At 5 p.m. on February 27, 69-year-old Wu Mengda died of illness at Yan An Hospital in Hong Kong.
"Uncle Da walked peacefully and died in his sleep." Tian Qiwen said.
"I am very sad and sad, and I am reluctant to..." Zhou Xingchi said, "I still can't accept it." ”
Sad, not only like Uncle Da, but also star ye's fans, because of that regret, can no longer make up.
In the 20 years since 2001, the best partners of the past have never worked together again, and in the previous 12 years, they have collaborated on 22 films and many classics.
Wu Mengda said, "As long as I don't die and he hasn't retired, we will still cooperate." ”
But now, he went first.
The last collaboration between Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda was "Shaolin Soccer".
"Shaolin Football" continues the feelings of "The King of Comedy", the history of the struggle of small people, and of course, Chow Sing Chi's kung fu dream, but he put kung fu on football.
"Ming Feng" is the role of Wu Mengda.
The golden right foot of the past, the lame coach of today, with a group of rude little people who do not understand football, but have kung fu in the body, staged a counterattack drama, by the way, revenge for the year.
Some people say that it may be the least Wu Mengda in so many years of cooperation between the two, although it is still funny, but it is "laughing with tears".
At a certain moment, Wu Mengda played not only "Brother Feng", but also himself.
At that time, he and Zhou Runfa were the same TVB phase III, but they became famous earlier, and when Fa Ge was still running the dragon set, he became a "male second", a "Legend of Chu Liuxiang", red through Hong Kong and Taiwan, "the hotel where you live, as soon as you open the door, there is a vote of girls waiting for you."
Wu Mengda, 26, floated.
He had been in Taiwan for a year, eating, drinking, gambling money every day, and dreaming of death.
Drinking brandy with Gu Long is like drinking water, and sometimes, in order to eat a pig's foot meal, he can drive from Taipei to Tainan.
Such a day is a childhood family of seven crammed into a house of more than ten square meters, hungry and full of Wu Mengda, never dared to think...
But less than a year later, Wu Mengda was forced to go bankrupt.
The debt of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars overwhelmed him, and he was even blocked by six loan sharks.
Chow Yun Fat refused to borrow money, but gave him a job offer, a "Gestapo", the best partner in the history of Hong Kong cinema was born.
The following year, "Gamble Saint" was released, Zhou Xingchi changed from a star boy to a star master, and Wu Mengda was also completely salted.
The same is true of the life of "Brother Feng".
However, this role, Zhou Xingchi's first choice, is not Wu Mengda, but Ge You.
Zhou Xingchi admired Ge You very much, and once said that he was no better than him, "because Ge You is not just acting in comedy", but three phone invitations were rejected by Ge You, on the grounds that "I am not suitable." ”
Ge You is a Chinese star football team, and often plays football, in "Stubborn Lord", he uses kicking ball to compare the words of life, and Ma Xiaoqing falls in an instant.
But for nonsense, Ge You once said, "That kind of exaggerated comedy, it's not that it's not inappropriate, it's that I don't like it." ”
There is no Ge You, and there is Wu Mengda.
It is said that when Zhou Xingchi first met Wu Mengda, he saw him sitting on the ground reading the script, so he went to drink coffee, and an hour later, Wu Mengda was still watching, and went to drink coffee, and when he came back, he was still reading.
But in fact, in that script, Wu Mengda only had three lines of dialogue.
"Because it's simple, I want to make it not simple." Wu Mengda said.
Although the acting skills exploded, it was not Wu Mengda who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor with "Shaolin Football", but Huang Yifei (master brother).
In the past 50 years since his career, Wu Mengda has participated in 149 films, and only won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor once, but he did not cooperate with Stephen Chow.
In 1991, Wu Mengda was shortlisted for "Gamble Saint" and "Tianruo Youqing", and it was "Tianruo Youqing" that helped him beat Jacky Cheung and Er Dongsheng to win.
Since then, he has also been shortlisted for the best supporting actor 4 times, but all lost, and in a certain year, Chen Jiashang, chairman of the Academy Awards, said, "The Academy Awards owe Wu Mengda a film emperor."
It is said that after the "Shaolin Football" fire, Zhou Xingchi wanted to make a sequel, in his opinion, he could even make three or four more, but because of the disagreement with investors and global owner Lin Xiaoming, he failed to do so.
Otherwise, the fate of Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi may not be "separated" for 20 years.
By the way, "Ball, not played like this", not Uncle Da's line, the sentence he said was "football, not a person can play".