The hazy ambiguity between Huang Yaoshi and Mei Chaofeng in Jin Yong's pen is magnified to the extreme in "The Legend of the Nine Yin White Bone Claws of the Archery Hero". The whole film, although it retains the love line of Mei Chaofeng and Chen Xuanfeng, almost becomes the love story of Huang Yaoshi and Mei Chaofeng.
However, in this article, we will only say "yellow old evil".
In the refined stills, yan Yikuan's "yellow medicine man" is dressed in a green shirt, standing under the peach blossom tree and looking back, the people and flowers are like a picture.
But in the main film, Yan Yikuan's face, which is widened by time and pulled down by the gravity of the earth, is judged to be two people in the refined picture. At the same time, it is also farther away from the Huang Yaoshi who is "pure in appearance, cool in style, Xiao Shuxuanju, and zhanran like a god".
As a classic character in Jin Yong's pen, different readers have different evaluations of Huang Yaoshi. For example, Jin Yong's friend Ni Kuang only wants to list him as a "middle and upper person". However, Wu Yiyi, who is known as the "first talented woman in Xiangjiang", although she also said that Huang Yaoshi had many shortcomings, but at the same time gave him a very high evaluation, praising his versatility and making people fall in love.
Since the birth of Jin Yong's pen, huang yaoshi has had many film and television versions in the past 45 years since it was first put on the screen in 1976.
From the earliest Version of Chen Huimin to the latest Version of Fang Zhongxin, the shape and temperament are different. So, compared with the original work, which version has the highest degree of restoration?
When Jin Yong created the character of Huang Yaoshi, he did not spend too much ink to describe his appearance in detail from the five facial features, but focused on the demeanor and temperament of Huang Yaoshi.
According to the sixteen-character description mentioned earlier, Huang Yaoshi was a middle-aged man with a long body, a thin appearance, a powerful aura between his hands and feet, and a bold and handsome demeanor.
Of course, pride and evil are indispensable.
According to this standard, who is the most qualified of the existing film and television versions?
Jin Yong once asked someone to draw illustrations for his own works, and the Huang Yaoshi in the picture was a man with a beard. According to this, some people judged that Chen Huimin's Huang Yaoshi was the closest to the original in terms of image.
However, for the audience, it is always the Zeng Jiang version and The Luo Yingjun version with the highest recognition.
Although Zeng Jiang's height is only 170, he is handsome and handsome when he is young, and his domineering spirit is increasing after his sense of age. In addition, his own personality is also quite similar to Huang Yaoshi's unworldly.
In the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero" and "The Condor Hero", Zeng Jiang twice starred as Huang Yaoshi. His yellow medicine man has white eyebrows and silver hair, and his eyes are clear, although he is not a "clean" appearance, he is awe-inspiring and worthy of one of the "five absolutes".
Zeng Jiang's Huang Yaoshi is also known as the "most domineering" version.
In the 94th edition of "The Legend of the Archery Hero" and the 95th edition of "The Condor Hero", it is Luo Yingjun who plays Huang Yaoshi.
Luo Yingjun's Huang Yaoshi has a little more literati spirit than Zeng Jiang, but it is closer to the "scribe" image in the original work, but it has nothing to do with thinness.
Perhaps because Luo Yingjun's own temperament is not sharp enough, when there is no need to model, the makeup artist not only uses the flying sword eyebrow design to increase the sense of momentum, but also adds eyebrow imprints.
When you have to look, you don't have to use makeup to create a sense of atmosphere. Although it is still not as domineering as Zeng Jiang's version, it has not seen how much has been lost. Between the eyes, there is also a mighty god.
In addition to the Zeng Jiang version and the Luo Yingjun version, there is also a version of "The Best Yellow Medicine Master", that is, the Yellow Medicine Master played by Jiang David in the "Nine Yin True Classics of the Legend of the Eagle Hero".
This 20-episode series, with the love of Huang Yaoshi and Feng Yun as the main line, revolves around the Nine Yin True Scriptures. The story begins with the encounter between Huang Yaoshi and Feng Yun, and ends with Feng Yu giving birth to Huang Rong and dying.
Huang Yaoshi and Feng Yun in this story are wonderful chapters that only exist in the "flashback" paragraph of the original work.
From the image point of view, Jiang David and Huang Yaoshi actually do not match. Like the zengjiang version and luo yingjun version with the highest recognition, he also restores the god of the character.
Jiang David's Huang Yaoshi has both an awe-inspiring chivalrous spirit and an evil spirit of acting on his own. And Feng Yun, played by Liang Peiling, is dignified and leisurely. When the two are in the same frame, between the eyes, the beautiful feelings in the book have been revived on the screen.
Compared with the above-mentioned actors, Li Mingshun, Miao Qiaowei, and Fang Zhongxin are actually closer to the Huang Yaoshi in the original work in terms of image.
Li Mingshun's version is from 2014's "Condor Heroes", Miao Qiaowei's version is from 2017's "Legend of the Eagle Hero", and Fang Zhongxin's version is from the new version of "Eagle Hero" to be broadcast.
Since the last version has not yet aired, let's just talk about the first two versions.
Li Mingshun, who is handsome and elegant, has both a "clean" face that conforms to the original novel and a "scribe" temperament that conforms to the original work, but it lacks the Shulang heroic attitude of Huang Yaoshi.
Coupled with the styling and plot pulling, his version of the evaluation is not high.
Miao Qiaowei's Huang Yaoshi may be the most handsome version of all versions, not only handsome, but also in terms of temperament, there are both the evil of Huang Yaoshi and the elegance of Huang Yaoshi, no wonder some netizens sigh "handsome too much".
But the same problem as Li Mingshun's version, Miao Qiaowei's version is also divided into shape and plot. The yellow and black contrast dyeing is just that, and the hair next to the forehead may be really handsome under the blower effect, but when there is no wind, only the cumbersome and sloppy remains.
If you really let Huang Yaoshi do such a hairstyle, it is estimated that he will directly give you a blow.
In addition, Gu Guanzhong has played Huang Yaoshi in the 81 Shaw version of "Legend of the Condor Hero", Guan Feng in the 82 Shaw version of "The Legend of the Condor Hero", Wang Xia in the 84-channel version of "The Hero of the Eagle", Li Yimin in the 88-channel version of the "Legend of the Eagle Hero", Chen Shucheng in the 98 Singapore version of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", Cao Peichang in the 03 version of the "Legend of the Eagle Hero", and Yu Chenghui in the 06 version of the "Eagle Hero".
In the early Shaw films, the painting style and plot were often very liberating compared to the original works, and it was more difficult to describe them with restoration. From the image alone, Gu Guanzhong is handsome, and there is both arrogance and murder between the eyebrows, but how much is like Huang Yaoshi, I have not seen the version, and it is not good to comment.
Li Yimin's Huang Yaoshi inexplicably looks a bit like "four eyebrows" Lu Xiaofeng; Teacher Yu Chenghui is a good kung fu, white eyebrows and white whiskers, but if he restores Huang Yaoshi, he really does not dare to agree; but the Huang Yaoshi played by Cao Peichang in the 03 version is praised by the audience as "Ya", but some people feel that it is not evil enough.
As for the "Yellow Medicine Master" played by Liang Jiahui in "East Evil and West Poison", and the "Yellow Medicine Master" played by Zhang Guorong in "East becomes West", because under the control of Wong Kar-wai, whether it is the story or the painting style (especially the latter), they have deviated from the archery eagle and the divine eagle for 18,000 miles, and it is difficult to say whether they are in line with the original work.