From the popularity of "Soldier Assault" to the explosion of the new film "Wasteland", how did Li Chen defeat the audience?

When it comes to Li Chen, a 44-year-old actor in domestic entertainment, what can you think of?

A certain Bingbing's ex-boyfriend? The variety show coffee in "Run Brother"? A member of the "Guardian Angels" in "Ace vs. Ace"?

Although the title is a long list, you are definitely like Sister Yu, and have forgotten his other identity - the powerful actor in "Soldier Assault"!

That's right!

At the end of 2006, a military drama "Soldier Assault" exploded,

Not only became popular Wang Baoqiang who played "Xu Sanduo", Chen Sicheng who played "Chengcai", Zhang Yi who played "Shi Jin", as well as Xing Jiadong who played "Wu Liuyi", and Duan Yihong who played "Yuan Lang".

In fact, there is also Li Chen who plays "Wu Zhe".

Wu Zhe, a high-achieving student who graduated from a college and a proper double master's major, is also a top soldier in the A Brigade.

He has the pride and confidence of a genius, as well as the optimism, enthusiasm and humor of a young man, and has an angular and well-rounded personality.

I have to say that Li Chen integrated Wu Zhe's student temperament and military temperament, and performed a different soldier, which is still fresh in people's memories.

Back then, he was really amazing to me!

After "Life and Death Line" and "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", he also performed well.

However, I didn't expect that in just a few years, Li Chen's popularity and reputation, as well as his acting skills and strength, have declined significantly, just like sitting on a slide and sliding to the end.

Some fans may not be convinced!

They will say, look at the domestic movie box office appeal rankings! In addition to Wu Jing, Zhang Yi, Shen Teng, Huang Bo, Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, Li Chen is already ranked 7th.

In the total box office of domestic entertainment, it can win 17.8 billion results, and this strength is not covered!

Li Chen only needs to act in another film with a box office of 1 billion + to surpass Yi Yangqianxi and Huang Bo.

But, is that really the case? Everyone overestimated him!

Take the new film "Wasteland" that has just been released on March 3, which is enough to prove that Li Chen's current ability to carry films is not strong!

First of all, this film is starring Ren Suxi and Li Chen together, and the director and screenwriter are Zuo Zhiguo.

Although Li Chen is the male number one, the plot introduction and selling point of "Wasteland" are very clear, that is, to use "rare and new female adventure themes" as a gimmick to create a different female image for the Chinese screen.

The publicity point of the crew focused on Ren Suxi alone, saying that "it was an adventure supported by her alone", and the director planned to "restore the most realistic desert scenes and distress situations with the least number of actors and lines." ”

Such a movie theme, such a publicity selling point, you say, does Li Chen still have a sense of existence?

Secondly, Maoyan's real-time box office statistics at 12 o'clock on March 6 showed that "Wasteland" was released for 4 days and the box office was 1.612 million.

With such a low popularity, word of mouth and popularity, how can a "miserable" word be obtained?

It seems that from the explosion of "Soldier Assault" to the cold of the new film "Wasteland", Li Chen has finally lost his audience popularity!

His brilliance and popularity back then, his strength and traffic back then, have become a passing eye.

So, what exactly is the cause of this?

Li Chen, how did he lose his good popularity in the past ten years? And listen to Sister Yu come together!

Investing in movies, the loss is miserable

Life is like a boat against the tide, if you do not advance, you will retreat!

This sentence is also applicable to domestic entertainment stars!

In 2006, Li Chen was only 27 years old, just when he was in full bloom, he was young and handsome, full of spirit and full of energy.

He can study a role hard and carefully hone his acting skills.

Therefore, there is the bold and straightforward taxi driver "Liu Wusu" in the movie "Extreme Rescue"; With the proud, tall, and powerful "dragon article" in the anti-Japanese war drama "Life and Death Line", he died a magnificent and touching "dragon article";

With the urban emotional drama "Beijing Love Story", the honest and generous male protagonist "Wu Di"; with the kind, warm and down-to-earth male protagonist "Liu Wusi" in the center of "Straw Hat Police";

With "Li Mu", who is infatuated and single-minded, wise and brave in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang"; with the witty male protagonist "Long Qianyan" in "Xiucai Meets the Soldier"; There is also the "Weiwen Emperor Cao Pi" in "The Army Division Sima Yi's Army and Division Alliance".

In this way, Li Chen really created a lot of classic characters back then.

But the big popularity is from 2006 to 2016 in the decade, after which Li Chen has a lying posture behind a lot of glory and aura.

Although he began to transform into a director and fully attack the big screen market, his later roles seemed to gradually lose their highlights and appeal.

The most representative is the air combat movie "Sky Hunt" directed by himself and starring!

How miserable is this film?

It's basically the same as in "Wasteland"!

The male protagonist of "Sky Hunt" is played by Li Chen, and the female protagonist is played by his girlfriend at the time, a certain Bingbing, and the theme is also very burning and explosive, similar to "Wolf Warrior 2".

Moreover, in order to prepare for this movie, Li Chen spent a lot of effort, and it is said that the total investment reached 200 million.

But the film was released for 3 days, the total box office was only 85 million, and the single-day box office was only more than 20 million, and the box office reputation doubled the street, and it was simply thrown out of the street by "Wolf Warrior 2".

In the end, "Sky Hunt" only won 317 million box office, with a Douban score of 5.0 points!

Think about the investment in this film, think about the actors of this film, Li Chen really lost a lot, I don't know if he secretly shed tears!

For the failure of this film, everyone complains most about the actors' acting skills and funny plot.

Some viewers said: "The lines are really blunt, as if everyone wants to shine the motherland!" ”

Some viewers said that they slept for a long time in the middle of watching the film...

Another audience said, "After watching this film, I was very disappointed with Li Chen, and it is amazing that his acting skills can actually retreat in big strides!" ”

The most disturbing thing is that two years after the release of this film, it was also involved in a vigorous investment dispute case, you say, Li Chen is depressed or not?

Of course, in addition to Li Chen's lack of appeal in acting and directing ability, there are also many objective reasons for this.

But in the following years, Li Chen's information was full, but he continued to decline.

Frequent variety shows, corrupting audience popularity

In addition to his acting skills, Li Chen has not improved, and he has a lying posture, and he has frequently appeared on variety shows since 2014.

This is also an important factor in his loss of audience popularity.

In 2014, he began to participate in "Run Brother", and now in the tenth season, it has been photogenic for several issues.

On the show, these variety artists are either cooking, traveling, playing games, or laughing and amusing.

While making quick money and making easy money, while losing his acting experience, he is also overdrawing his true image.

Over time, everyone will gradually forget their past acting skills and previous works, thinking that they are just a variety show bastard, according to the director's arrangement, playing monkeys and acting.

Aren't Liu Tao and Huang Lei acting because they have been on more variety shows and then acting, so that the audience resists and disgusted, feeling like they are playing themselves?

Exposing privacy to the table is a short-term win. But in the long run, it's certainly a riskier gamble!

Therefore, at present, Li Chen is repeating the old path of Liu Tao and Huang Lei, and has been eaten back by "variety show coffee", allowing himself to gradually lose his sense of mystery!

A love affair that makes word of mouth collapse

Li Chen's relationship with a certain Bingbing back then can be described as unknown to everyone.

The two not only often show their affection generously on variety shows and in front of the public, but also engage in special "couple" files, work together to shoot film and television, and shoot magazines, showing their affection to everyone in the world.

However, show affection and die quickly, and this sentence was also fulfilled in Li Chen and them!

With the outbreak of a certain ice tax evasion incident, their feelings began to be like "castles in the air", shaky, unable to withstand a little storm.

The two had a public relationship in 2015, successfully proposed marriage in 2017, and announced their breakup in 2019.

While sighing and sighing, countless melon-eating masses also began to point the finger at Li Chen, thinking that there was a problem with his character.

They feel that when their girlfriends are popular, the two of them are you and me, and love is sweet and sweet. The girlfriend collapsed and fell, and the two "went their separate ways!" ”

Therefore, it seems that he is the snobby, mercenary "negative man" who can only share happiness and suffering with his girlfriend.

Of course, the relationship between two people is like drinking water, cold and warm self-awareness, we, as outsiders, do not know too much internal affairs, and we cannot speculate.

But it is undeniable that because of this much-anticipated failed romance, Li Chen's reputation and popularity have been greatly affected, and even fell to the bottom.

Now, Li Chen is still single, and a certain ice is still hopeless, and their relationship has become a passing cloud.

I don't know, in the dead of night, have they ever regretted their original decision and regretted the vigorous love they once had?

Therefore, let's look at "The Wasteland" now, why does the film mainly take Ren Suxi as a publicity, why is the box office of the movie hit one after another, and even the box office of "Sky Hunting" is not as good as that year?

You can see why!

Li Chen, who used to be proud of both career and love, is ultimately because of "variety show coffee", because of "show affection", because of the suspicion of lying flat and rotten, he can only eat the old book and go on variety shows.

Then, in "Eight Hundred", "1921", "Chinese Doctor", "Me and My Hometown", "Changjin Lake", "Thousands of Miles Home", rubbed the box office.

Relying on the old book to "rub around", play a supporting role, or make a cameo appearance, you can also rub billions of box office.

Therefore, such Li Chen was finally swallowed up by "variety show coffee" and internal entertainment love, and the limelight will never be the same as it used to be!

However, there is one thing to say, in "Changjin Lake", his acting skills are still remarkable, very vivid and touching. Maybe his ability is only enough to play a supporting role, not enough to support the male protagonist of a film and television!

I don't know in the future, will Li Chen choose to continue to lie flat, brush his presence in variety shows and parties, make a cameo appearance in the movie at the box office, or plan to make a comeback and regain glory?

Today's Topic:

1. Do you think the movie "Wasteland" is good? How did Li Chen perform in the film?

2. Who do you think the emotional entanglement between Li Chen and a certain Bingbing back then was more antagonistic? Does he deserve an ex-girlfriend?

3. Which role have you been impressed by Li Chen? Does he have acting skills?

4. Can Li Chen regain the glory of ten years ago?

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