Special Author 丨 Han Xuan (from Hong Kong) Editor 丨 Sun Yang
The funeral of Hong Kong-renowned film star Ng Meng-tat was held on the evening of March 7 at the Hung Hom World Funeral Home.
Since the morning, many fans have come to see "Uncle Da" on their last trip. Hong Kong citizen Miss Yue deliberately dressed in a black dress to mourn, she said that since she was a child, she liked to watch the movies of Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow, praised Wu Mengda as a "golden supporting role", acting skills are very layered, "many of his roles are middle-aged people who have failed, but he interprets them in an optimistic and positive way, giving people a sense of hope." ”
In recent days, Miss Yue has revisited Wu Mengda's work "God Eater" and so on, "He is really a very good actor, clear about his positioning, giving opponents space to play, and retracting freely." So I wanted to give him one last ride. ”
Since the afternoon, many stars in the Hong Kong entertainment industry such as Stephen Chow, Andy Lau and Wu Junru have appeared in the Spirit Hall to send Wu Mengda on his last journey.
During the festival period, fans line up to enter the spiritual hall. Miss Liao, who was in line with her husband, came with her husband, holding a bouquet of white chrysanthemums. In the 1980s, when she was in her early 20s, she often watched movies paired with Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda, who said that Wu Mengda was a very good actor, and although she had always played a supporting role, her performance often outperformed the protagonist. Today I came with my husband to mourn this unforgettable actor.
While queuing, on-site staff draw a cross on the arm of each participant with a pen. Before entering the shrine, you need to take your temperature and clean your hands twice with alcohol rubbing liquid. After that, the three rows entered the spiritual hall, and after a minute of silence, the family members returned the salute, and the white flowers could be handed over to the staff.
"Thank you so much for coming, thank you for your kindness." The staff at the scene said to every visitor.
<h1>The stars of the entertainment industry bid farewell to "Uncle Da" Zhou Xingchi was the first to attend</h1>
Early in the morning of March 7, Wu Mengda's former showbiz friends, including Chow Sing Chi, Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Li Ming, Aaron Kwok and Xiaomei, Gu Tianle, Hui Yinghong, Liu Qingyun and his wife Ge Aiming, Wu Junru, Zhen Zidan and his wife, Zheng Yuling, Yang Qianwei and her husband Ding Zigao, Zeng Huaqian, Zheng Shaoqiu, Chen Baixiang and his wife Huang Xingxiu, Zhang Zhilin and his wife Yuan Yongyi, Chen Xiaodong, etc., have filled the scene like a sea of flowers to greet the deceased.
Among them, the flower sign sent by the former best partner Zhou Xingchi reads "Forever Missed".
In the center of Wu Mengda's spiritual hall there are white characters on a green background: Lord Huai Rests in Peace. Surrounded by white and yellow flowers, Wu Mengda in the photo is wearing a dark blue suit, wearing black-rimmed glasses, holding his chin with one hand, revealing a gentle smile familiar to fans.
In front of the portrait, there is a cross, and two heart-shaped flower plates in pale yellow and pink, which read "Wu Mengdafu Monarch Huai Sabbath" and "Father Lord Huai Rest", and the money is paid by Wu Mengda's current wife and the children born to the two.
At about 2 p.m., Wu Mengda's son Wu Weilun arrived at the Lingtang to take care of his father's affairs. He was dressed in all black and wore a black mask, and it was still difficult to hide his sadness between his eyebrows.
Stephen Chow was the first friend in the circle to come to mourn. At about 4 p.m., Xingye arrived at the Spirit Hall by car, he was wearing a hat, his face was haggard, his expression was sad, he got off the bus and bowed his head all the way, did not greet the fans and media waiting on the side of the road, walked straight into the Spirit Hall, stayed for about 10 minutes and left, and did not make any public statements throughout the whole process.
Zhou Xingchi arrived
Tian Qiwen, a friend of Wu Mengda and a representative of the Funeral Committee who was also interviewed, said that Xingye told him at the spiritual hall: "Tell me what else can be done in the future." ”
Tian Qiwen
Subsequently, Andy Lau, Wu Junru, Lu Huiguang and other celebrity friends came to the scene, all of them dressed in low-key clothes, most of them did not communicate with the media much, and went straight into the spirit hall.
"He played my father, my third uncle, and my cousin." Wu Junru said in an interview with reporters after the greeting in the Lingtang that he and Da ge got along with da ge innumerable, and the works he cooperated with were also very many, and the most impressive thing was that Wu Mengda played the role of her father, "At that time, we played the father and daughter in the play, he was finally killed by the enemy family, I played very well, I think he is really my father." ”
Wu Junru said that in recent years, many works have wanted to find Da Ge to star, but unfortunately the other party is very busy, and he does not know that he has physical problems. "These days I want to reach my brother every day. So sad, so sudden, I couldn't imagine it so fast. ”
<h1>The family did not all come to the scene, thanking all walks of life for quoting Dago's famous words: The most important thing for people is to be happy</h1>
Wu Mengda's family, which has always been low-key, rarely accepts media interviews, and today issued a press release to the outside world to express gratitude to everyone under the title of "Forever Missing Wu Mengda (1952-2021)".
The Wu family said: Dage, who is known as the "golden supporting role", died of illness, which is the loss of a film and television giant for thousands of viewers, but for the Wu family, it is the loss of a close relative, the feeling of grief, and it is deeply mournful! Today, you have come from all over the world to say goodbye to him for the last time, and can say that this life is not in vain, rest in the arms of the Lord!
For the various false reports spread by Wu Mengda before his death, the family also made an attitude of meeting and laughing and taking revenge: there have been some false reports about The economy and family of, although the family felt unhappy for a moment, but adhering to Dago's open-minded attitude towards life, the rumors really have no weight, and the gossip is not worth a word.
"The most important thing for people is to be happy!" What said! The Wu family's thank you draft reads.
When Wu Mengda's younger brother Wu Lida was interviewed by reporters at the scene, he first thanked the outside world for caring for Wu Mengda for so many years, and he said that he was proud of his brother, "He took care of his family, filial piety to his parents, and cared for his brothers and good friends, and everyone praised him, so our family all took him as an example." ”
Wu Lida revealed that her children were not able to attend all of them, "Some overseas are not so easy to come to Hong Kong." The elderly mother also did not attend the funeral.
After tomorrow's funeral, Wu Mengda's body will be moved to cremation, and the ashes will return to Malaysia with his family to write the end of his brilliant film and television life, and his family will return to a peaceful life.
The public waited in line for the public ceremony
<h1>The birth of the king of supporting roles</h1>
In the movie "Brother Xinzha", there is a scene in which Wu Mengda plays the ye instructor of the police academy, carries a baton, and walks around the trainee Jie Zai, played by Liang Chaowei, and reprimands him.
There were many lines in that scene, two whole pages, told by Wu Mengda alone, and Liang Chaowei interjected "Yes sir!" Sorry sir!”
Two pieces of paper, he flipped around and looked at them, nearly two hundred times. Luo Yingjun, an actor in the same play, saw him and asked him incomprehensibly, is there any difficulty in this fight? "I remember all the lines, but I haven't found the character's life yet." Wu Mengda is determined to give a completely different emotion to the language and the gaze, the mouth scolds fiercely, but there is love in the eyes, and the emotion of "anger and indisputability" can be highlighted in a rather layered and delicate manner.
At that time, Wu Mengda, after several ups and downs in life, struggled hard in the trough of bankruptcy, found time to calm down, and understood a lot, related to life, about roles, and about performance. Before that, he relied on talent.
Born in Xiamen in 1951, Wu Mengda moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of 7. Since he was a child, he and his two younger brothers have been wandering around the theater all day, buying a ticket, and the three of them secretly crowded in the corner to watch, and when they encountered someone checking the ticket, they "walked". At the end of the movie, I came home still unsatisfied, and often rose up to imitate the character, "Dad asked me what to do, saying that I was obsessed. The teenager did not understand things, did not know what "drama" was, but did not understand the favorite.
In the 1970s, the family bought their first television set, and his father stuck to "Happy Tonight" (TVB's famous longevity variety show) every night, and he also watched it.
For the matter of sneaking into the third stage of TVB's artist training class, later looking back at the year of Hua Jia, Wu Mengda laughed and called "vanity" as a culprit. But it is not surprising that he was admitted, and it is not surprising that he became famous early, he said that it all depends on talent, plus a little cleverness.
Having said that, when the outside world praises Wu Mengda for his solid skills and vivid and three-dimensional interpretation of small characters, it is impossible not to notice that the tempering of the early training class and the TVB model has left a deep mark on him.
From the source point of view, Wu Mengda is a disciple of King Sir. Chung set up an artist training course in TVB in the 1970s and assisted in the establishment of the Drama Academy of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in the 1980s. Some believe that Chung's greatest contribution was the introduction of the "method acting" he learned while studying at Yale in Hong Kong at that time, which originated from the performance system advocated by the Russian theater master Stanislavsky, that is, the actor was fully integrated into the role, creating the character's own character and life. This performance system, boldly transferred from the theater stage to television, the actors have cultivated their familiarity with the camera and tacit understanding with the choreography team under repeated training, and gradually established a set of performance methods that are suitable for both theater and television, and then put it on the movie screen.
Wu Mengda's generation of Hong Kong film actors, most of whom were trained by this system, also benefited from this, freely traveling in the three worlds of stage plays, TV dramas and movies, not dressing up as sophisticated, only seeking faxes, emphasizing interaction and cooperation. After all, hong Kong in that era was laissez-faire, and there was nothing wrong with it, so that many ideas could be conceived and grown.
From this point of view, it seems that it is not difficult to understand why Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi later partnered to create a "nonsense" culture and became a hit.
With the idea of trying it out, "Heroes of the World" interprets the costumes in the way and language of fashion dramas, and the echoes are good, "drink tea, eat a bag", and even become a well-known classic buzzword in the streets and alleys. "It could have been creative or imaginative." The relaxed atmosphere of the times embraces this unique style and jumping thinking, which has endured for a long time.
In order to find ideas, Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi often "lurked" to the seashore to take pictures of the Holy Land Star Pier, or a bar, eavesdropping on other people's conversations, and observing their demeanor. That's how 90 percent of the dialogue and action in the script comes from.
The style of cooperation between the two set the tone, and then the pair of laughing and relaxed father and son played in "He Comes from the Jianghu", a serious style that reversed the tradition, and the decaying grid in "Gamble Saint" and the "three uncles" who were called a shock, all made people laugh and laugh, and the aftertaste was endless.
<h1>Fought death</h1>
Accidents came unexpectedly. In 2014, Wu Mengda was filming in the mainland and felt mild discomfort, with symptoms similar to colds, tiredness, and runny nose. He didn't think so, asked the staff to buy a box of cold medicine, and ate it for a week.
One morning, he held the thermos cup in one hand, which contained the tea he often drank, and climbed up the stairs to the powder room on the third floor. "I just climbed one floor and couldn't walk." He thought to himself, strange, how to breathe like this, but turning his mind, then take the opportunity to rest, anyway, not in a hurry, from the pocket to feel the cigarette, a sip of smoke, a sip of tea, feel comfortable.
Climbing the three floors, he stopped and rested twice.
Not long after, he went to Shenzhen with his friends to do business, and this time he was not as lucky as before, "After signing, he couldn't go, and he had to hold on to the wall." The friend immediately drove him back to Hong Kong and rushed to the hospital.
"Call your dearest one." After the examination, the doctor said this to Wu Mengda, which sounded very scary. Immediately after that, the medical staff pushed him into the ICU.
Wu Mengda was stupid, his eyes widened and looked around, there were a total of 6 patients in the ICU, all of them fell into a coma, full of throat instruments, and the posture did not change from morning to night, "For example, the old uncle of my bed opposite me, his son held his hand during the visiting time, crying and saying, Dad, I am touching your hand, Dad, can you feel it?" It was a terrifying feeling. "He alone can move and eat and can also pull the nurse to gossip."
Doctors told Wu Mengda that the virus infection caused him to fail, and his heart function was only 30%, which was dangerous. Although this disease is not like angina pectoris, it falls to the ground and dies, but if it is not handled properly, it is likely to be unable to sleep.
Fortunately, after a large step, after treatment, the heart function returned to 60%.
After a serious illness, Wu Mengda had a deeper understanding of "time", and he was afraid that many things would be too late. "I used to be afraid to take on bad plays, because I felt that your script was bad, the director was bad, the opponent was bad, it didn't matter to me, you couldn't affect me, and my performance wouldn't be demoted." For acting skills, Wu Mengda admitted that he had a kind of self-confidence, "Arrogance and pride, that's what it means." ”
But after fighting death, Wu Mengda came to a four-word conclusion — but that's it. "I'm no different from other people, but that's it." The pace of his steps forward suddenly slowed down, "It's not that I'm too poor to wait for the drama to start, I can live a little plain, find some good works, don't be too tired." "The free time he spends with his family, traveling with his children, and eating together.
In recent years, there have been occasional reports or Reuters mentioning Wu Mengda, and there are always descriptions such as thin and haggard. A few years ago, when filming "The Wandering Earth", at the request of the crew, he put on clothes and equipment weighing up to 70 pounds, so that he had to take oxygen every few minutes. In the meantime, there was a scene of hanging Weia, he clenched his teeth and closed it, and as a result, the hanging in mid-air had begun to lack oxygen, and his brain was blank. Later, he confessed that he had broken down and cried at one point.
By 2021, Wu Mengda's condition will take a sharp turn for the worse.
First, at the beginning of the year, a video clip of less than 30 seconds flowed out of the network, which was a tidbit clip of the movie "The Legend of Debao of Shaolin Temple". In the picture, Wu Mengda is posing to shoot the poster, suddenly feeling uncomfortable, shaking his body, pressing his hand on his chest, and his expression is painful. The staff moved the chair, and he sat and rubbed his heart with his hand, and kept apologizing for hindering the progress of the shooting. After the state stabilized slightly, he insisted on continuing shooting, "If it is useless to rest for two minutes or ten minutes, don't stop." Until he finished his work and changed his shirt and left, he once again bowed deeply to the staff and apologized.
Subsequently, his friend Tian Qiwen confirmed to the media that Wu Mengda had been diagnosed with liver cancer at the end of last year, underwent resection surgery, and then required chemotherapy due to the spread of cancer cells.
Less than a month before and after, on February 27, the news that Wu Mengda's condition deteriorated and he was transferred to the ICU was again reported, and on the same day, the hospital notified the family to meet for the last time in the hospital. A large number of media rushed to the hospital, and Ai Wei, Luo Yingjun, and Tian Qiwen also arrived.
At about 2 p.m., Wu Mengda had fallen into a coma, and had to insert his throat, take morphine and cardiotonic drugs, but the rescue was to no avail, and at about 4 p.m., he entered a state of death and died at about 5:16.
According to Tian Qiwen, Wu Mengda did not expect it to be so serious, thinking that he would be discharged from the hospital in good health. But fortunately he walked peacefully, as if asleep. This time, he could no longer stay in this world that had been up and down for seventy years.
<h1>Three marriages in a lifetime of love debts</h1>
Wu Mengda is happy that he has a lifelong love debt, has three wives before and after, gave birth to 5 children (4 daughters and 1 son) for him, and his emotional life is wonderful and does not lose his acting career.
In 1976, Wu Mengda and outsider Miley Lili married, after marriage gave birth to twin daughters; the second wife is TVB former artist Lu Shaoci, the two because of the work relationship to know and get closer, when they were photographed by the media living together in The Whampoa Garden made this underground affair exposed, it is rumored that when they began to live together in 1989, Lu Shaoci gave birth to a daughter, when Wu Mengda had not yet divorced Miley.
In 1993, when Wu Mengda was filming the movie "Happy Affair in the Flower Field", he met his current wife, Hou Shanyan, who was the winner of Miss Malaysia. The two fell in love, but at this time, Wu Mengda and the original Match Miley's divorce procedures had not yet been completed, the incident was hyped up, and in 1995, a marriage farce was staged: Hou Shanyan's parents laid out a happy drink for the two in Malaysia, but a couple "disappeared" on the spot, for which Wu Mengda apologized to his father-in-law, saying that he would go to Malaysia to make amends when the wind and waves were calm.
Hou Shanyan gave birth to a son and a daughter for Wu Mengda after marriage, and he was particularly happy to have children when he was old.
In the past, in the show, Wu Mengda once talked about these three love affairs: "Every paragraph is true, but it is not knowing how to operate or self-control." Although I left them, I still love them very much, including what they have, I will be very happy, although I am with my current wife, but the ex has something, I will definitely not help her, I will definitely help her, including giving her my life, I can too. ”
Because of this, he did not let his former family go unchecked, although he laughed at himself for being by three women, he still tried his best to undertake the living arrangements of the three families, so the financial burden was very heavy, and he has been working hard to make money by filming.
When heart failure broke out and the ghost door was closed once, as soon as he was discharged from the hospital, he found a lawyer to make a will and set up a property administrator. According to the inheritance distribution method exposed by Sina Entertainment, the current wife Hou Shanyan received half of the property, and the remaining half was divided equally among the five children.
On the day of Wu Mengda's death, the youngest son, Wu Weilun, also appeared in the hospital to wait by his father's side until the last moment. A reporter photographed him walking out of the ICU with a tissue, looking down and sobbing. When asked about his father's posthumous arrangements, he nodded twice, but could not answer, and then got into the car with his relatives and friends and left.
In the days after Wu Mengda's death, the star artists of the Chinese entertainment industry have issued eulogies, and Zhou Runfa, an old classmate of the training class, also expressed his remembrance to Wu Mengda: "Dage has a good way! Andy Lau said: "Da ge is gone, Da Ge is no longer sick and worry-free over there, all the way good!" Ren Dahua recalled his cooperation experience with Wu Mengda, "In 1988, he made the movie "SWAT Dragon Slayer" with Dage, and his performance style and dedication have influenced many of us and left a memorable mark for Hong Kong films. We miss him,, all the way. ”
Forty years ago, Wu Mengda played a protagonist with special functions in an episode called "Omens" in "The Strange Affair of the Sea"--smiling and carefree, but he was looking forward to a successful day, and finally he was expected to develop because of his ability to foresee.
This Wu Mengda more than forty years ago, carefree, straight, hoping for a little cleverness, and at any time to raise eyebrows, is a "very Hong Kong" public face. Compared with the same generation of Zhou Runfa, or lost tall and handsome, but deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, people can imagine the grassroots shadow from this face, and savor the past and present lives of Hong Kong films.
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