Chapter 320 Beautiful Peacock
As soon as Yang Ye arrived in the mainland, he found that the streets were filled with songs by Teresa Teng.
Young people carry radios and play Teresa Teng’s songs to swagger through the market and become fashionable!
After China Record Company bought back the copyrights of Yang Ye, Teresa Teng and others, the ban on Teresa Teng's songs was officially lifted.
Of course, it was not that the ban was lifted explicitly, but overnight, Deng Lijun’s tapes were plastered all over supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores.
It costs 80 cents a box, and many young people are queuing up to buy it!
Eight cents is not cheap, at this time a fried dough stick only costs two cents.
It’s expensive to buy, so happy!
Now you can actually buy records and tapes directly. Don’t you want to buy them?
In fact, even without the role of Yang Ye, Deng Lijun would soon be lifted.
On February 1, 1985, "China Youth Daily" published an interview with Deng Lijun, which marked the unofficial lifting of Deng Lijun's ban.
Subsequently, the China Record Corporation introduced a complete set of Teresa Teng's song tapes, and her tapes, video tapes, promotional posters and other products are now available on the market.
At this point, Deng's love songs became popular all over the country. Deng Lijun taught people to sing using another part of their voice, which was later called the "popular singing method".
Before this, there were only two singing styles of Chinese songs: bel canto and ethnic singing.
After all, Lijun Teng's songs have become the favorites of the people, and listening to her songs is no longer something that may lead to "bad learning".
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Yang Ye’s filming team arrived in Kunming and received a warm reception from Kunming Film Studio.
An elder in his fifties shook hands with Yang Ye enthusiastically: "I, Qi Zhuoran, am the director of Kunming Film Studio. Director Yang, welcome to guide the work!"
Yang Ye smiled and said: "Director Qi, you're welcome. Please give me a lot of help when I come to Yunnan for filming this time!"
It is impossible to shoot a movie in Yunnan without the assistance of Kunming Film Factory.
Kunming Film Studio is a small studio, and it was only in 1981 that it independently shot its first film "Yehena".
It is a great blessing to be able to cooperate with Yang Ye’s international team this time.
Qi Zhuoran said: "Where, where! You are an international director. You make movies to promote Yunnan. It is my duty to cooperate with your work!"
Qi Zhuoran and Yang Ye exchanged greetings After a few words, he introduced a young and beautiful girl standing next to him: "This is Comrade Yang Liping from the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble!"
Yang Liping stretched out her slender hand, smiled and shook hands with Yang Ye : "Director Yang, I have long admired your name!"
Yang Ye looked at her nails for a moment and found that they were not very long. With a smile on her face, she said: "Hello, Comrade Yang! It's really troublesome for you to travel all the way from the capital because of a few shots!"
Yang Liping, who is in her twenties, is so beautiful that it is breathtaking, with a thin face His face was full of stories. Even though Yang Ye was so beautiful, he couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
"What the hell, I'm actually a fan of your movie. I think the martial arts you showed in your movie have a special masculine beauty! I feel very honored to be invited to appear in your movie this time! "
"Ms. Yang was so impressed. When I went to the capital before, I was lucky enough to see you dance, and it was amazing! "
The two had a business exchange. I blew it, so I got on the Kunying Factory's car and went to the factory's guest house.
There was a scene of Thai dance in the original movie of "Tom Yum Goong", so Yang Ye naturally changed it to Dai dance. In fact, the difference is not big.
After thinking about it for a while, Yang Ye simply went a step further and added a girlfriend to the protagonist, and also added a scene of peacock dancing.
The role of this girlfriend is naturally none other than Peacock Princess Yang Liping!
The fierceness of the fists and the softness of the peacock dance appear in the same picture. It is very interesting to think about it!
Yang Ye's identity is very special. His superiors basically respond to his requests. They just recruit an actor and it's done in minutes.
So before Yang Ye from Hong Kong set off, Yang Ye and Yang Liping from Beijing were notified and flew directly to Kunming.
In the evening, of course, it’s time to catch the wind and wash away the dust, and have a meal.
Yang Liping seemed to be very interested in Yang Ye and pulled him to talk a lot about movies.
Yang Ye never neglects a beauty, and naturally answers all questions. His humorous remarks make the beauty Yang giggle!
The next day, Yang Ye picked a few actors at Kunying Film Studio and took the train straight to Xishuangbanna.
One of the fathers wanted to play the leading role, but Hong Kong actors were not suitable, so they had to find local actors.
Kunming Film Studio sent people to Xishuangbanna early in the morning to make preliminary preparations, so there was someone to receive them as soon as they arrived in Xishuangbanna, which was very trouble-free.
Yang Liping was a member of the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe before joining the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe.
At Yang Ye's request, she went to the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe to select a few girls to cooperate with the filming. In this way, a shooting team is formed.
Yang Ye's version of "The Fighter" is a movie that combines Tony Jaa's "The Fighter" and "Tom Yum Kung".
"Boxer" is also translated as "Stealing the Buddha's Thread". It is a classic in the field of action movies and introduced Tony Jaa and Thailand to the world.
This movie also objectively stimulated Donnie Yen and gave birth to "Slaying the Wolf" and "The Fuse".
The title of "The Fuse" is a homophony of "The Wire of the Buddha". The two villain brothers in it, Chou Zhaolong is called Tony and Lui Liangwei is called Ah Zha. Donnie Yen beat up Tony and Ah Zha in the movie.
Obviously, Tony and Zha together are homophones for Tony Jaa, and "The Fuse" is the movie that Donnie Yen used to challenge Tony Jaa.
Why didn't Yang Ye just make "The Fighter" alone, but merge it with "Tom Yum Kung" and adapt it?
Because the Buddhist meaning of "Boxing Fighter" is too strong, Yang Ye doesn't like it.
The plot of "Boxer" is very Thai. The Buddha's head in the village was stolen, and the whole village was filled with fear, and it was said that a disaster was coming.
After Tony Jia arrived in Bangkok, he discovered that the black boss was stealing Thai Buddha heads everywhere, hiding all the Buddha heads under the sea, and smuggling them abroad to sell them for money.
The final decisive battle is also in a cave, where the black boss is sawing off the Buddha's head.
The death of the black boss was smashed to death by a collapsed Buddha's head, which seemed like divine punishment.
Because the Buddhist atmosphere in China is not as strong as in Thailand, such a plot is somewhat inconsistent with Yang Ye.
If you change it to the elephant search in "Tom Yum Goong", it becomes the theme of harmonious coexistence between humans and animals.
Finally, I found an elephant in the restaurant and criticized the cruel behavior of those who eat wild animals.
For Yang Ye, he prefers the theme of humans and animals in "Tom Yum Kung" to the religious theme in "Boxing Fighter".
However, the action design of "Tom Yum Kung" is less interesting than that of "Boxing Fighter", so Yang Ye simply combined the two into one.
The plot after the merger:
At the beginning, the elephant Boai grew up with the protagonist A Tian. Boai later gave birth to a baby elephant named Xiaokang, and Atian regarded Xiaokang as his younger brother.
Then Boai and his son were stolen during the Water Splashing Festival and transported to Hong Kong. The person who did this was a Vietnamese named Ruan Qiang.
This section is basically the plot of "Tom Yum Kung".
After arriving in Hong Kong, I basically returned to the plot of "Boxing Fighter", parkour and boxing.
Of course, the essence of "Boxing Fighter" of parkour and boxing is retained!
Then the protagonist beats up the Vietnamese Ruan Qiang!
Finally, the cave BOSS battle in "Boxing Fighter" was changed to the hotel BOSS battle in "Tom Yum Kung".
Yang Ye also specially invited Muay Thai king Prayut to stage an ultimate battle between high boxing and Muay Thai.
Thai people will definitely be furious after this movie is released. But it's useless to be angry. If you don't accept it, go find Yang Ye for a duel!
One question is, why are Vietnamese and Thais often portrayed in old Hong Kong movies?
In fact, it is very simple. After entering the 1980s, the Vietnamese market for Hong Kong films was completely lost due to political reasons. Thailand also began to implement a quota system for Hong Kong films. The restrictions were very high, and there was almost no quota.
In this case, if you don’t want to criticize someone, who can you criticize?
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The scenes in Yunnan were much shorter than the hometown scenes in the original "Tom Yum Kung" and were shot very quickly.
Because the original version had plots such as dedicating the elephant to the King of Thailand, these were naturally deleted.
Yang Ye only took a series of pictures of the childhood protagonist riding an elephant to school, bathing in the river with the elephant, lying on the ivory and sleeping with the elephant's trunk...
< br>This surprised Xiao Wu so much that he played with elephants every day. The joy came from the heart and there was no need to act at all.
The crew is also very happy. They work for a few hours every day and then eat fungi.
Matsutake mushrooms, chicken fir, porcini mushrooms... open them up and eat them.
Black truffles, which are as valuable as gold in Hong Kong, are fed to pigs here!
Yang Ye suddenly thought that if the fungi from Yunnan were airlifted to Hong Kong and Tokyo, it would definitely be a very profitable business.
In addition to making money yourself, you can also help local villagers improve their living conditions!
It is a pity that this business cannot be done now, because the first step is to gather the fungi from all over Yunnan.
Before the road network was built, it simply couldn’t be done!
If you want to be rich, build roads first!
It took about a week to shoot, and the scene of Xiao Wu Jing and the elephant happily playing together was completed.
The next step is to shoot the scene where Yang Ye and the elephant play happily, and the interaction with Yang Liping is also included. There are only a few scenes, just click them.
After a few more days of filming, we arrived at the plot of stealing an elephant during the Water Splashing Festival.
The Water Splashing Festival is a big scene. Yang Ye found Hu Ruchen, the person in charge sent by Kunming Film Studio to assist in the shooting: "Director Hu, we will shoot the Water Splashing Festival scene in two days, and at least 500 people will participate. Can you help find a group of people?" Acting? Men, women, and children are all welcome, and we’ll give you one dollar for one day of filming!”
Hu Ruchen said, “Tomorrow is the day to go to the market, so just shoot.”
Yang Ye shook his head: “It’s the day to go to the market. Okay, but I have to ask them to cooperate!"
Hu Ruchen said: "That's no problem. I'll go find the commune secretary and shout on the radio. Everyone must cooperate!"
< br>“This is easy, so I’ll leave it to you!”
When it was time to go to the market, people from all over the country came. It was very lively and there were so many people.
“Listen, members of the Mengla Commune. According to the instructions from our superiors, we are required to fully cooperate with the work of the artist comrades from Hong Kong. The artist comrades need help in making movies. Now all gather at the commune square. Listen. The conductors of the artist comrades, who are selected as actors, will each receive a salary of one yuan per day!”
How about one yuan for making a movie?
The fellow villagers were so happy that they rushed to the square from all directions.
Seeing Yang Ye's crowd, they immediately gathered around him excitedly.
"Comrade artist, do you think I can do it? I'm in good health, and I can do as much work as the other two."
"Comrade leader, do you work here to take care of the food?"
" Comrade artists..."
"Quiet!" Secretary Wang of the commune came to the scene in person and shouted with a loudspeaker.
The secretary was furious, and these people suddenly became honest.
After shocking the members, Secretary Wang asked: "Comrade Yang, do you think there are enough people?"
Yang Ye took a look and felt that many people were wearing shabby clothes, so he said; "Secretary Wang , can you tell the fellow villagers that today we will go to the market as usual, put on our national costumes when we get back, and gather here again tomorrow."
Secretary Wang was stunned: "We still have to change clothes. ? If you had told me earlier, I could have informed you in advance."
Yang Ye said: "I was negligent. We are going to film the Water Splashing Festival, so everyone should dress nicely. It will help improve our country’s image, don’t you think so?”
When Secretary Wang heard that it was related to the country’s image, it couldn’t be ambiguous, and he quickly said: “Comrade Yang, you are right!”
Not long after, the radio rang again: "Go to the market as usual today, and come back to gather again tomorrow. Comrade artists are going to take pictures of the Water Splashing Festival, so wear all your festival clothes tomorrow."
When the fellow villagers heard this, they dispersed one after another. , went to do his own business.
The people in the crew were very happy and ran to buy the local products from the fellow villagers.
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On the second day, the fellow villagers put on their national costumes and took to the streets happily. It was like a flower blossom!
Yang Ye took a look and saw that there were so many people. Yesterday there were only a few hundred people at the market, but today there were at least one or two thousand. They brought their families, the old and the young, and they all came to make money.
One dollar is not a small amount to them!
Earn what you earn. The salary of one dollar a day is basically free for the Hong Kong crew, and they even bring their own costumes!
Those people were still worried that Yang Ye would not accept it. Yang Ye shouted with a loudspeaker: "Accept it all, accept it all! Wait and listen to my command. After the performance, you will be given money. Everyone has a share."
Someone asked: "Comrade artist, do you take care of the food at noon?"
Hey, why are you pushing further? Yang Ye shouted: "In charge of the food! In charge of the food!"
Put down the loudspeaker, called the person in charge of the logistics team over, and said, "Do we have enough food?"
The logistics team leader shook Shaking his head: "Too many people came today, maybe not enough!"
"Then quickly find a solution!"
"I'll go right away!"
The logistics team leader called a few people to buy rice and vegetables.
As soon as Yang Ye turned his head, he saw Yang Liping walking over gracefully.
She wore a cardigan on her upper body, with the placket just reaching her waist, tightly wrapping her body, and a colorful skirt on her lower body, reaching to her ankles.
A silver belt is then used to tie the short-sleeved shirt and tube skirt, making the waist look slender and the hem wide, fully emphasizing the beauty of a woman's "measurements" of chest, waist and hips.
In addition, the clothes are decorated with colorful cloth strips and silver bubbles, decorated with various patterns, which are dazzling and give people a graceful, free and elegant feeling.
An ordinary Dai woman looks very good in such clothes, let alone a stunning beauty like Yang Liping. Yang Ye couldn't help but praise: "Miss Yang, you look like a beautiful peacock today!"
< br>Of course Yang Ye also wears Dai costumes, but the men's costumes are more disappointing. Fortunately, this guy has a good skin and a very fit figure, so he still looks very good.
Yang Liping praised: "Director Yang, you are also very handsome!"
Standing together, the two of them are really a match.
(End of this chapter)