, Fu Yiwei's eyes were already shining.
Because she thought Yang Ye was awesome, and since she said so, it would definitely work.
Seeing her enthusiasm, Yang Ye poured cold water on her: "But this matter needs to be discussed in the long term. You should take good care of our son first, and let's wait until the matter becomes clearer!"
Just kidding, even if this matter really needs to be done, it will not be left directly to Fu Yiwei, a business novice.
And it’s not that simple. The first step is to solve the problem of Chinese food being difficult to standardize.
It's just a difficult problem for others, but it's the easiest for Yang Ye.
Just design a computer program-controlled integrated steaming cabinet to sell steamed vegetables.
The headquarters makes cooking kits and distributes them to major stores. You can heat them up and you can serve them. You don’t even need a chef.
And the most profitable thing is actually not selling fast food, but engaging in real estate.
This is how McDonald's made its fortune. The profit from selling fast food is only a small part, and the value of the stores is the big part.
If Yang Ye opens commercial stores in major cities across the country to do fast food business, these stores will be a huge fortune twenty years later.
However, Yang Ye did not tell Fu Yiwei these plans.
It's not a question of whether you believe her or not, she won't understand even if you tell her.
In short, she gave birth to a son for Yang Ye, and Yang Ye would not treat her badly.
The geese passing by leave their voices, and the people passing by leave their names. Yang Ye has walked through this world, and if he doesn't come back, he will come in vain.
His legacy will be passed down by his children and disciples.
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Three-part filming takes a long time, but the advantage is that it can save a lot of production costs.
However, filming a scene continuously for such a long time is also a big challenge for actors.
In the studio of Guangming Film and Television City, Yang Ye is filming the most classic bullet time in movies.
Bullet time existed long before The Matrix.
Bullet time has appeared in Hong Kong movies such as "Go High" and "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai", but they were relatively crude.
In "The Matrix", Neo slowly leaned over to avoid bullets in the rotating mirror, allowing people to truly see the trajectory of the bullet, as well as the 360° panoramic scene of the bullet's stagnation and rotation. This kind of visual effect that uses "slow speed" to reflect "fast" is very impactful and has been imitated by many movies in later generations.
When shooting, 122 cameras were accurately placed on a line according to the computer tracking system, and then all the shutters were concentrated at the same time to control the cameras.
Then, according to the order and time interval pre-edited by the computer, 360° panoramic photos are taken.
At the starting point, a high-speed camera is also placed, and the shooting speed of the camera can be adjusted to match the camera that takes the photos.
When it came time for the official filming, a wire was tied to Yang Ye's body to assist him in completing the entire set of actions.
This action is actually a simple iron bridge move.
Iron Banqiao is a life-saving move in martial arts, used to dodge enemy hidden weapons.
Usually the hidden weapon comes too fast, and you don't have time to jump up or step aside, so you have to stiffen your body and suddenly lean back to let the hidden weapon pass by, but your feet are still firmly nailed to the ground to avoid the enemy's hidden weapon. .
Of course, this kind of action usually only exists in martial arts novels.
If someone really stabs you with a dart, you don't have time to show off.
This set of actions is very troublesome to shoot and consumes a lot of film.
Several different speed effects need to be shot. The whole process is to first transmit all the actual camera speed, position, lens focal length and other data to the motion control system.
The actual scene is then transferred to the computer and re-modeled through an image recognition pattern program.
Generate 360° coherent and smooth action shots of the protagonist.
Finally, the coherent dynamic images and background are integrated, and the final result is the stunning effect in the movie.
This bullet-dodging action is a perfect combination of traditional martial arts and the latest computer technology.
In the 1990s, green screen technology has become very mature. Some scenes that seem ordinary to people are actually shot with green screen technology.
For example, in the movie "Forrest Gump", at the beginning, Forrest Gump was sitting on a bench and said his famous line: "Life is like a box of various chocolates, you never know what the next one will be. What kind.”
At this time, a feather flew around him.
This piece of feather is actually a staff member wearing green clothes, holding it in his hand and walking around.
Later, computer technology was used to remove the green man, and a piece of feathers fluttering in the wind was obtained.
On the set, what Yang Ye and Ziqi Company tinkered with opened the eyes of many people.
For example, when they were filming the important action scene of the road battle, they actually produced the entire action in the form of a cartoon.
During actual shooting, the camera position and lens angle are set according to the animation demonstration, and the actors just act accordingly, so that the effect will be more realistic and smooth.
People had never thought that making a movie could be such fun. Suddenly, many people came to visit the studio.
However, the cost for Yang Ye to play like this is too high, and most people just look at it and can't afford it.
In the original Drag Race, Wachowski actually built a road to shoot, which cost him millions of dollars.
Yang Ye doesn't need it, he can just shoot on the Beijing-Hong Kong line which is not yet open to traffic.
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The filming continued until June, which is when the first Zhuhai Film Festival officially opened.
As Yang Ye's fame grew, he was invited to attend many film festivals around the world.
He declined most of them, but he had to go to the Zhuhai Film Festival.
The Zhuhai Film Festival came to an end after just two sessions in its original location. Yang Ye thinks this is a pity.
In the beginning, it was a good platform for filmmakers from across the Taiwan Strait and four regions to communicate.
By the second edition, it was even more determined to turn the film festival into an international Chinese film festival.
Both film festivals were very successful. Later, the country suddenly felt that there were too many domestic film festivals and wanted to eliminate one.
The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers must not be removed from the Shanghai Film Festival.
We can only choose between Zhuhai and Changchun. Changchun is the former capital of film, and Changying Film Factory is the cradle of Chinese films. If Zhuhai can't compete, it's a waste.
In fact, from the perspective of development prospects, the Zhuhai Festival is far better than the Changying Film Festival.
The problem with the Long Film Festival is that its designation is not clear. Although it has been held since then, no one takes it seriously, and its influence is almost non-existent.
Even those who won Best Actor and Best Actress at the Long Film Festival didn’t bother to publish press releases to promote their films.
Zhuying Film Studio is committed to the exchange and communication of Chinese filmmakers around the world, which is a good gimmick.
If it develops well, it may even have a chance to replace the Golden Horse Award.
Because when the Zhuhai Film Festival was first established, the Zhuhai government stated that apart from reviewing the shortlisted films, it would not interfere in the film awards, leaving it to the film festival's judges to make their own decisions.
With this major premise, things will be much easier to handle. At the very least, when it comes to overseas filmmakers, your methods can't be too shady, right?
Besides, Yang Ye is now building a film and television base in Shenzhen. It would be great if there is another film festival in Zhuhai so that the two cities can complement each other.
Zhuhai was later designated as a tourist city. If the Zhuhai Film Festival goes well, Zhuhai might become the Cannes of Asia.
So Yang Ye hopes that the Pearl Film Festival can eventually be preserved.
To achieve this goal, the first step is to increase the momentum of the Pearl Film Festival.
In fact, there is no need to remove one of them. We can just do it together. Who would complain that there are too many rewards?
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In June, Yang Ye returned to Hong Kong to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
Then we gathered our friends and entered the country from Macau to Zhuhai to cheer for the Pearl Film Festival.
Knowing that they were coming, Zhuhai held a special welcome event, and many people came to see the stars.
Hundreds of media also came to report, including Chinese-language media from the United States in addition to cross-strait and four regions.
Suddenly, the square at Gongbei Port was crowded with people.
Yang Ye, Lin Qingxia, Chen Long, Hong Jingbao, Xu Anhua, Xu Ke, Maggie Cheung, Lai Lai and many other big directors and stars from the Hong Kong film industry appeared, giving the Pearl Film Festival enough face.
They got on the car, and there were people on both sides of the street greeting them. Yang Ye sighed: "They also gave us enough face!"
When we arrived at the hotel, Taiwanese directors and actors such as Li Xing, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jin Chengwu had already arrived.
Ling Zifeng, Xie Jin, Chen Daoming, Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wen, Ge You, Gong Li and others were also dispatched from the mainland.
There were more than 100 celebrities from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places in attendance. The red carpet was so star-studded that it was definitely a movie event.
The next day, the Pearl Film Festival held a press conference.
At the press conference, a reporter asked: "Do the films participating in this film festival represent the highest level of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong?"
The judges from the three places who served as judges for this review all gave unanimous affirmative answers.
Yang Ye did not serve as a judge. He came to cheer for the Pearl Film Festival, but he was the leading Chinese film actor and he also sat on the stage.
Regarding this issue, he sang a high-profile: "There is a trend of convergence in movies from the three places. If Hong Kong movies want to be better, they must be combined with traditional Chinese culture.
We at Baiyang Film Company will be committed to cooperating with mainland film companies in the future to produce more and better works, and together we will promote our Chinese culture to the world! "(End of Chapter)