- Derivative value development: Rapidly iterate peripheral products based on UGC content, turn the "dialect version of character lines" created by the audience into blind box voices, and pre-sell more than 100,000 pieces within 48 hours, forming a positive cycle of "word-of-mouth controversy - creative inspiration - commercial monetization".

IV. Industry Implications: Finding Common Ground in Narrative Amidst Cultural Tension

The debate surrounding the film's reception reflects a deeper issue in globalized content production—as technological barriers gradually dissolve, cultural differences become the biggest creative variable. The team's response strategies reveal three key paths:

1. Application of cognitive translation studies: Reject cultural curiosity or forced export, and instead construct a "third cultural space", such as recoding Eastern philosophy with the industrial aesthetic framework of steampunk, so that audiences from different cultural backgrounds can find an entry point for interpretation.

2. Activating Controversial Value: Transforming polarized opinions into dissemination potential by constructing "opinion arenas" (such as live debates between film critics on both sides), making the film a vehicle for social issues and extending the public discussion cycle.

3. Empowerment of participatory culture: Transforming the audience from passive recipients to co-creators of meaning. When users are no longer "consumers of evaluation" but "producers of content", word-of-mouth is upgraded from static judgment of good or bad to dynamic co-creation of value.

In the current climate of intensifying competition between streaming media and cinemas, the subsequent performance of this film may redefine the market logic of "controversial blockbusters"—it no longer pursues a perfect persona that garners universal approval, but rather illuminates a broader realm of audience cognition through the sparks of cultural collision, stimulating diverse dialogue. When the team completed the collection, analysis, and strategy iteration of word-of-mouth data within 48 hours of the premiere, they were essentially writing a new set of rules for film and television marketing in the digital age: not eliminating controversy, but learning to dance with controversy and finding their own narrative direction amidst the turbulent currents of public opinion.