Well, for anyone still curious, Wu said: 兄弟 which is "hing dai", which means "brothers" in this context. Hes speaking Cantonese, which is different from Mandarin. Finally figured it out with some help. Lol
That makes so much sense since he kept using Gwelio when talking about white which translates to "ghost man" it's a slur in Cantonese for whites. I wasn't sure if the show just didn't care about accuracy or if Wu was speaking Cantonese always since I really don't speak it or Mandarin.
Deadwood and Rome both got totally hosed. Two of the best shows HBO produced, but I guess since it wasn't the Mafia or fucking vampires people don't want to watch. At least Rome got to finish a complete story and didn't get left hanging like Deadwood even though it got cancelled early. Although they were forced to time jump in the second season, knowing it would be the last. There WOULD have been a Deadwood season 4 as HBO offered the creator the opportunity to close it out with a shortened 4th season, but I guess he refused. The Deadwood movie which came out in 2019 was okay. I do have to give all the actors credit for not missing a beat with these characters after all that time. Not a one of the actors seemed off their game for their character in that movie.
Nah he was great but defo not the best performance ever, James Gandolfini as tony soprano, Bryan Cranston as walter white, Antony Star as homelander, all are good amount better acting performances and those are just off top of my head there are more that are better.
It was a real departure from my being a fan of McShane when he played a loveable but opportunistic antiques dealer in the British show "Lovejoy." I wanted to live a life like that character had. Then I get the shock of my life seeing him in Deadwood as a cut throat devil. Either way he commands the screen. That change in his eyes in the closing seconds of this clip!
Same. The reaction from Al at 2:05 after he’s dismissive of Wu’s theatrics, but then realises the gravity of how dead serious Wu is.. and reciprocates.
I used to live out in the sticks... no internet, I had to buy all the shows I wanted to watch on DVD (with real money, too) Deadwood and Breaking Bad, both as well as a few dozen other shows, some of them weren't too bad either.
ANYBODY NOTICE THAT WHEN THEY CAST ASIANS PARTICULARLY ASIAN MALES THE ALWAYS GO THE STEREOTYPE ROUTE YET WHEN THEY CAST WHT AND BLK THEY GET THE 1% OF THEIR TALLEST BEST LOOKING? THE AVG HEIGHT OF WHTES IN THE DAY WERE LIKE 5'7 AND SCRAWNEY. HELL IN 2010 THEYRE 5'10 AND OBESE. COME ON NOW....THEY AINT TRYING TO CAST NO FUG LOOKING STEREOTYPE ASIAN WOMEN WHEN THEY PAIR THEM UP WITH WHTS. STILL RACIST.
It was awesome when Al dispatched Johnny, Silas, and Dan wearing masks to assassinate the Tong on Wu's behalf. Wu shows up under Al's balcony and cuts off his hair stating "Wu, American." Al moved says "And she will clutch you to her bosom."
"Wu...big man"....ad he swaggers off. Henry Lin was just brilliant as Wu. This is imo the best series I have ever watched and geez there are so many others, 'Shield' 'The Wire', 'Justified', 'NYPD' etc. But what is so special about "Deadwood" was the story was predicated for the most part on heavily sourced facts, while fictional characters were also blended in. The acting from the actors is just mind blowing, William Sanderson's EB, another legend 'Doc' [Brad Dourif], you had one of the greatest family names brothers [Keith Carradine] who played 'Wild Bill Hickock', a actress who got het first real big break in 'Calamity Jane' [Robin Weirgert], Paula Malcolson as 'Trixie', Jeffrey Jones as 'Merrick' was hilarious, Titus Welliver also amazing as 'Adams', who could not return for the 2029 movie due to "Bosch" filming commitments, John Hawkes as "Sol", W.Earl Brown as the knife wielding "Dan Dority" and so on and on. Timothy Olyphant who when playing Raylan on 'Justified' was extremely gracious to bring back several actors to play guest roles, 'Dan', 'Harry Manning', the entire set of actors bonded to that degree. David Milch is arguably THE greatest writer in US history. Just look at the shows he cut his teeth on at a very early age. Deadwood exists in the Black Hills, and annexed as the show shows to South Dakota, there's plenty of gold in them there hills, and with no George Hurst, another character who is real, to threaten people. The television movie should have gone for 2 hours, SO many loose ends, and another brilliant actor made a re appearance at the end identified as "I'll tear your head clean off". Ian M is one of the best actors I have seen. His flexibility as an actor is akin to Streep, Denzel, and Judy Dench. Deadwood part 3? Sadly no. David Milch has been struck down with the truly insidious Parkinson disease, which will slowly rob this magic story teller of the incalculable gifts he has. But what a legacy he will leave. "Shwengen", and Wu's pigs will be no more. Deadwood is one of if not the most popular tourist destination in all of America. The town burned down twice, and the original Hotel Seth Bullock and Sol Starr built still stands, and as an aside it was one of if not the first Hotels in the spreading out US that had flushable toilets and water to every room via piping. I have never been there but on my 'bucket list' it is at the very top. And yes all - there STILL is gold in them there hills. Plenty of gold that has not to date been found.The scene between Al and Wu when Al is trying to find out 'who' stole Wu's opium couriers dope is one of the funniest pieces of acting I personally have ever scene...Al "who stole the fucking dop"? Who "who"? Al "who....who stole it you ignorant fuck"....PC and WOKE 'Deadwood' is not nor should it be. This s how everyone spoke to each other back then, it is part of our history, are their racial comments made absolutely, however this is how society operated at the time. To erase all of this in the claimed name of appeasing and 'righting previous injustices' is sickening as are tearing down Confederate and Founding Father statues. And in response 'Deadwood' was a ratings hit with the key demographics, and this should send a shudder up the mad left's social engineering agenda. Americans just want to be entertained, to laugh and enjoy what is an escape. DC, corporate America and the radical Democrats still turn up their noses, and in doing so it is 'them' who are on the wrong end of how Americans see themselves. This series remains epic. Try getting a pilot episode green light on 'Deadwood' series in 2021. Impossible.
Wu was played by Keone Young , I actually met him he is a super nice guy, we actually took a picture together doing the Hang dai sign. the rest of your post is spot on.
Back in those days when a Chinese call you a hengdai (brother), they actually mean it. They see you as a family member and will risk their lives for you. It's carried way more weight than a "bro" in modern English.
No one saw at the close of the scene when Sweringan barked at the prostitutes about the passed out guy, when the girls contest it with rock-paper-scissors, to see whom would get him. this is all going on in the background, out of focus, or the seam closes with a high resolution close-up of Sweringan's face. Brilliant cinematography.
I wish a native speaker would clear this up... To me, it looks like Wu is saying something like "hang gai". I suppose it could be "dai" and maybe the dubbing just looks off(Wu also doesn't speak with traditional Mandarin tones), but there are no words in the Mandarin dictionaries I can find that says this means "brothers". It for sure is implied that hes saying they're tight, or they are in this together now, but it would be nice to know exactly what he said.
@Frank CastleThat makes a lot more sense. Some similarities, but not at all the same. Problem is I can understand other stuff he says(Mandarin), and when he drew that map in one of the episodes I recognized the Mandarin characters he was using. I guess it's possible they didn't keep his language consistent either.
@@funisfan90 Ahhh thank you! Makes sense. They aren't really clear whether Mr.Wu speaks Mandarin or Cantonese, and I know there are clear differences. Thnx 🤙🏾
My favorite part of the series was one time Wu was going on about somebody from San Francisco and he was a cocksucker. Sweringan just goes yea yea, San Francisco..cocksucker..I got it 😂😂
Penultimate episode of the series, excluding the movie of course. Episode 11, Season 3. It happens near after a certain shocking death of a much loved member of Deadwood.
@@danielmcmahon7993 there were three seasons I think and a movie. The movie wasn’t written by the creator entirely because he had dementia. Many people consider the film to be poorly written as a result. Also calm down.
Henry Lin nailed Wu so brilliantly. "Wu......big man" as he swaggers down the rear of the Gem. The language Milch used, there is NO way in hell in 2023 ANY major studio or streaming service would go near this dialogue with a 10 foot pole - yet the language the brilliant Milch used remains a FACT of the times. How can we learn from history, how the Chinese for example were paid less than blacks building the Transcontinental railroad? The brilliant 'Hell on Wheels' exposed, showed all these facts.That so many were used as cannon fodder in the mines and blown to pieces - 'Deadwood' imo, with 'Hell on Wheels' are two of the most consequential series of the modern era in terms of their storylines and the dialogue used. The left tearing down the statues of brilliant Confederate Officers, Nikky Haley approving her State remove the State Flag that had in the corner the Confederate BATTLE FLAG? Haley is typical of the sop RINO establishment that has run America into the ground. Series like the above examples remind us all, the good, the bad and pardon the pun ugly of America's expansion west.
The relationship between Wu and sweringan is awesome. Always loved how Wu could read Sweringan like a book and vice versa.
Well, for anyone still curious, Wu said: 兄弟 which is "hing dai", which means "brothers" in this context. Hes speaking Cantonese, which is different from Mandarin. Finally figured it out with some help. Lol
@Jim Vaughn Well, that's creepy, isn't it? Nothing says narcissist louder than trying to repress your original heritage!!!
Wow ! Yo this means so much more when he says it he actually will go to war for Al
That makes so much sense since he kept using Gwelio when talking about white which translates to "ghost man" it's a slur in Cantonese for whites. I wasn't sure if the show just didn't care about accuracy or if Wu was speaking Cantonese always since I really don't speak it or Mandarin.
Thought it meant stronger together
That is powerful. Although I also find it powerful when Swea'gen kill cocksuckah! Sorry, just had to go there.
Ian McShane in Deadwood is THE best acting anyone ever did. Shame it was only 3 seasons worth
Deadwood and Rome both got totally hosed. Two of the best shows HBO produced, but I guess since it wasn't the Mafia or fucking vampires people don't want to watch.
At least Rome got to finish a complete story and didn't get left hanging like Deadwood even though it got cancelled early. Although they were forced to time jump in the second season, knowing it would be the last.
There WOULD have been a Deadwood season 4 as HBO offered the creator the opportunity to close it out with a shortened 4th season, but I guess he refused. The Deadwood movie which came out in 2019 was okay. I do have to give all the actors credit for not missing a beat with these characters after all that time. Not a one of the actors seemed off their game for their character in that movie.
@@tsdobbiThe actor who plays A.W. Merrick got busted as a pedophile too. That might have something to do with its cancellation as well.
Nah he was great but defo not the best performance ever, James Gandolfini as tony soprano, Bryan Cranston as walter white, Antony Star as homelander, all are good amount better acting performances and those are just off top of my head there are more that are better.
It was a real departure from my being a fan of McShane when he played a loveable but opportunistic antiques dealer in the British show "Lovejoy." I wanted to live a life like that character had. Then I get the shock of my life seeing him in Deadwood as a cut throat devil. Either way he commands the screen. That change in his eyes in the closing seconds of this clip!
PUH leeze.@@arturssudmalis5741
2:24 "Big man. Wu, big man." Lol he gives the most perfect, little grunt between the two sentences as well.
Funnier when he say "TEN DAYS SWEGGEN"!!!!
Never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
The conviction between these two brothers was commendable.
Amen
Same. The reaction from Al at 2:05 after he’s dismissive of Wu’s theatrics, but then realises the gravity of how dead serious Wu is.. and reciprocates.
Did we freaking come here for justice or did we come to find our way?......I love Wu/Swegin dynamic
"Swearengen's" deep weariness at having to be become an honorary triad blood brother with Wu just makes this scene.
I actually BOUGHT (with money!) the dvd set after already watching it. Damn was it a good show...
@@jrayv and Breaking Bad which gets a slight nose ahead of Deadwood for best ever.
I used to live out in the sticks... no internet, I had to buy all the shows I wanted to watch on DVD (with real money, too)
Deadwood and Breaking Bad, both as well as a few dozen other shows, some of them weren't too bad either.
Gave 100 bucks for the 3 season series on blue ray.
Money well spent.
Swegen’s bow to Wu gets me every time.
You could really feel the love in that "Hang dai. Hang dai, f'n Wu".
I never noticed the rock-paper-scissors moment at the end of the scene before.
Hang dai ...indeed ...best damn series ever...❤
God bless you sir. I’ve been looking all over for this scene.
ANYBODY NOTICE THAT WHEN THEY CAST ASIANS PARTICULARLY ASIAN MALES THE ALWAYS GO THE STEREOTYPE ROUTE YET WHEN THEY CAST WHT AND BLK THEY GET THE 1% OF THEIR TALLEST BEST LOOKING? THE AVG HEIGHT OF WHTES IN THE DAY WERE LIKE 5'7 AND SCRAWNEY. HELL IN 2010 THEYRE 5'10 AND OBESE. COME ON NOW....THEY AINT TRYING TO CAST NO FUG LOOKING STEREOTYPE ASIAN WOMEN WHEN THEY PAIR THEM UP WITH WHTS. STILL RACIST.
@@VOLCAL Did you post this stupid comment on every deadwood video on youtube? Lmao.
@@jacobrogers2906
A COUPLE OF THEM.
This is the best show ever made
That first, contemplative “Wu”, from Wu, is brilliant
Sooo... You need Wu eh?
Gotta love Mr.Woo,his interactions with Al are gold.
lmaooo, just when Al bows his head as a sign of their " Hang Dai" 🤣🤣🤣
He's respectful :)
So, the girls are playing "once, twice, three, shoot" to see who bangs or robs drunky? Love it.
One of the best scenes of Deadwood - "Heng Dai!"
I love their relationship. Mutual respect and a sense of getting shit done.
One hundled-fifty-chung-ko-cockucha! Kills me everytime
I0 day swedgin!!
Hes saying "zhong guo", (pronounced like jong go-ah) it means Chinese.
@@in_vas_por8810 He speaks Cantonese (Yue), so it's zung1 gwok3. Same word, similar but not same pronunciation.
@@rfmerrill Ahh icic, thanks. 🤙🏾
I always imagined what it was like when Wu learned enough English to know that "cocksucker" doesn't mean "man".
It was awesome when Al dispatched Johnny, Silas, and Dan wearing masks to assassinate the Tong on Wu's behalf. Wu shows up under Al's balcony and cuts off his hair stating "Wu, American." Al moved says "And she will clutch you to her bosom."
"Wu...big man"....ad he swaggers off. Henry Lin was just brilliant as Wu. This is imo the best series I have ever watched and geez there are so many others, 'Shield' 'The Wire', 'Justified', 'NYPD' etc. But what is so special about "Deadwood" was the story was predicated for the most part on heavily sourced facts, while fictional characters were also blended in. The acting from the actors is just mind blowing, William Sanderson's EB, another legend 'Doc' [Brad Dourif], you had one of the greatest family names brothers [Keith Carradine] who played 'Wild Bill Hickock', a actress who got het first real big break in 'Calamity Jane' [Robin Weirgert], Paula Malcolson as 'Trixie', Jeffrey Jones as 'Merrick' was hilarious, Titus Welliver also amazing as 'Adams', who could not return for the 2029 movie due to "Bosch" filming commitments, John Hawkes as "Sol", W.Earl Brown as the knife wielding "Dan Dority" and so on and on. Timothy Olyphant who when playing Raylan on 'Justified' was extremely gracious to bring back several actors to play guest roles, 'Dan', 'Harry Manning', the entire set of actors bonded to that degree. David Milch is arguably THE greatest writer in US history. Just look at the shows he cut his teeth on at a very early age. Deadwood exists in the Black Hills, and annexed as the show shows to South Dakota, there's plenty of gold in them there hills, and with no George Hurst, another character who is real, to threaten people. The television movie should have gone for 2 hours, SO many loose ends, and another brilliant actor made a re appearance at the end identified as "I'll tear your head clean off". Ian M is one of the best actors I have seen. His flexibility as an actor is akin to Streep, Denzel, and Judy Dench. Deadwood part 3? Sadly no. David Milch has been struck down with the truly insidious Parkinson disease, which will slowly rob this magic story teller of the incalculable gifts he has. But what a legacy he will leave. "Shwengen", and Wu's pigs will be no more.
Deadwood is one of if not the most popular tourist destination in all of America. The town burned down twice, and the original Hotel Seth Bullock and Sol Starr built still stands, and as an aside it was one of if not the first Hotels in the spreading out US that had flushable toilets and water to every room via piping. I have never been there but on my 'bucket list' it is at the very top. And yes all - there STILL is gold in them there hills. Plenty of gold that has not to date been found.The scene between Al and Wu when Al is trying to find out 'who' stole Wu's opium couriers dope is one of the funniest pieces of acting I personally have ever scene...Al "who stole the fucking dop"? Who "who"? Al "who....who stole it you ignorant fuck"....PC and WOKE 'Deadwood' is not nor should it be. This s how everyone spoke to each other back then, it is part of our history, are their racial comments made absolutely, however this is how society operated at the time. To erase all of this in the claimed name of appeasing and 'righting previous injustices' is sickening as are tearing down Confederate and Founding Father statues. And in response 'Deadwood' was a ratings hit with the key demographics, and this should send a shudder up the mad left's social engineering agenda. Americans just want to be entertained, to laugh and enjoy what is an escape. DC, corporate America and the radical Democrats still turn up their noses, and in doing so it is 'them' who are on the wrong end of how Americans see themselves. This series remains epic. Try getting a pilot episode green light on 'Deadwood' series in 2021. Impossible.
Wu was played by Keone Young , I actually met him he is a super nice guy, we actually took a picture together doing the Hang dai sign. the rest of your post is spot on.
Always happy to see another “Shield” respecter.
Al Swear Engine-funniest fuckin YT name ever, lol
@@JoeSmith-dl9ok yes
@@sergiomartineziglesias5673 i have his autograph complete with "San Francisco cocksucka"
*HANG DAI* , FUCKIN WU!!! === THE BEST ANSWER EVER.
Best thing ive seen in many a long year
Back in those days when a Chinese call you a hengdai (brother), they actually mean it. They see you as a family member and will risk their lives for you. It's carried way more weight than a "bro" in modern English.
"Bro" is just surfer slang--but if you start hearing "brother" then you should probably pay attention.
0:24 ending racism with sexism
That made me snicker; thanks for the memory🤘
Heng-dei. Fkn Wu. 🤞🏻
2:20 “Wu big man!” 😂😂
Thank you so much....the best part is when he drops to his knees!
I love Wu - is he cool or what?
Wu big man!
Why does what Al says to his “employees” before he goes in with Wu make me chuckle?
Because even though in those times the Chinese were seen as "less than", Al treated him as a boss and demanded he be respected in his place.
@@pjg19751 as much as can be... Wu still has to use the backdoor
I love Mr Wu
I concluded that "hang die" means, "together through adversity", definitely NOT "brothers".
Would make more sense I guess, I'm taking it like it is, probably something in between, maybe
Poor guy named Dai, he never hurt nobody.
No one saw at the close of the scene when Sweringan barked at the prostitutes about the passed out guy, when the girls contest it with rock-paper-scissors, to see whom would get him. this is all going on in the background, out of focus, or the seam closes with a high resolution close-up of Sweringan's face. Brilliant cinematography.
So good.
Wu's my favorite
I am 48 and still a tiny bit angry. The movie.....🙁 and speaking of Uncle Al, he's STILL a bad-ass🤘
Deadwood was excellent. Now, open up some fn peaches!
The funniest part of that scene was the girls doing rock, paper, scissors in the background.
"Hangdai" = brothers
Woo swearengen Hang Dai
Yumi: “Kaz, have you been eating paste again!?”
Heng dai means brothers
i want to be like al swerengen when i grow up
10 day swiggin!
Wu: Big Man!
Hen Dei means "Brothers" in Cantonese.
Who's Dai? And why did they hang him?
Al looks like my old dealer before I got my medical care 🤣
GREAT series but to short.............. C S
Movie is pretty clutch though
I wish a native speaker would clear this up... To me, it looks like Wu is saying something like "hang gai". I suppose it could be "dai" and maybe the dubbing just looks off(Wu also doesn't speak with traditional Mandarin tones), but there are no words in the Mandarin dictionaries I can find that says this means "brothers". It for sure is implied that hes saying they're tight, or they are in this together now, but it would be nice to know exactly what he said.
@Frank CastleThat makes a lot more sense. Some similarities, but not at all the same. Problem is I can understand other stuff he says(Mandarin), and when he drew that map in one of the episodes I recognized the Mandarin characters he was using. I guess it's possible they didn't keep his language consistent either.
@Frank Castle Thanks for the input cause I'm learning Mandarin and it kinda bothers me wondering what hes saying and how accurate it is 😂
@@in_vas_por8810 late to the party and I am a Mandarin speaker. I looked it up on the internet and it is "兄弟" pronounced in Cantonese.
@@funisfan90 Ahhh thank you! Makes sense. They aren't really clear whether Mr.Wu speaks Mandarin or Cantonese, and I know there are clear differences. Thnx 🤙🏾
@@funisfan90 So is it confirmed that Wu speaks Cantonese? I know he keeps saying gweilo which is my only word I know in Cantonese,.
*Mumbles as he counts* TEN DAY SWEDGIN?!
兄弟🤞
My favorite part of the series was one time Wu was going on about somebody from San Francisco and he was a cocksucker. Sweringan just goes yea yea, San Francisco..cocksucker..I got it 😂😂
Thought that was the chubby guy on Pawn Stars.
Al and his shots of whisky - love it.
When does this happen??? I believe i missed it
Yeah. I am also a bit confused. Don’t remember this scene at all.
Penultimate episode of the series, excluding the movie of course. Episode 11, Season 3. It happens near after a certain shocking death of a much loved member of Deadwood.
Tall chick on the right I like!
Hentai was serious business back in them days.
Effing Wu
It always amazes me that the biggest simpleton in the camp Johnny was the only one that could read Wu's sketches. LOL
Who fockun Wu?
Brilliant series but poorly written movie.
its a tv show dumbass
@@danielmcmahon7993 there were three seasons I think and a movie. The movie wasn’t written by the creator entirely because he had dementia. Many people consider the film to be poorly written as a result. Also calm down.
@@danielmcmahon7993 there was a movie released some time after the series finished.
Sadly, it wasn't a patch on the series
Wu is the boss!
Henry Lin nailed Wu so brilliantly. "Wu......big man" as he swaggers down the rear of the Gem. The language Milch used, there is NO way in hell in 2023 ANY major studio or streaming service would go near this dialogue with a 10 foot pole - yet the language the brilliant Milch used remains a FACT of the times.
How can we learn from history, how the Chinese for example were paid less than blacks building the Transcontinental railroad? The brilliant 'Hell on Wheels' exposed, showed all these facts.That so many were used as cannon fodder in the mines and blown to pieces - 'Deadwood' imo, with 'Hell on Wheels' are two of the most consequential series of the modern era in terms of their storylines and the dialogue used.
The left tearing down the statues of brilliant Confederate Officers, Nikky Haley approving her State remove the State Flag that had in the corner the Confederate BATTLE FLAG? Haley is typical of the sop RINO establishment that has run America into the ground.
Series like the above examples remind us all, the good, the bad and pardon the pun ugly of America's expansion west.
Keone Young played Wu you cant even get the guy's name right