“Lake Fairy” ( Chinese trad. 魚 美 魚 , pinyin : yú měirén , literally “beautiful fish”; the English The Mermaid or The Beautiful Carp Spirit ) - 1965 Hong Kong film directed by Kao Li , shot at Shaw Brothers .
| Fairy lake | |
|---|---|
| whale. 魚 美人 , Pinyin : yú měirén English The mermaid | |
 | |
| Genre | music film huanmei |
| Producer | Kao Li |
| Producer | Shao Renmei |
| Author script | Zhang che |
| In the main cast | Ivy ling po Li Jing Chin miao |
| Operator | Tong Shaoyun |
| Composer | Van Fulin Eddie H. Wang Juzen |
| Film company | Shaw brothers |
| Duration | 100 min |
| A country |  Hong Kong |
| Tongue | chinese putonghua |
| Year | 1965 |
| IMDb | ID 0061210 |
Story
For many years, the estate of Senior Minister Jin Tsun has stood over the ancient protected lake with greenish waves - and for a thousand years, invisibly to people, the same carp has been splashing in the lake - the spirit of this lake, stealthily watching people.
A young schoolboy, Zhang Zhen, appears on the estate of the Minister. Once upon a time, even before his birth, his parents agreed to marry his son to the daughter of Minister Jin Mutan, but now the schoolboy has remained a poor orphan. At other times, Jin Tsun, who respects only money, would simply kick him out, but the minister needs to protect his reputation and he will compromise - he sets the condition for the schoolchild to achieve the highest degree of zhuangyuan , even provides him with a long-empty and dusty schoolhouse pavilion on the shore lakes for study.
Spring is ending, summer is passing, and autumn, and winter. All this time the schoolboy is alone in his pavilion; house servants bring him food, but nothing more; even they regard him as the lowest. The “named bride” does not even remember him. The only living creature he sees constantly is a fish jumping out of the water; gradually exhausted from loneliness, Zhang Zhen begins to talk to her and share her food with her.
The day is coming when the carp girl, who has fallen in love with a young man, having assumed the appearance of the young lady Jin Mutan, comes to him to express her love. The lovers begin to communicate, but alas, this leads to the fact that one day Zhen habitually addresses the young lady Jin, causing her anger and giving her father a reason to break off the engagement and knock him out of the house. His despair does not last long - the "bride" again catches up with him to walk together. But time passes, and at the festival the minister again sees him with "his daughter." The schoolboy was arrested, and he faces something more serious than expulsion, but suddenly he discovers two daughters instead of one. Neither the maidservants, nor the father and mother can distinguish which of them is real and which is a double; taking advantage of his position, the minister invites the famous Bao Zheng to his place - and in his house two judges of Bao almost collide against their foreheads ...
More effective is the challenge of the exorcist against the "evil spirit"; a heavenly army surrounds and neutralizes a fairy who has violated the prohibition of love between celestials and mortals, and her lake assistants. At the last moment, the Goddess of Mercy appears, giving the girl a choice - to remain a fairy and follow her to follow the law of heaven, or become a mortal man, having lost all magical abilities, for the sake of living with her beloved.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Ivy ling po | Shkolar Zhang Zhen |
| Li Jing (vocals Jing Ting ) | Minister Jin Mutan's daughter, Lake Fairy |
| Yang Zhiqing | Senior Minister Jin Cong |
| Ouyang Shafei | minister's wife |
| Chin miao | Judge Bao |
| Chen Yunhua | Goddess of mercy |
Film crew and technical data
- Production and initial distribution: Shaw Brothers .
- Producer: .
- Director: Kao Li .
- Director group: Yu Zhengchun , Chen Qijui.
- Scenario: Zhang Che .
- Composers: Wang Fulin , Eddie H. Wang Juzen.
- Sound Recording: Wang Yonghua
- Grim: Fang Yuen
- Operator: Tong Shaoyun .
- Editor: Jiang Xinglong
- The language of dialogue and vocals: Chinese putonghua ("Mandarin") [1] , presumably - the Anqing dialect, traditional for the opera huanmei .
- Film and film format: Eastmancolour in Shawscope format (proprietary version of CinemaScope ) 2.35: 1. The sound is mono.
- Duration: 100 minutes (full) [1] , 95 minutes (DVD version) [2]
- Premiere date: January 29, 1965 (Hong Kong).
Rewards
12th Asia Pacific Film Festival (1965)
- Best Actress - Li Jing
- Best Sound - Wang Yonghua
- Special Prize for the Most Versatile Talent - Ivy Lin Po [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Film profile (English) (Chinese) in the Hong Kong Film Archive database.
- ↑ The Beautiful Carp Spirit on the Internet Movie Database
Links
- Tan See-Kam ,. Huangmei opera films, Shaw Brothers and Ling Bo: Chaste love stories, genderless cross-dressers and sexless gender-plays? (eng.) . Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (2007, No. 49). - Analysis of female and male characters of films in the genre of the opera huanmei on the example of films with Ivy Lin Po with their review. Date of treatment June 27, 2012. Archived on September 27, 2012.
- Paghat the Ratgirl ,. Intergender Casting in Chinese Cinema with special focus on the performances of Ivy Ling Po . weirdwilddream.com. - An overview of films in the genre of opera huanmey with the participation of Ivy Lin Po. Date of treatment June 27, 2012. Archived on September 27, 2012.