From the Spring Festival to today, the movie "Hot and Spicy" directed by Jia Ling has exceeded 3 billion. The director
and this work are subject to new criticisms every moment, and one after another summed up the "seven hot sins", "the sorrow of Chinese movies", "lost weight and lost weight" and "lost weight by one person" "National consumption" and other major crimes, it seems that Jia Ling has committed such a heinous crime that she single-handedly brought down Chinese movies.
In this situation, I think of Anne Ernault, the woman who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. Her award once caused the academic community to question, "Is private writing sufficiently public?" This is almost slander. Countless female creators have spoken about the legitimacy of their own writing, implying that "women's stories are inherently inferior."
Anne Ernault responded to this in "Memory of a Girl": Every day, in every corner of the world, there is a group of men surrounding a woman, ready to throw stones at her at any time.
Jia Ling is more than seven deadly sins
Who would have thought that the director who single-handedly changed the pattern of Chinese films would be Jia Ling.
"Hot and Spicy," the movie that was scheduled to be the box office champion during the Spring Festival, and its director Jia Ling, have been trashed.
Chinese movies have even ushered in the "darkest moment" because of this -
The fact that "Hot and Spicy" exploded is a tragedy for Chinese movies.
Jia Ling's box office success is a shame in the entire film history.
Jia Ling has dragged Chinese movies into the abyss.
Source: Internet
netizens broke through the defense in a large area.
Someone wrote a long article and made a video, detailing the seven deadly sins of "Hot and Spicy" from marketing and content to Jia Ling's acting skills and abilities.
even did not hesitate to praise Guo Jingming's "Little Times", just to stamp that Jia Ling made a big bad movie that affected the direction of Chinese movies.
Source: b station
At first, they were disgusted that Jia Ling used "losing 100 pounds" as a selling point and over-marketed.
"High box office due to marketing."
"Can this be called a movie?"
Source: Douban
Later, they concluded that Jia Ling had made a bad start.
If all directors follow Jia Ling's example, and don't make movies well, and only engage in marketing and antagonism between men and women, and cater to female audiences to pay for the box office, Chinese movies will be finished.
Source: Weibo @乐子人也
plagiarized "One Hundred Dollars of Love", which is another stone they threw at Jia Ling.
said it was a remake, but didn't listen. The director and screenwriter of
's original work came out to congratulate Jia Ling, but didn't even watch it.
Source: Weibo
In short, what they call "Hot and Spicy" is marketing, plagiarism, money making, and trashy. It should be nailed to a pillar of shame.
Hupu netizens who gave "Flying Life 2" a score of 9.6 gave "Hot and Spicy" a 3.5.
Source: Hupu
At the same time, outside of the movie, Jia Ling has more than seven crimes.
When she was fat in the past, people urged her to lose weight. When she lost weight, she was still criticized:
Her nasolabial folds were so obvious and she lacked energy, but she still looks good if she is fat.
’s face has changed, it’s not funny anymore.
Is she depressed?
Source: Xiaohongshu
She lost 100 pounds and was questioned for being fake. She was an AI or a stand-in, using black technology.
What’s even more outrageous is that some people say that what we see is no longer the real Jia Ling, but a “fake Ling”.
Source: Weibo
is engaged in conspiracy theories. From a photo, it is speculated that Jia Ling has joined the Illuminati, and losing weight is her mission after joining the Illuminati.
This is another witch who deserves to be burned on the stake.
Source: Weibo
Those who have sex brain began to make up the ridiculous plot that "Jia Ling lost weight and made Shen Teng's wife feel like a formidable enemy".
It seems that all the actresses in the comedy circle are reserves for Shen Teng's harem.
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In addition, Jia Ling's major crime is "backstabbing women" in the movie and "serving in the beauty service" outside the movie.
makes big waves, steps up to the sky, wears a slit evening dress, she conveys body anxiety.
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There are still voices urging marriage and birth, although it is late, it is coming.
The 42-year-old Jia Ling is deeply concerned by Hupu netizens. "She has lost weight and become more beautiful. She can get married and have children" and "it is best to have a boy."
Source: Hupu
These days, I am shocked to see the 360-degree judge surrounding Jia Ling.
The movie is terrible, the box office is inflated, the weight loss is fake...
It turns out that a woman's success will win more than just flowers and applause, but also more stones and doubts.
"What she made deserves to be called a movie?" "She ruined Chinese movies."
It turns out that Jia Ling ruined Chinese movies.
The Spring Festival schedule can accommodate a director who shoots scenes of raping women in three films in a row, but there is no room for Jia Ling.
Chen Sicheng has no credit at all for creating a large number of Chen Sicheng-style movies, and it is Jia Ling's fault that ruined the movies.
Why we cheer for Jia Ling
Of course, "Hot" is not a perfect or the best movie.
But it should not be reduced to nothing.
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Maybe you will be offended by the stereotyped shit and pissing scenes in the film that are meant to be funny.
Or, you walked into the cinema with a comedy about making dumplings during the Spring Festival, but you didn’t find it that funny because of the tragic core it contained.
The narrative and rhythm have shortcomings, but Jia Ling's personal charm and absolute sincerity are the reasons why we like this movie.
She lay dormant for a year, reshaping her body with such sincerity that she almost sacrificed herself, showing off her strong muscles, pursuing the power of punching, and also releasing her ambition to win and live once. .
Source: Douyin
There are also those female moments that bring tears to the eyes, and those shining points cannot be erased. In the movie
, there is a moment when Leying cried out in pain but there were no wounds on her body.
is like a metaphor for women being invisible deprived and hurt in reality.
Outside the movie, there was a moment when Jia Ling was worried that Li Xueqin would be exposed during filming, so she brought a blanket and safety pants.
Li Xueqin said, "Working with Sister Ling makes me feel very safe." It is the embodiment of female friendship and cooperation.
Source: Douyin
Le Ying finally said “I don’t like bullfrogs” and “it depends on my mood”.
At the end, Jia Ling refused to return home and was beautiful alone, and firmly wrote a brave hymn of "treating women as subjective people".
Source: Internet
For these moments, these emotions that only women understand, we are willing to cheer for Jia Ling again and again.
We affirm Jia Ling, but we are not saying that "Hot and Spicy" is so good that it has no shortcomings.
rather affirms that a woman in a difficult living space uses her body to resist the resistance of traditional narratives and structures, and repeatedly breaks through the encirclement.
scholar Dai Jinhua said that film is a hyper-masculine and patriarchal field, including all film languages and narrative modes, and women can hardly gain a foothold in this field.
When Jia Ling entered the comedy circle, she was out of place as a woman. Source: Internet
As for Jia Ling, in this environment where she could hardly stand, as a woman, she had no family background to support her, and no lucky stars from heaven to help her.
She only relied on herself and found a new path.
formed a team to attract investment, control the right to speak, use absolute execution to reshape the body, complete the film, and reap the box office. At one time, she became the female director with the highest box office in the world, and her second work continued to be a hit.
If this is not worthy of praise or saying "amazing", but instead gets slandered from 360 degrees, I really don't know how women should take the so-called "road to success".
Moreover, we should also believe that encouraging more female creators will definitely do more good than harm.
The market has proven time and time again that we need women’s language and perspectives.
As for the destruction of Chinese movies in the hands of Jia Ling, it is completely nonsense.
"How to Suppress Women's Writing"
The controversy over Jia Ling and "Hot and Spicy" on the Internet is still growing infinitely. These far exceed the criticism of film and television critics. It has brought me back to reading "How to Suppress Women's Writing" countless times. The sense of absurdity when reading this book.
You can get a glimpse of this from the cover of this book that won a design award. The rows of copy on the cover are all the clichés used by men from generation to generation to denigrate female creations. It is equally appropriate in the case of Jia Ling, and it can even be used One-to-one correspondence:
"She didn't film it. She didn't lose weight successfully. It was made by AI."
"She filmed it, but look at what she filmed."
"She filmed it, but the movie was only won because she lost 100 pounds. I paid attention to "
". She filmed it, but she was just a sketch actor. This is not a real movie. "
" She filmed it, but she only filmed herself. "
" She is not worthy. xxx, who is also a woman, can film better than her. Much better" (similar to "Zhang Guimei is the real feminist")
...
The cover of the book "How to Suppress Women's Writing"
"Hot and Spicy" Hupu score fell to 3 points, and the B site was all black Reviews, generally people think that overwhelming negative reviews will happen to a bad movie with a quality of 2-3 and a box office of millions, but "Hot" definitely does not belong to this category. This is an out-and-out movie. A movement that devalues women’s creative work.
I watched the interview between Jia Ling and Lu Yu. As a creator who has achieved many achievements, Jia Ling is surprisingly sincere and humble.
She said that she chose to make movies. Whether it was Li Huanying or Hot and Spicy, she did not anticipate the box office, word of mouth, or the emotional value it would bring to everyone in advance. The reason for making movies was the urge to tell: She has so many She has a lot of things to say about life that she wants to discuss with the audience.
Li Huanying's global box office ranking was surpassed by "Barbie". Jia Ling is a little regretful, not because her performance was broken, which is a false name in itself, but because the title of the film has her mother's name.
Lu Yu interviews Jia Ling
She even thought at first that the new film would be a huge success if it could get a fraction of the box office of "Li Huanying" (400 million), and breaking 3 billion was not expected.
"Hot and Spicy" neither claims to be a feminist work, nor does it plan to become a box office hit, nor does it attempt to lead the direction of Chinese films. It just wants to tell a story about a woman finding herself, and it happened to be this film that became The target of public criticism.
Netizens tried every means to prove the evil of this work, just to cover a woman's mouth: She actually wanted to find herself, she actually found subjectivity, this is impossible, this is not true, I will not allow this to happen !
Netizens broke the defense scene
This is the secret intention of men to suppress women's writing for thousands of years. This is described particularly accurately in the book:
In a nominally equal society, the ideal situation is to let those disadvantaged groups Members have the freedom to create literature, but they do not create literature, which proves that they cannot create literature.
But the problem is that they are given a little bit of real freedom, and they actually want to create.
’s current strategy is to make this freedom as nominal as possible. Then, since some people really want to create regardless of it, they must come up with various strategies to ignore, condemn, and belittle their creations. Art work.
Similar things have happened too many times.
When Shao Yihui made "The Myth of Love", which featured middle-aged and female subjects, he was criticized for being a Douban kid who didn't understand Shanghai or men.
Movie "Myth of Love"
The movie "Barbie" uses the humor of "men and horses" to deconstruct the male epic. It is not epoch-making, but it has also been derogated by many male filmmakers. Director Ge Weige and starring Robbie They also each missed out on Oscar nominations.
Movie "Barbie"
I like the female director Jane Campion very much. Her recent film "Dog Power" used the form of a western film to capture the core of opposition to the masculinity of western cowboys. The film also attracted the attention of older Hollywood actors. She broke her guard and said what she photographed was a piece of shit.
"The Power of Dogs" Criticism and Controversy
It seems that the old men who have been in a dominant position for a long time are really not as strong as they imagined. They are strong on the outside but strong on the inside, but in fact they are very fragile on the inside. Seeing that women also have the right to speak out, they immediately became anxious.
Just like Ang Lee talking about his reflections on the filming of "Lust, Caution":
If you see a woman being uncooperative, with just a few things, you feel that a rivet has suddenly been removed from the structure of the patriarchal society that has existed for thousands of years. It fell apart.
The ironic essay "How to Suppress Women's Writing" has been published for more than 70 years.
The samples she saw were still absurd experiences like the three Brontë sisters. When the book was published in the name of a man, it was widely praised. When someone suspected that it was actually written by a woman, public opinion immediately changed.
From the three Bell brothers to the three Brontë sisters
Now after so many years, the experience of female creators being systematically devalued is still happening. Nobel Prize winner Anne Ernault is still suffering from "Why is the experience of women's life universal?" " asked.
The movie "As It Happens" was adapted from Anne Ernault's work
Perhaps because Anne Ernault was the earliest pioneer in the literary world to adopt autobiographical writing, perhaps because of the old concept that male experience is naturally public, while female experience needs to be constantly proven its public significance.
In short, Anne Ernault’s life of continuous writing in her eighties has been explaining the public value of women’s autobiographical writing.
I hope that my life will become something universal that can be perceived. I hope that I can be completely dissolved in people's thoughts and lives.
The ultimate goal of writing, the ideal state I pursue is to think and feel in others, just as others think and feel through me.
Anne Ernault
In fact, in addition to literary and artistic creation, which is the hardest hit area for some men to break their defenses, many fields that can reflect "human creation" will immediately become a battlefield for men to race and enclose. Whenever a woman intrudes, the police will be immediately called. The bells are loud and the people are unanimously open to the outside world.
Female sculptor Jiang Xunqian carved the largest single ice dragon to date. Unexpectedly, she was criticized for her heavy make-up, posing, and posing. It is impossible for her to have such talent.
Jiang Xunqian and the Ice Carving Dragon
Jiang Xunqian was originally the first female descendant of the iron flower in thousands of years. Netizens have offended her and she is kicking the iron. She is now live broadcasting the carving of the second ice dragon.
Source: Weibo
Female photographer Zhang Jingyi took a picture of the super-firing moment of China’s rocket launch, but encountered very bad online violence, just because these Internet trolls couldn’t stand that it was a person who photographed such a feat of China’s aerospace industry woman.
Source: Sina Weibo
had to cite the common male humor surrounding Gu Ailing again.
She first met a man in the parking lot who wanted to teach her how to ski, and then met a tough talker on the Internet who said, "There are and only men who are better than Gu Ailing."
Source: Sina Weibo
Similar humors include "Zhang Weili can't beat ordinary men" and "Harvard female Ph.D. was asked to take the exam online by an online exam guy"...
cited so many, but in fact the underlying logic of suppressing women's power is Originating from men's fear, the old order seems to be solid, but in fact it is surprisingly weak. They are afraid of being seen through "It turns out that women can do it too."
Because once one woman does it, thousands more women will come.
is like the most clichéd rule in the film and television industry: "Women cannot sit in the equipment box." Because of Shao Yihui and Jia Ling, the taboo box itself is like an unfortunate joke.
Source: Sina Weibo
I am not sure what historical significance Jia Ling’s works can leave behind when looking at the present from the perspective of the future.
But I know the most intuitive experience. There were no movies for women during the Spring Festival last year. The most popular Spring Festival movie for Chinese female audiences over 25 years old was "Bear Bears" because they were responsible for taking care of their children. During this year’s Spring Festival, women accounted for 62.9% of the audience, the highest proportion of women since 2014.
There are no female themes in the 2023 Spring Festival.
Because of Jia Ling, women entered the theater.
Where we can't see, women are performing their own "Hot and Hot".
But for this point, Jia Ling deserves praise. She is a female existence that should not be belittled or erased.
If the memory of female role models is buried, it will leave each generation of women alone, leaving each generation who comes after them to think that they have to bear the burden of starting from scratch alone.
We will never allow ourselves to enter such darkness again.
