Text | An Qing
Editor | 9527 Miao Gujun
Although there are no industrial blockbusters in this year’s Spring Festival, it is still very lively.
Zhang Yimou, who has always played a stable role, meets the audience with his new movie "Article 20". The main creative lineup alone is enough to attract attention.
Shen Teng, the only big box office player in the comedy industry today, will meet the audience on New Year's Day with "Flying Life 2".
Not to mention that the movie IP is right there, Shen Teng’s name alone can attract audiences into the cinema.
As for Andy Lau's "Mr. Red Carpet", "Let's Shake the Sun Together" starring Peng Yuchang and Li Gengxi also attracted the attention of many movie fans during its initial announcement.
However, judging from the box office performance, "Hot", which also has great potential, seems a bit sluggish.
Especially the attendance rate is completely at the bottom. This data trend shows that the number of screenings in theaters overestimates the market appeal of the movie. If
continues, the number of filming scenes for "Hot and Spicy" will only gradually decrease. The reasons for this market situation are also obvious.
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The figure has become a gimmick, and fans continue to wait and see.
Jia Ling's "Hot" is her key work after "Hello, Li Huanying". The success of "Hello, Li Huanying" is ultimately a blind cat's death. Mouse's accident.
is also the starting point for Jia Ling's successful transformation, which all depends on the market feedback after the launch of "Hot and Spicy".
But from the current point of view, the biggest gimmick of "Hot and Spicy" is Jia Ling's successful weight loss.
In order to retain a sense of surprise, Jia Ling deliberately reduced her presence this year.
was absent from "Travel of Youth" and "Ace vs. Ace", quit performing in the Spring Festival Gala sketches, and even did not participate in various promotional activities for the film.
Jia Ling lost 100 pounds, but there is no photo of Jia Ling’s successful weight loss on the entire Internet.
Now, the movie is about to be released online, and "Hot and Spicy" has released the latest trailer clip. There is a woman wearing boxing gloves in the
clip, but judging from the body shape and curvature of the profile.
This is not Zhang Xiaofei, more like Jia Ling who has lost weight.
The key is that this figure silhouette has obvious traces of exercise. Not only is the body smaller, but the profile also has clearer bones.
Compared with the skinny domestic entertainment female stars, Jia Ling is indeed not as good as
, but her strong arms, perfect hips and breasts highlight her slender ant waist.
Jia Ling in this state is not only very thin, but also has an enviable sense of strength.
So as soon as this clip appeared, it completely stole the spotlight and sparked a heated discussion on the Internet.
The audience is of course curious about what Jia Ling has become after losing 100 pounds.
However, the film crew deliberately concealed the rhythm of the announcement, which also took away the audience's expectations for the plot content and lineup configuration.
Moreover, Jia Ling was not fat before. She is not a good-looking Jia Ling, so it is unlikely that she will attract attention in terms of image.
Furthermore, if a movie only uses the heroine’s figure as a gimmick.
It is reasonable for viewers to worry about the quality of the movie's plot.
In addition, Jia Ling is always a new director, whether she is an actress or behind the scenes. Neither
is as reliable as other movie configurations.
Therefore, the success or failure of "Hot and Spicy" lies in the first-run reviews after its release. If the reviews are stable, the box office of the movie will also be stable.
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trailer clip caused controversy. Can Jia Ling make a comeback this time?
"Hot and Spicy" failed to achieve higher attendance despite the advantage of film schedule.
is actually related to the content of the movie itself. The
movie is adapted from the Japanese movie "One Hundred Dollar Love". The original content is actually a decadent healing style.
The idle heroine has a crush on a rough boxer, and in order to get closer to him, she begins to change her life, which has no fighting spirit.
In Japanese movies, salted fish is always salted fish, and there is no reward for hard work.
But this more realistic ending comforted the audience, but this is not the case in the movie "Hot and Spicy".
The movie title "Hot and Spicy" has an inexplicable positive energy. Compared to decadence, the style of this movie is more of an inspirational film.
Especially after the movie focused on Jia Ling’s success in losing weight.
I'm even more curious about whether the point of this movie has deviated from the original track.
In addition, some of the clips that have been released in the movie also make people feel strongly uncomfortable.
Although the male protagonist in "One Hundred Dollar Love" also encountered some low points in life.
But he is handsome, and actor Hirofumi Arai has a sense of rough-and-tumble rental-house literature.
Even if the audience can't get his appearance, his muscles are real.
But in the movie "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling found the extremely popular Lei Jiayin to portray this role.
When the audience saw that the heroine's crush was Lei Jiayin, they were even more stunned.
Even though the male protagonist and the female protagonist are evenly matched, Jia Ling in the movie is still amplifying the anxiety of the fat girl.
The way she portrays her secret love is to follow the male protagonist and watch carefully, not daring to raise her head.
's eyes were full of wretchedness. Those who knew he didn't have a crush on her, but those who didn't know really thought he was trying to steal something.
The heroine in the original movie is decadent and has no hope of life.
But she is not a pervert, nor is she blindly inferior. Such a character has a core problem. She can even be the decadent Liu Yifei.
But she cannot be a superficial person who has low self-esteem because of her figure.
Furthermore, you have cast an average male to play the male lead, and you are still deliberately creating the anxiety of a fat girl.
The gimmick of the final movie is another successful weight loss, which completely deviates from the original intention of "One Hundred Dollar Love".
Audiences with real body anxiety will have their feelings of inferiority exacerbated by the movie.
And viewers who have no problem with their body shape will also start to examine their own appearance.
Obviously the original version is a movie that encourages all ordinary people.
Now it looks like a weight loss promotional video, and the final reward for weight loss is Lei Jiayin.
It’s no wonder that many viewers start to worry about the quality of the movie before watching it.
But having said that, Jia Ling is really awesome at losing weight for the movie.
Not everyone can lose 100 pounds. Her love for movies and her sincerity in acting are all admirable under the background of her perseverance.
But I want to say that according to the story that the original movie wanted to express, the obvious body changes are completely unnecessary. The heroine in the original version of
only lost more than 10 pounds. What really impressed the audience was that she didn't achieve anything.
But she changed from a middle-aged woman with hopeless eyes, smoking a cigarette, to an ordinary person with firm eyes and motivation.
But Jia Ling can lose 100 pounds before and after, she is no longer an ordinary person. People like
can become well-known weight loss bloggers even if they share their weight loss experience online.
So compared to losing weight, the core of the plot of "Hot and Spicy" is the key.
does not have the core of the original version, and the movie itself is just an ordinary inspirational movie.
Finally, what do you think of the news about Jia Ling’s weight loss success?
Are you looking forward to her performance in the movie?
Join the discussion in the comment area.
