Stephen Chow was once his best partner, and the gold medal supporting actor Mr. Wu Mengda passed away due to illness on February 27, 2021.
The symbol of the golden generation of Hong Kong cinema has fallen.
When I saw this news, I was not shocked, Uncle Da suffered from liver cancer was actually known for a long time, the condition was not optimistic at that time, fortunately, when Teacher Tian Qiwen announced the news to the outside world, Uncle Da walked very peacefully, he left in sleep, and it was quite gratifying that there was no pain.
Looking back on the past, Uncle Da's ups and downs in life are now just white colts.
The ancestors have passed away, and all that remains is the classic moment in the image.
Wu Mengda has been acting for decades and most of his life, but he has never really played a leading role.
Safflowers need to have green leaves, and Uncle Da's match is a lifetime.
In the 1970s, Wu Mengda officially entered the show business circle after graduating from wireless network, and to this day has participated in more than 150 movies, nearly 100 dramas, and almost all the small characters in the film and television dramas, and the most popular of them is naturally the 10-year film career of cooperation with Stephen Chow, and many popular comedy films were born during this period.
Although this is the heyday of Wu Mengda's acting road, although his label is a comedian, uncle Da's interpretation of the role is not only funny, and even without Stephen Chow, he is also a rare golden leaf in the Hong Kong film circle.
Today, in order to commemorate the black-faced Cai who has brought us countless laughter and laughter, Xiaobian has deliberately sorted out five classic movies that Uncle Da did not cooperate with Zhou Xingchi in hundreds of works, and each of them is not a comedy genre.
Today there are only small characters who are willing to be green leaves, only superb acting skills and touching roles.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" >01 "Heavenly Love"</h1>
In 1990, Chen Musheng and Du Qifeng cooperated in "Heavenly Love" to be released.
Andy Lau sensationalized the Hong Kong entertainment industry with the role of Hua Di, riding a motorcycle carrying Wu Qianlian's classic bridge section has been used to this day, and the emergence of Hua Di can be said to break the status quo of Xiao Ma Ge's dominance in gangster movies.
"Heroes of the End" represents an era of Hong Kong cinema.
In addition to Andy Lau's brilliance, Wu Mengda, who was introduced by Du Qifeng to match Andy Lau, is also brilliant.
In the film, he plays a follower with a tail between his legs.
And what kind of role is this Taibao?
Du Qifeng's answer was: Since he has his tail between his legs, of course it is a dog.
Taiho appeared on the back of his ass with a feather duster in his head.
He shook his head with a cigarette in his mouth and kept muttering.
Win a big meal, lose a bento.
A few simple actions, a line will explain the background of the character, the image of the small character at the bottom of the society is instantly alive, black and white who can bully him, in order to beg for food, of course, you have to clip your tail.
His handling of things is smooth and condescending, and he is bowing to the real society. In the end, the bridge section that killed the horn returned to the theme of "a thousand autumns of righteousness", and also sublimated this small person, which highlighted the short life of Taibao's sadness, and the small person also had the value of his death.
Uncle Da, who was close to 40 years old at the time, won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards with the role of Taibao, which is also the heaviest award in Uncle Da's life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" >02 "Heroes of the End of The Exotic Lands"</h1>
The film was released in 1993, and Wu Mengda changed to Liang Chaowei as a matchmaker.
Due to the limited theme of this film, fewer people should have seen it.
Based on the novel of the same name with a real historical background, Exotic tells the tragic story of a lone army retreating from Yunnan to Burma in 1949 and vowing to return home.
At that time, director Zhu Yanping tried his best to defy the public opinion and insisted on making this film, although it was not introduced to the mainland, but the theme song of the film, Luo Dayou's "Orphans of Asia" was well known to mainland audiences, followed by a second "Hero of the End of the Exotic Land"
Wu Mengda plays a lone veteran in the film.
After his introduction, no one here is allowed to cry for more than two minutes, otherwise they will not be able to cry for the rest of their lives.
War is cruel, but people's hearts are warm.
Wu Mengda is the only remaining temperature in this movie, he gave the loss of comrades-in-arms and the great difficulty of not dying Adin like a father like a brother care, in the face of the widow who came to the door to beg for food, he did not take advantage of the danger of people, but also did his best to help each other, even if he went to the battlefield, he did not forget to joke with the people around him, and finally learned that the woman who wanted to marry himself was actually a spy, he shot and killed the widow, sitting silently on the edge of the bed holding Adin's posthumous photo waiting for death to come, just a few minutes of footage, Wu Mengda perfectly interpreted the whole process from joy to sorrow, And these several also perfectly interpret the tragic life of lao Xie, the character in the film.
With this role, Wu Mengda was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 30th Golden Horse Awards, but unfortunately lost to Lang Xiong's "Wedding Feast" in the end.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" >03 "Small Reunion on Earth"</h1>
This film is the first literary and artistic family drama directed by director Peng Haoxiang, who is tired of playing with heavy tastes.
In the bustling metropolis, the members of the Zheng family are also facing various crises at different stages of life, which involve many problems such as extramarital affairs, children's education, husband and wife relations, etc. How to solve and how to face them is the core theme of this movie, which is not only the epitome of the Hong Kong family in real life, but also the epitome of the entire Chinese family.
Wu Mengda played Gu Tianle's father in the film, who fished for a living in his early years, lost his wife in his later years, and made a living by dancing gods, and later met Wu Jiali in a nightclub, the two fell in love with each other but were strongly resisted by their son.
Children are always not with them, and the old companionship has become the source of the intensification of contradictions in many families.
Although the character played by Wu Jiali in the film is not a good family woman, but also a kind heart, the reason why Wu Mengda went to do things is to pay off the debt of "killing", he does not expect a family to be harmonious, he just wants to have a good meal together.
When a large family is divided by multiple small families, the best ending is only a small reunion in the world, looking at each other from afar, and each is safe.
Uncle Da's untraceable performance in the film helped him to be nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" >04 Fuse Newsline</h1>
The film has a small audience and controversial topics, so the outside world knows very little about the film.
It is a social news film broadcast on Hong Kong television, and the story content is not very friendly to news media workers, and it also exposes some of the current situation in the media industry.
Wu Mengda played the father of the victim in the film, the daughter died tragically, but the murderer was at large, and after the appeal failed, he took extreme revenge. In the film, he gave Uncle Da a large number of facial close-ups, faced injustice, endured for many years, and finally broke out at this moment, and finally after getting social attention and popular march support, he let go of everything and was relieved.
Wu Mengda portrays the process of an old father from despair to hope again, which is not only a bad old man, but also a representative of Hong Kong citizens who support justice.
Through his superb acting skills, Wu Mengda was once again successfully nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 36th Academy Awards at the twilight age.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" >05 The Wandering Earth</h1>
The small broken ball that sold 4 billion yuan is of great significance to Uncle Da, which is the first time that Uncle Da has participated in a large-scale mainland film, and it is also the highest-grossing film he has been in the film for many years.
Because of the old problem of the heart, Wu Mengda, who is idle at home playing mahjong all day, was attracted by an electronic script sent by the company, this science fiction story exclusive to Chinese is really great, so Uncle Da went into the pit, and when he entered the group, he was shocked by the professional film studio, advanced equipment and the real scene built here, it turned out that this is the film industry.
Uncle Da believes that this is an epoch-making film, and the feelings of home and country it expresses and the beautiful vision of the future have special significance and value, and it is worth it to be able to participate in it.
But I have to say that this time Uncle Da is really old, the body does not listen to the call, wearing more than a dozen kilograms of equipment, but also to hang pressure to fly around, every time you shoot a piece to suck oxygen, this is a great load on his body, the reason why Uncle Da is so desperate, the first is for his daughter to want to make more money, the second is not to leave regrets for himself.
Wu Mengda plays Han Ziang in the film is Liu Qi's grandfather, from this role we can no longer see Wu Mengda's former joy, but more is the kindness and desperate dedication to spoil his children and grandchildren.
Fortunately, the small broken ball did not waste Wu Mengda's performance in the end, helping him to successfully nominate for the Best Supporting Actor at the Macao International Film Festival, and this was also the last time Wu Mengda was nominated for an important award before his death.
In this regard, the golden generation of Hong Kong films, the gold medal green leaf Wu Mengda drew a successful end to his acting career, and also ended his life.