How about the plot of "A Better Tomorrow" in this time and space?
Such a popular fashion shootout movie has not appeared in five years since Yang Ye's "Terminator".
Although there were some copycats at that time, most of them were nondescript and uninteresting.
Because it was illegal to explode on the streets of Hong Kong at that time, most people were not as crazy as Yang Ye.
After all, it costs a lot of money to recruit people if something goes wrong, and the cost is too high.
Since Yang Ye borrowed Ma Ge's look five years ago, this time, when Ma Ma appeared again, the audience's dead memories were resurrected.
Yang Ye crazily slaughtered Japanese people in a Japanese-style hot spring hotel, which made the audience's hearts swell and their palms were smashed.
Especially when you finish killing people and don’t leave, waiting calmly to refill your guns, it’s so cool.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. As soon as he left the tavern, his eldest brother Cheng was hiding in the dark and killed him with a cold shot.
“Damn it, this damn rebel!”
"Fucking traitor!"
"I'm holding it in my mouth, I don't want to watch it, refund the ticket!"
"Okay, Yang Ye will die for his guest appearance, it's not like you don't know it!"
“Damn it, I thought he was the leading actor, liar!”
“Don’t panic, wait and see Ti Lung avenge him!”
Yang Ye often dies suddenly in movies, and the audience is used to it, so they continue to watch.
The plot behind it is quite smooth, and the brotherhood is also very sincere.
Brother Hao rescues his younger brother at the dock, and Brother Hao grabs the disk single-handedly. Both gun battles are very exciting.
In the final battle at Xishawan Bay, the two brothers worked side by side, and the scene scheduling brought John Woo's abilities to the extreme. The movie-watching experience was very good.
The audience clapped their hands after watching it, it was beautiful and enjoyable!
...
This time "A Better Tomorrow" was released, Yang Ye played a dirty trick.
It is well known that Yang Ye only stars in one movie a year.
Yang Ye regarded "A Better Tomorrow" as his starring role and promoted it vigorously and even held a premiere.
Everyone thought that Yang Ye would be the one to play "A Better Tomorrow" this year.
Knowing that he was going to the resurrection stall, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and they all got out of the way and went to the summer stall, leaving the resurrection stall to him to show off.
Yang Ye's "God of Gamblers" was quietly being prepared. It only started filming ten days before Easter, and there was not even a press conference.
By the time everyone receives the news, it is already too late.
In this way, "A Better Tomorrow" dominates a big time slot, and the quality itself is very good, so the box office will naturally soar!
……
Yang Ye denounced reporters at the premiere of "A Better Tomorrow" and unilaterally announced the ban on a newspaper, causing an uproar in society.
Major media outlets in Hong Kong have reported that terms such as "regional discrimination", "worshiping foreigners and favoring foreigners", and "dislike the poor and love the rich" frequently appear in the newspapers.
As Zhu Lin's fame also increased, everyone was asking who this woman was.
Because she is dignified and beautiful, she has attracted a lot of fans.
Some media said that Yang Ye fell out with the media this time because of a woman, "turning his anger into a beauty".
Some media who were very hostile to Yang Ye even openly laughed at Yang Ye for being a "Beijing Aunt" for being willing to imitate Wu Sangui.
The discussion in the newspapers became more and more fierce, and the matter became more and more serious. It also helped "A Better Tomorrow" to increase the box office.
This is heat, heat that is rare but hard to find!
Yang Ye is good at making trouble. He not only defended his woman, but also stood on the moral high ground.
If you slap the labels of "regional discrimination", "worshiping foreigners and favoring foreigners", and "dislike the poor and love the rich", you will be sure of victory.
After a week, seeing that things were gradually calming down, Yang Ye used another big move to heat up the topic again.
He appeared on ATV's talk show "Undefended Tonight" hosted by Huang Zhan, talking about regional discrimination and racial discrimination.
This "Undefended Tonight" is different from the salty and wet show of the original time and space. The host is only Huang Zhan, not Ni Kuang and Cai Lam.
Yang Ye opened it specially for Huang Zhan. He can interview any of Yang Ye's stars and talk about anything, including meat and vegetables, as long as they are willing to talk.
Huang Zhan's advertising company closed down and he was very poor recently. Yang Ye had a good relationship with Huang Zhan, so he created a program to help him.
After a few episodes, the ratings were very good, and ATV also made money. People had to lament that Yang Ye was so talented, and the program he planned casually was so popular.
In the interview, Yang Ye talked about the discrimination he has encountered throughout his travels around the world.
Yang Yedao: "The first time I went to the United States was ten years ago, in 1976, when my film "Shaolin Temple" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
American producers at that time Someone invited me to have a night out in a bar. That bar is very interesting. Many Hollywood movie people like to go there."
Huang Zhan asked: "Have you met any celebrities?"
"Of course, for example, the great director Spielberg was drinking there."
"Did you come up to say hello?"
"I didn't have time to talk to him, because I also saw Cannes Queen, Isabelle Adjani."
Huang Zhan's eyes shone and he rubbed his hands and said, "French Rose, have you ever had a romantic story?"
Yang Ye said: " I saw Adjani sitting there drinking, so I got close to her. Adjani had never had any contact with Chinese people before, so she started chatting with me
We talked about food and kung fu, and Adjani said she knew Bruce Lee, that’s Bruce Lee, Chinese Kung Fu! "
Huang Zhan nodded and said, "Yes, Kung Fu is indeed the business card of us Chinese people.
When I travel abroad and communicate with foreigners, they all talk to me about Bruce Lee, Nick Young, and Jackie Chan.
In the past two years, some people have learned about JetLi, DonnieYen, and chongKung.
To be honest, most of the fame of us Chinese overseas is brought about by you Kung Fu stars. You have made great contributions! ”
Yang Ye smiled calmly and continued: "At this time, a black man and a white man suddenly came. You know that the United States is very discriminatory against Chinese Americans, and they even enacted the 'Chinese Exclusion Act' before.
They saw a beautiful white woman and A Chinese man was having a great time chatting, but of course he was very unhappy. He immediately came over to make trouble.
The black man called me a yellow-skinned monkey. He said, hey, yellow-skinned monkey, stay away from this beautiful lady. Then the white man came over and threatened me, telling me to get away, otherwise he would give me some trouble."
Huang Zhan said with a smile: "Then they will definitely kick the iron plate. Yes, you must have shown your Chinese Kung Fu in front of Miss Adjani, right?”
Yang Ye said: "Of course, I jumped up and kicked the black man in the face, kicking him all over.
Then he grabbed the hair of the other white-skinned pig and pulled him down. He punched him in the face and broke the bridge of his nose."
Huang Zhan said: "White-skinned pig? Hahaha, well done."
Yang Ye said disdainfully. Yes, it is disrespectful to come and go. They discriminated against me first. He called me a yellow-skinned monkey, and of course I called him a white-skinned pig.
After I beat them, I clapped my hands and cleaned the pig hair from my hands. Clean, sat back and said to Adjani, Dear Isabel, where did we just talk?
Adjani said, if you have a chance, show me Chinese Kung Fu. I told her I had already shown it. "
"Hahaha! Huang Zhan exclaimed: "That's so cool. Has Miss Adjani thrown herself into her arms?" ”
“That’s not the point! I am not talking about this paragraph to show off, but to talk about the phenomenon of worshiping foreign things in society. It's obvious that people are very discriminatory towards you, but you still have to kneel down and lick them. Isn't that mean? "
"Kneel down and lick? Hahahahaha...exquisite wording! "
"I have discovered that there is such a phenomenon in society. If a foreigner urinates on the street, some people will question whether there are no public toilets nearby.
But if a Chinese urinates on the street, some people will angrily curse that he must be from mainland China and has no quality at all.
If you tell him that the man defecating in the open is actually a Hong Konger, then he will say that it must be farmers from the New Territories who have entered the city.
I just don’t understand, are you Chinese or a foreigner, white or yellow?
Why do you speak ill of your compatriots whose blood is thicker than water, and beg for mercy from the foreigners who oppress and discriminate against you?
Some people say that my attack on a certain media this time is just because I am obsessed with it. I want to imitate Wu Sangui for the sake of a Beigu.
I'm also telling you, it's really not the case. I am targeting this ugly phenomenon in society that worships foreigners and favors foreigners, and I am targeting those spiritual slaves! ”
“That’s good, let me tell you too. When I was in the advertising industry, I was very angry with many foreigners...”
Then Huang Zhan told his story Discrimination by foreigners in the advertising industry.
Huang Zhandao: "Later, during the Sino-British negotiations, Deng Bingheng, the owner of Eternal Records, decided to release a Mandarin album for singer Zhang Mingmin and invited me to help him write songs. I wrote the song "My Chinese Heart" on the spot! "
Yang Ye said: "This song is very well written and I like singing it very much! ”
At the end of the show, Yang Ye and Huang Zhan put their arms around each other and sang "My Chinese Heart" together!
"Yangtze River! Great Wall! Huangshan! Yellow River! They weigh a thousand pounds in my heart. No matter when or where, I am as dear to my heart!"
"The blood flowing in my heart is surging with China. The voice. Even if I was born in a foreign country, it can’t change my Chinese heart!”
On the TV, Yang Ye and Huang Zhan were so excited.
In front of the TV, a girl from mainland China watched this program and was moved to tears!
...
In this program, Yang Ye rarely expressed his position.
And he fiercely criticized the ugly phenomenon of worshiping foreigners and favoring foreigners in society.
I have to say that Hong Kong people are quite patriotic nowadays, and Yang Ye’s speech won a lot of favor.
Mainly because I was bullied so much by the British, I feel the same way.
The generation that grew up later had never suffered from the British. They only remember how prosperous Hong Kong was back then, and since then there has been a layer of filters.
Here we can imitate Douglas Adams's "Three Laws of Technology" to make a sentence and create a "Three Laws of Society":
1. Any suffering that has happened when I was born is just It is an inevitable stage in the development of human history.
2. Any suffering I experienced between the ages of 15 and 35 is an eternal memory and human tragedy.
3. Any suffering that happens in society after I am 35 years old is just unnecessary moaning.
...
Although it made some people very angry, they didn’t know how to scold him because he stood on the moral high ground perfectly.
If you scold me, you are worshiping foreigners, you are a spiritual slave, and you are just kneeling down to foreigners.
As for catching Yang Ye's sore feet, it is more difficult. Yang Ye has an excellent reputation. There are no black spots except for the fact that there are many women.
The current Hong Kong media has not yet evolved to the pervasive paparazzi atmosphere of the 1990s.
Yang Ye also protects his family very well. His family members are surrounded by bodyguards.
It is even impossible for him to be secretly photographed. He has been accompanied by five bodyguards for a long time. They will be discovered immediately before they get close to him.
......
"A Better Tomorrow" has been released for one month, and Yang Ye has been hyped for a month.
The final box office was more than 32 million, which was still more than one million lower than the original time and space.
It seems that Brother Ma died early, which still affected the arc of the character and caused considerable damage to the plot.
But it doesn’t matter, this movie has been very successful, and John Woo has completely turned around.
The most important thing is that Zhang Guorong's character design in the movie is very good, so that he does not attract evil like the original time and space.
This will be of great help to Leslie Cheung's film career. The company is selecting scripts to create new films for him and strengthen his character as a box office superstar.
Because Jacky Cheung showed off his power in advance, both Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung were outclassed in their singing careers.
Alan Tam has left Bai Yang Company, Yang Ye doesn't need to worry about him.
But as the boss, Yang Ye is obliged to maintain Zhang Guorong's superstar halo.
Because A-list celebrities are hard-won and are the company’s cash cow.
Companies must do everything possible to maintain their popularity. Once it loses popularity, it will suffer heavy losses.
Since singing can’t compete with the rising star Cheung Suet-you, let’s work hard on movies.
It's a pity that I picked a lot of scripts, but none of them were satisfactory.
In this case, then... copy one!
If nothing else happens, "A Better Tomorrow" will become a hit in South Korea.
Yang Ye decided to strike while the iron was hot and help Zhang Guorong completely enter the Korean market! (End of this chapter)