The high-speed rail station was crowded with migrant workers waiting to go home, and the familiar "I congratulate you on making a fortune" sounded again in the streets and alleys, and the major apps also changed to red** waiting for the Spring Festival to send blessings, and then watching the Spring Festival movies also began to promote lively. Today, I simply took stock of what movies are worth watching during the Spring Festival.
"Hot and Hot" is the movie I have been following for the longest time during this year's Spring Festival, telling the story of an otaku girl who grows into a boxer.
The director and starring are Jia Ling.
Three years ago, during the Spring Festival, "Hello, Li Huanying" swept the box office, sending Jia Ling to the position of the world's highest-grossing female director in one fell swoop. (Barbie's director, Greta, is now breaking the record).
At that time, everyone was looking forward to the follow-up, so she went into retreat.
What is a retreat for?
*, and then shoot this "Hot and Hot".
A few days ago, she posted on Weibo that she had lost 100 pounds and became what a boxer should be. But in order not to spoil the surprise, I haven't announced the slimmed **, and I want to leave the suspense in the movie.
Jia Ling's image in the past has always been a plus-size comedian, and many of the jokes and features are ** her own figure, so ** has no benefit for her. But for the sake of the presentation of the film, she insisted.
And for artists, it is very important to maintain **. Now Jia Ling would rather sacrifice **, not participate in various activities, and cover the news, I can feel that I am very interested in movies.
According to the plot, the heroine has to show a completely different state before and after the movie, and the contrast is very stark.
In the early stage, she was a homebody girl who ate and waited for death, the embodiment of "mourning", full of fat, sloppy life, refusal to socialize, decadent and boring.
After focusing on boxing, her spirit changed. The eyes have become sharp, the body has become erect, and the person has a goal.
Now I can only find such a skipping rope ** on the Internet, and I am really curious about the final effect of Jia Ling.
There is also a section in the trailer where the camera focuses on a slender back, and I was surprised at the time: Jia Ling has lost weight like this???
As a result, when I turned around, it turned out to be Zhang Xiaofei.
It feels like it pays tribute to Li Huanmi's classic retrospective at the same time.
I also want to see if they can make new sparks this time.
About this movie, Jia Ling has a description: "It has nothing to do with **, it has little to do with boxing, it tells the story of how kind people find themselves and learn to love themselves." ”
I immediately felt that she had found the point - the film is not about ** or boxing, but on a person's self-growth.
Only in this way can we arouse the real resonance of more people.
Frankly, it's not an easy story.
But looking at the current cast, coupled with the Spring Festival schedule, there must be comedy elements. How to make the laughter naturally integrate into a slightly cruel reality story is also a highlight.
But I still believe in Jia Ling.
After all, "Hello, Li Huanying" has done this. Although it is a somewhat heavy theme, it is well neutralized with the laughter, making people laugh while crying, and they can listen to the truth.
Now let's see how Jia Ling, who has lost 100 pounds, can use "Hot and Hot" to tell a good story again.
Mr. Red Carpet" swiped a paragraph before**, the title reads "Andy Lau and Ning Hao quarreled so fiercely on the set", and I thought something was wrong, but when the camera turned around, I realized that it was a tidbit of "Mr. Red Carpet".
It immediately piqued my interest.
After reading the movie synopsis, I feel that almost everyone is acting in their true colors in this **. Andy Lau plays a Hong Kong superstar who has been in the film industry for 40 years, and Ning Hao directly plays the director he co-operates.
The whole story is about a series of farces caused by their cooperation in filming rural films.
The trailer released now also makes people think about it, and every scene feels weird and interesting.
Look at this pig, it's all on the table.
There is also this scene that is absurd.
In order to play a good peasant, Tianwang decided to experience the life of ordinary people, so he decided to ask his assistant to book him a three-star hotel.
When you become a king, why can't you understand ordinary people?
I feel that this movie is a very typical Ning Hao style, revealing truth in the absurd.
Ning Hao said in the interview that the core of this ** is very simpleIt's a problem of misalignment of communication between people. The reason why the background of the story is placed in the entertainment industry is only because the story here is more familiar to him and it is easier to shoot it realistically.
He also said that when he wrote this script, he was thinking about Andy Lau and wanted to give him a gift.
I have to say, the weight of this gift is really heavy.
Thinking about it, the two of them are also quite related - Ning Hao's famous work "Crazy Stone" was invested by Andy Lau.
At that time, Andy Lau made a plan called "Asian Rising Star Director", in order to support new directors, select 6 young people from all over Asia and fund them to make movies, including Ning Hao.
Ning Hao also became famous with this movie, and the word-of-mouth box office was a bumper harvest, and he has become the backbone of the film industry now.
Later, Ning Hao followed Andy Lau's example and also launched a project to support directors: "Bad Monkey 72 Movie Project", and launched works including Lu Yang's "Embroidered Spring Knife" and Wen Muye's "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
Then after digging this line, you will find that these people are still continuing to dig out new directors, including Guo Fan and Rao Xiaozhi, who are now famous and surnamed, all of whom are beneficiaries.
Because I have taken over other people's umbrellas, I also want this kindness and support to pass on. This kind of heart is moving.
So watching this movie again, it makes more sense.
And then again. There is no Andy Lau in the Spring Festival movie, just like not listening to "I congratulate you on making a fortune" during the New Year, how many shortcomings and souls.
In this case, it is even more necessary to see how Andy Lau and Ning Hao, a group of old friends, "communicate well" in "Mr. Red Carpet".
Article 20" On the night of Weibo a while ago, two "Weibo's most anticipated Spring Festival movies" were awarded, one is "Hot and Hot", and the other is Zhang Yimou's "Article 20".
The positioning is a modern comedy, telling the story of a temporary prosecutor played by Lei Jiayin who is frustrated at home and at work.
At first glance, you may think that this ** is too unscrupulous.
After all, most of his previous ** were serious themes, either talking about history and culture, or engaging in visual expression to show realism, and it was hard not to be surprised not to see him make a comedy.
But I don't think Zhang Yimou's style is so easy to define.
He is a director who can play his own characteristics with the environment of the times. When the economy was developing and the industry was progressing, he made large-scale commercial films and directly raised the standard; When he needs to express his feelings for his family and country, he can shoot the main theme film and keep up with the trend.
Otherwise, how could people be called "national teachers".
Even comedy is a genre he tried in his early years. Who can say that "Something to Say" is not classic enough?
To put it bluntly, comedy is just a form of expression, and serious stories and profound discussions can also rely on comedy.
Look again at Article 20.
The title of the film originates from Article 20 of the Criminal Law, which talks about the comprehensive definition of "legitimate defense" and "excessive defense".
The background is also realistic.
The prosecutor played by Lei Jiayin was originally like a salted fish, he wanted to wait for his life to become a regular, but he didn't expect to be accidentally involved in various incidents.
His son acted bravely and beat the son of the school leader.
The school leader wanted to ask for an explanation, but the mother couldn't stand it, so she was indignant and beat the leader directly.
As soon as you think about it, you know that the story is not easy, and it cannot escape all kinds of power, class and contradictions in real life.
I'm afraid that what the movie really wants to discuss is still realistic issues such as human feelings and legal principles, fairness and justice.
So the core of the movie is still realism.
Just like the core of comedy, it is tragedy.
It's just a humorous way to show it through a variety of gags.
Isn't this quite Zhang Yimou?
The scale of his films has always been very large, especially contemporary dramas. The recently released "Solid as a Rock" is about anti-crime and anti-corruption, and it is a modern version of "The Appearance of Officialdom".
After "Solid as a Rock" was completed, it took four years to pass the review and go online, and the content was repeatedly deleted. After experiencing this play, Zhang Yimou may have a more accurate control of the content and know how to complete more different expressions on the premise of passing the review.
When the time comes, go and watch Zhang Yimou's "Article 20", whether the expression is satirical enough and the content is spicy enough.
Flying Life 2
Ma Li and Lei Jiayin have already formed a CP next door, and her old partner Shen Teng is not idle, and she has become a "racing driver" again this year.
That's right, after 5 years, "Flying Life 2" is finally here.
As soon as the opening scene solves the puzzle left by the first part, Zhang Chi, who drove a car with a failed brake to the sea, did not die.
But he didn't live very well.
The former champion also had to make a living, so he had to work as an instructor in a driving school, sitting in the co-pilot and shouting about reversing, shifting, and refueling.
I also have to be reminded not to give too much oil.
Can the former king of Bayingbrook be mixed like this?
Of course not. So when someone offered to sponsor him to participate again, he formed a team of chickens and dogs and rushed to the field.
It is said that the world is a huge grass platform team, and their team is even more reckless, and those who have not taken the second subject test have been driven to the shelves.
It's bound to be full of jokes.
Now just watching the trailer can feel the bombardment of Han Han's dense jokes, but it is also conceivable that what cannot be hidden behind the humor is Zhang Chi's love for racing and the heart that is still flying.
I always feel that Han Han's movies over the years are actually telling the same story over and over again. Whether it is "Four Seas", or "Flying Life", including the earlier "After the End".
It's all about how people should reconcile with reality and where to go after bidding farewell to their ideal country.
For the young people in "Four Seas", the ideal country is a romantic, fantasy-filled hometown town; And when it comes to the "racing driver" Zhang Chi, it has become the pride and aura of the former champion.
Thus these films seem like a farce.
But it's tearing off the huge fig leaf, showing you those cruel, real, and black humorous things.
So watching his films, you will laugh, but laughing and laughing will inevitably fall into silence.
Why the silence?
For the more ordinary self that grows up, the more distant the future is chased, or for this blandly life with mixed tastes.
Everyone probably has their own answer in their mind.
used to watch Han Han's **, he loved to write about rebellious people, and the sword went sideways; Now that he's making movies, he's not too far behind.
For so many years, he is still insisting on that kind of idealism like a castle in the air, allowing the protagonists to go away for the love of wandering.
But at the same time, he can't help but arrange a seemingly realistic surreal ending for them.
It seems that in this way we can cross some gap that cannot be bridged.
So going to watch his movies is very much like looking at our past selves, watching how we shoot bullets at the future when we are young and frivolous, and then see how that bullet hits the tired eyebrows of middle-aged people.
So this time, let's see if "Flying Life 2" can continue Han Han's black humor and vigor as always.
Let's Shake the Sun Together
Many people may not know the name, but when it comes to director Han Yan, everyone should have an impression.
As the final chapter of Han Yan's "Life Trilogy", this movie suddenly landed in the Spring Festival stalls, which surprised many people. (The first two were "Get Out!") "Tumor Jun" and "Send You a Little Red Flower").
This film is a life theme that he has always been good at, telling the story of two seriously ill young people who make a mutual agreement.
I watched the prototype story and it was very touching.
A girl in the advanced stage of uremia wants to live, and the doctor says there is only one way: kidney replacement;
A boy with myeloma** gave up hope of life, but struggled to find someone to take care of his father.
The two desperate men hit it off and made a heavy but special deal - "When I die, I will give you my kidney, you don't need to take care of me, but you must help take care of my father." ”
Unexpectedly, the onset of feelings is more sudden than illness.
The experience of being a fellow patient brought them closer and closer until the relationship finally took precedence over the transaction. But when one person's death can open the way for another person's life, how do they choose?
This became the topic that the movie wanted to tell.
The current teaser has revealed two very different sets of shots.
One is the first acquaintance.
It was a misunderstanding between two people, one thought that the other party was a stalker, and the other thought that the other party was engaged in organ trading.
The other is the wedding.
Even if they don't know how long they can stay together, they still choose to accompany each other without hesitation and provide each other with the love they need.
I think Han Yan is very good at photographing this kind of people.
The patients in his lens are very real, without the kind of despair waiting for the verdict to be announced, but like ordinary people, they have a normal life, changing emotions, and their own love and desire.
It is true that a serious illness can be a huge shadow in their lives, but that doesn't mean they have to stop living.
More often than not, instead of lying in a hospital bed depressed, they live with all their might, giving themselves one small goal after another, just wanting to live one more day, one more day.
Their lives have not lost their color, but like ordinary people, although they are gray, they can also see colorful colors.
Isn't everyone's life like this?
There are infinite colors, and there are infinite flavors.
Many people feel that such a tear-jerking movie is not so suitable for the Spring Festival, "If you celebrate the New Year, you should watch it and be happy".
But from another point of view, maybe it's because Han Yan is very confident in this movie, so he found another way.
I look forward to seeing two real people and a moving story to usher in a beautiful ending to the "Life Trilogy".
I feel that these movies during the Spring Festival this year are quite full of flowers.
There are warm and funny, there are female themes and life stories, and there is no absence of a bear infestation every year, which should be able to adapt to the different needs of different people, and focus on a happy one.
Thinking of last year's Spring Festival, although there were some controversies, the overall box office data was very impressive, which was also very encouraging for the film industry.
Let's look forward to continuing this year's success.