Beginning with "Duty" in the late 1980s, TVB's fashion ethics dramas entered a golden period in history, and in just a few years, there were TVB fashion dramas such as "I Am Kind", "No Regrets in This Life", "Fire Rose", "Big Time" and "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds", which have influenced a generation of mainland audiences. These fashion dramas, while portraying human nature in three points, have also created a large number of screen images with great personality and charm.
Today, I want to talk about the fashion ethics drama "Fire Rose" starring Liu Shiyu as producer and director, and Starring Wen Bixia, Wen Zhaolun and Luo Jialiang.
For mainland audiences, this TV series may not be as famous as "Duty Bound" or "Big Time", but it is not inferior in the pen power of in-depth portrayal of human nature; this is not a drama with a very bright tone, and even it is not too much to describe it as gray, and the style displayed by the male and female protagonists on the screen is brilliant.
Uncle Rain
Audiences familiar with Wen Sir will not remember Ding Youkang, who is known as the "first evil man of Hong Kong opera" in "Duty And Not to Be Merciful", and will also remember the evaluation of "hong Kong drama after Qi Haonan is no longer loveable" ("I am kind").
However, compared with the evil Ding Youkang, and the righteous and evil Qi Haonan, Wen Sir's male protagonist Qiao Li (Uncle Rain) played in "Fire Rose" is more emotional, "Strangers are like jade, the prince is peerless" Such a sentence that evaluates many costumed male gods can be used on a male protagonist of a fashion drama - even, compared to the name of Uncle Rain, his real name "Qiao Li" in the play has gradually been forgotten.
The rain tide is first seen
In a family that is brightly dressed but full of dirt, Wen Sir's second son Qiao, as an excellent architect, is personable and warm as jade, and on the dinner party that first met with the sea tide, she has already felt the different temperaments emitted by her body.
Uncle Rain's clarity is not the ignorance of the world shown in many screens or literary works, but a kind of clarity that is not only aware of the world, but is unwilling to conform to the same stream - such a clarity is even more precious, although such a utopian clarity is really difficult to glimpse in the vast sea of people in reality.
Of course, Uncle Rain is not only because of his gentle jade, but also because of his principles of life, and it is unforgettable in the face of his hands. He can't forgive his most beloved sister for cheating on himself because "I don't like others to lie to me the most"; he refuses to lie to Xinmei's fiancé because "Xinmei is my good friend, I don't want to watch her being bullied"; although he has a fondness for Haichao, he insists on getting a certificate with her immediately out of the sense of responsibility of a man after a night of hangover with Xinmei in the confusion of love; in the face of the threat of his father Qiao Yongfa breaking away from the father-son relationship, he is still unmoved and determined to marry Haichao...
Perhaps only such a gentle and elegant, knowledgeable, noble but resolute prince can be called independent and can be called the most ideal dream lover in the hearts of many women, or perhaps only such a prince is worthy of Shanghai Chao, one of the best strange women in the history of Hong Kong drama.
Sea Tide and Jolly
However, because of the principle of "I don't like others to lie to me the most", the two of them went their separate ways on the last day of the show, and also left many loyal fans of Hong Kong fashion dramas with regrets for 25 years.
It can be said that Wen Sir, who has a gentle and elegant screen temperament and extraordinary conversation, can sit on the top seat in the Hong Kong fashion dramas where male gods and goddesses gathered in the late 1980s and early 90s, and the four roles of Ding Youkang, Qi Haonan, Gao Tianjun and Qiao Li alone are enough to make him leave his own page in the history of Chinese TV dramas.
tide
Wen Zhaolun's Uncle Rain does not seem to belong to this turbid world, but Wen Bixia's tide is more than the peak performance of the heroine in TVB's 50-year history so far.
In tvb's golden years from the late 1980s to the turn of the century, the classic heroine image can be described as numerous. In "Duty And Duty", there is Liu Jialing's Ni Chujun, "I Am Kind" has Shao Meiqi's Shi Yiming, "Big Times" has Zhou Huimin's Ruan Mei, Guo Aiming's Long Jiwen, "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds" also has Chen Songling's Lin Zhenlie, Zhu Yin in the costume drama Huang Rong in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", and Li Zi's Zhao Min in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" are all unforgettable characters - but even so, perhaps none of the heroines can be interpreted like Wen Bixia's sea tide in "Fire Rose".
In fact, the title of "Fire Rose" has been destined to be the core character of the TV series, and the three words "Fire Rose" are also the best portrayal of the sea tide that has become stronger and stronger in the fire after several ups and downs, hardships, but in the life of hatred, it has gradually lost the original innocence and kindness, and finally as beautiful as a rose but with thorns. Interestingly, the two words of sea tide have foreshadowed the extraordinary life of the heroine's tide rising and falling.
At that time, Wen Bixia, who had just debuted, fully demonstrated this process from the initial simple kindness, to the unwillingness to face the hatred of the family, to the pain of the Qiao family's bitterness, to the separation of relatives and physical and mental torture, until finally becoming unscrupulous under hatred, with superb acting skills.
Especially when facing his enemies Qiao Li and Qiao Yongfa, who do not share the heavens, the calm, unhurried and unhurried way of speaking is completely different from the hysteria of many TV series heroines, and the strong inner world and stoic style of the sea tide are vividly displayed.
This is a much more three-dimensional and complex character than the gentle and jade-like Flying Prince Uncle Rain, compared to the consistent Qiao Er gongzi, the initial simplicity of the sea tide, to the time when the Qiao family is turned upside down in the play, the image of the style, and the personality of the last deep heart, even his most beloved person cheats again and again for revenge, although it is very different, the transformation process does not show any sense of abruptness.
The most attractive thing about Wen Bixia is the scene where she wears a shoulderless suit in the play, and it is that scene that makes Uncle Rain fall in love with her at first sight.
Sea tide side face off-the-shoulder suit
Wen Bixia's imprint in the film circle is obviously much deeper than her in the television circle, but just by virtue of the tide of "Fire Rose", the Qin Keqing of "Full Moon Curved Knife", and the daiji in "Fengshen List", TVB is destined to have her unique position in history. She may not be the most beautiful of the many Hua Dan, but the thousands of styles she smiles with are not copied by any one person.
After the drama was broadcast in Hong Kong that year, the image of haichao even caused the audience to have a heated discussion on family ethics, and she finally went farther and farther on the road of revenge until she lost her beloved, is it worth it? Such questions are really difficult to answer precisely, but perhaps, the unfortunate tragedies of parents, brothers, lovers, close friends, and themselves cannot be said to be put down...
It is worth mentioning that the Chinese version of the dubbing of the rain tide and the two in this play are served by TVB's national brother Du Yange and the national supporting sister Pan Ning, which is familiar to the audience of Hong Kong opera.
Throughout the play, there is nothing more than a music box that symbolizes the love between the rain tides, and the music played in the music box, Richard Clayderman's classic piano song "Concerto of Love".
Brothers turn against each other
In the Hong Kong dramas of the 1980s and 1990s, it was almost a fixed routine for brothers (whether brothers or non-blood brothers) to turn against each other and eventually turn against each other. Fang Jinchang (Wan Ziliang) and Zhong Weishun (Wu Qihua) in "Rogue Tycoon", Ding Youjian (Huang Rihua) and Ding Youkang (Wen Zhaolun) in "Duty To Be Unloveable", including Xu Yongbang (Zheng Shaoqiu) and Xu Jiali (Luo Jialiang) in "Heaven and Earth Boys", and Cheng Jiaxiong (Chen Jinhong) and Gan Lianghong (Zhang Jiahui) in "Heaven and Earth" all perform similar routines in different plots.
Jolly and Joe Calendar
The brothers Qiao Li and Qiao Li, in "Fire Rose", the anti-eye, compared to the layers of laying between the other pairs, actually lack step by step depth, because when Uncle Rain learned of all the evil deeds committed by his brother and harmed the sea tide, he immediately turned against this brother, and there was no room for maneuver.
Although this transformation seems to lack a sense of depth, it seems just right for the whole play, and it also shows the gentle and jade Uncle Rain, which is really different from Ding Youjian, Xu Yongbang and Cheng Jiaxiong, who are old and good men - this second son of Qiao will not hesitate to draw a line for those who are willing to be filthy, even fathers and brothers.
Luo Jialiang, who often only played a green leaf in TVB, also relied on the role of Qiao Li, the big villain, and began to gradually go to the front line in the tricolor platform, but he also starred in many villains in the following years of dramas, such as Zhang Wenwei, who killed for the rich and noble in "Evil Kiss", Yang Kang, the little Prince in "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and Xu Jiali in the more famous "Heaven and Earth Boy".
Luo Jialiang plays the main villain Qiao Li
Interestingly, later Wen Zhaolun consumed too much energy because of his own extra-drama affairs, and even suffered from the snow of the wireless high-level, when he returned to TVB at the beginning of the century, when he acted in another fashion drama "Flowing Golden Years" in 2002, Luo Jialiang and he once again played a pair of brothers, and the plot of revenge was gone, but this time, the "fishing family" that matched him became the protagonist of the whole play, and Wen Sir could only serve as the second man. Ten years of time can only make people lament that things are not human.
The actor who plays Wen Sir and Qiao Yongfa, the father of the fishing family, is the well-known "Yue Buqun" Wang Wei, and the actor who plays Fu Yulin, the father of Haichao Gan, is another veteran actor Bao Fang, and the two old people have now traveled to Xianyou.
Cai Jiali and Wen Bixia
It is worth mentioning that fan Yizhu, a friend of haichao, who played haichao in the play, was Tsai Jiali of Hong Kong in the 80s of the last century, and her style and appearance in the play even faintly had some feelings of Zhou Huimin. ATV's former costume beauties Ye Yuping and Mai Cuixian also appeared in this drama.
Ma Qingyi, a Hong Kong actor who just died some time ago, played Fu Yulin's wife Wang Qing in this drama, whose gentle and understanding personality and elegant demeanor of everyone also left a deep impression.
Lin Jiadong, a guest tv host in the last episode