Unexpectedly, in less than a year, Jin Yongfan suffered another torture.
Time first go back to November of the same year, Zhang Yishan's version of "Monkey Xiaobao" met with us in a way that shocked the world and wept ghosts.
Only one day after the start of the broadcast, it was "hi" to mention the lowest score of Douban in the year of 2.5, and this drama was also called the worst adaptation in history by many Jin Yong fans.
As a result, just over half a year later, the latest version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" came to the eyes of the audience.
"Tianlong Babu" is the most readable novel by Mr. Jin Yong, which began to be composed in 1963 and took four years to complete.
The bizarre twists and turns of the story, the large number of characters involved, the extensive historical background, the huge number of martial arts battles, and the richness of imagination are the most important of the "Golden Book".
Among them, the 1997 version of Huang Rihua produced by Hong Kong TVB and the 2003 version of Hu Jun directed by Zhang Jizhong in mainland China are the two most popular versions of the audience.
The 97 version of "Tianlong Eight Parts" is even more enshrined in the hearts of post-80s and post-90s drama fans, with a Douban score of 9.0 and a rating of more than 120,000.
The broadcast of "Tianlong Babu" that year can be described as a precedent in the history of Chinese television, the drama was not only simulcast in 5 satellite TVs at the same time, but also broadcast in 34 other provincial-level television stations at almost the same time, and the ratings also won the first place many times.
Now, Huang Rihua's version of "Tianlong Babu" has been broadcast for 24 years, how are the actors in the play?
1. Xiao Feng/Qiao Feng: Huang Rihua
In the 97th version of "Tianlong Babu", Xiao Feng, played by Huang Rihua, is very impressive, thanks to the BGM he must bring whenever he appears.
Although Huang Rihua is not the Xiao Feng who is most in line with the original work, he is definitely a real hero.
In fact, Huang Rihua has always been a professional hero, and he has also played a lot of heroes in Jin Yong's pen, starring in the virtual bamboo of the 82nd version of "Tianlong Babu", Guo Jing in the 83rd version of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", and Yuan Chengzhi in the 85th version of "Green Blood Sword".
Huang Rihua is a wireless artist training class, and has been called the "Wireless Five Tigers" together with Tang Zhenye, Miao Qiaowei, Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei.
Before "Tianlong Babu", his career was already booming, and this drama can be said to have pushed his career to another peak.
With the role of Xiao Feng, Huang Rihua was nominated for the best actor of TVB ten thousand stars that year, and a year later, the starring "Heaven and Earth Pride" became the annual rating champion of Hong Kong TV dramas with a rating of 45 points.
In the next 3 years, he successively starred in several TVB dramas with good word-of-mouth ratings. In 2002, after his contract with Wireless expired, in order to spend more time with his family, Huang Rihua gradually faded out of the film and television circle.
In July 2004, he announced his retirement, and after that, he only starred in some film and television dramas until 2009, when he made a comeback.
In 2013, Huang Rihua's wife, Liang Jiehua, was found to be seriously ill, and in order to take care of his wife, Huang Rihua once pushed to all his work and concentrated on taking care of his wife at home.
But the cost of his wife's treatment is huge, in order to let his wife receive better treatment, Huang Rihua began to return to work, as long as he has money, he will take any job.
During the seven years of Liang Jiehua's treatment, he consumed his family property, and even lost more than a dozen pounds because he was running a business performance outside.
Unfortunately, in 2020, Liang Jiehua still failed to overcome the disease at the age of 59. Huang Rihua was devastated, hiding in the toilet all day without seeing anyone, and even thought about taking his own life, until this year.
Nowadays, Huang Rihua has completely stopped filming, occasionally going on a variety show, recording an interview, and focusing on his daughter.
2. Duan Yu: Chen Haomin
Chen Haomin, 24 years ago, was a cream boy and a top male god.
Because he starred in the role of Duan Yu in "Tianlong Babu", his popularity soared, and his career began.
A year later, he seized the opportunity to play Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West", and then circled a wave of fans with Nezha in "Fengshen List".
During this period, Chen Haomin's popularity can be described as indistinguishable for a while.
However, with the gradual decline of TVB, Chen Haomin also began to go north to the mainland to shoot movies. He has starred in a number of urban emotional dramas without any splash, and finally waited for the second spring of his career in 2009, the "Living Buddha Jigong" series.
Unfortunately, this series is filmed better than a thunder, and gradually there is no splash. When Chen Haomin was once again well known to the audience, it was because the news of the molestation of actresses became an Internet celebrity.
The incident ended with his wife holding a press conference with him, and Chen Haomin tearfully apologized and sought an opportunity to reform himself.
But after this incident, Chen Haomin's reputation collapsed.
Although he has persevered in shooting many works over the years, he can no longer keep up with the resources, and can only shoot some shoddy nets. And with the deviation of his figure, the cream boy has completely become a greasy uncle.
Last year, he was also exposed to have moved out of the 14 Marriott house with a monthly rent of 14 Million due to financial constraints, and returned to his own home, which is said to have once relied on his wife to live broadcast the family.
Today, he still continues to shoot "bad films", and this feeling does not know how long it can be rubbed.
3. Virtual Bamboo: Fan Shaohuang
Fan Shaohuang's version of the virtual bamboo is actually not consistent with the description of the original work, but his performance is still impressive.
Fan Shaohuang was born in an acting family, played on the set with his father at the age of 2, and naturally became a martial arts actor when he grew up.
His hard kung fu is very solid, and Jet Li's wife Li Zhi is also his first female apprentice.
After the role of the virtual bamboo in "Tianlong Babu", Fan Shaohuang's films have increased, most of them are still mainly martial arts action movies, but he has also thought about transformation, tried costume light comedy and youth idol drama, but unfortunately the response is mediocre.
In the end, I returned to the path of martial arts stars.
With the decline in the popularity of martial arts films and action movies, Fan Shaohuang did not have much room to play, and began to appear in web dramas and net universities.
Compared with his relatively single acting career, Fan Shaohuang's personal life is much more "wonderful", he has lived with Chen Shaoxia, an outsider, for many years and has two children.
But in 2013, he was exposed to his relationship with Jia Xiaochen, and at the same time he was exposed to have a girlfriend in Hangzhou, and after several entanglements, he still registered his marriage with Jia Xiaochen in 2015, marking the farce.
Although the emotional life before marriage is chaotic, but after marriage Fan Shaohuang seems to really accept the heart, these years at home are with children to exercise, 50-year-old male star can maintain his figure, it is really rare.
In addition to the mess of his emotional life, Fan Shaohuang was also involved in the storm of debt repayment, but this matter has not been conclusive until now.
4. Wang Yuyan: Li Ruotong
Although to this day, Li Ruotong is still called "aunt" by many people, but her Wang Yuyan is also an indelible classic.
Li Ruotong debuted very "late", after graduation she entered the airline as a flight attendant, because of an experience in shooting advertisements, let her embark on the road of actors.
When starring in "Tianlong Babu", Li Ruotong had already become a popular actress at that time with the image of Xiaolongnü.
After TVB decided to shoot "Tianlong Babu", Li Tiansheng also asked her to play Wang Yuyan by name, and the result was still very successful, after which various types of film and television works threw olive branches to her.
But at the time of this career rise, she disappeared from the eyes of everyone, because she met her boyfriend at the time, Guo Yingquan.
In 1998, Li Ruotong and businessman Guo Yingquan began to communicate, at that time Li Ruotong, immersed in love, felt that love is everything, and starred in few dramas.
But the two have gone through ten years of ups and downs, and they did not expect that this relationship did not wait to be repaired to the right results, but waited for a breakup without warning.
This relationship brought a great blow to Li Ruotong, she was depressed for a long time, after ending this relationship, Li Ruotong's feelings have been blank since then, and she has spent her time and experience on herself.
For work is not so demanding, occasionally filming, she is a heavy love of sports in life, often post photos of her fitness on social networking sites, good figure is really enviable.
Two days ago, she posted her 55th birthday photos on social media platforms, and there was hardly any trace of age on her face.
5. Mu Wanqing: Zhao Xueer
Mu Wanqing in the novel has a beauty that is not inferior to the immortal sister Wang Yuyan.
Mu Wanqing in the play is played by Zhao Xue, Zhao Xueer's own job is a singer, the first album "Every Two Seconds" was very popular, and also won the gold record sales, and entered the TVB Golden Song Season 2 Season Selection and won the Quarterly Golden Melody Award.
During the period of joining Emperor Entertainment, he also composed a sister-brother relationship with Xie Tingfeng, who was 8 years old, but unfortunately this relationship lasted only 3 years.
In 2001, Zhao Xueer began to formally transform from a singer to an actor, although his acting skills and appearance were good, he has been tepid. Due to the trough of his career, Zhao Xue once lost weight to only 88 pounds.
In 2011, Zhao Xueer and her current husband married, and Zhang Zhilin Yuan Yongyi Chen Eason chan was present to congratulate her at the wedding.
After that, he participated in fewer TV series, and after 2013, he completely faded out of the show business circle, only occasionally sharing his daily life with his husband on social platforms.
The most recent appearance was in a TVB show "Middle Girl Easy to Do", 49-year-old Zhao Xue and in a very good state in the show, it seems that these years must be very happy.
6. A Zi: Liu Yucui /Liu Qiaofang
Liu Yucui began acting very early, as early as 1990, she won the Best Supporting Actress Award and the Best Newcomer Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "The Queen of Temple Street", and was also shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Academy Awards.
After switching to TV dramas, Liu Yucui played many impressive roles, such as Princess Jianning in "Deer Ding", and Ah Zi in "Tianlong Babu".
However, because the role type is relatively fixed, it is difficult for her work to have a breakthrough, so she desperately tries to transform, under the pressure of high-intensity work, she suffers from emotional illness, coupled with the torture of eczema, the disease is repeated, and the work on her hand has to stop.
In order to make his health better, Liu Yucui also specially changed his name, called Liu Qiaofang.
After changing her name, her actor Luyi did not get better, most of the roles received were still only supporting roles, and later filming on the back was also early to play the role of "mother".
It is worth mentioning that in the 2021 version of the new "Tianlong Babu", Liu Yucui also starred, playing Ruan Xingzhu, the mother of Aju Azi.
The transition from Ah Zi to Ah Zi's mother is really unexpected.
7. Aju: Liu Jinling
Stuff the cattle and sheep with empty promises. Arjun is Arjun, the nations of the four seas, for thousands of years, there is only one Arjun.
Arjun's most regrettable role in "Tianlong Babu" is not one of them.
The 97 version of Arjun is played by Liu Jinling, and before Arjun, her resume was very eye-catching. Liu Jinling initially signed a contract with ATV, starred in a number of well-known works, and cooperated with actors who were quite famous at that time.
For example, he co-starred in the business war drama "The Giant" with Chen Tingwei and Chen Yulian, starred in the family emotional drama "Return My Life" with Lu Songxian, Jiang Hua and Michelle, and starred in the campus youth drama "Rushing Out of the Campus" with Zhang Jiahui and Chen Jinhong.
After joining WIRELESS in 1995, she also starred in several works, cooperating with actors who can be named by TVB, which is a bit of a taste of home.
After "Tianlong Eight Parts", she participated in many film dramas, but the response was average, which belonged to the typical example of a popular actor who was not popular.
In 2002, she was also once rumored to be kidnapped by the scandal (in fact, Liu Jialing), which led to a long period of public pressure, after 2006, she rarely filmed, and announced her official withdrawal from the entertainment industry in 2009.
After quitting the entertainment industry, she went to the United States to study, continued to study psychology before she entered the circle, and now she has settled in the United States for a long time, occasionally going to school as a counselor, living a different life from the entertainment industry.
8. Murong Fu: Zhang Guoqiang
In fact, Zhang Guoqiang's version of Murong Fu is not very much in line with the original description, but Zhang Guoqiang, with his acting skills, makes the audience willing to believe that this is Murong Fu.
And he also turned popular again with this role.
Zhang Guoqiang is known as "Qingliu" in the industry, he has been acting for a long time, in the 80s, he was at the peak of his appearance, and he also played a double male drama with Andy Lau, and his popularity was not lower than that of Hua Tsai.
When his career was on the rise, he faded out of the show business circle for love and returned to his family, until Murong Fu let him become popular again.
After returning to the film and television circle, he played his own "labor model" style, as long as there is a drama, any role is not rejected, in the past 13 years, Zhang Guoqiang has made a total of more than 90 film and television works, and 16 were produced in 2016 alone.
Although many of them are supporting roles, he does not look down on these roles at all, and now that he is over sixty years old, he still works in the show business circle.
9. You Tanzhi: Mai Changqing
As another tragic character in "Tianlong Babu", You Tanzhi is really both pitiful and hateful.
Playing the 97 version of You Tanzhi is TVB veteran actor Mai Changqing, who participated in the TVB actor training class in 1987, initially working hard in the hosting industry, and then turned to actor.
"Tianlong Eight Parts" is a relatively early work of Mai Changqing, after which he has successively starred in a number of TVB dramas, with light and heavy roles, but he has not been out of the circle.
Until 2010, he participated in the TVB Taiwan Celebration Drama "The Righteous Sea Of the Gangsters", in which he played the role of Liang Feifan, and won the Best Supporting Actor of Wan Qianxinghui with this role.
"Extraordinary Brother" has also become Mai Changqing's most remembered role by the audience.
In fact, over the years, in addition to insisting on acting, Mai Changqing also actively participated in public welfare activities, and in June this year, he was also photographed going to Guangzhou as an epidemic prevention volunteer.
In addition, he also opened an account on station B to share some Hong Kong-style food, and the amount of playback was not bad.
10. Menggu: Huang Jiying
Menggu in "Tianlong Eight Parts", although she does not have much appearance time, is amazing enough, and Huang Jiying's life experience as Menggu is also legendary.
At the age of 19, she participated in the Miss Hong Kong contest and won the most photogenic miss of the year, and after the competition, she signed a contract with TVB and officially stepped into the development of the entertainment industry.
In 1994, because of the cooperation with Gu Tianle in the sitcom "Dinner with the Song Family", Huang Jiying was also the only ex-girlfriend that Gu Tianle recognized.
At that time, she was in the ascendancy of her career, and she once reduced her workload for love, and was almost in a semi-retired state.
But unfortunately, although the two were very sweet during the love period, they could not go on for a long time. After breaking up with Gu Tianle, Huang Jiying set off again and returned to TVB to shoot.
However, with the emergence of new people, Huang Jiying missed the rise of her career, and she could only play some supporting roles in the series that did not have much room to play.
Between 2001 and 2012, Huang Jiying starred in many dramas, but they failed to make a splash and faded out of the entertainment circle.
After quitting the entertainment industry, Huang Jiying became more low-key, rarely appearing in front of the screen, and there was news that Huang Jiying invested in beauty companies and turned to the beauty industry to develop and be self-sufficient.
In any case, it is most important to live happily ever after.
11. Kang Min: Sydney
Sydney began acting at the age of 15, and throughout her acting career, she is best known for two roles.
One is "Lady Ma" in "Eight Parts of heavenly dragons", and the other is "Lady Ya" in "Searching for Qin".
Because of the emotional entanglement in the early years, Sydney did not continue acting at the best age, although her acting skills were affirmed by her sister Michelle, but she has been tepid.
After 2002, she rarely participated in film and television productions.
Now 56 years old Sydney basically bid farewell to the entertainment industry, on March 9, veteran artist Huang Xiahui posted a photo with her friend Sydney on her personal social account.
In the recent photos exposed, Sydney, who has been in the shadow for many years, has a refreshing short hair, wearing a pink sweater, dressed casually, and does not see the style of that year at all.
In the end, the 97th version of "Tianlong Babu" can become a classic play, in addition to a good script, good supporting roles, all the actors participating in the series have added a lot to it.
In addition to the above 11 people, there are many excellent actors in the 97 version of "Tianlong Babu", such as Chen Rongjun, who plays Quan Guanqing, Zhao Shiwen, who plays Ding Ling, Bao Fang, who plays the sweeping monk, Luo Yingjun, who plays Murong Bo, He Meixi, who plays Zhong Ling, and so on.
Some of them are still working hard in the show business circle, some of them have left the circle early to return to their families, and many old drama bones have also passed away.
According to incomplete statistics, 12 people in the 97th edition of "Tianlong Babu", including Bao Fang, Jiang Han, Luo Junzuo, Tan Yiqing, Sun Jiqing, Huang Xin, Luo Guowei, Zhao Shiwen, Guan Jing, Kuang Zuohui, Ma Jingyi, wang Wei, etc., have passed away.
In tvB, where the old drama is withered, how many classic dramas can there be next?
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