Recently, the news that movie star Wu Mengda is seriously ill has attracted the attention of many netizens.
On February 21, the 68-year-old Uncle Da was exposed to emergency medical treatment, and his friend Tian Qiwen revealed that Uncle Da had suffered from liver cancer in December last year, and the cancer cells had shown signs of spreading.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately aroused the attention of the whole network, and netizens left messages to wish for it. Huang Zitao's Weibo has said a lot of post-80s and post-90s voices, and Wu Mengda's three words represent our countless childhood memories.
Looking at Uncle Da's acting works, it is not difficult to find that he always adds material to the film as a green leaf, and the scene is a classic on the screen, in exchange for a burst of laughter from the audience.
But looking back at Uncle Da's acting career, we also find that his life is also ups and downs, through ups and downs.
01 Debut bankruptcy, film stars fell into the casino quagmire
Born in Xiamen in 1953, Wu Mengda moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of 7 and settled there.
In 1973, at the age of 20, he was admitted to the third phase of the wireless artist training class, and his contemporaries were not short of Zheng Shaoqiu, Zhou Runfa, Du Qifeng, Ren Dahua and other people who would become famous in the future.
In the student class, Wu Mengda's grades have always maintained the top five, and even once was the class leader, and his excellent performance allowed him to successfully sign a full-time long contract after graduation.
It should be known that only 22 of the 40 trainees in the same period got full-time contracts after graduation, and only 7 of them won long contracts, and Zhou Runfa even signed temporary contracts at that time.
Wu Mengda, who was proud of the spring breeze, entered the show business circle as a rising star, and the 1979 TV series "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" made him famous for the first time.
As the drama became popular throughout the streets, Hu Tiehua, played by Wu Mengda, was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he tasted the taste of fame.
Wu Mengda's soaring acting career made Wu Mengda a little fluttery, and then he became addicted to the life of a paper drunk and gold fan, and became addicted to gambling.
Gambling addicted to gambling, he once took 3 months off with wireless to gamble, bad gamblers gambled nine times out of ten, within a year, he gambled on his savings, and owed 300,000 Hong Kong dollars gambling debt.
Faced with a huge gambling debt, the depressed Wu Mengda was refused to borrow money from the trainees in the same period, and Du Qifeng said that Wu Mengda at that time was "a mud that could not be supported by the wall".
He locked himself in his home for this reason, and according to his later recollections, he once thought about committing suicide.
From the bright hero on the screen in the previous year to the rotten gambler who became bankrupt the next year, the time of one year made him experience the first great joy and sorrow of his life.
02 Mud supports the wall, relying on yourself and relying on nobles
In the end, Wu Mengda's "mud" was still supported on the wall, which relied on his own awakening and the blessing of nobles, and this person was Zhou Runfa.
The two were once classmates in the student class, and in the early years, they had a good relationship, and they often stayed at Wu Mengda's house when Fa Ge was still running a dragon set, and Wu Mengda, who became famous earlier, took good care of this brother.
However, after Wu Mengda became addicted to gambling, his friend Zhou Runfa repeatedly dissuaded him, but he did not take it seriously.
Until Wu borrowed money everywhere because of gambling bankruptcy, Zhou Runfa knew that borrowing money would cure the symptoms but not the root cause, so he rejected Wu Mengda and left a cruel sentence: You solve it yourself!
This sentence made Wu Mengda very dissatisfied, and at one point broke off relations with him, and publicly accused the former friend.
Under the pain of pain, Wu Mengda, who ended the ban period, began to take over the work, filmed with a correct attitude, and gradually paid off the gambling debt.
In 1990, he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor with "Heavenly Love", and when he won the award, he was told by the director that it was the strong recommendation of his old friend Zhou Runfa that allowed him to get the opportunity to participate, and wu Mengda's previous many scenes were promoted by Fa Ge.
After understanding his old friend's good intentions of "helping the anxious and not helping the poor", Wu Mengda was relieved and reconciled with Fa Ge.
As Uncle Da said, "How much I hated him at the beginning, how much I thank him now." "Their friendship is touching.
03 red flowers and green leaves, the golden supporting role career finally left regrets
After getting out of the haze, Wu Mengda gradually moved towards the peak of his career.
In the 1990s, he joined hands with Star Ye to create the era of nonsense, and left a deep mark in the hearts of countless fans.
In fact, as early as the 83 shooting eagle, Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi had participated in the performance at the same time, but the two did not have much intersection at that time.
Their roles are also small roles, at that time, Wu Mengda played Elder Peng, while Xingye played the little dragon set without a name.
The two really intersected in 1989, in "Gestapo", the gradually emerging Chow Xingchi became the male protagonist, while Wu Mengda played a supporting role.
The first "red flower and green leaf match" between the two laid the foundation for the tacit cooperation of the next ten years.
The serious martial arts drama obviously could not trap Xingye's senseless soul, so a year later, his "Gambling Saint" with Wu Mengda came out.
The film grossed HK$41.32 million, setting a new Hong Kong-made film box office record, which made Stephen Chow's name quickly popular, and people remembered the radiant star and also noticed Wu Mengda behind him.
In the decade that followed, the duo swept the Hong Kong box office, and this story was too familiar to everyone.
"Journey to the West", "The King of Comedy", "Nine Sesame Officers", "Deer DingJi", "God of Eaters", one after another classic masterpieces were born in that era, and one classic memory after another is still in front of you.
Behind the unique nonsense of Xingye, Uncle Da uses solid acting skills to help, just like the cross-talk "praise", he becomes the golden auxiliary that holds Xingye to the super C position.
Uncle Da also left his own famous scenes, and in "The King of Comedy", his mockery of Stephen Chow was impressive.
In "Truant Veyron 2", his sentence "Are you teaching me to do things?" "Nowadays, it is even more popular on the Internet.
In that era, Wu Mengda was not only the golden auxiliary of Xingye alone, he was also a versatile player.
At the same time, Wu Mengda cooperated with Taiwanese director Zhu Yanping, and the comedy iron triangle composed of Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong swept the cross-straits, and at this time, Wu Mengda was a comedian with double guarantee of box office reputation.
But unfortunately, after entering 2000, Wu Mengda's work was obviously insufficient, and with the growth of child stars such as Hao Shaowen, Zhu Yanping's comedy routine was thoroughly explored, and the scenery of the iron triangle works was no longer beautiful.
On the other hand, what is even more regrettable is that he and his old partner Xingye have not cooperated since 2001's "Shaolin Football", and the rumors about the discord between the two have not gone away.
Uncle Da did not deny that the two had differences in their work, but he said that the two sides had long since frozen their previous suspicions.
Xingye also invited him to star in "Kung Fu" and "Mermaid", but Uncle Da failed to cooperate with him again due to schedule, physical and other reasons.
For nearly 20 years, although these two people have "forgotten each other", they still think of each other in their hearts.
Uncle Da once said in public, "As long as I am still here and Star Ye is not retired, we will still cooperate." ”
After learning the news of Uncle Da's cancer, Xingye also made an emergency call at the first time and was willing to fund Uncle Da to alleviate his medical burden of up to 7 figures.
Suffering sees the truth, and the friendship between Uncle Da and Xingye will not be broken.
In April, nearly one million were supplied, and in his later years, he struggled to carry the weight forward
Behind the twists and turns of the film career, Wu Mengda's love life is equally "colorful", so far he has a total of three marriages (some versions say that Wu Mengda's second marriage has not been registered).
In 1976, he married his first wife, Lily Mai, who bore her twin daughters, and in 1994, Cui Lili unilaterally filed for divorce, ending their eighteen-year relationship.
Subsequently, Uncle Da and actor Lu Shaoci lived together, and although the relationship between the two did not last long, the two gave birth to a daughter during this period.
In 1996, Uncle Da began his third marriage, and he married Malaysian actor Hou Shanyan, and the relationship between the two has continued to this day.
In 2003, Hou Shanyan gave birth to a son for 50-year-old Wu Mengda.
For the three families brought about by these three love experiences, Uncle Da is responsible for the end.
He bought a house for all three wives and provided 800,000 monthly child support for each family, and at one point had to bear a total of 2.4 million per month, which was only reduced to 300,000 per household for financial reasons in the later period.
One person supports 3 families and 5 children, which has also become a major reason why Uncle Da dares not retire in his later years.
Although Uncle Da said that due to physical reasons, he has only received a film and television work in recent years, but the facts do not lie, the data shows that Uncle Da's cumulative works are as high as 238, and there are 5 in 2020, uncle Da is really tired.
He even endorsed game ads, and the 68-year-old used himself as an iron man for his family.
Under this series of high-load work, coupled with the heavy eating and drinking in his youth, Uncle Da's body lit up with red lights.
In 2000, he was diagnosed with diabetes, and in 2014, he was sent to the hospital urgently due to heart failure, losing 15 kilograms in half a year, and once temporarily left the film world.
When he participated in the publicity activities at the beginning of the year, Uncle Da was once suddenly unwell, until now he has been exposed to heart-wrenching liver cancer rumors, behind the hard work, it is Uncle Da who carries the weight again and again.
Unexpectedly, Uncle Da, who has brought us laughter for decades, hides a bitter laugh behind him.
His experience reminds me of The famous Taiwanese comedian Xu Bu (Hokkien harmonic "bitter" ), who was called "Taiwan's best comedy star" by Luo Dayou in the 1970s and 1980s and became a phenomenon-level comedy king.
But behind his comedy career is a tragic life, he owes a large gambling debt, is held hostage by gangsters to shoot movies, and endures the pain of filming every day.
During the day in the crew to make everyone happy, late at night can only drink alone, injection of painkillers to relieve their own pain, the last 6 years of his life to perform 64 works, and finally fell ill at the age of 34.
Why isn't that the case with Uncle Da?
Behind the career of laughter, the life of pain is endless.
At the beginning of his career, he rose from the bottom step by step due to gambling bankruptcy, and then went through the hard work of filming throughout his career, until he was 68 years old and still ran for his family.
When this manuscript was completed, I had heard that it had improved, and we were still discussing Uncle Da's next movie, full of hope that he would recover.
Unexpectedly, the news of Uncle Da's death on February 28 still came.
But in any case,
Uncle Da is an eternal memory in the hearts of our generation, even if the person is gone, he still lives in our hearts!
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