Ma Li, Zhao Liying, and Song Jia's new films have a strong transformation, and they subvert themselves again
Updated on: 06-0-0 0:0:0

1905 Movie Network Special ArticleActor Ma Li has been very busy lately.film"The Queen of Water Dumplings"is about to meet you on May 1st, another new work"Okay"It was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Beijing International Film Festival. In both films, Ma Li no longer appears as a comedian, but shows the audience the multifaceted nature of the actor.

It is worth noting that she participated in the movie "Okay" as a producer this time.

In addition to these two new films, the film "The Murder of a Girl in Flowers", produced by Chen Zhengdao, directed by newcomer director Zhou Jinghao, and starring Zhang Zifeng and Ma Yili, was officially announced to be shortlisted for the "Director's Fortnight" unit of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2025.

The film festival officially said that this is a psychological thriller, the story is set on the ice rink, and it is a Chinese film with a unique style.

The film has previously appeared as a pre-screening patch, and the audience was dazzled by the performance of Zhang Zifeng and Ma Yili.

前幾日,話題#趙麗穎 轉型#衝上平臺熱搜,這位女演員從小螢屏一步步走到大銀幕,從《第二十條》到《向陽·花》,讓大眾看到了她的新可能。

When we say that actors gallop in a fixed track, there is always a group of actresses who are not restricted, constantly breaking through themselves in different genres, broadening their own tracks, and making the word "actor" more heavy.

The film "Okay" is Ma Li's first work as a producer, and the project was discovered when she was a venture capital judge at the film festival.

Ma Li once responded in an interview whether she was looking forward to the big heroine's play, "I'm looking forward to it too much, there are very few female-dominated movies on the market now." Subsequently, when she was a venture capital judge at the film festival, she discovered the project "Family Happiness" - which is now the movie "Okay".

Judging from the current information of the Beijing Film Festival, the theme of the movie "Okay" only has the "plot" column, which almost loses Ma Li's important label as a "comedian".

This can be said to have a lot of courage for actors who have been solidified.

is not only "Okay", but in the upcoming movie "Dumpling Queen", Ma Li is still breaking through her comfort zone and looking for new directions. In fact, during the filming of the movie "Siberian Tiger", she encountered similar treatment.

After the rival actor Zhang Yu filmed the first scene with her, he apologized to her, thinking that he had solidified it. But Ma Li disagreed, and responded in an interview, "He has watched my dramas and my movies, and he thinks Ma Li is a comedy actress, a comedy performance style, can it be magnified in the main drama?" This concern is normal, and he, like many viewers, will solidify the comedian, but fortunately, we all understand it. ”

如今,她不再只有喜劇,不僅憑藉運動題材劇集《超越》獲得中國電視金鷹獎最佳女配角,而且憑藉電影《第二十條》拿下大眾電影百花獎最佳女主角。

The title of "comedian" has never imprisoned her, after all, everything she is doing now comes from comedy. It's just that now she knows how to let the audience see the multi-faceted nature of her actor in addition to comedy.

As Ma Li said, "In acting, I don't like to stipulate what must be, just like what type I can only film, the profession of actor, you should play any type, this is called an actor." ”

For a long time, actresses always seemed to be limited by the role of "mother", but in the past few years, they seem to have more possibilities......

不管是在電影《第二十條》,還是在電影《向陽·花》里,趙麗穎雖然依舊仍是母親形象,但她不止是“媽媽”,她是倔強的郝秀萍,更是狠辣的高月香。

Both characters seem to be fighting for children, but the actors enter the characters with different incisions in front of the inherent nouns, and give different definitions to similar character images. Especially in the handling of eye play, it has become her grasp, and slowly shows the level changes of the characters.

去年,她憑藉電影《第二十條》獲得了大眾電影百花獎最佳女配角,以及中國電影金雞獎最佳女配角提名。

In many people's established images, she may still be the "little bone" in "Flower Thousand Bone", and "ancient puppet" is still a strong label on her.

She has never been limited by this label, even when the outside world is not optimistic, she starred in "Do You Know If You Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin", and later tried to star in the reality works "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" and "The Wind Blows in the Summer", and she has firmly established her acting career.

Even if she returns to the theme of ancient puppets, in the drama "Walking with the Phoenix", she participates as a producer, looking for more opportunities and breakthroughs in the track she is good at. In "Sunny Flower", she has the identity of "producer".

Over the years, the roles she has chosen have become more amazing than the other, and she has constantly sought new breakthroughs in identity switching. Even his old partner Xiao Yang bluntly said when talking about his second partner with her in "The Road to Fire", "Acting is more stable and spicy." ”

Similarly, after actor Zhang Xiaofei won the Best Actress of the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for the comedy "Hello, Li Huanying", he did not just stay on the road of comedy creation, but turned his head to star in works such as the suspense crime movie "Save the Suspect" and the life-themed drama "Good Things Come in Pairs", and made more adjustments after getting more opportunities.

Here, I have to mention actor Ma Yili and actor Song Jia.

Ma Yili has only played two dramas in the past, from Shanghai's retro "Flowers" to the sincere and realistic "My Altay", with the role setting of one east and one west, but it is difficult to see the name of "Ma Yili" in this actor, which belongs more to the essence of the role.

After the drama "The First Half of My Life" became popular, "Luo Zijun" once became a strong label on her, and in reality, Ma Yili was frequently approached by Shanghai-themed works, but many of them were rejected by her, and the homogeneous content could not arouse her desire to create. In her follow-up movie "The Myth of Love" and the drama "Flowers", she showed Shanghai women of different eras, which became breakthroughs in her acting career again and again.

It's just that when we were already "stationed" in Shanghai, she went to Altay again and played the image of a minority woman. "Zhang Fengxia" has become her masterpiece again, remaining in the hearts of the audience.

Song Jia handed over the movie "Good Things" and the drama "When the Mountains Are Blooming" last year, two masterpieces with a score of more than 9. The completely different types of works have given the audience enough surprises, it is Zhang Guimei, or Wang Tiemei, and even actor Song Jia.

In addition to these Mesozoic actors showing their charm as actors on different tracks, many new generation actors are also broadening their possibilities.

For example, Liu Hao has a breakthrough performance in "The Girl Who Wants to Fly", and Wen Qi challenges the manga series "The Battle Under the Alien!" Biyou Village", or Lancia's different performances in the reality movie "Sunny Flower" and the comedy movie "Life is off to a Good Start......

Perhaps using "transformation" to define their performances has made the value of their choices smaller.

They are more like achieving self-innovation again and again, constantly completing self-challenges, maybe the process will face trial and error, but so what? If you have experience, you will polish more plump character images.