At the same time, in Shanghai Airport …
Lu Xiaoping had just gotten off the plane and got into the car sent by Shengyun Corporation to pick him up. However, his brain was in a mess.
"What's going on?
"Can someone explain to me what's going on in the game's plot? What is Boss Pei thinking?"
Lu Xiaoping was completely dumbfounded.
Lu Xiaoping had been busy with the publicity of the new movie ever since he returned to Vinci Media. He had been working non-stop for the past few days.
Tengda Corporation's' The Future You Choose 'movie had not been officially released yet. Thus, Lu Xiaoping did not pay much attention to it even though he valued it very much.
In any case, the movie had already won an award. There must be something real about it. In the end, this would definitely be a real fight. There was no point in being anxious. The results would definitely be revealed after the two movies were released.
Lu Xiaoping was also full of confidence in his own movie.
He did not pay much attention to the game. The game might have the same name as the movie, but it was not a direct competitor with Vinci Media. It was not worth spending too much energy on.
However, after the game was officially released today, a lot of information about the game hit Lu Xiaoping directly.
One of the things that shocked Lu Xiaoping the most was that Tengda Corporation was actually playing the villain in this game, acting as a real monopoly consortium.
That was f * cking ridiculous!
What's more, no matter how hard he tried to find the image of the other companies in the game, he could not find any anti-Tengda Alliance image. There were indeed a few large consortiums that supported the resistance army in the game, but he could not see any clues from the image, logo, and the appearance of the person-in-charge.
If he had to copy it, he could only find a few companies that were closer to Tengda, such as Sun Strike Studios, Shenhua Corporation, and Fu Hui Investments.
In short, Tengda Corporation was defeated as the villain in the game. The entire game did not mention anything about anti-Tengda Alliance at all.
That made Lu Xiaoping feel a pain in the ass. It was as if he had hit the air with all his might.
At first, he and Nie Yunsheng's judgment was that since this was a cyberpunk satire, Tengda Alliance would definitely insinuate the many anti-Tengda Alliance companies as villains to highlight the importance of their own actions. However, they did not expect such predictions to all fall through.
They had been building up momentum online previously, but everything was reversed after the game was released.
The previous posts that had been created to build momentum had all turned into very funny performance art, and were going to be laughed at by countless people.
That's right, it wasn't cursing, it was mockery.
A casual look at the netizens' discussions would reveal that the Anti-Tengda Alliance's calculations were wrong this time. They had lost a lot of face in public opinion.
"Previously, so many people said that Tengda Corporation wanted to use 'The Future You Choose' to attack the reputation of other companies. Where are these people? Come out and take a look."
"I'm dying of laughter. These people think too highly of themselves! Tengda Corporation didn't mention this at all. "
"A rubbish company like you actually wants to show your face in Tengda's games? Do you know what Tengda's games and movies are? That's art. Not just any Tom, Dick, or Harry is qualified to be a guest star. "
"These people are attacking Tengda Corporation crazily and cutting off dissidents. They are narrow-minded, but in the end, they realized that they are the narrow-minded ones. In the worst case scenario, Tengda is broad-minded and very magnanimous to go in and be the villain. "
"Do all the companies in the Anti-Tengda Alliance have persecutory delusions?"
Lu Xiaoping felt a mouthful of blood in his chest and almost spat it out when he saw the netizens' ridicule.
That was especially so when he thought about how Boss Pei had tried every possible way to inform Nie Rensheng previously. First, he posted it on Weibo and then contacted him privately. He tried his best to tell Nie Yunsheng that Tengda Corporation really did not make anti-Tengda Alliance and Nie Yunsheng in the new game and new movie.
However, Nie Yunsheng just did not believe it.
Not only did he not believe Boss Pei's words, but he also thought that this was Boss Pei's trick. He was even more determined to bite on this point.
The result was: the higher he jumped previously, the worse he fell now.
What made Lu Xiaoping feel even more despair was that the movie had not been released yet.
The worldview of the game and the movie were basically related. Tengda Corporation had already played a guest role as the villain in the game, so it was most likely the villain in the movie.
They couldn't possibly be the villain in the game and become the villain in the movie, right? Wouldn't that be schizophrenia?
If that was the case, then all the plans that Vinci Media had adopted for Tengda Corporation's new movie would be useless. That was because they had guessed the enemy's strategic intentions wrong from the beginning.
It was wrong from the root. What was there to talk about?
That put Lu Xiaoping in a very passive position. He began to seriously consider the publicity strategy of the entire movie. He wanted to make some corresponding adjustments, but he felt that he did not know where to start.
He arrived at the headquarters of Shengyun Corporation just as he was thinking.
Lu Xiaoping quickly walked to Nie Yunsheng's office. Only then did he realize that Zheng Hao and a few other bosses or senior executives of other companies were also there.
Obviously, they were all stunned by Boss Pei's game and were discussing countermeasures.
Nie Yunsheng, the biggest scapegoat, did not look very good at that moment. He quickly stood up and asked Lu Xiaoping to sit down when he saw that Lu Xiaoping had arrived to ease the awkward atmosphere just now.
"I can only say that Boss Pei is an expert in psychological warfare. I was indeed careless and fell into his trap. This person is full of lies and lies. It's really hard to guess what he's thinking.
"However, at this point, we still have to think of a way to solve the problem. Otherwise, all the foreshadowing work before the movie was released would have been wasted.
"Everyone, if you have any good ideas, quickly say them. This concerns our last resort."
Nie Yunsheng had unknowingly thrown the blame away in the midst of his honesty and sincerity, leaving it hanging in the air.
Of course, the others felt it as well. However, this was not the time to split the blame. They still had to solve the problem.
This time, there was no other way. It was a desperate counterattack by the Anti-Tengda Alliance when Tengda had already grasped the overall advantage in all fields.
If they failed again this time, the Anti-Tengda Alliance could really pack up and scram.
Lu Xiaoping had thought of several ways along the way. At this point, he was the only one who could come up with ideas.
"I think we have to turn around now.
"Continuing to adhere to the previous strategy is equivalent to courting death. We attacked that Tengda was using the game to defame other companies. It was a one-man show. It was cutting off dissidents and tarnishing the reputation of other law-abiding enterprises. These arguments are completely untenable now.
"However, we can use the other party's counterattack to make some articles.
"Many people online are praising Tengda Corporation's self-deprecating spirit. After all, Tengda Corporation has indeed made its image into the game and become the final villain.
"However, this is also something that we can use and attack.
"In other words, Tengda Corporation's self-deprecation is actually not deep. It is even a form of self-beautification.
"If we can interpret this game as Tengda Corporation's beautification of itself, we can dispel its other connotations and lay the foundation for the success of our movie."
Nie Yunsheng and the other bosses' eyes lit up as if they had seen hope and dawn.
It sounded like it was feasible.
At the moment, the Anti-Tengda Alliance was most worried about the failure of the public opinion battle during the game. It would also have a negative impact on the movie. The current strategic goal was to at least reduce this adverse impact and pave the way for the movie.
Now, some players online wanted to make this game a masterpiece and extend the popularity of the game to the movie. What they had to do was to continuously suppress the connotation of this game. This made the game seem very shallow, and from this, they could elevate their own movie.
Everyone looked at Lu Xiaoping. "But from which angle should we attack this game?"
Lu Xiaoping thought for a moment and said, "I've briefly watched the video of this game. In general, the overall plot of this game is somewhat similar to the movie. That's why I tried to analyze its connotation in the way of the movie."
"I think this game might portray Tengda Corporation as the final villain on the surface, but in reality, Tengda Corporation is more like an innocent victim."
"Especially in the plot, the person-in-charge with the surname Wu almost made it clear that Tengda Corporation did not use this artificial intelligence system in the military even though it had a monopoly position. It also did not invade and control ordinary people too much."
"In other words, as a monopoly group, Tengda Corporation still retained the bottom line of conscience. It was this conscience that caused them to suffer defeat. On the other hand, the person-in-charge of the business hidden in the rebellion army had actually seized this power and stolen the fruits of the rebellion army's struggle. One could imagine that it would definitely develop into a monopoly chaebol that was even worse than Tengda Corporation in the future. "
"That's why I think this is a kind of belittling and secretly praising. On the surface, it made a self-deprecating gesture to make Tengda Corporation the villain, but in the details, it tried to beautify Tengda Corporation so that everyone would have a subconscious thought: Tengda Corporation might not look very good, but it is still the best of all companies."
"Those companies that clamored to reach Tengda Corporation would end up worse than Tengda Corporation."
"Once the audience has such a subtle subconscious, it would be a double gain for Tengda Corporation."
"On one hand, it would obtain popularity, traffic, and reputation through self-deprecation. On the other hand, it would establish such a subconscious in the hearts of the audience, allowing Tengda Corporation to always be higher than other companies."
"All in all, it's full of schemes!"
"However, it's precisely because of this that we can target this point and counteract it. We can think of a way to dismantle the hidden intentions in this game and expose Boss Pei's scheme. At the same time, we can analyze the superficial concept in this game. "
"If a cyberpunk theme is not criticizing the big conglomerates but actually praising them, then the meaning of the existence of this work would be dispelled by us."
"That way, the movie 'My Property' would naturally be able to completely surpass Tengda's works in terms of concept. Whether it's the game or the movie, it would form a complete crushing!"
"This is turning a crisis into an opportunity!"
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