On December 17, there were two thunderclaps in one day, one was that his ex-wife pickpocketed her ex-husband Wang Lihong, and the other was that earlier that day, Taiwan's veteran star Chen Songyong passed away unexpectedly.
The former is that the high-quality idol is finally removed from disguise by the person closest to him, and the latter is the old artist who has "subdued people with virtue" all his life.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Chen Songyong is virtuous and artistic, and there has been no negative news in the 50 years since his debut. Lu Xiaofen, the former partner of the Golden Horse Film Queen, recalled that it seemed that Chen Songyong had an illegitimate child, but the "Thunder Tiger" had never been married in his life, which was not a stain.
When it comes to the name of "Chen Songyong", most people are confused, but when it comes to the Lei Tiger who often hangs "serving people with virtue" in his most impressive "Fang Shiyu", many people suddenly understand.
Chen Songyong, who died of illness in Taiwan on the afternoon of December 17, died at the age of 80. However, Baidu Encyclopedia clearly reads "Born in July 1945". According to the customs of the Chinese people, after the birthday can be said to be 76 years old, after the death of the person to add three years old, I don't know if this is the case, or the original is a wrong record.
However, Chen Songyong's countless achievements in the past fifty years of art are indeed real.
His representative works include "City of Sorrows", "Big Brother", "Fang Shiyu", "Lu Binghua", "Rogue Family", "Prison Storm 2" and so on. In 1989, he won the Best Actor Award at the 26th Golden Horse Awards for "City of Sorrows".
At that year's Golden Horse Awards, chen Songyong, Jackie Chan ("Miracle"), Niu Chengze ("Banana Paradise") and other people competed for the Golden Horse Awards together, and there was a famous passage that Jackie Chan said, "I can't get the Golden Horse Award, I will touch it."
"City of Sorrows" is an epic film created by Hou Hsiao-hsien based on the Taiwanese reportage "Song of the Coachman", and the post-war restoration of Taiwan, the country and mountains have changed hands, but the sadness continues.
Hou Xiaoxian's film, no sensationalism, no climax, "City of Sorrows" is about an ordinary tragedy, when it happens you are too late to understand, and at the end you are too late to cry.
Now speaking of "City of Sorrows", many people's first impression is the electric-eyed Liang Chaowei, who plays the fourth elder of the Lin family in the film, a mute, who speaks completely by the eyes.
Originally, I thought that director Hou Xiaoxian was in love with Liang Chaowei's discharged eyes, and people with hearts looked through "Thirteen Questions of the City of Sorrows" to know that the reason why Liang Chaowei played a dumb was because at that time, whether he was in Taiwanese or Chinese was rotten.
And telling the story of an ordinary Taiwanese family, but can not let him speak Cantonese, Hou Xiaoxian was anxious when he thought of simply making him dumb!
Liang Chaowei as a foil for green leaves is naturally Chen Songyong.
Chen Songyong was not the first choice for "Lin Wenxiong", at that time it was the supervising producer Yang Dengkui who strongly recommended him, and was opposed by director Hou Xiaoxian, but in the end Chen Songyong still acted.
No script, no lines, relying on his own experience of young mixed society, relying on the director to say the situation of the play to figure out the performance, and finally won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.
Chen Songyong's explosive power is extremely strong, and he deserves to win the golden horse film emperor with this film.
The eldest brother Lin Wenxiong, who has a straightforward and sophisticated personality, has both the righteousness of the jianghu and the care of his family, is vividly interpreted, and is recognized by the film critics as "an outstanding actor who has true feelings in the face of jianghu righteousness and family affection"
Lin Wenxiong is the eldest of the four brothers in the family, vulgar and warm and lovely, he succeeded his father who called himself a "big hooligan" in the Japanese occupation era, the image of a traditional Chinese brother, presided over the housekeeping, and assumed the family rules.
Again and again to deal with various family issues, "fuck your mother" Taiwanese three-character mantra with a loud voice to scold people, full of courage, but death is sudden.
He was originally a bystander, and only wanted to care for his three younger brothers in order to ensure the safety of the whole family, but he could not withstand the coercion of the big times, and died in the gang fire, and none of the three brothers died well.
That was Chen Songyong at the peak of his acting career, and in addition to "City of Sorrows", there was also "Lu Binghua" in the Golden Horse Awards that year.
The year before, Wan Ziliang bravely won the Golden Horse Film Emperor's "Big Brother", and it was Chen Songyong who accompanied Wan Zi.
The role of Liang Chaowei in this "City of Sorrows" was originally Zhou Runfa, but because of the schedule problem of Fa Ge, it was eventually changed to Liang Chaowei.
But Chen Songyong and Zhou Runfa's fate waited a year later. In 1990, at the invitation of Xiang Shi Yongsheng, Chen Songyong entered the Hong Kong film industry for the first time, and cooperated with Tam Wing Lin and Andy Lau in the film "Supreme Ji Zhuangyuancai".
In 1991, Chen Songyong and Zhou Runfa co-starred in "Prison Storm 2", and the brotherhood of the prison performed by the two made countless fans moved.
In the film, Chen Songyong plays the black boss who is in prison, and Ah Zheng, played by Fa Ge, is not at odds, but both of them have been forced to escape from prison. The two had diarrhea together during the escape from prison and swam naked together, and the common suffering became a life-and-death relationship.
In the film, Chen Songyong's dragon brother jin sentences are frequently out, and what impresses him is that when Ah Zheng thanked him for taking care of him, he said" "You are not welcome, everyone is a descendant of the dragon."
There is also the sentence that comforts the friend, "Ah Zheng, the sky is the coffin lid, and the earth is the coffin board." Joy and sorrow are all in the coffin", showing the cheerful, open-minded and full of jianghu qi of this black boss.
Finally, it's time to talk about "Thunder Tiger".
In 1992, Chen Songyong, who was very successful in the Hong Kong film industry, cooperated with Jet Li, who was the boss, to star in the kung fu comedy "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu" directed by Yuan Kui, playing "Thunder Tiger".
Chen Songyong's Chinese is not standard, and the "Yidehu people" with a sense of joy are easier to remember.
Therefore, the accent and performance are very important, Yuan Kui plays Miao Cuihua's disciple, safety first "often hangs on the lips", but unfortunately there is not so much joy.
This is a film with a rather strong lineup to watch now: Lin Lingdong production, Xu Ke producer, Cai Kangyong, Liu Zhenwei screenwriter, Yuan Kui Wuzhi, Xu Anhuayi finger, Ma Chucheng photography, Zhang Yaozong editing, Huang Zhun lyrics, Jacky Cheung singing "Youth Heart", starring Jet Li, Zheng Shaoqiu, Li Jiaxin, Xiao Fangfang as the first work, Zhao Wenzhuo electrocution.
At that time, Jet Li had just finished filming Xu Ke's "Huang Feihong" series, and he was already a popular student, but unfortunately, his agent was shot, so Jet Li formed his own Zhengdong Pictures and began to be his own boss.
At that time, martial arts films had declined, and the money scene of this film was not optimistic, but in the end, "Fang Shiyu" was a great success, and the sequel "Fang Shiyu's Ten Thousand Enemies" was also well received, and even Zhang Weijian's remade TV series was extremely popular.
In addition to Jet Li and Xiao Fangfang playing Fang Shiyu and Miao Cuihua's classic mother and son, Lei Laohu is definitely the most outstanding supporting role, and even many people remember that this film is mostly his director's "convincing people with virtue" set by the director in order to add laughter to the movie.
Lei Laohu's love for his wife Li Xiaohuan and his sincere heart for his friends make people cry with joy outside of "subduing people with virtue".
On the day of Fang Shiyu and his female goose's big day, he was full of expectations for the guests to win the door, but no one came, he said there was no mistake, not a single guest?
When his wife was seriously injured, he went to seek medical treatment in the heavy rain but was deceived, and he said sadly: You Cantonese people do not have a good person, you Cantonese people, all of them are shoveled by the family...
Another surprise is that when I brushed "Fang Shiyu" N times, I found that when Lei Tiger "subdued people with virtue" in the hall, the little servant behind him was not Pan Yueming.
In the next year, Chen Songyong and Jet Li, who have become forgetful friends, renewed the film in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", this classic of Wang Jing, but also following the second cooperation of "Supreme Ji Zhuangyuancai", Wang Jing is full of admiration for his character and acting skills.
After 2000, Chen Songyong gradually faded out of the big screen.
The last big screen before retiring was in the movie "The Winner is King" that lost its copyright and could not be titled "Ancient Puzzle Boy", Chen Songyong played Zhongyong Bo, who wanted to compete with the pheasant for a position.
It's just that at that time, the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series has become the end of the crossbow, and "The Winner is King" does not have much splash.
But Shinichi Chiba, who played the Japanese gangster in "The Winner is King" in that movie, died in August this year, and now Chen Songyong has also traveled west with a crane. The precious group photo left by the two on the set became a masterpiece.
After 2000, Chen Songyong was no longer active in the entertainment industry for physical reasons, and only saw him in the longevity variety show "Kangxi Lai", occasionally making cameo appearances in several TV series, most of the time living in Taipei.
After the stroke in 2006, he was even more reclusive, and because he was unmarried all his life, he was accompanied only by caregivers.
Before his death, he asked his relatives, who would do the funeral, to give NT$2 million to the Indonesian maid who had been caring for him in the last few years.
Chen Songyong was born in the jianghu, a frank life, the biggest achievement is to shoot and win awards, and his biggest hobby is the cup of things.
Although his health in his later years was related to drinking alcohol, he still could not quit drinking, he once said, "Drinking sorghum wine and chatting with people will make melancholy better." ”
He also showed no concern for the disease: "The money has not been spent, and I can't help but wake up." My rehabilitation pain almost peed my pants, but I was Chen Songyong, and the pain could not be screamed, otherwise I would not be brave. ”
Before the onset of the disease, the doctor had asked dialysis to delay the deterioration of the disease, but he admitted that he had lived to the age of eighty and did not want to suffer from pain, so he gave up dialysis.
The doctor bluntly said that dialysis could not last long, but he was still laughing with the people around him the day before he died, and when he was dying, he said "thank you, thank you" to his brother and died peacefully.
Chen Songyong is frank and dashing, and from his open-mindedness in the face of life, it can be seen that the audience's deep impression of his "subduing people with virtue" is really like life.
"Serve people with virtue", Chen Songyong died bravely in his life, and Wang Lihong was just torn off the mask of "high-quality idol", and the superiority and inferiority of human nature were high and low.