宝莲灯英文

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The Lotus Lamp------------------Stars who die young are doubly cursed. Not only are they dead, but they leave behind a few films that can never live up to the glowing reputation that invariably surrounds the prematurely departed.I realize that sounds glib, placing a poor film performance on the same level as an early, usually tragic death. I’m not trying to belittle these stars or their deaths, only point out that they were more fallable than their post-mortem deifications would lead us to believe.Linda Lin Dai is one of the best remembered Hong Kong stars of the 50s and 60s. When she committed suicide in 1964, Linda Lin Dai was working on at least two films, the epic The Blue And The Black and the haungmei opera The Lotus Lamp.*Of the two, The Lotus Lamp was the closest to completion, so it lacks the jagged, Frankenstein edges of The Blue And The Black. But, like that WWII melodrama, The Lotus Lamp shows an actress that time and the Shaw Brothers studio had left behind.Originally, Lin was meant to share the screen in The Lotus Lamp with Cheng Pei Pei and Ivy Ling Po—Lin playing the motherly Goddess San and Ling Po playing her teenaged son Chen Xiang—a symbolic changing of the guard with Lin graduating to Shaw’s “older women” roles and passing her mantle on to Ling and Chang. But Lin fought the casting, pushing Ling Po out of the film (although she still provides some of the singing voices) and taking two of the film’s three starring roles.Lin was well-suited for the role of Goddess San, an immortal who falls for and marries the mortal scholar Liu (Cheng Pei Pei). Playing Goddess San required a certain regal bearing and a motherly concern, traits that Linda Lin Dai could exude in her sleep. San, however, exits the movie early when Three Eyed God (Tien Feng), the protector of heavenly purity, and his companion, Sky Dog (a shape shifting German Shepard who should have his own cartoon series—The Adventures Of Sky Dog!) discovers San and Liu’s forbidden love. San is punished with eternal confinement and Liu flees with their infant son, Chen Xiang, swearing to avenge his wife.Time passes and Chen Xiang grows into a pouty, angry teenaged boy. Once Lin Dai bounds on screen, looking like the exact opposite of a pouty, teenaged boy, the inappropriateness of this casting becomes clear. Whatever Lin’s reason for forcing Ling Po out of the film—jealousy over Ling Po’s rising popularity, insecurity in her own star power, fear that her age (almost 30) would force her from the spotlight or a desire to try a cross-dressing haungmei role that were currently all the rage—the decision was a poor one.From this moment on, The Lotus Lamp stops being a slight, if enjoyable haungmei opera and mutates into the archetypical train wreck, made all the more awful by its star’s imminent suicide. If Linda Lin Dai had made another thirty films after The Lotus Lamp, the film would simply be seen as one of her lesser efforts. Instead, it is haunted by its casting and suffers all the more for it.*I’ve seen sources claim she was working on two, three or four films at the time of her death.

动画电影宝莲灯

片名：宝莲灯 英文片名：Lotus Lantern 国家/地区：中国 区域：中国大陆 出品：上海美术电影制片厂 类型：动画 导演：常光希 天宫中的三圣母爱上了人间书生刘彦昌。为了爱情，三圣母不顾二郎神反对，带着宝莲灯私奔下凡与刘彦昌相会。 七年过去了，他们的孩子沉香渐渐长大，和母亲一起过着幸福的生活。突然，有一天，二郎神从宝莲灯的闪光中发现了他们。为了维护天规，他抓走了小沉香，要挟三圣母交出宝莲灯。无奈之中，三圣母只得把灯交出，并被压在华山底下。 沉香从土地神口中得知了自己的身世。在同为人质的部落头人之女嘎妹的帮助下，沉香机智地与护灯秦俑周旋，夺回母亲的宝莲灯，逃离天宫，踏上了寻母之路。 征途中，磨难重重。鬼城、荒漠、怪石诡异多端；雪崩、地裂、沙暴恐怖惊人，这一切都没有磨灭沉香的救母之心。幼年的沉香在经历了种种险遇之后，终于达到了天人合一的境界，成长为一个英勇的少年。 孙悟空为沉香的执着所感动。在他的点拨下，沉香带着小猴和白龙马直奔火山，他在嘎妹和部落人民的帮助下，推倒了二郎神的石像，铸成了神斧。 沉香举起神斧，与二郎神决一死战。他越战越勇，令二郎神难以招架。激战中，二郎神屡施毒计，欲将沉香置于死地，并抢夺宝莲灯。在这千钧一发之际，宝莲灯突发金光泻进沉香体内，与沉香合而为一，终于把二郎神打败。云开雾散，大地回春，沉香劈开华山，救出母亲。母子终于相会。 天宫中的三圣母爱上了人间书生刘彦昌。为了爱情，三圣母不顾二郎神反对，带着宝莲灯私奔下凡与刘彦昌相会。