To say that the most fascinating good man in "Water Margin" is Wu Song.
In the original work of "Water Margin", Wu Song can be said to have dedicated the most blood-boiling bridge sections for everyone, from drinking 18 bowls of wine to kill the tiger in Jingyang Gang, to hand-bladed Ximen Qingpan Jinlian to avenge his brother, from happy Lin drunk to beat Jiang Menshen, to Mandarin Duck Lou angrily killing Zhang Dujian, etc., every appearance of Wu Song will carry a strong protagonist aura, and after the audience has seen these bridge sections of happiness and vengeance, there will be few people who do not fall in love with this eager and righteous Wu Erlang who will be revenge.
Among several well-known bridge sections of Wu Song, the "Blood Splash Mandarin Duck Tower" is one of the ones that must be mentioned, and it is through this incident that Wu Song's personality has undergone an earth-shaking transformation, from the previous chivalrous warrior with clear grievances and brave integrity to a god of killing who must repay the favor. In the original work, the plot of "Blood Splashed Mandarin Duck Tower" is roughly like this: after Wu Song snatched back the Happy Forest for Shi En, he was appreciated by the local Zhang Dujian and gave the Yahuan Yulan to Wu Song, who was deeply grateful and expressed his willingness to be loyal to Zhang Dujian. But who knows, this is actually the plan of Zhang Dujian, Zhang Tuanlian, Jiang Menshen and others, Wu Song was unjustly stolen and imprisoned, so he was sent to Enzhou Prison. Zhang Dujian and others sent people to Feiyunpu to harm Wu Song, but they were all solved by Wu Song. Wu Song returned to Zhang Dujian's home and killed Zhang Dujian's family, as well as Zhang Tuanlian, Jiang Menshen, and others, including Yulan, who had framed him and imprisoned him.
In the most well-known three editions of "Water Margin" in 1983, 1998 and 2011, this event is also portrayed intensively. But the difference is that in these three versions of "Water Margin", although Zhang Dujian, Jiang Menshen and other evil people were killed, and although Yulan died in the end, the way of death was different, which is really a bit intriguing.
In the latest 2011 version of "Water Margin", Wu Song and Yulan were played by Chen Long and Xie Xian respectively. In this "Water Margin", Yulan is basically a bitter person, and the reason why she wrongfully framed Wu Song was completely under the threat of Zhang Dujian. After that, Yulan was imprisoned by Zhang Dujian, and by the time Wu Song killed Zhang Dujian to find Yulan, the woman who had suffered a hard life had already starved to death. Wu Song knew in his heart that Yulan was coerced by Zhang Dujian and others, so he took Yulan out and buried her thickly.
This version of Wu Song is still emotional and righteous in general, but the ending of Yulan being starved to death still makes people feel a little superficial.
In addition, this version of Wu Song is not so murderous, and the people under Zhang Du's family have also escaped a difficulty, which is still acceptable to the audience.
In "Water Margin" filmed by CCTV in 1998, Yulan and Zhang Dujian's subordinates were not so lucky. This version of the portrayal of the "Blood Splashed Mandarin Duck Tower" is basically in line with the original work, wu song returned from Feiyunpu after the whole person's temperament changed greatly, whether it was Zhang Dujian, Jiang Menshen, or Yulan and Zhang Fu's maids, none of them were spared, and they were killed by Wu Song.
We can't say that this version of the portrayal is not good, on the contrary, Ding Haifeng's version of Wu Song's violent revenge aesthetic scene, every frame and every second makes the audience watch it happily. But from my personal heart, I still feel that Wu Song is not a brainless murderous demon like Li Kui after all, yulan and those subordinates although they participated in the incident of framing him, but in the end they were still under the threat of Zhang Dujian, Wu Song killed everything with a knife, always making people smell a little indiscriminate killing.
Next, let's look at the earliest version of "Water Margin" in the mainland, which is usually what we call the 1983 Shandong version of "Water Margin", and the Wu Song and Yulan of this version of "Water Margin" are played by Zhu Yanping and Shang Lihua respectively. In this version of the "Blood Splash mandarin duck tower", Yulan's mother was persecuted and killed by Zhang Dujian, and when Wu Song killed Zhang Dujian, Yulan deeply felt Wu Song's great kindness and bowed to Wu Song. Subsequently, Wu Song wanted to take Yulan to leave the Mandarin Duck Building with him, but was rejected by Yulan, and after Wu Song got the Mandarin Duck Building, he turned back to find Yulan standing upstairs trying to find a short-sightedness, Wu Song hurriedly turned back to pick up Yulan, but it was still a step too late, and Yulan died.
It should be said that this ending is quite different from the ending of the original yulan being stabbed to death by Wu Song, but personally, I feel that the adaptation of this ending is more acceptable to the audience. Although Yulan is a female stream, she is not a vicious and wandering woman like Pan Jinlian and Yan Poxi, and Wu Song is not a stunned young man like Li Kui, who still has a very obvious love-hate characteristic in his body. The iron-blooded Wu Song is certainly a real man, but the sentient and righteous Wu Song is the real hero in people's hearts.
So in everyone's heart, which version of "Water Margin" Magnolia is more accepted? You are welcome to comment on the message.
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