Years later, you may have forgotten the dog-blood plot and complicated relationships of Gossip Girl, but when you hear the voiceover of "XOXO, Gossip Girl", you still can't help but be shocked.
The rich second generation of New York's Upper East Side, who made heaven and earth, and who lived and died, are back.
Recently, the new version of "Gossip Girl" has returned gorgeously.
It has been 9 years since the end of the old version of "Gossip Girl". The ratings of the new version launched under the sentiment card hit a new high, but the bad reviews were overwhelming, and they were boycotted by Chinese and foreign audiences, and the Douban score was 3.9 points.
What is the problem with the new Gossip Girl?
In fact, when the trailer was released in the new "Gossip Girl", it had already been complained about for a round.
For youth idol dramas, appearance is the first productive force, and the high and low content of handsome men and beautiful women directly determines the audience's retention and abandonment.
At this point, the old "Gossip Girl" is well versed in the psychology of the audience. The first 10 minutes of the first episode is a feast of appearance: the goddess S, who has disappeared for a year, returns to school and appears at Princess B's party. In just a few minutes, Prince N and Playboy C appeared one after another.
Because there are too many handsome men and beautiful women, it is a little dizzying for a while. Their arrogant style and forced nobility made them naturally become the focus of the crowd, and also established the role of the rich second generation in Manhattan.
And the protagonists of the new "Gossip Girl", although they also seem to have more personalities, but whether they play the old money or new money on the East Side are not convincing.
When the crew selected the actors, it seemed that the appearance temperament and role matching degree were not the first point, but put the ethnic group and the country in the first place.
So the 8-member protagonist group included Latino, African-American, Arab, and Asian members. At a glance, it does not look like a celebrity gentleman, but like an ins Internet celebrity model.
From the moment the actors were selected, the new Gossip Girl lost at the starting line. It is no wonder that some netizens complained, "This is not New York's Upper East Side, but Brooklyn." It is not clear who is the main actor, and it seems that the protagonist has not yet come. ”
Looking down, the new and old versions of "Gossip Girl" are also far from the rationality of the plot.
The old "Gossip Girl" takes the emotional changes of two women and three men as the main clue.
Queen-style S and Sweetheart-style B are a pair of years of friends, but there has always been a hidden competitive relationship.
N is B's green plum bamboo horse, which should have completed the "adult style" together. But N is burned out of B and is attracted to S instead.
So, a big drama of "you love him, he loves her" slowly unfolded. Because everyone's moral bottom line is not high, any two in the play can be randomly formed into a CP. The situation on campus and at home is volatile, so they also love or make a living.
The new version of "Gossip Girl" not only fully replicates the relationship between men and women in the old version that is constantly cut and messed up, but also adds the incredible contradiction between teachers and students.
The first emotional thread is the entanglement between half-sisters and the same man. Sister, rich second generation + ins blogger, is passionate about: buying, buying, patting, sunbathing.
Her boyfriend is also a rich second generation, who loves environmental protection, public welfare and charity, and finds it increasingly difficult for her to understand.
The younger sister, the "poor cedar dish" who moved from Buffalo, enrolled in school because she won a scholarship. Like the heroine of the Shan cuisine style, she is poor and ambitious, dares to do and dare to take responsibility, and is both pure and good and loves public welfare.
What a coincidence! There must be an ambiguous line between the sister and the sister's boyfriend. The sister took good care of her sister at first, but she couldn't stand the snubs of her friends and her boyfriend, and she might turn against her sisters in the later stages.
The second emotional main line is: the entanglement between Bai Fumei, her former boyfriend, and her current boyfriend.
Bai Fumei's appearance and personality are somewhat similar to those of predecessor B, and they are all proud princess types. Her current (current) is a loyal dog boyfriend, and her ex is a playboy with numerous sexual partners.
But Bai Fumei ate from the bowl and looked at the pot. While making out with the current, I think about the affair of my ex.
What's even more bloody is that the ex is bisexual, and he is not only interested in Bai Fumei, but also has some heart for her current one.
Although the degree of dog blood has repeatedly refreshed the audience's cognition, the main contradiction of the new "Gossip Girl" is not to rob the boyfriend and rob the girlfriend, but the contest between the teacher and the student.
The source is simple, the young teacher accidentally spilled coffee on the protagonist, and was immediately humiliated by the rich second generation. The angry teacher, together with other colleagues, thought of a brilliant plan.
The teacher group restarted the social account of "Gossip Girl", tracking the dynamics of the rich second generation at any time, and adding oil and vinegar, slander and rumors, and then posting to the account for other students to eat melons.
The "Gossip Girl" account connects with the old version of the plot, and its role is a bit like today's "eating melon bot" or "celebrity lady of Xintiandi", which is dedicated to the general public to peek at peach news.
Do you dare to believe that a group of teachers who are idle and have nothing to do have actually started a war between the enemy and the enemy?
Do you dare to believe that the male teacher who does not return home at night actually crouches at the door of the student's house to secretly photograph them changing clothes?
Can you believe that the teacher actually peeked at the student's file and then made public the news that whose father and mother had slept with?
Needless to say, these are the plots of the first episode of the new Gossip Girl.
It directly extends the emotional war between peers and "sublimates" it into a war of public opinion between teachers and students.
In the old version, the significance of the existence of the "Gossip Girl" account is to replace the voiceover narrative function, which sometimes opens the perspective of God and sometimes spicy comments, and overlooks the male and female love with an outsider's attitude.
In the new version, the "Gossip Girl" account directly intervenes in the narrative, becoming a tool held in the hands of teachers and throwing dirty water on students.
To this day, another question worth paying attention to is: even if the new Gossip Girl can successfully copy all the recipes and ingredients of the old Gossip Girl, will it create the gossip girl wave that swept the world in the past?
The answer is no, which also shows from the side: the popularity of the old "Gossip Girl" benefits from the timing and location, and it has no need to restart at all.
The old "Gossip Girl" showed a global audience the high-society imagination of luxury and arrogance, and also peddled beautiful fantasies for young girls.
Costumes, foreign wines, dances, dinners... These heartwarming materialistic elements are piled together to create the myth of the old Gossip Girl.
For the drama chasers, watching the old "Gossip Girl" is actually a visual consumption in the consumer society, and the audience with abundant assets follows the queens of the goods in the play to shop and collect the trendy outfits in the play; the shy audience looks at the inventory in the fashion magazine and vaguely looks forward to the future of the illusion.
Nine years later, the Internet + era has narrowed the distance between us and consumer culture. It is no longer fashionable to use social platforms to track the dynamics of influential people in the play, and now everyone can use the convenient network to follow celebrities.
And those consumer goods covered with golden filters are no longer far away, losing the aura of defamiliarization. They are intuitively placed in various websites or the dynamics of others for people to play with their eyes.
In other words, the way of visual consumption is becoming more and more diverse, and it is no longer necessary to rely on a single "Gossip Girl" to obtain this consumption imagination.
The continuous decline in the appeal of "Gossip Girl" to the public suggests that an era has passed, let the classics remain in the memory, we don't have to look back.
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