Character And Personality Study On Performing Arts In Brigitte Lin's Films

As a literary film superstar widely known in the late of 1970 s, Brigitte Lin is the representative of the teenager girls in Chinese movie circle for the moment, nicknamed “two Lins and two Chins” along with Joan Lin, Han Chin and Charlie Chin. She plays a wide range of characters, including energetic teenage girl and chivalrous heroine. With more than 100 films, she was once recognized as the No.1 Beauty of Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, she was awarded the prize of Best Actress for a classic film Red Dust in Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards. In 1992, Brigitte Lin once again hit the big time another classic swordsman 2. In the filmdom of Hong Kong and Taiwan, Brigitte Lin is the only actress adept in both martial films and literary films, and also she enjoys the longest days of popularity in movie and television industry.In 1973, Brigitte Lin was discovered by a talent scout in Ximenting, Taipei. At that moment, the Taiwanese director Song Cunshou was filming Outside the Window, a movie adapted from Qiong Yao's novels. In 1975, she played the movie Eight Hundred Heroes, which earned her lasting favorable comments on her prominent acting skills. As a result, she was awarded the title of Best Actress in the 22 nd Asia-Pacific Film Exhibition, and turned to be the second-to-none literary film star of her time. In 1976, Brigitte played the leading characters in numerous movies adapted from Qiong Yao's novels one after another, seemingly to be the actress for the use of Qiong Yao, and she was recognized as a pure goddess by the audience. She played many classic films in succession, like Love's Many Faces, Love Seed, Autumn Love Song, Cloud of Romance, Come Fly With Me, Hazy Moonlight, Police Story, Starry is the Night, Red Dust and so on. In her movie career of 21 years, Brigitte produced 100-plus movies all together, and became a talented actress who could handle skillfully swordsman films, literary films and comedy films, which is rarely seen in movie and television industry. Brigitte Lin enjoyed great popularity for a time. She witnessed the changes of Hong Kong and Taiwan movies over the past 30 years from 1970 s to 1990 s, and she was a symbolic star in the movie arena.Brigitte Lin grows up from a na?ve student, who hadn't had received professional training for performance, to an outstanding actress with consummate acting skills. Her ever-changing performing styles also represent the development of movie industry. And more exquisite acting techniques gradually take shape along with her increasingly mature performance as the time passes. In accordance with theories in filmology and performology as well as other relevant theories, and by means of contrastive and illustrative demonstration, this paper organizes the different performing styles of Brigitte Lin in different periods, aiming to figure out her distinctive style in a certain period and to interpret the doubts of people in entertainment circle at the same time.