Missing is the most enduring star, and I miss you especially today.
Director Guo Fan left this sentence on Weibo, it has been 4 years since the first part of "The Wandering Earth" was released, and it has been two years since Wu Mengda died.
The river of time flows endlessly, and the truth of many stories is like a shell washed ashore by the wave of time, exposed to the sun.
Now that Wu Mengda has been away from us for two years, it is time to solve the 3 questions about him.
Question 1: Wu Mengda has been trapped by money all his life?
In Hong Kong in the 60s, prosperity and ruin coexisted, and Wu Mengda could only feel the latter in his childhood.
Wu Mengda's family of seven people is nested in a dozen square meters of low-rent housing, and poverty seems to be their only fate.
However, at that time, Wu Mengda learned to "embezzle", his mother gave him a yuan to buy vegetables, and he would always leave a dime to buy a movie ticket.
Perhaps with the dream of being a big star since he was a child, at the age of 21, Wu Mengda applied for the Hong Kong TVB Artist Training Course and became a classmate with Chow Yun-fat.
In his youth, Wu Mengda, with a tough face, coupled with hard work, always ranked at the top in the training class.
In 1979, Wu Mengda became famous with the role of "Hu Tiehua" in "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".
He thought that Wu Mengda could finally climb out of the slum, but because he was confused for a while, he fell into an even darker abyss.
In 1980, Wu Mengda owed a huge gambling debt, and the profits rolled over, and it seemed that they would never be finished.
Wu Mengda's junior brother said that he was a mud that could not support the wall, and his friend and classmate Zhou Yunfa for many years only left a cold sentence: You solve it yourself.
Sadness and despair, Wu Mengda thought about suicide and thought about not being an actor anymore.
But then he figured it out, who can guarantee that he will not make mistakes when he is young, if there are mistakes, it is good to correct them.
After falling to the bottom, Wu Mengda met the noble man in his life - Stephen Chow.
Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow lived at the opposite door, and happened to be discovered by director Wu Siyuan, just like that, the two were pulled to make the movie "Gambling Saint".
That year, the low-cost "Gambling Saint" won more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, making Xingzi become "Xingye", and also allowed Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow to reach a long-term cooperation.
After rehabilitation, it is a bottoming out.
After paying off the gambling debt, some people ridiculed that the money earned by Wu Mengda was used to pay off the debt.
In fact, Wu Mengda's love history is indeed very rich, he has experienced three marriages in his life, and has five children.
After Wu Mengda's death, there were even rumors that several children were fighting over each other for inheritance.
However, in fact, Wu Mengda got along well with several wives and children during his lifetime.
As for the division of inheritance, his friend Tian Qiwen also responded directly at Wu Mengda's funeral: The will was made as early as 2014, don't disturb their family's life!
To say that Wu Mengda does not love money and has not been trapped by money, then he himself does not believe it.
After all, in the interview that year, Wu Mengda said bluntly: I entered the film industry for the sake of coveting vanity.
But counting Wu Mengda's ups and downs in his life, you will find that although he has suffered from no money, after he became famous, he has never plunged headlong in the eyes of money.
Huang Yishan said that when eating, Wu Mengda always rushed to pay.
During the Wenchuan earthquake, Wu Mengda rushed to the disaster area with a sack of money on his back.
Knowing that the actresses he had worked with had no money to do public welfare, Wu Mengda took out cash and generously donated money, leaving only one sentence: Don't worry about what you are happy about, don't think too much, think too much will be complicated and can't be done.
The extras said that Wu Mengda would eat bread four times a week when filming, and those who could not eat would receive 10 yuan.
Many people say that Wu Mengda's later years were dragged down by three wives and five children, but in fact, Wu Mengda himself was very kind and charitable.
It is precisely because of his righteousness and boldness that Wu Mengda has filmed all his life and has not saved much money.
Wu Mengda understood that money does not bring in life, and death does not bring.
He is not a slave to money.
Question 2: Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow tore their faces and fought each other for many years?
It is rumored that Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow have been friends for many years.
Looking at Wu Mengda's resume, his last collaboration with Stephen Chow was the comedy film "Shaolin Football".
This movie is from 2001.
As for why the former golden partner "parted ways", the media reports are related to money.
However, knowing Wu Mengda's attitude towards money, this argument is untenable.
There is also a saying that Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow had a bad relationship because of the movie "Kung Fu".
Some media reported that Wu Mengda wanted to play the role of charter public, but Stephen Chow did not agree.
As a result, Tian Qiwen angrily reprimanded, nonsense, the movie "Kung Fu" Stephen Chow has long invited Wu Mengda.
In an interview, Wu Mengda also explained.
Stephen Chow invited him when he was planning to shoot, but he happened to encounter SARS and did not start filming.
By the time filming of "Kung Fu" began, Wu Mengda had already signed another contract, and if he didn't go, he had to pay liquidated damages.
Although the two did not have a bad relationship, Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda did drift apart in the later stage.
In "Thirteen Invitations", Wu Mengda was asked why he didn't make Stephen Chow's movies anymore, and he waved his hand and said, as if everyone didn't know how to break through this opening.
After speaking, Wu Mengda added another sentence: fate is not easy.
In fact, the two did not cooperate again, which has a lot to do with the change of Stephen Chow's later shooting style.
After "Shaolin Football", Stephen Chow added a little new thing to almost every play, such as the "crime" element in "Kung Fu" and the "science fiction" idea in "Yangtze River No. 7".
At this time, Stephen Chow is no longer like in the early days, he needs a gold medal green leaf to match.
But this is a good thing for both of them and for the audience.
No matter how delicious the dish is, it will be greasy to eat for decades.
After drifting away from Stephen Chow, Wu Mengda also acted in many bad films, and finally met "The Wandering Earth" at the age of 67.
Wu Mengda, the "Harlequin" who has a hippie and smiling face all his life, plays the senior driver Han Ziang in "The Wandering Earth", is the most trendy "old driver" in the last days, a grandfather who loves his grandchildren, and a hero who does whatever it takes for safety.
Of course, many people still look forward to Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda being able to cooperate again.
Wu Mengda once responded confidently: As long as he has not retired and I am not dead, there will definitely be a chance.
Unfortunately, fans did not wait for this opportunity after all.
Fate, this mysterious thing, once made Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda meet together, tied together like father and son.
Also because of the turn of the gears of fate, the two people ended up on different paths, without tearing their faces and without breaking their faces.
Sometimes, everything is fate. It's just that if they can do it all over again, they will definitely seize the opportunity, right?
Question 3: He won an award, why is it remembered by generations?
Wu Mengda's life, has not played a leading role, and even won only one trophy, or the best supporting actor.
In the history of Hong Kong films, Wu Mengda is definitely not the brightest star.
However, Wu Mengda is the representative of the golden supporting role in Hong Kong Film.
Without the "ugliness" of the supporting role, there is no "beauty" of the protagonist; Without the "decline" of the supporting role, there will be no "handsomeness" of the protagonist.
Wu Mengda plays small characters, and when we were young, we would be amused by the supporting roles he played again and again.
But when I grow up and look at it, I often feel that I am looking in the mirror, it turns out that not everyone can shine brightly and stand in the brightest spotlight.
Supporting roles are like salt, you can't cook without salt.
Everyone's remembrance of Wu Mengda is a recognition that there are only small actors and no small roles.
No matter how few scenes there are, no matter how small the characters, so what?
Playing every role well is the actor's self-cultivation.
After Wu Mengda's death, many golden supporting roles in Hong Kong also fell, such as Liao Qizhi and Chen Long.
Liao Qizhi
Chen Long
In fact, in recent years, Hong Kong films have gradually moved from glory to loneliness.
Hong Kong directors lack successors, the older generation of Hong Kong stars may fade out of the screen or drive west, many young Hong Kong stars have also sought another livelihood, and last year there were even media reports that Chen Kexin suspected of abandoning the mainland market and planning to enter overseas streaming media.
Everyone misses the vivid but never returning Hong Kong film era.
That era when sometimes wearing vulgar clothes, handsome guys and beautiful girls dominate the screen, but tell the deep connotation.
That dares to shoot anything, gangsters, shootouts, casinos... At the same time, it is also the era when I can shoot small people the most.
Until now, the phrase "hard work, struggle" in "The King of Comedy" still inspires many people.
The spicy irony in "Nine Pins Sesame Officer" makes everyone laugh until they are hilarious, and they can't help but feel cold behind their backs.
Many popular words also have the shadow of Hong Kong movies, such as Wu Mengda's sentence in "God of Gamblers 2" that year, "You are miserable, you fell in love", which was used by many netizens to describe meeting their heartbeat.
It is not so much that everyone misses Wu Mengda, but that what everyone remembers is the golden age of Hong Kong films, and the beautiful childhood that has been with Hong Kong films forever.
epilogue
Wu Mengda's last Weibo before his death also made people cry.
There are only five words on it: I am Chinese.
It's a world where it's popular to leave, but none of us are good at saying goodbye.
Under this Weibo, countless netizens left messages, some hoping that his departure was a joke, and some thanked him for bringing happiness to generations.
At least in those old movies that once warmed us, Uncle Da, never left.
Uncle Da, may you be well in heaven.
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Author: Bian Bian Tuo
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