The first time I saw the name of the heroine played by Tang Wei in [The Last Night on Earth] was Wan Qiwen , I was a little stunned, because this name was my childhood.
At first I thought it was some kind of accident, but then I thought of two male protagonists, one named Luo Hongwu and the other named Zuo Hongyuan.
Luo Hongwu , the lead singer of the popular Taiwanese rock band "Red Ants" in the 1980s;
Zuo Hongyuan , whose pen name is Gu Yue, is an older generation musician who has written countless popular hits for "The Legend of the New White Snake", Teresa Teng and Feng Feifei.
That Wan Qiwen... I quickly searched for all the interviews with Director Bi Gan , and finally found clues in one of them:
I especially like a TV series played by Wan Qiwen called "I have a date with a zombie".
I guessed right, Wan Qiwen and her character Ma Xiaoling in "Zombie" were also Bi Gan's childhood.
Wan Qiwen, fans call her Mosquito and Er Mosquito, the former head of Hong Kong ATV, the "zombie" series starring her can be regarded as the last glory of ATV at the end of the century.
When I was a child, of course I didn't have the chance to see ATV. It was the first time I saw this show on China Entertainment Channel. Later, when I didn't have to watch it on TV, I went to the video store to rent the discs.
With that said, just looking at Wan Qiwen's long beautiful legs of 3.2 meters, the "zombie" can be consecrated.
How beautiful are Mosquito's legs?
In the Hong Kong entertainment industry back then, there was a saying that Shu Qi's mouth and Wan Qiwen's legs.
Wan Qiwen was the runner-up of "Miss Asia" in 1989. At the age of 18, she was 171 cm tall and was famous for her long and beautiful legs of 107 cm . She was named "Hong Kong's first beautiful legs" by Hong Kong media .
When asked on the selection stage of "Miss Asia" what she was most satisfied with and dissatisfied with, she said a little shyly:
I am most satisfied that I have a pair of slender legs, but I don't like my smile because it is too childish.
In 1997, when Chen Shisan wrote a beautiful girl exorcist with boots and miniskirts as the protagonist for the "Zombie" script, producer Xian Zhiwei immediately thought of Mosquito.
With a long-sleeved skirt and high boots, plus curly hair and red lips, and holding an exorcism weapon, when she goes out to catch ghosts and zombies, she can make a clean mess.
Ma Xiaoling's character is proud and tough, and she loves money like her life. She seems to be both righteous and evil, but when she slays demons and slays demons with a stern look again and again, and just smiles, the audience is enchanted by her.
This character, which was originally a tribute to "Zombie Daoist" Lin Zhengying, has become the "Sailor Moon" in Hong Kong dramas.
The audience loves her, not only for her beautiful legs, but also for her childish smile, which she herself dislikes.
ATV's natal family also loves her, and what may make them proud is that in the heyday of the other wireless network, there is a little girl called Mosquito who conquered the world for them.
In the 1980s, the free-to-air TV market in Hong Kong was a world where TVB (TVB) and ATV (ATV) faced off.
"Sister Asia", who made Wan Qiwen born, was launched to compete with TVB's "Sister Hong Kong".
A group of people came out from the stage of "Sister Asia", Ye Yuqing, Yang Gongru, Wu Qili, Weng Hong, Wu Yongwei, Wan Qiwen, Weng Hong and Wu Yongwei in the same session.
That year, Wan Qiwen was the runner-up, Weng Hong won the championship, and Wu Yongwei won the "Miss Photogenic".
This group of them have all stepped into the first-line status. With their help, the "Asian sister" of that year also strongly overwhelmed the opposite side in the ratings.
But in fact, what many people don't know is that she only had a ticket-playing mentality when she participated in Sister Ya.
When I was in middle school, I liked bouncing on the trampoline, high jump and long jump, four times one hundred, and I ran the last one. My classmates said all day long that during the competition, I could not see my appearance, only a pair of long legs galloping on the track.
This little girl athlete never thought of entering the entertainment industry, but after hearing that she could fly to Greece to shoot on location, she immediately signed up when she was 18 years old and had never been on a plane, but she went all the way to the end. .
After that, she signed a contract with ATV and began to appear in TV series, and won the support of ATV from the beginning.
From "Cello and Point 38" to "The Winner is King", and then to "Fighting Warriors", the daughter of the gangster, the ghostly childhood sweetheart, the sweet Japanese girl, and the lovable sweet girl characters ATV is left to Wan Qiwen.
In the early days, she was tired from receiving 5 dramas in a year until her liver disease recurred twice. She finally couldn't stand it and was dragged by her mother to terminate the contract with ATV.
ATV is not willing to provoke high-level Chen Qiaoying to keep people in person:
Shoot two films a year, and you will be paid twice as much!
Then she starred in "I Have a Date with Spring" . She was the second female No. 2, wearing a blue dance dress. She sang "No Love" with tears on the stage.
The role of "Lan Fengping" in "Spring" was the first small peak in her career, and then she met "Ma Xiaoling" in "Zombie".
It is almost tailor-made for her. Her pride, her beauty, her tenacity, and her courage are all perfectly matched by Ma Xiaoling.
The broadcast of the "Zombie" series allowed ATV to once again defeat its rival TVB in the TV viewing war.
Its high popularity led to the launch of two or three "Zombie" films one after another, and it also allowed ATV to rebroadcast its own drama in prime time in 2014, a record.
If you want to go back to the last time, I am afraid that it will not be until the broadcast of ATV's "The Kindness of the Earth" in 1980, so that ATV can beat the other side.
This time, ATV can only rely on the little girl Ma Xiaoling, or Wan Qiwen, not only in the play to slay demons and demons, but also outside the play with one enemy and one hundred, it can be said that one person can carry the fierce battle with Wireless.
After all, during the millennium, it was the wireless at its peak that was fighting against ATV.
That year, with Ma Xiaoling's role, at the awards ceremony, she won the "Best Actress in ATV" with a hot attitude , and was successfully named "After ATV".
This moment can definitely be regarded as the peak moment of her career. On the stage, she gave back to the audience with an elegant song "Who is in the Dream" , which will be remembered in the history of ATV.
Behind her, she had injured her body many times because of filming the action scenes to hang Weiya.
This seemingly weak little girl is actually a desperate Saburo who is soft on the outside and tough on the inside.
She can be a desperate Saburo in her career, but she can treat life casually and live out her true temperament from beginning to end.
She became a couple in the filming of "Jingwumen" and Donnie Yen became a couple, and was publicly kneeled and courted by the other party during the ATV celebration. She was excited to say that "Fei Zidan will not marry".
A few years later, I still missed it. I met screenwriter Chen Shisan at the "Zombie" celebration banquet. The two met late, and after chatting together for three whole nights, they decided to get married.
That year, the "zombie" became so popular that her opponent wirelessly paid a lot of money to invite her to pass the file, but she unexpectedly flew to Las Vegas to marry Chen Shisan.
Others are puzzled and feel that she has missed the opportunity to rise, but she is firm that she just chose the most precious thing.
She likes flowers and plants, the sea, and the red brick and tile walls. Her semi-retired life away from the screen was so indifferent. The husband and wife, who have walked hand in hand for nearly 20 years, are still in love until now.
After ATV went bankrupt, she later relapsed into drama addiction and went out to TVB again to perform "Old Watch, How You Are" .
At that time, people saw that she stopped calling her "Wan Er Mosquito", and changed her name to "Girl Yi" (a character in "Old Biao, Hello You").
She herself shook her head again and again and corrected: "No no no, I like Ma Xiaoling the most!"
Yes, Wan Qiwen has made herself look like Ma Xiaoling, so tough and soft.
Ma Xiaoling and Wan Qiwen, this name has also become the childhood of an entire generation, yours, mine, and Bi Gan.
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Author / Curly Hair
This article was first published on the WeChat public account [Broken Word]
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