Today, the famous performance artist Ms. Zhou Jie passed away due to illness at the age of 60.
In the 1990s, Ms. Zhou Jie was active on the screen platform for a long time and brought us many excellent works. Among them, the most eye-catching is the movie "Yang Guifei", which was released in 1992.
Stills from "Yang Guifei"
In the film, Ms. Zhou Jie played the poignant life of Yang Yuhuan from the beginning as Princess Shou to the commitment to becoming a Noble Concubine of the Tang Dynasty by Emperor Tang Ming, and finally falling to Ma Songpo.
That year, Zhou Jie was 30 years old. It is at the time of youth and outstanding style, which has achieved the image of Yang Yuhuan, the most beautiful in the minds of many people.
But I have to say that in the same period, there was also a film and television work with a similar theme, that is, the TV series "Tang MingHuang" starring Liu Wei and Lin Fangbing in 1990. Among them, Yang Guifei, played by Lin Fangbing, also gives people a very deep impression, under the spread of online media, to this day, many people regard her as the most beautiful Yang Guifei on the screen.
Stills from "Emperor Tang Ming"
Many people habitually compare the image of Yang Guifei in these two works: some people say that Lin Fangbing is the most suitable actor to play Yang Guifei. In the play, she is good at music and rhythm, her body is plump, and the grace and magnificence of the Tang Dynasty noble concubines are full of eyebrows, and it is also the childhood memories of many post-80s and post-90s.
Compared with Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei, Lin Fangbing's version of Yang Guifei reveals a sense of Jiangnan's gentle little family jasper under grace. Because Lin Fangbing's ancestral home is Ningbo, Zhejiang, her body fully reflects the graceful beauty of Jiangnan women, and the smile in the gentle water town is engraved in the bones.
However, the author believes that Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei is more in line with the original appearance of history. The reason is that Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei revealed the kind of "yan" that Yang Yuhuan should have in history. If Lin Fangbing's version of Yang Guifei is prominently "charming", Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei is more prominent "Yan".
There is a way that "charming" is the skin phase, and "yan" is the bone phase. Even if Pi Xiangmei will give people a feeling of light, in the kaleidoscope of flowers, people can recognize her at a glance, it is her. And "Yan" is the kind of beauty that comes from the inside out, gradually emitted, and in the bones. Although it is not as youthful and beautiful as "charming", it is a beauty that comes from the depths of the bone marrow.
Let's compare the facial contours of the two actors in their respective plays. Lin Fangbing's version of Yang Guifei can be described as a full moon, but the problem is that we can conclude from watching Lin Fangbing and other works that she is not a very full actress in the heavenly court. In many works, people feel that she is a graceful image of a beautiful Jiangnan woman. Although she worked hard to gain weight in order to play Yang Guifei, the natural slightly flattened facial contour did not change as a result, although it appeared full and rounded due to the accumulation of fat, but it was not the result of bone support.
On the contrary, Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei does not seem to be as plump and feminine as Lin Fangbing's version of Yang Guifei on the surface. However, Ms. Zhou Jie's facial contour is more rounded and straight, and there is no need to modify the facial contour too much, and the bone phase itself is like a full moon has become her biggest advantage. The outstanding feature is that the heavenly court is full, the eyes naturally extend to the sides, and the facial contour of the wide opening and closing coupled with the blessing of the plump apple machine brings off a beautiful noble concubine.
Of course, we must admit that the actresses of that era had extraordinary professionalism, whether it was Lin Fangbing or Zhou Jie, in order to play Yang Guifei, they did not hesitate to make efforts to gain weight, and this spirit is definitely worth learning from today's young actors.
In addition to appearance, let's talk about the language, demeanor and action image of the two Yang Guifei on the screen.
Lin Fangbing's version of Yang Guifei gives us a prominent impression that it is naïve and rambling, but there is a little weakness in the atmosphere. In the TV series "Tang Ming Emperor", Yang Guifei is full of kindness to the world, but the turn of the times and the fate of the characters makes her helpless, so she shows a certain confusion and "sluggishness" in addition to beauty, and lacks a little brilliance in her eyes.
And Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei is a woman who is not willing to compromise with fate from beginning to end. Some people will ask, how can Yang Guifei not compromise with fate?
Let's take a look at some fragments of Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei, first of all, Yang Guifei Yang Yuhuan came from Luoyang to Chang'an, along the way she was like a lively girl, looking east and west, completely what an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old girl should look like. Here fully shows the lively and active side of Yang Yuhuan's personality, which is also one of the reasons why Li Longji, a generation of male lords, is so obsessed with her. Let's imagine that if Yang Guifei was just a beautiful skin bag like a wooden chicken, how could Emperor Tang Ming be crazy about it and be loved by three thousand? Attracting men at first glance is appearance, but what makes men fall in love with must be on the inside!
Let's continue to see that this is a still of Yang Guifei being recruited into the Lishan Palace to discuss music theory with Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty before giving baths to Huaqingchi. At this time, Yang Guifei had already had some maturity as a wife, but her eyes still revealed a girlish agility. At this time, Yang Guifei, although she was no longer the carefree young cardamom she once was, still maintained that lively authenticity.
This picture is of Yang Yuhuan's commitment to Li Longji, when the two of them were running wild on horseback and camping in the suburbs. At this time, she appeared confident and satisfied when she first experienced Cheng'en Jialu, and lazily fell on the side of a great emperor, looking down at the starry sky, full of beautiful visions for the future.
This picture is what Yang Guifei looked like when she was a lady of the Taizhen Dynasty, when she and Li Longji were visited together. It was obvious that she was not yet accustomed to accompanying the king with this slightly absurd identity, with a slight reluctance and confusion in her eyes.
This is what Yang Guifei finally accepted the canonization and accepted the Hundred Officials Pilgrimage with her sisters Lady Guoguo and Lady Han. At this time, she had completely become a Tang Dynasty noble concubine, and the once immature girlishness had been born into a gentle and rich atmosphere.
Then, in this picture, Yang Guifei has fully adapted to her new role, looking down on her empire and subjects as the mother of the Tang Dynasty.
But at the same time, Yang Yuhuan still maintains the most authentic pursuit of love for women. On the night of Tanabata, she and her langjun Li Longji prayed to heaven for another husband and wife in the next life.
Yuyang Nai came agitatedly, startling the neon feather song. In the photo, before Yang Guifei fled Chang'an, she cast the last glimpse of the Tang Emperor, who had lived for more than a decade.
The red face fell on the slope of the horse ridge, the moment of separation of life and death, the girl who was pure and romantic at that time could not escape the ruthless wind erosion of the years. At this time, she begged the emperor like an abandoned resentful woman, and her heart was full of resentment against this dark world, drawing a perfect end to Yang Guifei's extraordinary life.
Now, let's look at Yang Guifei, played by Lin Fangbing.
In the stills, this is the female Taoist priest Yang Taizhen played by her. Although the eyebrows are gentle and graceful, there seems to be a lack of agility in the eyes, and the communication of the eyes lacks a little tension.
In the picture, Yang Yuhuan, who has just tasted human affairs, looks at the front with a sluggish gaze, although the picture is still beautiful, but this beauty is static. In contrast, Zhou Jie's version of that kind of beauty is the real smart beauty, there is God in the eyes, there is drama in the eyes.
In this last photo, Yang Guifei after marriage is like an infatuated complaining woman staring at The Crane Langjun, who is more than thirty years old.
I have to admit that Ms. Lin Fangbing worked very hard to play a stunning Tang Dynasty beauty, but the so-called thousand people should be careful that there are a thousand Hamlets. For Yang Guifei, the image in everyone's heart is not the same, but as far as the author is concerned, Zhou Jie's version of Yang Guifei is always the most beautiful, and it is also the image of Yang Guifei in the history of the author's mind.
Today, Teacher Zhou Jie has left us, and the beautiful memories of a generation are like the autumn breeze on the slope of Ma Song slowly drifting away. Here, only a small poem is used to express the mourning of her.
Neon Butterfly Dance Goose Chase,
Fang Ling perpetual Ping Water Pile.
Ma Song jumped in the breeze,
There is no more Yang Guifei in the world.