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　　每当又一出新的真人秀节目上档时，总会想起那部著名的《楚门的世界》。电影中，主人公楚门从出生的那一天起，其日常生活的分分秒秒就都被摄像机如实记录下来，向全世界播映。楚门在不知不觉间成为了家喻户晓的明星，而他自己却并不知情。楚门的生活就如同是一幅活色生香的个人成长景观图，这在当时是好莱坞生产出来的银色梦幻。
　　现如今，一场又一场种类繁多的真人秀将他们自己真实的生活赤裸裸地放到所有电视观众面前，来满足凡人都有的窥探欲望，看的人倒也都乐此不疲、津津乐道。真人的世界也许就是一场真人秀，而真人秀作为一种“真实生活节目”，也就是一种娱乐形式。演的人出了名、赚了钱，看客消磨了时间，这似乎也是一场合理的交易。
　　――Eva
　　
　　The Kress, an Asian-inspired L.A. club, has barely been open one week, but tonight it’s hosting the equivalent of a meeting with the Pope―that is, a visit from the cast and crew of MTV’s reality 1)hit The Hills. With stars Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge due to arrive at 8:30 p.m. for their standard videotaped girl talk over cocktails, the crew is busy 2)prepping the space for the cameras. Two seats at the corner of the bar are reserved, and a production assistant
　　3)laps around the room handing out forms asking bystanders to agree to appear on camera. If they don’t, production will ask them to move, or shoot around them. Most 4)comply easily,
　　unimpressed by the fact that MTV’s highest-rated series will be shooting a scene mere feet from their plates of lobster 5)sashimi and beef 6)carpaccio. Clearly, they don’t know that roommates Lauren and Audrina are having major tension at home, and this could be a totally important conversation.
　　Finally, Lauren and Audrina 7)coast into the club and take their seats at the bar. No direction. No rehearsals. They just start talking. Upstairs, the director and four producers, including creator and executive producer Adam, huddle around three portable monitors. Lauren and Audrina 8)segue into a conversation about tomorrow’s barbecue at the house of Lauren’s ex-boyfriend Doug. Will it be awkward, Audrina wonders, since Doug recently went on a date with Lauren’s friend Stephanie? Lauren admits, “Tomorrow, I’m gonna need to drink.” Adam, catching a shot of Lauren laughing that he thinks will work well for this season’s updated 9)opening credits montage, runs over to the editor to have him jot down the time code. When the girls prepare to depart, the director sends one of the cameras across the street to capture them leaving. Strolling down the boulevard, Lauren, who has been living her life on television for four years and knows how to end a scene, turns to Audrina and smiles. “Tomorrow,” she says, “is gonna be a crazy, fun day.”
　　As with most scenes on The Hills, the cast knew ahead of time that cameras would be present at the scene. Almost everything is planned in advance, which is why production of The Hills has always faced tremendous skepticism―Is it fake? The answer is...10)to a point. The Hills is, essentially, scheduled reality. A typical week begins with producers calling the core cast members on Sunday and getting 11)intel on what’s happened to them over the weekend. An e-mail update is sent to the staff that night so everyone can prepare for Monday’s “story meeting,” in which the producers and story editors sit around and 12)dissect the Hills girls’ personal and social lives. From that, they determine whom to film during the week.
本文为全文原貌 未安装PDF浏览器用户请先下载安装 原版全文 　　Plotting out the shooting schedule is an elaborate process: Depending on where the girls are going and whom they’ll be with, production will call ahead and clear the locations―restaurants, cafés, retail 13)outlet―for the crews to come in. Once everything is set up, Lauren gets her shooting
　　schedule e-mailed to her, usually the night before. If the idea of coordinating your real life with a film crew sounds surreal, it’s even more so now that Lauren―thanks to The Hills― is too famous to have anything resembling a real life. Her schedule is packed with photo shoots, fashion shows, and red-carpet events like the 14)Dark Knight premiere. All that 15)glitz seems perfect 16)fodder for reality TV, but producers insist on keeping the celebrity side off camera. The series’ original 17)premise is all about the relatable aspects of Lauren’s life, like dating, heartbreak, and friendship.
　　The phenomenon of The Hills has gone beyond the weekly tabloid covers, the endless 18)spoofs or even its place in the presidential campaign. (After Heidi endorsed John McCain, he joked that he never “misses an episode of The Hills”; Barack Obama promised 19)David Letterman, “My first act as president will be to stop the fighting between Lauren and Heidi.”) “With Lauren Conrad, a whole generation of women see themselves in her.” Says Tony DiSanto, MTV’s exec VP of series programming and development, “It’s almost becoming like a novel at this point, like this
　　generation’s A Tale of Two Cities or Oliver Twist.”
　　Whether or not you equate drunken nights at hot clubs in L.A. to the classic literary works of Dickens, the show’s success is undeniable. And no one has 20)reaped more benefits than Lauren. She’s already launched her own 21)eponymous clothing line, which is sold in 500 22)boutiques across the country. Forbes estimated her 2007-08 income to be $1.5 million.
　　If it were up to MTV, The Hills would keep rolling indefinitely, but Lauren is ready for a break. “Every season, I think it’s the last,” she admits. “Right now, I think this is the last
　　season.” “I go through a 23)phase when I’ve been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I’m being filmed,” says Lauren. “That’s when I have to take a vacation.” DiVello says he can see the show going at least one more season, but ideally, “I’d love to stay with it until Lauren gets married.”
　　
　　克雷斯是洛杉矶一家亚洲风格的夜店，开业还不到一个星期，今晚却已经有一场相当于罗马教皇到访的盛事要在这里举行――那就是，MTV台热门真人秀节目《好莱坞女孩》剧组人员的来访。剧中的明星劳伦・康拉德和奥德利娜・帕特里奇定于晚上八点半到达，女孩俩喝着鸡尾酒聊天的场景照常要拍下来。剧组人员正忙着为晚上的拍摄布置场地。位于吧台角落的两个位置已预留好，一名制片助理在店内满场跑，分发表格征询其他在场的人是否同意出镜。如果不愿意，制片方会让他们挪一下位置，或者拍摄的时候避开他们。大多数人很爽快地就答应了，尽管是MTV台收视率最高的剧集要在他们身旁取景拍摄，镜头距离他们盛满龙虾生鱼片和生牛肉片的盘子仅仅几英尺，他们还是满不在乎的。显然，他们不知道劳伦和奥德利娜这两位舍友在家里关系非常紧张，而这次谈话可能会极其重要。
　　最终，劳伦和奥德利娜按时来到这家会所，在吧台附近的位置坐了下来。没有导演指示，也没有排练，她们就这样自己聊起来。在楼上，导演和四个制片人，包括制作人兼执行制片亚当，聚集在三台便携式监视器周围。劳伦和奥德利娜继续关于明天在劳伦的前男友道格家烧烤的话题。奥德利娜想知道，这样会不会尴尬呢，因为道格最近和劳伦的朋友史蒂芬妮约会了。劳伦承认说：“明天我需要喝点酒。”亚当看到了劳伦大笑的一个场景，认为正好可以用来制作这一季最新的片头，马上跑到剪辑师那里让他记下时间码。女孩子们准备离开的时候，导演派街对面其中的一组摄像机捕捉她们离开时的画面。已经在电视里生活了四年的劳伦，她知道怎样结束一个场景。在街上慢慢走着，她向奥德利娜笑了笑说：“明天肯定会很疯，很好玩。”
本文为全文原貌 未安装PDF浏览器用户请先下载安装 原版全文 　　在《好莱坞女孩》的大多数场景中，演员提前知道会有摄像机在拍摄现场。几乎任何事情都是提前设计好的，这也是为什么《好莱坞女孩》的制片方一直以来受到极大质疑――这是假的吧？答案……某种程度上是。《好莱坞女孩》实质上是一个“预设的”真人剧。通常，一周开始，制片人会在周日召集剧中主要角色，了解周末他们身上都发生了什么事情。当晚，工作人员会收到邮件，提供最新信息，以便每人能为周一的“情节会议”做准备。在这个会上，制片人和故事编辑们会坐下来仔细研究“好莱坞女孩们”的个人以及社交生活，依此来决定这一周要拍摄谁。
　　制作拍摄时间表是一个复杂的过程。就看这些女孩们要去哪里，要跟谁一起，制片方会提前去到现场（餐馆、咖啡厅和零售商店）清场以便剧组人员前来。当所有的事情准备就绪，通常劳伦会在拍摄的前一晚收到电子邮件，通知她拍摄时间安排。如果和一组拍摄人员协调自己真实生活的主意听起来不真实，对于现在因《好莱坞女孩》成名已经难以过上正常生活的劳伦来说，这个想法就更加匪夷所思。她的日程表排满了硬照拍摄、时装表演以及类似《黑暗骑士》首映礼的红毯活动。所有的浮华似乎是真人电视节目的完美素材，但制片人坚持不把她名人的一面拍摄进去。这部系列剧的初衷就是要涉及劳伦生活中一般人能产生共鸣的方面，例如约会、失恋以及友谊。
　　每周娱乐小报的封面，无休止的调侃挖苦总围绕着《好莱坞女孩》，甚至总统竞选也提到它（在海蒂表明支持约翰・麦凯恩之后，他开玩笑说他从没“落过一集《好莱坞女孩》。巴拉克・奥巴马则向大卫・莱特曼保证“我当选总统后的第一个举措将会是劝阻劳伦和海蒂之间的争斗）。而这部剧衍生的现象远远不止这些，“整一代女性从劳伦・康拉德身上看到了她们自己”，MTV节目与剧集开发部执行副总裁托尼・迪桑托说道，“在这一点上，它几乎成为了一本小说，就像是这个时代的《双城记》或《雾都孤儿》”。
　　无论你是否把在洛杉矶最火的夜店里的夜夜笙歌与狄更斯经典的文学作品相提并论，这个真人秀的成功是不可否认的。其中得益最大的非劳伦莫属。她已经发布了与自己同名的时装品牌，此品牌在全美500家时装精品店里有售。《福布斯》杂志预测劳伦07至08年的收入有150万美元之多。
　　如果按照MTV的意思，《好莱坞女孩》将会无止境地拍摄下去，但是劳伦想要停下来了。她承认，“每一季我都认为是最后一季，现在，我想会是最后一季了”。劳伦说：“在不停拍摄的时候我会陷入一种状态――半夜醒来觉得有人在拍我，那个时候我不得不休个假”。迪桑托说他预计这部秀至少还会再拍一季，而最理想是，“我希望一直拍下去直到劳伦结婚”。
　　
　　
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