Chapter 182 Craftsman of a Great Country
Xia Meng introduced: "This is Lao Tie, an eighth-level fitter!"
Yang Ye stepped forward and shook hands with the gray-haired old worker: "Hello, Lao Tie! Welcome to Hong Kong!"
Lao Tie said: "Boss Yang, you're welcome. If you can use me, Lao Tie, just give me your orders!"
In the era of planned economy, the technical level of workers was divided into eight levels. Level 8 workers were the most powerful ones and were very rare.
After the 1960s, the eighth-level fitter was basically no longer taught, and it was not re-introduced until the 1990s. In other words, this eighth-level fitter named Lao Tie was awarded at least twenty years ago, and he is a veritable of great craftsmen.
Xia Meng introduced two more, both senior craftsmen, and a sculptor from the Yangcheng Academy of Fine Arts.
Yang Ye shook hands with the four of them enthusiastically, and then announced their treatment, free housing, car transportation, and a monthly salary of three thousand!
“Three thousand?”
Several workers and masters were dumbfounded, this is too much!
Lao Tie, an eighth-level fitter, has a monthly salary of just over 100 yuan.
This has doubled tenfold, and that’s just the exchange rate on the books.
On the black market, you can’t exchange RMB for Hong Kong dollars even if you exchange them for one.
So, it is actually equivalent to a thirty-fold increase!
Yang Ye took out a few pictures and said: "I hope that some people will make this thing according to the pictures I drew. It should be like a real person and be able to move, especially this hand, each one All joints must be able to move.”
Lao Tie took a look and said, that's it?
Is this worth the salary of 3,000 Hong Kong dollars you give me a month?
Lao Tie patted his chest and promised: "I promise to complete the task!"
In this era, computer special effects It's very rough and mainly based on physical effects.
The Oscars only added the Best Visual Effects award in 1977.
In 1978, "Superman" became the first movie in history to use Computer Graphic Image (CGI or CG for short), causing heated discussions.
In order to film "The Terminator", James Cameron found Stan Winston, and the two hit it off, and later opened a world-renowned special effects studio in the digital field together.
Cameron's sketch of a cyborg with an exposed endoskeleton standing in the flames of a future battlefield was given to Winston, who ultimately gave life to the Terminator.
They spent several months building a humanoid prop, made from clay models, plaster, fiber and steel skeletons, which form the basic internal skeleton of the Terminator.
Much of the articulation and detail is controlled by puppets with rods, the head, eyes and jaws controlled by radio-operated auxiliary motor indirect transmission, and the hands and feet controlled by cables.
Plus, they made a realistic robotic hand!
Yang Ye did not go to the United States to ask Winston for help. He wanted to build his own special effects team.
Because of the achievements made some time ago, after Yang Ye made a request, several excellent craftsmen were sent to him from the country.
In the future, Yang Ye will also shoot more awesome science fiction and action movies.
For the various props and scenes involved in these movies, Yang Ye does not need to design them and can directly draw them.
But to turn the pictures into real objects, it depends on these skilled craftsmen.
Starting from this year, these powerful craftsmen from big countries have become important members of Yang Ye’s special effects company.
The monthly salary of three thousand Hong Kong dollars seems a lot, but for such a master chef, Yang Ye feels that it is very worthwhile.
And they are the leaders, and they are also responsible for guiding apprentices and helping Yang Ye's special effects company cultivate reserve talents.
They have all obtained Hong Kong identity cards now. Before 1980, anyone from the mainland who came to Hong Kong could go directly to the household registration department to get an identity card. It was also possible to sneak into Hong Kong, which was very convenient.
Yang Ye said happily: "I'll trouble you all, I will provide you with a special working place. What tools, equipment, materials, etc. do you need? Directly give the order to Assistant Hu and she will handle it for you!"
With Yang Ye's courtesy, several workers and masters were naturally very satisfied.
In the evening, Yang Ye invited these four people to have a meal again. They made fresh seafood and drank foreign and national wines. The workers and masters felt like meeting the master of the Ming Dynasty.
The glasses were exchanged, and the glasses were changed. The big-eared thief, bah, Boss Yang was also drunk.
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While Yang Ye was completing the editing and special effects work for "The Swordsman", he was also preparing for "The Terminator".
The first task is to find the future king of stunts, Luo Lixian.
This guy is proficient in speeding, exploding and catching fire, and has been a stand-in for almost all the big-name celebrities in Hong Kong.
Liu Hua drives a motorcycle over mountains and ridges? Actually it's him!
Zhou Runfa running in a hail of bullets? In fact, it’s him too!
Zhang Guorong, who flew into the sky and escaped from the earth while hanging a wire? In fact, it’s him!
Chen Long? Li Lianjie? Liang Caowei? It's him, it's him, it's him!
There are a lot of speeding stunts in "Terminator". Without Luo Lixian, Yang Ye felt that it was not very reliable to rely on Ke Shouliang alone.
Yang Ye’s life is precious. If a car crashes on the road, he can’t get involved in it himself. Take a few close-ups at most.
When Yang Ye was filming "Food Truck" last year, he specially posted an advertisement to recruit people, but he didn't fish him out. Now he just took the initiative to find people.
"Yinyin, there is a kamikaze stunt team in Hong Kong. Please help me check if there is a person named Luo Lixian in it."
"What does this person do?" "He is a speedster. If If there is such a person, you can bypass Chen Yiyan, the leader of the kamikaze stunt team, and ask him to come see me. If not, just call Chen Yiyan to come see me."
"I know. La!"
Yang Ye planned to find Luo Lixian first and try his abilities. After all, he is only eighteen years old now.
If he's good enough, just recruit him directly and let him join Ke Shouliang's Raptors stunt team.
Otherwise, Chen Yiyan’s kamikaze stunt team will be recruited for the speeding stunts in "Terminator".
Chen Yiyan is also a fierce man of the generation. In the 1970s, he was the dragon and tiger martial artist of Bruce Lee's team. After Bruce Lee's death, he turned to stuntman. In the past two years, he even formed a kamikaze stunt team.
He was featured in later Hong Kong blockbusters "The Best of Us", "Police Story", and "Human Torch".
Ke Shouliang and Luo Lixian both used to be in Chen Yiyan's kamikaze stunt team. Chen Yiyan claimed to be their mentor, but Co Luo and Co Luo did not admit it.
You cannot say that I have worked for you and you have become my mentor!
Just after Hu Yinmeng left, Yang Ye called Yuande again. Yuande was Hong Jingbao's assistant. He was always in charge of finding people for Hong Jingbao to film.
"Ade, help me spread the news in the circle of Dragon and Tiger martial arts masters. I need an actor for my new film. He needs to be over 1.8 meters tall, with a strong physique, and looks particularly fierce. If they meet the requirements, ask them to come to the company to see me at nine o'clock in the morning in three days!"
Yuan De wrote down the request and said, "Young Master Yang, I will do it right away."
Yang Ye called "Ming Pao" again and placed an advertisement to recruit actors. Those taller than 1.8 meters would be given priority. Those in the fitness industry would be given priority.
The most important role in the Terminator series is of course T800, but... Yang Ye does not plan to find Arnold Schwarzenegger to play it.
It felt strange to have a foreigner mixed into a Chinese movie, so he decided to hire a Chinese to do the calculation.
In "Terminator 1", T800 is just a pure villain. It doesn't have much screen time and only a few lines.
In the initial setting, T800 is an inconspicuous ordinary person. You can't tell him at all when he is mixed in the crowd.
According to normal logic, this is actually more in line with the setting of a machine killer.
But then the selection went back and forth, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was chosen to play the role.
The governor at that time was still a bodybuilder and could not act. Cameron simply asked him to keep a straight face and say nothing.
Unexpectedly, this feeling is inexplicably right.
So, the original setting was abandoned.
The most important characters in "Terminator 1" are the male and female protagonists, Kyle and Sarah.
There were a lot of rivalry scenes between the two. In the end, the two fell in love while fleeing and gave birth to the future leader John Connor.
However, there is a big BUG in "Terminator 1". As a time traveler, Kyle is just an ordinary person. Apart from knowing some knowledge of chemistry, he has no awesome abilities and it is impossible to do it. Get past the Terminator.
So, in order to make the gap between the two not too big, the Terminator's combat effectiveness in the movie is also very low.
In a car chase scene, the Terminator's mechanical arm was disabled, and even the bomb made by Kyle could severely damage him.
It’s just rubbish, not as lively as the second one!
This didn't work, Yang Ye decided to increase the intensity of the Terminator to be as fierce as the second one.
But what should Kyle do? Kyle, the weak terminator, can't even defeat him. How can Kyle defeat such a powerful terminator?
Of course, add BUFF to Kyle too!
In the movie "Terminator 6: Dark Fate", the person who comes back to protect the protagonist is not a robot, but a human girl named Grace.
Grace is not an ordinary human being, but an enhanced human warrior. She has greater strength and speed than ordinary humans, and has strong adaptability, but she needs supplementary drugs to maintain her physical strength.
This setting is very suitable for Yang Ye.
After all, Yang Ye's character is a kung fu master. As long as he appears in the movie, the audience will look forward to his miraculous kung fu skills.
If he acted according to the original setting of Kyle, it would not be suitable.
There is another problem. Since early Hollywood did not shoot action scenes, and the power of Kyle and the Terminator were also very different, in "Terminator 1", Kyle and the Terminator were almost never close. I've been in contact with it, and it's a car chase, escape, and shootout from beginning to end.
In the second part, the two robots began to fight hand-to-hand. In the subsequent sequels, although the plot became worse and worse, the action scenes became more and more exciting.
Now "The Terminator" has become a Hong Kong movie. If it is just like the original version, just car chases and gun battles, it will be equivalent to abandoning the biggest advantage of Hong Kong movies.
It also abandons the biggest selling point of Yang Ye as the starring role, which is undesirable.
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When it was almost time to get off work, Hu Yinmeng came back. As soon as he entered Yang Ye's office, he slumped down on his chair.
“I’m so exhausted!”
Yang Ye immediately transformed into a boy and poured tea for Hu Yinmeng. Then he pressed her shoulders with both hands and massaged her. After pressing it for a few times, he couldn't help but touch it down.
Hu Yinmeng hit him and scolded him with a smile: "Where are you touching?"
Yang Ye chuckled and continued touching.
Hu Yinmeng squinted his eyes and enjoyed it for a while, then said: "There is no Luo Lixian in that kamikaze stunt team."
"Oh!" Yang Ye was quite disappointed.
"But...he is a member of our Chinese Martial Arts Hall."
(End of Chapter)