2024-02-16 12:00 Langlangyue reads biya “Hot and Hot”.Picture/taken from Weibo
The movie “Hot” was released in mainland China on New Year’s Day, and the box office exceeded 2.2 billion yuan seven days later. In the 129-minute film, the audience is shown the transformation and rebirth of an ordinary person in the ups and downs of life, showing courage and tenacity.
“Hot and Spicy” is adapted from the Japanese movie “One Hundred Dollar Love”
“One Hundred Dollar Love” (Japanese: 100 Yuan Love), released in 2014, was directed by Japanese director Takema Haru and starred by Sakura Ando. “One Hundred Yen Love” was named this because the heroine Saito Kazuko is a woman who claims to be “only worth 100 yen (approximately NT$21).”
The mainland movie “Hot” is adapted from “One Hundred Dollars of Love”, directed by Jia Ling, starring Jia Ling and Lei Jiayin, and will be released in mainland China on February 10, 2024.
The story tells about an older and plump woman – Le Ying. After graduation, she stayed at home for a long time and suffered betrayals of family, love and friendship one after another. During this series of blows, she came into contact with the sport of boxing and began to learn, thus embarking on a journey of “transformation.”
Here, “makeover” not only refers to the change in her appearance, but also refers to the change in the personality of a “fat person” who originally focused on pleasing others.
“Hot” is adapted from the Japanese movie “100 Yuan Love”.Picture/taken from Weibo
What does the English name YOLO of “Hot and Hot” mean?
“Hot” is adapted from the Japanese movie “One Hundred Dollar Love”, and its English name is YOLO.
YOLO is a popular meme that has been widely loved by Western young people in recent years. It is the abbreviation of you only live once, which means “you only live once.”
In 2016, Oxford Dictionary included YOLO as a new word, with the meaning: ‘You only live once’; used to express the view that one should make the most of the present moment without worrying about the future.
“You only live once” is used to express the idea that a person should make the most of the present and not worry about the future.
What everyone can live is their own time.
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“Hot and Spicy” is Jia Ling’s weight loss documentary?
When Jia Ling, who lost 100 pounds (about 60 kilograms), appeared, “Hot and Spicy” became the most controversial movie during the Spring Festival. Before going online, Jia Ling’s confidentiality work was perfect. Except for the sentence “successfully lost 100 pounds”, no Reuters photos of Jia Ling were leaked to the outside world. Some people suspected that she used AI to synthesize a virtual person to complete the filming, and some suspected that she used a stand-in. The main character is disbelief.
After its release, this remake, which was labeled as the “Chinese version of “100 Yuan Love””, inevitably made Jia Ling the focus of comparison with Japanese movie queen Sakura Ando. Surprisingly, in the short comment section of Douban, Jia Ling triggered the most heated spat during the Spring Festival – did Jia Ling use her weight loss experience as a hype to earn box office? Why should viewers pay to watch a celebrity lose weight? Can losing weight really solve all women’s problems? Some people even suggested changing the name of the movie to “Jia Ling’s Weight Loss”.
“Hot and Spicy” Jia Ling loses 100 pounds.Picture/taken from Weibo
“Hot and Hot”: Everything comes in time, remember to love yourself!
Sakura Ando, the heroine of the original “100 Yuan Love”, did not deliberately gain or lose weight. She only used her body, muscles and eyes to perfectly restore the two different states of a person when she is depressed and focused.
The most successful thing about “Hot and Spicy” is that it does not copy the Japanese setting of “One Hundred Dollar Love”. The most significant difference is the visual presentation of “Jia Ling’s weight loss”. This landscape seems to have become a kind of “mock documentary”, overshadowing the expression of the film itself. The audience could directly witness Jia Ling’s gradual weight loss process during boxing training, and the audience almost unanimously exclaimed and applauded. It seems that the first hour and a half of waiting is just to welcome the wonderful scenes of the last 30 minutes.
Jia Ling, who plays Le Ying, has long had a public image closely related to her plump appearance. This also means that if she wants to present the image of a professional boxer, she needs to work harder to lose weight and gain muscle to achieve the before-and-after contrast of the character on the screen. However, Jia Ling’s weight loss process has aroused criticism from the audience for “creating female body anxiety” in the film.
“Hot and Hot”.Picture/taken from Weibo
“Jia Ling loses 100 pounds” is one of the highlights of this film, but it is not “creating female body anxiety” as some viewers have accused her of. The reason why “Hot and Spicy” can widely arouse the empathy of the audience is that although the audience is moved and admired by Le Ying for her weight loss success, it is essentially because Le Ying’s experience has hit the contemporary people’s “how to re-evaluate when encountering a psychological crisis”. The anxiety of “taking control of life”.
In the first half of the movie, in addition to being able to understand Le Ying’s depression and grievances, the audience could not help but clench their fists in front of some of the “aggrieved” choices she made: “Why don’t you resist?! Even if you don’t resist, Is it okay to refuse?!” The movie was not sensational at the end. In the end, Le Ying did not win the boxing match. She only won “a chance to punch”, but she paid the price with blood all over her face. However, she regained control of her life. From this perspective, “Hot” is a story about winning in life while “losing” the game. Even though she knew she would lose this battle, Leying still became her own hero.
As Jia Ling said in the interview, “Hot and Spicy” is more than just a weight loss movie. Its greatest significance is to tell the story of how a kind person finds himself and learns to love himself.
On Weibo, Jia Ling posted the movie poster and captioned it: “Everything is too late ~ remember to love yourself!”
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