Taiwan entertainment, what the hell are you noble

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

I wrote an article about the deterioration of the development of Taiwanese actors, and the external reason is that Taiwanese actors, like Hong Kong actors, are originally very serious. Active is still Taiwan's middle generation from 2000 to 2010, except for a few who are mostly from idol dramas, and they cannot compete with the acting skills and temperament of mainland actors of the same generation, and they cannot compete with young mainland actors physically.

The internal reason is that the "epidemic" has really affected Taiwan stars to come to the mainland to make films at the geographical level in the past three years, and at the same time, the problem of changes in cross-strait relations has become more serious. You see that mainland actors are thunderstorming because of various things at every turn, not to mention Taiwanese actors, and the problem of thunderstorms over there is even more serious.

However, in the comments in the article, I like Taiwanese actors, and I turn to scold mainland actors.

This is normal, this is a cultural inertia brought about by a historical environment in the modern Chinese entertainment industry, it is like Liu Genghong, Wang Xinling, Jay Chou became popular in 2022, and then Yan Chengxu became popular with "Summer Flower", I believe that with the release, Zhao Youting, Peng Yuyan, Zhang Zhen and other Taiwanese Mesozoic generations will also become popular in a wave of similarities.

Because of the previous accumulation, the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry has deep feelings among these generations of audiences. As long as the right time is met, it will naturally become popular. But with the mainland leading the rise of the entire new era Chinese pop culture industry, just like the Hong Kong entertainment industry. There is really not much time left for Taiwan's entertainment industry.

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Taiwanese stars, how did Taiwan's entertainment industry enter the mainland market? From the liberalization of the mainland in the early 80s and 90s, to the signing of the WTO in 2001, Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment capital entered the mainland market, after about 30 years of hard work, it has penetrated into many aspects of the mainland market, and it has its own circle.

Among them, there are several company teams that set investment, production and shooting, distribution platforms, and then popular people. But the teams often seem to be traced back to one source, which is Mango Terrace.

1, at the level of variety entertainment, Hunan Satellite TV has indeed gone very early.

Mango TV and Taiwan's entertainment industry have cooperated very early, and the starting point can be traced back to the early 90s of last century. At that time, the mainland had just been liberalized, and the attitude of the above at that time was cross-strait and three-place cooperation, and Mango TV was the first and most successful television station in the mainland that was entertaining. At that time, Hong Kong and Taiwan cultural entertainment was quite mature and developed. In Hong Kong, Cantonese shows have some language barriers, and Taiwanese variety shows are different.

I believe everyone still remembers the imitation of Taiwanese variety shows such as "Happy Base Camp" and "Variety Big Coffee Show". I remember how Hunan Satellite TV invited Taiwanese stars at that time, and then Xie Na and other hosts to imitate Taiwanese accents.

The popular music auditions of "Super Girl" and "Happy Boy" in 2004 were also based on the Hong Kong and Taiwan music circles (especially Taiwan, when the Hong Kong music scene had declined), and the same was true until the "I am a singer" series in 2013.

The proportion of Hong Kong and Taiwan musicians, Hong Kong and Taiwan music producers, and the behind-the-scenes team of Hong Kong and Taiwan on the show is very heavy.

After 2012, with the rapid development of the mainland economy, video website platforms began to develop rapidly.

After the popularity of online drafts such as "Creation 101" and "Idol Trainee" in 2018, the country's old TV stations are in decline, and we look back to see whether various TV programs are quite declining after 2015 to 2020.

In 2020, the "epidemic" came, and the streaming media under the Internet thinking was more entertaining than the mango station, and later we all knew that this "idol draft" was directly cool, and our cultural environment, like a variety of too entertaining variety entertainment, has also suffered blows.

Only Hunan Satellite TV has risen to the old TV station, and its rising programs are "Sister Lang" and "Phi Ge" that have stirred up the past Chinese circle, especially the feelings of Hong Kong and Taiwan's entertainment circles. The popularity is also dominated by veteran stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the upcoming "Sound into People's Hearts Treasure Island Season" is the same.

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Strictly speaking, variety entertainment is not entirely held by Mango TV, like Zhejiang TV after "The Voice of China", including Jiangsu TV of "Masked Singer", there are also a lot of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. At the beginning, it was mainly a mango station, and it was a great success.

From 2008 to 2016, cross-strait relations were good during the Ma administration, so cooperation was also in full bloom.

The second is the extended film and television circle, this mainland often cooperates with Taiwanese stars, which is indeed the first contact with Mango TV, and then extended.

At the beginning of the TV series, Mango TV introduced Qiong Yao dramas such as "Huan Zhu Gege" and "Deep Love" to achieve great success, and reached in-depth cooperation with Qiong Yao very early. Therefore, later, Qiong Yao remade Qiong Yao's dramas in the mainland such as "Xin Huan Zhu Gege", "Goodbye a Curtain of Dreams" and "Flowers Are Not Flowers and Fog Not Fog", which platform did she work on?

In addition to early contact between Qiong Yao and Hunan Satellite TV, there is an important reason for the rumor that Qiong Yao was released to worship her ancestors in the mainland at that time, and her ancestral home is Hengyang. And because of the success of cooperating with Qiong Yao, it opened the trend of cooperation between Hunan Taiwan and other well-known Taiwanese producers.

——Such as Chai Zhiping!

I believe that anyone familiar with Taiwan puppets knows who this is, and the idol dramas she has produced include "Meteor Garden", "The Devil is Around", "Corner Meets Love", "Shanghai Sweetheart" and so on. That's right, this is the godmother of the famous Taiwanese idol drama, do you see which station did she later cooperate with the mainland in "New Meteor Garden"?

The films produced by Chai Zhiping include "Those Years, The Girl We Chased Together" and "Small Times". Who directed the "Small Times" series? Guo Jingming, so Guo Jingming's later directors of "Jue Ji" and "Qingya Collection" used a large number of Taiwanese stars.

The top stars in the mainland that Qiong Yao and Hunan Taiwan have successfully extended are Xiaoyanzi, and Su Youpeng, who has a good relationship with her. Therefore, you watch Xiaoyanzi's youth film "To Youth", and then later regardless of the audience, even Tuantuan Weibo can delete the second movie "No Other Love" why do you have to use Taiwanese actors.

A few years ago, the producer of the popular costume dramas "Lanling King" and "His Royal Highness Wolf" in China was Chen Yushan, who is another well-known Taiwanese producer, whose works include "Lavender", "Prince Turns Frog", "Destiny I Love You", "Gold Worship Queen", "My Girlhood" and so on.

At the beginning, Wang Continent and Chai Zhiping had a dispute to terminate the contract, and the gossip in which Chen Yushan participated was not mentioned.

If you think about it, after "My Girlhood" became popular, Wang Continent came to the mainland to develop, and the top resources fed to him in those years were almost fed and vomited, and he really couldn't help it before he fell silent. The question is, on which platform is this "Lanling King" and "His Royal Highness Wolf" broadcast?

You see it's a mango station again, how can it be such a coincidence, right?

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All this cannot be said to be an extension of the mango station, and it is common for a TV series to attract investment and the mango station to win the bid. All in all, as long as you extend from the perspective of capital investment, platform issuance, and then to the circle of contacts, you will find that star development is only one of them.

For example, the well-known Taiwanese producer Chen Guofu has nothing to do with Mango TV, he mainly mixes the film industry, and Chen Guofu has served as the director of Huayi Brothers, so most of the works produced by Chen Guofu are the kind that cooperate with Hong Kong and Taiwan teams.

Another well-known film company team is Bona, which basically uses Tsui Hark, Lin Chaoxian, Lau Weiqiang and other Hong Kong directors. Hong Kong directors will definitely use Hong Kong production teams in their productions, naturally they will also use Hong Kong actors, and occasionally Taiwanese stars.

However, we will find that in recent years, Taiwanese stars have begun to frequently become popular, lining up to appear on mainland variety shows and waiting to become popular.

First, because of the rapid changes in cross-strait relations in reality, it has become worse in recent years, especially after the "epidemic", and many Taiwan celebrities have taken the position like that, and it is still very risky to use them.

Second, I don't know if it's a coincidence or sooner or later something will happen, those Taiwanese star circles listed above, in recent years, have had core figures have had accidents, and they have fallen into a nest, just like the mainland film and television company Huayi, do you feel that Feng Xiaogang, Li Bingbing and others are not active.

First of all, Xiao Yanzi, together with her good friend Su Youpeng, who is also a director, has greatly reduced his resources. The other is Guo Jingming, the movie "Qingya Collection" was still released and was removed abruptly, and it didn't help to quickly apologize for early plagiarism.

Huo Jianhua's salary was still at the peak during the "Ruyi Biography" period, and his marriage with Lin Xinru was also planted.

Third, Taiwanese creators who are developing in the mainland market should at least go deep into the mainland market regardless of their position. But they will also grow old, will gradually recede, and will begin to fail to keep up with the times.

The mainland began to shoot "The Three-Body Problem", "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Crazy" to enrich the themes and genres, break through the film and television industry, and enhance the aesthetics of the entire Chinese pop culture.

Of course, like the well-known producers of Taiwanese idol dramas Chai Zhiping, Chen Yushan, including the entire Taiwan circle, they are also good at idol dramas. I don't know if you have found that the aesthetics, film and television industry and content expression of Hong Kong and Taiwan directors of domestic idol dramas have become more and more outdated in recent years.

Ancient puppets: "Canglan Recipe", "Menghualu", "Xinghan Splendid", "Agarwood Like Crumbs", etc., Li Muge and so on.

Mainland directors are better and more fashionable in terms of aesthetics, technology and content. After you watch "Daming under the Microscope", you can't watch the costume dramas of Hong Kong and Taiwan directors, they have poor aesthetics, shoddy production, and especially love the whole set of "replacing China with Wa".

Of course, Taiwanese ancient puppet dramas should be extended to the circle of director Lin Yufen, and several directors are with her.

Now: When you watch the aesthetic of "Go to a Windy Place", the content and expression are more in line with your own idol drama, then can you still watch Chai Zhiping, Chen Yushan's kind of domineering president, Cinderella, wealthy grudge outdated idol dramas?

Although there are many problems with domestic dramas, if you pay attention, you know that in recent years, young directors in the mainland have risen rapidly, and the remaining positions of film and television dramas are naturally less and less, not only actors, directors, etc. are the same.

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Finally, the competition for mainland stars itself is also very large, and the acting skills and temperament of Taiwanese stars are not superior. The six major Mesozoic generations of the movie + Zhang Yi + Lei Jiayin have divided the market, and a large number of actors are waiting to squeeze up.

Idol dramas, the new generation of actors and traffic stars rush to act. The main theme does not look at the actors to read the script, and period dramas suspense dramas are generally the market of middle-aged actors in the mainland, and the film and television dramas of several traffic stars + strength + old dramas in the mainland, as long as they are not rotten and can be used, the film and television industry is increasingly without the position of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

After Hong Kong and Taiwan stars became popular on variety shows with their accumulation, although there are no film and television resources, but the business of the vast market in the mainland can be soft, it is easier to make money, take Chen Xiaochun as an example, the last few films of "Phi Ge" are big, do you see a lot more commercial advertisements when you shop.

To put it ugly, he was going to disappear into the entertainment industry before, and there were very few choices.

In addition, the mainland is also deep in circles, and young celebrities' various rice circles are torn back and forth every day, and some circles you are destined to not enter.

In recent years, a large number of young mainland stars in the "post-traffic era" have risen, although their acting skills are rotten and have a rice circle, but they are really young and flesh, compared to Taiwanese stars who are old and unsuitable, and their acting skills are also numb. Coupled with frequent accidents in the stance of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars in recent years, the audience has begun to like mainland stars who have become popular with their works.

Capital will also contact celebrities, after all, traffic is the box office, not to mention risks.

In the end, the only way for Hong Kong and Taiwan stars is to return to the local scene as a "chicken head", although because the investment interests are far less nourished than the mainland market, but before the "epidemic" "Our Distance from Evil" new era Taiwan drama is also rising, and it has some confidence.

Some time ago, why did Lin Xinru dare to scold mainland netizens because of her children's photos. I guess it was Netflix's investment the year before last, and she made a small explosion as a producer of "The First Lights", and broke out. Her reputation in the mainland is very poor, anyway, there is no possibility of development, and she has the confidence to be a producer in the local area, so she has no scruples!