The fight for this year's Spring Festival stalls ended, and Jia Ling deservedly won. But in addition to her, there is another person who is too low-key, she is quiet, with a total box office score of 18.6 billion, she has become the No. 1 actress in Chinese film history.
CFP Mary. Back then, many people knew her through the sketches of the Spring Festival Gala; Few people have seen her early performances on the twist drama stage. Therefore, Ma Li, who entered the public eye under the name of a sketch, is a living female comedian no matter how you look at it, and she seems to have not gotten rid of this person's position intentionally or unintentionally.
Ma Li in the Spring Festival file in 2024 "abandoned" her traditional CP Shen Teng, and contributed extremely life-like acting skills in "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou, a realistic movie wrapped in a comedy shell, and almost all of this layer of comedy elements are covered by Li Maojuan played by Ma Li.
CFP Ma Li finally has a new role that can be compared to "Ma Dongmei" this time. If you think about it carefully, it was 9 years ago that the well-known "Ma Dongmei" in "Charlotte's Troubles" was well known.
CFP Li Maojuan is a housewife, a working-class person, she gave up her job for her children and family, and the ordinary people who are kind and kind are injected with vivid vitality by Ma Li, although the appearance is comedy, but the core is down-to-earth realism, which is different from those characters who have been deliberately funny but have not been remembered by everyone in the past few years.
CFP With the obvious multi-faceted development of Jia Ling and Ma Li in the movie, the stereotypical classification of female comedians has begun to arouse people's new thinking. So, do you think Ma Li can be funny?
The Queen of a Thousand Fields and the Queen of Sketches
Who still remembers that Ma Li was once considered "Song Dandan's ** person". Once upon a time, Shen Teng Ma Li's sketches have become everyone's most anticipated program for the Spring Festival Gala, although the quality is difficult to evaluate, but seeing that the two of them have become the main dish of the Spring Festival Gala.
CFP In 2013, Ma Li participated in "Today's Happiness 2", which was her first appearance to the national audience in the Spring Festival Gala. In the next two years, the Shen Ma group appeared on the Spring Festival Gala consecutively, performing the sketches "Help or Not Help" and "Do What You Like". Although Ma Li did not become a person known to the whole country like Shen Teng, "Hao Jian", she also became a popular comedian familiar to the audience.
But at first, Ma Li didn't want to be a comedian.
In 2001, Ma Li entered Chinese opera to receive performance training, and after graduation, she entered the academic Peking University Drama Research Institute, where she studied under Lin Zhaohua, the "great director" of the Chinese theater circle. At that time, she was a 100% drama seedling, and she opened her mouth to discuss the Stanislavsky system.
Just like many children who are engaged in art and performance, unemployment is the norm after graduation, and Ma Li also lives a life of running the crew to audition, not knowing if the opportunity will come. Her mother was very supportive of her dream of acting, so even though she didn't have much income, Ma Li still insisted on staying on stage, and she starred in two plays by Master Lin Zhaohua, "The Master Builder" and "The Cherry Orchard".
It was also at this time that Ma Li met Shen Teng, a true master who changed her artistic path. In 2005, the Happy Twist team went to see Ma Li's performance, although she only played a small role with few lines, but as soon as she came on stage, the audience below could be amused, and after the performance, she was invited by Happy Twist to audition.
After CFP Ma Li joined Happy Twist, it was as if the fish had found water and found a more suitable path for themselves. Audiences who have watched twist dramas, no one does not remember her, Ma Li has become the "queen of a thousand scenes" on the stage. She recalled the scene at that time, saying, "I used to act in a drama, and then I tried to act in a comedy, but I didn't expect it to be uncontrollable. Many viewers liked my switch between Northeast dialect and Mandarin, and liked to see me drift between my fierce personality and gentle expression. ”
The birth of a box office of 10 billion
After "Shen Ma" has a mass base for the Spring Festival Gala, the success of "Charlotte's Troubles" in 2015 seems inevitable. Ma Li took advantage of the situation to move from the stage to the big screen, and Happy Twist moved from the niche stage drama market to a bigger plate. So as the master of Happy Twist, Ma Li has her own screen works almost every year.
CFP Before the Happy Twist team touched the door of the film industry, Ma Li tried to cooperate with different directors. But Hong Kong directors like Liu Zhenwei and Chen Musheng don't seem to be able to really make good use of Ma Li, "A Thought of Heaven", "The Situation is Not Good", "Fairy Ball War", "Cat Star", etc., both word-of-mouth and box office are very unsatisfactory. In the years after "Charlotte's Troubles", Ma Li did not meet the role of "Ma Dongmei".
CFP Until 2017, Happy Twist hit the National Day file, "Iron Fist of Shame" fully demonstrated Ma Li's comedy talent, this rare domestic "sex turn" movie, fully showed Ma Li's spicy and bold performance style, the audience found that her internal entertainment was difficult to find a replacement, and Ma Li advanced to the heroine of the double 1 billion movie with it.
After that, Ma Li actually consciously and gradually weakened the exaggerated comedy style, and took over "The Call Ranging", "Warm Embrace", "Me and My Hometown", "Me and My Fathers", all of which were good at the box office.
In 2022, Ma Li went against the "norm" and appeared in the non-comedy film "Siberian Tiger", which was directed by Geng Jun and won the best film at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Of course, not only is the box office not good, but many people don't know that Ma Li has acted in such a movie.
CFP In the same year, Ma Li made her first Spring Festival with "This Killer is Not Calm", which made her the first Chinese female filmmaker in Chinese film history to star in a box office of 10 billion. And the subsequent "Lonely on the Moon" directly sent her to the top of the list.
CFP In recent years, Ma Li has begun to face the dilemma that female comedians seem to have to go through - she can't be beautiful, because if she is beautiful, she won't be funny. Ma Li, who lost weight in "Walking on the Moon Alone", made some viewers question. People seem to be very easy to accept her simple mother figure in "Article 20", and they will ignore her professional acting skills in it because they are funny.
Nowadays, China's No. 1 box office directors and No. 1 box office actresses are all so-called "comedians", and people seem to be tolerant of them, but in fact they are quite strict. Isn't it something to think about?