Violence means cutting vegetables and melons!
Quentin is not a director with a film background. He was originally just a salesperson in a video store, so he has a unique understanding of movies:
Some violent movies do not require a deep plot or rigor. The logic is that as long as it is "cool enough".
"Kill Bill" is such a movie. As soon as the movie opens, there is a shot, blowing the heroine's head off!
Then the revenge begins!
A black woman and a white woman were fighting in the living room, using every move in a vigorous manner. They kept picking up various props to fight, and they were all slipping away.
This is a proper Hong Kong movie style fight, still Chen Long style.
The audience was confused, but they felt it was reasonable!
You know, the fighting action in Hollywood movies now is still tortoise boxing.
Without the participation of Hong Kong martial artists, they would not be able to imitate even if they wanted to.
Therefore, everyone was quite surprised to suddenly see two Europeans and Americans fighting in a Hong Kong movie-style manner.
But the director of this movie is Yang Ye, and the action director is Yuan Heping, so there is nothing surprising.
Anyway, it’s quite refreshing to see Europeans and Americans fighting like this!
This is somewhat different from the situation when "Kill Bill" was released in the original time and space.
At that time, Hong Kong audiences were already used to this kind of fighting in European and American movies.
And now, it’s the first time I’ve seen it, and I naturally find it very interesting.
Some people may ask, didn’t Yang Ye direct "First Blood"?
"First Blood" uses fighting techniques close to actual combat, without such fancy fighting!
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This battle was just the first lesson. Next, the director explained why Adjani did not die after being shot, and how she escaped.
Then, Adjani went to Japan for revenge. She first went to Hanzo Hattori to buy a knife. After Hanzo got the knife, she immediately went on a killing spree. It was time to chop vegetables and cut melons.
Adjani put on Bruce Lee-style yellow clothes and challenged the "Crazy Eighty-eight" style of fighting alone, which was a direct tribute to Bruce Lee's single-handed challenge in a Japanese gym.
The Japanese gang members also wore the Kato mask from "The Green Hornet", which is equivalent to one Bruce Lee cutting down eighty-eight Bruce Lees.
The most damning thing is that Donnie Yen played the role of the leader of the "Crazy 88". During the filming, Yang Ye asked him to imitate Bruce Lee.
Donnie Yen has admired Bruce Lee since he was a child and imitated Bruce Lee's movements so perfectly!
As a result, there was a strange scene in the movie where the female version of Bruce Lee was chopping up Kato's version of Bruce Lee.
This meal was so good, there were solitary arms and legs everywhere, a pool of water turned into boiling red wine, it was so refreshing that my scalp was numb.
Nakamori Akina appears, with bangs, shawl hair, sailor uniform, miniskirt, white socks, a bare calf, and holding a... meteor hammer in her hand!
With cold eyes, just look cool!
“Damn, it’s so cute!” Someone suddenly shouted.
"Kawaii!"
Yang Ye gently patted the back of Nakamori Akina's hand sitting next to her and smiled slightly at her.
When Akina heard the audience's shouts, she was very surprised and a little shy. She whispered to Yang Ye: "Onii-chan, you are so amazing. You can even guess the audience's reaction."
Yang Ye said with a smile: "Of course!"
Nakamori Akina said this because when she was filming the movie, Yang Ye said that she looked so cute, even if she played a killer, she would still be It will make people feel that it is so cute!
She complained at the time, "Onii-chan, you said dirty words!"
As a result, Yang Ye said, after the movie is released, the audience will say dirty words like me when they see you.
“It’s so cute to ride on a horse!”
Yang Ye’s words actually came true, and the audience said the same thing as him.
“Onii-chan, do you really think Akina is cute?”
"Of course, Ming Cai is the cutest girl in the world!" Yang Ye boasted awkwardly.
The two were chatting, and on the screen, Adjani was fighting fiercely with Akina Nakamori.
Nakamori Akina played with the meteor hammer like a yo-yo, obviously she had practiced hard, and the audience cheered loudly.
This eye-catching showdown between two beauties from Japan and France is really rare to see!
“Holy shit!”
Akina was killed by Adjani with a nailed table leg. Two bright red blood stains flowed from her eyes. Her death was extremely Japanese-style.
Ajani opened the door of the izakaya. The sky outside was filled with beautiful snow, and there was no sound.
On the snow is Michiko Nisigata, who is wearing a snow-white kimono. She looks gentle and pure as a fairy. At that moment, people seemed to see Momoe Yamaguchi.
This scene has a moderate impact on Hong Kong people, but it definitely has a great impact on the Japanese.
Because the way Michiko Nisigata stands there in her kimono really looks like Momoe Yamaguchi!
The decisive battle in the snow is beautiful and violent.
Zhang Yimou's photography skills are really impressive. When Michiko Nisigata failed in the final duel and fell to her knees on the snow, she used light and shadow to the extreme and looked extremely beautiful.
Some people may think that Zhang Yimou, a student who has just graduated for two years, has such good photography skills?
You know, Zhang Yimou is thirty-two years old after graduating from university. He was already self-taught before entering school.
At that time, the regulations of the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy stipulated that the age of admission should not exceed 22 years old, but Zhang Yimou's photography level was so high that he made an exception.
In the original version, Lucy Liu had her Tianling Cap cut off, and you could still see the brain circuits squirming, which was a bit disgusting.
Yang Ye did not copy it, because Michiko Nishitaka looked too much like Momoe Yamaguchi, and letting her die like this would hurt the feelings of the Japanese people.
Yang Ye actually doesn't mind hurting Japanese people's feelings. What he cares about is the box office. Making movies is about making money!
Whoever steps on the horse will have trouble with the box office!
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A hearty revenge,
The pleasure is like drinking ice cream in summer, refreshing from head to toe.
The audience may even involuntarily feel happy for Adjani, feeling that these people who died one after another under her knife deserved such a violent death by her.
It's like if you eat a roast chicken and think it's delicious, then the chicken is worth dying for.
The only regret is that the movie is only halfway through, and there are still a few killers that have not been killed yet.
Moreover, the big boss Bill never showed his face from beginning to end. Who is he riding a horse?
Yang Ye used dubbing in a cheap way so that the audience would not be too familiar with his voice and could recognize it at once. ...
Although it looks fresh, Hong Kong audiences still can’t accept a group of foreigners performing Chinese Kung Fu.
The Hong Kong box office of "Kill Bill" was not as explosive as Yang Ye's previous movies, but it still sold more than 18 million, which was basically the same as "Fighter", barely keeping Yang Ye's reputation. .
At this point, after the box office explosion of Hong Kong movies in the 1980s, Yang Ye's two consecutive movies had a local box office of less than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
There are many people who say weird things and laugh at Yang Ye.
Fortunately, most people don’t think Yang Ye is exhausted. After all, the movie is still very exciting.
It’s just that these two movies both featured female stars, so many viewers didn’t buy it.
These viewers are prejudiced against women becoming stars. They think there is nothing good about women being embroidered on their legs.
Even if you blow the whistle, they won't be "fooled".
Following the release is "The Working Emperor" directed by Xu Ke, and then "Summer Lucky Star" by Hong Jingbao.
This time, the box office of "Summer Lucky Star" was much lower than in the original time and space, because after Hong Jingbao left Baiyang Pictures, Baiyang naturally didn't pay much attention to his movies.
Although it is also on the summer schedule, it is at the bottom of the list. It will only be released on August 20th, and it is only at the tail end of the summer schedule.
There is nothing we can do about it. It’s not that Jiang Zhiqiang deliberately cheated Hong Jingbao, but...
Of course, if you have a good schedule, you should focus on your own people first. This is normal. Letting you be on the summer schedule is already a great honor, and Hong Jingbao has nothing to say.
In fact, Hong Jingbao did not fight for the schedule at all and everything was as arranged.
Because there were too many blockbuster movies in the past, which consumed many people’s enthusiasm for watching movies, in the end, "Summer Lucky Star" only achieved a box office of more than 23 million yuan, which was nearly 5 million yuan less than the original time and space.
In the end, "Love" won the first place in the summer season, followed by "Summer Lucky Star", "Happy Ghost's Summer Vacation" ranked third, and "Kill Bill" directed by Yang Ye could only Ranked fourth, while "The Working Emperor" directed by Xu Ke could only rank fifth.
As for the movies of other companies, they are just rotten fish and shrimps, so don’t mention them!
...
"If There's Love" ranked first in the Hong Kong box office summer season in 1985, and temporarily ranked second in the year. Liu Hua is even more awesome this time.
Suddenly, various film appointments came in like a snowflake, although because he did not leave Yang Ye, the film could not be released in Taiwan.
However, Liu Hua has already opened up the Japanese and Korean markets, and he can still make money by selling there!
The investors just get a leather company to hire him to make a movie and sell it to Japan and South Korea. It is definitely a good business and there is nothing wrong with it at all!
And Zhang Xueyou, who debuted with Liu Hua, will naturally not lag behind.
Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye" has finally been completed and launched to the market!
Although it is a Mandarin album, with the name of Yang Ye arranging lyrics and music, it became very popular once it was released.
This album only has three new songs, "Kiss Goodbye", "Love Network", and "With You Along the Road". The others are Zhang Xueyou's old Cantonese songs, as well as the old Japanese songs that Yang Ye once wrote for Deng Lijun. Lyrics.
But these three songs are all classics among classics, and they firmly dominated the song charts of Radio Hong Kong and Commercial Channel as soon as they were released.
Due to the influence of Yang Ye, this time and space did not have the tragedy of Tan and Zhang competing for hegemony and Xueyou's misfortune. Everyone is beautiful in his or her own way.
Yuan Shikong Zhang Xueyou became very popular as soon as he debuted. Each album can sell two to three hundred thousand copies, second only to Tan Zhang.
However, due to the record company's subconscious hype for sales and the media's fanning the flames, Tan Zhang's fans became angry and began to desperately fight for sales.
As soon as Tan Zhang’s album was released, fans would buy ten, twenty or even a hundred copies, making sure to outdo each other.
As the saying goes, when the boss fights with the second child, the third child will be killed!
With fans going crazy like this, Zhang Xueyou's album sales dropped all the way, and by 1988, they fell below 20,000.
Zhang Xueyou began to doubt life, and drank to relieve his sorrows all day long. He was called an alcoholic, his reputation fell to the bottom, and even his wife ran away!
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The machines of the Guangzhou record company are almost smoking. There is not enough to sell, not enough to sell at all!
“This is XX Department Store, and I want 10,000 boxes of “Kiss Goodbye”!”
"This is the XX Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and I want five thousand boxes of "Kiss Goodbye"!"
There are rush calls from all over the country, and the operator has no time to eat.
It has only been open for a few years, and piracy is not as prevalent as it was in the 1990s.
One is that the piracy workshops in the mainland have not yet formed a large scale.
One is that the consumption level in the mainland is too low, and Hong Kong has no interest in smuggling pirated tapes into the mainland.
Genuine tapes in the Mainland only cost one yuan a box.
How much can you sell for pirated copies? This horse is not even a mosquito's legs. The Hong Kong pirates shook their heads and walked away.
In addition, the consumption demand of the mainland people was very strong in the 1980s. Think about it after being hungry for more than ten years?
As soon as "Kiss Goodbye" was released in the mainland, it triggered a sales frenzy!
In Southeast Asia, such as Singapore and Malaysia, sales are also soaring!
In just one month, sales across Asia exceeded five million.
Five million copies, oh shit, it’s just catching up with Teresa Teng’s hit album “A Touch of Love”.
Although half of it is contributed by the mainland, it doesn’t make much money.
But this sales volume is really scary!
After Baiyang Company was blocked by Taiwan, many people were waiting to see the joke.
Unexpectedly, in less than half a year, Yang Ye would launch Liu Hua and Zhang Xueyou one after another, becoming popular in Asia, both in movies and music!
So far, those who left Yang Ye during the ban incident, the bosses are okay, they can get along no matter what.
Those second-tier artists are all filled with regret.
Now they finally realize how terrifying Yang Ye's ability is. Whoever he makes becomes red, so red that he becomes purple!
The most important thing is that Yang Ye does not treat his own people badly. If you follow him, you will really have meat to eat! (End of chapter)