Between 1957 and 1959, Jin Yong serialized "The Legend of the Eagle Shooting Hero" in newspapers and periodicals. The opening work of this "Shooting Eagle Trilogy" later became a popular theme in film and television dramas, and was repeatedly adapted and remade.
On May 22, some media reported that the new movie "The Legend of the Archery Hero" "The Legend of the Archery Hero" has been approved. Judging from the title and story synopsis, this film will take Mei Chaofeng as the protagonist, and also interpret "Mei Chaofeng likes Huang Yaoshi" interpreted by some netizens as a storyline.
This alone has caused many netizens to angrily rebuke and destroy the original work.
As for how this film version will arrange the relationship between Mei Chaofeng, Chen Xuanfeng and Huang Yaoshi, we will leave it alone for the time being, but simply talk about the character of Mei Chaofeng.
Mei Chaofeng, this person, is difficult to use "villain" to simply summarize. She was also a naïve child who was happy at the knee of her parents, and as soon as her parents died, she saw the sinister hearts of people in this world. In the book, Mei Chaofeng's encounter before being brought back to Peach Blossom Island by Huang Yaoshi is only briefly and single-handedly mentioned, and her past misfortune can only be speculated by the reader.
Later, he fell in love with Chen Xuanfeng, and because he was afraid of being punished by Huang Yaoshi, the two of them defected from the division and fled Peach Blossom Island, and because of the cultivation of the Nine Yin True Scriptures, they became "Black Wind Double Flames". After Chen Xuanfeng was killed, mei Chaofeng, who was blind, became a lonely bird.
She does have a sinister and vicious side, killing people like hemp in order to practice. But the feelings between her and Chen Xuanfeng are also touching. In addition, Mei Chaofeng's respect for Master Huang Yaoshi was even more difficult to describe. Blocking Ouyang Feng's attack for Huang Yaoshi and being able to return to shimen before dying was the last greatest consolation in her life.
Mei Chaofeng's life, black and white, sugar poison and preparation, she is by no means a good person, but also not a pure bad person.
Among the many film and television versions, "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", which spanned from 1958 to 1959 and was produced by Hong Kong's Emei Film, should be the earliest version.
After all, at that time, Jin Yong's novel was still being serialized.
In the "58 version of the shooting eagle", It is Chen Lipin who plays Mei Chaofeng. Born in 1911, Chen Lipin is known as "Pin Auntie" and has participated in nearly 100 works. When young viewers were familiar with her, she was already a white-haired, wrinkled mother-in-law.
Chen Lipin is not a beautiful woman, even when he was young, he was not "responsible for his appearance", and when he was old, he appeared more in the image of ghost mother, superstitious old woman, cleaning aunt, evil mother-in-law and so on. Yes, although because of the relationship between the ages, I can't find a still of her starring in "Mei Chaofeng", but I think this version will not beautify "Mei Chaofeng".
The first "beautiful version of Mei Chaofeng" should be the version played by Zhang Minting.
In 1976, the "Legend of the Archery Hero" produced by Hong Kong Jiashi was launched. Although it is also impossible to find stills of her playing "Mei Chaofeng", from the perspective of the "Li Moxuan" she played, The willow eyebrows and big eyes, as well as a pair of sweet dimples, Zhang Minting, is really a beautiful woman.
But whether she can also appear beautifully when playing "Mei Chaofeng" is unknown.
In 1977, the second year after the broadcast of the "Jiashi version of the eagle", Shaw Film Company also filmed "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and the lineup was very luxurious - director Zhang Che, screenwriter Ni Kuang, and producer Cai Lan, starring fu Sheng, who were also very popular at that time.
In this version, Ma Helen, who starred in "Mei Chaofeng", is also a big beauty.
Viewers who like TVB dramas should be familiar with Helen Ma, who is soaked in the traces of time. And when she was young, she was even more bright-eyed, teethy, nose and cherry lips, so beautiful that it was unforgettable at first sight.
Can't find any stills of her "Mei Chaofeng", you can see her appearance in other films.
After the "Shaw version", it is the 83 version that is regarded as a classic by countless netizens.
In this version, "Mei Chaofeng", played by Huang Wenhui, has messy hair, an old face, and a very strange looking "smoky makeup", plus the kung fu of nine yin white bone claws, making her a childhood shadow for many people. Although Huang Wenhui's appearance does not conform to the novel's "dark skin, but the appearance is quite pretty", when it comes to Mei Chaofeng, the first time I think of her is definitely not a minority.
In 1988, Taiwan's China Television "reproduced" the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", but the market response was not good, and the Douban score was only 4.8 points low.
In this version, it is Chen Lihua who plays "Mei Chaofeng". Her style in the play is obviously imitating Huang Wenhui's version. However, Chen Lihua herself has beautiful eyebrows, rounded silhouettes, and a sense of deep and strange yin is far less important than Huang Wenhui's version.
From 1994, when Zhang Zhilin and Zhu Yin starred in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", the "Mei Chaofeng" in the play began to become more and more beautiful.
Mei Chaofeng in the "94 version", although it is still a continuation of the "83 version" in terms of styling, but the high appearance of Mai Cuixian herself and the "smoky makeup" that disappeared in the play make "Mei Chaofeng" exquisite and beautiful. Coupled with the 33-year-old Mai Cuixian at the time, she is much younger than the "Mei Chaofeng" in the book, and the visual effect is naturally better.
To the "03 CCTV version", it is a complete subversion of the previous screen image of "Mei Chaofeng".
In this version, Yang Liping, who is herself a dancer, is very eye-catching in terms of both appearance and stature. In terms of styling, although the crew still let "Mei Chaofeng" emit mirrors, it is comparable to real hair, hair extensions that can wash and do modeling, and exquisite makeup, all of which make "Mei Chaofeng" beautiful to an unprecedented height.
In addition to styling and makeup, "03 CCTV Version" also makes "Mei Chaofeng" extremely ethereal and beautiful in shooting, and often comes with a blower, long hair, fluttering clothes, and is as beautiful as if it is going to ride the wind at any time.
From another point of view, Yang Liping's lack of acting skills is inversely proportional to the beauty of the character's modeling.
How beautiful her "Mei Chaofeng" is, how different it is.
After Yang Liping, Kong Wei and Mi Lu successively starred in the 08 version and the 16 version of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter". In 2014's "Eagle Hero", Yang Rong also played "Mei Chaofeng" once.
Kong Wei's character modeling is similar to Yang Liping's version, but Yang Liping's long straight hair is replaced by curly hair, and the "smoky makeup" that has been lost is picked up again;
Milu's character style is more delicate and gorgeous than other versions, with exquisite hair crowns, exquisite hairstyles, tall long eyebrows, smudged eyeshadow, beautiful red lips... Although it is beautiful enough, if it is not the long whip and claws in black, you say that this is "Mei Chaofeng", who believes?
Similarly, Yang Rong's "Mei Chaofeng" style is also very unreliable. The long hair of the micro-curl is braided into small braids, and the nails are amazingly long, which does meet the setting of "Wolf Girl", but the distance between her and "Mei Chaofeng" becomes farther.
At present, although it is not known what kind of shape "Mei Chaofeng" will appear in the film version of the project, it is speculated from the plot that the probability of reliability is not large. However, lower the expectations a little, and there may be surprises!