TVB is no longer TVB.
On the evening of January 2, TVB's annual Taiwan Celebration Awards Ceremony once again triggered the audience to complain. When everyone thought that TVB would use "Best Actress" to retain "Ren Doctor Under the Stars" "Elected Queen" Zhong Jiaxin, she accompanied the awards 13 times, and was pocketed by Lin Feng's cousin Lin Xiawei, who was relatively unfamiliar to Hong Kong drama fans, and The Emperor of Vision was won by Dillon's son Tan Junyan.
What makes the audience even more puzzled is that this year, Taiqing Huiyinghong did not enter the top 5, Lin Feng accompanied him to run 18 times and won the 0 prize, and Li Jiaxin, who was banned for making inappropriate remarks, was rated as the most popular actress, so he ignored the audience's preferences and the quality of the work, and strongly praised the "newcomer" Practice, which caused many Hong Kong drama fans to be dissatisfied, and the whole network scolded.
I have to sigh that today is different from the past.
Throughout the history of TVB development, "Huo Yuanjia" and "Tianlong Babu" have made Chinese martial arts dramas popular in Asia and go global; Hong Kong dramas such as "Shanghai Beach" and "Genesis" have spread throughout the streets and alleys of China, and the actors and theme songs in the play have remained in the hearts of a generation, even after the decline of the Hong Kong opera audience market and the shortcomings such as channel operations, its past glory can also make the brothers in the Greater Bay Area frequently eat enough emotional dividends in the mainland and earn a lot of money.
Unfortunately, the "Ten Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony" has continued since 1997, and the fierce competition and quite interesting controversy between the emperor and the emperor has become an obvious "pendulum" under the "mountain culture". Even if you don't want to admit it, the glorious era of Hong Kong drama has passed, and its glory and demise are also "destined".
"Glory"
On January 4, the Hong Kong drama "Family Glory" was broadcast on Youku "Hong Kong Theater", about the bullet screen and comments in different age netizens spoke, some entertainment critics expressed, "The change of the times is: Generation Z complained that the actors are too old, ridiculing "Family Glory" is the Hong Kong version of "Penthouse", and we see the familiarity and the development history of TVB for decades from this drama. ”
In recent years, with the decline of Hong Kong opera, the preferences, market orientation and capital preferences of young audiences are now influencing the survival status of Hong Kong dramas, and the original unique "Hong Kong flavor" has gradually disappeared. The lack of "Hong Kong flavor" has always been a difficult topic for Hong Kong dramas and co-production Hong Kong dramas, and the key points that are difficult to solve are the differences in the actors, production teams, and the quality of the script and the fireworks.
First of all, in terms of cast, "Family Glory" is starred by Zhang Zhilin, Yang Qianyao (Yang Yi), Li Caihua, Luo Ziyi (Luo Zhongqian), Xiong Dailin, Huang Haoran, Liang Jingqi, Guo Zhenghong and other familiar faces of Hong Kong dramas, and the cast is called "TVB 2.0", which has been in the hearts of the audience before broadcasting.
In terms of the behind-the-scenes production team that determines the quality of the finished product, the executive producer of "Family Glory" is Leung Ka-shu, the former theatrical production director of the production department of Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., who has appeared countless times in TVB works and actors' award speeches.
In addition to the series and actors, TVB is best known for its "hill culture".
In the 1990s, TVB was divided into two major mountains, Liang Pai and Zeng Pai, led by Liang Jiashu, produced the 81st edition of "Fengshen List", the 85th edition of "Zhong Wuyan" and "Ajiao Zheng biography", "Flying Tiger Qunying", "Flowing Golden Years", "Delicious Heavenly King", "Integrity Action" and other dramas, and joined hands with its actors to focus on large-scale production of Hong Kong dramas, single-handedly creating high-quality works such as "Genesis", "Searching for Qin", "Criminal Investigation Archives", etc., pushing "TVB" and "wireless family dramas" to the peak of the Asian drama market, so that "Hong Kong dramas" can go to the world. The feelings and supreme glory it has created are deeply rooted in the hearts of a generation.
Therefore, after "Seven Princesses" won the best drama series this year and Lin Xiawei won the best actress, "Family Glory" returned to the Hong Kong opera theater with a gorgeous lineup and a full-sighted plot that far exceeded any wireless Taiwan celebration drama in 2021, recreating the "Hong Kong wind", and the "sense of nostalgia" and "contrast" formed by it made the drama get more attention on the basis of the original market scope, and the first 4 episodes have ranked 3rd in the Youku Jitter List.
"Hilltop" change
AFTER ATV did not lag behind, TVB was dominant in Hong Kong, and then the Hong Kong drama market faced a sharp decline in the number of workplace dramas, the single theme of police films, the dilemma of the giant fighting dog blood drama fading out of the Hong Kong drama circle, the pattern of the original diversified production and blooming was replaced by "small production", and the former Hong Kong flavor and fireworks atmosphere no longer existed.
In 2017, when Hong Kong dramas have been on the tide, Wang Mingquan said at the TVB Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony, "If the company's salary can be increased a little, rest time is a little more, care a little more, and the mountain culture is a little less, we can definitely retain more talents, morale is more high, we can proudly say that I am from TVB!" ”
Empires often collapse from the inside, and Sister A's obvious shout proves that in addition to the rapid development of internal entertainment, the most decisive fatal factor in the decline of TVB is that under the mountain culture, producers and artists are followed into different camps and involved in "infighting".
Back to "Family Glory", in terms of plot, the "infighting" in the series can be said to be the epitome of TVB's factional struggle.
There are three main lines in the play, the first is the magnate struggle and sisterly confrontation between Zhen Xin, played by Yang Xiyao, and Jia Luoyi, played by Li Caihua; followed by the three generations of the Ma family around the wealth, fame and desire of the planting of stolen goods and family infighting.
In addition, two lines of revenge are added to the play, the first is Ma Zhanhong, the young master of Ma Jiatang played by Zhang Zhilin, because his father was kidnapped and missing, with "Mr. Ma kidnapping Mr. Ma" as a clue to carry out investigation, and finally the suspicion was locked on the ma family's old master Ma Shihong, and began to lurk for revenge; the second is that the third daughter-in-law, Jia Luoyi, hated the Ma family because of her mother's abuse of her mother as a child, and the experience of jumping off the building to commit suicide, trying to take revenge and become the leader of the Ma family.
In reality, TVB, shooting more than 30 TV series every year, the industry labor model production is not cheap, but due to limited resources, the drama group formed a situation of confrontation between Zeng Lizhen and Liang Jiashu, competing for actors and resources on the workplace, privately "stepping on the field" and fighting each other, and finally from the secret struggle to the open knife and gun, the contract for the award, grabbing resources from the hot hand, so that the female two women and three women take the best female lead frequently, and the actor's thank you words are mostly in the thank-you faction.
And the heroine Yang Qianyao in "Family Glory" was once one of the victims of "Mountain Culture", because the two factions competed with each other, and the role in her "Sniper Sniper" was cut, and the throne that should have been obtained was also lost.
Nowadays, TVB Shantou culture is still prevalent, the previous rating of more than 35 points, now 25 points will be defined as a "explosive drama", fighting and fighting, capital laziness, no successor, even if the actors are retained, they have long lost the audience.
"Back to the light"
Until now, there is still a saying in the industry, "Don't underestimate Hong Kong dramas".
In recent years, the theme of Hong Kong dramas has been stretched, there are very few good works, and the explosive models are basically 0, but Hong Kong dramas can always "return to the light" at the moment when the fire is gradually extinguished, and its perseverance and strength can still not be underestimated.
In addition to "Family Glory", in mid-December, the flying tiger series of IP new drama "Flying Tiger's Heroic Hero" landed in the Hong Kong Theater, the drama in the lineup of Miao Qiaowei, Huang Zongze, Wu Zhuoxi, Zhang Zhaohui, Ma Dezhong, Chen Hao, Guo Jin'an seven major Hong Kong drama male god lineup, in terms of plot, the "opponent" of the Flying Tigers was fully upgraded, based on the development of the new era, from conventional heavy cases such as guns and drugs to the chemical weapons crisis that the masses may encounter at present.
The beginning began with a seemingly simple transaction and assassination, little by little, the terrorist organization "Waganbu" infiltrated Hong Kong in an attempt to spread the conspiracy of the super virus, the Flying Tigers and terrorist forces set off a chemical weapons war in Hong Kong, facing a crisis, with the assistance of Interpol Xu Junfei, the two generations of china and young people joined hands to prevent the spread of the chemical weapons virus in Hong Kong, and the layout and scale were even grander.
From the perspective of theme, layout and actor acting skills, "Flying Tiger's Heroic Hero" can be compared to the ceiling of Hong Kong dramas and police gangster theme network dramas with the same theme in recent years, and when Hong Kong dramas are about to be completely destroyed, they return to the light to continue the fire of life, saving some time for the tide of Hong Kong dramas.
Looking back on more than 60 years of Hong Kong dramas, thousands of TV dramas have left us with unforgettable collective memories that belong to the times and belong to the audience. At the same time, these works are exported overseas, becoming a bridge of spiritual and cultural communication across national borders, and profoundly influencing generations of people.
However, the "Shantou Culture" led to the collapse of TVB internally, and the talents were scattered, but the "Shantou Culture" was not the core reason for the decline of Hong Kong dramas, and this year's TVB Awards have proved that in addition to the quality of the script and the pyrotechnic atmosphere, the actors are still an indispensable and important element of the "Hong Kong flavor" of Hong Kong dramas.
This familiar face is not only a witness to the tide, but also the last backbone of supporting Hong Kong dramas, hoping that TVB can take this as a lesson, attach importance to the needs of the audience, allocate resources with the strength of actors, and discuss awards with the quality of works and word of mouth, otherwise it will eventually lose the audience and go to ruin.