saw that Jia Ling took great pains to promote her second movie "Hot and Hot", which created a lot of mystery and aroused the interest of netizens, but she was still worried about her.
Because of the 2021 "Hello, Li Huanying", she directly made her, a non-professional director, soar to become the highest-grossing female director in the world that year.
When "Hello, Li Huanying" became the biggest winner of the Chinese New Year, many people came out to support Jia Ling, claiming that a non-professional director can make such a movie that touches the audience's heart, and those professional directors should be ashamed.
Even once I actually saw a comment like "100 Years of Jia Ling", my scalp was numb, and I always felt that someone was trying to "harm" Jia Ling, and the praise was too high.
Indeed, her first ** movie won the recognition of most audiences with sincerity, and achieved high box office and high reputation, but in fact, this is a kind of luck and has an absolute relationship with the entire environment.
At that time, because of the "mask", the audience held back for a year or two and then came out with this very emotionally appealing comedy movie, which has a lot of social feelings and market luck, and it is not possible to comment on Jia Ling's directorial level with a movie.
What's more, Jia Ling was fired too much back then, but whenever a blockbuster movie is released, the directors must be pulled over to compare with Jia Ling.
For example, in 2021, there will be Jia Ling's idol Andy Lau's "Bomb Disposal Expert 2"; National teacher Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff", as well as the best performance in the second half of the year "Changjin Lake", if we can compare Jia Ling and Qiu Litao, we can turn a blind eye, then it is a bit ridiculous to compare Jia Ling with Tsui Hark and Zhang Yimou.
In fact, most of us understand why "Hello, Li Huanying" wins, it is a kind of emotional value, there are many sensational things, and there are very few things at the technical level of the film, but movies, especially long-term films, are far from enough with a sincere attitude.
After all, Jia Ling relied on her inner touch and luck to stand on the director's highest stage at one time, so next time she can continue to be lucky to create "Hello, Li Huanying 2"?
In fact, there are many people who should have a prejudgment in their minds about this problem.
First of all, let's talk about the text of "Hot and Hot", which is based on the inspirational film "100 Yuan Love" starring Sakura Ando of Japan, this 2014 atypical inspirational film won the Best Film Award at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival.
I was very impatient when I watched the movie introduction "The Story of a Fat Housegirl Who Turned into a Petite Female Boxer", I was afraid that this would be another routine poisonous chicken soup movie.
But after watching it, "100 Yuan Love" became my favorite inspirational film of the year, for no other reason, that is, "100 Yuan Love" does not have the value tradition of Chinese backbone directors, they habitually shoot inspirational films, saying that they are realistic, but the story is full of deliberate sensationalism, which makes people extremely uncomfortable.
But "100 Yuan Love" did not fall into the trap of inspirational films, the values of the story are very positive, the heroine has been very weak, she was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face after failing in the first battle, and she met her boyfriend who was a negative man, and she was a supporting role in life from beginning to end, even if she tried hard in the end, she still did not succeed.
From a secular point of view, she lost completely, but this is the reality of ordinary life, you fight with all kinds of people and swing your fists, meet all kinds of incomprehensible people, this is the life you are assigned, ordinary people have no kung fu to be lyrical, they are all alone waiting to bear silently.
I especially like the heroine, she fell out of love and didn't cry to be a demon, she was beaten into shit in the boxing match, and she didn't lose her fighting spirit, and she didn't do anything glorious at the end of the movie, she can do her favorite look from beginning to end, pat her opponent on the shoulder, and return to the store to help her family, such a character, such a story text, is the secret of the success of "100 Yuan Love".
But Jia Ling, who obviously has traditional Chinese thinking, and even Jia Ling, who has been messing around for so many years under the framework of the sketch "There must be tears, there must be a theme", can she interpret such a story well?
Personally, I think that first of all, this kind of small-people-themed movie story is suitable for Jia Ling to direct, which is considered to be something within her range, Jia Ling is very smart, and she has not been exposed to any suspense films and war movies, obviously she can't win, she only chooses what she is good at.
But the value core of this story is contrary to her previous concepts, and how to grasp the theme of this movie is a problem that Jia Ling has to face.
She put a "small essay" on Weibo during the promotion, and in the "small essay" she mentioned, I don't want you to think that I just made a ** movie, and it doesn't even have much to do with boxing.
It can be seen that she knows the core of the original story very well, but at the same time, there is obviously a little lack of confidence behind the "small composition".
She said that I did my best to make this movie, there is a past me in the movie, and there is also a new me, I hope you can enjoy it.
I don't know if Jia Ling's "new me" refers to the comprehensive "lifting" of the theme story, copying a Chinese version of "Hundred Yuan Love", but if she can remake the original story harmoniously, then I think Jia Ling is very qualified as a director, because it is not easy to remake the local remake of high-scoring movies with themes, and what Jia Ling can do is victory.
But if you want to reproduce the glory of "Hello, Li Huanying", I'm afraid it's not easy, and Jia Ling has a lot to learn on the road of directing.