Miserable! Li Chen's new film has a box office of less than 200,000 in a single day, and he and Deng Chao have been harmed by variety shows

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There is no worst, only worse.

Deng Chao directed + starring in the movie "Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back" was released for 17 days, the arrangement of the film is getting worse and worse, the box office still failed to break 100 million, the online investment is 300 million, the current box office, doomed to blood loss.

Now, Deng Chao has a difficult brother, Li Chen.

These two are both male actors who have frequently appeared on variety shows in recent years, one is "tired of logging" and the other is "big black bull", which is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which is enough to show how popular their variety shows have been.

But too often on variety shows, so that the mystery of the actors themselves disappears, so that more audiences can see them, it is easy to substitute their variety show image in the first place.

The fire of variety shows has become a double-edged sword. This weakened the identity of the actors, and they were affected by going to variety shows too often.

When Deng Chao's "Chinese Table Tennis" failed, this impact was emerging and amplified, and the release of the new film "Wasteland" starring Li Chen this time seems to confirm this once again.

The new film "Wasteland" starring Ren Suxi and Li Chen was released on March 3, and in the first weekend for 3 days, the arrangement was already worse than "Chinese Table Tennis", the total box office in 3 days of release was only a little more than one million, and the single-day box office on the third day of release was less than 200,000!

You know, Li Chen is currently an actor who starred in movies with a cumulative box office of nearly 18 billion, and he is among the top ten in the Chinese mainland personal box office list, currently ranked 7th, and he is in front of Huang Bo and Liu Haoran.

Li Chen has participated in starring in many high-reputation and high-box office movies, including "Eight Hundred", "My Hometown and Me", "Chinese Doctor", and the more recent ones include "Changjin Lake", "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" and "Ten Thousand Miles Home".

Li Chen has some acting skills, ideas and pursuits, from "Don't Cry at the Age of Seventeen" when he was a teenager, to starring in "Soldier Assault", "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", "Rally", "Life and Death Line", "Straw Hat Police", "Goodfellas", etc., they are still masterpieces in the audience's mouth.

But later, Li Chen fell in love with female stars, and Li Chen became a "big black bull" on variety shows, gradually changing from an actor to a news star, and living more in entertainment gossip news.

Later, after the failure of the movie "Sky Hunt" directed and starring Li Chen, there was no more word-of-mouth work starring him, and now, he has played more bright supporting roles.

Speaking of which, Li Chen's starting line has an advantage over Zhang Yi and Liao Fan, who he has worked with, but now the latter two are already movie stars, and Chen Sicheng is also a famous director and producer, but Li Chen has regressed: in the entertainment industry, if you do not progress, you will be caught up, which is equivalent to regression.

Li Chen, when was he surpassed by Zhang Yi?

This new film "Wasteland", although Li Chen is the "male protagonist", but really speaking, this is a female adventure movie mainly supported by the heroine Ren Suxi alone.

"Wasteland" tells the story of the jungle (played by Ren Suxi) in his early thirties, and his brother Cong Lai (played by Li Chen) on another Gobi "search journey", and as a result, he was pushed to a desperate situation by a sandstorm: on the way, his brother was seriously injured, and the jungle had to go forward alone to find a glimmer of life for the two lives...

It is a pity that the theme of this film is niche, and although the themes and ideas of filming are good, the director's ability to control such themes is weak, resulting in the film having skin and flesh, and the level is average.

In addition, Li Chen's sense of existence in the movie "Wasteland" is not strong, and he, an actor who is used to being funny in TV variety shows, suddenly wants to be serious and literary on the big screen, even if the equipment of the wasteland riding is put on, it is still not attractive to the audience.

Ren Suxi's female wasteland adventure story on the big screen supported by Ren Suxi alone, some of the adventure details in the film are not rigorous, cannot withstand scrutiny, and the sense of substitution is not strong.

Various problems have led to the reputation of the film "Wasteland", and the arrangement of films has naturally been affected.

Of course, the problem of this movie is not mainly Li Chen's problem, but it is an indisputable fact that he has gradually fallen from the camp of the big male protagonist in recent years after he appeared on variety shows.

The energy has been spent on variety shows, and Li Chen's previous vigor in film and television films has become weaker and weaker, and I don't know if he is aware of this problem.

But now, if he still wants to be in the camp of the big male protagonist, Li Chen must be more focused, and he should also have realized that the consumption of actors by variety shows themselves is emerging.

Li Chen should understand that he was not surpassed by Zhang Yi or some other actor, but by his own choice.

If you want to be a good actor, you must have a trade-off, otherwise, it is easy to be eaten back.

Li Chen, it's time to make a choice.