The 101 girls on the stage are dancing passionately, and each girl is working very hard to express themselves, which is a stage where they can fully show themselves.
Although confused, every girl is full of expectations for the future.
However, the reality is cruel, the format is also cruel, from 101 trainees finally selected 11 female production team, forming an idol team debut.
On June 23, 2018, Rocket Girl 101 debuted in a group, and on June 23, 2020, Rocket Girl 101 was officially disbanded.
Offstage, in the flickering of stage lights, Xu Zhiyuan calmly held a book and drew sentences in the book that he thought were interesting.
Paradoxically, if you look closely, you will find that there is a very interesting sentence in the book: ... They serve the purposes of the gods on Mount Olympus...
I wanted to know what the name of the book That Xu Zhiyuan was holding in his hand at that time was, and he should find it and read it.
After three years of interviews, Xu Zhiyuan said this:
When I made 101 three years ago, I also had the excitement of the end of adolescence, and then this kind of thing is now for me, and it seems to have disappeared slowly. It is also like the end of one of my life stages, that is, life inevitably expands with the time dimension, and the taste of life is more, including a lot of helplessness.
But the paradox is that man's free will is often very wonderful, and it seems that no matter how great the power, it is not completely bound to your free will, can not shape it, so there will often be heresy.
In fact, I hope that seeing them again in three years and five years will become a fuller understanding of human life.
01
There is no road in vain in life, does every step you take count?
Xu Zhiyuan went to interview the 101 girl with an incomprehension of entertainment, although this interview spanned three years and was well-intentioned, it was also criticized by many netizens for not having much depth and lacking shock.
This can't be completely blamed on Xu Zhiyuan, for entertainment cultivation programs, how much depth should such programs have? Will people see the struggle of life's destiny or see the sigh of fate?
Xu Zhiyuan said: I want to understand the traces of time in people.
So from the beginning of the formal interview to three years later, when interviewing three girls who are still active in the entertainment industry, you can feel something.
After the same 101 selection process, what kind of excitement has been carved into these three girls in three years?
Meng Meiqi is already running all the way to the idol road, so she wants to make herself perfect, or let everyone see her perfection.
Therefore, in order to maintain the aura of the idol, in the face of Xu Zhiyuan's interview, some words will not be fully explained, after all, the disaster comes out of the mouth or knows, and will intelligently diverge from certain topics.
Wang Ju was not selected for the group, but also because of the 101 draft debut, is trying to become an actor.
As a public figure, you have to take some responsibility for what you say, so in the face of the interview after three years, you will say some heartfelt words, but it is also point-to-point, not too deep, after all, there is still a burden in the heart.
Qiang Dongyue still continues to walk on the road, it should be said that one foot is in the entertainment circle, and the other foot has not really stepped in.
She still needs to constantly participate in competitions to prove herself, hoping to work hard to get out of the world.
As she herself said: You have to live, how can you pay attention if you don't participate in the game, and I don't want to "go back to the pot".
There was a hint of helplessness between the words, and he was very open to Xu Zhiyuan's interview.
Because Qiang Dongyue has not yet reached the step of Wang Ju and is farther away from Meng Meiqi, there is no baggage, so relatively speaking, let people see her very real side.
The three girls who also participated in the group training, due to different fates, the degree of deep penetration in the entertainment circle is different, but it is very emotional.
02
In the book Entertain to Death, there is a chapter that concludes with the following:
As the dividing line between entertainment and non-entertainment becomes more difficult to draw, the nature of cultural discourse has changed 0... Owen Berlin had a famous song, and if he changed one word in the title, he would become a prophet like Aldous Huxley. He should write this: There is no other industry except the entertainment industry.
Entertainment has become a feature of this era, and since artists no longer call themselves entertainers and replace them with teachers, not only are the lines of entertainment and non-entertainment blurred, but they seem to be blurred as well as the education world.
Every artist who sees other artists calls each other teachers, and Han Yu said what a teacher, so preaching karma has become so out of place in this era.
When teachers are all over the entertainment industry, will there be infinite doubts?
When Xu Zhiyuan, who has many ideas, cannot understand the entertainment industry and wants to find the meaning of life from the 101 girls, he is destined to be disappointed, and it will also make some viewers think that there is no depth.
Xu Zhiyuan still did some homework, before going to shoot these girls, look for three media friends to understand what the object of the interview is?
Three of the media people talked a lot about their views, and Xu Zhiyuan has always been curious and can never really understand.
For example, someone says: People just want to like the new and hate the old, and they are eager to see a batch of fun things appear in front of me in three months.
This shows a feature of the entertainment industry, there are very few artists who have always been red, and most of the artists are fresh and red,enamel, and they become the front wave on the beach.
Another asked Xu Zhiyuan: Don't you need FMCG in your life? Cultural FMCG.
FMCG everyone needs, but the focus is different, for Xu Zhiyuan, the draft of this FMCG is still very far away from him, so take this show as a fieldwork, to see what the current young people are thinking.
Xu Zhiyuan's doubts can also be explained by a sentence in "Entertainment to Death":
There are two ways to wither the spirit of culture, one is Orwellian—culture becomes a prison, and the other is Huxley-style—culture becomes a burlesque play.
When a cultural person goes to deeply understand entertainment FMCG, three years of investigation and interview may span a long time, and it can be felt that Xu Zhiyuan should not have found the truth about entertainment.
What exactly is the truth about entertainment?
Was it Xu Zhiyuan who read the book's purpose of serving the gods on Mount Olympus? Or do you listen to the feelings expressed by the different shades of the three girls entering the entertainment industry?
Meng Meiqi said that I want to make myself perfect too much, and many times there is no way to accept my flaws, and then I don't want people other than me to see my flaws.
Wang Ju said that there is a bubble in data, it can not be the most direct and standard visitor, the least like this industry (entertainment industry) place.
Qiang Dongyue said that he could only say that I wanted, and I couldn't overcome my greedy side.
In the interview of the three girls, Qiang Dongyue is completely open-ended, and the first two already have idol baggage, she wants but still has not gotten it, so she continues to work the road.
Xu Zhiyuan asked Qiang Dongyue if he would be angry in the face of the injustice of fate?
Qiang Dongyue asked rhetorically: Who is angry, but there will be emotions but there is no specific object and reason.
Xu Zhiyuan feels that the question is wrong, after all, for people who want to step into the entertainment industry, whether they succeed or fail, there is a price, and they can only face all the problems after choosing this road.
Since you choose to participate in this place game, you have to follow the rules of the game, but who made this rule?
The truth about entertainment can never be properly obtained, but there is a saying in "Beijingers in New York" that is a little interesting:
If you love someone, send them to New York because it's paradise – and you can enjoy yourself. If you hate someone, send him to New York as well, because that's hell.
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