2021 is coming to an end, looking back at the few film and television markets with good films this year, we can't help but have higher expectations for the upcoming New Year and Spring Festival stalls. The most popular of these two slots is no comedy, which has to mention the "one brother" and "one sister" Shen Teng and Ma Li in the comedy industry.
Shen Tengmali's "Shen Ma Group" is well known for playing a sketch in the Spring Festival Gala, and then the two partnered to play "Charlotte Troubles", and the two also became explosive screen partners at the same time as the movie was a big hit. The number of years of acquaintance and cooperation is even more innumerable, because the tacit understanding between the two has also brought everyone the impression that the production of "Shen Ma Combination" must be a fine product.
Previously, "Charlotte Troubles" swept the domestic film box office in 2015 with a posture of 1.445 billion dark horses, with a number of protagonists and supporting roles in the red film. Later, "Shy Iron Fist" was not willing to show weakness with 2.2 billion, becoming the sixth film in film history to break 2 billion box office after "Wolf Warrior 2". The careers of Ma Li and Shen Teng soared to the sky and became first-line comedy masters.
The movie audience of the two partners is also very popular, but in recent years, the two have successively started a family and have children, and their careers have gradually separated because of suspicion. Shen Teng has a new partner Jia Ling, his career is booming, although because of being pulled around by many friends' movies, the reputation has declined, but the overall situation is good.
And Ma Li was not so lucky, it can be seen that she left Shen Teng in order to prove that she shot a lot of works, but the quality is not up to standard, and none of them are spared from all the street.
"Caller" 641 million, 5.8 points
Remade from the original Italian version of "Perfect Stranger", the original work is a suspense work that focuses on tension, and "Caller" has changed it to a comedy. The originally profound theme was unfortunately out of control when it was dramatized, and although it became the box office champion in the month of release, the Douban score was only 5.8 points.
"Sunshine Robber" 43.741 million, 3.7 points
Adapted from Kotaro Isaka's "Sunshine Robber" series of novels, the story itself is very fanciful, and can even be said to be an urban fairy tale. This is also the fatal injury of "Sunshine Robber": there is no core emotional value core, and several actors are not very powerful, the rhythm is dragging out the performance, and the final Douban score is 3.7 points.
"Fortune Diary" online movie, 5.8 points
Participating in the comedy film "Diary of Fortune" directed by Song Xiaobao finally "fell" to become a big online movie, and the evaluation was even worse. The comedy sections designed throughout the film are mostly rotten, and the shooting method is more streamlined, not to mention the sparse editing. Many netizens joked that it could be renamed "Song Xiaobao's Travels in Shenzhen", and the lead actor Ma Li was more like a comedian to punch the clock.
"The Liar Detector" box office 27.882 million, Douban 2.8 points,
The "Lie Detector" released in August was even more disappointing, setting a minimum score of 2.8 points for Ma Li's career works, almost close to the lower limit of domestic bad films. Comedy is not like comedy, there is no burden to the plot and no more, the whole process is awkward.
Instead, in recent years, "My Hometown and Me" with Shen Teng has a box office of 2.829 billion, a Douban score of 7.0, "My Father and Me" 1.476 billion box office, a Douban score of 6.9, "Warm Hugs" 864 million box office, and a Douban score of 5.3. Therefore, some netizens commented that Ma Li was unable to walk away from Shen Teng and became a second-rate comedian, which is actually not entirely correct.
Shen Teng and Ma Li began to cooperate in 2005, and more than a decade later, the situation they face to develop separately is completely different. The acceptance of male and female actors in the mainland film and television market itself is different, and the elderly actress Ma Li will fall behind because of her family.
However, looking at the mainland film and television actresses, the most likely to break the box office at present is Zhou Dongyu, Bai Baihe and Ma Li. And Ma Li has three new films released in the New Year file and the Spring Festival file this year, "Li Mao for the Prince", "Super Powerful Family", "This Killer Is Not Calm" Three comedies can bring more box office than Zhou Dongyu's literary and artistic films, so Ma Li will most likely become the first tens of billions of actresses.
At the same time, the happy twist group "Twist Special Happy" will also be launched at the end of the year, and the "Shenma Combination" will also be embodied.
Whether it is the combination of Shen Teng and Ma Li or the heat brought by Ma Li's variety show, it will help the box office of the three films, whether it can turn over the title of "Queen of Bad Films" and get rid of the dilemma of "difficult to walk without Shen Teng", let us wait and see.