Do you remember how long you haven't seen Hong Kong blockbusters and Taiwanese costume dramas? How long have you not seen a young, popular star from Hong Kong and Taiwan?
So the popular culture of Hong Kong and Taiwan, which used to be all-powerful in the Chinese circle, why did it suddenly fail? There are also Hong Kong and Taiwan stars who are popular with Hong Kong and Taiwan capital, why are they suddenly not popular?
The Hong Kong drama "Dragon and Babu" that blew up the summer vacation when I was a child
First of all, after 40 years of reform and opening up, the economic strength of mainland China is completely different from that of the 1980s. The large amount of capital wealth created in the society is in great need of a new investment outlet. The money comes quickly, and the degree of hard work is far lower than that of the entertainment industry that engages in physical manufacturing, so it has become the first choice for mainland capital.
is a huge amount of resource wealth, which has been continuously injected into the mainland entertainment circle. From the young and naive " Super Girl ", to the brilliant "I Am a Singer", from the Lunar New Year movie of digging Soso. When it comes to domestic films with billions at the box office, mainland pop culture has begun to change quantitatively and qualitatively.
Li Yuchun and He Jie who participated in "Super Girl"
built up mainland pop culture with huge funds, which has left Hong Kong and Taiwan far behind.
Wu Jing's self-directed film "Wolf Warrior 2" took second place at the box office of 5.6 billion
. In the face of the strong rise of mainland pop culture, the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles completely lost their confidence in leading Chinese culture. The loss of confidence in was the beginning of the collapse of the pop culture pyramid. The less confident
is, the more alienated Hong Kong and Taiwan pop culture is from the mainland market. The more
is afraid of integrating into the mainland market to compete, the more alienated it is from the mainland audience.
The Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles, which have lost the massive mass base of the mainland, are naturally defeated before the battle.
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, a Hong Kong top boy group that is not well-known in the Mainland, look at the current Taiwanese singers, who can write Chinese-style songs such as " Nunchaku " and " Blue and White Porcelain "? Who in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television circles can still make decent TV dramas in ancient costumes? There is no
, no entertainment products that cannot resonate with mainland audiences, and it is impossible for them to survive or even become popular in the mainland, the world's largest Chinese market.
Douyin strongly exported mainland pop culture to the Chinese region
lost the Hong Kong and Taiwan pop culture aura of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, and life is not easy. It is very difficult for the younger generation under the age of 30 to become popular in the Chinese cultural circle. Of course,
still has a lot of older Hong Kong and Taiwan artists, relying on the mass foundation laid before, they can still do well in the mainland market.
50-year-old Taiwanese artist Su Youpeng who participated in mainland variety shows
can be regarded as these artists gradually withdraw from the stage of history.
What kind of ripples will appear in the hearts of the new generation of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the face of the incomparably brilliant career achievements of their predecessors and the reality of their own incomparable embarrassment and loss.
