Relive the Magic: 'May You Live Longer' Cantonese Dubbing Version Premieres, Bringing Teresa Teng's Iconic Story to Life

The Cantonese dubbing version of “May You Live Longer” premieres and is re-edited to recreate the legendary life of Teresa Teng

The Mainland drama “May You Live Longer” is adapted from Teresa Teng’s personal growth and dream-pursuing experience. Michelle Chen plays Teresa Teng, together with talented actors such as Peter Ho, Peng Guanying, Lu Yi, Hou Yong, Jiang Shan and others, recreating the song of a generation. Later legendary life. HOY TV has re-edited the series from the original 48 episodes into a more compact 36-episode version, with Cantonese dialogue, and will be broadcast on HOY TV 77 from October 25.

The delay in broadcasting does not hinder the popularity
After the filming of “May You Live Forever” was completed, the broadcast schedule was postponed. However, this drama was the first biographical story authorized by Teresa Teng’s family, so it was still very eye-catching and aroused heated discussions on the Internet. The classic hits in the play still resonate strongly with Chinese-speaking fans everywhere. The original 48 episodes were considered to have too many branches and not compact enough. This time, HOY TV edited the series into 36 episodes, with Cantonese dialogue, to bring a better viewing experience to the audience.

From an ordinary girl in a military community to a Chinese legend

The series unfolds in flashback mode. The first episode begins with Teresa Teng’s death in Thailand in 1995. Real news clips are occasionally added to allow the audience to quickly immerse themselves in that time and space and feel the shock that Teresa Teng’s death had to the Chinese world. The series then proceeds from Teresa Teng’s childhood, and the story begins in an ordinary military dependents’ village in Taipei.

Deng’s mother Zhao Sugui (played by Jiang Shan) moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang officer Deng Shu (played by Hou Yong). When Teresa Teng was born in 1953, there were already three sons in the family, so Teresa Teng’s childhood was quite poor. Teresa Teng, whose nickname is Girl, has shown interest in music since she was a child. She gradually discovered her talent by singing at gatherings of relatives and friends in the military community, but she did not receive support from her father. When they learned that the radio station was going to hold a singing competition, the mothers in the military community helped to persuade her mother Zhao Sugui to sign and allow the girl to participate in the singing competition without telling her father Deng Shu. She passed all the tests and finally won the first place in the singing competition. So he joined the radio singing training class.

At a young age, Teresa Teng got more and more opportunities to perform on stage. In order to help her father, who ran a stall, she bought a store and signed a contract with a record company to advance her salary, becoming the family’s breadwinner. The subsequent development of the plot is a part that Hong Kong people are more familiar with. Teresa Teng’s increasing number of fans gave her the opportunity to perform on stage in Hong Kong. She also began to appear in some movies and became popular in Hong Kong for a while. When Teresa Teng was in Hong Kong, she met Sasaki, the senior executive of the Japanese agency “Polydor”. He marveled at Teng’s natural voice and strongly invited her to release a record in Japan. Later, Teresa Teng became the Japanese record triple crown.

In addition to presenting Teresa Teng’s singing career, “May You Live Forever” also adapted several of her romances and added them to the drama. Zhou Taisheng (played by Peng Guanying), a top student studying in the United States, is Teresa Teng’s childhood sweetheart. They both love music, but they eventually separated under the pressure of their parents and the obstruction of their good friends; the other relationship is with the wealthy son Wang Zhongwen (played by Peter Ho), Wang’s The family asked Teresa Teng to stop singing and stay at home to support her husband and raise children, but Teresa Teng was unwilling to give up her singing career, and eventually Teresa Teng and Wang Zhongwen broke up. Teresa Teng’s last love affair in the play was with Marco, a foreigner she met by chance in Japan.

Michelle Chen regards Deng as her idol and spent more than a year preparing for the role

The drama’s revival of a classic character was already expected to arouse controversy. Michelle Chen’s performance as Teresa Teng has received polarizing reviews. Some people praised her efforts to capture Deng’s charm, but others criticized her temperament for being too different from her original character.

In fact, in order to play the role well in the play, Michelle Chen hired professional teachers to study and learn Teresa Teng’s music, worked hard on her body, vocals and dance, and also made a special trip to Hong Kong and other places to trace Teresa Teng’s footsteps. Michelle Chen regards Teresa Teng as her idol. She earlier shared on social media that she had prepared for more than a year before filming started, “It seems that I have done a lot of homework, but I feel that no matter how prepared I am, it is not enough because you are so versatile. A smile goes too deep into people’s hearts.”

The Cantonese dubbing version of “May You Live Longer” premieres and is re-edited to recreate the legendary life of Teresa Teng

Relive the Magic: ‘May You Live Longer’ Cantonese Dubbing Version Premieres, Bringing Teresa Teng’s Iconic Story to Life

Related

Relive the Magic: ‘May You Live Longer’ Cantonese Dubbing Version Premieres, Bringing Teresa Teng’s Iconic Story to Life

Share this:

Related