The Spring Festival file is over, the box office war of the Spring Festival movie is still continuing, "The Water Gate Bridge of Chosin Lake" continues to ride the dust, and the trend of the big "dark horse" "This Killer Is Not Calm" (hereinafter referred to as "The Killer") is also firm.
As of press time, the box office of "Killer" has exceeded the 1.8 billion mark, and the total box office conservative forecast can also challenge the volume of 2.5 billion, which is a very bright performance for a "no flow" small-cost comedy.
Because of the double harvest of the popularity and box office of "Killer", the two leading actors Ma Li and Wei Xiang also became the first wave of celebrities in the opening year of the 2022 big screen, and the happy twist royal supporting role Wei Xiang completed his professional counterattack.
The first "10 billion box office ladies" in China, Ma Li came later
Earlier when the media took stock of the members of the "10 billion box office club", some netizens found that the list was basically occupied by tough guys, before 2022, the "10 billion box office club" had more than 20 male artists, but the female artists only had a widow.
In the domestic female artist box office is more in a state of disconnection, who can become the first "10 billion box office lady"? This topic is widely discussed, and among the original candidates, Bai Baihe and Zhou Dongyu are the two hottest.
Bai Baihe opened the chick movie boom, made a very good warm-up before the domestic film box office explosion, and her big screen audience was very good, accumulating billions of box office capital early.
But unfortunately, Bai Baihe's follow-up works always owe some luck, and there has been no blockbuster for more than three years, coupled with the fact that she is not very popular with commercial blockbusters in recent years, the total box office performance has been stuck at a key node and has not been able to break through.
"Girl Scout" Zhou Dongyu found a new breakthrough from another style of "Little Chick" works, successively contributing "July and Ansheng" and "Young You", and the big screen results became more and more eye-catching, once surpassing Bai Baihe.
But just when the audience speculated about who could step into the 10 billion club first, Ma Li let the public see what is really "coming later", and there was almost no topic warm-up, she added a touch of red to the 10 billion club.
Objectively speaking, among the actresses with a total box office of nearly 10 billion, Ma Li was the most "ordinary" one in development, and there was no escort from the top big director when she debuted, nor did she have the luck of the explosive script.
Her achievements are more accumulated, and she has survived more than ten years of development with the Happy Twist team, and has continuously honed her acting skills through multiple platforms, and finally ushered in a qualitative change in her career with the team.
But if you carefully compare the total box office composition of the three top-notch actresses, you will find that all three have a commonality, with their own areas of expertise and competitiveness, such as Bai Baihe in chick movies, and Zhou Dongyu in youth themes.
And Ma Li has become the absolute chip of "ten billion box office ladies", or the comedy she has studied for many years, from drama, sketch stage to big screen, from happy twist heroine to movie heroine Ma Li, every step is very solid.
From Shen Teng's best partner, to the "Queen of Comedy" Ma Li
Before the Happy Twist team became the word-of-mouth guarantee of the comedy industry, Ma Li and Shen Teng have always been complementary to each other, they are good partners on the drama stage, and they are also the perfect combination of the sketch stage.
One can switch between "Mary in Taipei" and "Ma Li in Northeast China", and one can make "Hao Jian" and "innocence" blend together, as long as they appear in the same frame, they can bring unlimited laughter to the audience.
When happy twist marched from the stage to the big screen, "one brother" Shen Teng and "one sister" Ma Li also perfectly provoked the beam, ushering in the big explosion of "Charlotte Troubles", but then Ma Li's development also appeared some bottlenecks.
From the current situation of more men and fewer women in the 10 billion box office club, it can be found that the current big screen theme male artists have significantly more room to play, and the same is true for comedies, even if the happy twist movie is mostly the male protagonist's counterattack perspective.
Actresses want to pick the beam alone in comedy films, often need to self-direct and self-act like Jia Ling, in order to meet "Hello, Li Huanying", the focus of the script and the difference in resources, once let Ma Li and the old partner Shen Teng open the gap.
When Shen Teng continues to expand his cooperative team and drama with blockbusters such as "Flying Life" and "Crazy Alien", Ma Li still needs to grasp tv dramas and movies with both hands, and slowly wait for opportunities in small production comedies.
Happy Twist's fourth movie "The Richest Man in Xihong" replaces the heroine with Taiwanese artist Song Yunhua, which is very realistic, even if many details of this movie correspond to "Charlotte Troubles", the original heroine is still ignored.
But Ma Li was not worn away by the environment, there was no top comedy resources, so she tried to find a good script to strive for breakthrough space, and her partner slowly became Pan Yueming, Chang Yuan, Allen, Wei Xiang...
Today, Ma Li is still the most recognized presence among the actresses shen teng cooperates with, with her help, Shen Teng can do more with less, and at the same time, she is a comedy queen who can stand alone.
In the warm-up stage of "This Killer Is Not Too Calm", the influence of the elderly "newcomer" male protagonist Wei Xiang is basically limited to twist fans, and most of the breakthroughs in the national popularity of the film rely on the female protagonist Ma Li to guarantee the bottom.
Coming to the work, Ma Li can always maintain her own comedy queen level in various stories, objectively speaking, the heroine's role in "This Killer Is Not Calm" is not full, but Ma Li is full of laughter.
Whether it's the line reversal "What about chopsticks?" ", or the stylized performance of the actress and the female man switching back and forth, she has been quite in place, as long as she encounters a qualified script, she can always create a box office dark horse achievement.
This is also the key to Ma Li's becoming the first "10 billion box office lady" in China with the weakest resources, even if she encounters a "bad film" with a poor reputation, the audience will only sigh that "good actors have no good resources".
Because, Ma Li's excellent performance has never dragged her feet from the work, and she has not lost her due standard because of the bad work, and the queen of comedy will not be shaken by her, whether it is a bad film or a good work.
The fate of the play inside and outside the play, an excellent actress
There is a very wonderful fate between the movie "Killer" and the actor, the male protagonist Wei's successful career path is full of the shadow of the actor Wei Xiang, and the female protagonist Milan also has a line that is very close to Ma Li: I am an actor.
There are not many shots in the story to show Milan's acting talent, but through many details, she hints at her professionalism and efforts, such as not recognizing Wei's successful acting skills but recognizing Wei's successful efforts, and always maintaining the best photogenic state.
Ma Li outside the play has a different life direction than Milan in the play, but for the job of an actor, she has the same obsession, to be an excellent actor, not a sought after female star.
She strives to cultivate the comedy films she is good at, and at the same time, she strives to find a breakthrough in the drama road like the old partner Shen Teng, and the strong woman Han Xiao of "Call Crazy" and mei ling, the wife of "Siberian Tiger", are very different from her past image.
Wu Qinghong, the short track speed skating coach she made a cameo appearance in the TV series "Beyond", won a large number of audiences with her grounded older generation of teachers, she is good at "laughing", but she does not rely too much on her own successful strengths.
She can also make the audience "cry", let the audience be pulled by the complex experience of the character, can easily control commercial comedy, but also challenge the rarely tried black humor, the queen of comedy This road, let her out of the multi-color.
The arrival of "Killer" allows this actress who is more and more diverse in the drama to get the moment of qualitative change in her achievements, and I believe that the good actor Ma Li will also usher in the batch qualitative change moment of the reputation of the work in the future, giving the audience more surprises.