"By the way, the company has a screenwriter who has been in TVB for ten years, does the boss want it?"

Shen Feng's eyes lit up, as a generation that grew up watching Hong Kong dramas, he must talk about it.

Soon I saw Lao Wu, who was nearly forty years old, a little Mediterranean, and his Mandarin was not bad, without too many accents: "The big boss is good!"

"I met Wang Zulan by chance when I was 12 years old, and he hadn't entered the mainland at that time, he was just a great comedian on TVB. ”

Lao Wu chatted: "At that time, I was making a work called "Old Watch, Hello!". The old table refers to a fellow villager from the mainland, and the literal translation of hello is how good you are, a little admiration and a little sadistic feeling. ”

Shen Feng vaguely remembered that the starring roles were Guo Jinan, Wan Qiwen, and Wang Zulan......

"The script wants to depict a social phenomenon: the mainland is doing very well, a lot of people travel to Hong Kong Island, bringing vibrancy, everybody wants to earn RMB, and then there are some very comedic stories that happen in this exchange. ”

Zu Lan felt that this drama must have a screenwriter with a mainland background, otherwise it would be unbalanced, so he found me. ”

"I thought he was a comedian and would be funny, but I didn't expect that life is very serious and his work requirements are very high, and he is a workaholic. ”

Hu Fang looked at the interested boss, and the reason why he invited an OG was to let the newcomers experience TVB's thinking and work status.

Everyone knows that TVB's drama production is very fast-paced and streamlined, and at that time, the script was outsourced to Lao Wu's team, which was under very ordinary conditions, and could only be rented in a very small industrial building, and the aunt in the aerobics class could be seen dancing opposite it.

There was really nothing in the room except a table and a few stools. If you are sleepy, take a yoga mat and sleep on the floor.

Recalling the past, Lao Wu couldn't help but sigh: "I'm a super new rookie, and I have just experienced PUA in the workplace, and I am not confident to the extreme." ”

"But the writers I worked with were so nice, professional and respectful, so even though we often spent the bridge until 4 a.m., I had no complaints. ”

"Especially when discussing the script, sometimes I get excited, and sometimes I'm very anxious about why they don't accept my idea, so I will perform it live by myself, and it's quite fun to think about it. ”

Shen Feng glanced at Hu Fang, this kid is not stupid, he specially found an old fritter who has experienced social beatings, so that young people know what it means to endure hardship.

"I don't know if Wang Zulan saw my enthusiasm for performing the script with emotion, and asked me if I was interested in entering TVB's artist training class?"

"I was very excited, thinking that he could let me go through the back door and go straight in, but his assistant helped me sign up, and on the day I went, I found that Wuyang and Wuyang were all waiting for an interview!"

Everyone laughed, the former wireless artist training class has produced top good actors like Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Leung Ka-fai, and Liu Qingyun, but unfortunately it is no longer the only way to send newcomers to the entertainment industry.

Shen Feng was curious: "What do you learn inside?"

Lao Wu shook his head and said: "After two rounds of interviews, I actually felt that I didn't play well, but in the end I still entered. ”

"That class of 30 students, it is definitely not enough to train for half a year to learn acting, I think the training class is more to teach you how to adapt to TVB's unique production model and learn how to survive here. ”

"For example, Zheng Danrui, our teacher at the time, taught us the first rule: everyone we see in the TV city every day in class, including cleaners and security guards, must say good morning. ”

"At first, I will definitely feel very embarrassed, I have to meet so many people in a day, but then I will slowly find that he is making you understand: as an artist, you are everyone's person, you can't put yourself away, you must be ready to embrace the public at any time, especially TVB's TV drama artists. ”187

"The second rule is not to challenge the script, this is the survival of an actor, especially a newcomer. You have to learn how to rationalize what you want to be, so after this kind of training, TVB actors can really act in any script. ”

"The last three months are internships, in fact, it's all kinds of tricks, that time is basically equivalent to living in TV City, what nurses, tea customers, passers-by, dead people have played everything......"

Shen Feng listened with relish, completely satisfying his curiosity and imagination about his childhood, how many memories TVB once had.

"TVB's current film and television city is in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Zone, which is a bit remote, and that place is actually reclaimed from the sea. ”

Lao Wu took a sip of tea and continued: "There are 16 studios in numbers, but because Cantonese people are taboo about "four", there are no 4 and 14. ”

"Studio 1 is the largest, and every year Miss Hong Kong does it here, and the rest from 11 to 16 is a theater studio. ”

"In the early years, every studio was full every day, and there were probably five plays going on at the same time. There is also a costume street and a Minchu street behind, and hundreds of people turn around in a row......"

"It's a pity that ...... in recent years"

"There is a lot of emphasis on starting up over there, and every drama will have a worship ceremony, and the older generation will think that acting is a sideline, and they will play some life and death every day, and it is inevitable that there will be some creatures who do not belong to our world who want to watch. ”

"So you have to greet them first, tell them that this is not true, and add the worship ceremony, the whole atmosphere is auspicious, and everyone's morale is higher. ”

"If you act and are killed or something bad, you will get a small red envelope, which means that it is fake. There is also a rule that you have to spend the money in the red envelope to go home, and the wealth will go to people's comfort. ”

At the end of the conversation, Lao Wu said frankly: "Being an actor in TVB is more like a job, when you don't have a show, you can take various certificates, live a good life, and have no time to feel bitter." ”

"The decline of the general environment is something that cannot be stopped by one person, right?"

"Since the world is already like this, it is better to do the job you want to do. ”

Shen Feng remembered the TVB golden sentence: The most important thing to be a man is to be happy.

Lao Wu left, and Hu Fang said: "From the fight of the gods to the fact that no one cares, TVB is really in decline." ”

"The only thing that surprised me was the Bridge of Sighs in the first few months, the Rashomon-esque plot setting, the concept of breaking the fourth wall, and the precise and exquisite composition of the picture......"

"The long-lost Hong Kong flavor is coming!"

Shen Feng shook his head and said, "I heard that Forensic Pioneer was launched last month, and I wanted to reminisce about my childhood, but the result was ......."

"Douban is only 5.1 points?" Hu Fang teased: "Completely disappointed, right?"

In fact, more than 2.15 million viewers watched it on Hong Kong Island, breaking the premiere record of TVB dramas in the past eight years. ”

"The reason why it can't be done in the mainland is that I think the main reason is that the emotional filter is too heavy. Hong Kong people have a special collective memory and strong feelings for TVB, just like the beautiful Victoria Harbour and the tea restaurants that can be seen everywhere. ”

"But time has passed, the wave of the Internet has hit, all kinds of creative novelties and well-made TV series have emerged, and they are still willing to be coerced by their feelings and gradually become masters and grandmothers?"

"TVB wants to re-lead the new era of Hong Kong dramas, but I'm afraid it will be even more difficult. ”