Wu Zetian , the only queen in Chinese history, is unprecedented and no one comes later.
She combines resourcefulness and ruthlessness, from Taizong's talent to Gaozong's empress, from participating in politics to ascending the throne at the age of 67, she selects talents and appoints the old and innovates, inherits the "Zhenguan Governance" from the top, starts " Kaiyuan Prosperous " and creates the "Zhenguan Legacy".
After being the emperor for 15 years, he was forced to abdicate at the age of 78. Wu Zetian finally returned the world to Li Tang, leaving only the stele without words and stele books, and the merits and demerits and faults will be judged by future generations.
Wu Zetian's life is vigorous and carries many extremes of doing whatever he wants to achieve her. Therefore, later generations are full of endless imaginations of her. Thousands of years later, her legendary life is interpreted again and again.
Since 1939, Wu Zetian has been brought to the screen and has played no less than 20 queens, such as Feng Baobao , Siqin Gaowa , Gui Yalei , Carina Lau , Jia Jingwen , etc.
, and there are only two people who play Wu Zetian from cardamom to white-haired old man and become classics. One of them is Liu Xiaoqing , and the other is Pan Yingzi .
When they played Wu Zetian, they were both around 40 years old. They played the role of a girl as innocent and charming, and when they played the role of a favorite concubine, they were not angry but powerful in their later years, and they were the only ones.
The Douban ratings of the two dramas are comparable. There is no doubt that both Liu Xiaoqing and Pan Yingzi's interpretations were successful.
But there are a thousand Hamlets in one thousand readers. So what is the difference between the two of them interpret Wu Zetian? What unknown stories are there behind the scenes?
"Liu Xiaoqing" version of Wu Zetian
995, the TV series "Wu Zetian" won super high ratings as soon as it was broadcast on CCTV's prime time.
Liu Xiaoqing did not become famous overnight because she was already a household name queen of the movie .
But she was already 40 years old when she played Wu Zetian (calculated based on the birth in 1955), but she portrayed both a 16-year-old girl and an 83-year-old woman to the fullest.
Watch the exquisite costumes and props and magnificent scenes in the play, you will never imagine that this is just a "small production".
At that time, the total fund of the crew was less than 6 million, which was incomparable to the current investments of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of yuan.
Producer Liu Dayin is determined to find Liu Xiaoqing to play the heroine.
In his opinion, Liu Xiaoqing has definitely experienced ups and downs from a rural educated youth to a famous star.
What's more, her thoughts are very avant-garde, she self-destructs her divorce, speaks boldly, and is not afraid of criticism. All of this is inexplicably consistent with Wu Zetian.
, it is really not easy to hire this big shot. At that time, Liu Xiaoqing had already retired from the film industry and was busy doing business. When Liu Dayin came to her, she even felt that the other party was brave.
Liu Dayin Xiaozhi used emotions and moved them with reason, and finally moved Liu Xiaoqing with feelings. Perhaps it was more because Liu Xiaoqing wanted to interpret the character of the domineering queen.
Who would have thought that when the crew was about to start filming, they lost Liu Xiaoqing's message.
Liu Dayin was so anxious that he was in a mess. After inquiring, he learned that someone wanted to shoot the film version of "Wu Zetian", and the heroine also liked Liu Xiaoqing, and generously gave a deposit of 2 million!
Compared with TV series, Liu Xiaoqing naturally fell in love with movies. After all, she used to take the big screen route before, and everyone knows that movie actors are more advanced than TV series actors, and they also give more money.
Liu Dayin found Liu Xiaoqing and told the truth: Fundraising contract and other agreements have been written to death. If the drama fails to be filmed, he can only plead guilty and punish! Nowadays, many people say that spending money in the world opens the way. I think it should be the bright world of love to start ...
Fortunately, Liu Xiaoqing was chivalrous and did not make profits. In the end, he returned the 2 million deposit for the film version and took over the two thousand yuan deposit for the drama version.
Rumors, Liu Xiaoqing's pay for filming "Wu Zetian" has been decreasing again and again because the crew's funds are short of money.
only has 6 million yuan investment, but it is not rude in production, and it is not vague in the landscape, costumes, props, etc. Wu Zetian has only 14 hairstyles and 54 sets of clothes. The money is not enough, so it can only reduce the actors' pay.
and Mao Geping was invited by Liu Xiaoqing himself. At that time, he had a lot of work and didn't really want to join the crew of "Wu Zetian". "Even if I don't take on this drama, I will be famous all over the world within ten years."
Liu Xiaoqing told him with confidence, "You can become famous all over the world now, why wait for another ten years?"
Mao Geping then made up his mind and became the man behind Liu Xiaoqing. As everyone knows, Mao Geping became famous in one fell swoop and was praised as a "magic makeup artist".
Of course, the premise is that Liu Xiaoqing uses all his strength to really present a flesh-and-blood Wu Zetian.
When she first entered the palace, she was just a 16-year-old girl, plump and gorgeous. Although she looked a little mature, her smile was full of the cuteness of the girl. Her dream was to be favored by the emperor and make her envious.
Finally became a talented person, but the competition in the harem was cruel. She learned to suppress her sharpness, was careful and stayed with Taizong. However, with Taizong's death, she could only go to Ganye Temple to be a nun.
The future is slim. She suppresses her despair, learns to use tricks, scheming, and pretends to be weak. In order to control her own destiny, she sacrificed her daughter and pretended to be pitiful just to climb to a high position.
As the emperor was weak, as the queen, she began to help the emperor handle government affairs. From being elegant and luxurious to being sharp, she gradually showed her strength. When the two saints came to the dynasty of , she was even more elegant.
Later, she finally ruled the world, and her domineering spirit was naturally revealed in her every move, enough to intimidate the ministers.
Liu Xiaoqing grasped the performance of each age just right. The relationship changes appropriately, and his acting skills are really good.
In the following years, she only starred in two TV series and focused on doing business. Unexpectedly, after accumulating a wealth of 100 million yuan, she became a prisoner for tax evasion.
After losing her freedom for 422 days, Liu Xiaoqing was finally released from prison in August 2003. Faced with the situation of heavy debt, she did not escape, but chose to fight in the entertainment industry again.
plays a supporting role, plays an old mother, and plays a supporting role. She considers herself " Hengdian's No. 1 drifting ". With her unremitting efforts, she returned to the center of the stage, which is also very inspiring.
Later she played Wu Zetian many times. For example, in " Sun and Moon Skyward ", she played Wu Zetian from the age of 40 to 82.
In "Ace vs. Ace", she also reappeared the style of Wu Zetian. Sister Z still remembers what she said: It is too difficult for me to stand here today. I worked hard and endured humiliation. How perseverance should I be able to survive these countless scoldings and live like a dignified person!
is so shocking!
In recent years, she has been acting in the drama "Wu Zetian" and still has high requirements for herself. "Classics cannot be repeated sometimes. If they cannot surpass the previous things, I don't want to do it."
When Liu Xiaoqing wore a phoenix crown with flowers and a phoenix embroidered clothes on the stage, Wu Zetian in her memory came back, so the premiere won the love of the audience, and dozens of overseas tours were filled.
Liu Xiaoqing's half of his life seemed to be "integrated" with Wu Zetian.
"Pan Yingzi" version of Wu Zetian
Before Liu Xiaoqing, Wu Zetian played by Pan Yingzi was also recognized by many viewers.
985, director Li Yuefeng planned to film " Queen Wu Zetian ", and Pan Yingzi was the best candidate for Wu Zetian in his mind.
After all, the " God of Condor Heroes " starring Pan Yingzi was very popular a few months ago, and the audience praised her role as Xiaolongnu.
According to the calculations mentioned in the interview, she should have been born in 1947, which also means that she was approaching forty years, but she played Xiaolong’s actress in a fresh and refined manner and full of fairy spirit.
Facing such a good opportunity in "The Queen of the Generation Wu Zetian", Pan Yingzi naturally would not refuse (PS: She also acted as Princess Taiping in the play, so I won't go into it here).
When she was the busiest, she didn't go home for 7 days and 7 nights. She took photos of the interior scenes in the studio at night and took photos of the exterior scenes outside during the day, so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes.
As we all know, Pan Yingzi is known as the "ageless doll" in the circle. With her natural girlish feeling, she has no sense of incongruity in playing the girl Wu Zetian.
But Wu Zetian, who became the emperor, was very majestic. Her small body was really bad. In order not to let the audience get out of the show, she later deliberately gained weight.
Time tight and the task is heavy, so she ate special butter, sausages and boiled eggs every day, and she weighed 9 pounds in half a month.
The old Wu Zetian's forehead was a little bald. She has always loved beauty and she would shave off her eyebrows and hair on her forehead.
After filming, she could only wear a hat every day to cover up her "strange appearance".
Pan Yingzi's efforts also received the rewards she deserved. After the show started, the ratings reached 60%+.
"The Queen of the Generation Wu Zetian" in one fell swoop Breaking the highest ratings record in Wanwan TV's history, Pan Yingzi was also "too popular".
So what is the difference between the Wu Zetian and Liu Xiaoqing version she played?
As soon as she appeared, she seemed to be possessed by Mary Sue, very innocent, ignorant, and ignorant.
Compared to Liu Xiaoqing's acting skills to show her girlishness and perfectly make up for her appearance, Pan Yingzi is very cute and agile, and she is not as round and smooth as Liu Xiaoqing, so she is less cute and smart.
After many hardships, she is loved by Emperor Gaozong and finally gave birth to a daughter, but innocent Wu Meiniang is dead. She understands that the queen and other concubines are there. The beauty in front of her is nothing more than mirrors and moons. In private, she is very worried.
In order to solve the situation of "people are the slaughter and I am the fish", she is determined not to be slaughtered. In order to help her, the wet nurse directly suffocated the little princess to frame Queen Wang .
was forced by the situation. She could only endure the pain of losing her daughter. Using the emperor's mercy, she defeated Queen Wang step by step, and successfully became a mother in the world.
As she began to participate in politics, her eyebrows raised, and her whole person was not only elegant and luxurious, but her fierce aura began to show.
After ascending the throne, she sat high above the court with a full attitude, full of momentum, and anger, and was completely different from the two in front and behind.
is just more arrogant than Liu Xiaoqing's natural outrage. Pan Yingzi seems to be more intuitively reflecting her ruthlessness by makeup.
Pan Yingzi herself didn't like the costumes at that time. She once said: Wu Meiniang's look when she was young was beautiful, but for some reason, it always reminds people of Nezha .
, and the later Wu Zetian's look was a bit like the New Year Painting.
may not be difficult to understand, after all, it is a work from the 1980s.
And Pan Yingzi has indeed achieved " towering eyebrows, rich cheeks, extraordinary wisdom, good at strategy, deep cunning, dominating the world, and tyrannizing the world for twenty years.”
Later, she went to Xi'an for a trip. She also went to Wu Zetian's tomb, "Standing in front of the stele without words, my mind was very wonderful, and I felt shocking and intimate. "
After Wu Zetian, Pan Yingzi has filmed many classic dramas, such as " A Generation Princess ", " A Generation Queen Da Yuer ", etc.
Who would have thought that Pan Yingzi, who is famous for her, is extremely simple in terms of love. Apart from having a short marriage with Chen Honglie , she has basically no scandals.
What everyone would never expect is that Pan Yingzi can actually be a "girl" for the rest of her life. Even though she is in her 70s, she still has fair skin and a tight figure, and is praised as the "ageless goddess".
Which of the two versions of Wu Zetian do you prefer?
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