On September 29, 2023, just as we were eating the family reunion dinner of the Mid-Autumn Festival, sad bad news came from distant Australia:
Mr. Darch, a famous actor who played the 90th version of "The God List", died at 9:58 pm on the 28th in a hospital in Melbourne.
As soon as this news came out, the Internet instantly exploded.
"I grew up watching Daqi's movies, especially "Fengshen List", "Ji Hongchang" and "Sea Prisoner", which can be said to be the work of Fengsheng."
"In my eyes, he is Ji Hongchang himself."
Netizens shouted: After Daqi, there is no king.
Daqi's life, ups and downs, but also for the development of Chinese film and television, paid a great price.
However, most people grabbed his only "stain":
Why did Mr. Ducky choose to retire and go to Australia after performing "The List of Gods", when he became a household name?
This question may have to start with Mr. Dach's choice to choose to devote himself to acting without hesitation.
01 As soon as he entered the art gate, Qi Lang was a celebrity
In 1934, Daqi was born in Jilin to a simple family of railway workers.
As a result, Darch was sent to the railway business at the age of 16 to study.
Daqi inherited the genes of his ancestors from Inner Mongolia, he is burly and strong, plus he loves sports, and at a young age, he has eight-pack abs.
Most importantly, he has a handsome face with an exotic touch.
Therefore, he was soon transferred to work in the literary and art bus class.
All netizens who saw Daqi's photos when he was young exclaimed: so handsome! This deep and tough facial features, this toned body, close to the well-known actors in Hollywood.
In 1953, as soon as the Harbin Railway Literary Troupe was established, Daqi was immediately selected to become a professional drama actor, and since then he has started his acting career.
He was not proud of his own conditions, but studied harder than others and devoted himself to studying the basic cultivation of actors.
In the past few years of following the literary troupe to the south and north to perform dramas, a small wandering seed has been planted in Daqi's heart.
This is also the reason why he gave himself the stage name "Ducky".
Since he was a child, everyone has called him Daqi, and "Daqi" in addition to its homophony, has another meaning:
He wants to run around and create a miracle in his career.
Three years later, he received the script of the movie "Bian Sai Beacon", playing Duolong, a Jingpo guy who hates the Han people.
Ducky interprets Doron's misunderstanding and hatred of friendly troops, the prejudice and impulse when he was blinded by the adulterer, and the psychology of waking up after learning that he was deceived, and correcting his mistakes.
This is Ducky's first appearance on the silver screen. In 1958, he won the Young Actor Award at the International Film Festival.
As Ducky said: The role of an actor is to make the audience feel the emotions in the heart of the character.
Ducky undoubtedly practiced this with his own hands.
In 1961, Daqi received several more films such as "Independent Brigade", "Heroic Sons and Daughters", "Jingpo Girl" and so on.
It is worth mentioning that in "Jingpo Girl" he played the old man Wen Shuai.
Shockingly, the makeup at that time not only disguised Daqi as an old man of the Jingpo tribe without flaws, but also showed the demeanor between an old man's eyebrows, the tone of speech, and the temperament between his hands and feet vividly and vividly.
If you don't say it, no one knows that this is actually Ducky who is less than 30 years old.
Daqi's superb acting skills have not only been loved by the audience, but also recognized by peers.
Just when everyone thought that his acting career was about to usher in the peak of the boom, he was sent to the countryside of Shulan County, Jilin Province to cut the queue and settle down, and Daqi had to suspend all performing arts activities.
02 A wave of many twists and turns on the road of acting, half a hundred returned to become the king
No one knows what happened when Ducky cut the queue in the countryside, and he never recalled it.
But the only thing that is certain is that no matter where he is, Ducky has not given up on his acting dreams. As long as you don't give up, there will be miracles.
Sure enough, if you don't forget it, there will be an echo.
In 1975, Ducky endured ten years of hardship in silence, and finally appeared on the screen again after many years of absence.
Ducky, who returned to the screen again, cut a lot of sharpness, a little more steady, but there was still light in his eyes.
This time, he starred in Geng Dongshan, a former model of support, in "Wheels Rolling".
Daqi interpreted Geng Dongshan's kind of Geng Dongshan's exclusive Geng straightforwardness, hardship and hard work, loyalty and kindness in detail.
In 1979, Daqi starred in "Ji Hongchang", once again portraying the process of a confused soldier of the old era who became an anti-Japanese hero after many tests.
"Ji Hongchang", as a tribute film for the 30th anniversary of the National Day, can be said to have been welcomed by the broad masses of the whole country.
So much so that many netizens didn't know Daqi when they mentioned it, but as soon as they saw his face, they excitedly shouted him: It's Ji Hongchang.
"Ji Hongchang" successfully shaped Daqi into a hero in the eyes of the people, and Daqi's excellent interpretation also won "Ji Hongchang" the Best Feature Film Award at the 3rd Hundred Flowers Awards.
Immediately afterwards, he received the script of "Sea Prisoner", playing Tang Jinlong, the leader of Chinese workers, showing his jealousy and hatred in the face of the forces of the wicked particularly vividly, which is embarrassing.
Ducky has portrayed one after another iron man on the screen, which is deeply loved by the audience.
These movie characters made Ducky, and Ducky made these movie characters, allowing them to live forever in the hearts of a generation.
In 1982, Daqi was transferred to Fujian Film Studio and served as the deputy director.
He was no longer satisfied with just playing roles in other people's films and began to learn how to direct a work.
As he said, life is the process of constantly defining oneself and constantly changing one's positioning.
It's a pity that Ducky's self-directed and self-acted movies or TV series have not caused too much splash.
Ducky's career seems to have risen, but in fact it has experienced a quiet period of nearly ten years.
It wasn't until 1990 that Ducky worked wonders again.
He received an invitation to play the role of King Feng in the TV series "Fengshen List", and the role of Daji is Fu Yiwei.
The cooperation between the two can be described as seamless.
Daki performed the most humane king in history, and he showed the cruelty in his heart, his concern for the country's danger, and his love for Daji, which was a single image of the king in people's minds.
What makes people cry and laugh is that because everyone's thinking was still relatively conservative at that time, Fu Yiwei was very resistant in her heart because of the kiss scene with Daqi in the play, plus the difference between the two was 30 years old, and even fought with Daqi for a month.
King Cheng once again propelled Daqi to the pinnacle of household names.
However, after the king, Daqi moved his family to live in Australia, and this move also pushed Daqi at that time to the peak of public opinion.
03 As soon as I went abroad to meet each other, I changed my hometown from then on
According to anecdotal information, Ducky chose to move to Australia for three reasons:
One of the most reliable reasons is from Dudge's own mouth, before the filming of "The God List", Daqi was sent to Australia for academic exchanges as a scholar of the Film Association.
After filming "The List of Gods", he went to Australia many times to give formal lectures.
After coming and going, I gradually fell in love with Australia.
Originally, he only wanted to come and live for a period of time as a retirement vacation, but he never expected that Daqi actually lived in a hometown in this foreign country, so he made up his mind and moved his family to Australia for a long-term stay.
The second reason that can be speculated is that Australia's climate and medical conditions are more suitable for Duqi to recuperate.
When Ducky was filming, he was injured many times, the most serious one was when he was in his early 30s, and he had an accident while filming, resulting in a serious spinal injury, and even implicated both legs, and has since fallen ill.
In an interview, I learned that the temperature of Darch's legs was different, and a few days before filming, he had to adjust the temperature of his legs through some extraordinary means so that he could walk normally.
That's why in our videos of Dachie's later years, even on a hot summer day, he had to wrap himself tightly.
And the third reason is because of his family.
It is said that Dach's wife was an opera singer, while their daughter was the chief cellist.
Sydney is one of the cities with the most musical and artistic atmosphere in the world.
Here, both his wife and daughter can get closer to their dreams.
Even after coming to Australia, Ducky did not give up his dream and career. He opened a film company in Australia and continued his artistic creation.
During this period, he will also return to China from time to time to sign and promote his new books, screenplays and new movies.
On the Internet, from time to time, you will see netizens sending videos or articles of themselves as guests or visits to Daqi's home, which also allows us to understand the situation of old artists in Australia.
Many people maliciously speculate that Daqi has made a lot of money in China, lives in a mansion in Australia, and enjoys a fairy-like life.
But from the videos and photos of many netizens, it can be seen that the house where Daki lives is not a mansion, just an ordinary house, clean with a little mess.
Books are everywhere, pictures on the walls are framed by characters he has played over the years, and flowers and plants are planted in the yard. Ducky takes a little time every day to personally care for them.
Ducky did not live a particularly luxurious life abroad, but lived the life of an ordinary person.
After the death of his wife, he was in a wheelchair for many years due to mobility problems and only hired one caregiver.
The caretaker said that Mr. Darch has a very strong sense of time, his brain is like a computer, he has arranged his day's itinerary in the morning, and he will not waste a little time.
Once, when netizens came to his house as a guest, he was in front of the camera, smiling, showing very kindness, without the slightest shelf.
While everyone complained that the Internet gave birth to many keyboard warriors, he said that he wanted to thank the Internet era for allowing him to keep pace with the times with more young people.
In April 2023, Ducky was still telling netizens that he was creating a 50-episode TV series with 20,000 words per episode, and he had already written more than a dozen episodes by then.
Some netizens even said that they were still meeting with Mr. Daqi in early September and had a good conversation.
Exactly in that sentence, we never know, tomorrow or accident, which will come first.
Mr. Daqi can be said to be a living history of Chinese film and television development.
His contributions to Chinese film and television are endless. The fall of this former superstar is undoubtedly a big loss for the Chinese film and television industry.
But as Mr. Lu Xun said, some people are dead, and he is still alive.
Although Mr. Ducky is gone, the classic heroic characters he created will always live in our hearts.
With this, pay tribute to the film and television hero Mr. Ducky! May there be no sickness in heaven, and may you go well along the way.
Written by Kimi
Editor: Zhenzhen