White Snake 2: Green Snake: The most bitter and resentful thing in the world is not to seek
In the original version of the legend of the White Snake, Xiaoqingben was a male snake. After losing the battle with the White snake, he willingly turned into a maid to serve the White snake. Fang Change’s “Leafing Pagoda” legend of the fifth out, the actor is a clown, by Bayan Xingu to become a stick corner. Even in Anita Chiu’s version of Lady White Legend, this detail is reflected, with Maggie Chan appearing as a dashing young gentleman.
Two of the most famous contemporary novels about change are the Legend of the White Snake. The first is Green Snake by Li Bahia. Li Bahia is good at exploring the ugliness of jealousy and fickleness in human nature. Green Snake is jealous of White Snake. The novel was later adapted into a film by Tzu Hark, and White Snake: The Green Snake Heist clearly pays homage to it. Then there is Yan Gelling’s White Snake, one of the best novellas of post-21st century China. Yan Gelling cleverly uses the transsexual details of the White Snake Legend to create a beautiful tale of women saving each other during China’s Cultural Revolution.
Yes, in the Legend of the White Snake, there is a theme of “same-sex complex”.
In Yan Gelling’s White Snake, Xu Qunshan rescues Sun Likun as an androgynous figure, helping her to regain her deprived dignity. But at that time, their feelings were not acceptable to the world, even to themselves. Xu Qunshan wrote in her diary: “What if she doesn’t become a woman… Then there is nothing to do with this stupid Xu Xian. I really hate Xu Xian! White Snake wouldn’t have suffered so much without him. White Snake and Green Snake must be doing very well without this wicked Xu Xian.”
“Green Snake Snatched” continues this setting, completely abandoning the role of Xu Xian and mining elements of the text’s loyalty to the white snake. The whole movie is depicting XiaoQing thinking of saving Xiaobai, until the end to tell the audience, the original Xiaobai has been reincarnated as a man, wanted to find Xiaoqing.
Both Yan Geling’s “White Snake” and the movie “Green Snake Steal” depict the feelings between white snake and green snake very vaguely, which seems to be sisterly love, but it is far above it, so that it becomes obsession. In fact, in my opinion, the definition of love is very narrow; it is the need for each other to survive the world. In the novel, the disaster is the Cultural Revolution, which changes White Snake Sun Likun beyond recognition; in the movie, it is set similar to Alice in the Dying Country, the city of Sour, is wind, fire, water and gas four times. The young generals of the Cultural Revolution were green bats.
“Green Snake Steal” to pay tribute to Yan Gelling “White Snake” one point is Xiaoqing first into the city of Xiyu Lou, the Sun girl who helped her quickly understand the world setting. As luck would have it, her family name was Sun and she was a woman. After being killed by the Minotaur, Xiaoqing is furious. After thinking back, if the name Sun is not a coincidence, then the scriptwriter is already telling you that this movie is much more than sisterly love.
Sun Jibe not only teaches Xiaoqing how to drive, but also how to survive in this world. She is like a doppelganger of Xiao Bai and completes the first step to save Xiao Qing.
Faceless man is part of White ghost, not all. His bone flute was a small part of little white host, and his feelings for Xiaoqing in his soul were attached to that small piece of host. The shard was not crushed under the Leafing Pagoda. This little soul was reincarnated as a little girl and kept searching; after reincarnated into a boy, in the process of looking for was killed by a truck, violent death into the repair Lou city when the fire, the face was burned beyond recognition. It was because he carried his obsession from a previous life, and it was not all white’s soul, that he did not know where his obsession lay.
It is not surprising that Xiao Bay’s posterity should be male, since gender transition is already in the mother book of the White Snake. However, the scriptwriter creatively made White Snake a male; a weak boy that Xiaoqing thinks can help her, even at the cost of his own to help Xiaoqing escape from Shula City in the end. This is definitely after the scriptwriter familiar with the Legend of the White Snake, rather than a whim. When Xiaoqing put the small piece of bone flute into the broken jade pin, the pin was reunited and Xiao Bai finally turned into a complete Xiao Bai, which appeared in front of Xiaoqing a thousand years later.
Sisterly love or love, they are we were born; have to rely on each other warm feelings. It no longer makes us individuals, but can resist it together in the face of adversity. This is the original feeling that “The Green Snake” is trying to express, and it’s why all great literature moves us over and over again.
In addition, this radical adaptation of classics is also an important way to rejuvenate the original works. Only by making traditional ingredients more in line with people’s tastes can we feel its greatness over and over again. Even the Plum in the Golden Vase is based on the story of Xiamen Qing in the Water Margin. As for Chinese classical novels, only by adding their own materials to the foundation of predecessors over and over again can they constantly expand their capacity. The Water margin, The Three Kingdoms, Westward travel, all is so.
That’s why I like “Green Snake” so much, because it’s changed, and not just changed. When we understand the origin of the White Snake story, we may understand the reason why Xiao Bai was reincarnated as a man.
In addition, both White Snake: Origin and Green Snake Steal pay tribute to the Legend of the New Lady White at the end, using the familiar theme song, and all end on the broken bridge of West Lake, which is the soft place in the Chinese heart for the Legend of the White Snake, and will remain in the history of classical Chinese literature.