Mai Jia, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming drove to Dong Lai Plaza in Mong Kok to watch the screening of "Happy Ghost".
As soon as I arrived at the scene, I was surprised by the lively atmosphere.
Huang Baiming couldn't help but complain: "I'm sorry, you actually invited a lion dance team!"
Mai Jiadao: "Yang Ye's movies have always been wildly promoted. Yes. When the box office in Hong Kong was only 20 million, he dared to spend 3 million to promote it. He didn't care whether he made money or not."
Shi Tiandao: "He doesn't rely on the local box office. The Hong Kong box office is just him. Indicator of selling port. ”
Huang Baiming said: "It's different this time. This is not a movie he made."
Mai Jiada said: "The Girls' Generation he created brought together nine girls from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, and it was very ambitious. How big is it, can’t you tell?”
This man’s eyes are never on the small Hong Kong Island. He is looking at the global market, at least the Asian market.
Sometimes I feel that Hong Kong Island is just a testing ground for this person? "
Shi Tian said strangely: "Experimental field? ”
Maijia said: "Yes, this person came out ten years ago and has implemented various commercial methods.
For example, in the past, the common method for making movies was to start filming in a low-key manner, and he hired a large number of people to make movies. The reporters held the launch press conference, and the entire filming process continued to maintain high exposure, thus attracting the attention of a large number of citizens.
After the film was completed, the common practice was to wait for the midnight release to test the audience's reaction, but he did not. Holding a grand premiere.
After the movie is released, the common approach is to ignore it and think about the next movie, but he went to the theater for a road show during the release.
This is what everyone did. He comes up with this new way of playing video again and again. Every time he makes a move, he changes the status quo of the industry. Our current business model is all learned from him.”
Shi Tian thought about it and said: "That's really the case!"
Mai Jiadao: "Hong Kong Island is very small, which allows this person to implement all his fantastic ideas. Once he succeeds, he can do it in a new place." It is implemented in a large market, so I say that Hong Kong Island is his experimental field.
We have always regarded him as his opponent, but in fact he has never regarded us as his opponent at all. In the film industry, He is the teacher of all of us!”
The group parked the car, entered Donglai Square, and headed to the theater on the fifth floor wearing their caps. They found that the place was crowded with boys and girls, some of whom were still wearing school uniforms.
Many people don’t have tickets at all, they just come to see Girls’ Generation.
With so many customers, the handicraft shop, game arcade, video store, and bookstore on the fifth floor are almost laughing to death, and business is booming.
A dozen of Rambo knives, priced at 298 each, were sold in one morning. These were only consumed by boys, and some small items that girls liked were sold like crazy.
Girls’ Generation’s records, tapes, and posters were immediately cleared out of the video store.
Girls' Generation has only debuted for half a month, and it has already caused such a huge response among the youth groups in Hong Kong.
In fact, to put it bluntly, there is nothing surprising. These girls are all from Yangye Yanxuan. They are extremely good-looking and were once very popular in the original time and space.
Young people always like to follow trends, and Yang Ye creates it for them. The costumes, dances, and songs designed are extremely youthful and fashionable.
In the album "You Are the Most Popular", the five songs all come from the hit songs of the super-popular Hong Kong group Twins.
In addition to "You Are the Most Popular", which created an atmosphere at the New Year's Eve concert, the other four songs are "Boys in Girls' School", "Caritas Secret Love Tutorial Club", "Kite and Wind", and "Love Is Bigger Than Heaven" All were hits once upon a time.
The content of the lyrics and music expresses the little thoughts of young girls, crushes on seniors, and friendships between classmates.
The remaining five songs are all famous songs from the Korean girl group Girls’ Generation. "The World We Meet Again", "Gee", "Oh! 》are all listed among them.
Each song's MV has a dancing scene. These girls have been practicing for at least two years, and their skills are still very good.
And the unique crab leg dance is extremely brainwashing. Naturally, as soon as it was launched, it was crazily pursued by countless boys and girls, treating them as goddesses!
......
Three old guys followed a group of young people into the venue, looking a little out of place, making them a little embarrassed.
But they soon discovered that they were not the only ones.
This movie theater has more than 500 seats, and there are still some middle-aged men like them.
After all, no matter how old a man is, he loves a young girl deeply.
The movie started soon. It opened in a ruined temple with heavy rain outside.
Eerie filters, with weird and terrifying music, a man hanged in front of the statue.
The hanging rope swayed and swayed, and we came to Hong Kong in 1984.
Following a burst of cheerful singing, five young and beautiful girls appeared on the screen.
These five people are naturally the five members of Girls' Generation. In addition to the three heroines Zhou Huimin, Xiao Qiang, and Tianhai Yuxi, Zhang Min and Qiu Shuzhen also have guest appearances.
The three people from Maijia don't care about this. They just want to see what magic is there about this movie, making it worthy of Baiyang Pictures' efforts to promote it.
Unfortunately, after watching it from beginning to end, I didn’t find anything strange.
The story is actually very simple. During the Qing Dynasty, a scholar named Zhu Jinchun was hanged. His ghost was attached to the hanging rope and was brought back to school by Lin Jingjing, played by Zhou Huimin.
Then Zhu Xiucai helped three little girls cheat in exams, cheat in sports competitions, etc. and caused a lot of trouble.
There are also laughs, and they are very dense, as evidenced by the laughter that breaks out from time to time in the theater.
But... the three of them, Mai Jia, didn't see anything special about this movie.
Mai Jia asked: "What do you think?"
Shi Tiandao: "The photography is very good, the comedy is also good, and it is a bit similar to Lao Huang's style."
Huang Baiming is the penman of New Art City. He has written many scripts, and he writes scripts very quickly. It usually only takes a week to finish a script. If it is faster, it can be completed in two or three days. The disadvantage is that it is extremely routine.
So, anyone with a discerning eye can see what Huang Baiming wrote at a glance, let alone Mai Jia and Shi Tian, two people who are close to Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming also looked confused and murmured: "It's really similar to my style!"
Mai Jiadao: "This shows that it's not just us who are learning from Yang Ye, In fact, Yang Ye is also learning from us, Lao Huang, you should be proud!”
Huang Baiming thought, it makes sense, even Yang Ye is learning from me, doesn’t that prove that I am awesome? But he didn't know why, he just couldn't be happy, and he felt like there was a turbid air in his heart that he couldn't get rid of.
At the end of the movie, the three girls all graduated and had a new life. Xiao Qiang gave birth to a son, but he looked like Zhang Xueyou inexplicably.
When her husband Li Ming heard this, he stepped forward and said fiercely: "Isn't Zhu Bang No. 2? Call daddy!"
The baby cried loudly, but the cinema burst into laughter.
“Hahahahaha!” The movie ends here.
Subsequently, a group of main creators appeared on stage. Jacky Cheung has recently become popular as a singer and played the role of a happy ghost in the movie. His comedy talent was fully utilized and he received a warm welcome.
As soon as Zhang Xueyou appeared on the stage, he sang "Happy Ghost", the theme song of "Happy Ghost".
"Being optimistic and not blinded (happy ghost, happy ghost)
Worrying every day that no one can control me (I can’t control it, I can’t control it)
Always pretending to be deceitful ( Happy ghost, happy ghost)..."
While singing, he winked and did his best to make the audience laugh.
The appearance of Li Ming caused a burst of screams. This guy is 1.8 meters tall, as tall as a jade tree in the wind, and he is still in his youth, so fresh and tender.
When the movie just opened, they were camping on the beach. Li Ming sat in front of the tent, holding a guitar and singing love songs to several girls, which fascinated the girls in the theater.
Now, Liming is wearing a white shirt and holding a guitar, recreating the scene in the movie again.
"Will you come tonight, will your love still exist? I just want to have you with me in the future, to accompany me and fall in love..."
The image of the affectionate Prince Charming, Make the girls in the theater crazy.
Although this guy doesn't have many roles in the movie, with his outstanding looks and the song "Will You Come Tonight" created for him by Yang Ye, it's hard not to become famous.
The last one to appear was naturally Girls’ Generation, and the nine little girls did not hesitate to dance the crab legs dance on the spot, triggering bursts of crazy screams.
The content of the movie was not discussed at all, and director Madang Chieh simply did not appear.
Just Zhang Xueyou led the team, led Dawn, and Girls' Generation, and one person sang a song, and it was done. The next step is to sign autographs. In addition to the audience in the theater, fans outside the theater can also come in and sign autographs.
Those young people lined up excitedly, holding Girls' Generation albums, just to say a word to their idols.
“Vivian, you sing so beautifully!”
“Yuki Amami, you dance so cool!”
Since it is an idol group, there is a lead singer and lead dance.
Girls’ Generation has two lead singers. When they were active in China, the lead singer was Zhou Huimin. When I went to Japan to perform, the lead singer became Kudo Shizuka.
They are the only two people in the whole group who have decent singing skills, so they are responsible for the most difficult part of singing the climax of a song.
The lead dancer is Yuki Amami. She originally danced ballet and has very good basic skills.
If Yang Ye hadn't poached her, she would have been admitted to Japan's most famous Takarazuka Opera Troupe and become the lead actor.
The male part of the opera is danced by the boy, and the girl part of the opera is called the otaku.
Amami Yuki’s partner is Yoshio Mano. There are a lot of CP fans of these two people on the Internet, and they still stubbornly believe that they are gay.
Yang Ye was most annoyed by gay people, so when he went to Japan to pick someone up, he didn't bring Mano back.
However, Amami Yuki is indeed a handsome girl. I don’t know if she will be knocked against by other girls in the group again.
......
Of course Maijia and others would not come forward to ask for autographs, and they left quickly.
After watching the movie and watching these crazy fans, they probably understand.
Although the movie "Happy Ghost" is somewhat interesting, it is still inferior compared to their "Better Days 3".
In terms of movie quality alone, "Happy Ghost" cannot beat "The Best of Us".
However, the selling point of "Happy Ghost" is not the movie itself, but the comeback of the child star Liming, and the explosive popularity of Girls' Generation. Just look at the crazy faces of those fans.
Mai Jiadao: "After doing this for a long time, Yang Ye is not selling movies at all, but selling stars."
Shi Tiandao: "The most bizarre thing is that for more than half a month, Yang Ye is not selling movies at all, but selling stars." Before, those little girls were not stars.”
Huang Baiming said: "So, Yang Ye knew early on that Girls' Generation would definitely become popular."
Mai Jiadao: "You will understand when you understand how Girls' Generation was born.
Among them, Zhou Huimin is Yang Ye’s neighbor and has known them since childhood.
The three Taiwanese girls were Yang Ye’s backup singers when he held a concert in Taipei nine years ago.
The four of them went on a world tour with Yang Ye.
The next five came back one after another when Yang Ye was filming in Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong.
The one with the shortest time has also received two years of systematic training.
The people who train them are dancer Mao Mei, musician Wu Dajiang, super idol Yamaguchi Momoe and other top people.
It can be said that Yang Ye has spent a lot of effort on them. It would be strange if they were not popular.
Do you know Akina Nakamori who became famous in Japan? In fact, she also trained with these girls, but she was older and debuted first. ”
Shi Tian said strangely: "How do you know so clearly?"
Mai Jia said cowardly: "There are so many beauties coming out at once, of course I have to inquire about them!"
Shi Tiandao : “Then do you think we can win during the Spring Festival?”
“I don’t know, it’s already like this, let’s just leave it to fate!”
……
It’s New Year’s Eve in the blink of an eye!
The Yang family took matters into their own hands and led Yang Ritian and Yang Tudou to paste Spring Festival couplets inside and outside. They were very busy.
It has only been more than ten years since polygamy was abolished in Hong Kong. Nowadays, many Hong Kong families still maintain a polygamous family relationship with a large number of children.
After the law was promulgated, many wealthy families did not abide by it and continued to maintain outhouses.
Situations like Yangye can be seen everywhere and are not uncommon.
In the past, Yang Ye would be extremely troubled when the Chinese New Year came, because... he didn't know which house to go to to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Everyone wanted to spend the New Year with him, so he favored one and favored others, and he couldn't neglect anyone.
This year Yang Ye simply acts as a parent and asks his wives to bring their children over to celebrate the New Year together!
At first, several women were unwilling, but they couldn't stand Yang Ye's hard work, and finally got what he wanted.
Hey guys, this is so exciting.
Zhao Yazhi took Yang Hao, Xu Feng took Yang Yu, Lin Qingxia took Yang Xiao, Lin Fengjiao took Yang Chen, Yamaguchi Momoe took Yang Sheng, five children and five mothers!
Yang Ye looked at the five beautiful wives and five lovely children and felt that he was extremely awesome.
Time travel is great!
Yang Ye placed several salutes on the ground, hung up a bunch of firecrackers, and said, "Ritian Tudou, go farther!"
Ritian and Tudou walked to the gate. , covering their ears and watching their father set off firecrackers with excitement.
Yang Ye held an incense stick, calmly lit a few salutes, and then lit firecrackers.
"Boom, boom, boom! Crack! Crack!"
"It's the New Year! It's the New Year!"
Yang Ye closed the door and led the two little guys to the dining room.
The youngest son Yang Sheng was frightened by the sound of firecrackers and cried. Yang Ye quickly picked him up from Momoe Yamaguchi.
“Oh, my little mud, why are you crying!”
Zhao Yazhi complained speechlessly: "The nicknames you gave your sons are more perfunctory than the last."
Lin Qingxia said in her heart that I have seen it, sun and sky, potatoes, mud, these are all useless. name.
She originally saw other people holding sons, but she was the only one who gave birth to a daughter, and wondered whether she would be inferior to others in Yang Ye's mind.
Now that I think about it, my daughter is my treasure. Yang Ye likes her Xiaoer very much!
Yang Ye has done so many things for her. She escaped twice but failed. Now that she has given birth to a daughter, she has accepted her fate.
Lin Qingxia smiled and said: "It's just that your cultural level is so high, can't you be more serious?"
Xu Feng's son's nickname is Tudou. She thought it was okay and quite cute. She helped: " Aye said that nicknames are easy to make a living. Just give your child a serious name. Mashed Potato, he sounds like a good brother!”
Yang Ye defended himself by giving his child a nickname. It’s not random. For example, Ritian, his name is Hao, it’s Ritian. It feels very awkward!”
Zhao Yazhi held up his forehead.
Yang Ye added: "Potato's name is even simpler. His name is Yang Yu, which is homophonic. Potato means potato. It's so cute!"
"I think it's cute too!" Xu Feng expressed satisfaction anyway.
Momoe Yamaguchi asked: "What about my little Niba?"
Yang Ye said: "Boys in our family all have the prefix "日", and girls all have the prefix next to "日." There are not many prefixes, so I chose the word "Sheng" for our child. This word is amazing!
In China, there was a great inventor named Bi Sheng in the Song Dynasty, and he was also named "Sheng". He invented movable type printing. What are movable types made of?
So, our son’s nickname is Niba, which shows that I have high hopes for him!”
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Although he is Japanese, he also knows China’s four great inventions.
Only then did Momoe Yamaguchi realize that the inconspicuous nickname of son actually had such a meaning.
"So that's it! Husband, I misunderstood you. I even doubted you and thought you didn't like our children!" (End of Chapter)