- Green Snake
Infobox_Film
name = Green Snake
director =Tsui Hark
producer = Tsui HarkNg See Yuen
writer =Lilian Lee (novel)
Tsui Hark
starring =Maggie Cheung
Joey Wong Vincent Zhao Wu Hsing-Kuo
released = 1993
runtime = 99 minutes
country = flagicon|Hong Kong|colonial Hong Kong
language = Cantonese
imdb_id = 0106559
amg_id = 1:134175"Green Snake" (青蛇, Chinese literal title: The Teal/
Green Snake) is a 1993 Hong Kong fantasyfilm made byTsui Hark . It is the adaptation of anovel of the same title byLilian Lee .The novel itself is a variation of a Chinese
folk tale "Madame White Snake ", where Lillian Lee tells the story from the perspective of Xiaoqing, the Green Snake, who normally plays a minor role behind the main character Bai Suzhen, theWhite Snake . As the title suggests, the movie also features Xiaoqing as the main character.Plot
Two snake spirits have been training for many centuries to take
human form and experience the love, freedom and wisdom that is supposedly only available to humans. White Snake (Joey Wong ) is the more experienced one and proceeds to get engaged with local scholar Hsui Xien (Wu Hsing-Kuo), with whom she plans to have a child who would complete her passage into the mortal realm. Green Snake (Maggie Cheung ) is the younger and more impulsive of the two sisters and she is not yet quite sure about the benefits of the human world. The two snakes move into their magically created house and start a successful medical practice in the town.Their enemies are a buffoonish
Taoist and an overzealousBuddhist monk (Vincent Zhao ) who make various attempts to banish them from the human world. The monk thinks of himself as a keeper of the natural order of the world and is very prejudiced against spiritual beings seeking to improve themselves. He brings things to a head when he abducts White's husband from the human/spiritmixed marriage into his religiousreeducation camp –styled temple.External links
* [http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/greensnake.htm Review]
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