On the 21st, Hong Kong media reported that Uncle Da was admitted to the intensive care unit, and the doctor diagnosed that his condition was critical, and liver cancer had metastasized to the whole body.
The golden supporting roles played by Uncle Da have left an indelible impression on the hearts of generations, and no one is ready to accept the news.
The turnaround we waited for still didn't come up.
Yesterday at 17:27.
Uncle Da left.
By Uncle Da's old partner and friend Tian Qiwen, confirmed in front of the hospital.
But, Uncle Da.
Everyone is still waiting for you and Star Ye to reunite in the next movie.
On the program that aired a few days ago, you were obviously still so determined to resist.
We kept calling Uncle Da, Uncle Da.
In terms of feeling, he will always be Uncle Da, who is greedy for money and lustful around Zhou Xingchi, who is full of life and does not reject worldly desires.
But we have long had to admit it.
Uncle Da is really old.
The last time I saw Uncle Da on the big screen was "The Wandering Earth."
Not quite what we remembered.
Less joy, more kindness; less obscenity, more sadness.
And you can clearly see that this kind of old age is not acted out.
Born in 1952, he had passed the age of ear obedience, but his body began to disobey the call.
Heart failure, heart rate less than one-third of normal people, have done several surgeries to pass the ghost door, but still work hard to perform.
He didn't believe that Chinese could make science fiction, because the company said it would help his career, so he forced himself into the "Wandering Earth" group.
After the explosion of "The Wandering Earth", everyone has pulled out how burning the story behind the movie is.
But this burning, only has little to do with Uncle Da.
Wearing a mech suit weighing more than a dozen kilograms, wearing a mask with thin air, and hanging Wea straight up and down.
Every action begins with an old life and is cut until it is on the verge of suffocation.
When he returned to the hotel after work, Uncle Da would secretly cry in his room:
"I'm 66 years old, why do I have to work so hard?"
There is no way, Uncle Da, who has been married four times in his life, has several children waiting for him to raise.
At an old age, you still have to fight for your children.
Today.
For the happiness brought by Uncle Da, we miss, thank, salute...
There may be more complicated tastes.
Why is Uncle Da's comedy special?
Behind the laughing face, what kind of background is life?
These two issues are one and the same.
Uncle Da's departure.
It is a green leaf with the deepest vein, falling from the Chinese comedy world.
With the era of Hong Kong films from overheated to full of depression, he has stood on the top and fallen to the bottom of the valley; he has written absurd words and shed bitter tears; he has tasted the cold and warmth of the world, and walked through a strange road.
Looking back at Uncle Da's life experience and acting career, Sir had a word popping up in his head.
It sounds a little disrespectful in today's day, but it is the most apt description - "old dog".
It's not a curse, it's a taste of living.
Uncle Da's performance, everyone laughed when they saw it.
Because when laughing at him.
You can only briefly see or forget how ugly you are walking on the road of the world.
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Sperm is exhausted, all because of the big gear
Sperm is defused, so eat bento
From 1990's "Heavenly Love".
Uncle Da, who is close to 40 years old, was introduced by his old friend Du Qifeng to match Andy Lau in the film, playing the role of Ban Taibao.
When he received the script, Uncle Da originally wanted to play the villain horn, but director Chen Musheng praised him, saying that he could play every role in the film, but the role of Taibao was all in Hong Kong except for him.
What is the role of Taibao?
Producer Du Qifeng said a word to Wu Mengda:
"Dogs".
How does this work?
It's hard to stop Uncle Da.
In the first shot of Taibao's appearance, the image of the "dog" was established.
Bowed head, hunched over, arms swinging, a hairy duster stuck in the back of his ass, like a dog's tail.
Biting a cigarette in his mouth, he muttered:
"The loss of sperm is due to the big gear."
Desefing, so eat bento"
If you have not fallen into the "dung pit" of life, you cannot play a "bad dog".
Uncle Da fell.
In Cantonese, big stall means underground casino.
These two words are not only sung by Taibao, but also by Uncle Da himself.
When he debuted, he was very beautiful, because of his gambling addiction, his fame and wealth were almost lost overnight.
Uncle Da was born in Xiamen and moved to Hong Kong with his family at the age of 7.
Since childhood, he was mischievous, did not like to read, often evaded tickets to watch movies, and then went home to perform and imitate his mother.
After graduating from junior high school, Uncle Da was admitted to the third TVB wireless artist training class, and the same class included Zhou Runfa, Ren Dahua, Lin Lingdong...
△ Zheng Shaoqiu joined TVB at that time, but did not participate in the wireless artist training class
Du Sir Du Qifeng was still working in the TVB building at that time, and he was very familiar with Zhou and Meng, often eavesdropping on the teacher's evaluation of the students and quietly relaying it to them.
Uncle Da was the one with the aura in the class.
The teacher often praised him for his talent, good grades, and class leader.
Fa Ge was almost eliminated by the last place, because he was too tall to find an actress who could play with him in Hong Kong at that time.
After graduation, Uncle Da entered TVB full-time with a basic salary; Fa Ge was close to a part-time state, and he received a salary for a job.
In 1979, tvb produced the martial arts drama "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", starring Zheng Shaoqiu, Zhao Yazhi and Wang Mingquan, and Uncle Da played the male number two Hu Tiehua, which became a hit.
The starting point is not low.
It's just that he's falling faster than anyone else.
Drinking, playing with girls, and gambling money have become Uncle Da's three major hobbies.
Squander money and wander the skeleton.
Soon in debt of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars in gambling debts, he was hidden by TVB, declared bankrupt by the bank, and the poorest time only had money left in his pocket to buy packs of cigarettes.
At that time, Uncle Da was a "lost dog" in the Hong Kong showbiz circle.
He cheekily asked his fellow window Zhou Runfa to borrow money, but was rejected miserably, and his old friend Du Qifeng privately commented that he was "unable to support the wall with mud".
He once confronted six loan sharks in a restaurant and said either you would hack me to death now, or I wouldn't wait for me to pay it back.
He also thought about diving into the water to commit suicide, because he was afraid of death.
This experience did not destroy Uncle Da, but polished into acting skills.
Du Qifeng and Chen Musheng were right:
In Hong Kong movies at that time, it was either a big hero or a big bad guy.
Only Uncle Da can play a "dog" well.
Hateful, pathetic, rotten life.
There is arrogance and spinelessness, people shake their tails in front of them, people scream behind them, and rely on a little spiritual victory method to wheezing and stealing life.
At the end of the movie, at the moment of life and death, Taibao raised his knife and rushed to the horn, but he was also killed by the horn.
Is he afraid of death?
fear.
Watch him cover his wounds, his expression frightened and pained.
But is he just afraid of death?
What he fears more is that death/life is worthless.
Listen to him before he died, chanting a sentence:
"Finally killed the horn... I killed the horn... Success"
Regarding the supporting role, Sir understands it like this:
The second-rate supporting role is "green leaves lined with red flowers", which functionally sets off the light of the protagonist.
The first-class supporting role is "a little green in the kaleidoscope", serving the protagonist, but not being swallowed by the protagonist, and completing his own character arc in a limited time and scene.
Uncle Da, undoubtedly belongs to the first class.
At the 1991 Academy Awards, Uncle Da won the best supporting actor for the role of Tai Bao in "Heavenly Love".
This is also the only time that Uncle Da has won an award.
Until today, Uncle Da has starred in more than 260 film and television dramas, almost all of which are supporting roles, known as "universal supporting roles".
It is also good and evil, and it is also harmonious.
A reporter asked Uncle Da, what is the secret of playing a supporting role?
Uncle Da replied: I play every role as the protagonist.
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I deserve to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
This line is from 1999's "The King of Comedy".
In the movie, it is a joke; outside the movie, it is quite meaningful.
"The Academy Awards owe Wu Mengda a movie emperor."
That's not what Sir said.
In a talk show in Hong Kong, such a topic was discussed.
Which comedian deserves an Academy Award?
Director Chen Jiashang, who was the chairman of the Academy Awards, said directly, Wu Mengda.
"There's one guy I think I owe him an Academy Award
Wu Mengda
On the performance
Can anyone tell me that Wu Mengda can't do it?"
The hosts, Wu Junru and Qian Jiale, nodded and said yes.
- Yes
-, yes
Whether it is the mainland or Hong Kong, domestic or foreign, acting in comedy is often despised.
Stephen Chow has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor 7 times, but he has only won once with "Shaolin Soccer".
Sir selfishly thought that in addition to Zhou Xingchi, Uncle Da was the more underrated one.
In 1990, in addition to "Heavenly Love", Uncle Da also had a movie released, "Gamble Saint".
In the first film starring Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi, the two played a pair of uncles and nephews, one called Uncle Three and the other called Xingzai.
The comedy of the two, in this movie, first saw the beginning.
What is Uncle Da's comedic style like?
Honestly, it's still a "dog-like dog."
Such a scene in "Gamble Saint".
As long as Xingzai shouted at Uncle Three, Uncle Three began to convulse, climbed onto the policeman, and twitched his lower body.
resemble...... Dog in heat.
Uncle Da named this performance "congenital runaway disorder" (in Sir's view, it is dog madness).
One day on the set, he asked Zhou Xingchi if he knew that there was a disease called "congenital runaway disorder"?
Zhou Xingchi put on garlic and said that he had heard about it.
Uncle Da slapped him in the face: Fart, I only came up with it yesterday.
Uncle Da is definitely an expert in "dog madness".
and farts fly wildly, sticking out your tongue and shaking your shoulders.
He was never shy about showing obscenity and misery in the most exaggerated way.
But the audience did not feel disgusted, but laughed and burst into tears.
Not everyone eats his set.
At that time, many film critics criticized Dashi's performance:
Vulgar, vulgar.
Vulgar?
A little indeed.
Low-level?
Sorry, Sir disagrees.
Just to give an example, in 2001, "Shaolin Soccer".
Uncle Da plays the "golden right foot" Mingfeng, who was discredited for breaking his leg for playing a match-fixing.
Another man who lives like a dog.
As soon as he saw the male brother, he ran over and knelt on the ground to polish his shoes, but he was stepped on by the male brother on the soles of his feet.
Being trampled for a moment was a humiliation of wide-eyed, but as soon as I looked up, I immediately laughed.
Can't let the big guy see that I'm not happy.
Then, another thunderbolt on a sunny day.
The male brother leaned down in his ear and told him, "The people who broke your leg were also hired by me." ”
Look at Uncle Da's reaction.
laugh.
Still laughing.
Laugh bitterly, laugh, laugh, laugh with a knife?
Laugh at fate, laugh at the past, laugh at yourself.
This expression has far exceeded the scope of words.
People live a long time, they all learn all kinds of laughter, but they forget how to cry.
People live like dogs for a long time, suffer no matter how much they suffer, and at most they "squeal" twice in the air.
In the next shot, Gold walks right foot in the crowd, hippie smiling, cursing and grinning.
As soon as I looked up, I saw someone kicking a ball on the big screen.
The old dog's cloudy eyes were glowing.
It is the light of tears, but also the light of longing.
The reason why I am willing to live like a dog is not because of the humble dream in my heart.
"The ball, that's not how it's played"
Those who can play tragic comedies are real actors.
Those who can act in tragic comedies are not low-level.
Zhou Xingchi is like this, and so is Wu Mengda.
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He's like a dog
Finally, let's talk about the gold pair.
Or rather, once a golden combination.
Some time ago, Uncle Da was on "Thirteen Invitations", and there was a passage in sir who listened to his nose sour.
It's like a strange road, but that's it.
"I sometimes wonder why, like there's a little bit of a feeling of being dead and old now.
I'm also thinking, and I'm sure he's thinking, what makes us stop being in touch with each other, or not caring for each other anymore. To be honest, my heart is not like this, acquaintance, fate is not easy, too not easy. ”
The two first met in 1989.
TVB filmed the martial arts TV series "Gestapo Heroes", found Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, and played a pair of masters and apprentices.
At that time, Wu Mengda had come out of the shadow of bankruptcy, and Zhou Xingchi was still an unknown children's program host.
The next year, the two collaborated on the TV series "He Comes from the Jianghu", playing a father and son.
"The Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema" Wu Siyuan saw the two performing, liked it, and asked them if they wanted to consider making a movie, so there was "Gamble Saint".
Wu Mengda is 11 years older than Zhou Xingchi, but not much distance.
After getting married because of the drama, they often mixed together, talked about everything, and called brothers and brothers.
Wu Mengda pipes Zhou Xingchi as Xingzai, and Zhou Xingchi calls Wu Mengda As Dage.
can't drive, and when he goes somewhere, star boy always carries him.
Star Boy is not very sociable, and it is always up to to weigh and communicate between him and the director.
The two often sneak into the dating mecca late at night, eavesdropping on other couples talking (and possibly more) for fun.
The two also have a common hobby, eating canned abalone on set. There are usually two in a can, star boy eats the big one, and eats the small one.
Forget about sex, but that's it.
Friendship in life becomes a tacit understanding in front of the camera.
"It's very simple, as much force as he hits you, you have to use as much force as you have to resist." But you can't require every opponent to be Zhou Xingchi, he hit 20 pounds, other opponents may not have. ”
Watching the two play against each other, Sir's favorite is 1992's "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er".
Xingzai plays Suchahar Can, and plays Suchahar Can's father.
There's a scene like this:
Father and son two "Ge You" in the courtyard, humming a small song, doing nothing, and then the flat ground thundered, suddenly erupted.
One points to the nose, one taps the table.
Zhou Xingchi: "Daddy, I decided to go to The Beijing Examination Wu Zhuangyuan!" ”
Wu Mengda: "Ah Can! Dad waited for you to say this, and waited twenty-five years, for the sake of the Suchahar family, you should do it. ”
Zhou Xingchi: "Don't misunderstand, I am for a woman." ”
Wu Mengda: "Hero! Die for you, die for you, go to Kao Yuanlang for you! Whose woman? ”
Zhou Xingchi: "Yihong Courtyard is like a frost girl." ”
Wu Mengda: "Huh?! prostitute?!! ”
Zhou Xingchi: "What's wrong?" ”
Wu Mengda: "The taste is different, it is really impossible for people to be able to do it, Anda admires you!" ”
A little bunny cub, an old dog daddy.
Put on a posture of biting each other, but what comes out is the deep affection of the calves.
To be honest, in the star boy movie in which was absent, Sir never saw such a collision and spark of fart-rolling urine flow.
"Kung Fu" in 2004 was the starting point for the two men to part ways.
In fact, before filming began, Star Boy left a place for.
The role of Lin Zicong was originally played for Dage.
The character's name is Ada.
However, before the film started filming, it encountered SARS, which delayed the start time and just collided with another TV series that took over.
Since then, the two have not worked together in any way.
Da Ge became Uncle Da; Xing Zai became Xing Ye.
The so-called "old and dead do not interact with each other" is not about grievances, but about time.
Most of the friendships in the world are not all this virtue.
As I walked, I dispersed.
In order to write Uncle Da, Sir looked back at many classics of the cooperation between the two, and the most touching thing was that sentence.
The Supreme Treasure looked at the back of qi tian dasheng and said:
"He's like a dog."
In Sir's view, this sentence represents the essence of nonsense.
Rebellion against authority, dissolution of nobility, and a little compassion.
And Uncle Da in the movie is the best interpretation of this sentence.
At the age when we are most hungry for vision, entertainment and hope, Hong Kong movies use the most lively gatherings and Chinese the most breathable human touch.
Let a fresh world, new values, unfold in front of the eyes of countless ordinary people.
At that time, we laughed so much without heart and lungs, never knew.
The jianghu will grow old.
Laughter will dry up.
How will we know one day.
All things can be skits, only sketches, flaunting your tear glands with laughter;
Everyone is a scribbler, and funny has never been as convenient as it is today, but when your finger crosses the screen, the laughter that has long been engraved on the eardrum emerges, laughing much more energetically than you off the screen.
You don't know where the real laughter comes from.
I don't know who else will be able to stumble into your heart.
The "old dog" is gone.
Leaving the self-proclaimed comedians to think of the audience as Pavlov's dog:
Oh, baggage.
Quick, laugh.
What else can we do?
It's nothing more than today, take out Uncle Da's movie and watch it again.
Laughing and laughing, it is inevitable to cry.
Hugh will mention more about the past.
Just want to say:
Thank you, Uncle Da.
Go well, Uncle Da.
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