In the 1980s, Hong Kong TVB was full of talents, and it was not so easy to really become a brother and a sister.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, after Zhou Runfa and Zheng Shaoqiu gradually faded away from TVB, the Five Tigers will also be conflicted with TVB because of contract problems, and since then, the status of the Five Tigers will gradually be threatened, and the career of the five in TVB will gradually decline.
At this time, there was a person who took this opportunity to gradually replace the position of the Five Tiger Generals and become the head of the family in the late 1980s, and he was Wan Ziliang.
In fact, Wan Ziliang debuted much earlier than the TVB Five Tigers. In 1976, at the age of 19, Wan Ziliang was admitted to the hong Kong Li TV station artist training class, and after graduating from the training class, he became an actor on the station.
In 1977, Wan Ziliang starred in the Gulong martial arts drama "The Sword of the Three Young Masters", in which he played the role of Xie Xiaofeng, which was also his first work.
In the six or seven years of Hong Kong Li's TV station, although Wan Ziliang starred in some dramas, he has been tepid, after all, Li's TV at that time was also full of talents.
In 1983, Wan Ziliang joined TVB, and initially mainly played some supporting roles, because during this time there were five tigers to the town platform, Wan Ziliang has not been promoted to a first-line student.
In 1986, the fashion drama "Rogue Tycoon" starring Wan Ziliang and Zheng Yuling became the TVB annual drama ratings champion, and this drama also allowed the audience to see Wan Ziliang's superb acting skills, and Wan Ziliang jumped to the first line of TVB with this drama.
In the same year, Wan Ziliang also starred in an ancient dragon martial arts drama "Lu Xiaofeng's Phoenix Dance nine days".
In the martial arts dramas filmed by TVB in the 1980s, the number of Gu Long's works was not much, but there were some classic works, such as Wan Ziliang's version of "Lu Xiaofeng's Phoenix Dance for Nine Days" and Liang Chaowei's version of "Absolute Double Glory".
The 86th edition of "Lu Xiaofeng's Phoenix Dance for Nine Days" is produced by Xiao Sheng, with Fan Xiuming, Xiao Jianheng, Yang Shaohong, etc. as choreographers, Cheng Xiaodong as martial arts instructors, and Wan Ziliang, Chen Xiuzhu, Huang Yuncai, Jing Daiyin, Hui Tianci, Rong Huiwen, Ouyang Zhenhua, Liang Honghua, Liu Jiang, Bai Yin, Wu Jiali and other starring.
Following the "Lu Xiaofeng" trilogy in the 1970s, TVB once again remade the Lu Xiaofeng series of stories of Gu Long. The 86 version of "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance" is the opposite of Liu Songren's version of "Lu Xiaofeng" in 1976, Liu Songren's version is "Jinpeng Dynasty", "Before and After the Decisive Battle", "Ghost Mountain Villa" three stories, and this version is just filmed "Embroidery Thief", "Silver Hook Gambling House", "Phoenix Dance Nine Days" These three stories, because this version of the TV series merges three units, so the plot has to be said to be very compact.
In terms of actors, this drama is still very brilliant, TVB's executive casting has always been very accurate, and this version of the actors is generally satisfactory.
Although Wan Ziliang's temperament is a bit tough, he still performs Lu Xiaofeng's bohemian personality very well. He will play Lu Xiaofeng, who is natural and nosy, likes to drink, appreciates beautiful women, and is more affectionate! It is said that Wan Ziliang's extreme devotion in acting is like Jacky Cheung's when singing, which often makes the audience fascinated. Wan Ziliang has a very high status in the acting industry in the 1980s and 1990s, he also single-handedly promoted Zhou Xingchi into the film industry, Wan Ziliang has an innate big brother style, and he plays a big brother who is not inferior to Chow Yun Fat and Ren Dahua.
Jingjing, played by Chen Xiuzhu, is a fictional character in this drama. Because Xiao Sheng liked Weng Meiling too much before, the initial script was completely in accordance with Ah Weng's own personality and temperament to create the new role of Jingjing, only to sigh the world, Weng Meiling had no time to participate in this drama to commit suicide, so Xiao Sheng later found Chen Xiuzhu to play the role of Jingjing, fortunately, Chen Xiuzhu also lived up to expectations, and played the superpower saint Jingjing with her own characteristics. But then again, when she was young, Chen Xiuzhu was really a big beauty!
Huang Yuncai's flower full building can be called both a god and a god! This is Huang Yuncai's second acting in Hua Man Lou, as early as ten years ago Liu Songren's version of "Lu Xiaofeng", Huang Yuncai played Hua Man Lou, after ten years, when all the leading actors changed actors, only Hua Man Lou was still played by Huang Yuncai, it can be seen that his Hua Man Lou is indeed deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Huang Yuncai's Hua Man Lou heart is like a mirror, gentle wisdom, this time the appearance is more handsome than the Hua Man Lou ten years ago.
The "sword god" Ximen blowing snow, cold, arrogant but not so desperate, as if he had stepped out of the book. Hui Tianci is a well-known actor in Hong Kong, who has participated in classic dramas such as "Thirteen Taibao", "Legend of the Archery Hero", "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang's Bat", "Decisive Battle Xuanwu Gate" and other classic dramas, and is known for portraying cold and arrogant killers with high martial arts and mood. Among them, the role of the sword god Ximen Chuixue, portrayed in "Lu Xiaofeng's Phoenix Dance nine days", has always been known as one of the classic characters of martial arts. Unfortunately, as one of the most influential martial arts stars in Hong Kong film, Hui Tianci died in Beijing in October 2012.
Xue Bing, played by Jing Daiyin, was brutal and spicy in the early stage, and the mouth and tongue were not appropriate, and in the later stage, he became calm and introspective. She has always liked to land Xiaofeng, but because Of Lu Xiaofeng's personality of always being a prodigal son, Xue Bing eventually died to Lu Xiaofeng, and finally buried Treasure Island with Liuyun.
Ouyang Zhenhua's honest monk is humble but not stupid, and Liang Honghua also performed the temperament of a generation of divine thieves and star picking.
In addition to the superb acting skills of the actors, one of the shortcomings of the show is that the adaptation is as large as ever, with a variety of characters out of nothing and an extended plot, including the fictional heroine super power Saint Jingjing.
The first story of this drama, "The Embroidery Thief", is still relatively restored to the original work, but after the plot began to come, "Silver Hook Gambling House" basically brushed over the plot of BlueBeard and Fang Yufei, while the Yuluosha in the book was heavily played, and also became the mother of the heroine Jingjing, and Gongsun Daniang became YuLuosha's subordinate... As for the rest of the characters in the original line of "Silver Hook Gambling House", in addition to Li Xia, the characters of Fang Yuxiang, Chen Jingjing, and Aunt Ding Xiang are gone.
To the "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance" line basically began to brain hole, Chen Xiuzhu's sense of crystal existence is too high, so that in the original work, Lu Xiaofeng's official Shaman was ruthlessly deleted by the screenwriter, and the anti-no. 1 Gong Jiu of "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance" was also weakened into the subordinate of Shi Chongwu, a liuyun resident, who was basically a small minion of Shi Chongwu, and the skills in the original work could be described as completely absent.
Because Gong Jiu was weakened, the emotional arrow of beef soup also changed, and the beef soup in the original "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance" did not like Lu Xiaofeng. But in this drama, the director still made the male and female protagonists into a polyamorous love between a man and three women (Lu Xiaofeng, Jingjing, Xue Bing, beef soup), beef soup's feelings for Lu Xiaofeng are still very sincere, let people see it is also tearing their hearts and lungs, quite moved.
However, compared with some large adaptations of ancient dragon dramas, this version of the "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance" is still not collapsed, in general, the drama is only deconstructed.
Although there are many adaptations of this drama, I personally still think it is better than the original book, because it has a dragon-like ending. People who like to read the ancient dragon book must not like the novel Of Nine Days of Phoenix Dance, because the ghostwriter basically subverted the original meaning of the ancient dragon, and the name that the ancient dragon originally gave to the book was: Invisible Man.
The end of the play is intriguing, not a clichéd happy ending according to the original Lu Xiaofeng and Sha Man, but dead and scattered. Finally, Lu Xiaofeng strolled along the seashore, the sunset was setting, the horse was reined, life had no destination, and the lonely scene could not help but make people sigh with emotion...
Classic martial arts dramas always have their corresponding theme songs, the play is no exception, and the theme song of the 83rd edition of "Shooting Eagles" "Iron Blood Dan Heart", the theme song of "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance", "Leave My Dream", also has the striking effect of outlining and empowerment, and it firmly grasps people's ears as soon as it appears.
The two godfathers of the Hong Kong music industry, Huang Zhun and Gu Jiahui, used their skillful brushstrokes to once again outline an epic picture of the rivers and lakes full of classical charm and narrow style: the guzheng flowing in the clouds, the sonorous and powerful strings, the brisk and flowing flute, the cheerful and free rhythm, coupled with Zhen Ni's passionate singing, achieved the beautiful texture of this song "Leave My Beautiful Dream", and after listening to it, people still have the feeling of strings still in the ears, the afterglow of the sound, and the feeling of circling the beam for three days.
Zhen Ni single-handedly took over the three main songs of the play: "Leave My Dream", "Create a Way Forward on the Clouds", "No Review in the Wind", etc., these songs have always been the love of my music player, and only the classics have lasted for a long time.
I still remember the ending of "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance".
In the rain and fog of the vicious world, Lu Xiaofeng knew that Xue Bing and beef soup would die. But he still had hope, and there was still a glimmer of light in his heart—a crystal.
When he really came to Lou Lan, he watched the crowd creeping to the ground, and watched Jingjing standing tall on the altar as if she were a holy woman. She only looked up at the sky, did not look at her feet, and did not even know that it was the person who was haunted by her dreams standing below.
Lu Xiaofeng's face was unbelievable and unacceptable. But after all, he is a hero, and he will not question, plead, and pester, let alone cry and complain. He had to leave. Lost soul and walked a few steps, finally unwilling. Looking back up again—that glance, maybe the last one. How much attachment, how much unspeakable unwillingness? But in the blink of an eye, he suddenly smiled—the familiar smile at the corner of his mouth came up. He's himself again.
Is it relief? Not exactly. Is it relief? Nor does it. Otherwise, why is the expression still somber afterwards? Let's all be a little bit of it. And respect for her choices, and perhaps blessings. The chest is waiting to be poured with wine, and the hero's injuries are all internal wounds, and he has to be licked alone.
Chinese is very moderate, painting a tiger to go down the mountain, and suddenly shouting in a downward state. That's the power of the tiger.
It was the fortieth episode of Nine Days of Phoenix Dance. After watching it for such a long time, the audience also had many memories like Lu Xiaofeng. As he galloped along the seashore, his white clothes fluttering, those memories resurfaced, in a high and low song.
Scene after scene, the voiceover sound, are simple words:
Are you better?
How long are you going to lie to me? Teach - Lord?! (Angry anti-laugh)
I'm not your big brother Lu! I'm just a fool in front of you!
Xue Bing!
Pretty. It's so pretty. I Lu Xiaofeng is really blessed.
……
This grand finale can only be described in two words: beautiful!
I believe that even after watching other versions, Wan Ziliang's version of "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance", it is still a classic in my mind, and it is still a classic in the minds of many people.