“In the Prime of Time” was an internationally acclaimed movie.
Foreign media have acknowledged that it was Lu Shanhe’s most outstanding and insightful work. However, due to special political reasons, “In the Prime of Time” was quickly taken off the shelves within a few days after it became popular in China. The short-lived female lead, “Gu Ruoxi”, withdrew from the entertainment circle and no one paid any attention to her.
Today, the old film had seen the light again.
What was even more surprising was that the actress of the female lead, “Gu Ruoxi”, was actually the female lead of Director Lu’s new movie, Gu Manxi.
Netizens: ???
Many people went to the major video websites to watch this movie with disdain.
Netizens: !!!
[ sugar~ ]: “I’m 15 years old, and I’ve actually watched this movie three times. I’m balling my eyes out! I love Fu Meng!!” (Fu Meg is the name of the female lead in the movie)
[ innocence~ ]: “Who said that Goddess Manxi’s acting isn’t good? I’ll send you to the hospital with a club to treat your brain!”
[ the flying Ju Yu ]: “Director Lu has really brought the aesthetics of light and shadow to the extreme! The female lead looks so beautiful in a cheongsam! Why is this kind of movie banned?”
[ he is my bottom line ]: “My grandmother, my mother, my father, and my uncle have all seen this movie… Five years ago, I was only 12 years old. I remember that there was a time when they went to the cinema every day…”
[ mom said only idiots would read long usernames ]: “Cao’s fans should shut up. Compared to Goddess Gu, Cao’s strength is barely good enough for her to be scrubbing toilets…”
[ movie duckie is a cutie ]: “…This movie is quite popular abroad. Why doesn’t anybody know about it here? I can smell a conspiracy.”
[ beautiful crescent moon ]: “Mommy? Sorry…”
Using the film’s beautiful scenes and the character’s performance that was full of tension and drama, Gu Manxi successfully created a strong, sensitive, independent, yet complicated female character from Old Shanghai. Countless people were touched by this beautiful yet helpless love in the midst of the flames of war.
There was also a movie blogger who had tens of millions of Weibo fans. After watching this historical movie, he cried and roared as he wrote a 10,000-word praise essay.
He also changed his Weibo profile picture to a photo of Fu Meng in a cheongsam. He turned into a little fan of Gu Manxi, shouting that he wanted to marry her.
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Of course, all of this could not be done without Song Chen’s superpower called “money”.
As a tycoon in the capital, Song Chen planned everything out and personally came out to have tea and chat with the leaders of the film bureau.
The film was reviewed again. There were no major problems, and it was soon uncensored.
Once it was uncensored, it caused a huge uproar.
Gu Manxi used her mature acting skills from five years ago to slap the faces of those sarcastic netizens. Many people decided to shut up dejectedly. Some were deleting their posts while others were joining fan clubs.
In the end, the only ones who were still struggling were from Cao Yuezhi’s fanclub.
“Hmph… What’s the use of acting well five years ago? It’s already been five years, and somebody has never acted in a movie before. Is her acting skill even good?”
“Yuezhi often participates in movies, TV dramas and plays to hone her acting skills. She’s much better than somebody who only has one movie.”
“Director Lu has completely chosen the female lead out of his own will. He didn’t give anyone else a chance at all, okay?”
“I’ve watched that movie. To be honest, it’s very ordinary. I don’t know what the internet trolls are bragging about.”
“The female lead of ‘In the Prime of time’ is a prostitute, and so is Miss Gu. (*￣︶￣)”
“I won’t say anything. I just feel sorry for Yuezhi.”
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