Gu Wenhua and Shang Yechu watched the movie twice more, until night fell.
Shang Yechu ordered two more takeout meals and then turned on the office lights.
The room suddenly brightened up, and Gu Wenhua squinted because of the light. He took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose.
You don't know until you take screenshots, and you'll be shocked by the results. In just one afternoon, the two of them took a total of 160 or 170 screenshots, averaging one and a half screenshots per minute. In addition, they also extracted dozens of small clips from the main film, unedited footage, and behind-the-scenes footage.
Putting everything else aside, Gu Wenhua gets a headache just looking at the words "The Mute Woman," and it's as if the mute woman's incredibly catchy singing is ringing in his ears, making his head buzz.
The two then carefully selected from hundreds of screenshots and dozens of short clips, finally choosing about forty screenshots to create a multi-panel comparison image to be posted on Weibo.
The takeout arrived. The two ate the fried dumplings and nourishing porridge that Shang Yechu had just ordered while going about their own business.
Gu Wenhua was in charge of photo editing; as the director, he was quite experienced in this kind of work. Shang Yechu was responsible for writing the copy.
Before writing copy, Shang Yechu needed to understand public opinion, so she finally opened Weibo.
Upon opening the trending topics list, Shang Yechu immediately saw the top trending topics.
#Ye Chu's New Film "The Mute Woman in the Sack"#
Placing Shang Yechu's name at the top of the trending searches reveals their true intentions. Upon clicking into the trending searches, Shang Yechu saw that a large number of influential figures had already taken over the top spots.
@Photographer Ji Qifeng: [Another sycophantic award-contested film.]
@沈香落子: [Using the guise of speaking out for the poor while engaging in condescending behavior—A third discussion on why "The Mute Woman" is a film with far-reaching harmful influence?]
@ChengLuobi: [Disgusting film! The ending is purely for sensationalism!]
@Xu Boda: [The director's intentions are too obvious; the "sack director" has a successor. Another group of filial sons and grandsons "wearing sacks in mourning."]
@Professor Hao Jian of Nanjing University of the Arts: [I used to have a very good impression of the actress Ye Chu, thinking she was a rare artist in the entertainment industry with substance. However, her approach to this film was far too hasty and opportunistic. She was trying to run before she could even walk—what a pity.]
Shang Yechu had already prepared herself mentally, so she wasn't in a hurry when she saw this sea of orange and yellow V-signs.
What Shang Yechu found both laughable and absurd was that these influential figures in the arts and culture circle did not share a unified opinion. Besides the views mentioned above, there was another group of people who clearly held different views.
@ZweigFollower: [Who is the flatterer? A discussion of film critics' "Why Don't They Eat Cake?"]
@Orwell Industrial Park: [A truly humane film—"The Mute Woman," a paean to hope for a new era of cinema.]
@From Death to Reality: [Not everyone enjoys family-friendly commercial films. Among the overly industrial-themed National Day films, *The Mute Woman* is undoubtedly a breath of fresh air. The earthy fragrance carries the weight of the Loess Plateau, and the blood-stained romance is unforgettable…]
@The inexhaustible youth beneath the camel's feet: [What merit have I now gained, that I have never toiled in the fields? My monthly stipend is three hundred bushels of grain, and at year's end I have surplus.]
@Nangong Zhisou: [A profound and simple sentiment, a folk elegy for the industrial age.]
The two groups of influential figures and their respective followers were locked in a fierce battle, each sticking to their own version of events and refusing to back down, their conflict seemingly escalating to the point of annihilation. Ye Chu's fans were also trying their best to clarify the situation, but unfortunately, caught in the crossfire of this literary war, they had very little room to maneuver, like a clump of dandelions swaying in the wind.
It has to be said that due to the immense popularity of "The Fierce Land," many Weibo users were caught up in the heat of the moment, and the insults directed at Shang Yechu and Gu Wenhua were quite harsh. Shang Yechu's Weibo comment section was once again flooded with various forms of abuse, including demands for her to apologize to all Chinese people. Gu Wenhua also suffered a major setback; his account, which had only a few hundred followers, suddenly gained tens of thousands—all of them were there to hurl insults at him.
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