The story of the flowing water that takes away time, but it inscribes the youth of the next generation, theirs, and ours.
| Author: Xu Xiaodi
| Editor: Xu Ye
| Editor: Ling Yun
At the end of the 20th century, the popularity of the 95th edition of "Condor Heroes" in Chinese mainland may not be appreciated by young people who are chasing dramas today.
The theme song "Homecoming" sings the people with the thinnest musical cells will also lengthen the chorus of "Aa ↗→aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ↘
Which commissary did not have the periphery of the "New Eagle Hero" (as everyone called this version at the time) was equivalent to automatically withdrawing from the gushing torrent of the market economy.
In addition to greeting cards and stickers, the playing cards are also printed with little dragon girls.
On the school playground, there are always people who are suspected of being uncoordinated like "Wu Lao'er next door", and if you look closely, you are studying "left-right mutual combat" and "eclipsed".
For most of the "post-80s" and "post-90s", "Eagle Man" has remade as many as a dozen films, and the 95 version is the eternal "white moonlight".
Until now, in the most beloved "Examination God" of contemporary college students, the Gu Tianle version of Yang Guo still firmly occupies a place. The 95th edition of the "Divine Eagle" mobile phone screensaver and chat wallpaper is a copy of the hand, once the exam week, many people also changed the WeChat name to "over", praying for the exam door to pass.
Gu Tianle version of Yang Guo.
Recently, the Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Corporation Limited (TVB) released a special edition of the 95th edition of "Eagle Hero Top Secret Files", which triggered a wave of "memory killing".
After 27 years of tv drama broadcast, the actors in it have gone to different life trajectories: some are active in front of the stage, some are hidden behind the scenes, some have disappeared, and some have quietly passed away...
That year, they were still new
Time back to 1995.
At that time, the audience's "Divine Eagle Hero" was the version starring Andy Lau and Chen Yulian in 1983, which hit a 90% super high rating when it first aired.
Andy Lau (right) version of Yang Guo and Chen Yulian version of Xiaolongnü.
More than 10 years later, TVB decided to remake "Condor Heroes" again. Zhu Yu was in front, under tremendous pressure, and Li Tiansheng took on this task. At that time, he had supervised the production of Liang Chaowei's version of "Deer Ding" and Zhang Zhilin's version of "The Legend of the Archery Hero", and he knew more about Jin Yong than others.
Due to limited funds, it took a lot of effort to choose the actors. The two main actors who were finalized, Gu Tianle and Li Ruotong, were both unknown newcomers at that time.
That year, Gu Tianle was 25 years old.
As early as the age of 15, he went out to work as a waiter, porter, security guard, and salesman. Unable to find a way out, he joined the ranks of Gu Qiuzai, wandering the streets day and night, and the 22-month prison sentence made him wake up.
Later, he and his friends opened a modeling agency, and often took their artists to the crew for interviews. More than a dozen handsome men and beautiful women stood in a row, but the boss picked Gu Tianle, an agent crouching in the corner.
Gu Tianle in his youth.
In those years, Gu Tianle filmed many advertisements and MVs of big-name artists, Zhang Xinzhe's "Love is Like a Tide", Zhou Huimin's "Love Song Sha La La La", Dawn's "Summer Love"... People give nicknames, "backing vocals with the little prince".
But business is still declining. In 1993, his modeling agency collapsed, and on the day of bankruptcy, TVB called, destined to be general, Gu Tianle became an auditor in the fifth session of the TV professional training class.
In 1994, Zhang Guorong was a guest of "No Defense Tonight", calling on the circle to pay attention to a newcomer named Gu Tianle. As soon as these words came out, Gu Tianle's fate changed again, and he officially signed a contract with TVB.
The following year, "Eagle Man" was broadcast. The director once described the fit between Gu Tianle and Yang Guo's role in this sentence: "The personality is a bit extreme, but it is born with affection." ”
"Little Dragon Girl" Li Ruotong, 4 years older than Gu Tianle, was 29 years old that year.
In 1989, while still working as a flight attendant, she received a call from a distant relative who was an assistant director, and used the week off to shoot her first play in her life, "Romantic Killer Free Man", playing Wang Zuxian's classmate.
Li Ruotong (left) and Wang Zuxian.
After the scene was filmed, Li Ruotong went back to work as a flight attendant, flying around in the air every day, asking passengers for coffee or tea. During this period, he "part-timed" again, cooperating with Jacky Cheung and Li Ming to star in "Demon Beast City".
Her real name is Li Huixian, and the stage name "Li Ruotong" was taken by Xu Ke, the executive producer of "Demon Beast City".
In 1993, the pressure of work combined with the frustration of the relationship made Li Ruotong resign in discouragement. After becoming a flight attendant, she flew to Yinchuan to shoot Lin Lingdong's "Burning Red Lotus Temple" and began her career as a full-time actor.
Two years later, Li Timsheng saw "Youth Spark" starring Li Ruotong and decided to let her play the heroine of the 95 version of "Divine Eagle Hero", so he personally took her photo and let Jin Yong confirm.
In the original work, Jin Yong described Xiaolongnü: "All her life, I love to wear white clothes, when it is really like the wind blowing on the jade tree, the snow wrapped in qiong buds, and the nature of life is cold, it is worthy of the description of 'cold soaking and dissolving the moon', and it can be said that it is very appropriate to give it away with the three words of 'no vulgar thoughts'." ”
He had seen the photo and said it was the little dragon girl he had in mind.
Li Ruotong's version of Little Dragon Girl.
That's how childhood classics are crafted
In July 1995, the new version of "Eagle Hero" was broadcast on Jade Channel, with an average rating of 29 points, ranking fifth in the year. Compared with the previous version, the results can only be regarded as mediocre.
Blame only blame, the TVB of that year was too "volume". The top four ratings are "Criminal Investigation Files", "O Records", "No. 1 Imperial Court 4", and "Heavenly Descent", each of which is a classic.
Now it seems that the set, costumes, makeup, and props of the 95th edition of "Condor Heroes" are very rough, and the reason why it has become a classic is that the limited funds are spent on the blade: first, respect the original work; second, careful casting.
This point, no matter how the latecomers spend a lot of money polishing, how to shoot the real scene of Jiuzhaigou, and how to build special effects, it is difficult to look back.
Before filming began, Li Tim-sheng, as a producer, held a full production meeting to explain and unify the characters. The actors sat together, reading the script and discussing the plot.
Gu Tianle and Li Ruotong lack experience in acting in costume dramas, in order to let them fully grasp the costume gestures and figures, the crew specially arranged special personnel to guide them to practice Chinese dance.
In the special edition, the actors have made a interpretation of the characters they play.
Li Ruotong said: "It is very difficult for a boy to wait for a girl for 16 years, especially in this society, it is very good to wait 16 months." ”
She said that the most memorable scene was when Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü met again in Chongyang Palace, one broke his left arm and the other was seriously injured, but decided to marry at this moment. "The whole person broke down, happy and didn't want to accept it, and the mood was complicated."
Gu Tianle's most impressive scene was that Yang Guo returned to the Valley of Absolute Love 16 years later, but he did not wait for xiaolongnü, jumped off the cliff to accompany her, and did not expect the two to reunite at the bottom of the valley.
"I was really touched at that time, so touched that my nose flew out."
Li Qihong, who plays Guo Xiang, just won the third place in the "Miss Hong Kong" competition the previous year. At the final scene, she improvised a small story with the keywords of "imprisonment", "pig pen", "stripping" and "freckles", which made up a vote of judges and the audience.
That year, he signed a contract with TVB, and the first play "Asir Morning" cooperated with Dawn and starred in the heroine Fang Tongxin.
Li Qihong said that the similarity between herself and Guo Xiang is: "We are both weird. She explained Guo Xiang's contradiction in this way: "On the one hand, I like this big brother very much, on the other hand, I also hope that Yang Guo will be reunited with Xiaolongnü. So I think Guo Xiang is very cute, and her feelings for Yang Guo are so subtle. ”
Zhang Keyi, who plays Cheng Ying, was admitted to the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom at the age of 19, and was discovered by star scouts when he returned to Hong Kong during the summer vacation, and played the cousin of "Little Brother Ma" Zhou Runfa in "Hero's True Colors 3 Sunset Song" directed by Xu Ke.
After that, she organized a girl group, did fashion design, and passed the futures trading license until 1994, when she and Li Qihong participated in the Hong Kong sister election in the same year, won the "Most Acting Potential Award", and signed a contract with TVB.
Zhang Keyi described Cheng Ying as "soft on the outside and soft on the inside, calm in handling things". She and her cousin Lu Wushuang are both devoted to Yang Guo, but compared to Lu Wushuang's lively initiative, "Cheng Ying is more subtle and passive about feelings, and needs to use a lot of eyes and hearts to express."
Jian Peijun, who plays Lu Wushuang, debuted as an advertising model in her early years, and was later discovered by TVB to shoot TV series. She compared Lu Wushuang and Yang Guo," the "joyful enemy," with Li Moxuan and Lu Zhanyuan, the "resentful couples":
No matter how much the scene is, everyone's understanding of the role is extremely careful.
Opened a different copy of life
After 27 years, the actors in the play have started different lives.
In 1999, Gu Tianle won tvb tv emperor with the role of Xu Fei in "Criminal Investigation File IV"; in 2001, with the role of Xiang Shaolong in "In Search of Qin", he once again took away the emperor.
At this time, "White Ancient" has become "Black Ancient".
Gu Tianle (right) starred in "In Search of Qin".
After "In Search of Qin", Gu Tianle began to focus on the film market, but the quality was uneven. Until 2014, Er Dongsheng took out the statistical table of Gu Tianle donating schools. Everyone laughed and said that he was live streaming with goods and taking bad films, but it was because "schools are going to be built again."
In 2018, Gu Tianle, who has been debuting for 25 years and making more than 100 films, finally won the first film emperor trophy of his career with "Kill the Wolf and the Wolf". From "Gu Zai who can't act" to "powerful film emperor", from "king of bad films" to "ancient principal", he has become the mainstay of Hong Kong cinema in his own way.
After "Little Dragon Girl", Li Ruotong also created many roles.
Qin Cao ↓↓ in "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair"
Wang Yuyan of the 97th edition of "Tianlong Babu" ↓↓
Yang Bamei in "Yangmen Female General" ↓↓
In 1998, Li Ruotong befriended Guo Yingquan, a businessman who was 10 years older.
In the book "Live Well", she describes it as her boyfriend's loss of self: "He didn't want me to shoot, so I stopped working and disappeared from everyone's eyes; he didn't like me to wear brightly colored nail polish, so I simply didn't apply it; he wanted me to dress more maturely, so I gave up my favorite dress; he wanted me to stop contacting some friends, so I agreed to this request." ”
So 10 years, the relationship ended in a breakup. Li Ruotong fell into a low point, coupled with the death of her father, she suffered from depression and took medicine for two and a half years.
In 2013, Li Ruotong met Zhou Runfa on the plane, and the other party woke her up with a sentence: how can people not work. In recent years, in the Little Red Book, Douyin, and Station B, you can see Li Ruotong seriously operating and teaching everyone fitness and beauty.
After Cheng Ying, Zhang Keyi ushered in his first classic role - Chen Baozhu, the "Cantonese film queen" in 1998's "Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers". Together with Cai Shaofen, Chen Huishan, She Shiman and others, she created the glory of the "TVB Six Huadan" period.
In 2003, with the role of Lv Siniang in "95 Supreme", Zhang Keyi won the TVB tv queen; a year later, "Golden Branch Desire" was popular all over the country, and anxi she played was impressive from hidden wisdom to blackened revenge.
Zhang Keyi played Anxi in "Golden Branch Desire".
Li Qihong, who was praised as "the most beautiful Guo Xiang", also continued to work.
Zhang Jing, the brutal and spicy "little pepper" in "Absolute Double Glory", ↓↓
Yang Paifeng in "Yangmen Female General" who is brave and good at war ↓↓
However, she and Zhang Keyi both retired due to illness at their peak and returned again, and the entertainment industry has become a human being.
In 2004, Li Qihong got married and had children, and settled her family in the high mountains of Canada, away from the hustle and bustle. In 2013, 43-year-old Li Qihong made a cameo appearance as Dr. Tang in "Beijing Meets Seattle". After filming, she went to apply for the nursing profession, and two years later, she successfully obtained her qualification certificate and became a child psychiatric nurse.
Zhang Keyi is still single. After leaving TVB, she went north to develop, playing Ye Zhaojun in "Kitakami Hiroshi Doesn't Believe in Tears".
Li Yaoxiang, who plays the "old naughty boy" Zhou Botong, once lived in TVB Sanfeng Emperor, and now buys a house in Zhongshan, Guangdong. In his spare time, he becomes a travel blogger and shares his life in the mainland.
Lai Yiu-cheung plays "Old Naughty Boy".
Li Yaoxiang Tiananmen Square.
Zhang Yan, who plays He Yuanjun, once hosted the show "So Many Petites in Jiangshan" with Huang Xia when he was on TVB. Later, she became the "man's wife" in "Pink Girl".
Zhang Yan plays He Yuanjun.
Zhang Yan played the "man's wife" in "Pink Girl".
There are also some actors, "One Lamp Master" Li Hanzhi, "Xiao Xiangzi" Guan Jing, "Lu Qingdu" Luo Junzuo, "Ke Zhen Evil" Jiang Yi... Farewell to the silver screen forever.
In 2018, Mr. Jin Yong passed away. In the 3 years since he left, every new remake drama has not escaped the fate of word-of-mouth collapse.
2018 "New Laughing Pride Jianghu", Douban 2.5 points;
2019 "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", Douban 5.8 points
2021 "Tianlong Eight Parts", Douban 3.5 points.
2020 "Deer Ding", Douban 3.2 points.
After the thunderous blows of these days, people are more and more nostalgic for the joy of watching the 95th edition of "Condor Heroes".