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In the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong martial arts films swept the whole society, but at that time, because there was no relevant technology in the mainland, we did not have a martial arts film that was purely our own, until the emergence of "The Man with the White Eyebrows" in 1995, which created the history of the mainland. At that time, the drama was adapted from Shan Tianfang's commentary, and at that time, the popularity of radio was greater than that of television, and many people grew up listening to his commentaries. So when this drama was broadcast, it caused a lot of repercussions, and even the opening song was very brainwashed"What kind of knife is it?" Golden wire large ring knife! What kind of sword is a sword? Closed Moon Shame Lightsaber! ”。 Now this drama has been broadcast for 25 years, the white-browed hero Xu Liang in the play, the purple-faced King Kong Wang Shun... What happened? Today we will talk about their stories.
01. Xu Liang - Zhao Hengxuan
In the original novel, Xu Liang was a fierce-looking person, but Zhao Hengxuan's appearance in the TV series was obviously optimized a lot, but he still retained the most iconic white eyebrows. In order to restore this feature, Zhao Hengxuan shaved all his eyebrows when shooting, and then weave an eyebrow to stick to it. I have to say that Zhao Hengxuan's face is full of righteousness, and with white eyebrows, it is even more chivalrous.
Xu Liang, played by Zhao Hengxuan
However, he can play this role, or director Wang Wenjie forced to win the public opinion. At the earliest, Zhao Hengxuan was born as a martial arts Peking Opera actor, at that time Wang Wenjie was still singing Wenwu Laosheng, two young people who were also small actors at the dinner table at the dinner table, Wang Wenjie praised him "the play is very good, if I direct in the future, I will definitely find you to act." In this way, many years later, Wang Wenjie was responsible for the responsibility of the first martial arts drama in the mainland, and many famous actors wanted to come to perform at that time, but Wang Wenjie still remembered the promise he had made, and turned them away, so he identified Zhao Hengxuan.
That Zhao Hengxuan had transferred to the directing department, and when he had no source of income, it was his wife who supported the whole family. The emergence of Wang Wenjie has solved this situation. But the crew conditions are simple, the technology is not mature, in the filming process Zhao Hengxuan's Weiya broke three times, resulting in two bone fractures and a fracture, the most thrilling one was hanging Via across the river, when he just landed on The Weiya was broken, many years later Zhao Hengxuan talked about this matter and said with some palpitations, "If you break a little earlier, the white-browed hero may be played by someone else."
Fortunately, in the end, Zhao Hengxuan spent six months of shooting safely, of course, the return brought by this effort is also obvious. After the broadcast of "The Man with the White Eyebrows", Zhao Hengxuan tasted the sweetness of red, and the fans of that era wanted to express their love for actors by writing letters, so every time Zhao Hengxuan walked through the communication room, he would take away a large stack of letters.
At the same time, many crews also wanted to invite him to shoot a few more martial arts scenes, but Zhao Hengxuan refused one by one. The reason is that there is no him, that is, this drama has scared him. At that time, Zhao Hengxuan was 35 years old, and his son was still young, and he was afraid that if something happened to him, what would his wife and children do?
Zhao Hengxuan
Since then, most of Zhao Hengxuan's scripts are anti-war or public security, around 2000, he starred in a series of anti-corruption and anti-black themes, at the beginning he was still a righteous and awe-inspiring criminal police, the second part he turned into a domineering internal villain, and the third part then starred in the fierce gang boss. Don't look at him like a positive character, playing a villain is also fierce, making people look scared, during that time he was even called "villain professional".
After that, he also starred in Liu Hong in "Railway Guerrilla Post-War Chapter", Wang Yaowu in "Amnesty 1959" and so on. In 2008, he directed his own "Love in the Northern Wilderness", which also won the Golden Eagle Award. Today, Zhao Hengxuan is still active in TV dramas, and this year there are two of his upcoming dramas "Red Fruit Golden Burden" and "Lush".
02. Lu Xiaoying, Lu Xiaoqian-Li Ting
Although Lu Xiaoying and Lu Xiaoqian are twin sisters, their personalities are very different. The sister Lu Xiaoying is beautiful and kind, and chivalrous, on the contrary, the younger sister Lu Xiaoqian is a debauched, vicious and vicious person, and even poisoned her sister with a poisonous needle, and finally Lu Xiaoying, who unsuccessfully assassinated the emperor, also committed suicide. The two sisters are offline, one is regrettable, and the other is very happy.
"White Brow Hero" Li Ting
At the beginning, screenwriter Zhang Huili looked at the thin Li Ting holding a sword and waving, very skeptical that she could interpret a good generation of chivalrous women, fortunately, Li Ting was very hardworking, and the effect finally presented was also recognized by the audience, and the two different character personalities were interpreted by her.
Before playing this role, Li Ting was already well-known, her first work was the big director Xie Jin's "The Bells of Qingliang Temple", and then played Ah Fang in "Foreign Sister", when she was still a student in school, and there was a flower protector around her - Zhang Zijian, who played Wang Shun in "The Great Hero with White Eyebrows". The two have known each other since entering the school in 1988, until 1996, when they achieved positive results, and although there was a gap in their careers in the past 8 years, their feelings have always remained in love.
Zhang Zijian and Li Ting
After marriage, Li Ting won the nomination for the Feitian Award with Shu Yue in "Heroes Without Regrets", and had a daughter in 1999, when she was a double harvest of family and career. However, this time came to an abrupt end in 2003, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After hearing the news at first, Li Ting did not confide in anyone, but silently underwent all the pressure. In front of outsiders, Li Ting is still very optimistic and uplifting, and she can't see that she is a patient at all.
Li Ting
In 2005, Li Ting's marriage to Zhang Zijian came to an end, when she was afraid that she would not be able to take good care of her children in the future, so she took the initiative to give custody to Zhang Zijian. After the divorce, Li Ting filmed and lived as usual, and she would take over the drama every year. It wasn't until the cancer spread in 2009 that she was willing to stop and rest. In 2011, director Kang Honglei invited Li Ting to join "Our French Years", and when filming in France, the two sat under a bench under a banyan tree and talked about their student days, when she could still feel optimistic between her words.
But a few months later, Li Ting suddenly came to the news of her critical illness, when her parents learned that their daughter had cancer. On August 13, Li Ting did not wait for her daughter, who was still on her way home, and died forever. At the funeral, Zhang Zijian's face was full of sorrow, his daughter had been crying and calling for her mother, and Li Ting's former friends Pu Cunxin, Xu Qing, Wang Qian, and some fans came to mourn for him.
Li Ting's memorial service
03. Wang Shun- Zhang Zijian
Wang Shun is a tragic character in "The Man with the White Eyebrows", and from the moment his father died, he was pressed by his mother to take revenge. After that, his mother lied with his life and let him spend his whole life in hatred. However, in the end, even if Wang Shun learned the evil skill, he could not hand blade Xu Liang, and finally could only weakly choose to commit suicide.
Wang Shun, played by Zhang Zijian
In the play, Wang Shun's play is not less than Xu Liang's, but unlike Zhao Hengxuan, who was born in martial arts, Zhang Zijian had not been exposed to martial arts before this, at first he thought that the male number three Wang Shun should have more literary drama, but when he arrived at the crew, he knew that he had thought wrong. But there is no way to already enter the group, you can only harden the scalp, when others rest, he will seize the time to practice the action, slowly Zhang Zijian has been fully on the road, the play action is not lost to Zhao Hengxuan at all.
After the broadcast of "White Brow Hero", although Zhang Zijian received a lot of attention, but what really made him familiar in front of the audience was "Gan Nineteen Sisters", when director Wang Wenjie took a fancy to his hard work in "White Brow Hero", he invited him to continue to be the lead actor, this time Zhang Zijian deliberately went to learn martial arts for a month.
"Gan Nineteen Sisters" Zhang Zijian
After marrying Li Ting, Zhang Zijian's luck also skyrocketed, in 1999 he co-starred in "Love" with director Qian Yanqiu, and then joined the team, successively starring in "Hero", "Di Renjie Detective" series, etc. In these two dramas, Zhang Zijian met the two most important roles in his life - Yan Shuangying and Li Yuanfang.
Li Yuanfang, played by Zhang Zijian
Before 2009, Zhang Zijian's Li Yuanfang was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but after that, Qian Yanqiu continued the role of Yan Shuangying in "Hero" and created an "anti-Japanese drama" IP, in which the sentence "I bet you don't have bullets in your gun" has been a "landmark" line in the drama until now.
Yan Shuangying, played by Zhang Zijian
In fact, Zhang Zijian has starred in many TV series, such as Li Shizhen in "Daming Dynasty 1566", Guo Zijian in "Crime Scene", etc., but Yan Shuangying has been lingering in people's minds, and the only thing that can match it is the "Yuanfang Body" in the peak period.
Because he has acted in too many bad dramas, Zhang Zijian's reputation has also been affected to a certain extent, and when the audience hears that he is starring, they can't help but think of the divine drama and remember his handsome style in the play, so they have no desire to watch new dramas. Nowadays, Zhang Zijian has stopped taking over anti-war dramas, but has turned to urban dramas, love dramas and some main dramas.
Zhang Zijian
04. Baiyunrui - Xing Minshan
Compared with the righteous and awe-inspiring Xu Liang, Bai Yunrui is a dancing prince, not only strong in martial arts but also rich in responsibility, which attracts the likes of many little girls in the play, including Lu Xiaoying and Lu Xiaoqian sisters. But in the face of so many people showing love, he was indifferent, especially disgusted with Lu Xiaoqian, so that even the impression of Lu Xiaoying was not good, so he always did not respond to her when facing Xiaoying. Until Xiao Ying died of poisoning, he realized that he had long been in love, but at this time, the beauty had passed away, and no amount of feelings would help.
Bai Yunrui played by Xing Minshan
Like Zhao Hengxuan, Xing Minshan also studied opera and studied under Kunqu masters Zhou Chuanying and Bao Chuanduo, so Xing Minshan's temperament is also unique in the crowd. At that time, he also had a teacher named Niu Xiao, and during the study period, 13-year-old Xing Minshan liked the teacher's 7-year-old daughter Niu Xiaoqing very much, and often took her out to play and give good food. Slowly as the two grow up, the brotherhood becomes love.
Xing Minshan's family
In 1995, Xing Minshan became an idol in the hearts of many audiences by relying on the role of Bai Yunrui, and many girls around him were interested in him at that time, but Xing Minshan only had Niu Xiaoqing in his heart, in order to reassure his sweetheart, they got married in 1996. However, a year after the marriage, Xing Minshan was almost disfigured because of his righteous attack. At that time, when filming "You Dragon Frightened Phoenix", someone in the crew used his hands and feet on the actress, Xing Minshan could not see the eyes and rushed up to protect the actress behind him, but the other party was crowded, and after a while he was beaten with blood, and he went to the hospital and had a few stitches. After recovering from his injuries, Xing Minshan did not give himself time to rest, but quickly threw himself into the filming of new plays.
Xing Min Shan
In the years that Xing Minshan has been practicing art, although there is no fire, it has performed well in many TV series, such as Tong Lin in "Six Groups of Serious Cases", Duan Tongzhou in "The Wind Rises in the Langya List", and Ding Huanlie in "The Mist of the Octagonal Pavilion". Of all the characters he has portrayed, Zhao Dan is the most thrilling one. At that time, in order to interpret this role well, Xing Minshan painstakingly filmed for four months, resulting in a sudden cerebral hemorrhage hospitalization, but in the end it was sent to the hospital in time to save his life. Nowadays, Xing Minshan is still active on the screen, although many times it is a supporting role, but in his eyes there are only small actors, no small roles.
05. Yan Yingyun - Xu Rongzhen
Yan Yingyun is Xu Liang's fiancée, but at first she did not like Xu Liang with white eyebrows, and then she was slowly attracted after being saved by Xu Liang in danger.
Yan Yingyun, played by Xu Rongzhen
Although "The Man with the White Eyebrows" was very popular after broadcast, compared with the characters with distinct personalities such as Xu Liang, Bai Yunrui, and Wang Shun, the weak Yan Yingyun was not prominent, and Xu Rongzhen was not recognized by the audience. After that, Xu Rongzhen also acted in many TV series, such as Hong Xia in "The Million Bride of True Love", the Princess Princess in "Splendid Wei Yang", etc., but the response was flat.
"Splendid Wei Yang" Xu Rongzhen
In fact, it is still very easy for her to contact good resources, because Xu Rongzhen's father Xu Chengxian is not only a national first-class actor, but also the deputy director of the actor's club, who has worked hard in the entertainment industry for more than forty years, but Xu Rongzhen did not use his father's connections, but acted steadily. In life, Xu Rongzhen married a Japanese Chinese very early, and the two also had a son. But because of work problems, they have been separated for many years, so that Xu Rongzhen has always called herself a "quasi-single mother". Once, one year, Xu Rongzhen took his son to take wedding photos, and was mistaken for a divorce.
Xu Rongzhen and his son
In fact, her husband also thought about going back to Shanghai, but she was stopped by Xu Rongzhen, because she felt that coming back now was to give up everything she had to work hard in Japan, not to mention her husband, who was accustomed to Japanese life, and it would be very painful to come back and adapt to The country. So for so many years, she supported the family and the outside of the house alone, and when the old man was sick, she had no one to rely on, and she could only worry about everything after running. In order to reduce her burden, her mother gave up the opportunity to go out to play to help her with her children, and whenever she thought about this, Xu Rongzhen would blush with guilt.
Xu Rongzhen
06. Conclusion
From the current point of view, the production of "White Brow Hero" is rough and the picture is blurred, but whether it is the plot or the acting skills of the actors, you can feel their intentions. Although in many martial arts dramas, it may not be as good as TV series with huge fans such as "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and "Tianlong Babu", it also carries the childhood of many people, which is another classic.