Director: Wu Siyuan
Writers: Wu Siyuan
Starring: Andy Lau / Dexian Yip / Qin Pei / Liu Zhaoming / Lan Jieying
Type: Crime
Country/Region of Production: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Release: 1985-09-26
In the late 1960s, when Ye was just starting her acting career, she was just a singer who sang in nightclubs. In the early 1970s, under the influence of her husband, Ye Dexian entered the film and television industry to develop. Like most Hong Kong artists, she signed up for TVB to play roles in a number of TV series, and soon her acting skills were appreciated by filmmakers, who invited her to play important supporting roles in the films.
In 1984, Ip left TVB to focus on film and singing, and she began shooting a lot of films. Between 1984 and 1985, she starred in a total of ten films and was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards three times. One of the most influential is the film "Extralegal Affair" co-starring her and Andy Lau.
The film caused a strong response in both Hong Kong and the mainland that year, and Ip's performance seemed to be relaxed, portraying an old prostitute in despair as appropriate, in place and convincing.
Maybe looking at past movies with the current level of appreciation, I think it is just like this, but I have really touched it.
I vaguely remember that Qin Pei in the film is very bad, Andy Lau is very tender, and Ye Dexian is great.
"Extralegal Affairs" tells that a low-level elderly prostitute Liu Huilan (Ye Dexian) was slandered and killed a young rich businessman, as soon as the case came out, no lawyer was willing to seek justice for the prostitute, only the young lawyer Liu Zhipeng (Andy Lau), who had just left the school, was willing to do justice, he painstakingly collected information, relied on a large amount of evidence and wonderful defense in court to make the truth of the case clear, but at the moment of closing, some people claimed that the defendant prostitute and him were originally mother and son...
Even today, this film can also earn tears and shock people's hearts, just like the classic film "Goddess" decades ago, the prostitute played by Ye Dexian is also like Ruan Lingyu, willing to sacrifice everything for her son, even if the face on which she earns a living is flowered, there is no regret, and the greatness of maternal love is undoubtedly revealed. Although the son lawyer knows nothing about this, he shoulders moral righteousness and challenges the powerful to fight lawsuits for the poor, especially at the end of the film, his powerful accusation that the inequality between the rich and the poor in society in the court has led to the inability of people to be equal, which can make the audience resonate with shock!
In fact, long before this film, Ye Dexian and Andy Lau had played mother and son in the TV series "Falcon", and after the quenching of "Extralegal Affair", the two were true to the mother and son, and formed a lifelong "mother and son" friendship.
After the release of "Extralegal Affair", it was excellent at the box office and had a great impact, and successfully led the Popularity of Hong Kong films with the theme of courtroom debate. In 1988, McDonald's Film Production Company successfully remade the film, using the original cast of Andy Lau and Ye Dexian, renaming it "The Inner Story of the Law" and "The Finale of the Inner Story of the Law", which was also very popular.
In 2011, Ye Dexian transformed into the world-renowned "Sister Peach", it is worth playing that this film is still co-starred by Ye Dexian and Andy Lau, a pair of gold medal "mother and son", in the film, Ye Dexian is an old maid Tao Sister who has entered her twilight years, and Liu Tianwang played the young master of this family, in the long-term relationship, Tao Sister and young master have established a deep mother-son relationship...
Almost all of this film is adapted from a true story, and under the direction of the famous female director Xu Anhua, it has the essence of "life flow". In the film, Sister Tao is sent to the nursing home, where she moves towards the end of her life, and Ye Dexian's grasp of the details of the characters is meticulous, in order to experience life, she even deliberately visits the nursing home, so as to present the mentality of a lonely old man and the story in the nursing home to the big screen when performing.
Life is like a drama, but the drama is not as good as life, Ye Dexian has created many mother images on the screen, in real life, Ye Dexian's private life is very low-key, the outside world knows very little about her family situation, but it is said that as early as 18 years old, Ye Dexian married as another woman, but this marriage soon broke down, Ye Dexian had a son and a daughter under her knees, but now her children are settled in Canada, and they only get together once in a few years. During the New Year's Festival, Ye Dexian spent time with Andy Lau, Tan Yaowen and others.
After winning the award for "Sister Peach", Ye Dexian said that she would donate all her organs after her death. For life, Ye Dexian frankly said that she had looked very indifferent, perhaps, everyone who should have experienced it has experienced once, and it is like this.
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