If you had two apples,
one big and one small,
which one would you give to your friend?
Author: Gao Yuan
The first movie ticket in the Year of the Dragon in Jiachen, many people bought " Hot Hot ".
, an inspirational comedy film co-written, directed and starred by Jia Ling , became a hot topic as soon as it was released on New Year's Day.
"Jia Ling is really shocked", "Is Jia Ling's plastic surgery method of losing weight reliable?" "Jia Ling said weight loss has nothing to do with movies" and other various entries came one after another.
For a time, the movie ticket became a ticket for the audience to test Jia Ling's weight loss results with their own eyes. The discussion about the actor's personality far outweighed the content of the movie itself. The overwhelming publicity immediately caused a lot of controversy. Some people were moved by Jia Ling's hard work and sincerity and went crazy; some asked, isn't it a professional duty for actors to lose weight for their roles? According to the professional version of
Lighthouse, as of 18:20 on February 12, the box office of "Hot and Spicy" has exceeded 1.1 billion for three days since its release, temporarily ranking first in the Spring Festival.
· As of 18:20 on February 12, the box office of "Hot and Spicy" has exceeded 1.1 billion.
In a large cinema in Luoyang, Henan, during the post-credits Easter egg segment, a sturdy man could not help but wipe his tears while facing the screen. After
ended, he told a reporter from Global People: "It seems that I saw what I looked like when I lost weight, and I feel a little bit sympathetic." With the popularity of
, when we put aside the hot topics and focus on the movie story itself, we will find a true truth Jia Ling, who has made ordinary audiences sympathize, is slowly stepping out of the big screen -
She has chosen a road less traveled, trying to please, working hard, failing and standing up again, and just wants to win for herself once. And these all coincide with the heroine Du Leying in "Hot and Spicy".
If "Hello, Li Huanying" is Jia Ling's love letter to her mother, then "Hot" is undoubtedly Jia Ling's self-confession.
Before losing weight, gain weight first
"Hot and Spicy" seems to be a slightly clichéd inspirational story at first glance. In the
play, the heroine Du Leying played by Jia Ling worked for a while after graduating from college, but later resigned due to interpersonal problems and stayed at home for many years with nothing to do. The biggest amount of exercise she does every day is to shift from one end of the sofa to the other in the morning when the sun hits her eyes, and then fall back to sleep.
When someone asked her, what was her biggest feeling after lying in bed for so many years? She thought about it and said that she felt like she could stay in bed for a few more years.
· Jia Ling plays Du Leying (right) in "Hot and Spicy".
One day, her cousin, who works in a television station, came to her home and invited Le Ying to participate in a reality show in Taiwan, claiming that she could find a satisfactory job for her through the show.
At this point, the gears of fate began to turn. Le Ying experienced running away from home, breakup, betrayal, ridicule, and abandonment. Finally, she came up with the idea of participating in a boxing match as an amateur. After a year of weight loss and training, she finally stood in the ring...
Offscreen, in order to play the role of Du Leying well, the first thing Jia Ling had to do was to gain weight, not lose weight.
"I gained weight from 170 pounds to 210 pounds. I hope to portray a feeling of being very heavy and a little out of touch with society."
Jia Ling said that the weight gain was to subvert her past perception of being "too lovable" in the eyes of the audience. "image", but not too fat, to reach a suitable weight, just enough to create a sense of strangeness.
· In order to create a good character, Jia Ling must first gain weight.
Gaining weight is as painful as losing it.
"Although you can eat and drink as much as you want, the psychological pressure is very high." Gaining weight caused Jia Ling's blood sugar indicators to fluctuate continuously, causing her mood to fluctuate and causing serious internal friction. Fortunately, during this period, she was participating in the creation of the script as one of the screenwriters, which was more conducive for her to get closer to Le Ying's mournful character state.
mourning is the main tone of the original work of "Hot and Spicy" " Hundred Yuan Love ".
, a Japanese film released in 2014 starring powerful actor Sakura Ando, won the Best Film Award at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival. Jia Ling had watched the film early in the morning. When adapting it, she did not copy the original work. Instead, while retaining the shell of the story, she abandoned the core of Japanese mourning culture and instead used a positive approach to portray the characters.
Jia Ling's weight loss started after the filming of the weight gain scenes was completed. In the post-credits scene of "Hot and Spicy", she released a detailed weight loss memorandum.
"3 o'clock in the morning, so hungry" "Crying loudly" "The devil's training begins" "My whole body hurts" "But 100 pounds! 100 pounds! I did it! Always proud of myself!" The memo shows that Jia Ling, who is 1.66 meters tall, , the lightest weight recorded is 109 pounds.
During her weight loss period, Jia Ling once joked with her coach that if she could resist hunger, could she not eat for a year? In fact, she "eats very healthily and just keeps practicing", because after the character counterattacks, she doesn't just have to lose weight. As a boxer, she also needs to have tendons.
· After losing weight, Jia Ling developed a muscular body.
Jia Ling’s initial target image was Zhang Weili, the famous Chinese professional mixed martial arts athlete. Although she admitted in the end that she was still far away from her goal, she had tried her best.
On the night of the filming of "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling sat on the edge of the bed alone and ate 5 packs of chocolate wafers with her shirt off, totaling 30 yuan. "Looking back now, I feel very handsome, like a tired warrior holding his trophy!"
Regarding the promotion strategy, she explained that this movie actually has nothing to do with weight loss, and it has nothing to do with boxing.
"Being thin is not my ultimate goal. I want the audience to see a person who is very positive and starts to love herself."
· Jia Ling posted on Weibo about the film creation process.
What does it look like to love yourself
What does it look like to love yourself?
In "Hot and Spicy", after successfully losing weight, Du Leying asked her father a question: If you had two apples, one big and one small, which one would you give to your friend? The father said, I will give the big one.
Le Ying smiled and said that in the past she would give both to her friends, who thought she didn't like eating apples, so now, she depends on her mood. The implication is that you can give both or none.
"Love yourself" is the title of "Hot and Spicy", and "depending on your mood" is the first step to love yourself. It’s just that Le Ying in the first half of the movie didn’t understand this yet.
When her best friend stole her boyfriend, Le Ying still chose to attend their wedding and became a bridesmaid. Because her friend begged and said that if she didn't go, she would really become a mistress; when having dinner with her favorite male coach whom she met at the boxing gym, he ordered bullfrog. Le Ying didn't like it, but she was embarrassed to refuse...
· Lei Jiayin Plays the role of boxing gym coach Hao Kun (left).
In order to maintain a relationship, he always puts others first and ignores his own true feelings. This is a typical pleaser personality.
Even when asked why she likes boxing, Le Ying's answer was: "Two people fought like that and hugged each other in the end. I thought that if you want to be hugged, you can only be good to others."
in the movie Le Ying pleases the people around her, and throughout Jia Ling's acting career, pleasing the audience is a task that she cannot shirk as a comedian.
As we all know, Jia Ling first entered the entertainment industry as a crosstalk actress. In 2010, she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time and performed an original cross talk "Big Talk" with her partner Bai Kainan .
This program was scheduled 5 minutes after the New Year’s bell rang. The two people’s performances were drowned in the sound of firecrackers that resounded in the sky. Fortunately, relying on the power of the Spring Festival Gala replay, people knew that there was a female crosstalk actor who studied under Feng Gong. My name is Jia Ling.
· Jia Ling (left) and Bai Kainan appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Even though she has two pear dimples and her smile is full of energy, it is not easy for a female comic actor to please the audience.
"Female crosstalk actors must have a good grasp of the subtlety of performance. They must not appear too witty or too cunning, and they must have a little bit of humor, but not too much." This is what Jia Ling has learned through practice after performance. techniques for pleasing an audience.
But the reality is that no matter how hard Jia Ling tries, the effect is not as good as her partner frowning his iconic eyebrows. Finally one day, she said to Bai Kainan: "Brother, I don't want to talk about cross talk anymore."
In 2015, Jia Ling, who moved to the field of sketches, participated in a comedy competition show " Happy Comedian ". The
competition is fiercely competitive and time is tight. Jia Ling has to stay up late almost every day to polish the script and rehearse, and then go home to catch up on her sleep during Beijing's morning rush hour. Nervous, anxious and suffering, at the most difficult time, she once wanted to quit the entertainment industry.
· Jia Ling (right) on the stage of "Happy Comedian".
What's worse is that some viewers don't buy the works she puts her best into creating. Every time she competes for a new work, there are voices questioning her for pretending to be crazy and insulting women. In this regard, she expressed her grievance: "I tried my best to make you smile. Forget it if you don't smile, you come over and push me."
But in the end she still chose to apologize. "I feel wronged. I feel that I have no malicious intent." Jia Ling said, "But no matter who you hurt by what you did, you should apologize because you are a public figure."
Later, Jia Ling participated in various variety shows , reality shows, being ugly, funny, and making jokes still require people to please, and occasionally they have to endure malicious editing for the sake of ratings.
· Jia Ling performs funny imitations in variety shows.
In an early reality show, a rural grandmother said that she had not taken a shower in 72 years. The scene that followed showed Jia Ling giving a thumbs up and saying, "Awesome."
Later, Jia Ling clarified that the real situation at the scene was that she said she wanted to take her grandma to take a bath. "No matter how bad my character is, I can't say that. Aren't I mentally ill?" The
program team also deliberately cut the scene of her sleeping with the scenes of other guests working hard. In this regard, she said half-jokingly: "It's nothing. Maybe my role as a big name attracts the audience more than others." A similar plot also appeared in
"Hot and Spicy".
In order to use her to create a show gimmick, Leying's cousin took the words of her quarrel with her family and put them together out of context, causing her to be scolded by the audience. On the stage, facing the fierce questioning, she would rather cry secretly than expose her cousin.
At that moment, Jia Ling during the performance may have thought of herself back then.
In the movie
, after Le Ying experienced setbacks, she finally got on the ring and represented her boxing gym in the women's 56kg competition.
But the ending was disastrous. In the three rounds, she was unable to resist and was beaten by professional athletes, leaving her unable to fight back. Leying's face was covered with blood, and she fell and got up again and again.
"I can fight, I can fight." She chanted and persisted until the last second of the game.
The failure of this game is a victory in Le Ying's eyes. Coming out of the locker room, she walked with ease. She saw the person she once liked waiting for her, who wanted to treat her to a bullfrog.
This time, she did not hesitate and replied: "I don't like eating bullfrogs."
The other party wanted to treat her to something else at another time, so she smiled lightly and replied: "It depends on your mood."
· In the movie, Le Ying Lost the game, but won life.
stopped trying to please others, and Leying started to love herself.
Regarding this, Jia Ling talked about the original intention of making this movie: "I like the ending of it very much. I feel that people do not necessarily win every time in life, and the normal state of life is to lose. But throughout the whole process, as long as you have a clear conscience, As long as you try your best, I think you have won."
"Hot and Spicy" is the second film directed by Jia Ling. Her first film "Hello, Li Huanying" grossed 5.4 billion in box office, ranking third on the box office list in Chinese film history, helping her become the female director with the highest box office in Chinese film history.
At that time, for her first time directing, Jia Ling once admitted that her understanding of movies was relatively shallow, so she tried to impress the audience with her true feelings during filming.
It is said that during the filming of a crying scene on the set of "Hello, Li Huanying", Jia Ling filmed more than 30 scenes in a row, and her eyes were swollen from crying. The makeup artist kept touching her makeup next to her, and once she cried until 3am.
's real-life methodology continues in "Hot and Spicy".
Gaining and losing weight is a form of her completely surrendering her body to the role. The setting of a flattering personality, the coincidence of personal experiences, etc., are how she mentally endowed the character with her own flesh and blood, allowing a true, ordinary, and unyielding screen image to grow freely.
· Leying stepped onto the ring and thought of her former self.
has audience comments. There is no technique, it is all emotion. This is the reason why director Jia Ling can always make people empathize deeply. Of course, some people say that as a director, this is sensational, sentimental and unprofessional.
Jia Ling seems to be full of confidence in her own methodology. Someone asked her if she had ever thought about how the filming of the movie would go on if she didn't lose weight successfully.
She said: "No, I have never doubted myself."
When Le Ying in the movie won her life, the real Jia Ling, as an ordinary person, was also trying to love herself.
"I am learning slowly now. I really hope to be like the girl in the movie. The last thing I want to say is, it depends on your mood."
· Jia Ling accepted an exclusive interview and showed her iconic smile.
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