I didn't expect to see such a "Legend of the White Snake" one day:
In the first episode, the White Snake failed to cross the robbery under the Guanyin Initiation and went to the mortal world to find the dust edge.
When I first went down, I didn't understand the dangers of the world.
I don't understand the code language, and people can't understand it.
As a result, Bai Suzhen was sold to Qinglou.
On the screen, an old man who has passed the age of flower armor rubs his hands impatiently and recites words in his mouth:
"What to do, I tell you..."
This shot alone frightened me into immediately withdrawing from the show and watching the title again:
That's right, The New White Snake.
However, how did "The Legend of the White Snake" be made like this!
In film and television dramas, the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" has been remade many times, including:
Zhao Yazhi and Ye Tong's version are the most classic, and they have created a precedent of "singing without a word";
Wang Zuxian and Maggie Cheung's version is the most feminine and moving, and Fahai's sentence "Dawei Tianlong" played by Zhao Wenzhuo is shocking;
Liu Tao and Pan Yueming's version is Xianliang Shude, and Pan Yueming at that time was simply too handsome.
But when it came to this "New White Snake Biography", after watching it, the audience shouted: Return my white lady.
Among them, the most puzzling thing is the "magic change" of the character image of this drama.
As a white snake who has been practicing for a thousand years, it should naturally have a certain concentration, but Bai Suzhen in the play is simply like a "nonsense version" of the white and shallow immortals——
Not only the costumes, but even the movements are imitated.
In the first episode, Bai Suzhen went down to Fan, the front foot just gave the inn owner a pearl, and the back foot was sold to Yihong Courtyard.
The point is, this white snake actually drank wine in Yihong Courtyard...
What about the most feared male yellow wine?
Bai Suzhen's eccentric monster is like "pretending to be stupid", compared with her, Xu Xian's performance is "filling".
In the play, Xu Xian transforms into a "walking Tony teacher" - a bang in front of his forehead is too free, two thick eyebrows seem to be drawn with coal, and draw eyeliner.
Where is there a little bit of a weak scholar here?
In addition to the character image is too subversive, this drama is also particularly "provincial actors".
In a play, it is not uncommon for an actor to play two roles.
The heroine is Bai Suzhen, who also starred in Guanyin, and the key is that the two will also be in the same frame.
Is this the meaning of "it is better to ask others than to seek oneself"?
Played the second male of Fahai, and at the same time played the evil demon.
Is this to illustrate that "good and evil are one"?
In addition to the "magic reform" character image, the plot of this drama is simply breathtaking.
The storyline of "The Legend of the White Snake" has long been familiar to everyone, in order to have a breakthrough, this "New White Snake Legend" is a hard work.
The first is that the white snake meets the Xu Xian broken bridge and gives an umbrella to avoid the rain, which is a plot that will be adopted in any version.
As a result, in the play, the two meet at the market.
Just because he looked at your fluttering hair in the sea of people, Xu Xian fell.
Without even seeing the front, he looked through his front bangs and fell in love with it fiercely.
In addition to such a somewhat "nonsensical" plot, there is also the opening scene -
Bai Suzhen was actually sold to Yihong Courtyard!
After the owner of the inn sold Bai Suzhen, he went to find a woman, who was a fox demon.
The point is that she had an "sadomasochistic relationship" with Fahai a thousand years ago.
It is not impossible to arrange emotional dramas for Fahai, the key is that there is also such a plot:
Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian did not call (at least in the play, it is impossible to see that the two have any deep feelings), and even Bai Suzhen fell in love with the villain Blood Demon.
Therefore, Bai Suzhen asked Fahai to help kill Xu Xian.
Is this really Whitesnake?
Seeing this, basically most of the audience will be dissuaded, such a plot, really "hot eyes".
If you can still keep watching, when you see Xu Xian chasing Bai Suzhen and shouting "Zhenzhen, Zhenzhen" all over the street, please prepare a bowl of water.
At that time, it often took several years to shoot a drama, the actors were paid very low, no one played a big name, and the words that were often used to describe it at that time were "the whole crew was so poor that only the acting skills were left."
Now, the special effects have improved, but it seems that classic film and television dramas rarely appear again.
Even, the film and television dramas released now, as long as they are "new versions", seem to mean destroying the classics.
In the new version of "Deer Ding", Zhang Yishan dedicated the "monkey acting skills" of squeezing eyebrows and making eyes, in the play, Wei Xiaobao, who he played, actually wore a "green hat".
In the new version of "Tianlong Babu", Duan Yu met the "Immortal Sister", and under the excitement, he actually peed, and the actor dedicated the classic "father" line.
The new version of "The Legend of the White Snake", from the characters to the plot, this subversion is difficult to watch.
Film and television dramas need to be innovated, but "magic reform" is definitely not a "thunder man".
At that time, the "Legend of the New White Lady" also made a lot of changes and adjustments, and even Xu Xian, as the male protagonist, was regurgitated by the actress Ye Tong - which also led to a long time, we saw Ye Tong playing a female role, and we always felt uncomfortable.
In the movie "Green Snake", Xu Ke boldly expanded the plot, and even extended the understanding of love of sentient beings in the three realms of "god, man and demon".
Liu Tao Pan Yueming's version of "The Legend of the White Snake", its changes are:
Bai Suzhen was suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, and Xu Xian took the initiative to shave his head and became a sweeping monk of Leifeng Temple.
That scene is looking at each other across the tower, guarding the side of their lovers, promising the oath of never abandoning.
This is the spiritual core that "The Legend of the White Snake" should have.
This pursuit of love is worthy of praise.
In contrast, many of the current "magic reform" dramas, many scripts do not understand the core of the story at all, so this adaptation is doomed to failure.
If you can't do anything, ask for yourself.
I hope that there will be more classic film and television dramas in the future, rather than "magic reform".