Chapter 288 Dream's Appearance
After visiting the studio where Ziqi Company produces physical special effects, Yang Mingxin took Lan Naicai to visit the other side of the studio where computer special effects are produced.
Yang Mingxin introduced: "Let's watch "The Eight Parts of Tian Long" and "Swordsman". The Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and the Six Meridians Divine Sword in Tianlong. The sword energy in Swordsman are all used. Computer-based special effects. In the past, you used to paint film directly for special effects at Shaw Brothers, which was very cumbersome and the effect was not good. It is no longer used in the Hollywood movie "Superman" three years ago. We will soon follow up on CGI special effects. However, this technology is still very rough and can be used to generate waves during fights. Special effects related to real people still need to rely on real objects and models.”
Zi. Lan Naicai was amazed by the special effects produced by Qi Company. God knows how much money Yang Ye spent on it.
He was originally worried about how to make this movie, but now he is confident.
In fact, from a plot point of view, "The Peacock Prince" is a terrible movie, and it simply insults the original comic.
But the movie ended up being a box office hit. What was the reason?
The highlights are those battles that are so cult and cool!
Now, the original comics have not been drawn at all, so people have no way to compare them.
Without comparison, there is no harm, and people will complain less about the plot.
Coupled with the special effects level that transcends the times, Yang Ye is quite confident about the box office results.
In special effects movies, just look at the special effects, the plot is not that important.
Besides, Yang Ye’s primary purpose is to support the special effects team, accumulate experience, and be able to afford it without fear of losing money.
After coming out of Ziqi Company, Yang Ye said to Yang Mingxin: "Third brother, I am going to Japan in a few days. A director named Yang Jie from the mainland will come to visit and inspect. Please welcome me."
Yang Mingxin was stunned: "My sister is coming?"
"It's just the same name, and the second sister is not the director!"
"Oh, I got it!"
" But this Yang Jie is also engaged in opera, you are not a fan, and we happen to have the same language."
After Yang Ye said that, he left, and he and Lan Naicai went to the Film Man Tea Restaurant. One of them looked very good. The chubby little fat man is waiting there.
This person is Cai Lan.
Yang Ye smiled and said to the two of them: "Find a partner for you guys. Mr. Cai Lam is very familiar with Japan. This time he serves as the producer of the movie "Peacock King". You two cooperate with each other."< br>
Cai Lam's father was originally a retainer of the Shaw Brothers (Shao Renmei) in Singapore. When he grew up, Chua Lam went to Japan to study film production, and then came to Hong Kong to assist Shaw Brothers in cooperating with Japan in making films.
Later, Chow Wen-huai and He Guanchang quit Shaw Brothers and formed their own Golden Harvest. Cai Lam was appointed as Shaw Brothers' production manager.
But as Fang Yihua took over the purchasing department and gradually became the actual head of Shaw Brothers, Cai Lam was gradually squeezed out and could only leave sadly.
In the original time and space, as soon as Chua Lam left Shaw Brothers, he was recruited by Golden Harvest to be responsible for the co-production of Chen Lung and Hong Jingbao's "Fast Truck", "Brothers and Brothers" and other large-scale multinational productions.
But now, Jiahe is living a normal life, but Baiyang is enjoying great glory. Yang Ye offers an olive branch, and Cai Lan naturally accepts it happily.
Yang Ye drew a pie: "If this "Peacock King" is filmed well, I will set up a studio for the two of you, and from now on, I will be responsible for cooperating with Japan to make films."
Cai Lam had heard of the film studio model of Baiyang Pictures for a long time. It had clear accounts and no arrears. It was much more cost-effective than working at Shaw Brothers or opening a satellite company in Jiahe.
Both Chen Long and Hong Jingbao made huge profits from their studios, but only Hu Jinquan lost his studio.
Recently, there has been another McDonald's studio, but no works have been released yet, so I don't know what the results will be.
In fact, with Chua Lam’s qualifications, it is more than enough to establish a film studio.
However, Yang Ye still gave them a test question. Only after passing this test can they get something!
Cai Lam is a lonely person who has just been kicked out of Shaw Brothers. He does not think the test questions given by Yang Ye are harsh, but he is very motivated!
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The Christmas season of 1981 was full of excitement.
Baiyang's side is "Sword Rain" starring the newly debuted kung fu boy Jet Li.
After watching the midnight screening of "Sword Rain", New Arts City chose to avoid its sharpness and put their masterpiece "The Best Partner" on the Spring Festival schedule, while the Christmas release was a thriller Horror movie "Reborn".
The movie that Shaw Brothers submitted to challenge is called "The Legend of the Sparrow Fighter". Since "The King of Kings" tasted the sweetness, Shaw Brothers has been running hard on the road of betting on movies. In the first half of the year, director Wang Jing "Thousands of Kings Fight Thousands of Tyrants" was produced, which did well at the box office.
So in the second half of the year, we produced the film "The Legend of the Sparrow Fighter" and invited Xu Guanjie to sing the theme song, hoping to make another fortune.
The most bizarre thing about Golden Harvest is that the movie released was "The Prodigal Son" starring Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.
Yang Ye has long said that people who don’t let others make money must have something wrong with their heads.
The Baiyang Brokerage Company he opened does not have any sectarian views, and everyone is welcome to invite people.
Jiahe invited Chen Long before, but this time he invited Hong Jingbao and Yuan Biao. Baiyang Agency did not stop them and let them go readily!
For Hong Jingbao, he already knew that "Sword Rain" would be released in the Christmas season.
Moreover, due to the merger of Lisheng and Baiyang, Xinyi City will also come to compete for the time slot, which is really too crowded.
So after he talked to Yang Ye, he ran to Jiahe to film.
In this way, a pattern of three major theater chains and four major film companies competing for the Christmas schedule has been formed.
After merging with Li Sheng, Poplar Cinemas is the largest cinema chain in Hong Kong. Its location, environment and facilities are all first-class. Even though two movies were released at the same time, it still leads the box office.
In the 1980s, Hong Kong films entered their most prosperous period of development, with box office records constantly breaking and action films reaching their peak.
There are so many stars and so many movies, and dozens of action movies are released every year, which makes the audience become very professional. As long as an actor makes a move or strikes a pose, the audience will know how much "weight" you have.
In order to excite the audience, action movie actors work hard to increase the difficulty. You jumped from the eighth floor and fell into the pool? Then I will jump off the ninth floor and jump into the sea of fire.
The audience at that time had no idea of keeping quiet while watching movies. There can be as few as five hundred people in a theater or as many as a thousand people. They applaud if they see something good. If they don't like it, they just throw it away. The momentum is very huge.
Sometimes they know that the director and actors are at the scene, and they will deliberately scold you. Damn street boy, making bad movies, wasting my money!
How do you feel when hundreds or even thousands of people scold you together? Who can bear it?
Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible for a person without kung fu skills to be the protagonist in an action movie. If he does, he will be scolded, thrown into the street, and lose money three times in a row.
So, Baiyang Pictures released Jet Li, whose elegant movements and agile skills immediately attracted the audience's attention.
Although "Sword Rain" was released in a low-key manner without large-scale publicity, and Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia were in a state of mind at the beginning of the film, the movie still became a box office hit.
"Film Fortnightly" commented: "The movie "Sword Rain" grasps the audience's mentality to the extreme. The appearance of Yang Ye and Lin Qingxia at the beginning made the audience full of expectations.
But The two of them left the scene quickly, leaving the audience very disappointed. The rest of the plot relied on suspense. Until Li Lianjie finally took action, the audience's emotions immediately rose from the bottom to the top, which was more enjoyable than riding a roller coaster.
This refreshing feeling is not only caused by the reversal of the plot, but also because Yang Ye has found the best spokesperson.
Li Lianjie's agility can almost rival Yang Ye.
We seem to have seen that another new star is rising in the Hong Kong film industry. ""Sword Rain" finally led the Christmas season with a box office of 16.1 million, ranking third in the 1981 annual box office. Second only to Yang Ye's "Wushe Uprising" and Xu Guanwen's "Modern Bodyguard".
Hong Jingbao and Yuen Biao's "The Prodigal Son" received a box office of 9.15 million. Shaw Brothers' "The Legend of the Birds" ranked third with a box office of 6.49 million, and New Arts City's "The Reborn" ranked third with a box office of 6.08 million. At the end.
In 1981, there were more than 30 Hong Kong films with a box office of more than 3 million yuan in the local area. It seemed that overnight, the film market exploded.
The golden age of Hong Kong films has officially begun!
After this battle, people were even more surprised by the strength of Baiyang Cinemas, which released two movies at the same time and achieved good results of 16 million and 6 million.
Although "The Reborn" ranks last, it is not far behind Shaw Brothers' "The Legend of the Sparrow Heroes".
However, the bosses of Xinyi City were not very happy.
Mai Jiadao: "If we had a separate theater chain, "Reborn Man" would not lose too much, not to mention beating "The Prodigal Son"."
Shi Tiandao: "Baiyang's fierceness There are too many people, and now there’s Jet Li, who really can’t get the time slot.”
Huang Baiming said, “Then what can we do? They said there is fair competition and there is no gimmick in our film. The attendance rate is not as good as others, so we have to arrange movies. "
Mai Jia said: "Oh, it's really not a problem to be crowded together. It would be better if there was a separate theater line."
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Japan, NHK TV station, backstage at the Red and White Song Contest.
As she was about to go on stage, Akina Nakamori felt a little nervous.
Yang Ye hugged her gently and encouraged: "Relax!"
"Yes!"
Yang Ye gave her a warm hug to Nakamori Akina, who was making her debut on stage. Inexplicable confidence.
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“Momoe Yamaguchi has left the entertainment industry for two years. People must be curious, where has she gone?
Today, on the stage of the Red and White Song Festival, we will explain Let’s solve this puzzle.
The next song will be performed by Yang Ye and Yamaguchi Momoe...’s disciple, Nakamori Akina!”
The host gasped and said! There was a pause when we arrived at Yamaguchi Momoe, and the audience thought that Yamaguchi Momoe was back.
Damn, Bai was excited for a while.
But, Yamaguchi Momoe’s disciple?
In the past two years, a lot of newcomers have appeared in the Japanese music scene, all of them claiming to be Yamaguchi Momoe's successor.
Is this going to be a real one to put things in perspective?
The fake Li Gui is about to meet the real Li Kui, and the audience can't help but look forward to it.
Beautiful music played.
Suddenly there was fog on the stage, and the lights on the dome fell like stars!
A man with a high degree and a doctorate, dressed as an ancient Confucian scholar, stepped onto the stage, held a microphone, and sang: "It's still, all the flowers are blooming. It's far away, and love is clear. The sky is depressed, but love is very fond of it. . At that time, I didn’t know what it was called love!”
Then a girl dressed like a fairy came up and sang: “You like it, stand on that window sill. I haven’t come back for a long time. The colorful time is stained with blankness, and it is the tears you shed that fade away.”
Yang Ye’s clothes are faintly pink, like peach blossoms. Nakamori Akina's clothes are more pink, like a cherry blossom fairy!
The Peach Blossom Fairy and the Cherry Blossom Fairy looked at each other from a distance and sang together: "I don't want you to leave, the distance can't separate you. My thoughts turn into the sea and can't come in outside the window. Forgiveness is said too quickly, love becomes an obstacle..."
< br>Yang Ye and Nakamori Akina sang "Sea of Flowers" composed by the later music king Milk Cha Lun.
This song "Sea of Flowers" was written by Milk Cha Lun in tribute to Naka Kosuke's island singing style.
Island style singing is called Shimabei in Japanese, and it is a traditional folk song originating from the Ryukyu region.
So, although this is a song decades later, it was created in the style of the Showa era.
The Japanese audience both at the venue and in front of the TV felt that it sounded very good and comfortable, without any feeling of violation.
I can only say that milk tea is awesome!
After singing a section in Chinese, the two switched to Japanese.
武い戻れ花の海 (flowers bloom and fade, this is a sea of flowers)
Yaoe に咲く涙 sinking めて (the flowers are blooming, drowning my tears)
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Kaiming りよ叶うなら (Even the sea is crying, if it can be realized)
あの日まで帰りたい (Let me go back to that day)
Many lights at the scene lit up together Stand up, rendering the stage into an orange glow, which looks very warm.
Some fine petals fell down, and Akina Nakamori danced gracefully among the flying flowers in the warm light.
Where is the poplar leaf? He stood aside, smiling and looking at the dancing fairies, singing softly the harmony.
The audience was stunned. The atmosphere was so romantic and beautiful. Many people covered their mouths with their hands.
They forgot to scream and did not dare to scream for fear of disturbing the beautiful atmosphere.
The second time I sang, the lyrics were reversed. I started singing in Japanese and then switched to Chinese.
When they sang: "I don't want you to leave, distance can't separate you. Yearning becomes the sea, can't come in outside the window. Forgiveness is spoken too quickly, love becomes an obstacle."
Countless petals suddenly fell from the sky!
"I owe you your love, and I'm waiting for a comeback. The sky is still brilliant, and it loves the sea. The love song has been defeated, and love no longer exists."
In the sea of flowers flying all over the sky, two voices came from A warm voice.
People could no longer control their excitement. They screamed loudly and stretched out their hands to welcome the flying petals.
Whether it was the audience at the scene or the audience in front of the TV, they all made the same action.
Many people were moved by this song and burst into tears!
The stage design from forty years later, coupled with such a touching song and beautiful lyrics, is so beautiful and dreamy!
"Thank you!"
"Arigado!"
Yang Ye and Nakamori Akina bowed to the audience together, and returned with crazy and warm applause from the audience. Backstage!
"Onii-chan, did we succeed?"
"Of course, Akina. Starting tonight, your name will be resounding throughout Japan, and even throughout Asia!"
(End of this chapter)