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Post by Admin on May 31, 2014 13:50:26 GMT
This is a wuxia series produced by Singapore TV. It's actually pretty good.
The story...just like the title...a lot of conspiracy. It's entertaining with a good old figthing scenes. But, this is 90s era. Don't expect heavy CGI like modern one.
Anyway, found the full series on youtube.
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Post by Admin on May 31, 2014 16:25:57 GMT
For 90s production, this series brought some fresh air. The series is made in a real location, not studio like the old TVB old series. I can recognize Longmen Grotto (Henan Province), and Shaolin SongShan were used as setting in this series.
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Post by soengyee on Sept 30, 2014 1:22:46 GMT
This story is a rip-off of Gulong's Meteor Butterfly and Sword and Jin Yong's Smiling, Proud Wanderer. The character Bai Yuchuan is supposed to be Lu Xiang Chuan, but played by an actual female actress. He would end up raping the leading actress, learn some powerful martial arts and castrate himself and become a "she" and still harbors feelings for the main actrese. He also is the main villain and creates a lot of havoc in the pugilist realm. A decent series with good fight scenes but not exactly original.
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Post by kyc on Feb 4, 2022 7:26:48 GMT
I'll talk a bit about The Great Conspiracy (《蓮花爭霸》), first released in 1993. It is indeed a Singaporean production, but I wouldn't call it a rip-off, lol. It is based 85% on Meteors, Butterfly, Sword, so much so that no one who has read that novel would mistake it as not being an adaptation. The difference is the ending, plagiarized from The Smiling, Proud Wanderer (the villain castrates himself and becomes a woman). Why Mediacorp (formerly TCS) simply changed the names of the GL characters and not chose to legally adapt the novel is anyone's guess. I believe the Gu Long estate was embroiled in some literary executors' lawsuit during that time; TCS just did not know who to pay. Usually, Singapore would gladly pay such copyright, as in their LYS and JY adaptations. This series was made in the 90s when there were still decent wuxia directors and stuntmen in Singapore. (Most of them came from HK btw.) Since the early 2000s, Mediacorp has decided not to shoot any more period dramas. (Two years ago they did one, but the response was lukewarm.) In fact, the stunts here are slick and well executed, without the excessive CGI you see in many China wuxia productions. It is so closely based on the GL novel, it is actually more faithful than many HK and China GL productions. Bai Yuchun (the Lü Xiangchuan character) even has the same signature dish, fried rice with eggs, as in the novel! Bai Yuchun (played by Inner Mongolian actress Talin Tuoya) has legions of women fans in China, since this wuxia production was actually bought and shown there on many regional networks. It amuses me no end that so many women pledged undying love to a female actress just because she plays a suave, handsome villain, but I take this in a positive way. The scriptwriters added a few characters and the ending is totally different, but this is still clearly a GL adaptation. The Shen Chong character isn't as angst-filled as the GL character it is based on. The theme song is sung by the late Roman Tam. The series is available on meWatch (for Singaporeans) and on many Chinese streaming websites. Main cast: Li Nanxing - Shen Chong Talin Tuoya - Bai Yuchun Zhu Houren - Nangong Jun Zhu Leling (Madeline Chu) - Nangong Die Chen Tianwen - Nangong Jian Liu Qiulian - Qiu Ruolan / Second Madame Feng Xie Shaoguang - Ye Qun Zhang Wenxiang - Yang Tang Li Tianci - Gao Xiang
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