The earth is under my feet, and the national plan is in my hands!
As soon as the atmospheric shocking melody sounded, the domineering and heroic Qin Shi Huang Emperor in his mind immediately appeared.
ATV 86 edition of "Qin Shi Huang" Wins the Image of Zheng Zheng
This is the earliest TV drama image of Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng that several generations have seen, which is the historical theme TV series "Qin Shi Huang" broadcast by Asia Television in Hong Kong, China in 1986.
ATV 86 edition of "Qin Shi Huang"
The actor who starred in this classic role is a local actor from Hong Kong, whose name is Liu Yong.
ATV 86 version of "Qin Shi Huang" starred Liu Yong
In the 1980s, tvb has been happy to shoot martial arts dramas after tasting the sweetness of martial arts dramas, and there is almost no achievement in historical dramas. There are not many dramas that ATV can compete with wireless, but only in terms of character biographies and historical dramas, it is precisely the strength that ATV can divide into half a day. Characters such as "Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen" in the early period belong to this. Although there is a historical environment as the background, after all, it is a martial arts theme, only "Qin Shi Huang", this drama is out, immediately see the atvic level.
Different from the traditional historical figure dramas later produced in the mainland, the ATV version of "Qin Shi Huang" was produced in the direction of historical figures and legends from the beginning. Since before that era, there was no drama on this theme in Hong Kong and even in the whole country, and the legendary color of the character of Qin Shi Huang itself and the folk history have extremely rich stories, which provide a lot of material for the creation of the series. Therefore, in terms of content, in addition to the major events recorded in the main history, some long-standing folklore is also interspersed. Such as the love story of Meng Jiang's thousand-mile searcher, snow girl Xueying and Jing Ke.
Liu Songren and Michelle have played couples many times
This is obviously specially created for actors such as ATV's red flower Dan Michelle and Feng Baobao, especially a relationship between Liu Songren and Michelle that year. Adding dramas to enhance the fame of actors is also a common routine in the production of Hong Kong film and television dramas.
The opening credits of the 86th edition of "Qin Shi Huang"
In terms of plot, it definitely stands up to historical scrutiny. Lü Buwei, a merchant of the State of Zhao, used the strategy of "strange goods to live in" to give his concubine Zhao Ji to King ZhuangXiang of Qin, thus intervening in political affairs and serving qin xiangguo. When Zhao Ji was pregnant, she gave birth to a son, who was for Yingzheng. Yin Zheng grew up in the Zhao Kingdom and had a deep friendship with Prince Dan of Yan, and Yin Zheng returned to the Qin Kingdom with his parents and was made crown prince.
Yingzheng ascended the throne at the age of 13
Lü Buwei, played by Wang Wei, is domineering enough
After Yingzheng ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, Lü Buwei took sole control of the imperial government, and Yingzheng fell in love with the Korean princess Han Mi as a hostage, but Mi and his friend Prince Dan of Yan were both in love, and the political struggle was fruitless.
Hwang So-shi plays a Korean princess
Win the government and spring
When Zheng was twenty-two years old, lü Buwei was dismissed from his post and given poison and wine, and finally regained power. The reuse of Li Si, Meng Tian and Wei Ji and other literary and martial arts began the great cause of unifying the six kingdoms. The strategy of long-distance and close-range attack was launched, and the forces of the Six Kingdoms were gradually disintegrated, and the Qin state gradually became stronger. Yingzheng ascended the throne in the logistics of wang affairs, and had great ambitions to destroy the six kingdoms to unify the world, in order to complete Wang Tu's hegemony, Yin zheng could not care about the brotherhood with Yan Dan.
Yin Zheng and Yan Dan are reunited when they grow up
Liu Songren plays Jing Ke
The chivalrous Jing Ke decided to stab Qin, and Gao gradually left Yi Shui to bid farewell. Jing Ke met Xue Ying on the way to Qin, and the two fell in love deeply, jing Ke understood that he would never return, and he could not bear to leave Xue Ying. The assassination of Qin failed, and Jing Ke won the respect of the King of Qin with his death, leaving his name for eternity. The King of Qin unified China, changed his name to the First Emperor, adopted Li Si's proposal, ruled the country in the way of Han Feizi's lawyer, unified weights and measures and writing, burned books and pit Confucianism, and built the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu searched for a husband and touched the First Emperor. The First Emperor was proud of the world, but his heart was lonely, and eventually he died on the way to the East, and his ideal of thousands of generations of work died in the second.
Yingzheng paid tribute to the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum
From this point of view, the characters added to the plot did not have much impact on the series itself. After all, it is not the main line and occupies a small story space, compared to the "Big Mistress" broadcast in the mainland last year, these characters and plots are simply too good to watch, because the arrangement is reasonable, and the audience will not be disgusted.
The length of 63 episodes to show the warring states style to tell the life of the first emperor is a bit lengthy in terms of TV dramas. Fortunately, most of the plot is still quite rigorous, and all aspects of Fuhua Dao have restored the style of that era, which is also a sense of satisfaction for the people of the eighties that Qin Shi Huang and the enlightenment and legend of Chinese history have been for a long time to finally see the true face of Lushan.
Most of the exterior scenes in the play are real scenes filmed in Xi'an, and the snow scene is even filmed in South Korea, which is also a cultural exchange between China and South Korea in advance, fortunately, South Korea did not have the consciousness to apply for the will of the First Emperor of Qin at that time!
Went to Xi'an to shoot the scene
Filmed at the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum
And then there's the actor side.
ATV has always been a big hand in the production of historical costume dramas. As the earliest historical drama with Qin Shi Huang as the protagonist, this drama also uses the big names of ATV in terms of actors.
The male number one who played the main role was Liu Yong, a famous star in the 1970s, who had cooperated with Bruce Lee many times in movies such as "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Raptor Crossing the River", and cooperated with the famous director Li Hanxiang in a series of films such as "Qianlong Emperor Under Jiangnan" in Shao's family, which also accumulated experience for playing the role of emperor such as Qin Shi Huang to a certain extent.
Liu Yong had abused his wife for three times
Liu Yong entered the drama like outside the play, and once staged martial arts dramas with three wives in a row, and the word domestic violence is a stain that he has been criticized for many years. However, as far as the matter is concerned, private morality does not affect the level of business, so far, Liu Yong's image of Qin Shi Huang is still the most praised classic image in most of the Qin Shi Huang screen images.
Other roles are also played by big-name actors who are popular on ATV. For example, Liu Songren, who played Jing Ke, Pan Zhiwen, who played Prince Dan of Yan, Wang Wei, who played Lü Buwei, as well as Bao Qijing, Michelle, and Feng Baobao, were all powerful actors at that time.
Luo Jialiang sang the theme song of the same name "Qin Shi Huang"
The theme song at the beginning was sung by Luo Jialiang, the first three-time TVB emperor who was very popular and a singer who had just debuted that year. Whether it is a powerful prelude, an impassioned melody or a lyric, it is really majestic and atmospheric, giving people a feeling of kingly presence! I still listen to it a lot today.
However, Luo Jialiang himself finally played the role of Qin Shi Huang after 25 years, and he was greatly addicted, which showed the charm of the role of Qin Shi Huang.
Luo Jialiang plays Qin Shi Huang
By today's standards, the costumes of this drama are slightly thin, but it is also understandable with the understanding of the Warring States era and the ability to restore costumes in the 1985 era. In the era of blank film and television materials, if you want to shoot Qin Shi Huang well, presumably the crew also spent a lot of data collection to create today's screen classics. The plot also has out-of-line places, but this does not affect the multi-faceted portrayal of the personality of the First Emperor in this drama, and Liu Yong interprets this lonely, fierce, ruthless, and domineering emperor like the First Emperor of Qin.
Xiaogang wanted to say
When I was a child, I had no entertainment, and every night after writing my homework, I would put on a small stool and watch TV in the courtyard, sometimes watching other people's TV at other people's houses. At that time, the drama I watched never felt that the plot was unreasonable, what was the costume, Mary Sue, because this was the only entertainment at that time. Now that we are grown up, we still like to watch old dramas, not that we have more feelings, but I also want to see some new dramas, then we must also have good dramas to watch. It's not that we are nostalgic and like to watch old dramas, but now THE TV series, if it can be like before, the rhythm is clear, the plot is good, rather than relying on the three-hair special effects and grinding skin to attract the beauty that his mother does not recognize, how good it would be. Sometimes after watching one or two episodes of a new TV series, you will really find that the previous TV series are really good!
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