Jet Li Looks Like the Most Vicious Sorcerer in White Snake Legend
>> Apr 22, 2011
One of the most anticipated martial arts fantasy remake, "The Sorcerer and White Snake", has wrapped up the shooting process on January 16. The film will be released in 3-D and it is estimated to release at the end of the year. Directed by famous Kung Fu choreographer and director Tony Ching Siu-tung and starring international action superstar Jet Li, the film recently has released some stills that features the two lead male stars, Li and Raymond Lam. Have a good look at them after the break along with some nice information around the legend.
For your information, in this film based on the eternal Chinese legend "Madam White Snake", Li is playing a monk named Fahai who intervenes in the relationship between a young scholar and his lover, a white snake in human form. The film has many action sequences showing Li battling computer-generated "white snake". Calling it a new experience, Li says his role was a challenge as he had to imagine his enemies' moves. In many adaptation of the story, Fahai was described as an evil character, but in this new film however, he will be the central character and dominates the screen time. In the other hand, Hong Kong actor and singer Raymond Lam is Xu Xian, the naive scholar who fall in love with the white snake.
The story of the White Snake, which reflects the young people's longing for free love under the yoke of feudalism, has been a popular theme for many genres of art and literature fiction, the stage and many handicrafts. One of the mural paintings at the new Beijing International Airport illustrates this well-known story in a distinctively original style.
The setting of this fascinating story never fails to interest visitors to Hangzhou, capital and largest city of in Eastern China province, but the ruins of Leifeng Pagoda are nowhere to be found. The pagoda in actual life was not burned down as told in the story but crumbled of age and vanished. The local people, it is said, hating it as the prison of the gentle White Snake Lady, made no effort to maintain it.
For your information, in this film based on the eternal Chinese legend "Madam White Snake", Li is playing a monk named Fahai who intervenes in the relationship between a young scholar and his lover, a white snake in human form. The film has many action sequences showing Li battling computer-generated "white snake". Calling it a new experience, Li says his role was a challenge as he had to imagine his enemies' moves. In many adaptation of the story, Fahai was described as an evil character, but in this new film however, he will be the central character and dominates the screen time. In the other hand, Hong Kong actor and singer Raymond Lam is Xu Xian, the naive scholar who fall in love with the white snake.
The story of the White Snake, which reflects the young people's longing for free love under the yoke of feudalism, has been a popular theme for many genres of art and literature fiction, the stage and many handicrafts. One of the mural paintings at the new Beijing International Airport illustrates this well-known story in a distinctively original style.
The setting of this fascinating story never fails to interest visitors to Hangzhou, capital and largest city of in Eastern China province, but the ruins of Leifeng Pagoda are nowhere to be found. The pagoda in actual life was not burned down as told in the story but crumbled of age and vanished. The local people, it is said, hating it as the prison of the gentle White Snake Lady, made no effort to maintain it.
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