The 4-episode documentary "I Only Live Once" of "Hot and Hot" failed to meet the audience during the release of the movie, and finally became the "warm-up content" before the movie was broadcast, and one episode was launched every day from April 16, and all 4 episodes have been updated.
First of all, I support "Hot and Hot" and Jia Ling, the participation of women in this industry is too low, not only are there few female directors, but other positions are even more so, "30+ actresses have no scenes to film" was a topic to be discussed, and there are few women in photography, lighting, props and other departments, and even when a female figure appears in the lighting group, she will be called "Sister Deng" and become a beautiful scenery for the crew.
"Hello, Li Huanying" and "Hot and Hot" made Jia Ling a phenomenal success, and she is more powerful than most male directors. The success of the two movies is inevitable, poking at the audience, bringing emotional value, and outputting sincerity and true feelings, which is Jia Ling's nirvana, and in "Hot and Hot", losing 100 pounds, calling on girls to love themselves, and tenacious fighting spirit make the movie a success again.
watched the four-episode documentary "Hot and Hot", and all the controversies, questions and Jia Ling's choices about the movie have been answered. Now it seems that the announcement of the postponement of the documentary was not due to Jia Ling's efforts to calm down the controversy, but that the documentary just confirmed the various criticisms of the film and Jia Ling by public opinion.
The documentary and the movie were filmed at the same time, at that time, Jia Ling and her team failed to predict the trend of public opinion after the release of the movie, and the four-episode documentary was launched.
Generally speaking, behind-the-scenes documentaries are the filming footage, the creative execution process, and the understanding and interpretation of the film by the director and other main creators. And Jia Ling has always repeatedly emphasized two points in the 4-episode documentary.
The first point is "bitter", Jia Ling uses the three keywords of adventure, transformation, and sprint to divide the first three episodes, which can actually be boiled down to the keyword "bitterness of weight loss".
From the very beginning, the documentary has been focusing on the body, how to gain weight to 210 pounds, how to lose weight quickly, how to reach a plateau, how to train for 8 hours a day, and even how to eat, how to massage, how to eat a gummy with melatonin at night, and how to dehydrate and shape at the end......
You must know that the biggest controversy of "Hot and Hot" is that the audience thinks that the movie hypes the body and takes weight loss as the selling point, but the quality of the movie itself did not match the success at the box office, and even the director Wang Jing at that time also posted an article ridiculing that if the documentary was launched at that time, it would definitely strengthen and confirm the criticism of netizens, and the first three episodes were almost all recording the bits and pieces of weight loss!
The second point is "pain". The fourth episode of the documentary, "Boxing", is mainly to amplify and emphasize Jia Ling's pain.
It can be seen in the documentary that Jia Ling asked professional boxers to fight as hard as possible, and also hit her directly on the head to increase authenticity, and even the coach said that she had a "slight concussion" and could no longer be beaten.
There is another detail, when Jia Ling communicated with the boxer, she said that a punch to the eye will definitely hit purple, Jia Ling said that it doesn't matter if it is swollen, anyway, it will be finished tomorrow. This sentence Jia Ling wanted to use to prove that she was really beaten, but at the same time, it was also exposed that after three rounds, she only suffered such a real beating.
Jia Ling used all this to emphasize her pain, which is equivalent to emphasizing her sincerity and dedication. However, in my opinion, this just reflects her shortcomings in creation and mentality, and further, it is the comprehensive collapse of her hard work.
On the one hand, as a director and a leading actor, isn't it a matter of course for you to put in your hard work and efforts, and the sincerity you express? Only in this way can you be worthy of the audience's dozens of yuan in movie tickets and the box office of more than 3 billion yuan, which is an equivalent exchange. This is like an employee who can contribute not much value to the company (the quality of the movie is not so high and not so eye-catching), the reference income for the same position is 8,000 yuan, but his salary is 80,000 yuan, should he put in more effort?
Taking a step back, when did a filmmaker's efforts become something that could be repeatedly marketed and constantly boasted about? This is no different from saying that a certain actor "she is so good, she memorizes her lines well", since you do this business, you should do your part well, and since you decide to use the topic of "Hot and Hot", you should lose weight, train, and be beaten, this is a filmmaker's business!
On the other hand, Jia Ling is indeed a bit hypocritical.
She has been intensifying the hardships of filming and her own pain, training before and after for a year, but she still behaves amateurishly in the ring, while the professional boxer standing opposite obviously doesn't dare to exert too much force, for fear of hurting her......
The emphasis in the documentary in this way reflects Jia Ling's self-pity, she takes herself too seriously, and at the same time, she has not experienced any winds, waves, setbacks and tests.
Compare "Guild Wars", the "devil director" Lin Chaoxian made great efforts to abuse Peng Yuyan and Zhang Jiahui. Peng Yuyan's body fat rate was reduced to 3%, and he collapsed in the filming of the fight scenes, exercising for two or three hours a day, practicing boxing for four or five hours, and receiving more than 200 punches a day, his nose and ears were so swollen that he couldn't sleep, and his legs were full of bruises......
Zhang Jiahui is not much better, he also trains for a long time, he has to be dehydrated and unable to drink water, and even his little finger was kicked to a fracture during filming. They put in more pain and effort, but they didn't publicize it too much, and they didn't make a documentary for the audience to see!
Because in the face of such and such problems, after the "Hot and Hot" documentary was launched, it also ushered in a polarized word-of-mouth, and a netizen who played Samsung commented for a while, she wrote:
"I regret watching this documentary, but I felt good after watching the movie. The documentary exposes the truth. Jia Ling had a group of people from beginning to end, following and waiting. Her collapse, her torment, her weight loss goals, and her dedication to regaining her feminine charm have tens of millions of viewers and billions of income. The temptation of money makes people prostrate at the feet of this fat woman (who will not look at it at all on the street), and then she throws down the small objects she doesn't want to take, carefully study, discuss, hold it in front of the camera to record, meticulously massage her muscles in front of and back, give caring skin contact, record everything she wants to eat, drink a few sips of water every day, and cheer enthusiastically because she can faintly see a little texture on her thick back. In order to reduce to an ordinary figure that ordinary people can maintain, and to repay the debt for the fat accumulated by more than ten years of indulging appetite and greed, Jia Ling can turn such a natural private behavior into such a "feat" of commercial success, she is really smart and lucky, it is difficult not to make people envious. ”
As for Jia Ling, after the turmoil of "Hot and Hot", she should think carefully about how to correct her position as a director and actor, and if she is too praised by capital, she must also learn to see herself clearly.