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When talking about Shen Teng, the word that comes to mind most is "comedy".

The comedy film "Catching Dolls", starring Shen Teng and Ma Li, contributed over 3 billion yuan to the box office of this summer season, and is expected to challenge the movie "Hot" starring Jia Ling and become the No. 1 box office in 2024.

From the perspective of comedy, Shen Teng is a well-deserved first-line comedian, but what kind of effect will it be if one day Shen Teng no longer performs comedies?

A gangster crime movie "The Wrath of the Titans" shattered people's expectations of Shen Teng.

Just as this summer season is coming to an end, the gangster movie "Reverse Scale" starring Shen Teng was released. As Shen Teng's first gangster crime film, it represents Shen Teng's transformation in this field.

However, the audience who watched this movie were tortured.

In the movie, Shen Teng plays a gangster boss who has a very serious face but makes people want to laugh. After being used to seeing various comedy roles played by Shen Teng, a sense of incongruity arises when watching the character in this movie.

With a chubby little face and a cute little veil, Shen Teng in the audience's eyes does not have the ruthlessness of a thug and is not domineering at all.

Some people say that Shen Teng appears too tense in his attempt to fit the character in the play, and he is simply not suitable for such a serious role.

Under the stereotype of comedy, these people think that Shen Teng is only suitable for comedy.

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If you ask most people, what impression does Shen Teng give you?

I think they will say in unison:I want to laugh when I see him. He is a man with a sense of humor.

In many people's minds, Shen Teng's "silly" image is very impressive.

On the stage of the 2012 Spring Festival Gala, people witnessed Shen Teng's "silly" side. The character Hao Jian he played on the stage caught the audience's laughter. Even during the show, people were still immersed in his "silly" performance and thought that Shen Teng's real name was "Hao Jian".

In addition to his "silly" performance on the Spring Festival Gala, the comedy characters created by Shen Teng in movies are even more popular.

From Charlotte in "Charlotte's Troubles", Wang Duoyu in "The Richest Tomato", Zhang Zhuyu in "The Shameful Iron Fist", to Zhang Chi in "Speeding Life", he has become who he is today with one distinctive comedy role after another.

The creation of these characters has allowed Shen Teng to go further and further on the road of comedy, but this man who is full of funny points has trapped himself in comedy.

Sometimes, even if it is not a comedy character, it becomes a funny point when it is put on Shen Teng.

Whether it is a skit performance on stage or various roles in a movie, every time Shen Teng appears, he brings laughter.

In comedies, Shen Teng once became a guarantee of box office success, and audiences began to use "Teng content" to determine whether a film is funny.

However, people are familiar with the funny Shen Teng. When Shen Teng is no longer funny, will people still buy his works?

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In recent years, Shen Teng has played fewer and fewer comedies. Wang Jing once said:Shen Teng doesn't want to act in comedies anymore.

As the "Teng content" continues to be praised, the more the audience wants to see Shen Teng being funny, the more hesitant he becomes about being "funny".

In "Speeding Life" he didn't want to be funny, he wanted to die. In Happy Twist's movies, he always appeared as a guest role with only a few minutes of screen time.

In these guest-starring movies, Shen Teng has become a golden signboard and a walking box office harvester. It seems to be a consensus that as long as he appears in a comedy, the box office will definitely not be bad.

But when Shen Teng is no longer funny, people become uncomfortable and think that Shen Teng is "making trouble".

The summer movie "The Wrath of the Titans" has put Shen Teng in the middle of controversy over his transformation.

Some people think that Shen Teng is only suitable for comedies, but in my opinion, it is precisely because his comedy character creation is too classic that it will be extremely difficult for him to get rid of this label.

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Shen Teng once abandoned his lines and comedy baggage in the semi-finals of "Happy Comedian" and played the role of comedy master Chaplin. He performed the warmth and fickleness of human nature with his every move without any dialogue. At this moment, Shen Teng no longer seemed funny.

In Shen Teng’s heart, this may be the comedy he “wants to perform”. He once said that the essence of comedy is satire rather than pure humor.

He may never have thought of giving up comedy, he just doesn't want to be deliberately "funny" anymore.

Whether it is Chaplin on the stage or the villain gangster in "The Wandering Earth", perhaps it is just an attempt by Shen Teng.

Just like what he thought at the end of "A Thought in Heaven":I played so many roles, but in the end I forgot to play myself.

Shen Teng, who has always played "funny" roles in comedies, perhaps never thought about not acting in comedies from the beginning.

The so-called transformation is just his desire to find more possibilities in movies.

If there really comes a day when Shen Teng doesn’t want to laugh anymore, will you still watch his movies?