Recently, Feng Yuanzheng, vice president of Beijing Renyi, said in an interview that restricting actors' remuneration is not a bad thing, but he does not feel that restricting remuneration will necessarily solve the fundamental problem.
He specifically mentioned that it is necessary to standardize the entire showbiz circle, and while rectifying the remuneration, it is also necessary to rectify the influence of capital on this industry.
Feng Yuanzheng, who often shoots dramas, has deeply experienced the lives of the actors in Hengdian", and the lives of most actors are below the life line.
When the reporter asked whether the actor industry also needed common prosperity, Feng Yuanzheng's answer was: of course.
Feng Yuanzheng has a clear understanding of the industry ecology of the showbiz industry.
For example, in recent years, some actors have cooled down because of tax payments and other issues, which essentially exposes the unfair distribution of income in the show business circle.
Here it should be mentioned that Zhang Songwen, an actor who has become famous in recent years, once paid tens of thousands of yuan for a play.
When it comes to sky-high film remuneration, Zhang Songwen believes that it is the head provoked by the capital.
"Why don't they give it to me?" Why are people willing to pay that person high? Does he want it? No, it is the capital that is particularly willing to say, 'This play is none other than you'. ”
When the capital puts forward such conditions, the actors do not want to shoot this play, the capital will come up with their own tried and tested means: "Well, as long as you are willing to come, you can ask for the price." ”
So these "one hundred million" and "two hundred million" actors we are familiar with have turned out to be.
This is also the reason why Feng Yuanzheng singled out to "rectify the influence of capital on this industry", and his words unveiled the "fig leaf" and ugly scars of the showbiz industry.
First, from a large perspective, the unconditional connivance of the capital for traffic artists is gradually destroying the environment and ecology of the entire industry.
Traffic artists are supported by fans, not because of how good their acting skills are, but because of the publicity, promotion and packaging of the capital behind them.
Under the favor of capital and fans, traffic artists are becoming more and more arrogant, and "top-stream collapse" is not a new thing.
2021 is more jokingly called the "first year of the top-class collapse", and we can't see any constraints on their own morality by the traffic stars of those "collapsed houses".
Acting skills are not to mention, countless old drama bones have complained about "Mr. Number" and "Miss Digital", they have no basic line skills, just take money and do not work, act in the most inferior dramas, take the top pay, people are disdainful.
It is precisely this kind of moral mismatch and inversion of the horse that has led to the emergence of a large number of domestic film and television works with huge investment but shoddy production.
Taking the female protagonist's 160 million "New Version of Qiannu Ghost" as an example, someone once exposed that the total investment of this play is about 230 million, and the remuneration of the heroine alone accounts for nearly 70% of the investment in the entire drama, leaving only 70 million.
This 70 million also includes the salary of the male protagonist Hou Minghao and the salary of other major actors of 58 million, that is, the final TV series production cost is only about 12 million.
A 50-episode drama with an investment of 230 million yuan, the final production cost is only 12 million, you can imagine how much the show is evenly distributed to each episode, and you can understand why the crew and group actors will struggle below the "lifeline".
The capital wants to rely on the traffic to cut leeks, the traffic wants to make a show to make a lot of money, and the uneven distribution caused by the final compression of costs is all shared among the low-level staff and actors.
Traffic makes a lot of money, the capital makes a small amount of money, the staff barely makes ends meet, and the audience can only watch "shoddy" works in front of the TV.
That's why the big bombing, which has invested more than 700 million yuan, has rougher special effects than page games. Because of this movie, a certain bingbing only shot for 3 days, the shot did not exceed 10 seconds, but the film remuneration was as high as 20 million; and the various stars in the film added up to more than 30.
This is the current state of some traffic dramas (films), once this phenomenon becomes the norm, which actor will also work hard to polish his acting skills, which actor will also experience life in order to shape the role, and which actor does not earn a "tens of millions" level of remuneration, to spend time and energy to study the characters and roles?
When most of the head actors lose respect for the profession of actors, lose patience for role modeling, and only want to pursue fame and profit, it will affect the healthy development of the entire industry.
Second, from a small point of view, the existence of similar actors is greatly compressing the living space and salary space of ordinary actors.
Generally speaking, the actors we can call out by name are the "head actors" in the group of actors.
Corresponding to the head actor are the "waist" actor, the "foot" actor and even the extras.
In terms of career division, they are all actors, and in terms of salary, they are very different.
In fact, the industry ecology of the entertainment industry is very similar to Chinese football.
There are fewer than 20,000 registered footballers on the mainland, compared to 4.5 million in Japan, 11.7 million in Brazil, 5.4 million in Germany, and even 50,000 in Vietnam...
If the ecology of the football industry is a pyramid, we see only the people at the top of the tower, and this spire is made up of thousands of nameless and nameless players.
But the football industry in the mainland deviates from this law of development, it is like a top-heavy tree, because there are too few "waist players", that is, registered professional players.
The actor industry is also similar, we have only seen the gold-mining ability of head actors and traffic artists, but ignored the survival status quo of a large number of "waist actors".
Waist actors are not group actors, but those who are born in the class or have been the protagonists, but are not well-known third- and fourth-line actors.
In the "Annual Comedy Competition", waist actor Jiang Long once told his bitterness.
Jiang Long is not a grassroots, he has his own encyclopedia, graduated from the North Film Acting Department, starred in works in 2004, and was the winner of the first prize in Latin dance when he was ten years old.
He has acted in many TV series, even including popular dramas such as "The Wind Rises in Luoyang" and "Three Lives Are Lucky to Meet You".
But when Huang Bo asked him if there were many opportunities to take over the play,
But he replied: After eating the last meal, there is no next meal.
On the stage of the "Annual Comedy Competition", Jiang Long told the current situation of his Beiying graduates.
His sketch is based on his real experience, because he knows a classmate who has good acting skills, because there is no drama to act, he played an NPC survival in the escape room.
Some students, there is really no way, are ready to change careers.
As cobain-turned-actors, they should have had a better future than that. Although personal efforts and personalities have an impact on the development of actors, the increasing deformity of the industry ecology is the real reason why it is difficult for them to get ahead.
These "waist actors" from the class are struggling to survive, and the foot actors and group actors are really struggling up and down the life line as Feng Yuanzheng said.
Hengdian is known as the "Hollywood of the East", where at most 100 crews are turned on at the same time every day, and 200,000 "group performances" from all over the country with star dreams are active.
In the hearts of these people, Zhou Xingchi, Wang Baoqiang and Zhao Liying, the big stars who started from the dragon set, are their idols and role models, but the reality is more tragic than in the movies "The King of Comedy" and "I Am a Passerby".
Most group performances, the daily salary is 60-70 yuan, and the hourly wage of Hengdian is generally 10 yuan, so it is busy for a day, and it is also mixed with a meal.
Some people with special talents, such as young and beautiful, who know martial arts, and who have a foundation in acting, will have higher salaries.
In the play, there are shaving head plays, kissing scenes and other physical contact scenes, and the crew will also add money in moderation, but the average monthly income of the Hengdian group performance is between 2000-3000 yuan.
At this wage, it is still extremely unstable.
The life of the group performers is very hard, and the living conditions are very poor, but this "Oriental Hollywood" is still the dream place of countless people.
Every day people leave with their bags on their backs, and others come with dreams.
For "horizontal drifting", the sky-high salary of the head actors of the crew will greatly compress their salary space, and they can only do the hardest and most tiring work and take the least money.
Most group actors have not undergone professional performance training and learning, which leads to their lack of a clear career upward channel, and can only rely on "Wang Baoqiang in daydreams" to survive.
But Wang Baoqiang, there is only one in all of China.
This also led to "Wang Baoqiang" becoming a dream that all the drifters may not be able to touch in their entire lives.
Therefore, in Feng Yuanzheng's proposal of "actors and actresses to prosper together", there are two very important constructive opinions.
The first is to let the group perform "evaluation title".
Although there is no academic qualification, as long as there is acting, level, skills, acting, dedication, respect for the actor's industry, there is an opportunity to evaluate the title.
This is a rising channel from low to high, and the appraisal title is obviously more realistic than the daydream of being a big star, and it can also screen out actors who really love acting.
The second is to limit the minimum remuneration.
Note that it is a film salary, not an hourly salary.
Although Hengdian has increased the hourly wage of group performances, from the previous 10 yuan / hour to 12 yuan, this level obviously cannot guarantee the normal life of group performers.
A minimum salary can ensure that the actors chase their dreams under the conditions of food and clothing, and among these dreamers, there must be gold that the crew has not found.
The grassroots have a counter-attack channel, the waist actor sees the dawn of the rise, and the entire performing arts industry can have a normal "pyramid".
When the spire and the base of the tower are in their places, there will be a steady stream of new forces emerging, rather than just relying on capital packaging, which is healthy development, isn't it?
As a film media person, I hope that Chinese films will get better and better.
Happily, such changes are taking place, and we may also witness the process of Chinese film and television prosperity.
( According to Sina.com / author of the movie Rotten Tomatoes)