The recently popular big screen "Mermaid" not only made many people fulfill their wish to return Chow Sing Chi movie tickets, but also put the star girl Lin Yun, who was selected by Chow Sing Chi for a year, on the cusp of the topic, and Feng Shaofeng's confusing love affair, starring in the large-scale magic theme film "Jue Trace" directed by Guo Jingming...
However, in addition to Lin Yun, there are still many actresses in the history of Chinese and foreign films who have starred in mermaids. Today, Xiaobian will take stock of the film and television works of those equally good-looking mermaids, as well as the actresses who have starred in mermaids.
1. "Modern Mermaid Splash" (Daryl Hanna)
The Modern Mermaid is a 1984 romantic romance film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hanna.
The film tells the story of Tom Hanks' Alan Ball, who saw the legendary mermaid in the waves of Cape Cod when he was a child, an experience that took root in his mind. 20 years later, Alan has grown into a handsome handsome guy, he is busy all day, but true love has never arrived. One day, Allen returned to Cape Cod and accidentally fell into the water there. Just when he is in danger, a beautiful mermaid (Daryl Hanna) appears and saves his life. Not long after, the mermaid disappeared into the fish's tail and came to New York to look for Alan, and the two fell in love.
The film won the 1985 Academy of Science Fiction and Horror Film Award for Best Actress (Daryl Hannah) and the 1985 National Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay.
The mermaid tail props used in the film were also displayed by the Disney Collection.
2. "Blue Sea Beauty" (Yosuke Eguchi)
Blue Ocean Beauty is a fantasy film directed by Ryuya Ishii. Based on Shunji Iwai's novel Wallace Mermaid, Yosuke Eguchi plays a male mermaid.
A bizarre incident occurred on the turquoise beach in Australia, Mimi Umihara has a lover Akuri, who is unknown because he was killed at sea, but he was rescued ten days later, the whole incident seems incredible, Mihahara is angry about why only he was rescued, reporter Hakuoka Koheiichi helped Umihara Mi as a reason, decided to find out. One day, Kaihara Mi was invited to go out with a friend by boat, but encountered a storm, the friend was quickly rescued, But Haiyuan Mi's whereabouts are unknown, and a month later, the fishing boat that passed by was caught by Haiyuan Mi. What is unbelievable is that in addition to being unconscious, Kaihara Mi is actually alive and has no scars, but he has completely lost his memory of the process of encountering the incident, and what is even more puzzling is that Kaihara Mi's body has changed, and he has shown some fish-like symptoms! Surprised, Sakuta and Haka decide to perform hypnotherapy on Ubihara to find out the truth...
Although it is not a "beautiful" mermaid, the story is very beautiful, I like the soundtrack inside, and the deep and elegant moaning of the mermaid at the beginning of the film... This film is a fantasy film co-produced by Japan and the United States, changing Shunji Iwai's "Wallace Mermaid", and the sea view shooting angle is mostly made of computers, but the effect is very good. The actors in the mermaids in the film are Americans, and they spend a lot of time wearing makeup before shooting. The opening sequence begins with a black-and-white film, and at the end of the 19th century, a scientist and apprentice heard that fishermen in Hong Kong, China, had caught mermaids and went to watch it. The mermaid is kept in a large pool of simple guards, and the scientist looks at the mermaid in front of him and believes that he has been right insistence... Many friends who have seen the stills say that the mermaids in the film are ugly, but in general, this film is still worth watching.
3. "Suzhou Creek" (Zhou Xun)
"Suzhou Creek" is a 2000 love literary film directed and written by Lou Ye, starring Zhou Xun and Jia Hongsheng.
The film mainly tells the story of the love entanglement between MaDa and the innocent girl Peony and the mermaid who looks exactly like Peony. The film was released in Hong Kong, China on September 7, 2000, and won the Golden Tiger Award at the 29th Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Best Picture Award at the 15th Paris International Film Festival in the same year, and was selected as one of The Time Magazine's Top Ten Films of the Year.
The film was banned from being released in Chinese mainland by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television because it participated in foreign film festivals without being sent for review.
"Suzhou Creek" is Zhou Xun's first film to pick a beam and is also her first collaboration with a sixth-generation young director. Zhou Xun plays two roles for the first time, and is two characters with completely opposite personalities. What is more interesting is that the male and female protagonists Jia Hongsheng and Zhou Xun met and fell in love because of the filming of the film. However, Jia Hongsheng fell to his death on the afternoon of July 5, 2010, at the age of 43.
4. The Legend of the Mermaid (Zhong Liti)
The Legend of the Mermaid, also known as The Legend of the Mermaid of the Sixth Sense, is a film directed by Rowan and starring Zheng Yijian and Zhong Liti.
It tells that the teacher Ah Zhi was afraid of water since he was a child, and once drowned in the water, he was saved by the mermaid Xiaomei, but the pearls in Xiaomei's body were mistakenly swallowed by Ah Zhi. Xiaomei, who has lost her pearl, cannot return to the sea, so she pretends to be a student and enters Ah Zhi's school, hoping to get the pearl back. Unexpectedly, even if Ah Zhi was frightened after learning the secret, he still launched a beautiful mermaid love affair with Xiaomei. The paper wrapped could not hold the fire, and Xiaomei's secret was finally known to the principal, and the principal decided to capture Xiaomei. Although Ah Zhi tries to rescue Ah Mei, their love affair is challenged...
Around 1994, it was the last glory before Hong Kong films fell into a trough, and the classics we are now familiar with, "New Dragon Gate Inn", "East Evil and West Poison", "East into West", "Journey to the West", "Chongqing Forest" were all out of those years. In those years, hong Kong films were very rich in genres, except for gangster movies and action movies. The fantasy love movie "The Legend of the Mermaid", in 1994, which was frequently published, was not the most remarkable, but it was the most beautiful one. The young Zheng Yijian and the pure Zhong Liti performed a beautiful mermaid love for the audience. At the end of the film, the two people playing on the bottom of the sea are full of creativity and unforgettable. The movie channel replayed the film several times, and each time the ratings were good.
Filming "The Legend of the Mermaid", Zhong Liti dressed up as a mermaid in the play, she has always liked to swim, and she did not feel difficult for the role of the mermaid, even if she had to wear a mermaid who could not move freely every time and soak in the water for five or six hours, Zhong Liti still had no complaints, she even said: "I may have been a fish in my last life!" Hong Kong actresses Zhong Liti and Mak Jiaqi came to Taiwan to promote the new film "The Legend of the Mermaid". For Zhong Liti, since she was a child, she has longed for the mermaid in fairy tales, and being able to perform a mermaid this time not only fulfilled her childhood dream, but also tested her acting skills. Zhong Liti said: At the beginning, the director and staff were afraid that she could not show the scene of the mermaid swimming leisurely in the water, and especially had an emotional intelligence of a swimmer as a stand-in, but when she put on the mermaid outfit and went into the water to swim, it was frightened that the staff was surprised, it turned out that she was a swimmer. Zhong Liti said: "When I was a teenager, I used to teach children to swim, but I never considered competing as a representative. As for this performance of the mermaid, I am very happy to be approached by this script, because I like the gentle and holy image of the mermaid, and I am willing to perform even if I do not receive any remuneration. In this drama, the most memorable thing for Zhong Liti is that the six-hour shooting with Zheng Yijian in the water made her feel tired and hungry, but this was the first experience she would never forget.
On the other hand, for director Rowan, he thinks it is worth asking Zhong Liti to shoot this group of scenes, because Zhong Liti is the dream lover of modern young people, and playing a mermaid is the most suitable. In order to shoot this drama, Rowan specially sent Zhong Liti's three-dimensional circle to the United States, and specially ordered a mermaid suit worth 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, and Zhong Liti herself, even in order to wear this mermaid suit, had to wear makeup three hours in advance, and had to wear this mermaid suit naked in order to be realistic. But when the shooting was over, the effect was so good. Zhong Liti said bluntly: "All hard work comes at a price. ”
5. "The Mermaid of the Sewers" (Truth Somei)
The Mermaid of the Sewers is the fourth installment of the Japanese underground experimental film Guinea Pig Series, based on the marvel manga of the same type created by director Hino Hino, starring Makoto Somei, Shigeru Saiki, and Masami Kumoto.
The film indicts the story of the industrial age, under the unbridled defilement and trampling of nature by mankind, the clear river has become a dirty sewer, and the beautiful, dreamy mermaid has become ugly and died tragically due to the virus. The theme of the film is that human pollution of nature will destroy all good things, and eventually destroy human beings themselves.
The plot is slightly heavy, and the editor will not introduce it more here. Let's look at a non-repetitive screenshot of the plot.
The mermaid in the film is played by Makoto Somei, a well-known mannequin in Japan in the 80s, who once served as an AV actress, but it is out of print, and the photo albums she has taken have disappeared without a trace, and it is almost impossible to find her smiling, the look is always so sad, decadent, and the look in her eyes seems to convey a numb state of scales, and her thick dark long hair and sharp eyes that no one copy is her unique symbol. After filming "The Mermaid of the Sewers", she never appeared again, and seemed to have quietly disappeared, perhaps she was born for this miserable mermaid character.
6. "Mermaid Sapphire Aquamarine" (Emma Roberts)
The Mermaid Blue Jade Aquamarine is a 2006 romance film produced by Twentieth Century Fox Pictures, directed by Elizabeth Allen and co-starring Emma Roberts, Joanna Levesk, Sarah Paxton and Jack McDoman, and released in the United States on March 3, 2006.
"Mermaid Sapphire Aquamarine" is based on the novel of the same name by the famous female author Alice Hoffman, whose previous works have been adapted to the big screen include "Witchcraft Breaks through" and "This Piece of Love". Fox 2000, which owns the rights to Hoffman's book, approached director Elizabeth Allen with the novel and the first draft of the screenplay, and although Allen had never directed a feature film, the company was impressed by her award-winning short film Eyeball Eddie and had long been interested in working with it, and "Mermaid Sapphire Aquamarine" was the perfect work that inspired Allen. "I think it's wonderful to explore the camaraderie between girlfriends, to see how these girls are individual and learn to be proud, and what excites me even more is that the story has a unique visual potential," Allen said. This kind of work is rare in films with flower girls as the audience, in fact, this is exactly the movie I want to see the most at that age. ”
7. "Angry Sea Baby" (Nikita Anger)
"Nu Hai Jiaowa" is a mermaid movie, its English name is "Mermaids", in which the mermaid name is Diana, Yunni (Venus), Zhu, a male mermaid was killed, found by the fishermen, a fisherman has a shotgun to kill the father of the three mermaids, at first, Yuni works in an aquarium, playing a mermaid (in fact, it is a real mermaid) and then Diana rescued to the shore, she has legs for the first time, runs to tell Winnie, and then the three mermaids meet.
The three mermaids in the play have their own tastes. The three protagonists all have their own magic, the eldest sister has a three-pronged berry (usually reduced to a hairpin fork in the hair), the second sister has a shell mirror that foresees the future, and the third sister has the ability to confuse other things (such as the legendary Kraken's ability to seduce sailors at sea).
Diana, a stubborn mermaid, files a lawsuit against the murderer of her mermaid father. She had never lived outside the water before, and she had the help of two sisters, who were already living on land, to hunt down the killer. Diana discovers that his sister Venus is working as a perch dancer in a dilapidated bar, and has been stripped of her magic crown by the evil bar owner, taking full control of her.
Another sister, June, works at the local aquarium and falls in love with the help of Randy, the coast guard commander's boyfriend, and the sisters gather their wisdom and strength to take revenge, eventually hunting down their father's killer and bringing him to justice. There are many difficulties, such as accidentally revealing his tail, making a lot of jokes, discovering the difficulties of being a fish outside the water and the sisterhood behind him, and finally choosing to stay on the shore.
8. The Mermaid Legend Phra Apai Mani (Surachi Sankarkat)
The film is also called The Legend of the Thai Water Demon. Is a famous Thai writer to create a legend of water demons and mermaids, this story has been made into a movie twice, the earliest one is more general, this new version of the production of the new peak of Thai cinema, new and old with the classic, the same mythological color! The heroine mermaid is very similar to Zhong Liti, and the swimming skills of the mermaid are also good, but the fish tail is not very real, and it is obviously just put on. The heroine later starred in the modern drama version of the mermaid-themed movie "Devil Fish Desire Woman", but it is only a small-cost film, and the production cannot be mentioned. Although this film is translated as "Mermaid Legend", in fact, the plot of the mermaid is not, but it is one of the main lines of the story. The original English name of the movie "Phra-Apai-Mani" means "prince, water demon, mermaid", in fact, the Chinese translation of the title of the play is more accurately "Mermaid Demon War".
9. "I Love Mermaids" (Noriko Sakai)
I Love Mermaid is a 1995 television series filmed by Taiwan Super Television, starring Noriko Sakai, Shao Xin, Qin Feng, Su Mingming, Jin Ming and others, the film is Sakai Noriko's only work in the Chinese-speaking world, inspired by Andersen's beautiful fairy tale "The Mermaid", which had a large audience in the 90s, but has never produced a disc. Later, Taiwan and Japan disputed over copyright issues, and the Taiwanese side destroyed the master tape in one fell swoop, so it has now become a precious work that is extremely difficult to find.
10. The Fish Beauty of the Legend of Heaven and Earth (Xu Huaiyu)
The TV series "The Legend of Heaven and Earth: The Fish Beauty" is based on the Legendary Novel of the Ming Dynasty "Fish Basket" (also known as "Bi Bo Tan", "Fish Chasing", etc.) adapted from a fairy love story full of love and honey, but also ethereal, strange and humorous.
11. The Curse of the Virgin (Shannon. Doherty, Holly. Mary. Combs, Alyssa. Milano)
The Curse of the Virgin is a 22-episode American television series about Phoebe returning to San Francisco after losing her job and living with her sisters. One night, she stumbled upon a magic book from her house with some spells, and they discovered their magical abilities... The harwain sisters discover that they are descendants of witches, and each of them has a special skill: time stops; transfiguration, and foretelling the future.
It's a magic show: they can also combine their forces to become a "triad" to defeat the evil devils, magicians, and mountain goblin monsters. Doesn't that sound childish? However, the drama still has a lot of plots that are quite impressive.
12. "Sun moon mermaid" (Fan Bingbing)
The yet-to-be-released film was directed by Sean McNamara and written by James Shams, who was nominated for two Oscars for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. In addition, the elder Bond Pierce Brosnan starred as Louis XIV.
The story of "Sun Moon Mermaid" tells that although Brosnan, who played the French Emperor Louis XIV, established a powerful empire, only his mentally handicapped son could inherit the throne. In order to protect the country, Louis XIV looked for a mermaid, hoping to use her power to obtain eternal life. According to reports, in addition to the attractive cast of the film, the behind-the-scenes team is also very selling points - Fan Bingbing and the former "007" Pierce Brosnan interpreted this story that took place during the Bourbon Dynasty in France.
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13. "The Ever-Changing Big Coffee Show" Qiao Renliang
On the stage of "The Ever-Changing Big Cafe Show", Qiao Renliang transformed into a fish beauty with long flowing hair, tall figure and high heels. The host also laughed that "since then on, we have embarked on a road of no return", and caused a burst of laughter in the audience. In the end, Qiao Renliang also won the championship of this week's "Hundred Changes Big Coffee Show" with his outstanding performance this time.
(Editor: Ji Chenchen)
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