OBS Chapter 47 The inevitable has arrived.
Chapter 47 The inevitable has arrived.
The weekend passed quickly, and the limerick didn't cause any major incident.
Weibo has less than a million daily active users, and they are mostly concentrated in celebrity accounts like Yao Chen's.
But there's never a shortage of bored "Leeuwenhoeks" on the internet. A few smart people noticed the analysis of microblogs in the video and began to seriously study this new tool.
Meanwhile, in another corner, a strange chemical reaction is taking place, and a graphic exposé has quietly begun.
There's a post on Tieba titled "Tieba's Strongest Mouthwash: Guess Who This Poem Is Criticizing?"
After the original poster finished posting the poem, hundreds of comments quickly appeared below.
Someone very accurately dug up the TV series "Struggle" which was a huge hit two years ago.
The most amazing one is a GIF.
One second, Lu Tao declared to his adoptive father at the planning bureau, "I will control my own destiny! I will fight for my own future!"
He turned to his billionaire father and burst into tears, pleading, "Mr. Xu, I beg you, I beg you to give me 300 million yuan."
"Three hundred million? You call that hard work? I couldn't even scrape together three hundred thousand for a down payment in three years."
"Living in a big house while complaining about being lost—isn't that just Lu Tao? He's got a father's connections, why is he pretending to be a nobody!"
Some people don't care who they're criticizing; they simply use the emotions expressed in the poem to vent their own feelings.
The rent went up again, I lost my year-end bonus, and my girlfriend left with someone who drives a BMW.
They posted a GIF and added the caption "This is not what I wanted," but it's unclear whether Lu Tao was saying it or they were saying it themselves.
This grassroots sentiment, coupled with the satirical humor of doggerel, resonated with people quickly and intensely.
Some people have already started to direct this fire towards "Loser 2".
"Look at 'Losers 2,' Huang Xiaoming plays a loser wearing a suit worth tens of thousands of yuan. What's the difference between him and Lu Tao?"
However, in the public discourse at the end of 09, this wave of voices is currently just a small ripple.
The clash between the two dramas continues along the same trajectory.
"The Loser 2" maintained a high viewership thanks to the strong promotion from Sohu's entire matrix and the star effect.
But Ren Pingsheng was incredibly grounded.
"Report to the Boss" only garnered 870,000 views in its first three days, less than one-fifth of its competitors, but its completion rate exceeded 70%.
View counts can be artificially inflated, but no one can force users to watch the whole thing.
He closed the background page and opened the editing software.
Next Friday is the day when the second episode of "Report to the Boss" will be released.
It was also the second day after the National Director's first film was released following the Olympics.
……
Two flowers bloom, one branch each.
While Ren Pingsheng was busy preparing ammunition, Ni Ni, far away in Nanjing, was experiencing the most magical week of her twenty years of life.
Being suddenly summoned to Beijing by a web series director, and then subjected to back scratching while wearing a cheongsam in front of the camera, is absurd enough.
But now, something even more outrageous has happened.
She was summoned to the department head's office as soon as she stepped into the school gate.
When I arrived, I learned that Zhang Yimou was looking for actresses for his new film, which was in preparation.
The production team had extremely strict requirements: the actor had to be a native of Nanjing, speak fluent Nanjing dialect, and be able to speak fluent English. He also had to have the elegance of someone from the banks of the Qinhuai River, but also have a strong and resolute character.
This is practically like using Ni Ni's ID card to look for someone.
As a native of Nanjing, Ni Ni is fluent in English, a national second-level swimmer, and a former JS province ballroom dance champion. Her figure and personality are impeccable.
Director Wang handed over her documents immediately.
Ni Ni was stunned. She had always aimed to be a white-collar worker, and suddenly, it seemed as if she had one foot in the door of the highest hall of Chinese cinema.
As Ni Ni left the office, her mind was still reeling.
Having always aspired to be a white-collar worker, she has just finished a cameo role in her first film and is now auditioning for a role in Zhang Yimou's movie.
"How come so many people are asking me to act when I studied broadcasting and hosting?"
Suddenly, the words Ren Pingsheng said when he left Yanjing echoed in my mind.
What's meant to happen will happen.
……
Ni Ni arrived very early on the day of the audition.
Outside the hotel conference room, chairs were lined up along the corridor, and seven or eight girls, ranging in age from sixteen or seventeen to their early twenties, were already seated there, each one more beautiful than the last.
No one spoke.
Ni Ni found a corner to sit down and glanced around out of the corner of his eye.
A girl was quietly memorizing her lines, clutching a sheet of printed paper in her hand, which was almost soaked with sweat.
The staff came in and handed out a document to each person.
Ni Ni opened it and froze.
A line of dialogue, a description of a situation.
"You are the other woman. You have a pregnancy test result and a divorce agreement. Go to him and ask him to divorce his wife. If he refuses, make him sign it."
Ni Ni read the passage three times to make sure he hadn't misread it.
She turned to look at the girl next to her, who also looked blank and asked in a low voice, "What does this have to do with the movie? I thought it was about Nanjing."
No one answered.
One by one, the girls were called inside. The door was closed, and after a while, crying and shouting could be heard from inside, occasionally mixed with the sound of things being smashed.
Every girl came out with red eyes. One girl, who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen, ran out crying, her makeup completely ruined.
Ni Ni sat there, his palms starting to sweat, not out of fear.
She wondered, what exactly was being tested?
Why choose such an extremely melodramatic and cliché story, the kind that's most likely to make people lose their minds and force their way out?
If the test is on acting skills, then the role should be given relevant scenes. If it's about emotional outbursts, there are a hundred ways to do it, so why this particular one?
Is it a stress test? A compliance test?
She flipped the document over and over, and suddenly a picture popped into her mind.
In the cramped and oppressive conference room, Ren Pingsheng set up the camera at the foot of her slit cheongsam.
She was both ashamed and angry, and clutched her skirt tightly.
Ren Pingsheng only said one sentence: "This is exactly what I want, a humiliating and barbed resistance."
My first reaction was that this person was crazy, a pervert.
At that moment, listening to the new round of cries coming from inside the door, she suddenly realized something.
Whether it's a web series or a movie.
Directors who can see through people's hearts never want to rely on formulaic acting.
What they want is the thorn hidden in your bones.
"Ni Ni".
The staff called her name.
She stood up and pushed the door open to go inside.
In the empty conference room, only four people were sitting behind the long table. The one in the middle, wearing a black polo shirt, was looking down and flipping through documents.
Zhang Yimou.
A male actor in his thirties stood in front of the table, his expression indifferent, already in character.
"Have you reviewed the materials?"
"I've seen it."
"The props are on the table, let's begin."