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English film "Green Snake"

More foreign titles: green snake, green snake, white snake, green snake, green snake ... (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

Movie genre fantasy/plot

The length of the film is 99 minutes.

Country/Region Hong Kong

Cantonese, white language

Color color

Level Singapore: PG Australia: M Singapore: NC- 16 Canada: AA Hong Kong: IIA.

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Director Tsui Hark Tsui Hark

Screenwriter Li Bihua Lillian Lee ... is also the novel Tsui Hark.

executant

Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung ... Xiaoqing, Green Snake.

Chiu Man-Cheuk Monk Fatoy Manciuc (Fahai)

Joey Wong Joey Wong ... Baker Sai Jean (lady white snake) from White Snake.

Wu Xingguo Wu Yingguo ... Scholar Xu Xie (Xu Xian)

Liu Jiang Liu Jiang ... blind monk

Tian feng, Tian Feng ... Macheng Spider-Miao Chendong-Mui.

Producer: Tsui Hark Tsui Hark ...

Original Music Huang Zhang Lei Songde Zongde Road James Huang Junsheng Huang Yiyu

photography skills/techniques

Edit Tsik Ah

Bill Lui, artistic director

Fashion Design Baoling Wu

Production and sales

Camera panoramic camera and lens

35 mm film format

Manufacturing and processing method of spherical shape

Print format 35 mm

Screen system with a screen width of 35 mm

Produced by Shanghai Film Studio Hong Kong Philip Burkart Film Company 1993.

Release date: Hong Kong1993165438+1October 4th.

Plot introduction

During the Southern Song Dynasty, people's livelihood was peaceful, superstitions prevailed, and shemale and shemale were inseparable. The Buddhist monk Fahai, whose duty is to do justice for heaven, is ruthless. One night of thunder and lightning, the green snake and the thousand-year-old white snake cultivated at the bottom of the West Lake were puzzled by the fairy beads and suddenly began to understand. They became beauties roaming the world. I met Xu Xian, a white-faced scholar by chance. He was fascinated and fell in love, but was destroyed by the magic of the monk Fahai. From this, a human tragicomedy with blurred feelings and lingering love was deduced ... In the movie, when the green and white snake appeared, it was charming, graceful and passed by, and I don't know how many wild eyes it attracted. The chanting of Kunqu opera has become their daily talk, and the color of peach blossoms is hard to erase from their faces. The green snake even danced with the decadent sounds of foreign countries in the fireworks attic, and its eyes flowed, which made people fascinated and eroded their bones. Ordinary people must be anxious to stop. The snake turned into a beautiful woman, wandered the world of mortals, met Xu Xian, and love came into being. As a result, it rained cats and dogs on the West Lake, and Xu Xian, a stupid scholar, was drenched. I don't know that this downpour is not an act of god, but thanks to the Millennium magic of White Snake. Blue and white snakes are boating on the lake, and the clouds are lingering, just like fairies on earth, graceful. When an ignorant scholar gets on the boat, it is easy to capture his heart. This time, White Snake turned into a beautiful humanoid game world. With the help of thousands of years, many ordinary people's emotions, such as emotions, joys and sorrows, can be generated. Laughter and crying come naturally, just like ordinary people. Xiaoqing, on the other hand, is still young. Although covered with mortal skins, her snake and scorpion nature cannot be changed, and she is still lazy and greasy. She only knows how to be crazy and have fun at will, but she doesn't know how to cry in the west wind. Xiaoqing saw that Xu Xian, a bookworm, was hanging out with the white snake all day, and he was at ease, so he couldn't help feeling jealous. She is determined to fight her sister, and she doesn't believe that she can't accept Xu Xian's lust. At the same time, the young and promising Zen master of the Jinshan Temple in Fahai has banished demons and purified the world. Although there are endless hooligans seducing, they are all helpless by Fahai, whose heart is like a Buddha. Fahai's heart is in the world. He is strong and brave. When he saw the ominous color on the stupid Xu Xian's face, he soon knew that he was trapped by the snake demon, so he decided to take the two-headed snakes to avoid them causing trouble to the world. Green and white snake didn't know that disaster was coming. She stayed with Xu Xian in the magic pavilions, burning the world of mortals and lust, not smelling the wind and rain outside the window. Dragon Boat Festival arrived, and the green snake was playful and noisy, and refused to leave the hospital. That day, Xu Xian was afraid that the white snake he was drinking with would appear, so he poured the wine into the lotus pond. The green snake hidden inside showed its true colors, but it was a green python, hovering and pestering, which scared Xu Xian "xianggong" to death. Next, as legend has it, the Green White Snake went to Kunlun Mountain to look for Ganoderma lucidum and Xiancao in order to save Xu Xian's common life. The difference is that Fahai was killed halfway, the white snake grabbed the grass and fled first, and the green snake stopped the Zen master. Both of them showed their magical powers, and a rising tide lifts all boats. Fahai wants Green Snake to help him practice, but she can accept her success. So the green snake tempted Fahai, stroking and whispering around him, lingering again and again, and applied all the erotic tricks learned from the world. I didn't want to beat Fahai unexpectedly, which caused his desire to be shattered. Xu Xian was resurrected by the evergreen grass and knew all the details. In fact, he knows that his wife Xiaoqing is not a human being, how can she love more than fear, and how can she give up the gentle land in fairyland on earth. After a narrow escape, he woke up from his dream. He heard that Fahai was going to pounce, and now he is preparing to escape with his wife and Xiaoqing. Catering to and retaining confusion, which do you think this troubled man fell in love with? Do you think this fairy-like green snake and white snake loves this mortal or this colorful world? So, how can you escape? Fahai, who starred in Lust, Caution, was full of contradictions. He grabbed Xu Xian to Jinshan Temple, forced him to shave his head and give him lectures, hoping that Buddhism would give him strength and let him go astray. Both the green snake and the white snake flew in, waving their long sleeves and fighting Fahai. Suddenly, floods flooded Jinshan, rivers burst their banks, flooded houses, and caused endless pain. The white snake was pregnant a long time ago. After a fierce battle with Fahai, she moved the tire and gave birth to a baby in the water. The transvestite's doomed love and the Zen master Fahai, who was puzzled by his inner thoughts, were surprised to see the white snake give birth, but they looked trance-like and could not tell right from wrong. It is difficult for him to find out what is the difference between the so-called Uber and what is the purpose of his painstaking cultivation of exorcism and demon reduction. When Fahai lost his mind, Green Snake broke into Jinshan Temple to rescue Xu Xian. He never imagined that Xianggong was blocked by monks, unable to speak or see, and became a cripple. The green snake was afraid and confused. She felt that her sister and beloved secular man had betrayed them. She remembered how happy and carefree she was when she and her sister were in the mountains. If it weren't for the lust and love of the world of mortals, how could her sisters turn against each other and never survive today? On the other hand, the white snake handed the baby to Fahai and was immediately taken into the lake by the Leifeng Tower. The green snake took Xu Xian out of Jinshan Temple and found that her sister was missing, so she stabbed Xu Xian in the chest and threw him into the water. Fahai lost his way and muttered to himself. Let's leave now. Zhan Yan, the green snake, smiled sadly, jumped into the water, went with the flow, bid farewell to the world of mortals and never looked back. Only the river still flows eastward, majestic and rushing to the sea. Love abstains from endless sexual entanglements for 1000 years. Fahai chanted all day that "the dragon and the Prajna Buddhas hid Prajna in the Buddhist world" and lied that "the mind is as calm as Buddha". In the end, he was not confused by the enchanting and charming green snake, and could not help falling in love with this warm and fragrant nephrite. If there is no deity, Buddha and Bodhisattva, if all beings are really equal, there is no guarantee that he will fly hand in hand with this rare woman, only admiring Yuanyang but not immortals. But heaven and earth, the precepts last forever, the dreams are illusory, and I dare not even think about it. I can only abstain from love and love and continue to be his exorcist. The green and white snake practiced for thousands of years, absorbed the essence of rain and dew, and became an attractive beauty, which could not stand the laws of heaven, but only sulfur powder realgar wine could attract fatal disaster, not to mention all the monks and Taoist Guanyin Jade Emperor were involved in it, so they had to work hard and finally fell short and disappeared. So the green snake looked at the white snake and asked sadly, saying that there is love in the world, but what is love? It is better to go back to the barren hills where dharma is practiced, listen to the wind and rain, look at the sky, and care about the world of mortals, fearing that the dharma is boundless and no one cares. Sisters are accompanied by warmth and happiness. The green snake left only a sad smile and a lonely figure. Who said, crossing the other side, this life is long and short. Maybe many, many years later, I will forget you, forget your smiling eyes and forget my love for you. Maybe many, many years later, you will remember me, my sadness, and my love for you.

[Edit this paragraph] behind-the-scenes production

The film is directed by Tsui Hark, written by Tsui Hark and Li Bihua, and co-starred by Maggie Cheung, Wu Xingguo, Chiu Man-Cheuk and Joey Wong. This story is based on the China folklore "The Legend of the White Snake". It describes the white snake and the green snake practicing to become adults. They meet the scholar Xu Xian and love, but they are destroyed by the magic of the monk Fahai. Different from the traditional narrative, this film intends to discuss the emotional problems among Green Snake, White Snake, Fahai and Xu Xian from the perspective of Green Snake, questioning whether there is love and what love is. Based on these two points, the whole film is more modern and innovative. Characterization is different from traditional roles. For example, Fahai, played by Chiu Man-Cheuk, is not the middle-aged monk who looks ferocious in previous plays, but a young, handsome and energetic monk who is in the stage of spiritual practice and has six unfinished monks. He couldn't resist the temptation of the green snake and became angry from embarrassment, which hurt the whole person. Originally, the green snake should be the key figure in this film, but it is not as rich as the scenes in Fahai. As for the atmosphere created by the whole movie, there is an extraordinary mythical color, which can be said to be an adult fairy tale movie. It's Tsui Hark's wish for many years to shoot Green Snake. Tsui Hark hopes to show the lingering love and hate of modern women with the help of the well-known folk story The Legend of the White Snake. The Legend of the White Snake takes the White Snake as the prototype, but in Li Bihua's novel The Green Snake, the green snake has changed from a maid in the White Snake to another kind of "Xiaoqing", and does not hesitate to pursue the favorite fairy of the White Snake. In Tsui Hark's films, the green snake has become more and more fierce: in addition to actively pursuing Xu Xian, it is also mixed with jealousy, liveliness, naughty, unwilling to be lonely, keen, rebellious and independent. Finally, the White Snake died. Xiaoqing killed the cowardly and incompetent Xu Xian and took the White Snake's son on the road alone. Tsui Hark said that the conception of the story is not much different from Li Bihua's original work, but it only strengthens the drama and highlights the conflict between the white snake and the green snake in the choice of loyalty. He hopes to inject new elements into The Legend of the White Snake and show modern women's views on love and friendship. So although the story is set in the Southern Song Dynasty, the plot develops with love, so the background is not important at all. The old story Green Snake was stirred up by Tsui Hark with modern elements, but it has a unique style. The dreamy and seductive witch, the unwilling lonely "third party", the loyal and chivalrous woman, and his strong point-dazzling stunt, are really refreshing. As Tsui Hark himself said: "If a film director has religious fanaticism and novelist's imagination, the film will produce a kind of magic".

[Edit this paragraph] Wonderful dialogue

[Method]: Snake demon, I want you to help me practice. [Qing]: Help you practice? [Method]: If you can confuse my determination, I will let you go. [Qing]: OK, I'll try ... but I don't have enough concentration, lest you screw up ... [Qing]: You always say that I don't have concentration, but I find that everyone doesn't have concentration, including the honest man who can't fly out of your palm ... [Qing]: ... and the monk who keeps saying to stay away from you. What you spent so much time doing, I finished it at once. I thought you were good at it, but that's all. [Qing]: Xu Xian ... [Qing]: Poor! Your five yin and consciousness are sealed. [Fairy]: Xiaoqing ... [Fairy]: It's wrong to lust after the world of mortals ... crime ... regret ... [Qing]: You can't speak, and what you say now is useless ... [Qing]: You betrayed us. [Qing]: I came to this world and was misunderstood by this world. You say there is love in the world, but what is love? [Qing]: Ridiculous. None of you people know. When you figure it out, maybe I'll come back ... [France]: Xiaoqing ... I'm over 1300 this year. Living under a bridge in the West Lake. This bridge is called "Broken Bridge". It used to be called Duanjia Bridge, not a broken bridge. I am full, lazy and bored in winter, so I have to fall asleep. It is my sister who sleeps next to me. We are entangled in the wrong dish and don't know what the world is like. Although the bridge has been rebuilt and paved with reinforced concrete, cars can pass, but there are also tourists from all directions, stepping on the residual snow, giving out artificial admiration and emotion, which is no longer so easy to wake us up. The West Lake itself has no connotation. It doesn't understand thoughts and never surges. He is an idiot. I actually won the chanting of poets, saying, "When will the West Lake dance stop?" Warm wind intoxicated tourists and made Hangzhou a "swimming state". This is ridiculous. I have never been so poetic in my years in the West Lake. If I had a choice, I hope nothing happened. In the distance, there is a quiet and careless bell. I don't know whether it's Lingyin Temple in Beishan or Jingci Temple in Nanshan, where the night bell rings. I turned around and continued my good dream. I don't want to get up. However, when Chun Xue melted for the first time, spring thunder sounded and we had to be awakened. Year after year. My happiness, sadness and aging all happened in a flash, except death. My lifelong career is "cultivation". Who knows what activity training is? What are the benefits of practice? Who is it? My biggest pain will be that I can't judge a group of people over 300 years old. I have to keep practicing, Ihudi? This is actually impossible to pick and choose. There are many things you can't choose besides your career. Like fate. Why is there a small mistake in my fate? Of course, at that time, I was still young, only over 500 years old, and my skills were not enough, so I also did absurd things. I forgot to tell you that I am a snake. I am a blue snake. You can't change your color, you must love it. 1300 years, forever. Sister, you have been practicing for thousands of years. Is it worth it for a Xu Xian?

[Edit this paragraph] soundtrack

The Legend of the White Snake was adapted by Li Bihua, who wrote a novel for the film, and directed by the genius Tsui Hark. After bringing this well-known legend to life, it was renamed Green Snake and given another new meaning. Known as "the best romance in the world", Li Bihua screenwriter and costume drama geek Tsui Hark used the lens. Needless to say, the movie. Huang Zhixiang, Tsui Hark's old partner, and Lei Songde, a new musician, made the original music for Green Snake, which is very rare. The theme song "Time flies" is very enjoyable. It turns out that James J.S.Wong himself said the word "listening well". Just like a child who gives a treasure, he is afraid that others will ignore his masterpiece, so he tells you in the copy that it is not enough to say "good listening", but it is also safe to say "good listening". However, it is indeed a masterpiece, with excellent lyrics and songs. Lei Songde's arrangement, the opening of a guzheng, immediately gives people the feeling of glory, and then leads to Chan Sarah's soft voice: "It's half cold and half warm in autumn, quietly ironing around, silently watching the ribbon flying, and a few red leaves in the evening breeze, causing the body and mind to be crisp and soft ..." It's really a song that makes people's bones crisp. Looking back, I think of Mrs. White Snake in white, Xiaoqing in Tsing Yi, looking forward to life, and her skirts are fluttering. This is the only way. After being too coquettish, I don't feel frivolous, just like watching the ribbon fly silently. "Stay in the world for a few more days, you will love each other, meet the vicissitudes of life, and do the things that jack shall have Jill. Is Mo Wen a doom or a fate? " Bai Niangzi should be happy, because she loves Xu Xian enough to admit that he is not good. If she is affectionate, she will give herself a chance to be happy first. However, fate or disaster, regardless of knowing, will always come in a threatening way. Therefore, "doing happy things with lovers" has only become a short-lived wish, and then it will be misty forever. The real purpose is "life is like this", just 3 1 word, but it is full of words. This song by Lei Songde is completely different from his later style. Its beauty is like his secret, which can't be revealed once and can't be mentioned again. /kloc-Lei Songde in 0/993, standing next to James ·J·s· Wong, wearing a grand and tight gray shirt and white pants, made people feel terrible. At that time, ray's fierce anger really made people dare not look straight. A work like This is Life really needs some basic skills. Uncle Zhan said that he missed the word so much that he couldn't think about tea and rice. He didn't want to eat it. After the audition in the studio, he made a change. Indeed, good writing needs time and effort, and the talented David Henry Hwang is willing to make such efforts. "This is Life" has an opening song and an ending song, which correspond from beginning to end, which is in line with the theme of the film. Winnie Hsin's lead singer's version is really atmospheric. David Henry Hwang has a unique vision, claiming to write jokes about Lei Songde, and immediately thought of letting Xin Yongqi sing. But the female chorus version at the end of the film is very embarrassing: in the cycle from generation to generation, it is just "life is like this, life is like this", but it is just "love"! James ·J·s· Wang's Mohologa is really a stroke of genius. At first, in the movie, I saw Maggie Cheung airborne like a thousand crystals in a gorgeous room, mixed with a group of Indian women, dancing enchanting. The music that accompanied her snake waist really shocked me. At that time, I thought it was original Indian music, but later I learned that it was original by James J.S.Wong! How did "Indian music with Chinese flavor" come from? James J.S.Wong James J.S.Wong, how can I not love you? ! It is said that Tsui Hark, an old monster, wrote the first lyric "Don't sigh, the color is empty" and ran away. The examiner gave a hint and James ·J·s· Wang was cleaned up. So Lao Huang had to shake out the knowledge of reading Buddhist scriptures for many years-the snake god and music god of Tianlong Babu, the modern Ganu and Mohologa in the last days; "Revealing the truth" is a heartless couplet of "Maha". Winnie-shin's mellow voice has also become charming and lured into the eardrum. In the turbid world of drunkenness, snakes and demons dance together; Too many clothes, sudden tone; But in a flash, behind a golden smoke, it disappeared without a trace; Empty color change, color change empty! The jokes of pure music are also well done, which are divided into two kinds of keynote: one is the yearning for love, the first meeting, the floating lights of running water, the swing of a waist and a skirt, and the beautiful sadness composed of insiders and husband seekers. The lotus flowers in the West Lake are misty and rainy, and the wind and clouds are gone, and the rain is torrential. In order to tie Lang's heart, he read a spell, the oil umbrella was gently opened, and a doomed love was thus cast. In spring, flowers are flying, water is red, snow is fragrant, passionate demons and fickle people. Unfortunately, when you learn to be a man, you can only learn love and sex at most, but you can't learn Muna, fatuity, speculation and cowardice. Beautiful melody stirs people's ears, and all kinds of pure and beautiful charm and spirit belong to sincere feelings that are not contaminated with the world of mortals. However, since we have fallen into the secular world by mistake, feelings are no longer valuable, and feelings are naturally in harmony with heaven and earth, but there are always disasters behind them. The more beautiful the front, the worse! Another keynote begins with "the devil's field on earth". Lei Songde's magic field on earth is so strange that even James ·J·s· Wong praised it as "very creative". Demon deception, inner demon, water control, water and gold mountain, and dare to fight also follow the same tone. The national musical instruments mixed with percussion music are very imposing: the coldness of Fahai, the filth of the world, and the fearlessness of White Snake and Green Snake all become aggressive with stronger drums and sharp music. In particular, the "Dare to Fight" passage is particularly violent and unbearable-Xu Xian leads the way to bring down the white snake and collect Lei Feng from the demon town. Town, in fact, White Snake is not afraid of death, so why should he be afraid of town? What kind of heart is it just to look at the figure of Xu Xianyuan and the slowly falling alms bowl? What unspeakable despair and sadness. This is actually an owl. From the moment we met, we drank without hesitation. When we first met in the West Lake, it shattered the world! Next is This Hate, which is the tune of Time flies. At that time, only love and hate were left in the charming feelings. That sword, inserted in Xu Xian's heart, will his heart still hurt in the afterlife? The song rang again: "Life is like this, life is like this ..." Green Snake is a popular legend, taking the mentality of contemporary people as the mentality of legendary people, and myths and reality are packed in smelly bags. Li Bihua in full bloom, quirky Xu Laoke, elf-like David Henry Hwang, and resolute Lei Songde created this legendary story hand in hand. Whether it is a text shot or a musical sound, Green Snake is a piece of music for all living beings. Just like the tears symbolized at the beginning and end of the film, whenever and wherever you see the word "green" and "snake" intersect, it will quietly drop on your heart. So unforgettable that even the streamer is eternal. ...