2022 is up.
Therefore, "The Legend of the New White Lady" has been thirty years now.
Ye Tong played Xu Xian for thirty years.
Xu Xian, played by Ye Tong, is an epoch-making existence. Basically, it can be said that xu xian is the most vivid, the most popular, and the most lovely in history - and these are not out of thin air, there are also favorable times and places.
When Ye Tong also acted under his real name Li Sisi, he won the Academy Award for Best Newcomer at the age of 20 for "Burning Youth". At the age of 21, he was "Seven Days of Wrong Love", the Best Actress of the Academy Awards. At the age of 27, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Flying Over Dusk".
At that time, she was very good at playing independent and stubborn female roles, and she was notoriously feminine. In this regard, I highly recommend her later "Peace Hotel" with Zhou Runfa.
In 2001, Cai Liangming had a movie "What Time Is Your Side", in which Ye Tong met the heroine in Paris, and then the two were also quite ambiguous - Ye Tong was indeed a male-female gesture.
Hmmm off topic...
Previously, Huashi producer Wu Zongde felt that she was suitable for women to dress as men, which did not work, but Yang Peipei knew.
In 1990, Ye Tong and Liu Songren acted in Yang Peipei's studio's "Blue Sea Love Sky". She's inside, and a lot of women dress up as men.
The opening song of this drama is Li Zongsheng's famous "Mortal Song".
In this drama, Jiang Ming, who played Ye Tong's father, later played her brother-in-law Li Gongfu in "The Legend of the New White Lady"; they later played Zhao Min and Song Yuanqiao respectively in "The Tale of the Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens"...
In the early 1990s, male and female anti-string and tomboy scenes were very popular in Hong Kong. "Laughing proud of the east is undefeated", Lin Qingxia oriental undefeated is not mentioned, And Yue Lingshan, played by Li Jiaxin, is also a tomboy, as we all know.
And the previous Xu Guanjie's version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", Yue Lingshan was Ye Tong.
Finally, in 1992, when "The Legend of the New White Lady", Ye Tong was pulled to play Xu Xian.
It can be said that "Blue Sea Love Heaven" can be regarded as the warm-up of Ye Tong Xu Xian; and the anti-string tide that swept Through Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time was the time of day.
According to the interview at that time, Ye Tong said very clearly:
She quite likes to play a male role, put on makeup faster than the female character, and does not have to wear heavy makeup under the hot sun.
But it is not easy to play a man, too exaggerated will be rude, too reserved and flattering. So she had to design her own acting.
"Body language is also very much needed, and I will design a big set of performance methods in advance."
When Ye Tong first took over the play, he thought that Xu Xian was affectionate but cowardly, so he was repeatedly swayed by Fahai.
But the version we saw was obviously not the same.
In the early stories of the White Snake, it is true that Xu Xian is very unpopular: most of them are Xu Xian who do not know the truth, and then grind and chirp; once he finds that his wife is a snake, he immediately loses his soul and runs to Fahai for help...
Even though Xu Xian in Wu Xingguo's version of "Green Snake" still likes his wife when he knows that his wife is a snake, he is still cowardly, and the brilliance is Wang Zuxian and Maggie Cheung.
The legend of the New White Lady has an interesting setting:
Xu Xian always loved Bai Suzhen very much, and the two of them did many good deeds in Suzhou; even if they offended the Liang Wangfu, Xu Xian also believed that his wife was framed; after being captured by Fahai, the water flooded Jinshan and finally returned to Hangzhou to reunite; even if he knew that his wife was a snake, Xu Xian still insisted on not abandoning; finally Bai Suzhen entered the Leifeng Pagoda, Xu Xian then left the house to guard, waiting for his son Xu Shilin to save his mother after high school.
Xu Xian's stubbornness and inseparability have come to an ending that can be regarded as a comedy.
Ye Tong's version of Xu Xian was much more stubborn than all the previous and subsequent versions.
Moreover, (compared to Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing), it is particularly pedantic.
So the Ye Tong version of Xu Xian that we see is such a person:
The book is angry, pedantic, and stupid, and needs the decathlon Bai Suzhen to save and help; but hesitation is mostly out of kindness and gentleness, hesitation in small things, and stubbornness in big things.
So the audience probably still thinks: Xu Xian is silly, but quite cute...
Ye Tong's performance, the so-called body language, I think the most wonderful, is this category:
The plot knows that when I first arrived in Suzhou, I borrowed to live in the medicine shop, and the little girl from the medicine shop came to the door at midnight and did not leave; Xu Xian was a pedantic gentleman, and he could not speak sharply, so he had to bow down and ask people to go very nerdily...
Those of you who are accustomed to watching this drama must be impressed by this kind of helpless nerd action, right?
This is the most unique place of Ye Tong's version of Xu Xian.
Other versions of Xu Xian before and after will make people feel greasy, cowardly or even hateful.
But Ye Tong's body movements with a bit of opera meaning, as well as a little naïve expression, bring out this cute and hurried, which will make everyone think that although this person is a pedantic nerd, he is not annoying.
It also includes such precise expressions.
It also includes the very dramatic action when she and Bai Suzhen sing harmony with each other - hand details.
How to say it, the acting skills are good or bad, it depends on the comparison.
A year later, in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", Ye Tong played Zhao Min, and when the male and female costumes first saw Zhang Wuji to calculate him, the momentum of smiling between the eyebrows was not the same thing as Xu Xian.
After all, it is a character who can win the Academy Award at the age of twenty, and In terms of the details of acting skills, Ye Tong understands.
Say something that no one mentions...
In the year of filming "New White", Ye Tong was actually still filming "Ninety-Two Call Girls".
It is said that Ye Tong Xu Xian is very manly, but you look at this charming woman on the left - this is Ye Tong (zhang Min on the right) in the year of filming "New White".
Let's take a closer look:
This charming woman, dressed neatly on another set, is about to become a pedantic and cute Xu Xian...
——The weight of Ye Tong's words is known at a glance.