Plot:
Princess Yan (Charlene Choi) is married to a foreign country. However, she and General Cheng (Raymond Lam) who is in charge of escorting her go from making trouble to falling in love with each other. Despite the fact that love is forbidden by heaven and earth, the two exchange their dowry pearls and heirloom jadeite as a token of their love, but then bandits attack. In the chaos, Yan falls off a cliff and becomes a wanderer; Cheng falls into the hands of bandits and enters their den. The two lovers are separated and each has an adventure. Cheng is taken back to the village by the female leader of the bandits, Zhu Sanniang (Joey Yung), but she accidentally makes the run-down village grow bigger, and Zhu falls in love with her. Cheng wants to leave the village to find the princess, and the infatuated Zhu insists on following him. Yan survives the disaster, but loses her memory. She is saved by the storyteller Ling Gankai (Wang Zulan), and they begin a storytelling life with her husband. When Cheng and Yan meet again, Yan, who has lost her memory, has become a commoner and falls in love with Ling. Behind-the-scenes production of classic Cantonese operas frequently appears on the screen. "The Unending Love of the Phoenix Pavilion" is a very famous Cantonese opera. It is performed by the famous Cantonese opera actor Mai Bingrong and the Phoenix Girl. It tells the love story between Princess Hongying (Phoenix Girl) of the Southern Song Dynasty, who was sent as an envoy to the Hu Kingdom since she was a child, and the foreign general Yelu Junxiong (Mai Bingrong). The song "A light boat goes, and people are separated by thousands of mountains" is well-known in Cantonese-speaking areas and has appeared in many TV series and movies such as "Women at Forty". The plot of the 2010 New Year film "Flower Field Wedding 2010" is basically the same as "The Unending Love of the Phoenix Pavilion", and if you pay close attention, you will find that the character of Yelu Junxiong in "Phoenix" was directly changed to the name of Mai Bingrong, the leading actor in "Phoenix" in "Flower". In the movie, General Mai Bingrong, played by Zheng Zhongji, also sang a rock version of "A Light Boat". The director of the ancient road comedy Qin Xiaozhen said that she tried to inject two completely different and even contradictory elements into the film: on the one hand, it can be said that this is an ancient road movie, so the plot will be more tense and thrilling. On the other hand, I want to make it a comedy, so everyone will feel more relaxed. So I want to put these two completely unrelated elements together to see if there will be more sparks. In addition to being an ancient road comedy, "Emerald Pearl" is also determined to produce a fashionable blockbuster effect. Therefore, not only do Raymond Lam and Charlene Choi have to be portrayed as fairy tale princesses and princes in the film, but Joey Yung's appearance as the King of the Shanzhai also resembles the Pirates of the Caribbean. Although Joey Yung likes her pirate look very much, she is also very distressed about having to shoot fighting scenes, which she is not good at. Not only did she accidentally hurt many people, but sometimes she even acted the fighting scenes like dancing. Behind the Scenes·When Charlene Choi and Raymond Lam were acting in a sex scene, they almost fell off the bed. The main reason was that they didn't know the direction at the time and were a little dizzy. My body slipped and Raymond Lam and I almost fell off. Fortunately, he was quick and quickly grabbed something around him to keep his balance.·In "Emerald and Pearl", Wan Ziliang broke his usual elegant style. He played a vassal king in "Emerald and Pearl", and Tien Niu played a widow who seemed chaste but was actually very lustful. This film was the first collaboration between the former couple after more than ten years of divorce.·The film was jointly invested by Shaw Brothers Pictures, TVB and Emperor Entertainment. The title "Emerald and Pearl" is a coincidence, which happens to be the names of two famous TV stations under TVB.·Asa, who suffered from the wind and sand in Beijing, complained as soon as she opened her mouth. This was the hardest time I had to shoot on location. I had to eat wind and sand every day. In the play, Raymond Lam and I had to open our eyes and look at each other affectionately, but we were often blown to tears by the wind.