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On January 5, 2020, Lin Minghong, the brother of Taiwanese idol Ming Dao, was overwhelmed by debt and drove his family of three to a mountain forest in the NeihuShan District of Antai Street in Taipei City, and behind a temple, he strangled his wife and 11-year-old son, and then hanged himself on a tree.
Ming Dao heard the news and said that he was "very shocked and saddened."
I think that before dying, Lin Minghong did not ask Ming Dao for help, but was strictly rejected by Ming Dao.
Remember that in 2013, at the scene of the MingDao New Drama Promotion Campaign, Lin Minghong's creditors pretended to be fans to collect debts, resulting in an embarrassment at the scene.
Afterwards, some media said that in the end, Ming Dao still repaid the debt of NT$6.5 million for his brother.
Who knows, 3 years later, the brother who has difficult habits to change owes tens of millions of huge debts, and Mingdao is once again chased by his brother's creditors, only because his brother said "My brother will pay me back".
In the end, MingDao, who could not bear it, decided to draw a clear line with his brother and no longer bear any debts of his brother.
Because, you can never wake up a gambler.
Today, brother Mingdao's fate is completely, he can't live by his own sins.
In fact, Ming Dao was wise, perhaps he had already sensed his own powerlessness.
In October 2019, on the show "Actors Please Take Place", Ming Dao admitted that this was his first scene of the year. Today's Ming Dao is no longer the male god of the Taiwanese idol drama of the past.
And the Taiwanese idol drama that was popular in Asia in the past, with the princes and Cinderellas it created, has long fallen off the altar and returned to the ordinary.
In fact, idol dramas have always existed, but they are no longer Taiwanese cards. But Taiwan was indeed a brilliant idol drama brother.
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If you don't know Meteor Garden, you must know Meteor Shower. It is this "high imitation version" of "Meteor Garden" that sends the unknown Zheng Shuang and Zhang Han to the rocket and directly enters the ranks of flowers and plants.
Of course, the sensational effect of "Let's See the Meteor Shower" is far worse than that of "Meteor Garden", the apprentice is the apprentice, and the learning is like "piracy".
"Meteor Garden" was broadcast on April 21, 2001, setting a new record for ratings in Taiwan.
At that time, because the theme was too new, it was arranged by the TV station to broadcast late at night, but it still did not prevent it from quickly spreading all over the world.
It was as if the entire universe had been frozen before, waiting for F4 to detonate all the enthusiasm.
Fans from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Canada, Egypt, Russia, Brunei and other fans from all over the world are surging and Chinese and non-Chinese, all ages.
Fans of F4 are known as "The United Nations", "The Ten Nations". Today, ten years after the birth of Weibo, there is definitely no such domineering fan name. Many non-Chinese fans deliberately learn to Chinese in order to understand the songs of F4.
At that time, 15 television stations in Japan broadcast "Meteor Garden", 16 countries and regions around the world, and the whirlwind of F4 affected the world.
The unprecedented success of Meteor Garden and F4 has revolutionized the overall landscape of Asian tv dramas, triggering round after round of remake craze.
Starring Mao Yuigami, Akira Matsumoto, Shun Oguri, etc. in the Japanese version "Hanako Otoko".
The Korean version of "Fancy Man" won the popularity of Lee Min-ho.
Although "Let's Watch the Meteor Shower" has always been spat on as a "thunder drama", it has also won zheng shuang and Zhang Han.
In 2003, F4 member Yan Chengxu went to the Philippines alone to participate in the event, and was personally received by Philippine President Arroyo; Zhu Xiaotian held a solo concert in Tokyo for four consecutive years.
In 2006, Zhou Yumin was invited by Japan's TBS to become the first Chinese kick-off guest in the Asian Professional Baseball League; the combination of Wu Jianhao and An Qixuan held a concert at the Great Hall of the People.
In 2008, F4 held 7 consecutive 10,000 concerts in Japan.
At that time, the influence of F4 in Asia definitely surpassed that of Jay Chou today, and everywhere he went, there were thousands of empty alleys.
BusinessWeek called F4 the "Light of Asia."
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If you don't know Chai Zhiping, then you must know Chen Yanxi, Ke Zhendong, Wang Continental, He Junxiang, and of course, F4, Big S.
The idol drama star of the flowing water, the iron chai zhiping. Yes, they are all chai zhiping's red hand.
Chai Zhiping, writing a three-level film script debut. Even the third-level films have been written by her with flesh and blood, and they have a unique path, which is quite appreciated by the director.
One day, Chai Zhiping's father fell in the bathroom and inexplicably sent Chai Zhiping to a large variety show production company.
It is said that when the company meets, whenever everyone's creativity is exhausted, Chai Zhiping will go to the toilet and then come out of the toilet, and there will be a good idea.
Chai Zhiping works more than 14 hours a day, sending out announcements, writing scripts, running TV stations to keep an eye on the process, staring at editing and belting...
She single-handedly created "Super Sunday", which won her three "Golden Bell Awards" best variety awards, making her a gold medal producer.
The host Hu Gua said: "She is a good boss, she is more picky about the quality of employees. She was quite imposing of Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi. ”
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In Chai Zhiping's view, the "time of day" of "Meteor Garden" lies in the fact that "in the Asian region at that time, almost all the markets were not dominated by young actors, but costume dramas." If we do a play dominated by a young actor and play the life of a young person, someone should watch it. ”
At that time, Zhu Xiaotian was serving dishes in a barbecue restaurant; Wu Jianhao was practicing muscles in the gym; "Zaizai" Zhou Yumin sat stupidly on the side when he auditioned with friends, showing "melancholy beauty"; for example, Chengxu was already a "secondary two" and "violent" high school student image when filming "Spicy Fresh Master".
None of them knew that fate was quietly stretching out an olive branch.
Chai Zhiping has his own criteria for choosing F4: "First, I think they have to have something different; then, they have to have a clean spirituality." Every artist has different qualities, some melancholy, some cheerful, some lively, so the most important thing is how do you discover their traits, and then infinitely enlarge their traits to the audience. ”
During the broadcast period, the crowded alleys are no longer enough to describe its popularity, the Philippines averages 42.9% of the ratings, South Korea's F4 fans will exceed 200,000 people in a week of establishment, the Indonesian government calls on F4 to hold concerts in Bali to revitalize the local economy...
The peak of "Meteor Garden" in the field of idol drama is enough to make latecomers look up to it.
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"Meteor Garden" was once banned for teaching bad elementary school students.
The reason is that there are noses and eyes, "There are elementary school girls who are pregnant early because they watch "Meteor Garden". ”
Later, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television understood that if there was any way to ensure that everyone would see it, it would be to ban it.
A breed of boys never seen before in that era: pineapple head or ion hot, tights or flower shirts, bare tendon flesh, domineering, cold, rich and deadly.
Such a crowd of people, but the stars surrounded a girl, looking like they were at the mercy of a messenger.
yes! It's like being this girl! This is the dream of all women.
This is the essence of idol drama, and it is it that opened the craze of Asian idol drama.
To this day, the silly white sweet and Mary Sue dramas on the screen still closely focus on the special and eternal psychological needs of women. I really don't know whether the market is born of women, or whether women have been educated by the market.
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"Meteor Garden" purifies the two most emotional emotions in our lives and presents them in extreme cases: boys are extremely rich, girls are extremely lucky, the plot is extremely dog bloody, and everyone is the center of the universe.
When the problem of food and clothing, the blockage of the toilet, and the increase in rent are kicked out, all the tasks of the protagonists are left to experiment with "love and friendship", and nothing else.
Yes, idol dramas are a spring dream, but young people like fantasies.
In fact, Taiwanese idol dramas are learned from Japan, but Japan is looking for ready-made idols to perform, and Taiwan is to make new people idols.
After the birth of Meteor Garden, this new model was quickly copied and a set of business models were developed: intensive training, precise packaging, in-depth development, appropriate transformation, four-dimensional integration, and trial and error.
Aristocratic temperament Wu Zun, hardcore warm male Ming Dao, sweet and lovely He Junxiang, affectionate literary Chen Bailin, neighbor boy Ruan Jingtian, youth memories Ke Zhendong, each one is very successful.
Chai Zhiping once said confidently, "It is easy for the mainland to produce beautiful women, but it is difficult to produce handsome men." Of course, this sentence will be followed by a slap in the face.
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In "Lavender", the male and female protagonists of the green plum bamboo horse, after more than ten years of separation, the male protagonist has become a popular idol singer, but he is still struggling to find the heroine with congenital heart disease, and finally lives and dies together, and defeats the disease with true love.
Compared with the Korean drama "Blue Life and Death Love", the advantage of "Lavender" is that it does not blindly cry and cry, but incorporates the theme of "lavender" into the love of the male and female protagonists, and their stories are always filled with a purple romantic atmosphere.
Although Chen Yirong and Xu Shaoyang are not handsome men and beautiful women, in the blue-purple large sea of flowers, the picture of the two embracing each other makes people melt in an instant.
The lavender bottles in the stationery store were once sold out of stock, and the songs in the Walkman changed from "Accompany you to see the meteor shower, falling on this earth" to "Memory is a burst of flowers, we say that no one can forget it."
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Later, "Dolphin Bay Lover" is also the domineering president Xu Shaoyang obsessive and single-minded, silently loving the unsuspecting heroine, beautiful fairy tales and sad love, earning enough tears from the audience.
Not only did the ratings break the record, Zhang Shaohan became popular with "Lost Beauty", until now, this song is also a KTV golden song, becoming a beauty that will never be lost.
In "100% of Gold", Chen Qiaoen played the story of relying on twin sisters for revenge after the betrayal of the rich family Qianjin, and opened the career of the queen of idol dramas.
The following "Rose Love", "West Street Boy", "Heaven's Wedding Dress", etc., were basically routine works, until 2004, "Fighting Fish" and "God of War" appeared.
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"Fighting Fish" is advertised as an idol drama, but in addition to starring several young idols, it is more a reflection of many social problems in Taiwan.
The three boys who were forced to go into the underworld because of family problems also struggled and hesitated, but the pressure of life made them have to choose a shortcut, and the fact that they eventually died and crippled told them that they must stay away from the underworld and behave innocently.
Compared with "Meteor Garden", "Fighting Fish" is much more realistic and cruel, and the love in the play is the same as the love of The Dominion Temple in "Meteor Garden", which is beyond common sense, one is a prodigal son on the street, and the other is a pure and well-behaved girl who grew up in the most superior environment.
They think that love is love. But when they break through the family obstacles to come together, they find that this pure love does not exist, there are many contradictions between ideals and reality, asuka falls in love with fish, desperately wants to stay together, but it hurts each other and destroys themselves.
Compared to the pure idealism of Meteor Garden, this arrangement of love is obviously much more real.
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In "God of War", a delicate girl who was autistic at the age of 13 when she was raped by her stepfather, a cold male protagonist who was depressed due to the suicide of her brother, had a bright and trusting side due to love.
Under the packaging of idol dramas, it deeply explores the complex hearts and cruel youth of young people under the influence of the original family.
If "Meteor Garden" expresses the sunshine romance of youth to the fullest, then the gray "God of War" is simply its other extreme.
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Compared with the plot, 2005's "The Devil is Around" is that He Junxiang's prosperous beauty, the domineering personality of cold outside and hot inside, the evil smile to kill... Every girl dreams of being able to appear in life as a "demon" like Jiang Meng.
"Mischievous Kiss" - There is a kind of love called "Jiang Naoki and Yuan Xiangqin", there is a famous saying in the love field: "There is no Jiang Naoshu in the world that cannot be pursued, only Yuan Xiangqin who does not work hard." ”
An idol drama can become synonymous with a form of love, and can leave a deep memory and strength in the minds of those who have seen it, which is the power of "Mischievous Kiss".
The film is fresh and funny, a girl with a lack of brains and a little "one tendon", who is stalking a beautiful young prince, which is a bit of a "female version of Wei Xiaobao".
With her baby face, Ariel Lin laid the status of the heroine of the idol drama and was praised by the audience as "the most beautiful and pure first love confession in history".
The final break with the "Meteor Garden" ratings miracle was "The Prince Becomes a Frog".
The same prince and Cinderella, the difference is that the cold prince eventually becomes an amiable frog, and the heroine is no longer silly and sweet, but a real girl with full combat strength and love for money.
Shan Junhao, played by Ming Dao, created the newcomer setting of the Mary Sue drama - the super charming domineering president.
After the harvest, there was a carnival, and Taiwanese idol dramas entered the mass production stage. "Smiling Paste", "Shepherding Stars", "Corner Meets Love", "Ultimate".
In 2008, a "Destiny I Love You" turned out to be the highest-rated idol drama in the history of Taiwanese television, and it remains to this day. Chen Qiaoen broke his own record and was named the "Queen of Idol Drama".
The play once again gives all ordinary girls a kind of fairy tale fantasy. Simple and authentic "Post-it note girl", almost became a fashion trend.
After the peak began to decline. "Leper Hero", "Next Stop, Happiness", "Haipai Sweetheart", etc., have only caused repercussions in a small range and have not exploded.
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In 2011, "I May Not Love You" was broadcast, which caused a high degree of topic and attention, excellent ratings and word of mouth, and became the most awarded idol drama in the history of the Golden Bell Awards.
The drama is a fresh pure love idol drama, the beautiful feelings of Li Daren and Cheng Youqing, like people's memories of their first love, have become a beautiful memory symbol in the hearts of many audiences.
Li Daren once said to Cheng Youqing, I can't love you. In exchange for her words: thank you, grateful.
He didn't know why, there was only one condition for having a girlfriend—he had to endure the existence of "her"; he didn't know why, he couldn't let her go alone; and he didn't know why he and her world were all stuck together, and so was she.
This drama does not have a Taiwan idol drama routine, there is no mother who is poor and loves the rich, there is no evil and cold-eyed female number two, there is no rich and handsome meets Bai Fumei or Cinderella, it is in this small and fresh plot that contains a strong dramatic conflict, causing people to discuss hotly.
On the Internet, it is even more topical - "every family has Cheng and Qing, everyone loves Li Daren", Li Daren is considered to be synonymous with good men, and has created hot topics such as "first old age", "light mature women", "male girlfriends" and so on.
Some netizens commented that "ten years of repair to Wang Xiaobei ("33 Days of Lost Love"), a hundred years to repair Liu Yiyang ("The Naked Marriage Era"), and a thousand years to repair Li Daren".
Yes, idol dramas are a spring dream, but we love to do it.
The love story of Cheng Youqing and Li Daren has drawn a perfect end to the golden age of Taiwanese idol dramas.
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From 2001 to 2011, after ten years of glory, Taiwanese idol dramas have become thin and dying.
Many people attribute the loneliness of Taiwan dolls to the cost of production, the shift in attention of the Internet, and the competition in the mainland. But Chuan Xiaoqi believes that these are superficial articles.
As the saying goes, the economic base determines the superstructure. If you look at the history of Taiwan's economic development, everything will be clear.
In 2011, professors from the Taipei Academy of Gastronomy talked about "mainlanders can't afford tea eggs" on a variety show, which caused heated discussion.
In 2011, it was a real laugh.com. But the reason why there are still people in Taiwan who look at the mainland with such highly myopic glasses is because they have indeed been brilliant in front of the mainlanders, although only once.
On December 10, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Taiwan by plane from Chengdu Phoenix Mountain Airport and began the last third of his life.
In the following 26 years, Chiang Kai-shek, while deeply reflecting on the mistakes of that year, carried out thrilling reforms, intending to "reinvigorate the mighty wind."
In the 1950s, land reform was carried out vigorously, in the 1960s, light industry developed rapidly, and in the 1970s, foreign capital and technology were vigorously introduced, and Taiwan transformed from a poor rural area into an Asian dragon that was about to take off.
Then the ten major constructions, so that we who were still dirt buns at that time, witnessed the city scenery for the first time in the idol drama - high-rise buildings, neat and uniform.
In 1979, Zhu Xiaotian, Jay Chou, Lan Zhenglong, Chen Qiaoen, Huo Jianhua, Xiao Yaxuan, Wu Zun, Luo Zhixiang and Wu Kequn were born in Taiwan together.
The era in which these people grew up coincided with the lifting of strict regulations in Taiwan, and the people's thinking was unprecedentedly active. The ten major constructions pushed Taiwan's urban construction to a new high, and the panels and semiconductors that later became the core industries of Taiwan also exerted their strength at this time, and the whole island was filled with an upward atmosphere.
The demand for a large number of entertainment cultures has soared, giving this group of people a place to play. When they came of age at the beginning of the century, they created a decade of blowout in Taiwan's showbiz circle.
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In 1992, Taiwan's per capita GDP had exceeded $10,000, compared with $348 on the mainland. Taiwan's total GDP is $170 billion, and the mainland's is $387.8 billion.
The economy of an island is worth half a country, giving the Tigers enough confidence to "shout to the sky and say I love you".
Mainland China is dirt buns, Taiwan is foreign buns. Tu Baozi eagerly hoped that the foreign bun would come and teach his experience.
In the 1990s, Taiwanese stars came to the mainland, it was easy to stand in the C position, mixed into a small king, and the appearance fee was 3-4 times that of mainland stars. In 1998, Su Youpeng participated in "Huan Zhu Gege", and in 1999, Lin Zhiying participated in "Absolute Double Glory", which became popular in the mainland twice.
But mainland stars can only foil in Taiwanese dramas. In 1998's "Family with a Fairy Wife 2", Zhao Benshan and Na Ying, who were already stars, played a pair of rustic rural brothers and sisters.
Sun Xing's first encounter with Zhao Benshan in the play is the dialogue: "I most appreciate the compatriots who grew up in the countryside."
However, when Taiwan was satisfied, it did not know that the mainland had quietly exerted its strength and opened up the development speed of rocket injection.
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In 1996, Taiwan's first place in export trade was the United States, and the Chinese mainland 23, ranking behind Cambodia. In 1999, the mainland rose to 11, and in 2001 it rose to 4, second only to Japan. Since 2004, the mainland has been Taiwan's largest market.
Specific to the film and television industry, in the 10 years from 2004 to 2013, the mainland imported an average of 16.3 Taiwan dramas per year, accounting for 19.7% of all imported dramas, and reached its highest point in 2009.
Since then, it has continued to decline, and by 2013 there were only 3 films left. The data reveals the reality that the competitiveness of Taiwanese dramas is getting weaker and weaker, and the era when the appearance fees of Taiwanese artists have tripled are gone.
In 2015, Wang Mainland replaced his good brother who took drugs and became one of the only seedlings in the 4.0 era of Taiwanese idols. It's just that their home field is no longer Taiwan, but the mainland.
Wang Mainland is a post-90s, but he looked around and found that the fellow villagers who drifted north with him were all post-70s, Luo Zhixiang, Chen Qiaoen, Huo Jianhua, and Zhang Zhen.
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Being able to come to the mainland to shoot dramas, friends in Taiwan are very envious. This envy is very intuitive, in 2017 Chen Qiaoen earned 180 million yuan, Chen Bailin 120 million, Huo Jianhua is more than 80 million yuan.
Wu Zongxian said, "Now which artist does not come to the mainland to develop", but not every artist can develop well in the mainland, with the rise of talents in the mainland, the cake left for Taiwan is getting smaller and smaller, there are more monks and less porridge, and those who can eat more.
In 2017, "You and My Allure Time" began filming, Yan Chengxu was disliked by Zhao Liying's fans for not being qualified, to which the crew responded, "Taiwanese actors are very cost-effective."
From 3 times the appearance fee to the cost-effective, it is another decade. In the past decade, the GAP between the two sides of the strait's GDP has become larger and larger every year. In media reports, Taiwan's rivals have become Shenzhen, and the scenery is no longer beautiful.
The idol drama is still the idol drama, but it is changed into a new costume of the workplace drama and the costume drama, and continues to make dreams for young boys and girls, and the dream-makers have become the mainland.
In 2008, the mainland's strategy was very simple, that is, to learn from Taiwan and learn "Let's See the Meteor Shower".
In 2018, the mainland did not forget its original intention and continued to study, but the object of learning became the United States, Japan and South Korea, and there was no middleman to earn the difference.
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The highest-rated "Destiny I Love You" in the history of Taiwanese television has 640,000 copies, the so-called most expensive investment in "The Queen of Worship" has 1.28 million, and "Three Lives III" has a single version of 5 million.
The same situation also appears in variety shows and records, from production to publicity, to the packaging of stars, the fight is not the feelings, but who throws more money.
Under the operation of capital, Wu Mengda can be transformed into Wu Yifan. It is worth mentioning that when Zhang Shaohan endorsed Meibang in 2007, Yang Ying was still Zhang's background board, and now she has become an advertising queen.
In 2014, Ma Yun attended the Taipei Summit of Cross-Strait Entrepreneurs and told the Taiwanese entrepreneurs sitting full of taiwanese entrepreneurs.
"In the past 15 years, Chinese mainland has undergone earth-shaking changes, especially in the economic field, there have been people who have never seen it 15 years ago, companies that have never been seen before, but unfortunately, Taiwan has not heard of any new enterprises and new entrepreneurs in the past 15 years."
This can also be used to describe Taiwanese idols. Xinhua News Agency did a survey in 2017 and found that the first favorite pop singer after 00 was Jay Chou, and it has been nearly 20 years since Jay Chou's debut. Where have Taiwan's new generation of idols gone?
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In those years when Taiwanese stars swept the mainland, Wu Yifan was still in a restaurant in Vancouver, washing dishes on a work-study basis, Lu Han was in a classroom in Haidian, concentrating on class, and Zhao Liying was distributing flyers in Langfang to support her dream of being an actress.
No one realizes that their time has quietly arrived.
Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, no one knows what will happen to them tomorrow. Li Xiaolu was still "doing her hair" the night before the New Year, and the next day she had become a street rat.
So cherish the present and live the present, this is the meaning of life.