Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Emperor and Gold Medal Supporting Actor Chen Songyong died in Taipei on December 17, 2021, at the age of 80.
Like many gold medal supporting roles in China, when Chen Songyong's name is mentioned, many viewers may be confused, but when it comes to the thunderous line "Serve people with virtue", most people will wake up like a daigo empowerment, "It was him!" ”
A sentence of "serving people with virtue" makes people like the domineering and cute, rough and warm and extremely joyful Lei Tiger, which is the most profound character mark of Chen Songyong's 41-year acting career.
Chen Songyong's family is poor, but he was born with a large body and a wide intestine, half a size child eats dead Laozi, Chen Songyong did not finish middle school and went into society to do odd jobs to subsidize the family, and he has two younger brothers below him.
Chen Songyong just started to do coolie, I don't know the influence of that TV series, this tall teenager began to envy the gang boss, from evil like collapse, Chen Songyong mixed into the Taiwan underworld, mixed in the rivers and lakes that is the day when the knife licks blood, Chen Songyong looks fierce but the heart is very good, this is a bit like "Thunder Tiger", but with a tough appearance, Chen Songyong mixed into a character of a certain gang.
Chen Songyong quickly paid the price for him to enter the wrong line, he was a small person with no background who was targeted by the Taiwan police, and Chen Songyong mistakenly hit and hid in a crew. In 2013, Chen Songyong confessed that "I went to work as an actor to hide from the police, because the police could not go to the set."
Why can't the police go to the set? I really can't understand this, anyway, it is Chen Songyong's original words.
Chen Songyong did a group performance, which is a farewell to the jianghu and abandoning evil and following good.
In 1989, director Hou Xiaoxian directed the literary and art film "City of Sorrows", the protagonist of the film, Lin Wenxiong, is a jianghu boss. Chen Songyong's appearance is fierce, and he has gangster experience, Hou Daoli invited Chen Songyong to play in his true colors, and Chen Songyong's performance truly restored life and won the Best Actor Award at the 26th Golden Horse Awards.
Chen Songyong is fat, exaggerated in action, and has a strong sense of comedy in performance, especially suitable for playing a small person with a rough appearance and a generous heart.
Chen Songyong is not the only sentence "to serve people with virtue" that is remembered by the audience, he has a lot of golden sentences on the screen, but many people do not know that chen Songyong, the emperor of the Golden Horse Film, is not known.
In 1990, Andy Lau Tam Wing Lin Chen Baixiang co-starred in the Hong Kong gambling film "Supreme Ji Zhuangyuancai", Chen Songyong played the Taiwan gangster leader Jiang Shanhe, you may forget Jiang Shanhe, but you can't forget his mantra, that very characteristic of Taiwan Province, "Thank you mother"...
In 1991, Chen Songyong and Zhou Runfa cooperated to play the male number two dragon brother in "Prison Storm II: Fugitives", and a brilliant line "The sky is the coffin board, the ground is the coffin lid" was said to be a golden sentence.
Of course, everyone's favorite is still in 1993, Chen Songyong played the "Thunder Tiger" in Jet Li's first film "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu", which became Chen Songyong's masterpiece.
Later, Chen Songyong and Jet Li cooperated again, playing the greedy, miserly, lustful and timid Ma Dashan in the movie "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", which also left a deep impression on the audience.
This period is the highlight moment of Chen Songyong, and although Chen Songyong frequently appears in film and television dramas, his character personality is not prominent and lacks good works. In 2012, Chen Songyong stopped filming.
Chen Songyong was unmarried and childless in his life, and wine was Chen Songyong's best friend in his later years. According to Chen Songyong himself, he drank more than 1,000 bottles of sorghum wine a year, but he did not know that Chen Songyong was talking about kinmen sorghum, which was a 60-degree high wine.
Chen Songyong's heavy drinking greatly damaged his body, when he was young, he was as strong as an ox, and in his later years, he was inevitably accompanied by a wheelchair, his eyesight was greatly reduced, and his left eye was almost blind. Fortunately, Chen Songyong has a loyal nanny Yule by his side, and the two have a deep affection and are called father and daughter to the outside world.
Over the years, Chen Songyong has accumulated a lot of wealth, the largest of which is two mansions in Taiwan, worth more than 10 million.
As mentioned above, Chen Songyong had two younger brothers, the second brother Chen Wengqin did not have contact with him for many years, Chen Wengqin did not appear to visit Chen Songyong during his serious illness, and it was only the third brother Chen Hongzhang and Chen Hongzhang's son who handled the aftermath for Chen Songyong.
Before chen songyong died, he told Yule that he would protect her like a daughter, and seemed to have some meaning.
Sure enough, at the memorial service after Chen Songyong's death, the second brother Chen Wengqin suddenly appeared, and in front of his relatives, friends and friends, chen Hongzhang asked the eldest brother Chen Songyong about the handling of the inheritance, and loudly reprimanded Chen Hongzhang.
Chen Songyong's nanny Yule immediately said that Chen Songyong had a will before his death, and there was a clear distribution of property, and the will was in the lawyer's place, and she could not disclose it.
According to Taiwan media, Chen Songyong was very happy in his later years, although he was suffering from illness, but fortunately he was accompanied by a nanny, Yule, who accompanied him on his last journey. Chen Songyong regarded Yule as his own, and his will stated that he would give Yule more than 2 million yuan, so that she could return to her hometown to do some business.