" Hot and Spicy " poster (part)
Director Jia Ling's second feature film "Hot and Spicy" was released for three days. As of yesterday evening, the box office exceeded 1.1 billion yuan, gradually opening up to lead " Speeding Life 2 "'s advantages, it is expected to lock in this year's Spring Festival box office champion in advance. According to industry forecasts, the total box office of "Hot and Spicy" may exceed 4 billion yuan. The current suspense is whether Jia Ling can create history with two movies and become a female director with a box office of over 10 billion yuan.
From the time the filming of "Hot and Spicy" was confirmed to the film's release, Jia Ling remained hidden from public view for a year. After the film was released, Jia Ling, who had "thinned into a flash of lightning", expressed the same point of view in multiple interviews: I hope the audience can feel the full content of the film and not pay too much attention to Jia Ling's weight. However, the way a movie is received is always easily separated from the director's will. "Jia Ling's weight" has become the fulcrum of the movie's box office. "Is it easier for celebrities to lose weight than ordinary people?" and other gossips that are independent of the content of the movie. higher. There is a passage in "Hot and Spicy" where the heroine Du Leying mustered up the courage to accept an invitation to a reality TV show. Facing the camera, she tried to reveal her long-suppressed inner thoughts and confessed how she struggled when she first entered the workplace because of her flattering personality. He was so hurt that he stayed at home for ten years. However, the program directors and guests dismissed this. They decided the direction and climax of the program with preset stereotypes, and "shaped" the "fat house" the program needed through malicious editing. This fictional plot and the movie's real-world encounters form a meaningful mirror image. "Hot and Spicy" has been doing well at the box office. Correspondingly, director Jia Ling was accused of "making money with the remake", "not worthy of being compared with the original " Hundred Yuan Love "" and "marketing weight". At this point, as an inspirational comedy, "Hot and Spicy" has transcended the comedy itself. It has become a fable, about the intertext of "I am in you, and you are in me" between life and art.
"Hot and Spicy" is indeed a remake of "One Hundred Dollars of Love", and Jia Ling's creative inspiration came from that Japanese movie that has a good reputation among movie fans. The ratings of "100 Yuan Love" on social networking sites, which was filmed ten years ago, come from 180,000 users. This means that most of the viewers who watched "Hot and Spicy" in the past few days have probably not watched "100 Yuan Love". love of". In fact, Jia Ling did not copy "One Hundred Dollar Love" into the Chinese environment. As an actor with strong personal identification, she will not "play Ando Sakura" in the movie. "" created a new story and used a completely different performance method from Sakura Ando to deal with the theme of "women's bodies and drama".
The only thing "Hot" and "One Hundred Dollar Love" have in common is that they confront "women's bodies in different states as landscapes" and the drama and sociality involved. But the two movies went in different directions. The script of "100 Yuan Love" and the performance of Sakura Ando are both artistic rhetoric. In "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling hides the deepest part of her personal life. The secret was sacrificed to creation. For Du Leying in the story, Jia Ling, as a writer and performer, has no way to hide in front of the camera. She is also the director and starring, and she is the person standing on both sides of the camera at the same time. She is ruthless Exploited herself.
Jia Ling, who has switched from cross talk and sketches to movies, is still a novice in the job of director and screenwriter. The first hour of "Hot and Spicy" is filled with lax jokes and overly lengthy narratives. This is an unavoidable shortcoming of the film. However, Jia Ling conveys the humbleness of ordinary people comparing their feelings to others with her seemingly flat and dull restraint. Of course, one can criticize "Hot and Spicy" for failing to reach a higher level of creation. For example, it uses comedy to reproduce the boring process of "fitness". For example, the theme of "loving yourself" can expand richer and more specific dramatic imagination, and even , compared with too many "boxing movies" that have great reputations, the ring scenes in this one are a bit mediocre.
What is unique about this film, however, is that it makes the line between artistic fiction and ordinary people's confessions transparent.Du Leying, who is fat and geeky, is a soft persimmon that everyone can pinch. Even if the female boxer loses all her muscles and falls in the boxing ring, she still makes the scumbag who used to "eat soft food" frightened. In reality, Jia Ling was a pistachio that everyone loved when she weighed 180 pounds, because she was considered non-aggressive. She always kept only the self-deprecating bullets to herself, pleasing the audience of men, women and children. However, when she appeared in front of the camera with a lean and capable appearance, and calmly expressed her hidden edge, people couldn't help but regret that "she is more cute if she is fatter" and "will she be depressed if she is so thin?", as if she was a smart, intelligent woman. The beautiful and aggressive female artist must be unfortunate, at least, because she has lost the privilege of pleasing the audience so that "the comedian's road has come to an end." Therefore, "Hot and Spicy" can be regarded as a "meta-creation". It is separated from the film's expression and poured into Jia Ling's criticism. It is a "work" that coexists with the original film. It spreads from Du Leying's story to Jia Ling’s experience finally points to the situation of female creators. Art and life are each a source of light that illuminates the other.
Author: Liu Qing
Text: Liu Qing Editor: Qian Yichen
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