If you count the ancient Chinese adventure novels with mythological colors, then the top of the list must be "Journey to the West", in addition to "Journey to the West", the "Mirror Flower Edge" created by the Qing Dynasty literary scholar Li Ruzhen also has great popularity and influence.
In the 1990s, Fan Xiuming, a famous Hong Kong film and television drama director who had directed the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Archery Hero", Zheng Shaoqiu's version of "Joke about Qianlong", Gu Tianle's version of "Divine Eagle Hero" and Huang Rihua's version of "Tianlong Babu", based on this novel, combined with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty in which the original novel took place, filmed a mythological TV series full of fantasy themes, "Legend of mirror flowers", and with the director's great influence, Zeng Zhiwei, Jiang David, Wang Mingquan and other well-known Hong Kong actors participated. In addition to these evergreen trees in the Hong Kong film and television industry, this drama has also boldly launched many new people.
It was this lineup of creators that made this drama a sensation at the time.
The original work "Mirror Flower Edge" was originally a novel full of fantasy colors, and this TV series made many changes on the basis of the original novel, such as only one hundred flower fairy in the original work was reincarnated as Tang Ao's daughter Tang Xiaoshan because of the crime of the queen mother. In the TV series, almost all the historical figures of the Tang Dynasty are related to the many gods and immortals in the sky. That is to say, all the ups and downs in the human world are mutually induced with the changes in the state of the world in heaven.
In addition to Xu Jingye and Luo Binwang raising troops to overthrow the rule of Wu Zetian at the beginning, the most classic part of the play is that Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and Lin Zhiyang went overseas by boat to find the lost sisters of the Hundred Flower Fairy. Just like the Tang monks and disciples in "Journey to the West" who went through eighty-one difficulties to obtain the true scriptures, some were thrilling, some were full of funny, and some were full of warmth.
In the end, the fragment of Wu Zetian's abdication is also the climax of the play, Tang Ao relies on his superior mana, and has a dialogue with Wu Zetian, so that Wu Zetian finally agrees to return to the Li clan, and Tang Ao leads the Hundred Flowers Immortals to fight the king Na Xiang and Lu Ke into one demon body, which is even more wonderful.
At the end of the TV series, after all the gods and immortals who were once in the heavens made a journey in the human world and returned to the celestial realm, Wu Zetian's previous life Star Heart Fox discharged the star peach and yangmei that had returned to the heavenly position, which also impressed the audience.
All in all, the TV series ended with a happy ending.
Let's talk about some of the main actors in the play
David Jiang plays Tang Ao
Many viewers believe that this is the most classic costume image of Jiang David, and the resourceful, martial arts and combat effectiveness of Tang Ao, played by him, is the ceiling of the combat effectiveness of this drama, and it is also the dependence and ballast stone of everyone, with him, everything can be at ease. Especially in the final decisive battle with Wang Naxiang and Lu Ke's demonic bodies, it was Tang Ao's persistence that led everyone to victory.
Zeng Zhiwei plays Duo Jiugong
Zeng Zhiwei played a very comedic role in the play, which is also one of the rare costume drama roles of Zeng Zhiwei. Perhaps to increase the comedic effect of this character, the voice of Duo Jiugong is Stephen Chow's royal voice actor Shi Banyu.
Liu Yida plays Lin Zhiyang
As the most classic golden supporting role in Stephen Chow's comedy films, Liu Yida also played the role of Lin Zhiyang, who was full of joy, Chinese version of Lin Zhiyang, and his speech voice was also particularly strange.
Wang Mingquan plays Wu Zetian
The eldest sister of hong Kong's performing arts industry, Wang Mingquan, also played the role of Wu Zetian, who was full of aura, in the play.
He Zhonghua plays Luke
He Zhonghua, who has a sword-eyed and heroic eye, plays a tragic villain role in the play. His love for Fengxian was sincere, and he finally chose to confront all sentient beings, but all his wishes were shattered. He Zhonghua is an actor who is widely known and loved by audiences in domestic costume dramas, such as Xie Xiaofeng, who played in "The Sword of the Three Young Masters", which is also very classic.
Yang Fan plays Ma Wenkou
The former Changshan Zhao Zilong played a big villain in this drama, and Yang Fan's transformation is indeed unexpected.
Gu Guanzhong plays Wang Naxiang
Gu Guanzhong, as a well-known old drama bone in Taiwan, China, his image temperament is very impressive, and he can easily control the role of good and evil. He played the villain Wang Naxiang in the play, and finally after merging with LuKe's magic, he was jointly eliminated by Tang Ao and the Hundred Flowers Fairy.
Luo Jiaying plays Xu Jingye
Luo Jiaying, who was set as a comedian by Stephen Chow's comedy movie, played Xu Jingye in a serious way in the play this time, and had to admit that the acting skills of the old drama bone were online.
Pu Cunxin plays Li Shimin
There is also a well-known actor in the mainland, Pu Cunxin, who played the role of Tang Taizong Li Shimin in the play. It's just that according to the real history, Wu Zetian, played by Wang Mingquan next to him, is a bit old.
Ye Zijing plays Tang Xiaoshan
Ye Zijing, a well-known female artist in Hong Kong, played the role of the female number one in the play, Tang Xiaoshan.
Wu Huaxin plays Xu Chengzhi
Wu Huaxin, a well-known hong Kong entertainer, plays the role of Xu Chengzhi.
We can see that this drama brings together a group of very outstanding actors from both sides of the strait and three places, and presents the famous mythological and legendary novel "Mirror Flower Edge" in ancient China to the audience in a more surprising, more touching, more grandiose and more wonderful way.
After many years, it is still concerned and loved by the audience.