The biggest winner of the movie Flying Life 2 in 2024 will undoubtedly be produced from "Hot and Hot" and "Flying Life 2", and the box office results of the two films have easily exceeded the 1 billion yuan mark, and it is expected to jointly create a new record for the total box office results of Spring Festival films.
In this way, the two films that "dominate" the Spring Festival file, comparing the "same" and "different" in them horizontally, are still a bit interesting.
On the one hand, from the perspective of the "same" aspect of the film, the former "Hot and Hot" is Jia Ling's second film after the high reputation and high box office "Hello, Li Huanying", while the latter "Flying Life 2" is Han Han's follow-up work since the success of "Flying Life".
It can be said that both films have high hopes for Jia Ling and Han Han, and what Jia Ling needs to break through is the "unbearable height" after "Hello, Li Huanying", and further prove that the success of the previous work is no accident.
And Han Han also suffered a double failure at the box office and word-of-mouth in "Four Seas", and he urgently needed to prove himself again, and the in-depth development of his masterpiece "Flying Life" has undoubtedly become the first choice.
There is also a lot of similarity from the perspective of the main creative teams of the two films, Jia Ling and Han Han, who were born in 82, are the same age, and neither of them is from the director department, Jia Ling is from a cross talk actor who crossed over, while Han Han is a writer and a professional racing driver, both of whom belong to the juniors in the field of directing, and can even be said to be newcomers with little qualifications.
From the perspective of the film's more critical story structure, both works use the dual-core elements of "sports + inspirational", among them, "Hot and Hot" transforms the heroine "Du Leying" from a negative and decadent "otaku" to a positive and optimistic "female boxer", while "Flying Life 2" aims to return the male protagonist "Zhang Chi" from a decadent and depressed "driving school coach" to a confident and passionate professional racing driver.
On the other hand, from the perspective of the "different" aspects of the two films, the biggest selling point of "Hot and Hot" lies in Jia Ling herself, as the starring Jia Ling, who lost 100 pounds of weight and took the new state as the biggest attraction point, stimulating the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie, and Jia Ling after the big change did this, which stimulated the audience's empathy and tears to the greatest extent.
The biggest highlight of "Flying Life 2" is Shen Teng, known as the "first brother of domestic comedy", Shen Teng, with his salty and sweet state and super character control ability, let the character image of "Zhang Chi" return, whether it is his loneliness at the trough of his life, or his passion when he returns to the top, he has his own laughter and tears.
In addition, "Hot and Hot" is an adaptation of the Japanese film "100 Yuan Love", although the introduction of domestic "Hot and Hot" basically maintains the story framework of "100 Yuan Love", as well as the slightly tragic story tone.
However, Jia Ling's reasonable additions and deletions, as well as the addition of more localized storylines, still made this "Hot and Hot" successfully surpass the previous work and achieve its own wonderful.
And "Flying Life 2" is Han Han's second development of his famous work "Flying Life", I have to say that following the fiasco of the recent work "Four Seas", which also focuses on the theme of racing, and the criticism of many audiences, Han Han himself is not much less under pressure than Jia Ling.
Therefore, when the filming of "Flying Life 2" started, Han Han was also regarded as a "double insurance", one is to recall Shen Teng, Yin Zheng, Zhang Benyu and other original members, and the other is to maintain the basic story line of the previous work, restructure the new "Flying Life" story, and replicate the success of the previous work to the greatest extent.
In any case, as a commercial film, judging from the most critical box office results, Jia Ling and Han Han undoubtedly "bet right", both of them returned to the peak of their directorial careers with their own unique methods, and I really hope that the two cutting-edge directors can bring more powerful works to the audience in the later stage.