When the **100-pound Jia Ling appeared, "Hot and Hot" undoubtedly became the most controversial movie in this Spring Festival file.
Before the launch, Jia Ling's secrecy work was perfect, except for the sentence "Success**100 catties", the outside world did not leak any Reuters photos of Jia Ling, some people suspected that she used AI to synthesize virtual people to complete the shooting, and some people suspected that she used a stand-in, and the main one did not believe.
After it was launched, this remake with the label of "Chinese version of "100 Yuan Love" made Jia Ling inevitably compared with Japanese actress Sakura Ando.
What's even more exaggerated is that in the short comment area of Douban, Jia Ling triggered the biggest scolding battle in this Spring Festival stall-
Is Jia Ling using her own gimmick to make money at the box office? Why do people pay to watch a celebrity**? Will it solve all the dilemmas of women? Some people also suggested that the name of the movie should be changed directly to "Jia Ling**".
The three-star and five-star reviews form a stark rivalry.
As a female director who squeezed into the top ten box office in Chinese mainland with just one movie, Jia Ling is full of contradictory buffs.
While moving to tears for "Hello, Li Huanying", people questioned Jia Ling's professional ability: Any genius director's autobiographical film has only one and only one time, so what else can she make next? Will she still be able to produce a steady creative output as a professional director?
is different from the ** wind and rain that is shaking outside the play, "Hot and Hot" is a movie that can be called "too simple", because Jia Ling's creative mode is too simple-In the easy-to-understand story, add an almost stupid sincerity, or the kind of sincerity of "cutting off your own flesh and sacrificing it to the audience".
Indeed, in the entire current Chinese film industry, no one can do it except her, and what is even more odious is that she has done it every time.
Jia Ling is not China's Ando Sakura because she doesn't have amazing acting skills; "Hot and Hot" is not China's "100 Yuan Love", because it does not shoot the core of the original decadence, but is more like a semi-documentary about Jia Ling herself.
[The following contains spoilers].
If you've seen the Japanese movie "100 Yen Love" before, then the story of "Hot and Hot" has already been spoiled.
The setting of the characters in the film, the lines of the key plot, the angle of the camera, and even the outfit, posture, and expression of the protagonist as a boxer at the end are all the same, and you can clearly predict every next story turn.
So originality is the most questionable point of "Hot and Hot".
So what's the difference between the two?
The reason why "100 Yuan Love" got this name is because the heroine Kazuko Saito (played by Sakura Ando) is a self-proclaimed "woman who is only worth 100 yen (5 yuan)".
At the age of 32, she lived a rotten life, playing games at home, gnawing on the old, not bathing, wearing oil-stained pajamas, crawling with fat on her body, and a layer of dead skin on her feet. She was always hunched over her back and stared at everything with a vacant gaze. She is unusually slow to receive all information from the outside world, and even has a longer reflex arc for pain than normal.
She is a corner of Japan's Heisei abandoned house mourning culture, curled up at the bottom of society like a monster, and the original character design is destined to not be presented on the screen of the Chinese New Year file.
His mother ran a bento shop and supported an unemployed son, until the divorced sister came home and the two sisters had a big quarrel, and the son had to leave with his luggage and came to work at a 100 yen convenience store.
It is also interesting to choose a 100 yen convenience store as the background of the story. Only the losers at the bottom of society will spend money in places like the 100-yen convenience store, which is the waste paradise of the bottom of Japan.
Kazuko is also slow as a member of society, and her low socialization makes it difficult for her to cope with external communication. She moved like a corpse every day, until one day, she passed by a boxing gym. Her attention was drawn to the man who was boxing, who would buy bananas at the convenience store every day, and the clerks called him Banana Man.
Like Kazuko, the banana man who is about to retire is also a waste, and Kazuko is just a stinky rag that he pulled when he fell, because only a woman like a waste will not refuse a man like a waste.
The boxing match before the banana man retired made Kazuko feel the concrete vitality for the first time: even if two people fought so fiercely, they could still pat each other on the shoulder and sincerely thank each other after the end. This is the moment when Kazuko became obsessed with boxing.
She used to be silent and silent about all physical and psychological pain. Colleague ** her, she patted her ass and said "it hurts" and went home; The banana man cheated, and she just accepted the reality in silence.
These pent-up resentment and pain pushed her into boxing. She stood in the swamp, and a second before she was about to turn into a disgusted pine nut, a fierce man stood up.
The gym coaches thought it was a woman who used boxing as a relief until they saw her constantly training. She is obsessed with an angry cow, constantly throwing punches and punches towards a set goal.
She needed a race to establish her value, and it was a pure-blooded waste's first initiative to strike.
But a good story doesn't make it easy for ordinary people to hang up. The highlight moment of the movie is a devastating fiasco. The ending cruelly tells everyone that yes, even if you throw a fist, it's useless, God rewards hard work is always a lie, you will still be beaten by the big villain of life to spit blood, and you will still cry "It hurts" (pain).
It was precisely because of the pain in his body that he was able to stand up from the numbness and nothingness, and for the first time there was a different signal in his head: no matter what, he wanted to win once.
Therefore, the original "100 Yuan Love" is an anti-chicken soup story about redemption, and it has nothing to do with the word "**". This also means that if Jia Ling wants to pay tribute to "Hundred Yuan Love", then she is already off topic.
Sakura Ando didn't deliberately gain weight, nor did she deliberately lose weight, she just used her body, muscles and eyes to perfectly restore the two different states of a person when he was depressed and focused
A depressed person, the flesh on his body is swollen and loose;A person who stands up and swings his fists is highly tense and focused from his blood vessels to his eyes.
But on the other hand, it also means that the most successful thing about "Hot and Hot" is that it does not copy the Japanese setting of "100 Yuan Love".
For the Spring Festival file, "Hot and Hot" has also made a very clear and cunning tonal change, which is quite silky and "sinking" in terms of localization. Such a sinking is a more understandable choice for the vast number of urban and rural audiences in China.
Saito's bento shop was changed to a small shop by Le Ying (Jia Ling)'s family;The 100-yuan convenience store where a son works has been converted into a barbecue stall on the side of Xiangyang Street.
The subtle sense of decadence, low desire, nihilism and self-abandonment of Japanese otaku youth is actually difficult to be understood by the general public on the big screen, Jia Ling cleverly transformed the numbness and sluggishness of Saito Kazuko into a flattering personality on Le Ying. For most honest people, this is a role with a low threshold for understanding.
In addition to her parents, every character in the movie has taken advantage of Le Ying's flattering personality and become a face-painted "bully her".
Best friend (played by Li Xueqin) backstabbed her, cheated on her ex-boyfriend (played by Qiao Shan) and asked her to be a bridesmaid; My sister (played by Zhang Xiaofei) wants her school district room, and she can't stop insulting her; A relative's cousin (played by Yang Zi) wants to use her to make a show and make her a clown and joke on TV; The boyfriend of the boxing gym, Haokun (played by Lei Jiayin), slept with her, but he lifted his pants and turned his face to recognize people.
is different from "100 Yuan Love", Jia Ling uses a simpler and popular narrative to interpret Le Ying's determination to box.
When she was most desperate, Le Ying also thought about it, but unfortunately even death didn't take her in. After the suicide failed, Le Ying chose another life at dawn the next day: since everyone betrayed her, then go to boxing to find the meaning of life.
A conversation between Le Ying and her father speaks of this change. Once if she had two apples, she would give them all to someone else; Now that she has two apples, she will "look at the mood".
The biggest difference from the original version is Jia Ling's own original sentence "depending on the mood". At the end of the original version, after a big cry with a banana man, Kazuko and the banana man choose to continue to eat together, which is the realism of reconciliation with pain after fighting with life; At the end of Jia Ling, she left Lei Jiayin with a sentence of "look at the mood", and then left alone with a bag on her back.
For a people-pleasing personality, rejection itself is a rebirth that belongs to her.
The most different from the original is the visual landscape of "Jia Ling**". This landscape becomes a kind of "pseudo-documentary" that overshadows the expression of the film itself.
Several transitions were cut, and the audience could intuitively see the process of Jia Ling's thinning down in boxing training, and the audience almost unanimously exclaimed and applauded. It seems that the first hour and a half of waiting is just to see the last 30 minutes.
Jia Ling's training intensity is enough to make many fitness people break their defenses. Not only is she able to complete boxing training, but she can also complete a 120kg deadlift and a 20kg pull-up. In a way, this is already a battle between heaven and man, a performance art that is almost devastating to the body.
As a 200-pound woman without any training foundation, being able to overcome the innate threshold of women not secreting ** ketones, and train obvious abdominal muscles, biceps brachii and latissimus dorsi in less than a year will be shocking to anyone who understands fitness.
Even after the easter eggs after the film, none of the audience was willing to leave, and everyone watched the behind-the-scenes footage in an exclamation.
In order to shoot the footage of the last game, Jia Ling fought against real boxers and filmed countless times, just to capture the moment when she "really fought back".
She wrote down her weight for each day of the ** process in the easter egg, which was full of real details: the first time she found out that she had ankles, the first time she crossed her legs, and she fulfilled her promise to wear an evening dress.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Ling appeared in the live broadcast of the CCTV China Film Report, and when she lost weight, except for the pear vortex at the corner of her mouth, she did not change, and the whole person was turned upside down, which was completely unrecognizable. Her tone of voice became calmer, and the expression on her face became more flat, like a tired warrior who had just finished a battle.
The real-time barrage scrolling in the comment area said, "I have lost weight and my face has become bitter", "I still like Jia Ling before", "I don't feel like laughing anymore".
Before the **, people said she was unhealthy; Later, people said she wasn't cute. The plight of women is much more than that.
As a movie, "Hot Wave" certainly can't surpass "100 Yuan Love", because it is too family-friendly, still full of vulgar and rotten stalks, and the plot is too simple. It lacks originality, it misreads and misinterprets the spiritual core of the original, and so on.
But as Jia Ling's highly personal work, it seems unusually reasonable. Because of this kind of work that uses life to dissect herself, only she can shoot it. Such film and television creators and such tragic physical sacrifices, I am afraid that there are not a few in the whole of China.
I still remember a long time ago, Jia Ling participated in "Happy Comedian", she wore an ill-fitting red cheongsam, showed off a whole bottle of beer on the stage, and ate watermelon until she was close to vomiting, and even the audience couldn't help but stop. This kind of self-destructive performance has always been her specialty, and it is also the recklessness of daring to cut flesh with a knife hidden under her honest appearance.
Losing 100 pounds for a movie and showing off a whole bottle of beer on stage is actually no different in nature.
Because she's a terrible actor. She can do anything as long as the audience wants to see it.