It must be said that Jia Ling is very good at it, after her second movie "Hot and Hot" won the box office, not only did she non-stop "after-sales" promotion for her movie, but also revealed by the way that her next movie "Turning Thoughts" has already been filmed.
Doesn't this "pattern" feel familiar to you? Just like the box office hit of "Hello, Li Huanying" in 2021, Jia Ling promised in an interview that the schedule has not yet ended: If the box office breaks 3 billion, I will be thin like a lightning.
Then there is this year's "Hot and Hot", although it is said that this year's Spring Festival file has not ended, but the total box office of "Hot and Hot" has been steadily reached in 9 days after its release, and even if the movie stops here, she is also an absolute winner.
And as far as her second movie "Hot and Hot" is concerned, everything that should be done has already been done, except for the follow-up interview to contribute to the "leftover" topics, the movie no longer needs her to do anything.
So when she returned to Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and met fans in her hometown, she casually said that her next movie "Turning Thoughts and Flowers" had already been filmed, and asked the audience if they liked it? What else can the audience say, of course we all love it.
I always feel that I am trapped by Jia Ling again, and the next time her movie enters the Spring Festival file, I guess I will still contribute movie tickets.
Because I can see from Jia Ling's first two movies that Jia Ling, a non-professional director, although he only has two works, already has a faint "Jia style".
For example, her ** work "Hello, Li Huanying" is a female-themed movie that plays the family card.
Although this movie is relatively simple in terms of dramatic conflict and shooting techniques, you can't deny that the emotional concentration of this movie is very high, in this era of commercial films and fast food film and television dramas, this kind of movie that retains the audience with a purely emotional atmosphere is very rare.
Then there is this year's "Hot and Hot", which is also a non-emotional women's movie, and the plot is just as simple, it is a fat girl who faces up to her life experience through boxing.
I've seen the original Japanese movie, and to be honest, this kind of niche theme is not easy to become a mainstream film, even if the Japanese version is like that at the box office, but Jia Ling's localized remake of this movie is very successful.
The story is not much different from the Japanese version, the plot is basically self-consistent, and Jia Ling used the way of throwing the "hook" in the front and focusing on the solution in the back that was not in the original version, this operation is really sensational.
Especially when answering the cause and effect of many key events of the heroine later, she was injured and jumped off the building layer by layer, the movie is in place in terms of shooting method, soundtrack, atmosphere, and rendering, after watching this movie, some people still say that Jia Ling's movie is a fluke?
But at the same time, we can also find that the success of Jia Ling's two films is based on self-emotion, and the core of the stories of the two films, whether it is her mother's emotional story or ** boxing, is related to Jia Ling, the director.
But her third film is obviously changing, "Turning Thoughts Blossom" was called "The War of Light" when the original film was recorded, and the content suggests that it is a story work with elements such as criminal investigation and undercover.
In the last few interviews, Jia Ling revealed more about this movie, saying that this movie is based on anti-pyramid schemes, which is obviously not in the category of personal emotional stories, and is closer to the current mainstream film genre.
It also means that "Flowers in Motion" has left Jia Ling's "comfort zone", and it is still a problem for Jia Ling to make such a good movie focusing on social issues.
At present, there is not much official news about this movie, and from Jia Ling's occasional interviews, it can be pieced together that this is still a movie with Jia Ling as the heroine.
She plays Liu Yaqin, the housewife in the film, who was in debt and mentally traumatized after being deceived into a pyramid scheme organization in her early years. **In order to solve this illegal pyramid scheme case, I found her and hoped that she would help solve the case.
At first, Liu Yaqin was reluctant, but in the end, after seeing more victims' experiences, she decided to assist ** in rescuing more MLM victims.
In addition to starring Jia Ling herself, this movie is also indispensable to her good sister Zhang Xiaofei, to be honest, I used to feel very harmonious with this pair of fat and thin sisters, but I don't know if Jia Ling**, if the two of them cooperate again, will there be a sense of harmony again?
Although Jia Ling, the male protagonist in the movie, once joked that he would invite Andy Lau, it can be seen from the fact that the filming of this film has started that it is unlikely that Liu Tianwang will be the protagonist, and it is very likely that he will make a cameo.
At present, it can be determined that the male protagonist in the movie is also an "acquaintance bureau", and the powerful actor Wang Xiao of the Mesozoic Generation was selected to join, he is an artist with the best actor charm value and acting skills.
In the past few years, he has been very stable in the entertainment industry, and basically he chooses high-quality dramas, although he is not often the male lead, but the supporting roles are also brilliant, and Jia Ling is more likely to choose him as the male lead.
Another acquaintance is Yang Zi, who made a cameo appearance in "Hot and Hot" and backstabbed her cousin, and Jia Ling also made it clear in the interview that "Yang Zi has been asked for the next movie".
Personally, I really hope that Little Monkey Zi's performance in Jia Ling's movie can break the fixed role impression and play a villain role, which can reflect the acting skills.
I hope Jia Ling's new movie can be made faster, let us verify again, what kind of surprises can this female director who doesn't like "love brains" bring us.