Recently, who has been indulging in the charm of the brothers in the Greater Bay Area?
Seeing the Greater Bay Area and hearing the familiar theme song of "Deer Ding", it is inevitable that you can't avoid TVB.
Liang Hanwen is the theme song king of TVB, and the other four are also TVB gold medal actors, and even when the team name was first drafted in the show, the brothers in the Greater Bay Area also had this alternative: TVB.
Artists with Hong Kong background probably have a TVB background, some time ago, Cai Shaofen broke the news in the show that she only got 500 yuan per episode of TVB, and when this word came out, the topic of "LOW TVB salary" was on the hot search.
In fact, tvB film remuneration has not been a rare news, but what everyone did not expect is that it can be so low!
The WELL-known TVB actors in the camera may have lived in real life more intriguingly than in the play.
Mai Changqing, who was scolded by Liu Xing every day in the ghost animal area as and Liang Extraordinary, ran to deliver takeaways personally when he was over 50 years old.
After working for many years at TVB, Paul Che, who played fat tou Tuo in "Deer Ding", could not even pay his mother's funeral expenses, and could only ask the outside world for crowdfunding.
These people are not "dead runners", but TVB's perennial gold medal green leaves, but also reveal a reality: TVB's salary is really not high.
Zhen Zidan, who can play ten in one place, once broke the news that when he first came to TVB in 1988, his monthly salary was only 3,000 Hong Kong dollars.
However, in the eighties and nineties, this was the general situation. At that time, the film and television industry in the mainland was not yet mature, and the salaries of actors were also not high.
Yu Huadong, the actor of Tu Xingsun in the 90th edition of "Fengshen List", acted in 5 episodes and earned 16,000 yuan, which was a sky-high salary at that time.
However, from the 1980s and 1990s to the present, the remuneration of films in the mainland has risen almost exponentially, while TVB's low-wage characteristics have remained "steadily maintained".
Take TVB's most recognized "Emperor of Vision", Wang Haoxin, who just won the second letter of Emperor of Vision at the Awards Ceremony of Thousands of Stars last year, has an annual income of 6 million Hong Kong dollars, which is less than "Three Shuang".
But in this way, his salary can already rank in the top three among tvB actors.
Among the well-known first-line female artists, Deng Cuiwen's film remuneration is higher, but it is only 80,000 Hong Kong dollars per episode.
Here to popularize a little, TVB actors filming strictly means not to get paid, but to bill by show. Actors appear on camera for half an hour to count a show, each show has an income of 800 Hong Kong dollars, for this 800 Hong Kong dollar show, it may take three or five days to work.
The actors are still like this, and the other staff can only be more unhappy. According to reports, TVB's screenwriters and other behind-the-scenes personnel, counting overtime pay, can only get 10,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, which is really from top to bottom, and they are very poor.
△ Source: Global Times
Compared to other regions, it is simply eye-catching.
As far as internal entertainment is concerned, don't mention a certain cool and a certain signature that shocks the whole family, and look at the real frontline.
When Zhou Xun talked to Guo Degang on the show, he said that when he starred in "Ruyi Chuan", he only got 600,000 films per episode, which was also a first-line celebrity, more than ten times higher than tvB actors, but this was already a conscience price.
According to media reports, when Sun Li starred in "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Round", the film remuneration had reached 1.5 million per episode.
In Japan, where the film and television industry is mature, the quotation of popular actors is also very low, but converted to RMB, each episode can also get about 100,000 yuan, which is a level that even TVB's brother and sister can't reach.
Not to mention the United States, in the TV series "Game of Thrones", several actors are paid more than $300,000 per episode.
Compared with other regions and other industries in Hong Kong, TVB actors really just look glamorous.
According to the data, in Hong Kong, where the land is scarce, the minimum wage standard has reached 8280 Hong Kong dollars, from the perspective of income, TVB actors and waiters with dishes can rely on a monthly income of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars and call it difficult brothers and brothers. (There is no meaning of occupational discrimination)
In terms of purchasing power, this little money may only be a drop in the bucket.
In the street stalls in Hong Kong, a fried rice is priced at about 40 Hong Kong dollars, while in the cheap supermarket, 100 Hong Kong dollars can only buy a dozen tomatoes.
Due to the high housing prices in Hong Kong, many people can only choose to share a house, but even a Hong Kong subdivided house that can be seen at a glance can reach a monthly rent of 7500 Hong Kong dollars.
It is no wonder that even Guo Zhenghong, the TVB gold medal green leaf, has finally been able to afford to buy the first apartment in his life after he has been in the mainland in recent years.
At the beginning of this year, TVB pillar Wang Mingquan publicly appealed at the award ceremony to ask TVB to raise money for artists. In fact, low wages are indeed a tradition of TVB.
In 1967, TVB officially launched, when there were many competitors, TVB held artist training classes on the one hand, and gave producers more creative space on the other hand. By the 1980s, after gradually gaining a foothold, TVB began to shift to the popular route and strictly control costs.
TVB founder Run Run Shaw once admitted that he was just a businessman, and there was no essential difference between him and other Hong Kong entrepreneurs who had to compete, so one dollar was spent as two dollars, and he never invested more.
And what makes TVB save money to the end is TVB's family, known as The Cutting manager, Fang Yihua.
△ Fang Yihua when he was young
What she does best is to cut money strictly.
There is a well-known paragraph, director Li Hanxiang when filming to hire 10 children to blow bubbles, each person has a prop, a total of 10 yuan, but after applying for the newspaper, it was cut in half by Fang Yihua, so angry that Li Hanxiang directly threw his hands away.
This shrewdness permeates every procurement link of the TVB crew, and it is rumored that if eggs are used, they should also be carefully preserved so that they can be sold back to the restaurant to save money.
As for the reuse of props and clothes, it is even more common at TVB.
For example, the famous iron rooster bowl, as long as it is a shot of eating, is almost inseparable from it.
Even a piece of clothing can be traveled back and forth between different crews.
Under such circumstances, TVB has formed a culture of pulling big money with small money.
The harsh pricing method may have been possible in the 1980s, but now it is difficult to meet the living expenses of artists.
In the 21st century, mainland film and television ushered in the development, TVB lost its dominance in the mainland, and also lost a large number of audiences outside Guangdong.
At the same time, the competition in hong Kong's television industry is becoming more and more fierce, and Hong Kong's network policy is relatively free, and a large number of excellent foreign works can be seen at any time.
TVB's revenue is also limited by the Government's "Television Program Code" and "TV Advertising Code": the implantation of advertising should not be too obvious.
Now in the mainland variety show, the title sponsors are all face-to-face shooting, and the host has to spend most of the time to introduce it when reading the opening speech, and Hua Shao is trained in this way.
At TVB, such a situation is almost impossible. In 2015, at the award ceremony alone, the guests ate fried chicken with some obvious signs, and they were complained by the audience about interfering with the viewing fun, and finally fined 150,000 Hong Kong dollars by the Communications Bureau.
Some time ago, TVB announced its financial report, losing 284 million yuan in the first half of the year. But this situation has improved, and TVB lost more last year. In this way, it is even more necessary to cut expenses on actors.
In addition to the external environment, there are also problems with the internal management of TVB.
First, TVB has a monopoly position in Hong Kong. Although there was a brother dispute with ATV in the early years, from the perspective of development, many people still came to TVB training, more monks and less porridge, and even excellent artists came to TVB, it is inevitable to fall into a situation with Hengdian group members.
Second, TVB's approval mechanism is too conservative. Taking the soul of film and television dramas - the script as an example, the screenwriter must first report the outline and then write, but it is the director who is responsible for the review, and it is difficult for the elderly in their 60s to understand the aesthetic needs of young audiences, so they have lost a lot of good scripts.
Finally, there is TVB's strong mountain culture. Factional rivalries have even affected the work of artists, and the standard can only stagnate.
In addition, TVB also has many inherent riotous operations, such as the old man's contract, as long as the actors are old and have no value, they will sign new treaties with them, greatly weakening benefits and wages, and kicking them out of the system.
Liu Guifang, who has worked at TVB for 31 years, has publicly stated that she has been cut in wages and her contract has been changed to part-time.
TVB's excellent actors frequently leave, not without reason.
In recent years, with the continuous reduction of treatment, TVB artists have frequently left the mainland and participated in many works. For example, Ah She in "Yanxi Raiders" easily overshadowed the protagonist with his eye killing, so that the audience called out wonderful.
Not to mention the brothers in the Greater Bay Area who have recently become popular through Phi Ge, not to mention the mountain chicken brother, Laughing brother, Zhang Daxian, and even the low-key Lin Xiaofeng is a host, opera, and singing, and his business ability can really fight.
And this group of five, almost all over the age of 50, but regardless of body management or business ability, is still online, worthy of the title of Hong Kong man.
In fact, for TVB artists, acting is really just a basic operation. In the past glory days, TVB's Taiqing was called an addiction.
Please look at this acrobatic trapeze artist on the stage, if not said, who would have thought that she was just debuted by Hong Kong sister, and later won international and domestic awards Maggie Cheung.
Looking at this kung fu brother who is full of martial arts and wields a large golden whip, the camera is closer, and it can be seen that he is miao Qiaowei, the third brother of the wireless five tigers.
There is a saying that the treatment of TVB is indeed difficult to see, but through a harsh creation, artists who come out of TVB are casually brought out, and they are all hanging level.
Nowadays, many fans are accustomed to saying that celebrities are still young and have a promising future, but in fact, these artists are far younger than the traffic when they contribute textbook performances.
And what Hong Kong artists admire most is not just their business ability.
After TVB struggled to support, many artists did not continue to engage in the acting industry, but instead did other very ordinary jobs: selling insurance, handing out flyers, and washing dishes.
△ TVB artist Li Jia, because the income is too low, changed his career to Cui Shiyuan as a bodyguard
It may be difficult for the audience to understand, how can a glamorous star do such a job?
In fact, this is the embodiment of the spirit of their ability to bend and stretch: they can take it and put it down. Artists are just a profession, not a lofty credential or capital at all.
After all, "the most important thing about being a person is to be happy." With this optimistic and not afraid to lose lion mountain spirit, the Hong Kong people represented by TVB actors have survived one difficulty after another, and this is the most precious quality in them.
△ Source: "Thief of Time"
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