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Back in the year 2000, when Ms. Yang Junjun was honored as "the peerless beauty" by Mr. Gu Long, she deeply felt that Mr. Gu Long had entered the twilight of her life, and her heart was full of gratitude and respect, and she was determined to express the highest respect to her teacher with the most sincere heart. So, she devoted herself to creating a TV series called "The Legend of Peach Blossoms: Simon Without Hate", which was adapted from Mr. Gu Long's unfinished masterpiece.
Subverting the previous model, this time Miss Yang Junjun not only made a bold adaptation of the script through her own handwriting, but more importantly, she decided to take charge of the role of director and heroine, which undoubtedly proves how deep her enthusiasm and dedication to this work is.
It can be seen that the strong friendship between Mr. Gu Long and her, like that of teacher and student, is deeply rooted in their hearts, and the two of them can be described as like-minded bosom friends.
In the original book, the heroine Ximen Wuxian is a heroic and fearless chivalrous woman with high martial arts, she ignores the grievances of the rivers and lakes, regards the duel as life, and everything else is regarded as superfluous except for the sword in her hand.
However, in Miss Yang Junjun's adaptation, Simon Wuxian gradually faded away from the heroic nature of a chivalrous woman, and turned into a gentle girl image. In order to win the favor of the actor Gong Yi, she was even willing to leave her hometown and abandon her past life.
Such a plot twist actually reflects Miss Yang Junjun's deep love for Qiong Yao's novels. She yearns for the heroine in the book's firm belief that she can give everything and gamble for true love, so she skillfully integrates this romantic feeling into the world of Gulong martial arts.
At that time, Miss Yang Junjun was at the age of 18 and was full of youth, and her beauty was amazing, which was stunning in the world. It was precisely because of this outstanding beauty that she instantly attracted Mr. Gu Long's attention.
Mr. Gu Long has always had a unique eye for beautiful women, and after he praised Miss Yang Junjun as a "peerless beauty", he tailored more than ten film and television works for her.
Since then, the two of them have established a deep friendship like a teacher and a student, and they both have a unique understanding and love for the world of martial arts. For Ms. Yang Junjun, Mr. Gu Long is a model of mentor and friend in her mind, and she has great admiration for her mentor.
Unfortunately, however, the untimely death of this talented martial arts master in 1983 left Ms. Yang Junjun with endless grief and nostalgia. In order to commemorate this teacher, Miss Yang Junjun resolutely decided to buy the copyright of Mr. Gu Long's last novel before his death, and personally directed and adapted it into film and television works.
At first, Yang Junjun resolutely refused everyone's request, but under the enthusiastic invitation and continuous persuasion of the crew members, she couldn't help but hesitate in her heart. After all, she has successfully interpreted Gu Long's female character Zhang Jiejie in movies and TV series many times, and in the hearts of the audience, she has become the best spokesperson for Zhang Jiejie's image.
It was under this warm praise that Yang Junjun gradually wavered in her position, telling herself: "Actually, I didn't aspire to play this role from the beginning, but it was with the unanimous recommendation of everyone that I accepted this challenge, and I only hope to do my best to play this role well." "
In the end, under the repeated persuasion of the crew members, Yang Junjun finally mustered up the courage and decided to play the role of this 18-year-old beautiful girl in person. She began to carefully design the details of Simon's hateless image in the play, striving to shape it into a character that best suits her own characteristics.
Under her depiction, Simon Wuxian has become a beautiful woman with peerless appearance and no one else, which has made countless handsome and dashing men fall in love with her. Yang Junjun is looking forward to making this role vividly displayed in front of the audience through his wonderful interpretation.
However, she ignored an inescapable reality: the years are merciless, and now she is no longer the 18-year-old woman, although her face still retains a bit of elegance and peerless charm, but that youthful and energetic demeanor has disappeared, replaced by some marks left by the years.
In this way, with the successful conclusion of the 2000 "Simon Without Hate" TV series, the 40-year-old "Persian Saintess" Yang Junjun finally appeared in the public eye as the heroine in the play.
"Is this the legendary beauty of the country and the city?
"How can 18-year-old Simon Wuhate grow into such an old dragon clock?"
What's more serious is that some malicious gossip is spreading wildly on the Internet. They claim that the actor Jiao Enjun and other actors took over the play entirely because they were in debt and penniless, so they could barely cope with the performance.
For Yang Junjun, she was even more subjected to groundless accusations, and someone framed her for sacrificing her image in order to pursue a certain male lover and play the role of this "18-year-old beautiful girl". These rumors are widely circulated among the fan community, creating deep doubts about the truth.
In the face of public criticism, fans are dissatisfied with the role played by Yang Junjun and its adaptation. They are undoubtedly full of extreme indignation and deep disappointment at the producer's wanton "desecration" of those classic images that are deeply rooted in people's hearts.
However, even though the controversy and dissatisfaction with this matter inside and outside the crew have been heard one after another, when the heroic and fearless figures of the male protagonists jumped on the screen, the attention of fans was still firmly attracted.
Jiao Enjun, who played the male protagonist Gong Yi in the play, was at the peak of his career at that time, and his popularity was booming. His beautiful face, coupled with his perfect acting skills, easily captured the hearts of countless girls.
What's even more remarkable is that in order to win the favor of the heroine Simon Wuhate in the play, Jiao Enjun did not hesitate to gamble, completely ignoring his own identity and status. As the prince of Zhennan, he has all the power of the court in front of him, and the country and the society seem to be within reach.
However, for the sake of this talented and peerless woman, he was willing to give up everything, and even left his hometown and abandoned his relatives and friends, this deep friendship is really impressive.
This kind of unhesitating and reckless pursuit is exactly the plot setting that is often seen in Qiong Yao's novels. It can be seen that as early as the script creation stage, Yang Junjun has begun to inject his deep romantic feelings into this originally pure martial arts world.
For fans, such a Mary Sue-esque plot is undoubtedly both love and hate. On the one hand, they scoffed at such an old-fashioned bridge, and on the other hand, when they saw Jiao Enjun's bewitching face, they couldn't help but smile and fall in love with it.
Just when fans were caught in love-hate entanglements and emotional turmoil, the two protagonists, Ximen Wuxian and Gong Yi, actually staged a mandarin duck bathing scene that can be called a film and television classic! In order to show the tenderness and sweetness between the two, Yang Junjun actually zoomed in the camera to the scene where they bathed together in the bath, so that the audience felt the intimate and warm emotions.
There is no doubt that this sensational mandarin duck bathing scene directly pushed the popularity and topicality of the whole drama to the climax. As the ratings continued to rise, actors such as Jiao Enjun became famous overnight, their popularity skyrocketed, and they became household names.
However, such a representative romantic romance drama series has received sharply opposed word-of-mouth reactions on the Internet. On the one hand, there is the full solidarity and firm support of loyal fans, and on the other hand, there are strong criticisms and doubts from the army of complaints.
In the camp of supporters, they firmly believe that the actor Yang Junjun, who has passed the age of four characters, although there is a gap between him and the young and beautiful heroine, his performance in the film and television industry in the early years has won wide recognition and won the honorary title of "Ancient Dragon Girl". From this point of view, her unique understanding and interpretation of the female characters in the world of Gulong martial arts cannot be ignored.
Moreover, Yang Junjun's inherent feminine temperament is impossible to ignore, even if she is old, she can still perfectly interpret the image of the heroine who fascinates the male protagonist through the fairy charm revealed between her gestures. Even Master Gu Long himself was once impressed by her beauty.
However, opponents are dismissive of this, believing that it is a pity to portray the originally brave and fearless and martial arts heroine into such a gentle and graceful and shy girl full of Mary Sue colors, which is very different from the spiritual connotation of the original book. In addition, becoming a heroine just by virtue of her appearance is undoubtedly a typical behavior of judging people by appearance, which deviates from the core value of Gulong martial arts.
The two opposing views are fiercely clashing on the Internet, and a war of words is about to erupt. However, it is undeniable that despite the polarization of word-of-mouth, this drama still received extremely high attention and can be called a rare classic of the year.
After all, this drama is adapted from his posthumous work, but it has completely evolved his image of a chivalrous woman in the world of martial arts into a tender, reserved and shy girl, which is far from his original intention. What's even more funny is that a "Persian saint" who is nearly 40 years old was forcibly tied up and forcibly deduced the appearance of an 18-year-old girl, which aroused collective ridicule from netizens. However, what is surprising is that this seemingly "absurd" technique has also gained a high degree of attention.
However, if Gu Long's spirit in heaven learns that his work has been so ridiculously "tampered with", what will he do? Will he vow to scoff at this and angrily denounce the ignorance and recklessness of those screenwriters and directors? Or will he be able to look at this deviant innovation with a lenient heart and even an appreciative eye?
However, it is undeniable that in Mr. Gu Long's martial arts, Ms. Yang Junjun and her interpretation of the strange woman Simon Wuhate will always be remembered. No matter how mixed the world has said about her, she and the image she has created have become a part of the classics and will never fade.