It is hard to imagine such a film, its theme is ancient costume martial arts, but after the release of the film classification marked with the label of fantasy adventure drama, and the specific reason is that its bold story adaptation and superb shooting shots of the original are quite ghost film style, this movie is in 1993, Yu Rentai directed, Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia two stars to perform the classic work "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch"
In fact, originally this drama was released in that year after the audience was treated as a bad film, and later with the deepening of the plot, many people appreciated its unique charm, so far "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" still maintains a rating of 7.7 on Douban, and when this film was first filmed, there were also many unknown film cold knowledge
1. In the early stage of filming of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", Lin Qingxia was "forced" to save the scene
The director of this film, Yu Rentai, was shooting commercial advertisements in his early years, in fact, he was relatively unfamiliar with the scenes of ancient costume martial arts dramas, and the reason why he made up his mind to shoot "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" was because at that time Yu Rentai helped Gao Zhisen co-direct the classic film "Happy Affair of The Flower Field", after the shooting, Gao Zhisen, with excellent vision, took a fancy to Liang Yusheng's newly written novel "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", and advised Rentai to hurry up and negotiate a contract with the other party, and this film adaptation must be a big hit
Although Yu Rentai is not good at costume dramas and cannot resist the temptation of the martial arts film market in the 90s, he finally found Liang Yusheng and treated his literary works, Liang Yusheng was not as cautious as Jin Yong, and he sold the adaptation rights of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" to Liang Yusheng
After getting the formal contract, Yu Rentai immediately prepared to cast, the male protagonist Zhuo Yihang invited Zhang Guorong to star, and during the shooting, Zhang Guorong also created the opening song for the film for free
The male protagonist is fixed, the wolf girl practices neon dress has become the focus, the actor who was initially favored by Rentai is Yang Ziqiong, he also deliberately added a lot of action scenes to the script, but Yang Ziqiong although interested in participating, but hindered by the problem of the schedule can not squeeze out the time, and finally can only give up, the emergency moment, Yu Rentai called to find Lin Qingxia for help, as soon as he heard that the lead actor was his friend Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia gladly agreed to come to the rescue
Changing a female protagonist, Yu Rentai's original design of the action drama book has also been re-revised, because Lin Qingxia is not good at fighting, and the shooting of related shots is not his own specialty, Yu Rentai has added a large number of literary dramas to summarize the plot, changing the costume magic to a fantasy style
2. The largest scale shot in Lin Qingxia's career
In 1993, the Hong Kong film circle was full of big names, Chow Xingchi rose after the momentum is booming, "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" was released to get more than 30 million box office, in the same year Jet Li martial arts movies are also at their peak, under the attack of two box office big names, "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" Even if Lin Qingxia and Zhang Guorong joined, it did not get too much benefit, plus most of the scripts were literary dramas, so when writing the script, Yu Rentai temporarily decided to add several "fragrant" shots to increase the selling rate
For this kind of large-scale shooting, Zhang Guorong is not too concerned, but the most resistant in this regard is Lin Qingxia, because there is a scene in the plot where Yu Rentai requires that the actors and actresses must "wet" up and down together to show the real "meat feeling", Lin Qingxia is very stressed, and once wanted to give up shooting
Fortunately, the partner is Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia and he have been friends for many years, from the beginning of the movie "East Evil and West Poison", the relationship between the two is very good, on the set through Zhang Guorong's many enlightenments, Lin Qingxia completed the atmosphere of this shot is not very embarrassing
After the release of the movie, sure enough, the "wet body" scene has become the most eye-catching focus, Lin Qingxia also contributed the largest shot of personal career scale, and from the current shooting technology, it is obvious that Yu Rentai also knows Lin Qingxia's personality, so the camera has been fixed on the upper body of the actor, and in addition to the action, Lin Qingxia has not revealed anything
3. Wu Zhenyu's "Siamese"
The biggest villain in the whole movie is Wu Zhenyu's demon head "Ji Wushuang", when Yu Rentai designed this character, the brain hole was also surprisingly large, from the costume to the scene design are strengthened to highlight the horror of the villain, every time Wu Zhenyu appears, the lights and scenes become red, with the makeup of the emperor half a man and half a woman and a terrifying hoarse voice, Wu Zhenyu's role was a proper childhood shadow
The most cruel is the "Siamese" character, Wu Zhenyu played by Ji Wusheng is actually two people, because of congenital deformities, Ji Wushuang has been connected to her sister's back since birth
Wu Zhenyu's sister is played by Lu Shaoling, the sacrifice of the two in this play is great, and even there are full-fruit shots, there are not many lines in this movie, most of them are laughing, only Wu Zhenyu's character can communicate and talk normally
The wolf girl played by Lin Qingxia was originally an abandoned baby, it was Ji Wushuang who brought her to the Demon Sect to raise her, and gradually, Ji Wushuang fell in love with this girl and tried to get her, but at this time, the wolf girl had already fallen in love with Zhuo Yihang, and Ji Wushuang was not only betrayed, but also ruthlessly ridiculed by her sister
In the process of violating the wolf girl, Ji Wushuang realized that the other party did not like herself, so she asked the wolf woman what did the man give you?
The wolf girl replied lightly: He gave me a name, I am not called wolf girl, my name is Lian Neon
The wolf girl with the name began to yearn for the life of ordinary people, but Ji Wushuang was annoyed and angry after hearing this sentence, and went to the Wudang Faction and Zhuo Yihang to duel, and finally was defeated by the male and female protagonists, the back was cut off, the sister and brother died one after another, Ji Wushuang's last line was "Lying down and sleeping like this, it is really comfortable"
4. The filming highlights of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch"
Because the filming of this drama was in the summer, the weather in Hong Kong was very hot, and the effect of shooting during the day was not ideal, so the director adjusted the shooting time to the evening, if the film needed sunlight, it was replaced by lighting covered with cloth, in order to show more beauty, Yu Rentai used a large number of silhouettes and lighting techniques, after the release of the film, this drama won the best cinematography award and the best art award of the year
In addition, the costume design of the whole movie is also very innovative, because the invitation is the famous Japanese designer Wada Emi, so in the styling of the other party used a lot of exotic dress, including Zhang Guorong's curly hair, Lin Qingxia's shell ivory headdress, are made by Wada Emi herself, the whole movie in order to be perfect, Wada Emi took out a total of 200 sets of costume samples for Rentai to choose
Especially in the later stages of the film, after practicing the whitening of her hair, Zhang Guorong and Lin Qingxia each left a scene with the peak of their appearance in this shot, which is endlessly evocative
From a personal point of view, although the release of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" only got less than 40 million at the box office, from the perspective of shooting style and character design, this film has created a precedent for fantasy martial arts dramas, and the shots of Lin Qingxia and Zhang Guorong have become irreplaceable classics
I don't know if any of you have seen this movie?