Recently, TVB's new drama "News Queen" once again moved TVB's "mountain culture" to the front of the screen. Many mainland netizens may not know what "mountain culture" is, but TVB artists have been suffering from "mountain culture" for a long time.
TVB's first sister Wang Mingquan once appealed at the award ceremony, hoping that TVB's mountain culture could be less.
Wang Mingquan's husband Luo Jiaying also said with dissatisfaction that TVB has too much mountain culture.
When Zeng Zhiwei took office as the senior management of TVB, he also made a "grand wish", hoping to eradicate TVB's mountain culture.
So what exactly is TVB's "mountain culture"?
TVB's mountain culture mainly refers to the "fighting method" between TVB's top executives, most of the artists in TVB will choose which high-level to follow in order to better develop, and the artists led by different high-level leaders have formed different factions.
Because these high-level executives hold different rights and resources of TVB, it is easier for TVB's artists to rely on high-level support for you rather than relying on acting skills. Without the support of the high-level, the powerful actor may be buried and offended by the high-level, no matter how powerful you are, you may disappear from TVB overnight.
At the Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony held by TVB, the so-called competition between the emperors and the queen is not so much a competition between artists, but a "fighting method" between high-level executives, and the struggle between high-level executives often makes artists innocent "victims".
For TVB artists, knowing how to "stand" may be more important than acting. And to judge which high-level TVB artist is under it, just look at who they thank first when they win the award.
At that time, Xu Zishan was originally favored by Zeng Lizhen at the beginning, but she wavered on the issue of "position", and finally thanked Le Yiling when she won the award, which caused Zeng Lizhen to be very angry and angrily scolded Xu Zishan for "grass on the wall", and Xu Zishan left TVB soon after.
In "News Queen", the character "Mrs. Fang", who controls the situation behind the scenes, is rumored to be the former boss of TVB Fang Yihua, who has gone from a singer all the way to the position of TVB boss.
During her tenure as the boss, Zeng Lizhen of TVB's high-level "Zeng faction" had just forced away Liang Jiashu of another high-level "Liang faction", and Fang Yihua did not let Zeng Lizhen dominate alone, so he supported Le Yiling of "Le Pai" to take the position.
"Mutual checks and balances" is the foundation of TVB's Shantou culture, which is the same as the governance policy of "Mrs. Fang" in "News Queen".
The role played by Charmaine Sheh in "The Queen of News" is rumored to be the prototype of Zeng Lizhen, and the role played by Ma Guoming corresponds to Le Yiling.
So, let's take a look at what TVB's real factional struggle looks like
TVB's factional struggle is divided into 3 periods, the first period is divided into the struggle between Zeng Lizhen's "Zeng faction" and Liang Jiashu's "Liang faction".
Zeng Lizhen's characteristic is "evil", because she has gone from the scene record all the way to the high-level position in TVB, she has full professional knowledge, she has strict requirements for artists and work, her artists are afraid of her, and she speaks with the weight of "military orders like a mountain".
Zeng Lizhen recruits artists not to pay attention to appearance, but to strength and potential, and she is very popular, such as "Ten Thousand Years Supporting Roles" Li Yaoxiang and Hu Dingxin, and Ouyang Zhenhua, who was disliked by Le Yiling and was not good-looking, was all popular by her.
She became popular with Tony Leung and Chow Yun-fat in the early stage, and later had Lai Yaoxiang, Tang Cuiwen, Chen Hao, Ma Junwei, Li Zi, Charmaine Sheh, Hu Dingxin, and now Chen Shancong, Tan Junyan.
And Liang Jiashu's "Liang School" was once in the limelight, and its artists include "First Brother" Luo Jialiang, Gu Tianle, Xuan Xuan, Zhang Keyi, etc.
When the Liang faction was at its most beautiful, Luo Jialiang was put in the position of "TVB's first three-time emperor".
At the award ceremony, Huang Rihua also wore the costume of "Qiao Feng" on stage, and there was a feeling that he was determined to win, but in the end he lost to Luo Jialiang's "Difficult Brothers", and at that time it was the most powerful time for the "Liang faction", it can only be said that Huang Rihua was unlucky.
But later, in the struggle between Zeng Lizhen and Liang Jiashu, it ended with Liang Jiashu's defeat, and Zeng Lizhen also forced Liang Jiashu's wife away, and the "Liang faction" withered from then on.
Later, Zeng Lizhen supported Hu Dingxin to take the position, and after defeating Wang Mingquan Nashi, Luo Jiaying also sarcastically said that Wang Mingquan did not lose to Hu Dingxin's acting skills, but lost to "Shantou Culture", and the Liang faction has withered for a long time.
Because Liang Jiashu's wife is Gu Tianle's "mentor", Gu Tianle will no longer renew his contract with TVB, and then Luo Jialiang, Xuan Xuan, Zhang Keyi and others have left TVB one after another, which can be said to be a pity.
After fighting Liang Jiashu, Zeng Lizhen restored the situation of "one family dominates", Fang Yihua took control of the situation, and supported another high-level Le Yiling to take the position, which became a struggle between the "Zhen faction" and the "music faction".
Le Yiling is different from Zeng Lizhen, she flatters "appearance is justice", such as the "Four Little Students" Lin Feng, Ma Guoming, Wu Zhuoxi, and Zheng Jiaying are all her favorite generals.
It is rumored that once, when Ma Junwei of the "Zeng faction" was talking about the renewal of the contract, he was disgusted by Le Yiling and "did not enter the house", that is, he was not close to the people, and was replied to by Zeng Lizhen.
During Le Yiling's reign, she also put her "own son" Zheng Jiaying in the position of the emperor, but Zheng Jiaying's work "Lovers Under the Sky" that won the emperor did not have a good reputation at all, so she was also known as "the most watery emperor".
During the filming of "Fire Ambition", Le Yiling praised Zheng Jiaying even more, adding drama to Zheng Jiaying's role, so that Wang Xi, who was originally the actor, "lay" on the hospital bed for 10 episodes, resulting in a decline in ratings.
Compared with Le Yiling's "hard support", Zeng Lizhen may be more discerning about heroes, and the most typical example is Li Yaoxiang.
Li Yaoxiang has been a supporting actor in TVB for more than ten years, and it was not until he was boldly reused by Zeng Lizhen after middle age that he had masterpieces such as "Women and Heroes", "Yihai Pride", "The Great Eunuch" and so on.
The most unlucky may be Lin Feng, Lin Feng, as Le Yiling's favorite general, has been very good in terms of resources in those years, but he has never won TVB.
Originally, his "Thunder Sweeping Drugs" had a lot of hope for the emperor, but he was unlucky to meet Li Yaoxiang's "Women and Heroes".
Later, "Apostle Walker" starring Lin Feng and Charmaine Sheh became a big hit drama, and the limelight was not lost to "Women and Heroes" of the year, but Lin Feng still did not get the TV emperor, because he had not renewed his contract with TVB at that time.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about another culture of TVB, the difference between "biological children" and "non-biological children".
TVB's artists are divided into two kinds, one is to sign a long-term contract, which is equivalent to signing their whole person to TVB, that is, "biological children". The second is to sign a "head contract", so that you can take on other jobs by yourself.
And TVB's best resources and TVB's awards are basically only given to "biological children", Lin Feng, who left TVB back then, naturally couldn't get the emperor.
This year's TVB after-TV upset gave Jiang Meiyi, and Jiang Meiyi still cried when she received the award, saying that she thought it would be impossible to get the after-TV because she was not a "biological child".
Miao Qiaowei also added a sentence to tell the truth, saying that TVB is different now, and it is much fairer now.
In the later stage of the struggle between Zeng Lizhen and Le Yiling, he also joined the "Yu faction" of another high-level Yu Yongshan. Yu Yongshan was born in the variety department, and during her time in power, she appointed Huang Cuiru and Hong Yongcheng, who were born as hosts.
But after Zeng Zhiwei took office, Yu Yongshan also resigned.
At this year's TVB Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony, the "Thousands of Stars Performing Arts Award" was awarded to Zeng Lizhen, who is not an artist, to thank her for her 40 years of dedication to TVB.
In the decades-long "mountain struggle", 60-year-old Zeng Lizhen undoubtedly stayed to the end.
In the past two years, TVB has seen the emperor Tan Junyan and Chen Shancong, and the first person to thank on stage is Zeng Lizhen.
TVB's "mountain culture" has undoubtedly caused a lot of pressure on artists, and it has also indirectly lost many good artists, but to be honest, when the struggle between the top management was the most intense, it was undoubtedly the heyday of TVB, and many classic works came from that time.