Recently, some media have posted a set of photos, is an artist eating bread at a roadside stall, from the photo, the woman is obviously emaciated, and her hair is also yellow and dry, like a roadside grandmother. But in fact, she is not, she is actually a well-known actor, she is Ye Tong.
Once became popular with the "Legend of the New White Lady" in which women dressed as men and reversed the string of "Xu Xian", I have to say that life is really uncertain, Zhao Yazhi is currently known as the "Goddess of Frozen Age", and the "Xu Xian" of that year has obviously aged.
With the rare appearance of 58-year-old Ye Tong, what is even more unacceptable is that the classic "Xu Xian" played by Ye Tong has now become the "biggest failure" among other people.
Just after some media exposed Ye Tong's recent photos, I thought of going to the comment area to recall a wave, but what I saw was discussing the "Legend of the New White Lady" of that year, and many of them almost said that they did not understand why they wanted to use women to play "Xu Xian", and even some netizens directly called out that Xu Xian dressed as a man was the biggest failure.
In this regard, naturally there are also netizens who refute it, after all, a generation of classic roles, there must still be people who like it. But no matter what, such doubts still appear, which means that some science needs to be done to the classic "Legend of the New White Lady".
First of all, the work "The Legend of the New White Lady" was broadcast in 1992, and the thinking was still relatively conservative at that time, and because it was an early costume love drama, it was not too much to even list it as the earliest version of the Xian Xia drama, the idea was conservative, and they had to play a couple who were tired of being together every day, and natural women dressed as men were more open for the actors to let go in acting.
You must know that at that time, the film and television industry was just beginning to develop, so it was difficult for actors to be like today's actors.
Secondly, I believe that those partners who have doubts about "The Legend of the New White Lady" are almost all audiences who are accustomed to watching fairy tale dramas or idol dramas today.
At that time, when the "Legend of the New White Lady" was first defined, it was not simply a fairy drama, but a film with a "rap-style new yellow plum tune", which means that it will be integrated into the content of the opera, so if you want to perfectly set off the opera, Xu Xian, who naturally dresses as a man, is very much needed, so that there will be a unique beauty.
However, there is one thing that needs to be mentioned, in fact, when the role of "Xu Xian" was chosen, the first choice was not Ye Tong, but Lin Qingxia, who played the "Undefeated In the East", after all, Lin Qingxia had already played the role of a woman dressed as a man, but at that time, Lin Qingxia and Zhao Yazhi were actually the highest paid actresses in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and if lin Qingxia was chosen, there was no doubt that the shooting budget would be very tight, which found Ye Tong.
But don't underestimate Ye Tong, although the salary at that time was not as high as Lin Qingxia and others, but the acting skills were actually no less than anyone, after all, before filming "The Legend of the New White Lady", Ye Tong was already "the queen of the two Hong Kong Film Awards", but it was only the first time for a woman to dress as a man.
It may be precisely because Ye Tong is the first time, so it has created the classic "Xu Xian", perhaps in the eyes of the current audience, the female dress of men was indeed the biggest failure, but in the eyes of the audience at that time, Ye Tong did create a classic, because that "Xu Xian" did set off the opera part of Huang Mei tune.
It is also with Ye Tong that "Xu Xian" and "White Lady" have become the memories of two generations.
So looking at it now, do you still think that the "Xu Xian" of that year was a failure in the play?