In 2020, Dapeng joined the variety show "Actors Please Seat 2" as a host. After the broadcast of the two episodes of the program, he was spat on by the whole network because of the "pulling the bias frame" in the hosting process, and the reputation was plummeted...
However, near the end of the show, the short film "Mulan" he directed received a lot of praise, and even Chen Kaige and Er Dongsheng were highly praised.
You might think it's a polite commercial blow-off. But this is not the case.
Why? Because Dapeng and several actors spent 49 hours spinning this ten-minute short film in a row, nine out of ten viewers who have watched it will be moved and will expect him to make it into a movie.
Of course, in addition to the touching script produced by Dapeng and the wonderful play, the nuanced interpretation of Ni Hongjie, the actor of Mulan, also played a decisive role in the success of the short film.
Fatigue after a long battle, the calmness of facing the assassin, the empathy of seeing the killer as a woman, war weariness and loneliness, etc., are all vividly reflected.
When I was a child, I read "Mulan Ci" and made up various images of Mulan, until her version appeared, and suddenly felt that the heroic character in the book was concrete.
Even if she spoke Wu Nong's soft language, the breath was ready to come out.
At the end of the short film, Mulan takes off her armor and leads the horse back to Laishui in the quiet night, the moon in the sky, the reflection in the water... The blank space is intentional and advanced, which makes people feel unfinished.
In fact, from the 60s to the present, there are not many versions of the story about the heroine Mulan on the screen, some people have performed her heroic posture, and some people have not performed the essence of the characters.
Let's talk about the 10 versions of Mulan, and see which versions are recognized by you?
Chen Yunsheng - 1939 black-and-white TV "Mulan Joins the Army"
The black-and-white films of the 1930s are now a privilege to be able to witness.
The film is based on the "Mulan Ci" and various legends about Mulan in the notes of the Ming and Qing dynasties, telling the story of Hua Mulan who served in the army for her father, refused the position of Shang Shulang after victory, and was rewarded with a horse and a sword to return to her hometown. She was also happily married to her comrade-in-arms Liu Yuandu, who had long recognized her female identity.
The film borrows ancient metaphors from the present to express the determination to resist Japan. In March 1939, it caused quite a stir and set off a boom in costume films in the isolated island period.
The actors' performances in the film are seen today as a bit too staged, and the reading of the lines lacks appeal. But the Mulan played by Chen Yunsheng is remarkable, the men's clothing is handsome and courageous, and there is also a style that should be there when you raise your hands and feet.
At the end of the film, she appeared in the vision of her comrades in the same twelve years as a daughter, and the appearance of flowers not only made the soldiers drop their jaws, but also made the audience shine.
Born in Hong Kong, the actor Chen Yuntang has studied Chinese, Kunqu opera, Peking Opera, Cantonese opera since childhood, swimming, horse riding, calligraphy and painting. In the 1930s and 1940s, she became very popular in Hong Kong and was invited to Shanghai to shoot "Mulan Joins the Army". With the popularity of the film, she also had a lot of fame in the mainland.
Ling Bo - 1964 Shaw film "Mulan"
The first recorded color film about Mulan was the 1964 Shaw Film Company's Huangmei-toned film Mulan.
The story tells the story of Hua Mulan's seriously ill father who joined the army, repeatedly built miracles in the army, and met the hero Li Guang, and secretly agreed with him.
The plot of the film is compact, the tone of Huang Mei is beautiful and beautiful, and the values conveyed are also very positive. The dialogue inside is Mandarin, and at first glance it is thought to be a movie produced by the mainland.
Playing Mulan in the film is Shaw's actress Ling Bo.
Born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, Ling Bo was abducted to Xiamen at the age of 4, and in 1949 he went to Hong Kong with his adoptive mother and began shooting Hokkien and Cantonese films under the stage name "Xiao Juan".
In the early 1960s, she entered Shaw Film Company and began to interpret Huang Mei's films, mainly anti-string, she played Jia Baoyu, Liang Shanbo, Mu Guiying and so on. In 1963, she starred in "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", which won her the Golden Horse Award for "Best Actor Special Award", which was "Special Award" because she did not know whether to give her the Film Queen or the Film Emperor Trophy.
In the same year, at the age of 24, she starred in "Mulan", the men's costume was heroic, and the women's clothing was not lost.
Her interpretation did not lean Mulan on the female man, nor did she forcibly impose male charm on the woman. Instead, it uses a brisk way of jumping out, showing the soft side of Mulan's daughter's family.
This kind of interpretation is acceptable, in fact, Mulan is just an ordinary girl, weaving cloth at home, occasionally going out to fight a hare. It was not that she was very fond of war when she went to the battlefield, but that her father was old and physically ill, and she had to change her women's clothes into military uniforms.
After the film was released in 1964, it received a good response in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In the same year, Ling Bo won the best actress award at the 11th Asian Film Festival with the film, and has since gained fame.
It is worth mentioning that "Mulan" not only let Ling Bo xi mention the film but also let her gain a good relationship, during the filming, she and The actor Li Guang's actor in the film, Jin Han, had a love affair because of the drama, and later married into a husband and wife to this day.
Yang Lijing - 1996 Taiwanese drama "The Flower Mulan of Heaven and Earth"
In the 1996 Taiwanese version of "The Flower Mulan of Heaven and Earth", the lineup was very large, including Song Yimin, Wang Siyi, Gong Cien, Li Zhiqi, Li Zhixi brothers, and mainland actor Huang Haibing as Li Shimin.
This is the first time that Mulan's story has been made into a TV series, the content has been expanded a lot, and many adaptations have been made, such as Mulan's daughter who was recognized as a soldier, and once had to be pulled to behead, and the emotional line is more abundant than the movie.
Mulan is played by Yang Lijing, who is from the "Beaten Girl" and was once regarded as Yang Ziqiong's successor. In the 1980s and 1990s, she shot a number of action films in Hong Kong, and in the 1990s, she turned to the small screen starring in "The Legend of Xiang Shuai", "Thunderbolt Bodhisattva", "Beggar Emperor", "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", "You Dragon Frightening Phoenix" and other dramas that were extremely popular in the mainland, and many people regarded her as a "childhood costume goddess".
The Mulan she portrays combines beauty and sassiness, and Mulan is a bright and atmospheric beauty when she is "chirping and chirping, mulan is weaving". Kill the enemy in battle, Mulan in a military uniform, heroic, male and female.
Because she has a good foundation in martial arts, Hua Mulan's fighting scenes when she fights in the battle have also become a major attraction of the play.
Yuan Yongyi - 1998 co-production drama "Mulan"
In 1998, Yang Peipei produced a comedy version of "Mulan", with an unprecedentedly strong lineup, bringing together popular stars from Yuan Yongyi, Zhao Wenzhuo, Jiao Enjun, Sun Xing, Li Liqun, Zheng Peipei, Guan Lijie and other popular stars from both sides of the Straits.
The drama tells the story of Hua Mulan, who is extraordinary and filial to her parents, joins the army on behalf of her father, heroically kills the enemy on the battlefield, and meets the story of the great general Li Liang.
Compared with the previous films, this drama has set a good rating when it was broadcast in the mainland, and its popularity is also more extensive.
This drama has adapted the traditional image of Mulan relatively largely, and the dog blood points such as "Evil Mother-in-Law" and "Little Three" are not less, and mythological elements are also injected, and the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, and the Vesta God all appear.
One of them is that Mulan offended the sexist Jade Emperor to be punished to continue to live as a boy until the age of 86, and the great general Li Liang is willing to turn her into a daughter's body for the "sexual transformation", which is very subversive from today's point of view.
But overall, the story direction is inspirational, Mulan is also flesh and blood, she is smart, bold, witty, capable and courageous, even the tamer has a very good set.
Yuan Yongyi's appearance is heroic and there is no lack of woman's gorgeousness, in the play, when she wears men's clothes, her makeup is very light, convincing people that this is a "man" who will not be found in the pile of men.
Chen Miaoying - 1998 TVB drama "Mulan"
Like Yuan Yongyi's version, the 1998 TVB version of "Mulan" is also a light comedy route, such as amnesia and other dog blood terriers are integrated with the times, and the Mulan character played by Chen Miaoying has been adapted to a bit of a love brain. The whole film has a unique Hong Kong-style nonsense comedy style.
Chen Miaoying participated in the "Hong Kong Sister" campaign and won the fifth debut, which was her first work as the female number one. Leaving aside the rigor of the times and the authenticity of the story adaptation, there is nothing wrong with the Mulan portrayed by Chen Miaoying.
Her appearance is very handsome, because of the height blessing, she will not look delicate in the middle of men, nor will she look very abrupt.
The early Hong Kong films were very hot, whether in the training ground or on the battlefield, her image was sassy. This also has a lot of bonuses for the fullness of the character image.
Hou Mengyao - 2013 Mainland Drama "The Legend of Mulan"
In 2013, the CCTV drama "The Legend of Mulan" was launched, which enabled the new model of the old belt, and Yang Lijing, who played Mulan many years ago, made a cameo appearance as Mulan's mother. Mulan is played by Hou Mengyao, which is her debut novel.
Entering the industry is the female number one, partnered with Guo Pinchao, Lu Liangwei, these audiences are very familiar with the veteran stars, her starting point is still quite high, but unfortunately has been tepid for many years.
The first half of the play spends a lot of time telling Mulan about the weaver girl embroidery and pro-picture, and then the war inevitably changes her identity to the battlefield, aiming to convey the same enthusiasm for the home country regardless of identity, regardless of gender.
However, the weaver girl part in the front is a bit procrastinating, and the heroine's style is not very friendly, which dissuads many viewers. However, after putting on the military uniform, Mulan is very hot and sassy, and at the same time, she and Prince Rouran have a love affair, both children and daughters, as well as family and country feelings.
Don't look at Hou Mengyao who looks white and pure, and has also played the deep love of Dong Efei, but she does not look delicate at all when she wears armor. Unfortunately, the shape is a little too gorgeous, and Mulan's gold finger is also too fierce, with night vision, learning things and seconds to learn seconds and other special functions.
The emotional lines of the previous version of Mulan are all comrades-in-arms such as generals arranged for her by the screenwriter, and Wang Mazi of Li Si, who is called Zhang San, has them. This version directly arranged an exotic prince for her, and the specifications should also be of the highest level.
Jiang Ruolin - 2013 Mainland Drama "The Great General"
In 2013, Yuan Hong, Chen Sicheng and Jiang Ruolin starred in a costume drama called "The Great General of the Towel", and the heroine Mulan's name was changed to Hua Ruolan, and there was a twin sister. Two sisters, a woman dressed as a man, joined the army for her father, and one entered the harem as deep as the sea, and since then the two have started a completely different life.
Ruolan in the army fell in love with the generals Yang Jun and Zhao Yu at the same time as they were born and died, but their sister lost herself in the harem due to her rights. The two lines are parallel, and the palace fight occupies most of it.
Chen Sicheng's affectionate prince acted quite distressingly, and Yuan Hong's performance of the poor and sour student was also handy, but the hostess was too weak, asking "what to do" all day long, completely without the wisdom that Mulan should have, and was not worthy of the five words of "Great General of the Towel". Jiang Ruolin's acting skills are also very young, and she is a bit insufficient in mainland dramas.
Of course, the show itself doesn't have any splashes.
Liu Yifei - 2020 movie "Mulan"
When a familiar story is remade over and over again, it is actually difficult to shine. But when the news came out that Disney was going to shoot this ancient Chinese legend character and was played by the fairy sister Liu Yifei, the audience's expectations were still very high. After it released its first trailer, it appeared on five hot searches in a row, which is enough to prove its influence and popularity.
But after going online, it was met with a lot of complaints.
The first thing that was complained about was the yellow makeup of "yellow on the mirror", followed by Liu Yifei's nationality issue, going to the battlefield in the face of big waves, etc., all of which were criticized.
But this version is not useless, Liu Yifei is almost plain when he wears armor on the battlefield, his eyes are like torches, the atmosphere is stable, and he has the style of a sonorous rose.
The fighting action is also very powerful, although her appearance is more delicate, but the mental outlook conveyed is gritty and tough.
Zhang Dong - 2020 movie "Mulan Desert Rescue"
"Mulan's Desert Rescue" is an online movie launched in 2020, starring Zhang Dong, Gu Shangwei, Sun Jiaolong, etc. are all unknown small actors. Du Yuming, who made a cameo appearance, should be regarded as the largest wrist in this film.
The opening scene is Mulan's bathing scene, when someone breaks in, her love magic circle flies away, and the soldier runs outside the tent to see that the person is already wearing armor and sitting on a horse to play handsome.
After the plot, fight scenes, etc., all of them are challenging the audience's bottom line, such as Mulan saving the princess and riding a horse in the desert, drilling out a lot of "Tuxingsun" from the ground, these people threw chains to lock her double swords, and she stood there with her double swords and fought with a group of men to face off.
A general on the other side wants to cut her, and the camera turns to find that if she does not raise her sword steadily, the chain will automatically slip off.
Not to mention that she was frightened by the enemy's two or three little minions, and she had to rely on her subordinates to help her block the knife to survive the force value.
Like this kind of movie that makes people cry and laugh, in 2020, there are even three consecutive films, in addition to this one, there are also "Peerless Mulan" and "Mulan's Scarf Hero", etc., the ratings are more than three points.
Don't say anything about the love of the robe, the great righteousness of the nation, in these versions only see the embarrassment of practitioners making quick money.
The heroic and courageous woman who does not let the eyebrows be raised is really not something that anyone can play. The above ten versions of Mulan, whose interpretation is more popular with you?