It's almost the New Year, and we still look at some good-looking things, such as Bai Gu's face
Some time ago, TVB suddenly released the 95th edition of "Condor Heroes" (hereinafter referred to as "Condor Heroes") in its APP "Buried Piles" - "Eagle Heroes Top Secret Files".
The 46-minute documentary has not been fully aired in the 27 years since the series aired.
This publicity has once again triggered a wave of nostalgia for everyone.
The 95 version of "Divine Eagle", although the ratings of the first broadcast on TVB are not high, with an average of 29 points, only ranking fifth in the ratings list of the year.
However, when it was introduced to the mainland three years later, it quickly became popular.
Yang Guo, played by Gu Tianle, and Xiaolongnü, played by Li Ruotong, became the white moonlight in the hearts of Jin Yong fans. This version of "Divine Eagle" is also the highest Douban score among the various adaptations - 9.2 points, ranking first in the list of costume Hong Kong dramas.
After 27 years, why has the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" become an insurmountable classic in martial arts dramas?
Open the production special of that year, let's find out why.
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Even if it is a rockery
It can also create a real martial arts world for you
First of all, the 95th edition of The Condor is definitely not flawless.
Because of the budget, TVB shoots most of the martial arts dramas in the studio. Therefore, in that year, you can see a lot of plastic scenes in "Divine Eagle": such as waterfalls made of transparent tape, drifting snow made of foam, and so on.
The scenes of Mount Hua, Valley of Absolute Love, and Zhongnan Mountain all look the same.
△ The entrance to the "Valley of Absolute Love" in the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle".
However, these "rockeries" do not affect the audience's entry into the play at all, why?
Because although they did not have good material conditions, the "Divine Eagle" crew of that year "paid enough homework" in the links they could control.
Executive producer Li Tiansheng is a jin yong professional household of TVB. The 84th edition of "Deer Ding Ji" (starring Liang Chaowei and Andy Lau) and the 94th edition of "The Legend of the Archery Hero" (starring Zhang Zhilin and Zhu Yin) are all supervised by him.
In order to strive for excellence, Li Tiansheng held a production meeting with the actors and staff in front of and behind the scenes before the filming of "Divine Eagle" to explain and unify the character of the character.
At that time, Gu Tianle was the first time to shoot a costume drama, and Li Ruotong had filmed Xu Ke's martial arts film "Burning red lotus temple", but had no experience in filming dramas.
Li Tiansheng arranged Chinese dance lessons for them, so that the actors could better grasp the costume posture and body.
There are many characters in "Divine Eagle", and each character has a different personality and characteristics.
This is a lot of makeup styling.
At that time, the crew was to help the actors set makeup, and it took three days.
At that time, special effects technology was still relatively backward.
The important role of "Eagle Brother" in "Divine Eagle" cannot be realized through the later stage, and can only be made by hand by the people in the art department.
The feathers of the "Eagle Brother" are made of a fan, and there is wire traction at the joints, and the weight of the whole body is almost 60 pounds.
As for the martial arts scenes, in order to make the effect more realistic, most of them are actors themselves.
Various martial arts moves are also carefully designed.
Guo Jing single-handedly broke the Quanzhen Sect's "Tiangang Beidou Array".
Yang Guoxiaolong's female double sword combined to repel the Golden Wheel King.
Although it was the plot of 27 years ago, I still remember these classic martial arts scenes.
△ Guo Jing broke the Heavenly Gang Beidou Array
△ Yang Guo Xiaolong female double sword combination
Looking at the current martial arts dramas, the special effects are improved, but when it comes to action scenes, it is slow motion, and sometimes the two sides of the duel can't even touch each other's clothes...
A comparison, you can see which one is more like the martial arts world of "sword and light sword shadow".
△ The same is a 6-second GIF, Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng of "Divine Eagle" have played ten times back and forth, and even a circle in "Snow In the Sword Line" has not been turned...
The casting of the Immortals was not only Gu Tianle and Li Ruotong
When it comes to the success of the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle", it is certainly indispensable to "Immortal Casting".
Now it seems that Gu Tianle and Li Ruotong's adaptability is very high, but in fact, Li Tiansheng used them at that time.
Strictly speaking, Gu Tianle and Li Ruotong are both newcomers to the television industry.
In 1994, a year before the filming of "Divine Eagle", Gu Tianle officially entered TVB. "Divine Eagle" is his first TV series to star.
At that time, the outside world was controversial about Gu Tianle's performance of Yang Guo.
First, he thinks he is too pretty, and some people are worried that he will play Yang Guo into a small white face. Second, when he first debuted, he concealed the case (he was exposed by the media when filming "Dinner with Song Family" in 1994), and the public's impression of him was not too good.
However, Li Tiansheng still supported Gu Tianle. Appearance, "Gu Tianle facial features are very sharp", Li Tiansheng saw the potential of his costume style. Personality, Yang Guo is a person of the most affectionate nature, which is also very similar to Gu Tianle.
As for Li Ruotong, she used to be a flight attendant, and later she was favored by Xu Ke to make movies.
Li Tiansheng chose li to play Xiaolongn because he watched Li Ruotong's "Youth Spark".
It is said that after Li Tiansheng chose a good role at that time, he also showed Li Ruotong's photo to Jin Yong, and Jin Yong affirmed that "Ruotong is the little dragon girl in his heart".
In addition to the appearance fit, Li Ruotong, like Gu Tianle, also has similarities with the character.
In Li Ruotong's personality, there is a sense of bluntness. She has talent for acting, but no ambition. She switched from a flight attendant to an actress, not because she liked it, but because she fell out of love.
Later, Li Ruotong made a boyfriend, even if it was the rising period of her career, she still chose to spend more time on her boyfriend. Dragged on for ten years, and finally broke up. Li Ruotong woke up from his love brain and put his focus back on himself.
This kind of personality that is accurate to a tendon can be seen in Li Ruotong and Xiaolongnü.
△ Li Ruotong complained about his "love brain" at the "Spit Conference".
Li Tiansheng can pick Gu Tianle and Li Ruotong from among the newcomers, which can be described as a unique vision.
But in fact, Li Tiansheng's "immortal casting" is not only Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü. Most of the characters in the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" are highly discerning.
Lu Wushuang, played by Jian Peijun, is cute and lively, and has the feeling of a sister next door.
Cheng Ying, played by Zhang Keyi, is Lu Wushuang's cousin, with an introverted and reserved personality, and is an intellectual beauty.
She is not as happy as her cousin, she likes Yang Guo, and will only secretly write "See the gentleman, Yun Hu does not like it" .
She knew that Yang Guoxin belonged, so she didn't want her feelings to put pressure on Yang. The role of Cheng Ying is placed in modern times and is definitely an independent woman.
He Jieshan played Yan Ping, Qingxiu.
The original work said that Yan Ping's Yingying eye wave was quite similar to xiaolongnü in Yang Guo's eyes.
The 95 version of Yan Ping also has a pair of chuchu eyes. Although there were not many scenes in Yan Ping, I thought that this girl was very beautiful and had a feeling of pity.
Guo Fu, played by Fu Mingxian, is bright and beautiful.
Her facial features are very deep and beautiful.
When Fu Mingxian played this role, he added a lot of his own understanding. She performed Guo Fu's brutality, and also performed Guo Fu's ambivalent feelings for Yang Guo's "love and hate".
Some people say that because Fu Mingxian is so good-looking, they can't afford to hate this role.
Guo Xiang's casting is also very good.
Li Qihong, the runner-up of Hong Kong Sisters in 1994, grew up in Canada and did not speak Cantonese fluently. But Li Tiansheng dared to use her to play a costume.
Li Tiansheng and Li Qihong said that she and Guo Xiang have one thing in common, that is, the "eccentric" side of their personalities.
As a result, Li Tiansheng saw it accurately. Li Qihong's ghost sister character has instead played Xiao Dong evil, and now when Guo Xiang is mentioned, everyone thinks of Li Qihong's starry eyes.
Li Moxuan, played by Sydney, is a female demon.
She has a cold temperament and a sharp look in her eyes.
Sydney's real life is also hurt by love. She and actress Xu Shaoqiang gave birth to a son and a daughter, but the two did not marry. Later, she separated from Xu Shaoqiang, lived with her children by herself, and said that she "does not regret being a single mother."
At that time, Li Tiansheng should not have known about Sydney's love affair after that, but that stubbornness was hidden in her eyes.
Huang Rong is a less pleasing character in "Divine Eagle", because she always prevents Xiaolongnü from being with Yang Guo.
Huang Rong in the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" is played by Wei Qiuhua. I also think this casting is very suitable.
Although Wei Qiuhua's appearance is not particularly high, she has a temperament and a noble spirit, which is actually in line with the image of Huang Rong after marriage.
At this time, Huang Rong was no longer the yellow haired lady who walked around the rivers and lakes in the past, but the highly respected Lady Guo Jing, so she had to have an aura and be able to hold the scene.
Male character, Guo Jing in the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" is Bai Biao.
Bai Biao played Guo Jing in the 1976 version of "Shooting Eagle" on Jiayi TV, and played the middle-aged version of Guo Jing here, which is also familiar with it.
Bai Biao is not handsome, but he does have a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, and he looks like a famous and decent hero.
When I was a child, I especially liked Zhou Botong, played by Lai Yaoxiang.
He can really play the look of a naughty boy, especially cute. At that time, I thought that Li Yaoxiang was taking the line of harmonic stars, and I did not expect that he would later win the Emperor of Vision as a tyrant.
The plasticity of good actors is particularly strong.
Li Tiansheng is indeed a discerning eye and can find so many actors who meet the temperament of the role.
But at the same time, these actors are also very serious about integrating into the role.
Like Fu Mingxian, even if she gets a less cute role guo fu, she still tries to enter the role and play a special side of this role.
After 27 years, when I think about this play, I can still remember most of the characters in this play, and even when I read the original book, I have more of this version of the actor in my mind.
Because of the performances they put in, there will be the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" that is full of vivid colors.
He captured the "love" in martial arts dramas
TVB has filmed many martial arts dramas, but why is this one the most highly rated overall? In fact, the book "Divine Eagle" is different from other martial arts themes in that its part of the family and country feelings is relatively small, and more ink falls on the emotional affairs of the world.
The two sentences "Ask what is the love of the world, and the Orthodox Religion promises life and death" these two sentences were read by Li Moxuan at the beginning of the chapter, and also set the tone of the entire novel.
And when Li Tiansheng shot it, he also grasped the word tightly. Therefore, he made the "Divine Eagle" that most conformed to the charm.
△ Li Tiansheng's interpretation also means that "Divine Eagle" is a love story in martial arts dramas
Yang Guo himself is a person who is "most affectionate and sexual".
His interpretation of "love" is: Whoever is good to me, I am good to whom.
Therefore, his feelings for the little dragon girl at the beginning were very simple, and the little dragon girl was good to him, and he was willing to die for her. But later, the little dragon girl left, and because of his thoughts, he slowly realized that he was in love with the little dragon girl.
Later, Yang Guo met many different girls, and he also touched these girls, but each one was a point to the end, and the appearance of each one only made him more sure that he loved the little dragon girl.
Yang Guo's feelings for Xiaolongnü are gradual.
At first, there is dependence on elders, which slowly translates into the love of the opposite sex, and then there is life-and-death love.
The 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" performs this change.
Gu Tianle also said that the scene he was most touched by was the reunion with Xiaolongnü 16 years later. When he played it, he was completely involved in Yang Guo's role, and he was so excited that his snot was flowing out.
This change of feelings from shallow to deep is real and delicate. Many of the other versions of "Divine Eagle" identified the little dragon girl at the beginning, and the two got along like lovers in the ancient tomb, which was a bit too Mary Sue.
In fact, it is not just possible that Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü's unswerving love is touching to death.
Most of the characters in this show are "sentient beings".
After Lu Wushuang and Cheng Ying knew that yang Guo's favorite person was Xiaolongnü, they willingly quit and fulfilled this relationship.
Guo Xiang is in love with the Great Eagle Hero, but at the same time, she is also touched by the "16-year covenant" between Yang Guo and xiaolongnü.
There are also Guo Jing and Huang Rong, working together to protect Xiangyang, even if they die together on the battlefield, they have no regrets, is this not another deep feeling?
In addition to these decent characters having feelings, villains are also sentient.
Li Moxuan is a lover, but she has been deceived because of her feelings, and she has entered an obsession, falling deeper and deeper.
Li Moxuan of the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" is hateful, but also pitiful. She is not as fierce as in the book, and Li Moyuan's lover Lu Zhanyuan at the beginning of the original book is dead, and she still wants to kill Lu Zhanyuan's brother's family. In the 95th edition, the object of Li Moxuan's revenge was changed to Lu Zhanyuan and her wife, and even she looked at the old love in the past, and once had the idea of letting Go of Lu Zhanyuan, which showed that Li Moxuan, the female demon head, was slightly "humane".
Li Moxuan's ending is to jump into the sea of fire himself. Before she died, she still remembered Lu Zhanyuan, and she still read the words in her mouth: "Ask what the world's love is, and teach life and death to be promised." In the end, Li Moxuan is still trapped in "love".
Only when there is affection, there are rivers and lakes.
The 95th edition of "Divine Eagle" grasps this point and digs deeper into human nature and emotions, so as to give us a touching martial arts dream in the era when special effects are not developed and the set is still quite simple.
The "Divine Eagle" remade later, even if the scene is more beautiful and the scene is more spectacular, it seems that there is still no way to surpass the former on "love".
In order to write this article, I re-read the 95th edition of "Divine Eagle".
Originally, I just wanted to see the classic scene, but I didn't expect to stop as soon as I opened it, and I brushed it up.
After watching it, my biggest feeling is that the scene of that year was really filmed well and sincerely.
Jin Yong's novel of more than one million words was filmed for 32 episodes, and there was no water injection at all. Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü meet again, then defeat the Golden Wheel King at the Hero Conference, and then be scolded by Guo Jing for marrying his master Xiaolongnü - such an important plot, which is told in less than one episode.
Every episode is full of ups and downs and climaxes, no wonder I chased it so much.
△ I used to especially like to watch these hard dramas of martial arts scenes in martial arts conferences, and I was addicted. Now seeing the slow motion play just want to fast forward.
Also, although there were not many TVB actors at that time, and each play had familiar faces, you would not feel jumping.
Because each of their roles is different.
There are many kinds of beauty, some are as beautiful as Xiaolongnü, and some are as flexible and frank as Guo Xiang.
There are also many kinds of love, there are Xiaolongnü and Yang Guo who are unswerving to death, and there are also Cheng Ying and Lu Wushuang's understanding and perfection of Yang Guo.
The texture of our current drama is much worse, because beauty and love are too similar. When the feelings between Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü are no different from the Mary Sue love between the domineering president falling in love with you, do we still need to linger on this martial arts jianghu?
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