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One day in 1983, the world-famous "Dream of Red Mansions" TV series was about to bloom on the screen, and the director team was looking for an actor who could play the most exciting core role in the play, Wang Xifeng.
At that time, Deng Jie, a young woman from a Sichuan opera family, never expected that she would be fortunate to form an indissoluble bond with this classic masterpiece in this life.
According to the original book's depiction of Wang Xifeng's image, "tall and tall, with a slender body, a pair of Danfeng eyes are particularly bright and moving." However, Deng Jie's appearance is far from it - she is petite and slightly dark-skinned, and when you first see her, it is really hard to imagine that she is actually a noble lady.
Therefore, the directors' original idea was to arrange her to play the role of a maid. However, the wheel of fate took a wonderful turn at this time! Deng Jie's opera performance impressed the young girl by the staff present.
Born in a family of opera, she has honed her acting skills on the stage since she was a child, and her grasp of the steps and eyes is perfect, and every performance exudes a unique charm and temperament.
The staff immediately recommended Deng Jie to the jury, hoping to give her a valuable opportunity to audition for Wang Xifeng. Deng Jie, who is very smart, will naturally not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
She specially invited a professional makeup artist to create a new look for her, and appeared in front of everyone with a new posture and appearance.
When that moment finally came, Deng Jie in front of the camera showed a different style - a few twists and turns of mandarin duck hairpins hung down on her sideburns, her face vaguely revealed the beauty of pink and spring, and she was even more witty and humorous and radiant when she opened her mouth, as if Wang Xifeng depicted in the book came out of the picture scroll.
When the directors saw this scene, they couldn't help but exclaim: "This is simply Wang Xifeng himself!" So, by chance, newcomer Deng Jie successfully won this important role, and began her legendary encounter with Wang Xifeng.
In the following filming process, Deng Jie played this pungent and virtuous and witty character to the fullest. Whether it is the trickery shown in "Poison Lovesickness", or the coquettish domineering shown in "Xieli Ning Guofu", or the anger shown in the scene of "Vinegar Splashing", she portrays every detail vividly and movingly, which can be called a classic among classics.
This outstanding performance also laid a solid foundation for the future to form a sharp contrast with the movie version of Wang Xifeng played by Liu Xiaoqing.
When the time was turned back to 1983, the famous director Mr. Wang Fulin officially waved his pen and started the well-planned filming plan of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions". At that time, the crew immediately set their sights on the female star who was in the entertainment industry and had all kinds of charms, Liu Xiaoqing, the queen of the screen, hoping that she could interpret the essence of the classic role Wang Xifeng.
Liu Xiaoqing of that era can be called one of the most shining actresses in the 1980s, and won the love and respect of the audience with her unique charm, strength and popularity. She has twice shown her style and won many heavyweight awards such as the "Hundred Flowers Award" and the "Magnolia Award", and she has long been a first-line superstar in the hearts of the audience.
Whether it is acting skills or appearance, Liu Xiaoqing is undoubtedly the best candidate to interpret the role of Wang Xifeng.
However, fate always seems to like to play tricks on people, and when the crew re-examined Liu Xiaoqing's age, they were surprised to find that there was an age gap of nearly 20 years between the actress and the 18-year-old Wang Xifeng depicted in the original book.
This is undoubtedly an insurmountable obstacle for a literary and artistic work that strives to be truly reproduced.
After careful consideration, director Wang Fulin finally had to reluctantly cut his love and gave up the originally selected Liu Xiaoqing. As soon as this decision was announced, it caused an uproar within the crew.
After all, Liu Xiaoqing is not only a famous superstar, but also a representative of the powerful faction, and her departure is undoubtedly a huge loss.
Just when the crew was in the predicament of looking for a suitable candidate for Wang Xifeng, a new face appeared at the interview scene - she was Deng Jie, a young girl from an opera family.
Although she was initially assigned to play a small and insignificant role, her superb acting skills impressed the staff present with this promising newcomer.
In this way, under various coincidences, newcomer Deng Jie got a precious opportunity to challenge Wang Xifeng's protagonist. Who could have predicted that this decision would spark such fierce controversy and criticism years later? And the source of all this stems from the casting plan of Wang Fulin's crew in 1983.
Just when the "Dream of Red Mansions" TV series directed by Wang Fulin is in full swing, a powerful storm quietly rises in the screen world - the famous movie star Liu Xiaoqing will also direct a movie version of "Dream of Red Mansions" of the same name.
As soon as this news was announced, it immediately sparked a strong response and heated discussion between the two crews! Wang Fulin immediately felt that the situation was serious, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh, this is terrible!" If the enemy's movie version strikes first, our TV drama version will lose the market, and it will undoubtedly fall into a heavy blow.
In the play, although Wang Fulin is very anxious, he knows that the film version of "Dream of Red Mansions" directed by Liu Xiaoqing is by no means an ordinary work. Whether it is a luxurious lineup or a sophisticated production, it all shows that the film is an incomparable masterpiece and will surely lead the trend.
First of all, judging from the cast, it is enough to be eye-catching. Liu Xiaoqing, the double actress, personally went into battle and played the role of Wang Xifeng, in addition, there are many powerful stars such as popular movie stars Fu Yiwei, Zhao Lirong, He Saifei and so on.
What's more critical is that this film version of "Dream of Red Mansions" has a top production team behind it. The person in charge of the guide tube is not an ordinary person, but director Xie Tieli, a senior master known as the "North and South Two Xie".
From the perspective of investment scale, the film version is unique in all aspects such as props, sets, costumes, etc., and strives to be exquisite and restored.
In comparison, Wang Fulin's TV series version is slightly inferior. In order to seize the opportunity, Wang Fulin had to speed up the filming progress, lest he fall too far behind and reduce his attention.
In fact, Wang Fulin is still worried about Liu Xiaoqing playing the role of Wang Xifeng. After all, Liu Xiaoqing is not only a first-line actress, her excellent acting skills and strong aura undoubtedly make her the best candidate to play this role.
In order to fit Liu Xiaoqing's age characteristics, director Xie Tieli specially used her as a reference in the casting process to select actors of similar age as much as possible. Therefore, although Liu Xiaoqing has entered middle age, the age of the other characters in the film version is also the same as him, in order to present a unified atmosphere of the times.
Everyone expected that with such a luxurious lineup and large-scale production, Wang Xifeng, portrayed by Liu Xiaoqing, would surely shine and become the finale in the film version. However, who would have thought that when the film was finally completed and released, the audience was slightly disappointed.
Although Ms. Liu Xiaoqing has a beautiful face and extraordinary endowment, her image always makes people feel that the years have passed and the years have precipitated, and it is difficult to show the spiritual charm of "a pair of red phoenix eyes and two curved willow eyebrows" in reality.
What's more serious is that in one movie after another, we can see that some styling designs portray her like a middle-aged woman in her forties, which is undoubtedly far from the image of the 18-year-old Wang Xifeng in the original book! .
What is amazing is that after a whole year of waiting, the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" personally directed by Master Wang Fulin has finally been broadcast under the attention of everyone. This masterpiece, which brought together the best resources of the time, has undoubtedly aroused widespread attention from all walks of life.
In this series, the role of Wang Xifeng played by Ms. Deng Jie has undoubtedly become the focus. The audience was impressed by her superb performance: she was clever and cunning, pungent and decisive, as if Wang Xifeng had come out of a book.
Whether it is the ingenious "Poison Lovesickness Bureau", or the sonorous and powerful "Xieli Ning Guofu", or the popular line of "Sister Feng pouring vinegar", Ms. Deng Jie's interpretation is deeply rooted and moving, and it can be called a new classic in the interpretation of classics In just a few months, she successfully imprinted the vivid and vivid role of Wang Xifeng in the hearts of the audience.
However, the critics' voices have been mixed. However, the vast majority of the audience praised Ms. Deng Jie's wonderful performance, and their recognition and love for her reached an unprecedented peak.
This positive evaluation is largely due to her unique temperament honed on the stage since she was born in an opera family.
Ms. Deng Jie performed those classic scenes vividly, all with her profound stage skills and accurate grasp of her body and eyes. Every action and every expression reveals Wang Xifeng's witty and uninhibited personality.
It's no wonder that the audience has received rave reviews.
Just as the audience was frantically calling for Ms. Deng Jie's Wang Xifeng, the movie version of "Dream of Red Mansions" starring Ms. Liu Xiaoqing finally came to the fore, which can be described as menacing. For the acting skills of actress Ms. Liu Xiaoqing, it is naturally impeccable.
Her understanding and interpretation of this role must also be original.
However, unfortunately, since the film first started, Wang Xifeng, played by Liu Xiaoqing, has been controversial. Although the famous movie star is eye-catching for her excellent appearance and temperament, due to a variety of factors such as age and styling, her performance in the film often leaves the audience with an "old-fashioned" impression, and it is difficult to perfectly interpret the glamorous and moving charm in real life.
To make matters worse, some of the styling in the film makes Liu Xiaoqing look as if she is a middle-aged woman in her forties, far from the image of the 18-year-old pungent little daughter-in-law in the original work.
This is undoubtedly a major mistake and one of the main reasons why the film has received so much criticism.
There is no doubt that Liu Xiaoqing's own superb acting skills are impeccable. However, due to her too mature performance, when she played the role of Wang Xifeng, she inevitably fell into some fixed routines and habitual patterns, such as crying, smiling and other expressions, all of which gave people a sense of "déjà vu" and lacked the fresh vitality that Wang Xifeng should have.
These factors together have caused a huge contrast between the two versions of Wang Xifeng's image. Among them, Deng Jie's version of Wang Xifeng is full of vitality and lifelike; And Liu Xiaoqing's version of Wang Xifeng seems to be more than stable and not smart enough.
To this day, these two very different interpretations still spark heated discussions and controversies among a wide audience.
After all, "Dream of Red Mansions", as a world-renowned classic, is naturally extremely rigorous in the shaping of characters. Which actor can more vividly present Wang Xifeng's lively, spicy, glamorous and moving image will undoubtedly become an eternal topic after dinner.