Still, it's good to be a Gossip Girl. Outside La Bottega, New York is imploding, gutted by a financial catastrophe of its own doing. Day traders are now delivering pizzas, and real-life Upper East Side socialites are brown-bagging it out of Hermes, too embarrassed to be seen luxury shopping. But like insects preserved in amber, Gossip Girls occupy a fantasy world where young people don't blanch at $18 cocktails or $700 Christian Louboutin pumps. It's the spring of 2007, running on repeat - New York remains a boundless, optimistic place, in which the Dow is topping 13000, Bernie Madoff's collecting clients and the velvet-rope VIP party never stopped. Right now, you'd rather be Blake Lively or Leighton Meester than the head of Goldman Sachs. 当个GG仍是件很棒的事。餐厅外, 纽约正在塌陷, 被它自己造成的金融危机掏空, 交易员变成pizza外送小弟, 真正的上东区上流社会成员用牛皮纸袋购物, 不愿被 发现自己的奢华。但就像被保存在琥珀里的昆虫, GG占据了一个幻想世界, 年轻人 不会因为一杯美金18元的鸡尾酒或700元一双的名牌高跟鞋而脸色发白。它仍是07年 的春天, 纽约仍然是个没有界限, 乐观的地方, 道琼指数仍超过13000, 前纳斯达克 交易员Bernie Madoff(一个买空卖空的金融骗子)还在收集客户, VIP趴从不停止。 现在, 你宁愿当Lively或Meester, 也不愿当投资银行Goldman Sachs的领导者。 Not that they haven't felt an occasional pinch. "I was in Barneys for a shoe sale," Lively says. "And there was this pair of boots I'd wanted for a long time that were really cheap, and there was another pair in a different color, and this woman says, 'you shouldn't dare buy a second pair of boots in an economy like this. You should be ashamed.' Meanwhile, her face looks like she's just gone through a crazy wind tunnel, she's got on big rings and a Hermes scarf. She looked like she'd just rolled around in diamonds and gold. I was like, 'I can't believe you're saying this to me.'" 她们并不是完全没有被影响。"我在Barney(购物中心)的鞋子拍卖时" Lively说, "发现一双我想要了很久的靴子变成非常便宜, 而且还有另外一个颜色, 旁边有个女人 跟我说'在这样的经济情况下, 你不应该买第二双, 你该感到羞愧。'可是她的脸 看起来像才经过一个疯狂的风口, 她带着很大颗的戒指和名牌围巾, 看起来就像是 刚刚才在钻石和黄金里打滚过, 我当时想'我不敢相信你跟我这样讲'。" For those avoiding the human race completely: Gossip Girl, based on a sharply written teen-book series of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar, is a one hour television drama on the CW network executive-produced and created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who previously collaborated on another teen soap, The OC. While The OC followed sun-kissed rich kids brooding in the California sand, Gossip Girl is set in a more volatile hornet's nest: private school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. 给那些完全不和人类社会接触的人们: GG, 改编自一套Cecily von Ziegesar 写的, 同名的青年书籍, 是CW的一小时电视剧情影集, 由Josh Schwartz和Stephanie Savage 制作, 他们曾合作过另一出青年影集, The OC。The OC讲的是加州的柳橙汁般有钱的 小孩在沙滩上聚集成长, GG的场景设定在一个更反复无常的黄蜂巢穴: 曼哈顿上东区 的私立学校。 Its characters, most from Park Avenue privilege, attend a pair of fictitious single-sex schools, Constance Billard (for girls) and St. Jude's (for boys), separated by a leafy courtyard. Lively's Serena is a former queen bee who mysteriously disappeared from campus, only to return and find her spiteful ex-best friend, Blair (Meester), in charge. There are crested-blazer-wearing nice boys (Badgley's Dan Humphrey), pretty boys (Crawford's Nate Archibald) and charismatic snakes (Westwick's Chuck Bass), precocious kid siblings (Jenny Humphrey, played by Taylor Momsen, and Eric van der Woodsen, palyed by Connor Paolo), lusty parents, a put-upon Polish maid (Zuzanna Szadkowski), a mysterious unseen narrator (a.k.a. "Gossip Girl") and ... truthfully, it doesn't really matter. 里面的角色, 大多是公园路上的特权出身, 在一对小说里才有的同性学校里念书, 给女生念的Constance Billard和给男生念的St. Jude's, 由一个充满落叶的庭院分隔 开, Serena是前任的女王蜂, 从校园里消失一段时间回来後发现她的前任最好朋友 Blair 在掌控全局。这里有乖乖牌的Dan, 漂亮男孩Nate, 如蛇般邪恶的Chuck, 早熟的弟弟妹妹们(小J和Eric), 纵慾的父母们, 被用透透的好心波兰女佣, 一个神秘的从未现身的旁白角色 ("Gossip Girl") 和... 坦白说, 这些都不重要。 Gossip Girl may lay on the complex, Wire-thick plotlines, but fans love it for its unapologetic decadence: beautiful kids spending lavishly, dressing fabulously, stabbing each other in the back, romping in limousines, snorting coke and boozing like teenage Peter O'Tooles. Gossip Girl is conspicuous and practically subversive in its lack of moralizing; there are few purely bad or good characters ("No heroes, no villains" is one of Schwartz and Savage's mottoes), no prissy sermons from parents (the folks tend to be more screwed up than the kids), no After School Special-style tidy resolutions. And then, because it's 2009, everyone goes home and trashes each other on the Internet. GG的故事线也许非常复杂, 但粉丝们爱的是它不必道歉的沈沦: 漂亮的孩子们, 花大钱, 穿华服, 在背後捅彼此一刀, 在长礼车里玩乐, 嗑药, 喝酒, 就像年轻的 彼得奥图(电影"阿拉伯的劳伦斯"的男主角,影帝)。GG 是引人注目的而且它的不说教 就是刻意颠覆; 这里面少有存粹的坏或好的角色("没有英雄和坏人"是制作们的座右铭 之一), 没有父母的道德劝说(因为爸妈通常比小孩还糟糕), 没有课後补习, 然後 因为是2009年, 每个人都会回家, 然後在网路上讲彼此的坏话。 -- 这段比较严肃一点点, 不过... 爸妈真的很糟糕, 尤其是RL (指) --

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