It takes a hundred years to build the same boat, and it takes a thousand years to sleep together. The misty and rainy West Lake still has the broken bridge.
In 2019, "The Legend of the White Snake", which has been circulated throughout the dynasties, has also spawned a prequel movie "White Snake: The Origin" that traces its origins. The background is set in the late Tang Dynasty instead of the Southern Song Dynasty——
From the mutual acquaintance and love of Bai Snake and A Xuan in the new system, to the marriage of Bai Niangzi and Xu Xian in Hangzhou in the traditional story familiar to the public, these predestined fates in past and present lives are all intertwined, connected and echoed with each other. Do you think that Are Easter Eggs just a Marvel specialty? The tribute stalks in [White Snake: Origin] also buried a lot of surprises. Fans who like the legend of the White Snake hurry up and call!
1. Yes, this is the Chinese text you have memorized
[White Snake: Origin] At the beginning, the royal family was absurd and asked for longevity, so the national teacher enforced tyranny and ordered the people to catch snakes and use their essence to practice evil powers. A bead hairpin was engraved with the words "Baoqingfang", so Ah Xuan led the white snake to Yongzhou, where Baoqingfang was located, to find his life experience.
The relationship between Yongzhou and snakes is very close. Liu Zongyuan, a famous writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Snake Catcher's Talk", "Yongzhou wild snakes: black and white, they will die if they touch plants and trees; The poison of poisonous snakes is analogous to the poison of tyranny. In the film, Yongzhou, which produced snakes and hunted them wildly, was also destroyed. Silly.
2. Qingbai is very interactive [Blue Snake]
The whole film is actually a memory hidden in the hairpin. The white snake cannot break through the bottleneck in her practice, so the green snake takes out the hairpin to wake up the past that the white snake has forgotten to help her regain her perfect mind. In this scene, the two sisters bathe together and snuggle on the grass. , a proper tribute to Tsui Hark director "Green Snake" in the scene of Wang Zuxian, Maggie Cheung soaking in the beauty soup and chatting in the courtyard garden, the huge welfare of the Lily Party.
3. White Snake Xiaoqing is a teacher and sister?
Whether it is a green snake or a green fish, Xiaoqing is most attached to her elder sister Bai Suzhen—the two of them or sisters, or master and servant, they have met each other without fighting, and they have also practiced together at the bottom of Emei, West Lake or Zizhu Forest. "White Snake: Origin" arranges White Snake and Green Snake as disciples who worship under the master of the Golden Snake, which is a teacher-sister relationship.
This is not the first time such a setting has been set in a film and television drama. In "The Legend of the True White Snake" filmed in Taiwan in 1978, the white snake played by Brigitte Lin and the green snake played by Qin Zhimin are the brothers and sisters who followed the practice of Li Shan's mother together. There is also a line in which Xiaoqing calls out to White Snake "Big Sister".
4. Oil-paper umbrellas and rafting are both available
The oil-paper umbrella and the West Lake are on the same boat. It can be said that they are important matchmakers for Bai and Xu. They are in the same boat and have the opportunity to communicate face-to-face. [White Snake: Origin] Chinese oil paper umbrellas and boating are still romantic. During the process of flying with the umbrella and going down the river, Bai Snake and Ah Xuan gradually became more and more affectionate.
5. "Passing Love" and "Past Life and This Life" are still the classic yellow plum tune of "New White"
When Bai Snake and Ah Xuan took the boat to Yongzhou, the old boatman who punted the boat was wearing a scorpion and a straw hat, just like the animated version of the old boatman on the West Lake in "The Legend of the New White Lady", and he sang "Ah~ Ah~" is the prelude to the ending song of "The Legend of the New White Snake" and the well-known "Crossing Love". In "Xin Bai", it is the duet between the old man and Qing'er, which points out the white lady and Xu Xian "Crossing" a lake together and "sharing" a lifetime of romance and affection.
"Past Life and This Life" is also an episode of "The Legend of the New White Snake", strung together with the white snake's repayment of gratitude and deep-rooted love for Xu Xian, and it sounds near the end of "White Snake: Origin", which is already the first encounter in West Lake, which is our favorite. The bridge is over, and the music is accompanied by a momentary feeling of gratification -- going around in circles, Bai Snake and A Xuan finally meet again in this life, it really is "the past life and the present life" unfinished.
6. [A Chinese Ghost Story] Chaotic entry
After leaving Baoqingfang, Ah Xuan carried a lantern and walked with the white snake in the forest. When Xiaoqing appeared, the scene of the two panicked was just like Ning Caichen and Wang Zuxian played by Leslie Cheung in [A Chinese Ghost Story 2: The Human Road] The Q version of Qingfeng being chased by wild wolves and fleeing in the night forest.
7. Double-faced fox demon
Yo, the little girl has two faces? Lolita Fox Demon Little Spice Girl is actually the head of Baoqingfang. Fox is the most changeable among demons. It is not surprising that there are two faces. She is glamorous and charming, and the proprietress is sophisticated and stable. She has the style of Maggie Cheung in [Xinlongmen Inn]. The setting of smoking a big cigarette may be from the 86 CCTV version of "Journey to the West" to conquer the king of gold and silver. Sun Xingzhe transformed into the shape of the nine-tailed fox godmother of the Dragon Cave? It even reminds people of the spirit woman dubbed by Mr. Jin Shijie in [Big Fish and Begonia].
The human face and fox face that rotate back and forth are not only like the magic palace boss and conjoined sister Ji Wushuang of [The Legend of the White-Haired Witch], but also have the feeling of a Western sci-fi movie with a head-changing mechanical doll, with a bit of mystery in it. .
8. Baoqingfang
Baoqingfang can not only create magic weapons, it is also the base for monsters who "must sharpen their weapons first", and it can also carry out the transformation of human beings into monsters. Working little demons, colorful and charming lights... This bizarre workshop has the lively scene of Tsui Hark's animated film [Xiaoqian] Zhongguobei County/Lanruo Temple, where demons and ghosts gather to make a living and set up shop, and Miyazaki In Jun [Spirited Away], the immediate sense of sight of Granny Yu's bath/boiler room.
9. "Little Dragonfly" that absorbs essence
In order to maintain the identity of the white snake and overcome the barriers of the secular identity, Ah Xuan decided to become a demon. His sacrifice to love was touching; the fox demon proprietress asked him to contribute his essence as a human being, which is the magic weapon for making demons. The top ingredients, and the one who absorbs the essence of Ah Xuan is the slender, tail and wings like dragonflies, which is reminiscent of the red corpse god played by Lin Xilei in director Tsui Hark's "Shushan Biography", who is also a flower-like worm. , but can also control the primordial spirit by sucking the essence, and this is how Dan Chenzi, the senior brother of Emei, was introduced into the magic way by her.
10. Why is it called Ah Xuan?
In fact, "Xuan" was originally a homonym of "Xian". In the process of the evolution of folk legends such as the White Snake Story, which have no definitive novel, it is normal for the name to change slightly.
In the Song Dynasty version of "The Three Pagodas of the West Lake", there is a bridge section in which the white snake demon seduces the scholar. The scholar's name is "Xi Xuanzan", which is the prototype of the name "Xu Xian"; later Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty "Jingshitongyan" Volume 28 " In Bai Niangzi Yongzhen Leifeng Pagoda, this young man is clearly called "Xu Xuan"; in the article "Lei Feng Weird" in the Qing Dynasty, Xu Xiaoyi is still called "Xu Xuan". In 2018, the pharmacist played by Ren Jialun in the drama "The Legend of the White Snake" starring Yang Zi also used the name "Xu Xuan".
11. The beauty of each edition of the White Snake Collection
The white snake in [White Snake: Origin] is as beautiful and gentle as ever, but it is also more courageous like a warrior. The beauty of the white snakes of the past dynasties can be seen——
Her slender and graceful figure, charming eyes like flowers, and drooping hair all have the style of Wang Zuxian's version of Bai Suzhen; while the white snake's neat skills, the white light lingering on her fingertips when casting spells, Zhao Yazhi, Fan Wenfang and Liu Tao's version are all There is a presentation. At the end of the film, when the West Lake Broken Bridge meets, the white snake's bun and golden hairpin are a proper tribute to Zhijie's classic appearance, and no one will miss it.
Of course, the white snake in the play has the feeling of a little dragon girl, she is icy out of the dust, her hair is moving, and all kinds of elegant.
12. Full of aggressiveness is the society my young master
The misunderstanding of the same kind of snakes, the rejection and fear of the world, and the pursuit of the snake-hunting army by the national teacher, apart from Ah Xuan, the only one who always believes, supports, cares, and loves the white snake is the younger sister Qingshe. Starting from Li Bihua's novel "Green Snake", Xiaoqing's feelings for Bai Suzhen have become ambiguous beyond sisterhood. Xiaoqing in [White Snake: Origin] is so handsome that he even looks like a samurai, ninja and She is not deliberately feminine, but she is very assertive, clear in love and hate, not stupid and lazy, and forms two parallel lines with Ah Xuan, surrounding the white snake.
After realizing the mutual affection between Bai She and A Xuan, Xiaoqing clearly stated that A Xuan's feelings are not as good as his feelings for Bai She for a hundred years. Lace is very loving, I believe this pair of blue and white CPs will be added to the army of Ji Mulaniang.
13. White Snake's Shoes
The shoes of the white snake in the film pay tribute to Wang Zuxian's version. In [Blue Snake], Zhang Shuping's clothes are set as Wang Zuxian and Maggie Cheung and chose "sandals", which are unique in each version. Other white snakes and green snakes are cloth shoes and embroidered shoes. And "Sandals" continued in [White Snake: Origin].
14. The rat on the beam is out of luck again
In [Green Snake], Maggie Cheung plays Xiaoqing, half human and half snake, sliding on the floor, entrenched on wooden pillars, showing the smoothness of snakes, and there are mice on the beams who have to chase after them, and they are cute and cute. In : Origin], Xiaoqing persuaded the white snake to give up her love for Axuan. The important argument was "we are snakes". Everyone's identities are fundamentally different, so they immediately hunted and killed the mouse and made a tooth sacrifice. Snake's tail climbed on the crossbar, Oops, Maggie Cheung is you!
15. Twist and Twist
In the film, Xiaoqing twists and twists a few steps. It's really a water snake's waist swaying like a willow, and Pingting is ecstatic. It comes from the "twist and twist" of Maggie Cheung and Wang Zuxian in "Green Snake".
16. Snakes are cold-blooded
In order to save Ah Xuan and the similar rattlesnake in the battle, the white snake used the magic to faint as cold as ice, but Ah Xuan was not frightened by his demon body, and hugged the white snake to keep her warm with body temperature; this snake is cold-blooded, Liu Tao version There are also plots in "The Legend of the White Snake". Xu Xian, played by Pan Yueming, found her body cold after pulling it into Bai Snake's hand. Symptoms - the colder the blood, the more you can feel his warmth, this is love~
17. Cranes are still the nemesis of snakes
In each version of the white snake-themed works, after the Dragon Boat Festival appeared, the white lady took a risk and stole the ganoderma lucidum grass planted by the Antarctic fairy to save the husband, and the battle between Hetong and the white snake would be arranged. : Origin] villain task - the national teacher and his disciples from mounts to casting spells (three-headed crane bird, Tianluodi net, giant crane), all use cranes as a visual presentation, which is not only in line with Taoism's use of cranes as a symbol of longevity, but also correct Snake Crane as a natural enemy is yet another performance.
18. A pearl hairpin continues the leading edge
This hairpin saved Ah Xuan's life, retrieved the memory of the white snake, and witnessed the life and death of the two of them. Beside her, after restarting her memories, she successfully "fished" Xu Xian in the West Lake as a key prop for the bond.
In "Legend of the New White Snake", Qing'er accompanied her sister in the West Lake to find the reincarnation of the shepherd boy who saved her life in her previous life. It was Qing'er who "taunted" Xu Xian with the golden hairpin of the white snake, and detected his good character of picking up gold. The two met again in the West Lake, and it was also this golden hairpin that played a role in continuing the relationship.
19. English name translation of white snake green snake
The English translation of the white snake "Xiaobai" in the film is "Blanca", which means white in Spanish; the English translation of "Xiaoqing" is "Verta". "White" and "Greenie" are directly translated by English white and green. The English translation of the white snake and green snake in this film is very unique.
20. Easter egg conjecture after the ending song
After the ending song, a small boat came to the West Lake with the double-faced fox demon. There was no longer the white snake Xu Xian on the broken bridge. The two of them had already continued the story. At this time, a black shadow floated in the lake, coming to Xianghu. The demon asked for the magic weapon, and the fox demon also told the shadow that the magic weapon was ready, and the boss felt full.
When you open the crab's shell, you can see the "crab monk" inside, and the folks have substituted Fahai into this image.
Who is this shadow? It's probably Fahai - in folklore, there is a saying that Fahai was originally a toad who cultivated into an elite, and later there is a version that Qing'er cut off Lei Feng and rescued her sister, beat Fahai to the ground and escaped into the crab's stomach, so The shadow is probably the incarnation of a toad or a crab, and the magic weapon is naturally a golden bowl. Come on, come on, the sequel will be more violent, the story of the white snake will never end!
At the end of the story, we come to the West Lake Broken Bridge, which we are most familiar with. The main film may start again.
The appearance of the white snake finally meeting Xu Xian can be seen from the back as a tribute to Zhao Yazhi's classic appearance
Text/Mr.WG
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