Most of the movies seen now will release the theme song before the official release, and generally invite big-name singers such as Na Ying and Zhou Shen to sing to attract the attention of fans in advance, thus driving the box office of subsequent movies. The use of music to pull a film has almost become a common marketing tool today.
However, such a method was also used as early as the nineties. Which movie is it? It was the platter-style movie "Love Spicy Hot".
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It's a platter, but that doesn't mean the movie is of low quality. On the contrary, director Zhang Yang uses a clever way to run through five or six love stories, and these love pieces just span the entire process of people from adolescence, youth, middle age to old age.
In addition, from the perspective of the cast, it is a fairy fight, such as Guo Tao, Xu Fan, Pu Cunxin, Lu Liping, Xu Jinglei, Shao Bing, Gao Yuanyuan, and there are also Zhou Huajian and Li Zongsheng among the guest actors.
A lot of popular songs were selected in the film, as many as 15 songs, but the audience did not feel uncomfortable when watching, but would think that the mood of those songs was very compatible with the plot.
More than 20 years later, let's talk about this different movie.
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The first pair of actors to appear in the film are Wang Xuebing and Liu Jie, who are also the clue characters throughout the film. Although they are not directly involved in the next five stories, most of the stories are derived from the scenes in which they appear.
The first story is about a teenager's ignorant love affair. A high school boy fell in love with a girl who spoke nicely and laughed, and later confessed in a special way, and the final result was not over. The girl is played by the fledgling Gao Yuanyuan, not only dressed pure and lovely, but also the voice of reading the text is really good.
The second story is about twilight love. An aunt wanted to find an old partner, and as a result, under the arrangement of her daughter, three uncles entered the house at the same time, and the four of them played mahjong together, which was also happy. However, in the end, these three people did not come together with their aunts, and fortunately belonged to another old man who taught calligraphy and painting. The actors of these old people include Wen Xingyu, who played the old Fu in "I Love My Family", and Ge You's father, Ge Cunzhuang.
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The third story is about a newly married couple, who have crossed the world of two people and become more and more uninteresting, and then they suddenly want to play with various toys together, and then they have a toy together, that is, their little baby, and since then life has become flavorful. The young couple is played by Guo Tao and Xu Fan.
The fourth story is about a middle-aged family divorced. In order to save the marriage, the child bought a "panacea" and put it into the meal, which made both of them suddenly find something and began to cherish everything they had in front of them. The husband and wife were played by Pu Cunxin and Lü Liping, Pu Cunxin was definitely the idol of the majority of young women at that time, and Lu Liping also played three points.
The fifth story is about a young photographer and a girl. They met by chance, which seemed very romantic, but later they couldn't find each other because of the strangeness. Finally, the two meet on the street as they did at the beginning, hugging each other tightly. Some people say that Xu Jinglei has a first love face, which probably started from this movie.
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Finally, talking about the music in this movie, 15 songs from the Rolling Stones are interspersed. The music at the beginning of the movie is Karen Mok's "Think of a Boy", four old people in the corridor to help downstairs, the music is "No longer let you be alone". Later, there are Yang Naiwen's "Stars In the Sky", Su Huilun's "Duck" and so on, all of which are so appropriate and add color to the film.
At that time, the distributor also found another way, when the film was not yet released, it took the lead in releasing the soundtrack of the film, which also created a precedent for domestic films. It turns out that both movies and records have achieved good results later.
In the end, the movie "Love Spicy Hot" got 40 million at the box office. Don't look down on this number, it ranked third in the domestic box office list that year. Who is the first? Titanic.