Jia Ling said that she hopes the audience will see in the movie that she has become stronger, not thinner. It's hard to get thinner, and it's not easy to get stronger. Maybe Jia Ling is not getting stronger at all, she is a strong person herself, the strong are waiting for the opportunity to move, she has been waiting for the opportunity to express herself, the time has come, Jia Ling has won, this really has nothing to do with being fat and thin. Author |Edited by Ang Lee |Ding Yu From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the third day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Ling and the movie "Hot and Hot" directed by her are really hot. When the popularity was at its highest, there were 7 topics related to the top 10 hot searches on Weibo. 
Hot and Hot on the first day of its release.
Corresponding to the overwhelming topic is the rising box office figures. The box office of the film exceeded 400 million on the first day, and exceeded 1.3 billion as of press time, and the Maoyan professional platform estimates that the final box office of the film may exceed 4.4 billion. The Douban score also increased from 78 to 80 points.
Jia Ling, who lost 100 pounds, is amazing. At 9 o'clock in the morning of the first day of the new year, she officially opened the Spring Festival stall with a poster, and Jia Ling, who had lost 100 pounds, appeared. At this point, this "secret" that has been covered for a year and full of suspense a month ago has finally waited for the moment to meet all beings. The transformation is undoubted, and as she said before, as long as she stands there, it is the best publicity for the movie. But a more interesting scene appeared, Jia Ling, who used to have almost "zero negative reviews" and was a pistachio in everyone's eyes, because this movie ushered in the first word-of-mouth polarization in her career, and the five-star and one-star on the scoring platform came to her face. 
Hot and piping hot" New Year's party.
Both positive and negative reviews have something to do with weight. Some people admired her and offered all kinds of praises, but the voices of "Jia Ling used ** as a gimmick" also came and went. It is a fact that Jia Ling lost 100 pounds, but the last thing she wants to emphasize is "**From the long Weibo of the official announcement of the movie, to the different interviews she has accepted in the past few days, Jia Ling is expressing the core beyond her weight - the story of how an ordinary person finds himself."
In fact, the core and spirit of the movie are relatively distinct. It has nothing to do with how a person loses 100 pounds, and it has nothing to do with boxing itself, and it can even be seen that Jia Ling almost won the expression of "** This process is very restrained - the process from fat to thin is condensed into a relatively short time in the whole movie, and then focuses on the dialogue between Haokun and Le Ying-". "It's already won. ”
Screenshot of Jia Ling's Xinhua News Agency interview.
The movie actually presents more of a state, an ordinary girl has suffered a lot of injuries in her life, and she can't change anything at all, but she just wants to win once, even if she is beaten all over the stage in the end, she has already won.
The real core of "Hot and Hot" is "Yolo" (the abbreviation of You Only Live Once, which is also the English name of this film), and this is also the core of Jia Ling herself. When the 129 minutes belonging to the movie ended, the end credits rolled over not only Jia Ling's ** memo, but also her hot heart.
"Hot and Hot" uses waste wood to reverse the structure of life, but everyone knows that it has nothing to do with "Shuangwen". There are many familiar topics in daily life such as school district housing, girlfriend love, unreliable relatives, and program fraud in the story, and a lot of comedy elements and dramatization are also incorporated, which improves the watchability of the film, and to a certain extent, it also makes "Hot and Hot" more sinking and down-to-earth. 
Hot and Hot" stills.
The embedding of comedy makes the tragic core of Le Ying's life played by Jia Ling present a state of laughter and tears, and also shows what Chen Peisi once said - all comedy has a tragic core, that is, using the low profile of "me" to arouse the superiority of "you".
So, what role did Jia Ling's 100 pounds lose in the film, which sparked public discussion, actually play in the film? Is it really just a gimmick implanted for follow-up publicity? In addition to forming a perfect closed loop with the suspense created by the early publicity, the difference between 100 catties before and after and the plot of the movie more fully presents the life situation of a certain "fat girl". 
Hot and Hot" stills.
After the release of the film, some netizens interpreted that Le Ying before the ** symbolized those fat girls who were deprived of their rights as women in real life and were "excluded from female status". Whether it is family love or friendship, the "fat girls" need to make more compromises, need to face more ridicule and self-ridicule, and even choose to stand in front of the beautiful girl to prevent her from being pushed into the water during the marriage trouble, the "praise" they get is not pure - they stand still in the face of the push and shove of several big men - this is definitely not a positive and kind description.
This is undoubtedly a portrayal of Jia Ling's life for a long time. Because she is fat enough, she has a natural affinity and audience popularity, and she can form CPs with various types of male actors without being criticized, and fat seems to make her identity as a comedian ...... naturalThese things that everyone took for granted for a long time were tightly bound to her like the 100 pounds of weight that Jia Ling urgently needed to lose. But in an interview after the movie was released, Jia Ling mentioned the relationship between her body and comedy, saying that she never felt that her sense of comedy came from being fat. 
Hot and Hot" stills.
Returning to the story of "Hot and Hot", it is not difficult for the audience to find that Jia Ling's comedy composition has nothing to do with her actual image, and those hilarious plots and episodes come more from her observation of daily life, her sensitivity and intuition of social phenomena, and the detailed interpretation of the fate of "little people" that she has experienced with her flesh.
And the comedy itself has "arouse your sense of superiority with my low profile" also provides a boost for Le Ying's reversal in the film, Jia Ling, who has lost 100 pounds of "low profile", is more qualified than anyone to refuse people and things that she once dared not refuse, and more qualified than anyone else to shout: Become whatever you want to be. In the movie, Le Ying realized the true meaning of the so-called life: how to manage a long life in a short period of winning and losing. At this time, many feelings have long gone beyond being fat and thin, "fat girls" may just be an image symbol that is easier to understand, and finding oneself is something that everyone who encounters difficulties in life should do, and this true meaning does not even matter about gender.
In 2023, in the ever-changing domestic entertainment, Jia Ling, who holds many popular variety shows, chooses to take the initiative to "disappear". From the outside world's point of view, in this disappearing year, Jia Ling is preparing for the second film of her directorial career, preparing to give everyone a shocking moment and "saving a big move". For Jia Ling, this year's time is "unhappy, even painful", and the cost may be to risk losing the audience popularity that has accumulated for several years, being questioned and criticized like other domestic entertainment stars, and there may also be a risk that the body and mind are swinging between fat and thin, and there may be problems at any time. 
Screenshot of Jia Ling's Weibo.
So what did she gain? The rapidly rising box office and the possibility of winning the Spring Festival stalls again, easily placed in the **c position in the lively Spring Festival stalls, and the director's career is more olive branch ......God-making and god-making may be just some of them.
There is no doubt about the change in appearance, but her change is not as simple as losing 100 pounds. In the tidbits at the end of "Hot and Hot", Jia Ling this year was faithfully recorded by the numbers on the video and memo. Her pressing and deadlifting abilities in the video shocked fitness professionals, and the numbers in the memo made all those who had suffered in ** cry. 
Changes in the 8 appearances of movie Easter eggs.
The real change of Jia Ling this year is actually hidden in "Hot and Hot". In the end of the film, there is a record of her learning to draw, she says to the camera that she will definitely be able to draw a rectangle in another week, and at the end of the footage, she jokes that she still hasn't learned to draw...... drawingCompared with the ** process, this seemingly "unmatched" painting learning experience is actually the focus of her filming "Hot and Hot": improving the director's professional quality. In the past two days, the news of Jia Ling's preparation for the third film has leaked out, and her road to directing will never stop here.
Jia Ling, who is not from a professional class, has transformed into a director, and her good popularity and sincerity can help her succeed in ** work. But making movies depends on professional speech after all, Jia Ling admitted that when she was filming "Hello, Li Huanying", she often encountered situations where she could not accurately express the director's demands to other departments on the scene, and the split-shot was also one of her weaknesses. Even though professional directors have their own characteristics in the way they draw storyboards, Jia Ling's ability in this area is quite weak at first. 
Hello, Li Huanying" stills.
If learning to draw is to go further in the professional part of directing, then ** is the same as practicing boxing, which is undoubtedly due to the need of actors to shape roles. Both of them are professional and self-demanding, and it is a bit illogical to say that ** is a simple publicity gimmick.
Back to film technology, "Hot and Hot" does show a more progressive side than "Hello, Li Huanying". From a professional point of view, the success of "Li Huanying" mainly depends on the right time, place and people, and in the final analysis, Jia Ling's sincerity and character have played a great role. As for the director's ability itself, "Hello, Li Huanying" looks green from camera movement editing to the training of actors, some people say that this is more like an extended version of a sketch, although the laughter is dense, it actually does not have much effect on the advancement of the plot; And the relationship between the actors, the characters and the plot is not too silky. 
Hello, Li Huanying" stills.
When it came to her second work "Hot and Hot", Jia Ling's sincerity was not discounted, and it was even more sincere than "Hello, Li Huanying". From "Li Huanying's daughter" to "Jia Ling herself", the first thing she needs to upgrade is the director's professional ability.
It can be seen that the comedy elements of "Hot and Hot" are more appropriately integrated, and the characters have a fuller side......The overall camera movement and editing are also a lot more mature than the previous work. In terms of narrative, it is not a traditional routine inspirational process, but pays more attention to the portrayal of characters, and its own ideas are clearer and more definite than the previous work, including the design of the easter eggs at the end, which makes the film more neat and complete. The ** of Douban's score can also illustrate this point.
Hot and Hot" Douban score.
In the choice of the main character, Le Ying, Jia Ling gave up countless ways to make her job easier in terms of technique or casting, such as makeup or finding other actors to play them, and she chose the most primitive and difficult method: to show her inner perception of film art through physical combat. This undoubtedly brings a ** to the entire industry, the composition of a movie, how should the creator balance the proportion of sincerity and professional technology? Jia Ling gave her own answer.
She tore off the label of "Li Huanying's daughter" with her own hands, and now Jia Ling is the director Jia Ling.
Jia Ling in 2024 is indeed brand new. In the interview, Jia Ling's voice has changed, and the way she speaks is no longer the loud and laughing appearance in sketches and variety shows, except for the two pear vortices hanging next to her face when she laughs, Jia Ling is indeed different now.
People**" interview screenshot.
In fact, losing 100 pounds is not the first hardship Jia Ling has suffered for acting, after being admitted to Chinese opera, her study opportunity was given up by her sister Jia Qing in exchange for the opportunity to go to college, and Jia Ling told this story in person on a certain show, because "the family can only afford one child to study".
The experience of studying Chinese opera was not all smooth sailing, she was admitted at the same time because of the double insurance to fill in the comedy performance and drama performance, when the school called ** to communicate the choice of major, her mother Li Huanying's dialect made a fuss, and Jia Ling, who originally wanted to read drama performance, was assigned to the comedy acting class and learned cross talk.
Jia Ling's old photos. For a long time, Jia Ling's acting career was not smooth, and she couldn't even afford an electric blanket in the winter in Beijing during the most difficult time. At that time, her mother passed away, her sister gave up the wedding for her tuition, and her father sold the house to support her to continue to ......live in the northUntil she won the championship in the cross talk contest and studied under Feng Gong, her life did not improve much.
In 2008, she became well-known in the cross talk circle with "Big Talk", and two years later, she appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala under the recommendation of Feng Gong, and then with the increase in popularity of variety shows such as "Variety Show", "Happy Comedian", "Ace vs. Ace", Jia Ling's comedian route began to become more entertaining and popular. Even if it seems that the original intention is not in the cross talk circle, Jia Ling has become a veritable comedy star with her high emotional intelligence and self-deprecation. However, when she graduated from Chinese opera, the young and beautiful Jia Ling did not have much advantage on the comedy stage, but she also did not have an advantage in a group of young actresses. If she wants to gain a foothold on the road of comedy, sacrificing image is only a small part of what she needs to pay.
Screenshot of "Big Talk".
Screenshot of Ace vs. Ace.
Regardless of country, the road for a female director or actress always seems to be more difficult. When Jia Ling wants to make further progress on the road of directing and wants to express herself more, it will inevitably mean that it may have an impact on her audience popularity and comedy profession accumulated over the years.
Maybe for too long you have to cater to a variety of audiences, pretend to be ugly in order to be "liked", use your body as a tool for ridicule, and accept various types of ......We don't know when Jia Ling started wanting to change, but just as she wanted to use a movie to commemorate her mother, it must be one of her thoughts to use another movie to say a word for herself and people who are similar to her. When she made up her mind, nothing could stop her. With the hot screening of "Hot and Hot", comments such as "losing 100 pounds in order to make money" and "making this movie just to let everyone see her**" "Jia Ling, who has lost weight, looks old, is still festive when she is fat" and other comments have not stopped, Jia Ling also said in an interview that she was worried that the impact of **100 pounds would overshadow the movie itself, so she wanted to downplay this matter as much as possible, "Later**".
Before the release, the promotion of "Hot and Hot" was only other main creators.
This was late on the day of the movie's release. Regarding this matter, Jia Ling showed two things that are beyond ordinary people.
One is the ability to delay gratification. Anyone who has had ** experience has experienced, not to mention losing 100 pounds, even losing a few pounds, and they all want to send a circle of friends to announce to the world, but she insisted that she did not attend any promotional activities in the early stage of the release. The other is her interpersonal skills. After a year of filming, a popular artist lost 100 pounds, and it was impossible not to be completely unknown, but her secrecy work was successful, which shows her popularity, and the people she met in this circle were willing to trust her and help her.
Hot and Hot" stills.
As she honestly said in the interview, the past year has been unhappy and even painful, but it has been worth it. She must have calculated the cost of "change" and the pressure she faced in countless days of gritting her teeth in the face of memo.
Jia Ling said that she hopes the audience will see in the movie that she has become stronger, not thinner. It's hard to get thinner, and it's not easy to get stronger. Maybe Jia Ling is not getting stronger at all, she is a strong person herself, the strong are waiting for the opportunity to move, she has been waiting for the opportunity to express herself, the time has come, Jia Ling has won, this really has nothing to do with being fat and thin.