38 days ago, when Jia Ling used a movie to miss her mother, I am afraid that she did not expect that the momentum of the movie box office would be so fierce.
Up to now, "Hello, Li Huanying" has accumulated 5.329 billion yuan at the box office, ranking second in the total box office of Chinese films and ranking among the top 100 in the global box office.
Previously, Forbes had written an article predicting that if the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" grossed more than "Wonder Woman" for $821 million, Jia Ling would become the world's highest-grossing independent female director.
Just yesterday, when the box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" broke 5.3 billion yuan, there were media reports that Jia Ling had surpassed Patty Jenkins, the director who directed "Wonder Woman", to become the highest-grossing female director in the world.
However, due to differences in the release time, box office calculation method and exchange rate, this statement has also been accompanied by some controversy.
Friends who have watched the movie should know that "Hello, Li Huanying" tells the story of her daughter Jia Xiaoling (Jia Ling) who died unexpectedly and suddenly due to her mother Li Huanying (Liu Jia), and traveled from 2001 back to 1981 to meet her young mother (Zhang Xiaofei).
From the sketch to the movie, the plot seems to be very simple, but Jia Ling has been preparing for four years, so she has pushed away a lot of work, step by step to improve this work, self-written and self-directed.
In the play, we see Jia Xiaoling, who strives to make her mother happier; outside the play, we see the director Jia Ling, who is always worried after being busy.
In order to better restore the scene of that year, there are many lines in the movie that Jia Ling's mother has said in the past, on the set, Jia Ling will take the initiative to introduce Li Huanying's personality to Liu Jia and Zhang Xiaofei, who play her mother: "My mother loves to laugh, has a big heart, is bold, and has a good face." ”
Jia Ling, who was a director for the first time, really did everything on the set, and when shooting, she walked over and over again, card points, and did not let go of any details. "I think it's much better, but I want to do it again, another one, another one..."
Scenes, lines, shots, these have gone through countless times in Jia Ling's heart, the costumes are as small as the feeling of socks, the props are as small as a pen, the placement of a teapot, and she also strives to reproduce the most real feeling in the 1980s.
Jia Ling once said in an interview that when making a movie, she was anxious about the performance of the movie, whether the anxiety photography picture was good or not, every detail of the anxiety movie, anxiety about this performance, that piece of color grading, this soundtrack...
"I also hope that I can be happier after doing this, and I really don't want to wait for the movie to be released and have regrets." Director Jia Ling is more real and desperate.
I remember when "Hello, Li Huanying" was finished, Jia Ling silently put a Weibo at the top: "Mom, the movie is finished." Am I awesome? ”
Although Jia Ling could not hear Li Huanying's own answer, the audience gave her the answer instead of her mother with action: "Jia Ling, you are very powerful! ”
To say that the movie "Hello, Li Huanying" not only makes up for Jia Ling's regrets at the level of personal emotions, but also reaffirms the creativity and strong box office appeal of female directors in the film industry, where male directors are the majority.
On the other hand, it also proves the advantages of female directors in controlling delicate emotions and is better at expressing the relationship between women. In a sense, this also belongs to the spring of female filmmakers.
With the development of the economy and the changes of the times, more and more female filmmakers have won awards and created box office in recent years. In the history of Chinese film, we have senior female directors such as Xu Anhua, Zhang Aijia, Li Shaohong, and other senior female directors, as well as phenomenal female directors such as Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei and Liu Ruoying.
From "Little Girl Fishing" to "Sister Peach", "To Youth", "Golden Age" to "Later Us" and "Hello, Li Huanying", female filmmakers have thrown their works to the world with more and more gentle expressions.
Today, the high box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" also shows the strong inclusiveness of the audience, as well as the eagerness to have good movies, and the willingness to see the rise and progress of Chinese films and Chinese filmmakers.
The producers of "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" announced that they will be released worldwide
Debut as a god in world war, Jia Ling is lucky. But it cannot be denied that part of the success of this film is also due to the favorable timing and place.
Judging from all the films released in the Spring Festival file, there are almost no films of the same type competing with it, plus there are two major comedy celebrities jia ling and Shen Teng joining, and many viewers will go to the second brush and three brushes.
On the other hand, under the prevention and control measures in the special period, everyone's demand for watching movies has been stimulated, and at the same time, it is too much to need a movie with such a warm and healing heart to make up for regrets.
On the occasion of the re-release of "Avatar", director Cameron also mentioned "Hello, Lee Huanying" in an interview, saying: "Whether it is science fiction or modern times, every story is about people, and people will be emotionally connected to each other." ”
Under the double blessing of theme and timing, Jia Ling's first transformation made her the highest-grossing female director in the world.
I accidentally became the first in the world
Bad cards also have to be played beautifully
Just taking the first step, it is already the peak. But who knows, the roads that Jia Ling has walked before this are also long and difficult.
Jia Ling has loved acting since she was a child and studied at Wuhan Art School for two years. In the 2001 college entrance examination, Jia Ling applied for both the drama performance major and the cross-talk performance major of the Central Academy of Drama.
Although both majors were admitted, because her mother Li Huanying's accent was misunderstood, Jia Ling went to the cross-talk performance major.
"Crooked play" opened the road of comedians, but Jia Ling was very talented, only two years of study, she won the first prize in the "National Cross-talk Sketch Invitational Competition" (she was first that year, Guo Degang was third).
She also met her mentor Feng Gong, and it was also because of the teacher's guidance that she began to like crosstalk, like comedy, and had the idea of taking it as a career.
But it is not easy for a young girl with no background and no resources to gain a foothold in Beijing.
In the first two years, Jia Ling could only rely on some meager performance income and her sister's help to barely make ends meet. In the cold winter, she could only hide in the basement of less than ten square meters, with no heating and no toilet.
At the worst time, she sold the casual listening used to listen to the songs of her idol Andy Lau and used 20 yuan to support it for a week.
Desperate persistence accompanies the hardships of life, but even so, the young and vigorous Jia Ling does not believe it. It turns out that there will be surprises in the persistence of life's hard work.
In 2006, Jia Ling won the second prize in the professional group of the third CCTV cross-talk competition;
In 2009, she opened the New Laughter Inn founded by Zou Monk and others, which became the base camp of cool cross-talk;
In 2010, she finally got her wish on the Spring Festival Gala, and bai Kainan quickly exploded with "Big Talk and Teasing", winning the third prize in the "My Favorite Spring Festival Gala Program" song art group.
After that, we saw Jia Ling as if she had opened a hanging, and was invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV and local satellite TELEVISION many times, and everyone remembered this girl with a ponytail, wearing a formal dress, and laughing with a pear swirl.
After becoming popular, Jia Ling recorded a lot of passages in her head and also participated in many variety shows. The more she appeared in front of the public, the more panicked she became: "Every day she keeps saying paragraphs." When all the previous works were performed, I suddenly realized that I was no longer in armor. ”
After experiencing crazy output, Jia Ling began to be troubled by the drying up of creative inspiration, and even "did not know what to do next". This dilemma made her afraid, and in the confusion, she stopped all her performances: "I stayed at home for a year, thinking about the excellent works of my predecessors every day. ”
The hard years that have been walked steadily let Jia Ling know the value of success. After the silence, when we met again, Jia Ling concentrated on doing her own style of comedy with the energy of not hitting the south wall and not looking back.
In order to win the audience's laughter, this girl who usually has a big grin becomes a desperate actor as soon as she gets on the stage. Eating chili peppers raw regardless of the image, blowing bottles of beer, nibbling on watermelons, imitating Liu Huan, Fire Wind, Ah Bao, Tengger...
Behind the effort to bring laughter is our invisible persistent pursuit. From talking about cross-talk to acting in sketches to variety shows and filming films, Jia Ling's love has never changed.
The CCTV host once asked her: Did you feel bitter at that time?
Jia Ling smiled and replied, "I think it is right to suffer a little when I was young... I think there will be a lot of people who work harder and give more than me, but the opportunities are not as good as mine. ”
Because in Jia Ling's dictionary, there is no word "retreat", as long as it starts, it must be done to the end. Just like Jia Ling's impression on Da Zhang Wei: "She never stops her dreams in dreams and thoughts, she does it when she thinks." ”
From a cross-talk newcomer to a variety show master to a screenwriter and director, Jia Ling has completed one transformation after another, during which she has experienced too much and too much, and has also spent nearly 20 years to play a bad hand beautifully.
"As long as people work hard to the extreme, they will have brilliance." Calm down, do what you love steadily, and fate will not fail everyone who runs hard.
Some of the images come from the Internet
Edited by ∕ 5yan
Picture Assistant/YC Riddle