Without Stephen Chow, Wu Mengda might just be Wu Mengda

Some people are born with supporting roles, destined to stand under someone else’s halo and cheer appropriately, and then be called along with that halo.

Ordinary people are like this, and so are actors.

In the film and television industry, we usually praise a ten thousand year supporting role as "Gold Medal Green Leaf", let alone the mentality of the person who praises it, the person who is praised may not feel good.

Because even a "dead guy" has a dream of a protagonist in his heart.

For an actor who has been debuting for decades and has been revolving around others, and when his name is mentioned, others will think of another "protagonist", I am afraid that only he knows the taste.

Like Zhang Xiaofei and Jia Ling, Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi, it is such a typical example.

The former’s recent movies are very popular. If it is a supporting role, it is also popular. There are also some supporting roles of "Yan Yi", and the future development is unknown.

Wu Mengda is different.

He was destined to be a supporting actor.

We say that a person has an "aura", and so do actors. To talk about the appearance of male actors, there are many actors who are more beautiful than Wu Mengda *** Wu Mengdahong, not to mention that Wu Mengda is not ugly, at least when he is young, he is still a relatively standard appearance.

Some people said that he would play the father of Zhou Xingchi, who was the same age as him, but in fact it was not. When Zhou Xingchi was still saying a line with one eyelid open in the 83rd edition of "Condor Shooting", Wu Mengda was already the "elder of the Beggar Gang", and the role of tricking Huang Rong and harming Guo Jing was no less than that of other villains.

But he just doesn’t have the aura, that is, he doesn’t have the life to be the protagonist.

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Give an actor who has been a supporting actor for a lifetime a swan song,

It is the best respect.

Actors like Wu Mengda came out to "fish the world" just when Hong Kong movies were popular in Asia, and all the big names he played with were once and now, such as Chow Yun-fat, Deng Guangrong, Andy Lau, Li *******, Liming, Guo Fucheng, etc., but it was Zhou Xingchi who finally had a "supporting role".

I just remembered now that when Wu Mengda started acting in movies early, the characters were still relatively "normal", capable of being sad and serious, such as the honest brother of a certain underworld brother who woke up, such as the father of a young rebellious daughter. But after meeting Zhou Xingchi, Wu Mengda became more and more "wretched".

Since the memory of Wu Mengda, starting from "Gambling Saint", Zhou Xingchi was in charge of nonsense, and Wu Mengda was in charge of setting off nonsense, one was pretending to be stupid, and the other was really stupid. Maybe the impression left on the audience of the post-80s and post-90s generation will always be a middle-aged uncle who "has a big belly, unshaven beard, and can’t hide his wretched face even if he pretends to be cool", but you must know that Wu Mengda was only in his thirties at that time. In all Zhou Xingchi’s movies, Wu Mengda has only exaggerated and self-humiliating characters, like "Cao Dahua who eats soft rice and eats hard" or "the second leader who fights the cold war on you".

Yes, the more famous and memorable the character, the more obscene.

This is the setting of Wu Mengda, who is hiding by Zhou Xingchi’s side, and he can’t get rid of it, and he can’t get rid of it. Even for a while, in the mid-1990s, Wu Mengda went to Taiwan to play a few "pseudo-male protagonists" like "Oolong Yuan" and made fun of movies. Among them, jumping around, exaggerating surprise or making a fool of himself still made people feel like "Oh, Zhou Xingchi is not filming anymore, Wu Mengda came out to get some extra money…"

For Wu Mengda, who was born in 1953, from 1973 to the present, he has starred in 95 TV dramas, 149 movies, and a total of about 244 film and television works. From the perspective of an ordinary audience, he should be a veritable invisible actor in the Chinese celebrity circle. Just think carefully, in the word "star", whether it is Zhou Xingchi who made him or imprisoned him.

Yes, he can’t change anything except comedy and lewdness.

Many years ago, Song Dandan told reporters in an interview that after she became famous, she said a line on stage during the play "Thunderstorm". The lines were very ordinary, but the audience laughed loudly. She said that she was very sad at the time, and she felt that the impression she left on the audience had been finalized. She was a comedian, or… a "clown."

Presumably, Wu Mengda would also have this feeling in his heart.

If you don’t believe me, look at the few movies and TV dramas he shot in the mainland after "flying solo". No matter the ancient costume is modern, the expression on his eyebrows can never get rid of the thick "trace" when he was the supporting role of Lord Xing. Presumably, even Zhou Xingchi himself did not realize that when the two of them came out together to "fish the world" 30 years ago, his old partner was destined to live in the world of "Uncle Da".

Wu Mengda has always been with Zhou Xingchi. He seems to be always accompanying Zhou Xingchi like a joke to make us laugh. Even when "flying solo" comes out, people still look at him to film, "Yes, yes, this person is Zhou Xingchi’s supporting role, how many years have you been playing…"

With the identity of Star Lord’s "Protector", Wu Mengda can continue to act, and others also know about his "brilliant green leaf career"; but if there is no identity of Star Lord’s "Protector", Wu Mengda may have disappeared from everyone as early as 20 or 30 years ago, right?

Who knows?

I saw a few news reports a while ago, all of which reported the current situation of the former Hong Kong Green Leaf actor. It was either because he couldn’t get a play and went to deliver takeout or he was seriously ill and lived on a subsistence allowance in bed. Looking at Wu Mengda, it was already very good.

Wu Mengda once said of his feelings about making "The Wandering Earth," he said: "It is worth having the opportunity to make this kind of film in my lifetime, and it will leave a page in the history of Chinese cinema."

This is not so much the humility and pride of an actor as the feeling of living in the shadow of others for a lifetime.

At least during that time of wandering, Wu Mengda was Wu Mengda.

It is difficult to follow each other for half a lifetime, and the green leaves are always lined with safflower.

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Overall score: 64 points(One star represents 4 points out of 100)

　"Review" proposal:

Perhaps in this life, Wu Mengda will always be the shadow of others, but as an audience, those once classic works are also truly left in the history of Chinese film. Whether it is green leaves or red flowers, after a few years, who can deny the footsteps of an actor?

(This evaluation was agreed upon by six great gods, including "Overbearing Little Tangyuan", "Roaring Short Legs", "Cool Zhou Zhou", "Milk Tea Not Bobo", and "Xiao Han Has a Big Dream".)