Chapter 697 Are you going home for the Chinese New Year
PS: The movie Li Yin made is called "Lust, Caution", and the movie starring Christy Chung is called "Lust, Caution". The two have nothing to do with each other.
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At the 1995 New Year's Eve concert, Yang Ye made his final appearance and sang "BJ One Night" with Yang Yuying.
After the first "Voice of China", Yang Ye never sang on stage again, nor did he release a new song, nor did he release an album.
Some people say that after Yang Ye became the richest man, he started to show off.
It would be great if he insists on making movies for you to watch. Do you still expect him to sing for you?
Actually, Yang Ye has no idea of staging. He insists on making movies because he likes it, but he is not that passionate about music.
Every time he released an album before, it had a purpose and a gimmick.
Released "Under the Lion Rock" and became the originator of Cantonese songs.
He released "Chinese Folk Songs" and shouted the slogan "Sing your own songs", becoming the pioneer of Chinese folk songs.
The English album was released only at the request of PolyGram.
Releasing "The Dance of the Faces" is purely a job to test the response in Japan.
The purpose of releasing "Martial Arts" is to attract Jin Yong's attention.
The last album "Pearl of the Orient" is to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their debut.
After that, only sporadic singles were released, because there was no purpose and no gimmick to release records.
At this moment, Yang Ye appeared at ATV's New Year's Eve concert, making his fans very excited.
The atmosphere at the Coliseum was extremely enthusiastic, and the ratings reached their highest at this moment.
There were many celebrities sitting in the guest seats in the front row. When the camera was shown to them, they stood up very cooperatively and shouted along with Yang Ye: "Onenight in Beijing. One night in Beijing."
And in In the VIP area next to the ticket sales, you can see Lai Wenfeng holding a light sign of Yang Yuying, calling for friends and supporting her.
Yang Ye and Yang Yuying finished their performances and returned to the backstage to tidy up briefly and prepare to celebrate with everyone.
Su Huilun and Liu Xiaohui came over and asked Yang Yuying very gossipy: "Ganggang, that surname is this, does it happen every time?"
Yang Yuying said helplessly: "Yes. , no matter where I act He always sits in the front row."
Liu Xiaohui exclaimed: "Wow, he is so persistent!"
The group just came out of the Coliseum and saw Lai Wen Fengpeng. Walking towards Yang Yuying with a bouquet of flowers.
"Ms. Yang, you sang so well tonight!"
Yang Yuying took the flowers and said, "Thank you!"
Lai Wenfeng was about to speak when Yang Ye on the side suddenly said: " Mr. Lai, right?”
Yang Ye directly ignored Lai Wenfeng last time, which made him very angry, but he was not stupid and knew that Yang Ye was someone he could not afford to offend, let alone in front of his sweetheart. noodle.
He said very politely: "Hello, Mr. Yang!"
Yang Ye didn't show off this time, smiled and shook hands with him and exchanged a few words.
"The Chinese New Year is almost here, will you go back to your hometown this year?"
Lai Wenfeng calculated the time, it was almost a month away, nodded and said; "Go back!"
" Yes, have a good year!”
After saying this, Yang Ye left with the three girls.
Lai Wenfeng looked at the backs of several people and felt a little baffled.
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The celebration banquet was very lively.
Although it was very late, everyone still happily gathered together to connect with each other.
As soon as Yang Ye walked into the banquet hall with the three girls, he was warmly welcomed. After all, he was the boss.
Yang Ye is a very casual person. He waved to everyone and indicated what they should do, so everyone went to eat, drink and chat separately.
The dinner was in the form of a buffet. Yang Ye and the three girls took something and found a place to sit down.
It's already one o'clock in the morning. People in this industry have to stay in shape. In fact, everyone didn't eat much, and Yang Ye just took a few bites casually.
From time to time, people came over to toast him and congratulate him, and he had to express his gratitude.
"Uncle Yang, Happy New Year!"
Li Wen didn't know when he came over.
"CoCo, Happy New Year!"
Li Wen made his official debut after participating in the 4th China Good Voice in 1993. He released a Cantonese album in 1994, which sold triple platinum in Hong Kong. The results were a good start.
Then the record company helped her release another Mandarin album, this time sales reached 500,000 copies, making her a rising star in the Chinese music scene.
“I went to see “The Matrix” the day before yesterday, it was so good!”
Yang Ye said helplessly: "Everyone who talks to me recently always talks about "The Matrix"."
"Because it's really good to watch. I feel it's very profound. After watching it, I thought about it for a long time. ."
About "The Matrix", Yang Ye has been talking about it for the past two days and wants to vomit. He doesn't want to talk anymore, so he changes the topic. The question asked: "How are you living in Hong Kong?"
Li Wen has an optimistic and cheerful personality, like a little sun. She said happily: "It's very good. I have met a lot of friends and we can do it together with everyone." Music, very happy.”
Yang Ye asked: “Have you ever thought about developing in Europe and the United States?”
"Going to Europe and the United States?" Li Wen couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Yang Ye nodded: "Yes!"
"I have thought about it. After all, I grew up there and am more familiar with the environment there, but as an Asian, In fact, there is not much chance."
"What if I support you to go?"
"Then I will go!" Li Wen puffed up his chest and agreed very simply.
"Girls' Generation and Seiko Matsuda briefly achieved some success in the European and American pop music scene, but they were unable to sustain it.
You are currently gaining momentum in Asia. In time, you may become the queen of the Chinese music scene. But if you go to Europe and the United States, you may disappear from everyone. You have to think clearly!"
"I'll go!" Li Wen still answered firmly.
“What’s the reason?”
“I believe you!”
Yang Ye couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but stretched out his hand to rub her head: "Aren't you afraid that I will sell you out?"
Li Wen enjoyed Yang Ye's intimate movements, which gave her a sense of intimacy. , Yang Ye felt doting on her, she wrinkled her nose and said somewhat innocently: "Then I will help you count the money!" "Hahahaha!"
Yang Yehe Several people around him laughed.
"Push all the notices in your hand and come with me to the United States in a few days!"
Li Wen was overjoyed: "Okay, I will deal with it tomorrow."
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A few days later, Yang Ye took Li Wen to Tokyo and held a meeting A road show for "The Matrix" and then flew straight to Los Angeles.
In North America, "The Matrix" is currently in theaters. It overtook Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber" at the box office and became the Christmas box office champion.
As soon as Yang Ye arrived in the United States, he went on TV to promote "The Matrix".
Because "The Matrix" is no longer a pure kung fu movie, but a mixture of philosophical ideas from all over the world.
Yang Ye draws on the strengths of others and skillfully tailors various elements to specific scenes. He is also very clever at using characters to connect different philosophical views that echo back and forth.
So as soon as this movie was released, it aroused various interpretations from movie fans around the world.
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After Yang Ye arrived in the United States, the TV station even invited French philosopher Jean Baudrillard to talk to Yang Ye.
There are many places in "The Matrix" that pay homage to Baudrillard. For example, at the beginning of the movie, Neo takes out a box with the appearance of a green book to hide software. That book is Baudrillard's book "Simulacra Theory".
The so-called "simulacra theory", Baudrillard believes that in the consumerist society at the end of the 20th century, images of simulated reality produced by mass media and the Internet have long replaced reality.
Although human beings think that they live in reality, in fact, the spiritual world already lives in simulacra.
When illusion dilutes the weight of reality, reality turns into a desert.
This situation is inexplicably similar to a scene in a movie, in which humans live in isolated machine test tubes and rely on the reality simulated by the "Matrix".
This scene in the movie is like a metaphor for the entire human society.
Baudrillard said a famous saying about the consumerist society of the 20th century: Welcome to the desert of thereal.
In Yang Ye's "The Matrix", he also said the same thing to Neo through the words of Di Long. Words: Welcome to the real desert!
However, this conversation was not pleasant. Baudrillard believed that Yang Ye had misunderstood his theory.
Because in the movie, the false "Matrix" and the real "Yingzhou" form a binary opposition.
The function of the Matrix is to enslave all mankind, while the mission of Yingzhou's existence is to rescue all mankind.
Baudrillard believes that the boundaries between reality and fiction have long been blurred, and this binary opposition does not exist.
Yang Ye either misunderstood because he didn't understand, or he misunderstood deliberately, because making a movie requires two forces to confront each other and be optimistic about it.
Yang Ye didn't say much about this. He just said that the relationship between "Matrix" and "Yingzhou" will be explained and displayed more in the sequel.
After a work comes out, it no longer belongs entirely to the creator. People can interpret it at will according to their own understanding and needs.
Authors cannot easily define their works, because this may lead to standard answers, reduce the discussion space of the work, and greatly damage the value and vitality of the work.
While running road shows, Yang Ye held a signing ceremony with the newly established DreamWorks Film Company.
Topol Pictures invested US$30 million in DreamWorks, acquiring a 12% stake and the agency rights for DreamWorks in Asia except for the mainland Chinese market.
It's not that Spielberg doesn't want to hand over the agency rights in mainland China to Yang Ye, but Yang Ye can't do it.
Because in the Mainland, only China Film Group has the right to distribute imported films.
In addition, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner have officially left the CAA agency and established a C/W production company to prepare to go it alone.
Yang Ye has invested in this company and is preparing to personally create the C/W Production Company's first venture for Tom Cruise, which is "Mission: Impossible".
"Mission: Impossible" was originally a TV series of the same name on the American CBS TV station in the 1970s. Yang Ye asked United Artists Pictures to buy the copyright, and then hired a screenwriter to turn it into a movie script.
Yang Ye first set up the action scenes in the movie, and then the screenwriter completed the script according to his settings, and then he reviewed and revised it.
Now, everything is almost ready.
Yang Ye attended the opening ceremony of C/W Production Company, and then announced the shooting plan for "Mission: Impossible" together with Tom and Paula, and announced that the production scale will reach 100 million US dollars, making it a proper Hollywood A-level blockbuster.
For a new company, this is a bit grandiose.
However, with Yang Ye personally taking action and a popular star like Tom Cruise starring, no one questioned this.
In the past two years, Yang Ye's record has been really brilliant.
He once predicted that the box office of "The Bodyguard" will be more than 300 million US dollars, and has a chance to win the box office championship.
In the end, "The Bodyguard" took over 400 million in box office and finished second at the box office, losing to the animated film "Aladdin."
After this battle, people believe that he can really predict the success probability of a film after it is put into the market based on factors such as the director, starring role, genre, release date and other factors of a film, and with many years of experience in the film industry. ...
Not long after, this matter was verified again.
Young's Private Equity Fund invested US$30 million in "Jurassic Park", and as a result, the box office surged to US$1 billion, and Yang's Fund also made a profit of more than 100 million US dollars.
This god-like prediction ability makes investors stunned and makes even more investors crazy with excitement.
So far, the funds controlled by Yang's private equity fund have reached 3 billion US dollars, all of which have been used by Yang Ye for various investments.
When Yang Ye appeared in Los Angeles, he was like a God of Wealth, his whole body shining with golden light. Countless people were looking forward to cooperating with him.
It is for this reason that the cooperation with DreamWorks went so smoothly.
Shirley Lansing, the female president of Paramount, finally agreed to change her job after being visited by Yang Ye three times.
The first task Yang Ye gave her was to get "The Truman Show".
"The Truman Show" is an unfinished project that has been in the works for four or five years, but there is still no improvement at all.
It was originally a science fiction thriller that took place in New York. It was very dark and felt very depressing, and it has never been favored.
Furthermore, this movie requires a large number of actors and a budget of at least 60 million. The pressure to return the money is too great, so it has been suppressed.
For such a movie that was shelved on the shelf, Yang Ye caught it at first sight, naturally to prove his extraordinary vision.
Those garbage you look down upon are actually a gold mine!
While Yang Ye was in Los Angeles, he helped finalize the director and starring candidates.
The director is the original Peter Weir, and as the star, Yang Ye naturally chose comedy star Jim Carrey.
Yang Ye persuaded screenwriter Andrew Nicol that if he wanted this script to make money, it must be changed into a comedy and elaborated from an absurd perspective to make the story of the film lighter.
In order to achieve this effect, it is necessary to find a comedian to star.
The most popular comedian in America right now is naturally Jim Carrey.
Some netizens in later generations have always said that Zhou Xingchi imitated Jim Carrey. In fact, Zhou Xingchi has become famous with "The Gambler", several years before Jim Carrey became famous with "The Plane".
In Yang Ye’s opinion, Jim Carrey is not as good as Zhou Xingchi.
Jim Carrey mainly relies on exaggerated expressions to win, while Zhou Xingchi's comedy talent is all-round.
(End of this chapter)