The beginning of "Gossip Girl" seems to be written for a fashionable TV series: "Welcome to the Upper East Side of New York. We live here, go to school here, play here, sleep here-sometimes with other people Together. We have endless money, booze and whatever we want. Our parents are rarely at home, so we have a lot of private space. We are fashionable, we have inherited first-class looks, we wear beautiful clothes, we I know parties best.” This narration comes from an anonymous blogger, "Gossip Girl". She is the narrator of the entire novel. She describes the private lives of the rich second-generation group in New York. The source is the national paparazzi who use mobile phones to take pictures all the time. , Every time the blog is updated, it uses RSS feeds to send to the subscriber’s mobile phone to trigger a topic in the city. Keeping up with the pulse of the times, every page of the novel can be used as a "famous textbook." In addition to the familiar PRADA, Hugo Boss, and Marc Jacobs, it also unreservedly reveals the secret weapons of the most fashionable people, such as Christian Louboutin and John. Fluevog or Michael Kors. It’s not enough to have a glimpse of light. The novel also fills in some "literary brands". Today, those rich girls have a fashion magazine on their laps. Tomorrow they may be replaced by Tolstoy or Goethe. They can also recite a little if they are interested. Wilde, Hemingway and Shakespeare often have subtitles such as "Red or Black" and "What do we say when we don't talk about love" in their novel chapters.
When she was a teenager, Cecily Van Gigesa, the author of "Gossip Girl," went to school in a noble private school. She got up at 6 o'clock in the morning, took the train first, and then turned into a taxi, and arrived at her refuge in the Upper East Side of New York, where there are wealthy children from the early wisdom elite, and she learns how to struggle and live under the snobbery at a young age. . As an adult, Cecily lived in Brooklyn, New York. She had a house of appropriate size, a pair of children, and a bald cat named Penny. She lived the most ordinary middle-class life. But "Gossip Girl" seems to have opened a dusty secret. Only a small number of silent people have experienced such flashy and noisy adolescence. The girl Cecily is chased as a teenager version of Fitzgerald, with a pair of observing eyes. Hold the record pen. The character she portrays is nothing more than a good girl, a bad girl, fighting for a cowardly boy, for class distinction, plus three or two ordinary children, like an American version of "Meteor Garden". According to the logic of the predecessors Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte, bad girls will eventually be punished by fate. Although good girls are sad, they end up satisfactorily. They are often possessed by the author’s soul, but Cecily claims that she prefers that bad girl. Girl-Blair. She is beautiful, sharp, often poisonous, and very arrogant, but whenever she says something stupid, she looks very cute. For example, when her mother plans to marry a Jew whose surname is Rose, she screams: "I don't want to change my name to Blair Rose. It’s like a bad perfume name.” Her biggest dream is to go to Yale. She planned it like this: Join the peacekeeping force, get dressed in carbon black, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and have dinner with the president so that the president can recommend her. Go to Yale. This little girl has been deceived by her boyfriend, betrayed by her best friend, and her parents have been discordant. Apart from her beauty and money, she never gets any blessings. She has personally practiced the words of a certain playboy: "We will inherit the trust fund and inherit the Han Puton’s big house, inheriting drug addiction prescriptions, is happy, and has never been on the inheritance list." But whenever disaster strikes, Blair gritted his teeth and stood up, seeing that he will eventually grow into a Bitch that is invincible. . In the upper class, the term Bitch is not a curse, but a kind of anger, a nickname, and a pass to understand.
Although not a pioneer, it can be regarded as a benchmark. "Gossip Girl" has led a bunch of similar (novels "A-LIST", "Small Circles", movies "Mean Girls", "Domination") and triggered a new wave of youth literature. : Often the cover or poster is similar. A group of girls in Chinese clothes sit idle in the back seat of the RV, posing as rushing to the party. The object of the description is the upper-class young people. They are criticized for their vanity and emptyness. They are similar to the core of old-school teenagers' books: like "Peter Pan," "Alice in Wonderland" or "Harry Potter", they all construct the mysterious wonderland in the imagination. The only difference is One is Never Island, and the other is a private school in Manhattan. "Gossip Girl" is regarded as the teenage paperback version of "Sex and the City", but "Sex and the City" gives people a rush: as long as you come to New York and Manhattan, you will enter the noble circle of older unmarried young women. There is a chance to get to know Mr. Big Man; "Gossip Girl" has no chance for you, and your daughter has no chance to see the scenery of a private school. All the secrets can only be told by "Gossip Girl". Moreover, compared with the strange power and chaos of the old-school readings, the New Wave seems to be more clever, both true and false.
It is said that the guilt of "Gossip Girl" is not shallow, but incorrect values. Integrity, kindness, strength, and love can be seen in the ladies with different personalities in "Little Women". In "Gossip Girl", only fetishism, drug abuse, jealousy and sexual desire are left. It has been criticized as "sweetly wrapped in corruption", but why should it be so hypocritical, this is reality. Cecily Van Gigesa said: "There are only two ways to go in New York: Or sell your arms and legs to send your children to private schools, where they learn to buy expensive clothes, compare with rich dad, and learn too. Latin, can recite Keats, and can apply the algorithm proficiently; otherwise, they will be sent to a public school, and before they can learn anything, they will be shot and killed by school violence."
It may be that since "Friends", the living standards of American TV series characters have been continuously improving. At that time, young people who were just fledgling had to share a room. After that, everyone had an apartment. Now they don’t live in luxury houses or put on famous brands. I am embarrassed to broadcast. The life of the rich is life, they occupy all the time of the channels. To watch ordinary people, there are only reality shows. The doctrine encourages you to work hard, fight, and endure to get huge bonuses to get rid of the dilemma of mediocrity. The poor have no lives, and the poor are all in "Prison Break". Ordinary people with an ordinary appearance and gentle personality, in which they are only a prop, showing fragility and incompetence. They can only serve coffee to the ladies in "Cashmere Mafia" or the gentlemen in "Muscular Tycoon". Their children will always Can't go to the school of "Gossip Girl". I saw Kelly in "Sex and the City" in the early years, and Manolo Blahniks shoes were one pair on the left and the other on the right. I glanced at the gray second-rate goods stacked in the doorway, and felt frustrated. Now your life is totally denied: your cramped room, your small windows where you can't see the sun, your fake brand handbags, your unsuitable suits, the legal patterns you can't get rid of... Maybe you just have a strong will left. , Tell yourself: the acting is not real, it is fantasy.
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