#"Flash hour" theme essay issue 2 #
Some people say that "hermaphrodites are dragons and phoenixes among people", such as Lin Qingxia and Zhang Guorong, in addition to these two well-known actors, there is also an actress, because of the anti-string of a role, successfully make themselves household names at the same time, but also hinder the future development.
She is the actor of Xu Xian in "The Legend of the New White Lady" - Ye Tong.
Ye Tong's height at the age of 18 has reached 1.72, and she plucked up the courage to sign up for advertising models, although the shy Ye Tong ranked last in the long application line, but her beautiful facial features and slender figure still attracted the attention of director assistant Chen Guoxi and successfully entered the list of candidates.
Chen Guoxi, on the other hand, became her boyfriend, lover and husband in the years that followed.
In an interview with Lu Yu, Lu Yu asked Ye Tong with some recklessness: "Your height is not very qualified to be a model" Ye Tong thought about it and replied: "At that time, the model selection was not so strict, although I was not tall enough, I still had the opportunity to walk on the catwalk." It can be seen that Ye Tong did not get much attention when he was a model.
At that time, many models eventually stepped into the show business circle, and so did Ye Tong, who in 1981 became acquainted with director Tam Ka Ming, the leader of the Hong Kong New Wave, and was invited to participate in the forbidden youth theme film "Fire Youth".
The first time he made a film, Ye Tong was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Newcomer, and was noticed by many directors and producers, and since then the film has continued to be about.
Zhang Guorong, who partnered her in this film, once said something like this: "I like Ye Tong the most." If I were a director, the first set of scenes would definitely find Ye Tong. Ye Tong's first debut was to cooperate with me, and at that time I already felt that this girl was a genius. The implication is that Ye Tong was born to eat actor's meal.
As he said, the following year, Ye Tong won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress for her wife image abandoned by her husband in the movie "Seven Days of Wrong Love". In 1990, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in the movie "Flying Over Dusk". After winning the Academy Awards in 1991 with "Marriage Don't Talk", she was the first double film queen in the history of the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Ye Tong's facial features are not prominent, but the plasticity is strong, coupled with her high requirements for herself, she will collect information in advance for each role she plays, from walking posture to eye changes, she has repeatedly speculated, no matter how much the scene, she will strive to achieve the ultimate, which makes her a leader in the Hong Kong film industry in the 80s and 90s.
At this time, Ye Tong's seniority and popularity were much higher than Maggie Cheung, who debuted two years later, but because of one of her choices, the subsequent development of the two was very different.
The turning point for Ye Tong was that she went to Taiwan, when the famous taiwanese female producer Yang Peipei admired Ye Tong's role as Yue Lingshan in the movie "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and tried to persuade Ye Tong to come to Taiwan to develop a TV drama career.
She tentatively filmed her first TV series "Blue Sea Love Sky", which quickly swept Through Taiwan, and her films followed, and she also ushered in the "Legend of the New White Lady", which had a deep impact on her.
Ye Tong's anti-string Xu Xian is very classic, this is an irrefutable fact, why would you find a woman to play Xu Xian, in fact, the general director Xia Zuhui at that time also wanted male actors to play, but the male actors at that time performed mostly straight men with hot blood and hardness, they felt that Xu Xian was too feminine, and when performing, it was either too hard or too fake, and there was no "Xu Xian" that kind of elegant and slightly pedantic warm male feeling.
The setting of the TV series has a breakthrough implanted in the singing section of the Huangmei opera, in the Huangmei opera has always had the tradition of women dressing as men, so Xia Zuhui has the idea of letting the actresses come back to the string, and the initial candidate is the successful starring Lin Qingxia, who is undefeated in the East, but because Lin Qingxia cannot be opened, she can only find someone else.
Because Ye Tong's men's clothing style in "Blue Sea Love Day" is also very brilliant, and the results of Zhao Yazhi and Ye Tong's auditions, whether it is height or temperament, the two are a pair of pearls, and many factors are mixed together to have Ye Tong's version of Xu Xian.
Ye Tong said that when she studied Xu Xian, she felt that Xu Xian in the original script was too dull and lacked the breath of life, so she carefully thought about it and repositioned herself, shaping Xu Xian into a cultured and disciplined and a little timid student, an ordinary man who loved his wife and was afraid of monsters. Therefore, in the play, she always has a light in her eyes when she looks at Bai Suzhen, and she is always strange and polite when she gets along with others.
Under Ye Tong's superb acting skills, Xu Xian, played by her, has become an insurmountable classic, and even though this drama has been broadcast for 28 years, it is still repeatedly mentioned.
After the success of playing a husband and wife in "The Legend of the New White Lady", Ye Tong and Zhao Yazhi participated in "Evil Sea Flower", "Chaotic World Can't Love" and "Zhuangyuan Flower". Ye Tong anti-string male protagonist, the two are still a pair, but they can not be as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as "The Legend of the New White Lady".
At the same time as filming this TV series, Ye Tong was still filming Yin Susu and Zhao Min in the TV series "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", although Ye Tong was also very dedicated to playing these two roles, but people always wanted to find Xu Xian's shadow from the women's Zhao Min, and later no matter what role she played, people would spontaneously bring in Xu Xian's shadow. "The Legend of the New White Lady" has achieved Ye Tong's TV drama career, but it has ended her road to film, and Ye Tong has been imprisoned by Xu Xian, who starred in herself.
After Ye Tong chose to go to Taiwan to develop, there were a lot of good movies and good actors in the Hong Kong film industry, she was absent, and when she returned to Hong Kong to make movies, her golden age was still over.
Some things, once missed, are not there.
Today, compared with Maggie Cheung, who has become an international superstar 2 years after her debut, she has eclipsed a lot, "lost the east corner, harvested the mulberry yu", lost the opportunity to enter the international world, and won the reputation of the people, whether it is "gain" or "loss".
In the "Changeable Big Coffee Show" program, there was an issue of Ye Tong imitating Mei Yanfang's singing, and during the practice, Mei Yanfang's eyes flowed and body movements at the concert, and she repeatedly pondered every bit.
When she stood in front of the stage, she raised her hands and feet to Mei Yanfang, and the audience applauded and moved. She did have undeniable acting skills, but she trapped herself because of "Xu Xian", and at that moment, she regretted it.
When participating in a program of Hunan Tv, the host asked Ye Tong in "The Legend of the New White Lady", the most memorable is that paragraph, Ye Tong said that it was the part of becoming a parent, before she only knew that when a woman became a parent, she was worried and looking forward to the mood, and that drama she has been feeling from the perspective of a man, she feels that when a man gets married, the idea in her heart is "I will protect this woman and love this woman in the future."
Unfortunately, Ye Tong's love is not entrusted to people, she has an inattentive husband, that is, Chen Guoxi, who first discovered her, the two of them fell in love for 8 years and married, and soon after marriage, Chen Guoxi continued to cheat, often appearing on the cover of Hong Kong gossip magazines.
Ye Tong loves cowardly and humble, no matter how her husband messes up outside, she always chooses to forgive, so that the marriage has been maintained to this day, and these troubles inevitably accelerate her aging and haggardness.
Every time Ye Tong shared the stage with Zhao Yazhi, who was 9 years older than her, compared to the brilliant Zhao Yazhi, she dimmed a lot, and it was clear whether a woman's life was comfortable or not.
The world is uncertain, whether it is career or love, the choice will have an ending, right or wrong, can only experience it yourself.