"Hot and Hot" is on fire, the second online movie directed and starring Jia Ling, the box office has exceeded 2 billion yuan, and it has secured the box office champion of the Spring Festival.
"Hot and Hot" is about Le Ying, an otaku girl who has lost herself, how she is lost, looked down upon by her sister, betrayed by her boyfriend, backstabbed by her cousin, harassed by the shop owner, and her life sinks to the bottom.
Determined to turn the tables against the wind and live for herself once, she started boxing and eventually learned to love herself and reconcile with the world.
In Le Ying's growth process, the scene where she was harassed by the shop owner was indispensable and exciting.
Because before this, the male god in Le Ying's heart, boxing coach Hao Kun, betrayed his ideals for 30,000 yuan and deliberately lost to his opponent in the boxing match.
It's not at all like when I first met Le Ying.
Le Ying also knew from then on that there was no future between her and Haokun.
The frustrated Le Ying returned to the barbecue restaurant where she worked, and was meeting the boss drinking, the boss called him to come over and drink together, Le Ying was unwilling, and the boss said, "Why, can you drink with him, but can't drink with me." ”
Le Ying had to sit down to drink with the boss, and just after taking a sip, the boss made an excessive request again, asking to hug Le Ying.
Le Ying couldn't stand it anymore, stood up and wanted to leave, but the boss still didn't give up, and moved forward, Le Ying couldn't bear it anymore and punched the boss.
The whole plot is to advance the narrative rhythm through Le Ying's psychological feelings, and the lens language shows Le Ying's reluctant and forced feelings vividly.
The lens language mostly uses medium and close-up shots, showing Le Ying's mourning and the other party's ugly face to the greatest extent.
And Le Ying's step-by-step forcing and resistance are also very layered, and the camera keeps pushing her clenched fists, suggesting that her patience has reached a certain limit.
It makes people feel very immersed, not only anxious for Le Ying, but also deeply sympathetic to her.
It was precisely because of Le Ying's harassment that a party sister came to help her go to the police station to go through the formalities, she saw that the party sister was good to her, and finally agreed to record the show, but was backstabbed by her cousin and fell into a greater crisis.
"Hot and Hot" is adapted from the Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love", the heroine in this movie also experienced a series of unlucky things, fell into a trough in life, and finally redeemed herself through boxing.
The heroine played by Sakura Ando also has a scene of being harassed, compared with "Hot and Hot", this scene is more straightforward, which makes people feel like they are in their throats.
The heroine Kazuko has a crush on a boxing coach, and the coach gives her two tickets to watch the game, and Kazuko takes his colleagues to watch it.
After the three of them had dinner together, the coach left first, and the son drank too much.
The colleague took the opportunity to hit her in the stomach and dragged her into the hotel in an attempt to mistreat her.
The drunken son still retained a trace of sobriety, and she kept saying, "It's my first time." ”
But the shameless colleague didn't stop there, but told her, "There are firsts." ”
When she was powerless, her colleagues raped her and fled.
The whole process mostly uses panoramas, so that the audience has a general understanding of the entire environment and the progress of the plot, and when Kazuko is bullied, focus on shooting her painful expression.
It can be said that the Japanese version of this scene is more real and powerful, but precisely because it is too real, it is easy to cause discomfort among domestic audiences.
Therefore, when Jia Ling adapted, she abandoned the design of the original work and changed it to the other party, but it also promoted the development of the plot and accelerated Le Ying's transformation.
These two designs are based on the national conditions of the country and the theme of the film, and the Japanese version is more mournful and realistic, and it is also to highlight the hopeless theme.
And the design of Jia Ling's version, out of respect for women and family considerations, did not let her really encounter anything, leaving a little hope for Le Ying and the audience.
It can be said that although the story lines of the two films are similar, the theme expression is very different, and the Japanese version shows more of a person's struggle in the social environment, and there is still nowhere to escape.
And Jia Ling's version shows how a woman should learn to love herself and reconcile with the world.
Overall, all good movies.
Which of these two movies do you prefer?