English title green snake

more foreign titles Blue Snake Ching Se White Snake, Green snake qingshe (Hong Kong: mandarin title)

Fantasy film type/plot

Film length 99 min

Country/ Region Hong Kong

Cantonese

Color Color

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

Cast List

Director Tsui Hark Tsui

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

Actor

Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung ... Siu Ching (Xiao Qing), Blue Snake

Chiu Man-Cheuk Mancheuk Chiu ... Monk Fatthoi (fahai)

Joey Wong Joey Wong ... Bak Sei June (Bai Suzhen), White Snake

Wu Xingguo Wu Hsing-kuo ... hsuixie (xuxian), The scholar

Liu Jiang Kong Lau ... Blind Monk

Feng Tien, Tian Feng ... Spider Macheng-Miu Chan Dung-Mooi

Producer Tsui Hark Tsui ... Producer

Original Music Zhang Huang Song de Lei Tsung-Taklui James J.S.Wong James Wong

Photography Tsiu Ko

Editing Tsik Ah

Art Director Bill Lui

Fashion Design Po-Ling

Production and Distribution

camera panorama cameras and lenses

production format 35 mm

production processing method Spherical

developing and printing format 35 mm

screen system with a width of 35mm

produced by Shanghai Film Studio, Hong Kong Philip Burkart Film Company produced in 1993

Release date Hong Kong on November 4, 1993

Plot introduction

During the Southern Song Dynasty, people's livelihood was peaceful, superstitions prevailed everywhere, and people and demons were inseparable. The monk Fahai, who took it as his duty to do justice for heaven, banished demons and was cold and ruthless. One night of lightning and thunder, the green snake and the thousand-year-old white snake, who had been practicing at the bottom of the West Lake for a hundred years, were puzzled by the fairy's beads, and suddenly began to understand. They turned into beautiful women roaming the world. I happened to meet Xu Xian, a white-flour scholar, who was fascinated and fell in love, but was destroyed by the monk Fahai's magic. From this, a human tragicomedy with blurred feelings and lingering love was performed ... In the movie, when the green and white snake appeared, it was charming and graceful, passing by, and I don't know how many wild eyes it attracted. The chanting of Kunqu opera has become their usual 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 the eyes flowed, which was fascinating and eroded the bones. The ordinary men had to be eager to stop. The snake turned into a beautiful woman, wandered around the world of mortals, met Xu Xian, and love came into being. As a result, the rain fell sharply on the West Lake, and Xu Xian, a foolish scholar, was drenched. I don't know that this downpour is not from God's will, but thanks to the Millennium magic of White Snake Lady. Green and white snakes are boating on the lake, misty and misty, like fairies on earth, graceful and graceful. When the ignorant scholar got on the boat, it was easy to capture his heart when he was relieved. This time, the White Snake Lady turned into a beautiful humanoid game world. With the help of thousands of years, many mortal emotions such as emotions, joys and sorrows can be generated, and laughter and weeping come naturally, just like ordinary people. Xiaoqing, on the other hand, is still young in cultivation. Although she is covered by mortal skins, her snake nature is hard to change, 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 shed tears in the west wind. Xiaoqing saw that the bookworm Xu Xian was hanging out with the white snake all day, happy and carefree, and couldn't help feeling jealous. She made up her mind to fight with her sister, and didn't believe that she couldn't accept Xu Xian's lust. At the same time, the young and promising Fahai Zen master of Jinshan Temple has been subduing demons all the way to cleanse the world. Although there are endless hooligans seducing each other with color, they are all helpless by Fahai, whose heart is as quiet as Tathagata. Fahai's heart is in the world, and he is tough and courageous. When he saw the foolish Xu Xian's face showing ominous color, he quickly knew that he was trapped by the snake demon, so he decided to take down the double snake, lest they add trouble to the world. The green and white snake didn't know that the disaster was coming, so she and Xu Xian stayed together in the pavilions where the magic changed, burning the world of mortals and lust, not smelling the wind and rain outside the window. The Dragon Boat Festival has arrived, and the green snake is playful and quarrelsome and refuses to leave the courtyard. On 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 in it showed its true shape, but it was a green python, hovering and tangled, which frightened the Xu Xian "xianggong" to life. Next, as in the legend, the green and white snake went to Kunlun Mountain to seek ganoderma lucidum and fairy grass to save Xu Xian's common life. The difference is that Fahai was killed halfway, the white snake snatched the grass and fled first, and the green snake intercepted the Zen master. The two men fought their magic, the water surged and the climax came one after another. Fahai wants the green snake to help him practice, but she can live with her success. So the green snake seduced Fahai, stroking and whispering beside him, lingering again and again, and applied all the erotic tricks learned from the world. I didn't want to defeat Fahai unexpectedly, which caused his lust to burst. Xu Xian was resurrected by the immortal grass and learned all the ins and outs. In fact, he knew that his wife Xiaoqing was not human, so how could he love more than fear, and how could he give up the gentle land in the fairyland on earth? After a narrow escape, he woke up from a dream. He heard that Fahai was about to pounce, and now he was about to flee with his wife and Xiaoqing. Pandering, to retain confusion, which one do you think this troubled man fell in love with? Do you think this fairy-like green snake and white snake is in love with this mortal or with this world of flowers and flowers? So, how can you escape? Fahai, who had committed lust, caution, was full of internal contradictions. He robbed Xu Xian to Jinshan Temple, forced him to shave his head, gave lectures to him, and hoped that Buddhism would give him power, so that he would get lost and return home. Both green and white snakes flew in, roaring with long sleeves and fighting Fahai. All of a sudden, the water flooded Jinshan, and the rivers broke their banks, flooding the houses and causing untold suffering. The white snake was pregnant long ago, and after a fierce battle with Fahai, she moved her tires and gave birth to a baby in the water. Doomed love, a transvestite, and Fa Hai, a Zen master who was puzzled by his inner thoughts, were surprised to see that the white snake gave birth, but he was in a trance, and it was difficult to tell right from wrong. It's hard for him to find out what's the difference between the so-called uber, and what is the purpose of his painstaking cultivation of exorcism and demon reduction. Green snake broke into Jinshan Temple to rescue Xu Xian when Fahai lost his mind. It never occurred to him that "xianggong" had been blocked by all the monks, so he could not speak and see, and became a cripple. The green snake is afraid, and in the confusion, she feels that her sister and her beloved secular man have betrayed them. She remembered how happy and carefree she was when she was in the mountains with her sister in the past. If it wasn't for the lust and love of the world of mortals, how could it have caused her sisters to turn against each other today and never be able to live again? On the other side, the white snake gave the baby to Fahai, and was immediately taken into the lake by Leifeng Tower. Green snake took Xu Xian out of Jinshan Temple, and found that her sister had disappeared, so she stabbed her sword into Xu Xian's chest and threw him into the water. Fahai was lost and muttered to himself. Let's go. Zhan Yan, the green snake, smiled miserably, jumped into the water, drifted with the tide, 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 a thousand years. Fahai chanted all day about "The Great Compassion, the Dragon and the Prajna Buddhas hide Prajna in the Buddha's world" and falsely claimed that "the heart is as quiet as the Tathagata". In the end, he was not confused by the enchanting and charming green snake, and he couldn't help but fall in love with this warm and fragrant nephrite. If there are no gods, buddhas and bodhisattvas, if all beings are really equal, there is no guarantee that he will fly hand in hand with this rare woman, only admiring Yuanyang and not admiring immortals. But heaven and earth, the precepts last forever, the dream is illusory, and you can't even think about it. Can only abstain from love and love, and continue to be his exorcist. The green and white snakes have been practicing for thousands of years, absorbing the essence of rain and dew, becoming attractive beauties, and unable to withstand the laws and regulations of heaven, and just sulfur powder realgar wine can attract fatal disaster, not to mention that all monks and Taoist Guanyin Jade Emperor are involved in it, and they can only fight hard, and in the end they fall short and disappear. So the green snake looked at the white snake and asked sadly, they all say that there is love in the world, but what is love? It's better to go back to the barren hills where dharma is practiced, listen to the wind and rain, watch the clouds and the sky, care about the red dust, and be afraid that the dharma is endless, and no one cares about it. Sisters are accompanied, warm and happy. The green snake only left a sad smile and a lonely figure. Who said, spend 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.

[ editing 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. The story is based on the China folklore "The Legend of the White Snake". It describes that the white snake and the green snake practice to become adults, and they meet the scholar Xu Xian and have a love affair, but they are destroyed by the monk Fahai's magic. Different from the traditional narration, this film intends to discuss the emotional problems between green snake, white snake, Fahai and Xu Xian from the perspective of green snake, and question whether there is love and what it is. Based on these two points, the whole film has more modern feelings and new ideas. The characterization is different from traditional roles. For example, Fahai, played by Chiu Man-Cheuk, is not a middle-aged monk with a murderous face in previous dramas, but a young, handsome and energetic monk, who is in the stage of spiritual practice and has six unfinished roots. He couldn't resist the temptation of the green snake, so he became angry from embarrassment and did harm to the whole people. Originally, the green snake should be the key figure in this film, but it is not as rich as Fahai's scenes. As for the atmosphere created by the whole film, there is an extraordinary mythical color, which can be said to be a fairy tale film for adults. Making Green Snake is a wish of Tsui Hark for many years. With The Legend of the White Snake, a well-known folk story, Tsui Hark hopes to show the lingering love and hate of modern women's love and affection. The Legend of the White Snake is based on lady white snake, but in Li Bihua's novel The Green Snake, the green snake turns from a maid in lady white snake to another kind of "Xiaoqing" who does not hesitate to pursue lady white snake's favorite man Xu Xian. In Tsui Hark's films, Green Snake became more and more fierce: in addition to actively pursuing Xu Xian, she also mixed jealousy, liveliness, naughty, unwilling to be lonely, keen, rebellious and independent. Finally, lady white snake died, Xiaoqing killed Xu Xian, who was weak and incompetent, and took lady white snake's son on the road alone. Tsui Hark said that the concept of the story is not much different from that of Li Bihua's original works, but it only strengthens the drama and highlights the conflict between the white snake and the green snake in the choice of friendship and righteousness. He hopes to inject new elements into The Legend of the White Snake to show modern women's views on love and friendship. Therefore, 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 seductive siren, the "third party" who is unwilling to be lonely, the clank chivalrous woman with double friendship and righteousness, and his strong point-dazzling stunts, 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

[French]: Snake demon, I want you to help me practice. [Qing]: Help you practice? [Method]: If you can mess with my determination, I will let you go. [Qing]: OK, I'll try ... but I don't have enough concentration, and I'm afraid you won't mess up ... [Qing]: You always say that I don't have concentration, but I found that everyone has no concentration, including the honest man who can't fly out of your palm ... [Qing]: ... and the monk who keeps saying to stay at a respectful distance from others. I have done all the things you spent so much time doing at once. I thought you were good at it, but that's all. [Qing]: Xu Xian ... [Qing]: Poor thing! Your five yin and consciousness are sealed. [Fairy]: Xiaoqing ... [Fairy]: It's wrong to lust after the world of mortals ... sin ... repentance ... [Qing]: You can't speak, and what you say now is useless ... [Qing]: You betrayed us. [Qing]: I came into the world and was mistaken by the world. You say that there is love in the world, but what is love? [Qing]: It's ridiculous. You people all don't know. When you figure it out, maybe I'll come back ... [France]: Xiaoqing ... I'm over 1,3 years old this year. Living under a bridge in the West Lake. This bridge is called "Broken Bridge". It used to be called Duanjia Bridge instead of Broken Bridge. winter I was full, very lazy and bored, so I had to fall asleep. It is my sister who sleeps beside me. We are entangled in the wrong dish, and we don't know what the world is like. Although the bridge has been rebuilt, paved with reinforced concrete, and cars can pass, there are also tourists from all sides, stepping on the residual snow and giving out artificial admiration and emotion, which are no longer so easy to wake us up. The West Lake itself has no connotation. It doesn't understand thoughts and never surges. It's an idiot. I actually won the chanting of poets and poets, saying, "When will the singing and dancing in the West Lake stop?" The warm wind makes tourists drunk and makes Hangzhou a "swimming state". That's ridiculous. My years in the West Lake have never been so poetic. If you can choose, I hope nothing has happened. In the distance, there was a quiet and careless bell. I don't know if it was Lingyin Temple in Beishan and Jingci Temple in Nanshan, where the night bell rang. I turned around and continued my good dream. I don't want to get up However, when Chun Xue first melted and the spring thunder rang, we had to be awakened. year after year