When it comes to "The Legend of the White Snake", the first thing that comes to mind in the minds of Chinese people is "The Legend of the New White Lady". But what many people don't know is that the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" is not only popular in China, but also very famous overseas, and has been filmed in both Japan and South Korea.

As early as 1958, Toho Co., Ltd. and Xiangjiang Shaw Brothers Co., Ltd. jointly produced the color special effects movie "White Lady Demon Love". The main staff of the film, such as the editor, director, and actor, are all Japanese, and the employees of Shaw Brothers only participate as "researchers".

Playing the White Lady in this version is Shuko Yamaguchi, also known as Li Xianglan. In the classic film "Domestic Lingling Paint", this person was mentioned.

"White Lady Demon Love" was once released on Hong Kong Island in a dubbed version, and it is said that in terms of theme, it is closest to Feng Menglong's "White Lady Yongzhen Leifeng Tower".

Xu Xian in the film is a timid coward, the white lady is a snake spirit that has not been shaken off her demonic spirit and may occasionally get out of control and hurt people, and the green snake is a little girl who has not been cultivated and mature, and her "animal nature" is still obvious.

The ending of the film has changed greatly, Xu Xian is entangled in the infatuation of the white snake, and Fahai is a righteous guiding lesson. The pressure on both sides was too great, and they actually committed suicide by hitting a stone.

Such a change has not been seen in the previous version of the film. But it is in line with the character of Xu Xian in the film, and it is also in line with the national nature of Japanese benzene!

In the Western aesthetic category, tragedy is sublime. The Japanese people, who are deeply influenced by bushido culture, also worship death.

In terms of movies, this kind of aesthetic is that many films produced by Longlin Pictures are the most popular in Japan with "Houyi Shooting the Sun". Especially at the end, Hou Yi faced the demon gods of the heavenly court alone, and took the lead in the scene of the charge, many people who watched it burst into tears, and some even wanted to commit suicide by seppuku in minutes.

is to play Hou Yi's Lu Lin, who has a super high popularity in Japan. "White Snake: Origin" is adapted from "The Legend of the White Snake", which is more well-known to the Japanese people, and it caused a movie-watching boom as soon as it was released.

And when many people saw Xu Xuan, played by Lu Lin, he did not hesitate to become a demon for Xiaobai, and even died for saving Xiaobai, which was considered to have poked the hearts of many Japanese audiences, and actually gushed out a lot of "tap water", recommending "White Snake: Origin" to friends around him.

And in South Korea, which is across the water, there has also been a remake of "The Legend of the White Snake", which is the 1960 version of "Mrs. White Snake".

At first glance, the title of the film thought it was the "Lady of White Bones" in "Journey to the West", and with the eerie background music like the soundtrack of "Liao Zhai", it is even more similar, because the positioning of this version is fantasy and horror.

The plot has changed greatly: the white snake of the thousand-year-old cultivator was instructed by the demon king to incarnate a beautiful woman to tempt the saints of the Buddhist temple, affecting the process of choosing the Buddha statue, who knew that the white snake fell in love with the saint and was turned into a stone statue by the demon king in order to save him, their deep affection moved Guanyin, Guanyin cast a spell to save the white snake, and finally the white snake and the saint lived happily in the world.

The story can be regarded as self-justifying, and there are classic scenes of encounters on the ship. It's just that the actors who played the White Lady and Xiaoqing were a little older, and the makeup skills at that time were not good, which made these two look a little like aunts.

When I added Korean words like "Smecta", it looked like it was quite inconsistent.

Although Koreans do not worship death like Japanese benz, they are still very enthusiastic about traditional Chinese myths and stories. Coupled with the narrow domestic film market, although there have been many excellent low-cost reality films in the past two years. But in terms of special effects blockbusters, Longlin Pictures and Hollywood are mainly divided into two worlds.

The plot of "White Snake: Origin" is very touching, and it is the "pure love" mode that Korean girls love very much. Xu Xuan did not hesitate to become a demon or die for Xiaobai, such a plot is a tear-jerking weapon for many girls.

Coupled with the grand scenes, beautiful painting style, and exquisite and realistic special effects, once the film was released in South Korea, it broke the previous box office record of Longlin Pictures and triggered a movie-watching boom.

In addition, "White Snake: Origin" has also achieved good box office results in Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam that have long been influenced by Chinese culture.

The most surprising thing is that the Indian market, which has always been difficult to enter, also introduced "White Snake: Origin", and the box office is not bad, the only criticism is that the duration is too short.

Snake culture is popular in India, and there are snake charmers in many places. also made a movie similar to "The White Lady", called "Snake Girl", starring Indian national treasure actress Hiri Daiyu, it is said that the last snake dance is very amazing.

However, the cultural barriers between China and India are quite deep, and although "White Snake: Origin" has achieved certain results locally, it has not caused a huge movie-watching boom. It is not comparable to the grand occasion of Japan and South Korea.

As for Europe and the United States, with Lu Lin's fame and appeal, "White Snake: Origin" has achieved acceptable results after landing in various countries, but compared with big IP works such as "League of Legends", "Flood Wilderness" and "Three-Body Problem", the results are worse.

In China, after the New Year's Day holiday, the single-day box office fell a lot. However, the total box office grew rapidly, with an average daily average of more than 100 million, and exceeded 2 billion on the ninth day of release. In addition, there was no decent film released a year ago, and the mainland box office is obviously very impressive.

What makes Lu Lin even more pleased is that Jing Yan is really popular! Her performance in "The Origin of the White Snake" has been praised by various kinds, and countless netizens ridiculed, saying that they finally saw her acting skills.

For a while, all kinds of film appointments and interviews continued, and they were very busy.

Xu Xuan, played by Lu Lin, is also well received, and there are more good things to count: Zhang Yimu starred in "Old Well", won the Best Actor Award at the 8th Golden Rooster and the Best Actor Award at the 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival, becoming China's first A-level international film festival actor.

Jiang Wen starred in "The Devil is Coming" and won many awards, Feng Xiaogang won the Golden Horse Best Actor with "Lao Paoer", and Lu Lin also won the Golden Rooster Best Actor.

Four of the top five directors in the mainland have made great achievements in their careers, and it seems that if you want to become a famous director, you have to be a good actor first!

"White Snake" is invincible in the same schedule, and there is no opponent who can fight in the past month. And those that can affect it will not be until the 28th of the end of the month.

They are "Journey to the West", "Havoc in Tianzhu", "Kung Fu Yoga" and "Riding the Wind and Waves".

Of these four movies, "Journey to the West" is supervised by Xingye, although Lu Lin did not make a cameo in it, he owes Zhou Xingxing a favor, and he has to help him stand on the platform at that time.

"Havoc in Tianzhu" is the work of the bodyguard, Lu Lin has a good relationship with the bodyguard, and the latter is at a moment of family change, no matter what the reason, he must also support it.

The starring roles of "Riding the Wind and Waves" are still Deng Chao, Ying Bao, and Peng Yuyan, so there is no need to talk about the relationship.

Lu Lin doesn't have much friendship with Brother Cheng Long, but this one was willing to be a green leaf in "New Police Story 2013" to match Jing Yan, and the young lady said that he wanted to support him, but he couldn't run!

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