Chapter 297 No need for singing skills
After the Academy Award, "Pretty Girl" produced by McDonald's was released in a low-key Easter period.
The industry didn't take this movie seriously because it didn't sell well from any aspect.
It is neither a comedy nor an action film. The producer, McDonald, used to work in television, and the director, Li Dawei, used to be a television cameraman and became a director for the first time.
This was their first time making a movie, and the actors they hired were all newcomers, and the heroine was a little girl found on the street.
The only thing I can mention is that the singer of the movie's theme song "Freedom is in My Hands" is the recently popular Chen Xiuwen.
Actually, this song was sung by Yu Anan in the original time and space, but Yu Anan in this time and space had switched to TVB, so Li Xiaotian gave the song to Chen Xiuwen.
In short, this movie can be described in eight words: unpopular theme, diaosi cast.
Can this thing be sold for money?
However, the result surprised everyone.
This movie reflects the depravity of teenage Hong Kong girls. It describes how they don't like to study and end up selling their sex to make money in romantic places.
Because it boldly exposed the real social problems in Hong Kong, it caused great controversy once it was released.
Some people think that this movie is of low quality and should be banned.
Some people think that the problems reflected in this movie really exist in society and cannot be ignored.
The two sides quarreled endlessly about this, and they bickered back and forth in the newspapers.
As a result, countless people were curious and entered the cinema to watch it.
In terms of film format, this film is presented in a completely real documentary style, striving to give the audience a feeling of shock.
The girls in the film are all performed by newcomers with no acting experience, and were filmed using live sound recording. The storytelling techniques, atmosphere creation, actor performances and technical performance are generally quite successful.
So, people who are attracted to watch it in the cinema feel it is very good, and it encourages more people to go and watch it.
At this time, the great director Li Hanxiang, who went to watch the show, made another explosive statement. He directly asserted: "Now everyone says that Lin Biqi is China's Momoe Yamaguchi. I think one day, Momoe Yamaguchi will be Known as Japan’s Lin Biqi! ”
Damn it, Li Hanxiang's words instantly lifted Lin Biqi to an incredible level.
She can actually kill Yamaguchi Momoe in an instant. How strong is this girl?
As a result, the movie box office was further pushed up.
In the end, this movie with a cost of less than one million, the local box office exceeded 10 million, which is a miracle.
As for Lin Biqi, because of "Pretty Girl", she became completely popular. Countless film appointments flew in like pieces of paper, and the limelight instantly overshadowed the newly famous Zhong Chuhong.
The industry is envious of Baiyang Pictures, and seniors like Yang Ye and Chen Long are already very good.
In the past two years, super newcomers such as Zhong Chuhong, Jet Li, Liu Hua, and Lin Biqi have been launched one after another. How can this be fun?
But this matter soon changed.
When Lin Biqi became famous, everyone waved their checks and wanted to film with Lin Biqi, but she disappeared.
No one can find her, including McDonald.
It wasn't until a few months later that Lin Biqi appeared once and accepted a media interview. She bluntly said that she didn't like acting, let alone take any more roles, and she quit the entertainment industry.
The unlimited future, fame and wealth at her fingertips, she just gave up!
In the second year of the Hong Kong Film Awards, the organizing committee awarded the Best Actress to Brigitte Lam, hoping to retain this rising star in the Hong Kong film industry.
She was awarded the Best Actress Award for her first time filming. How big of an honor is this for her?
But Lin Biqi dismissed it and did not go to receive the award at all.
She was like a dazzling shooting star, streaking across the dazzling night sky of Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s, disappearing in an instant.
There are two reasons for Lin Biqi's withdrawal, according to later speculation.
The first reason lies in McDonald.
Although McDonald’s Bear is tall, handsome and talented, he looks gentle and harmless to humans and animals.
Actually, he is such a pervert that he will do anything for the sake of filming.
When this guy was filming "The Man", he led a team of people around the Mong Kok Police Station and filmed for half an hour. The police looked confused. Seeing that McDonald's group was so calm, they didn't even ask anything. Stupidly, McDonald slipped out of the back door.
When filming "Ten Strange Cases", a child was thrown into the swimming pool and made to struggle, almost drowning the child;
When filming "The Flying Corpse in the Foggy Night", when the train was approaching, the lights suddenly turned on. , throwing the "body" over, scaring the driver to brake suddenly, and the train almost derailed;
The filming of "Train of Destruction" caused a traffic jam in Hong Kong, and the producer Zhong Zhen was arrested by the police. Because Zhong Zhen and McDonald often got into trouble when filming, she was nicknamed "Pot Zhen Zhen";
When filming "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", McDonald tied Shen Wei in the car, and then Just pour gasoline outside and light a fire.
Shen Wei was so frightened on the spot that he later won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor because his expression was so real.
After filming this scene, Shen Wei, who almost turned into a barbecue, chased McDonald through the streets with a knife.
When filming "Heroes and Men", McDonald's good words tricked a villa into filming. After he succeeded, he carried out a series of explosions and the whole building was razed to the ground...
Fan All these are too numerous to write down!
Talking back to "Pretty Girl", this movie has a sex scene between Brigitte Lin and her boyfriend. At that time, Brigitte Lin was unwilling to film it. In order to force her to film the scene, McDonald directly gave her drugs...
In 1987, Qiu Litao's "The Story of a Beautiful Girl" alluded to this incident, and also invited Lin Biqi's husband Fred and sister-in-law Theresa to appear in real life. The second reason is that Lin Biqi met the young rocker Fred during filming.
Fred is the younger brother of the generation of singer Theresa Teresa. During the few months when Lin Biqi disappeared, she eloped with Fred.
When the Academy Awards were presented the next year, Lin Biqi’s daughter was born.
It was not until thirty years later that Teresa won the Golden Needle Award, and at the subsequent celebration banquet, people saw Lin Biqi again.
The couple is in love and living a good life!
In any case, the movie changed Lin Biqi's life, turning her from a little girl born in Kowloon Walled City into a wealthy wife of a musical family.
The movie made her brilliant for a while, but also made her stable for the rest of her life.
……
Before Yang Ye left Hong Kong, the last two members of Girls’ Generation were finally completed.
One of them is Zhang Min.
Zhang Min's original experience was that she was noticed by the person in charge of ATV's artist training class while walking on the road, and he invited her to attend ATV's art training class, thus making her debut.
My current experience is similar. I was "accidentally encountered" by people from ATV, and then I went to Baiyang Agency to take training classes and become a trainee.
Actually, Zhang Min has been a trainee for more than half a year, but she is not treated as specially as Zhou Huimin and others.
This time, the training class held a selection, and Zhang Min successfully joined Zhou Huimin's small team because of her outstanding performance.
The other one is Qiu Shuzhen.
Qiu Shuzhen came from a poor family. She would have dropped out of school at the age of 16 and then started working as a model. At the age of 19, she participated in a beauty pageant and became the favorite to win.
It was later revealed that she had undergone plastic surgery and she regretfully retired from the competition, but TVB still signed a contract with her.
After Qiu Shuzhen signed a contract with Wireless, she didn't do well until she hugged Fatty Wang's lap, and then she became famous by filming a Category III film and became a famous sexy goddess in Hong Kong!
However, Qiu Shuzhen is not an authentic person. She does not show off her points when making a Category III film and has no professionalism at all. It is so disappointing!
For such a person with no professional ethics, Yang Ye must call her over and check it out personally!
......
Mao Mei took Zhang Min and Qiu Shuzhen into the practice room, clapped her hands, and stopped Zhou Huimin and others who were practicing.
Said: "Two new members have joined. Please introduce yourselves first."
After Zhang Min and Qiu Shuzhen finished their introductions with excitement, Mao Mei said: "From today on, You will officially form a group. The company’s goal is to build you into the most popular idol group in Asia. I hope you can work hard for this and not let down the company’s cultivation. Do you understand?”
"I understand!" the ten little girls said together.
“Since you have been trainees for different periods of time, some have been training for two years, and some have only joined for a few months, so in the following training, you who come first must help those who come later to overcome difficulties. Because you We are a whole, and we will perform together in the future, so no one can fall behind, understand?”
“Understood!”
“Xiao Min, Yingying, Xiaoxian, Zhen Zhen, Jingyi, you guys The five people who have been here the longest are not only more proficient in business, but also can speak Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. Now I ask you to take responsibility and provide one-on-one help to the next five companions to ensure that they complete the training content within two years. , are you willing?”
“Yes!”
"Okay, then you can find a partner by yourselves, and we will have class later."
In fact, Yang Ye did not choose someone randomly.
His nine-member team can be subdivided into the Hong Kong team, the Taiwan team, and the Japanese and Korean teams.
The three members of these three teams all have their own characteristics.
Zhang Min, Wang Zuxian, and Tianhai Youxi are all male and female types.
Zhou Huimin, Yi Nengjing, and Cui Zhenzhen are all gentle and graceful.
Qiu Shuzhen, Xiao Qiang, and Kudo Shizuka are all elves and cute types.
Of course, in fact, their personalities are not like this, it is just the personality shown to the outside world.
For example, Amami Yuki doesn’t like pretending to be a man at all. After she changed back to women’s clothing, she decided not to wear men’s clothing.
Qiu Shuzhen's personality is not weird at all, and she doesn't like to act sexy. She is actually very gentle and quiet.
Yang Ye actually selected the members based on the later super-popular Taiwanese group S.H.E.
In the future, this nine-person group can be combined or split into three-person teams for activities.
When broken down into a three-person team, there were actually three S.H.E.
The difference is that although their looks can beat S.H.E, their singing skills are far worse than S.H.E.
Even though Zhou Huimin was famous as a singer in later generations, his singing skills were only so-so. His performances on stage were often at the scene of car accidents, which was quite annoying.
But it doesn't matter, these people look like this, and they still need the singing skills of a hammer?
(End of this chapter)