The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 402 "Crocodile Tears"

It is undoubtedly the most shocking news for the people of Hong Kong that old rivals Li's and TVB have announced an alliance. It is even more surprising to them than Jiayi's announcement of an alliance with the other three TV stations more than a month ago.After all, the several TV stations allied with Jiayi TV Station are from other places, and have little to do with the lives of Hong Kong people.

But the two TV stations Lidi and TVB are different. They are local TV stations in Hong Kong, and the combined audience of the two TV stations is almost the entire TV audience in Hong Kong. It aroused frantic onlookers from Hong Kong citizens.

And the "Oriental Phantom" magazine, which has exclusive inside information, soon published a special edition, which reported in detail the events before and after the alliance.As a result, relying on this exclusive insider information, "Oriental Phantom" magazine sold [-] copies, setting the highest sales record, and also made "Daily Daily" a small profit.

And Xu Guanwu's way of making money made Li's TV station very envious. They also had this exclusive news, but unfortunately they didn't have their own magazine.And after forming an alliance, they can't transfer this exclusive news to other newspapers and magazines. It can be said that they have treasures in their hands but they can't sell them for a high price. It really makes Li's group envy and hate.

It's just that they are powerless, and magazines are not so easy to manage. A magazine like "Oriental Phantom" has suffered losses for more than a year, and now it is finally making ends meet. How can ordinary people have the patience to persevere.Not to mention that patience alone is not enough, you also need to have enough money to burn.

Laidi and TVB formed an alliance, and agreed that the two TV stations will co-produce TV dramas in the future. The scripts of the TV dramas will be selected by the two companies, and the actors, directors, crew members, etc. will be jointly agreed upon.After the filming of the TV series is completed, the two companies will bid for the right to premiere the TV series. The TV station that fails to win the bid will use half of the previous bidding price to obtain the right to rebroadcast the TV series within the next three months.All the copyright income obtained, except for the cost, will be distributed in proportion to the investment.

This alliance is actually equivalent to the establishment of a TV drama production company in a disguised form, but this TV drama production company is jointly invested by the two TV stations of Wireless and Li, and the production of the TV drama is also jointly produced by the two, although there may be a lot of problems in it. Competition, but at last it has blazed a new path of cooperation for the Hong Kong TV industry.

After Laidi and TVB form an alliance, the cost of filming TV dramas will be greatly reduced, even a little less than Jiayi TV, and such an alliance is tantamount to forming an alliance of interests, excluding Jiayi TV.During the alliance period, both Wireless and Li's agreed not to poach each other's corners, let alone grab each other's advertisers.In addition, with regard to the promotion of the TV series, the two TV stations will also work together and will not trip up each other and cause damage.

Although TVB and Li's are not yet able to share benefits, the alliance of interests formed by the two TV stations has also put Jiayi TV under a lot of pressure.No matter in terms of ratings, influence, or even advertisers, it is difficult for Jiayi TV to compete with TVB and Li's at the same time.

In addition, the four alliances formed by Jiayi TV Station, the other three are not local TV stations in Hong Kong, so when filming TV dramas together, apart from shooting martial arts TV dramas that are popular in both sides of the strait and four places, urban dramas that are closer to life are not. Suitable for shooting.

Just like Xu Guanwen's ghost horse comedy also has geographical limitations, it can only get a high box office in Hong Kong, but it is not as good as Cheng Long's kung fu movies in Nanyang, Wanwan and other places.Because Xu Guanwen's ghost horse comedy is rooted in Hong Kong, his movies reflect the lives of Hong Kong's low-level citizens, and the characters in the play also speak Hong Kong's secular slang, which makes Hong Kong audiences very caring after listening to it, and see People who know each other will laugh happily.

But like Nanyang, the audience on the Wanwan side is not very familiar with the setting of these comedy burdens because of the differences in cultural life.It's as if it's not difficult for the older generation to understand "Wulin Biography", thinking it is nonsense and incomprehensible.In fact, audiences in Wanwan and Nanyang will sometimes feel that kind of embarrassment when they watch Xu Guanwen's ghost comedy.

In the same way, if you film short stories about the parents of Hong Kong citizens, audiences in Wanwan and Nanyang may not feel involved.Without a sense of substitution, it is difficult to arouse the interest of the audience.It's like if some rural TV dramas in the Mainland are broadcast on Hong Kong TV, the ratings may not be so satisfactory.

Therefore, the restrictions on the subject matter of TV dramas are a trap for the four alliances.But for Li's alliance with Wireless, this barrier does not exist.Because the two TV stations are in Hong Kong, they can shoot urban TV dramas, and they can also film the parents of Hong Kong citizens, and soap operas like this are the favorite of housewives.

Furthermore, when the four major leagues make TV series, the actors come from both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Except for the local Hong Kong actors, Hong Kong people are relatively familiar with them. For example, actors from Malaysia, actors from Singapore, and actors from Wanwan are not considered familiar to Hong Kong citizens. , then relying on the charisma of stars to attract audiences is not so easy to use.

As for the TVB and Lidi alliance, the actors are all from these two TV stations, and they are all actors born and bred in Hong Kong, which naturally looks much more pleasing to the eye.Moreover, the locals will have a local complex when they see the locals, and it is easier to develop a love for them.As for the actors in Malaysia, Singapore, and Wanwan, it would be great if they could recognize them all. Who can still remember their names? !
It’s like the mainland’s 90s and [-]s introduced a lot of TV series from Wanwan and Singapore, but except for some well-known actors, it’s good for others to be familiar with at most, and it’s not as good as the mainland’s own actors. familiar with.

You have a good plan, I have a wall ladder.Boss Shao can think of an alliance to share the cost, so that Jiayi TV Station can continue to maintain.Li's TV station also adopts the method of forming an alliance, and is unexpectedly willing to seek peace with the old enemy. It really is the humiliation of Han Zhang Lianggan.

The alliance between Li's and Wireless broke Sir Shao's layout and made him very angry. The countermeasure Jiayi took was to file a lawsuit, accusing Li's alliance with Wireless of being a monopoly, and requesting the Broadcasting Commission to arbitrate their alliance as illegal. .TVB and Li's blatant challenge also appealed to the Broadcasting Commission, accusing Jiayi's alliance of monopolizing the takeaway TV drama market, their alliance should be ruled illegal, and Jiayi should not interfere with Li's and TVB's takeaway copyright matters for any reason.

The two sides fought each other in the Broadcasting Committee. One party asked the members of the Legislative Council to discuss the matter, and the other party asked the Governor of Hong Kong to come out. Withdraw back.

After forming an alliance, Li's and TVB began to produce the first co-produced TV series, "Crocodile Tears" with Lai's McDonald as the producer and Xiao Ruoyuan as the screenwriter. "Crocodile Tears" tells the story of a good-natured and kind-hearted man who, after experiencing various setbacks and sufferings, finally begins to transform and degenerate into a bad man, and uses all sorts of schemes and schemes to strive to climb up.

This kind of TV series is quite popular in Hong Kong. Both TVB and ATV have produced this kind of TV series, such as "Silver Fox" starring Huang Rihua, "I'm Kind" starring Wen Zhaolun, etc.

And these TV dramas have achieved high ratings without exception. The reason is that this kind of plot has more dramatic tension. A good guy degenerates into a bad guy. The huge contrast caused by the personality can create many dramatic conflicts, making the plot twists and turns.

Moreover, it took less than 20 years for Hong Kong to transform from an agricultural society to a commercial society. The huge changes brought about by society have left ordinary people at a loss.The pressure of competition in the society suddenly increased, which caught many people off guard for a while.In this great wave of social change, some people are good at taking shortcuts to get rich quickly, but more people lose the competition in this change.

That's why there is a kind of resentment in the society for these people who take shortcuts to make a fortune, thinking that they will be punished sooner or later; Just be smart.These two seemingly contradictory ideas are actually the result of the collision between agricultural civilization and industrial civilization.

In the era of agricultural civilization, farmers only need to compete with themselves. As long as their own fields produce more grain, it is enough for the whole family to eat and drink.And if there is not much competition with the people around, naturally there will be few conflicts of interest, so a relatively good relationship will be formed, and there is the saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.

In the age of industrial civilization, workers do not know that they have to compete with themselves, but also with their fellow workers.There are many people grabbing a job, and if you don't do better than others, you will always face the fate of being eliminated.As a result, the pressure of competition has increased rapidly, and with competitive relationships and conflicts of interest, even if they were good friends before, they will betray their interests.What's more, it's a stranger who doesn't know each other at all, and the competition is even more life-and-death.

Hong Kong has just transformed from an agricultural society to an industrial society, so people originally believed in agricultural civilization, and they also like heroes only in agricultural civilization, who fight for justice and fight against injustice.But now it is suddenly transformed into an industrial society, and the industrial civilization is much more cruel, and people no longer naively believe that there will be heroes who will eradicate violence and bring peace. Their favorite heroes have changed from Guo Jing and Yang Guo. Or, for the sake of the country and the people, they turn to like the civilian-like characters like "Five Lucky Stars" who are smart, good-looking, and self-interested, or like King Kong in "Best Partner", who has kung fu but will not be robbed. The rich help the poor, but grab the money and spend it himself, a coquettish and good-looking anti-hero.

And TV series like "Crocodile Tears", "Silver Fox", "I'm Kind" are actually anti-traditional TV series.According to traditional Chinese values, good people are bound to be rewarded with good things, and evil people are bound to be rewarded with evil things.The general storyline is that good people work hard, are optimistic and eager to learn, and finally succeed after all kinds of setbacks, and get people's unanimous praise, and live a happy life ever since.And the wicked are bullying the good and fearing the evil. They commit many crimes and are angry with both men and gods. Although they will achieve something at the beginning, they will eventually lose their reputation and be cast aside by everyone.

There are quite a few stories like this in Chinese classics, operas, storytelling, Tanci, etc. It reflects the traditional Chinese values.

However, "Crocodile Tears" and "Silver Fox" are not in line with this traditional value, or they are not quite the same as the traditional narrative technique. It exposes the ugly side to let people learn from it.Just like "Golden Ping Berry" written by Xiaoxiaosheng Lanling.Those who read "Golden Ping Berry" and feel compassion are bodhisattvas; those who feel fear are gentlemen;
There are so many interpretations of a book, and "Crocodile Tears", "Silver Fox", etc., are naturally different. Some people may be alert, and some people may follow suit, no matter what they will be, anyway. As a result, the TV station has gained viewers, and it is true that it has made money.

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