Legend of the White Snake
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Adaptations (3)
Legend of the White Snake has been adapted 3 times, across film and television series, from 1956 to 1992. The most recent is New Legend of Madame White Snake (1992).
New Legend of Madame White Snake1992 · television series · 49 min · IMDb ↗IMDb8.1New Legend of Madame White Snake (Chinese: 新白娘子傳奇) is a 1992 TV series starring Angie Chiu and Cecilia Yip. It is based on the Chinese folk legend Legend of the White Snake. First shown on Taiwan Television in 1992, the series was broadcast on China Central Television in 1993 and became a major hit.
Madam White Snake? · television series · 60 min · IMDb ↗IMDb8.3The television serial was based on a legendary folk tale, involving a snake spirit and her male human lover, but was adapted in this version to include the presence of a black snake who is the snake spirit's mentor and the White Snake Spirit being trapped under the pagoda for 20 years, when in the original tale she was trapped under the tower for centuries. As for the green snake, the white snake imprisons her for a short time before releasing her, unlike the original where she imprisoned her for three centuries. Xu Xian is also initially a good-for-nothing who, under the white snake's guidance, becomes an official.
