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Vol. 2762
On February 27th, a sudden news broke the quiet weekend.
Hong Kong actor Wu Mengda has passed away due to illness.
When he saw the news, Pai Ye was a little confused.
This Uncle Da who accompanied us throughout our youth, will he really not appear again?
Remember what he said in an interview with "Thirteen Invitations" in 1818.
"All serious actors are liars."
Uncle Da, who has never played the leading role in his life, has a life that is more ups and downs than the leading role.
But to sum up,One word "cheat" can sum up…
To deceive is to deceive the audience…
How to deceive?
acting skills.
Isn’t acting just lying?
Convincing audiences to believe that the characters on the screen are real has deceived generation after generation.
Chen Jiashang, a former chairperson of the Academy Awards, said,The Academy Awards owe him a best actor…
In the past 50 years, Uncle Da has played no less than 200 roles in movies and TV series.
Mostly that kindlittle guy…
From an incompetent dad to a decadent and incompetent cop.
Lustful, philistine, wimp, walk lazy, with his row of short beard.
The kind of person who accidentally bumps into someone on the road and wants to curse is probably like this.
Of course, to talk about Uncle Da’s roles, it must be inseparable from Stephen Chow’s movies.
"Lu Ding Ji", "Journey to the West", "Variety Star Lord", "God of Cooking", "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier"…
Together, they created countless classics.
The most impressive thing for Pai Ye is"Lord of Destruction"…
He plays the "Golden Right Foot", discredited for match-fixing.
In order to ask people to do things, they have to be trampled under their feet and insulted.
He was humiliated, but held back.
Looking up, he could immediately squeeze out a smile.
Once famous and once fallen, thisBitterness, self-deprecation, resentmentHe acted meticulously.
Xu Zhiyuan once said on the program: Some feelings can only be given by Uncle Da and Xingye.
But Pai Ye’s favorite character is not from Stephen Chow’s movie.
It was that one."If Heaven Has Love"…
Uncle Da plays Andy Lau’s sidekick, Taibao.
This is aRole at the bottom of society…
He was a coward and a braggart. Although he was said to be in the underworld, no one in black and white liked him.
In front of others, he was submissive.
After the others, he cursed.
Character highlights appear at the end of life.
Cowardly little character, for kindness, for revenge,Have the courage to die with the villain…
Like laughing, like crying, like crazy…
In the final moments of life, the meaning of life is realized.
Due to this role, he won the Hong Kong Golden Statue’s Best Male Character.
This is also the only time he has won an award.
In "Thirteen Invitations", Wu Mengda and Xu Zhiyuan eat at a restaurant.
One dish is ginger mother duck.
Wu Mengda stirred in the casserole, not the duck but a piece of ginger.
"This Jiang, the pen of God, the finishing touch.This ginger is Wu Mengda, a supporting role, but delicious"…"
As a golden supporting actor in Hong Kong movies, his role is the ginger in the ginger duck.
Absolutely indispensable.
Uncle Da said that he always played some messy characters.
The doting father of his son in "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier" and the second leader in "Journey to the West"…
But Pai Ye felt that those characters were not "messy", but the most indispensable in the movie"Ordinary People"…
They either use words or actions to encourage the protagonist to persevere.
But there is no protagonist who can turn over the fate of Salted Fish, which is always ridiculous and sad.
But it is this kind of character that conveys the sad taste behind the comedy story.
With authenticity, the audience is completely deceived into the world of the movie.
The second lie is to lie to yourself…
that isinto the play…
He has been acting for most of his life.
At the beginning, being an actor was purely because she felt that this profession was glamorous and profitable.
He himself said:
I’m starting to like acting is four words
greed for vanity
Later, it experienced a period of low fortune.
Only after he came back did he really understand that in order to play a good role, he had to enter the play first.
He began to take every role seriously.
Cherish every scene and ponder every line.
Even read Stanislavsky’s "Self-Cultivation of the Actor" every night and fall asleep.
(Stephen Chow may have borrowed from him for this plot in "The King of Comedy.")
The high demands of oneself
When Uncle Da talked about his thoughts, he said that the villain should be cute.
It’s about rationalizing the worst things that villains have done.
After all,You can’t escape human nature…
Wu MengdaNo one thinks they are bad people. Although I am doing some bad things now, I have my reasons and excuses – this society has forced me to be unable to support my family. I have been forced to kill and set fires for my children and my wife, but this should be a sudden impulse.From my perspective, I only do something if I think it’s right.The villain is also, they are not opposed to you from the beginning, impossibleHe had his legitimate reasons, his imagined legitimate reasons.So I said, the villain has to be cute
Xu ZhiyuanHow did this idea come about?
Wu MengdaWhat is it?Human nature, the most ordinary human nature…
Take "Gambling Saint" as an example, he designed a"Uncontrolled Congenital Disorder"The characteristics of.
He invented a disease that convulses at the call of its name.
Seemingly similar "pretend to be crazy" characters, because of these small designs,There is a difference, there is a characteristic of being remembered…
For small roles, he is never perfunctory.
Someone asked him, How do you play a good supporting role?
Wu Mengda replied:Just play yourself as the protagonist…
In fact, it’s not that he hasn’t made bad movies.
In order to make money, I received a lot of bad books.
I was asked by Xu Zhiyuan: What does it feel like to make a bad movie?
He shook his head helplessly.
How do you know it’s a bad movie when you shoot? When you shoot, you just want to be the best.
Bad movie, but he can be the "save the rating" guy.
After deceiving the audience and lying to themselves, no matter how dedicated an actor is, it’s nothing more than that.
The third lie isFate is lying to him…
Wu Mengda became famous at a young age.
At the age of 21, he was admitted to Hong Kong Wireless’s actor training class and was classmates with Chow Yun-fat and Johnnie To.
After graduation, he became one of the few students who could sign a long-term contract with TVB.
At the age of 27, he became famous overnight with Hu Tiehua in "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".
How beautiful is it?
"As famous as Jay Chou later. As soon as the hotel opened, a group of girls were squatting."
Fame comes too easily, and he thinks life should go smoothly.
This is the first time fate has deceived him.
Come to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and in the second year, he owed a huge amount of money because of gambling.
It was blocked by the bank and hidden by the company.
His friend was so disappointed with him that Johnnie described him as "mud that can’t stick to the wall".
Ask Chow Yun Fat to borrow money, Chow Yun Fat only throw the next sentence: You solve it yourself.
In just one year, he fell from peak to trough.
Fortunately, there is no way out.
TVB didn’t fire him, it just didn’t give him a role, but still had a portion of the base salary.
Keep a third for yourself and use the rest to pay off debts.
Although his friends were disappointed, they were still willing to give him a chance.
Chow Yun Fat tweeted his role in "Tian Ruo You Qing", and Johnnie To also arranged a role for him in "The Legend of the Condor Hero".
Unconvinced, he won the Academy Award trophy.
whileThe hit with Stephen Chow was the highlight of his entire acting career…
We met in "Heroes of the World".
Uncle Da accompanied Zhou Xingchi on his way to directing, studying his unique shooting style together.
Step by step to the status of Hong Kong comedy apotheosis…
When we were poor, we ate canned abalone together
I originally thought that the two could continue to support each other in this way and create more works.
But he never thought that fate would play tricks on him again.
Perhaps there was a disagreement in the concept of filming, and they did not communicate for a while.
But this ice is difficult to break for a long time.
So much so that it became a mystery in the hearts of many viewers:
Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, why did they break up?
In fact, it can’t be said that they are broken, and the two will cue each other many times.
They still appreciate each other.
It was just that due to the schedule first, and then due to his body, Wu Mengda was always difficult to go to Zhou Xingchi’s appointment.
In 2004, "Kung Fu" also reserved a role for Uncle Da
We haven’t worked together for nearly 20 years.
Uncle Da has said several times that if there is a chance, we will cooperate again.
The most recent one was on "Ace to Ace" some time ago.
It was just that at that time, he had been tortured by the pain until he could barely speak.
Things are fickle.
Uncle Da once said,Life is a big dream…
Perhaps at the end of life, it is another dream.
And he can finally easily be the "liar" he loves.
And we can only look at his previous works again and again.
Thank you, Uncle Da!
