According to Maoyan professional data, director Jia Ling's film "Hot and Hot" was released for 10 days, with a box office of over 2.9 billion. This result not only won the championship of this year's Spring Festival, but also surpassed the movie "Chinese Captain" and entered the top 20 box office in Chinese film history. So far, among the top 20 box office in Chinese film history, Jia Ling has two works shortlisted, and her first film "Hello, Li Huanying" won 54The box office of 1.3 billion ranked third. You must know that Jia Ling only made these two movies, and the box office of each one can be a big hit, which is also a big miracle in Chinese film history.
As the box office of "Hot and Hot" soars every day, the voices of questioning, disgust and criticism of Jia Ling are gradually rising, and Jia Ling's good reputation accumulated in the hearts of the audience for many years seems to have been destroyed overnight. Some people say that Jia Ling over-marketed **100 pounds to create body anxiety; Some people say that Jia Ling looks ugly, and she hyped her mother last time she filmed, but this time she did not hesitate to hype her figure for the box office; Some people also said conclusively that Jia Ling was not ** at all, and used the most advanced AI stand-in in the play; Some people are "worried" about Jia Ling, saying that she will not be likable after losing weight, and the drama will become narrower, and she will not be able to act in comedy.
I watched "Hot and Hot", it was very good, especially in the second half of the movie, accompanied by the melody of Zhao Yingjun's song "Send You a Little Red Flower", which gave people a sense of excitement. The protagonist Le Ying counterattacked from a fat house lying flat to an amateur boxer, changing not only her weight, but her heart. She was beaten in the ring and lost the match, but she killed the self who had low self-esteem, cowardice, and flattered people everywhere. In the end, "depending on the mood" became Le Ying's verbal language, which still sounded very sad, but God knows how much strength a people-pleasing personality needs to use to say this.
Jia Ling is still the same Jia Ling, with super empathy ability, she keenly captures the pain of those weak people in life who lack a sense of strength and are despised everywhere. Although the movie is a remake, it is localized just right, and its quality is worthy of its box office. But one thing to say, I don't think this movie is perfect enough to score 100 points, and there are some problems from acting skills to plot logic. For example, in the play, Le Ying became a waste material somewhat self-inflicted, her parents were extremely tolerant of her lying flat at home, and even overly doted, and the hardships she suffered later were all she should eat, and it was difficult for this setting to get sympathy from the audience.
But many of the above questions do not revolve around the movie itself, but directly at Jia Ling. That's where it gets interesting. What did Jia Ling do? Is it worth her to collapse the character? It's just throwing half of his life into it, enduring all his hard work according to the standards of training professional fighters, and making a movie seriously with great sincerity. As long as anyone who has watched this movie knows that saying that Jia Ling is **100 pounds in the new film, it is completely misleading and rude understanding. She is not using ** as a gimmick, she follows the plot and uses strict training methods to turn herself into the closest to the character, and when the character becomes a boxer, she becomes a boxer. Her goal is not that Jia Ling has lost weight and become beautiful, but that Jia Ling respects the role and has trained her muscles. This muscle expresses her sincerity towards the film.
Jia Ling's movies are not too deep or valuable, the plot is always easy to understand, the first movie is about the redemption of mother's love, and the second movie is about her own redemption, the common point is that they all pour out their hearts and lungs, and don't take the audience as fools. She could have used a stand-in, or AI special effects, but she didn't, and instead took a shortcut in the clumsiest and most strenuous way. In today's film and television industry, some actors are not even willing to change into tattered clothes for their roles, and some people are unwilling to remove makeup and dye their black hair when acting in anti-Japanese dramas. So why can't Jia Ling's sincerity of losing 100 pounds for the new film be used for marketing? This is the result of her desperate half-life, struggling on the verge of collapse every day, and playing hard, others can speculate CP when marketing movies, engage in false publicity, what's wrong with her touting genuine hot spots?
Deng Chao lost 40 pounds in order to shoot "Shadow" directed by Zhang Yimou, and Wang Chuanjun lost more than 20 pounds in order to perform the sickly patients in "I Am Not the God of Medicine", they can all become models of dedication, why did they become black spots here to Jia Ling? You can't be too double-standard. In the final analysis, many people don't like Jia Ling because her directorial path is too smooth, the first movie is a big hit, and the box office of the second movie is so high, which moves the cake of many people in the circle. They jumped from liking Jia Ling in the past to disgusting Jia Ling's position now, and found many reasons for Jia Ling to collapse.
But I think this is a good thing for Jia Ling. Jia Ling's high emotional intelligence once made her a mascot in the entertainment industry, a national idol-like existence, no matter how handsome a handsome idol is, only he is not worthy of Jia Ling, and no Jia Ling is not worthy of him. She can form CPs with many male stars, and fans don't care, because everyone thinks that Jia Ling will not have scandals with anyone. Jia Ling is the safest. Isn't this a slight contempt, Jia Ling's fat makes many people have a sense of superiority in front of her, thinking that she lacks sexual charm and will not be attractive to male stars. The more he praised her safety, the stronger the contempt. The price of her likability is that she becomes a gender-ambiguous androgynous, and no woman will like this kind of persona.
used to be the chubby, good-tempered, likable, empathetic, and laughing character on variety shows and sketches, which was the biggest shackle on Jia Ling. Trapped in the shackles is not the real Jia Ling, but a shell that Jia Ling is eager to show to the world. Her sense of comedy comes not only from her professional training as a cross talk actor, cleverness, high emotional intelligence, and ability to answer calls, but also from her compulsive self-requirements. She feels obligated to act as a pistachio in a group of people, and it is her mission to make everyone happy. In an interview with Lu Yu when she lost weight, she said, "In the past, if the atmosphere when everyone was together was a little awkward, I would definitely jump out and tell a joke." Implicit in this behavior is an inferiority complex, a desire to gain recognition by pleasing others, "If I can make others happy, I will be liked." ”
Jia Ling has been fat for many years, but she has never reconciled with herself, she just reluctantly accepts reality and completes her comedy path through self-deprecation. Now that she is thinner and lighter, she has other options, and the acting path will not be narrower, but wider. Jia Ling's inferiority complex, which has lost weight, is also being eliminated little by little, characterized by the fact that she is no longer deliberately funny, will not take the initiative to act as a pistachio in the crowd, and there is a resolute and resolute light in her eyes. This kind of change is not entirely brought about by **, but a person who adheres to self-discipline for a long time and completes a career that requires a huge price will give him a huge sense of achievement, which will make people rethink their self-worth and self-positioning.
She said that when a group of people were in an awkward atmosphere, she would look at the mood, "If you are tired, you don't care." "Look at the mood" is also what Le Ying said at the end of the movie, whether to give the apple to others to see the mood, whether to accept the ex-boyfriend's date to see the mood. "Watching the mood" in everything means the awakening of a people-pleasing personality, which means that her life finally has a rare sense of relaxation. In the future, she will follow her own heart, and will not be too nervous and anxious, let alone long-term internal friction, and repeatedly think about the needs of others. She pays more attention to herself and loves herself more. To love yourself is the real core of the movie "Hot and Hot", which Jia Ling told us again outside the movie. The price is that she has broken her personality. But thankfully, it finally collapsed, and only after the collapse could I be free.