#长文创作激励计划#
When you think of Mary, what comes to mind?
A happy twist sister with a magical laugh? Open your mouth and the Northeast silver will smell like a big ballast? Everything can be Shen Ma's strongest cp in internal entertainment? Or what is the horse winter, what is the winter plum, what is the horse plum?
The reason why I wanted to ask this question was to see a data. With the steady rise of the box office of "Catching the Doll", Ma Li became the first female filmmaker in Chinese film history to break 20 billion at the cumulative box office.
At the same time, a paradoxical phenomenon arises:
Among the 20 billion, there seems to be no one with 100% beauty, which can be called a masterpiece that only belongs to Ma Li.
1.
Take the popular "Catching Dolls" as an example.
In the official profile, its plot is like this: Ma Chenggang and Chunlan, who are poor and white, pin all their hopes in life on their son, looking forward to a noble son from a poor family.
It seems to be exploring the relationship between parents and children in the Chinese style, but as long as you have watched the movie, you will know that the real drama of "Catching the Doll" is the confrontation between the father Ma Chenggang and the son Ma Jiye.
Ma Chenggang is a famous rich generation in Xihong City, because the eldest son born to his ex-wife was rich and nullified, and seeing that there was no hope of succession, he took the whole family to move back to the broken yard where he lived when he was a child, and started the poor maintenance plan to retrain the "trumpet".
And Chunlan, the mother who is full of presence in general family dramas, is more like a footnote and a symbolic symbol of the family in this story.
The most typical is the plot of Chunlan's two distressed sons' opposition to poverty.
The first time was when Ma Chenggang took Chunlan back to the old yard and told her her decision to pretend to be poor. After hearing this, Chunlan shouted emotionally against it. But then, Ma Chenggang announced that he would let his second son inherit his net worth in the future, and in the next second, the camera cut to Chunlan taking her son to the old yard.
Obviously, Chunlan's emotional excitement is to quickly change her face and lay a laugh.
The second time, it was Ma Jiye who was ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for picking up bottles, and the heartbroken Chunlan ran away again, and it was Ma Chenggang who took out the Hermes Kelly orange lychee pattern that his wife missed, Chunlan's attitude switched from silky to affectionate mode from this day: "Husband, is this bag more beautiful on your hand than on your neck?" ”
Another burden that hit the laughter of the audience.
Ma Li lived up to the expectations of the audience and the main creator, and perfectly completed the task of gagging and funny tricks in "Catching the Doll". With her, every burden was thrown loudly, and every action made the audience quack.
But returning to the role itself, the mother of the family played by Ma Li seems to be the protagonist standing in the center, but she has neither a three-dimensional image nor a full character, which is fundamentally the same as the mother image in movies such as "Galaxy Cram School" and "Keep You Safe", which praise father-son (daughter) love movies, are just a vague tool man.
2.
Defining Chunlan as a tool person does not mean to belittle Ma Li, but it is a pity that she has been Shen Teng's green leaf again.
After Ma Li's cumulative box office reached the top, someone re-pulled the box office table of female filmmakers, and one of the data is very interesting. Although Ma Li's total box office surpassed Bai Baihe, who was behind her, by more than 10 billion, if she only counted the box office, she was 100 million less than Bai Baihe.
Reflected in the movie and characters, Bai Baihe is very distinct in terms of masterpieces, character labels, and style tracks, but in Ma Li, it shows a kind of hesitation that does not dock at both ends.
As an actor, she is obviously an acting school from a professional class and the queen of a thousand dramas, but because of the fire of "Charlotte's Troubles", she was inevitably sealed by the role and fell into the dilemma of all comedy actresses: only by playing treasures, making a fool of yourself, and making jokes regardless of your image, the audience will buy your account.
As a comedian, she is more often Shen Teng's foil. This kind of main and supporting relationship was actually obvious in the early stage of the breakthrough of Shen Ma's cooperative sketch. Shen Ma went to the Spring Festival Gala three times in the early stage, and everyone remembered "Hao Jian", but Ma Li was the boss, the old lady and the section chief Ma.
"Charlotte's Troubles" is an infatuated wife who hopes that her husband will change his mind, "Walking on the Moon Alone" is a cold goddess who is secretly in love with a maintenance worker, and "Catching a Doll" is a rich daughter-in-law who cooperates with her husband's routine son.
To put it cruelly, Shen Teng and Ma Li can be called mutual achievements in terms of career, but when it comes to roles, the two have never been evenly matched, Shen Teng will always be the more important one, and Ma Li will always be the unimportant one. It's not important, she has experienced two times just by changing roles.
Once was "Charlotte's Troubles", the original heroine of the movie was not Ma Li, and it was the actress who resigned from the role that she was lucky to regain Ma Dongmei. As for the other time, it was not so lucky, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" has been playing the promotion of Shen Ma before the start of filming, and Ma Li even participated in the film press conference, and was suddenly changed in the end.
After "The Richest Man in Xihong City" was replaced, Ma Li posted such a Weibo.
Whether she couldn't swallow this breath or realized the development dilemma, Ma Li chose to break up with Shen Teng after this and get out of the happy twist.
From 2018 to 2022, you can see Ma Li in all kinds of bizarre movies, one of which must be mentioned, that is, "Sunshine Robbers" directed by Li Yu and starring Ma Li and Song Jia, the box office is very bad and the reputation is very bad, but it means a lot to Ma Li, because this is the first one she has been in the industry since she entered the industry for 16 years.
Yes, "Iron Fist of Shame" is not a one, you just say it is outrageous, right?
At this stage, Ma Li's frequency of receiving films is very high, it is a movie and a TV series, and the box office is approaching 10 billion step by step, but in contrast, it is a declining reputation.
Aside from the two platter movies "Me and My XX", Ma Li has almost been in inferior comedies in the past four years, and it was not until Shen Ma combined again that "Walking on the Moon Alone" could be regarded as a reversal.
3.
Ma Li always reminds me of the former Wu Junru, who is trying to make a living and transforming into a comedian, and is pressed by the radiant golden partner around her.
When Wu Junru was 30 years old, she was completely tired of pretending to be crazy and stupid, but at that time, the Hong Kong film industry was full of beauties and fierce competition, and no one would invite her to play a vase beautifully. So he put his heart on the side, sold his house and invested in a literary film "Eve-Faced Eve", and became the producer and starring himself.
In this movie, she played multiple roles and won the Golden Statue Golden Horse Double Actress nomination, which led to the 13th sister of Hong Xing, a suit thug who combed her big back and bent straight women all over the world in 98.
26 years have passed, and female comedians are still at the top of the food chain that is difficult to transform, even more difficult than in the Wu Junru period.
First, the film market as a whole is masculine, and female characters are becoming more and more marginal. So even if Ma Li's popularity has reached its peak in the past two years, the highlights of the two high-grossing works she starred in, "This Killer is Not Calm" and "Article 20", still belong to male characters.
Ma Li herself mentioned this in an interview, it's not that she doesn't want to act, but she doesn't have a choice, there are a lot of scripts handed to her, but the content of women as the main body is zero. This rarity does not even stem from the ability of actresses, just because the default box office appeal of actresses is not as good as that of male actors, which ruthlessly compresses the performance space of actresses.
Second, the track of serious involution in domestic entertainment is becoming more and more detailed, and the trial and error space given to the transformation of actors is gradually becoming smaller.
Ma Li actually realized early on that she had to refuse to be stereotyped, and just after "Charlotte Troubles" became popular, she took a trip to "Men's Clothing", and later ran away from the Happy Twist period, and put on sexy clothes to shoot the 2018 New Year's cover.
One more thing, I found that "Men's Clothing" can be called a hurdle in the transformation of female comedians, and 90% of the funny women who can be called have left a set of negatives in the "Men's Clothing" office.
After trying the sexy route, she went to challenge the cool and handsome neutral style, and played a strong woman in the workplace who was sexually assaulted in the workplace and was strong and fierce in "Ringing Call".
In terms of image and personality, this role is completely different from Ma Li's stereotype in Happy Twist, and there is a breakthrough, but it is two years early, and I didn't catch up with the fan girls' love for sisters.
I also tried literary films with serious themes.
In 2021's "Siberian Tiger", her partner Zhang Yu played an aggrieved woman whose husband cheated during pregnancy. Ma Li lost the burden of comedy, and integrated into the dilapidated buildings and the biting cold wind without any sense of disobedience, and her acting skills have a very good reputation, but unfortunately the box office is only more than 16 million, and no matter how good her performance is, she has little attention.
In 2022, she took another step to try to be a producer, bought FIRST's venture capital project "Family Fun", and saved up her own cake development project.
From a funny female man, to a sexy stunner, to a cool royal sister, and a newcomer producer, Ma Li is like Sisyphus who keeps pushing stones up the mountain, and finally saw the top of the mountain last year, waiting for the long-awaited "complete role", the biopic "Dumpling Queen" adapted from the real experience of the founder of Wan Chai Pier, Ma Li plays the legendary female entrepreneur Zang Jianhe Ms.
The team of this film is quite remarkable, directed by Liu Weiqiang, who has rich experience in commercial films, and is matched by actors with reliable business abilities such as Hui Yinghong, Zhu Yawen, Jiang Meiyi, etc., and judging from the content of the trailer, it has collected multiple buffs such as twists and turns of fate, female growth, and a large span of time.
When promoting "Article 20" at the beginning of the year, Ma Li briefly mentioned this movie, she said, "This is the first big heroine in my acting career, and we actresses rarely have such an opportunity to fully portray a powerful role." ”
The words are sincere, and you can feel her value and cherish this role across the network cable, I hope that this movie will not disappoint Ma Li's expectations, and I also hope that as Director Zhang said, the era of actresses has come.