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Once again, the "sky-high salary" of the stars was brought to the table.
As we all know, the entertainment industry comes with money quickly, beyond everyone's imagination. From Zheng Shuang's "earning 2.08 million a day" to Wang Chuanjun's "poor to only 1 million", these news about actor salaries have repeatedly rubbed people's perception of wealth on the ground.
On August 29, actor Yang Mi was elected as the executive director of the second council of the Actors Committee and participated in the symposium of the China Broadcasting Federation.
Different from the previous heavy makeup and colorful star image, Yang Mi dressed up very low-key when he appeared this time. In his speech, Yang Mi said: "As an actor, you must consciously resist sky-high salaries, yin and yang contracts, tax evasion, and behave uprightly and innocently. ”
It can only be said that Yang Mi is worthy of being an actor! In this most challenging moment of acting, she had to perform very well.
At the symposium, stars such as Yang Zi, Xiao Zhan, Zhang Yishan, Chen He, Lin Xinxin, and Di Li Gerba all spoke online or in writing.
However, a group of people who took money and got soft and ate the dividends of "sky-high salary" advocated actors to boycott "sky-high salary" on official occasions. How many people believe such a speech? How much gold is there in such a symposium?
First, the Zheng Shuang incident made everyone see the deformed income of the entertainment industry!
There has been a saying circulating on the Internet, "Don't look at what they say, look at what they do." ”
As the absolute top of once domestic entertainment, Yang Mi earned as much as 30.85 million when he starred in "Three Lives and Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms"! When the salary limit order for the entertainment industry was first issued, the rectification list included Yang Mi.
The sky-high salary in the entertainment industry is absolutely to be resisted, but this is said by a star with a sky-high salary and worth billions of dollars, which is completely self-deception, and also makes the entire symposium contain a kind of formalism that covers up the bell.
Because of this, when netizens saw Yang Mi's speech, they all mocked.
Some netizens said: "An actor is really an actor, what is it like to act." ”
Another netizen said: "Singing on stage, watching drama offstage, there is a play when you check it." ”
As early as 2016, CCTV exposed the problem of high salaries of actors.
"The lowest salary of star actors is 25 million yuan, the highest is more than 100 million yuan, and the salary of actors has exploded, with an increase of more than 5,000 times in thirty years, while the income growth of scientists, professors and workers from all walks of life is dwarfed."
In April 2021, traffic actress Zheng Shuang broke the big news. The TV series "Qiannu Ghost" she filmed took a total of 77 days, with a nominal salary of 48 million and an additional tax evasion salary of 112 million, a total of 160 million.
On average, Zheng Shuang earned an average of 2.08 million per day!
After the news was exposed, the public was in an uproar, and "cool" became a popular new unit of measurement, "one cool is equal to 2.08 million yuan".
From that moment on, the general public had a widely negative attitude towards the group of entertainment stars, and it could even be said that they hated it deeply.
Second, shocking sky-high salary
The Zheng Shuang incident is only the tip of the iceberg of countless chaos in the entertainment industry. In recent years, many first- and second-tier stars can get tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, and the time they take to make a drama often only takes a few days or even weeks.
And friends who make money so fast, what is their business level and personal conduct?
Before Wu Yifan was sentenced to prison, his salary was as high as 120 million.
Followed by Lu Han, the salary is about 80 million to 100 million, and Lu Han starring "Sweet Crit" and "Shanghai Fortress", the ratings of the two dramas combined are less than 6 points.
These stars have neither made outstanding contributions to society nor contributed good literary and artistic works to the public, but they have such an amazing income. Why is that?
In 2016, a young student who became famous overnight because of a costume online drama turned against his agent and went to court against Bo. The disclosed materials show that in the first year of its popularity, the annual income before tax was as high as 37 million yuan, and after tax 18 million.
In 2017, in the early stage of the filming of a costume TV series, it was publicly hyped up that "starring in a production with hundreds of millions of salaries", which is proud of the high salary of actors? Soon, this behavior was named and criticized!
After the investigation, the actual salary finally disclosed was: 53 million female protagonists and 50 million male protagonists, which adds up to hundreds of millions.
In 2018, according to the financial report released by a company, a costume TV series produced by it, the male protagonist's salary was as high as 68 million, and the female protagonist's salary was even more amazing, 98 million!
In the same year, the heroine of another costume TV series was also exposed to a salary of up to 80 million, and in the face of the comments of netizens, she angrily scolded netizens in the show: "I'm worth the price." ”
In addition, a young actor, in an interview, said in a tone of reminiscing about the difficult years of the past: At that time, I had not received a play for a long time, and I was so poor that there was "only" one million in my bank card...
The income gap between celebrities and ordinary people can no longer be described as huge, it is simply two completely different worlds.
The call to rectify the entertainment industry is not a day or two, but every time it is thunder and rain, raised high but gently put down.
Third, the income gap between celebrities and ordinary people is desperate!
Calling for restrictions on actors' "sky-high salaries" is the consensus of the public, "As actors, we must consciously resist sky-high salaries, yin and yang contracts, tax evasion, and behave uprightly and innocently." ”
This is true in itself, but a clay puppet fabricated by capital makes a voice at an official symposium that should have been voiced by the people. This scene seems so incongruous and ironic.
At that time, when Zheng Shuang was revealed to have a salary of 160 million yuan for filming "Qiannu Ghost", some netizens explained to everyone very carefully what the concept of 1.6 was.
If a college student earns 5,000 a month after graduation, he has to work for 2666 years to earn it.
To change the algorithm, in 2019, the per capita disposable income of residents in the country is about 30,000 yuan. If an ordinary Chinese migrant worker wants to earn 160 million yuan in 2023, he needs to work continuously for 5,206 years to earn the wealth that Zheng Shuang made in 77 days.
There was a story about Bill Gates walking down the road and seeing a hundred dollar bill at his feet, but he would never bend down to pick it up, because one second Bill Gates leaned over to pick up money was enough for him to earn a hundred dollars.
Based on Zheng Shuang's daily salary of 2.08 million, assuming that Zheng Shuang works 8 hours a day (which is already a very great working time for traffic stars), then Zheng Shuang's hourly salary is about 260,000!
By the way, in most factories in the country, the hourly wage is not even 26 yuan.
Now although Zheng Shuang has been banned and ended up in ruin, the sky-high salaries of stars still exist.
The injustice of society and the unevenness of the world are vividly displayed in the comparison of the income of celebrities and ordinary people. When an actor like Yang Mi, who receives sky-high salaries, says at the symposium that he wants to "resist sky-high salaries", perhaps only Yang Mi's fans will believe this.
But most people in this society have long been accustomed to the hidden truth, and will no longer pay for this situationist conversation, so all they can do is lift the table.
It is precisely because of this that under the comment area of Yang Mi's speech, it is crowded with all kinds of cynical remarks.
"Laughing at me, is it afraid of laughter if you don't look up?"
"Take this paragraph to the nomination queen, and it will definitely win in one fell swoop."
"It's really ironic, everyone understands what ecology the entertainment industry is, and there are very few people who can abide by the law, abide by morality, and even an ordinary citizen."
People no longer believe, no longer expect, no longer hope, no longer even angry. It is already believed that some of the shortcomings have long since been solved, that some problems have accumulated and that some have long been hopeless.
When everyone begins to become numb and lose faith, the whole society inevitably sinks.
Like a car going downhill, the end of the road is an abyss, passengers choose to jump the car, the choice of not being able to jump is completely flat, and no one even reminds the driver to step on the brakes, because people are not hopeful about the car.
Our society should not be like this.
"If there is an iron room, which is difficult to break without windows, and there are many sleeping people in it, they will soon be suffocated, but they will not feel the sorrow of death from slumber to death. Now that you are shouting, alarming a few of the more sober people, and causing this unfortunate minority to suffer irreparable deathbed, do you think you are worthy of them? ”
However, since a few people have risen, you cannot say that there is no hope of destroying this iron house.
Silence and ridicule cannot make our society better, make our voices heard, express our demands, support what is right, oppose what is wrong, only in this way can we promote the progress of society.
Author's opinion:
Don't choose silence with despair and mockery just because Yang Mi said what we should say. We should also make our voices heard, calling for a complete rectification of the entertainment industry and further limiting the remuneration of celebrities!