Meng Jing sat on the bus, thinking about today's interview task. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She works for Sanlian Life Weekly, a news and cultural journal that has a certain influence in China and is very popular with petty bourgeois youth and intellectuals.

The characteristics of the magazine are that it attaches equal importance to culture and news, and strives to make the news have a historical character.

To put it bluntly, it is how profound it is, revealing a clear tone of intellectuals.

This year is a year of transformation for Sanlian Life Weekly, from a semi-monthly magazine to a weekly magazine, and from focusing on major news events to the entertainment industry.

The magazine used to cover news in the entertainment industry, but now it focuses more on this aspect.

This transformation is a desperate move, in order to seize the market, cater to the needs of readers, and not let the magazine continue to lose money.

Different from the focus of other entertainment media, even if "Sanlian Life Weekly" reports entertainment news, it must add something profound to it to show its unique style.

For example, in "Xiaoxue's Big Adventure", other media pay attention to the investment of 800 million yuan and the situation of the actors.

"Sanlian Life Weekly" can talk about English literature, compare the current situation of domestic literature by the way, and then talk about the profound social significance and cultural connotation behind the film.

Their slogan is, even if you are an entertainer, you must be an entertainer with taste and culture.

Meng Jing is such an entertainment reporter.

She joined "Sanlian Life Weekly" two years ago, she is not a newcomer, nor is she an old qualification, she has just emerged in the entertainment circle and has become a little famous.

Today is the day when the crew of "Heroes" is open to the media, allowing visits to take photos and half-hour interviews.

Since the preparation of "Hero", except for a launch conference, it has been in a closed state.

On the one hand, it is to concentrate on filming and not be disturbed by the outside world, and on the other hand, it is to maintain a sense of mystery.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a novel adapted into a movie, everyone knows the storyline, there is no need to keep it secret.

"Hero" invested 150 million yuan and gathered a group of the best domestic actors, directed by Feng Xiaogang, these factors attracted the attention of the public.

The more mysterious it is, the more it stimulates the curiosity of the people.

Entertainment reporters will also go to great lengths to dig up the inside story and news of "Hero" for the sake of newspaper and magazine sales.

It can be said that the main creators of "Heroes" are the objects they focus on.

However, the crew's precautionary measures are quite in place, and the crew is responsible for food, clothing, housing and transportation after the actors enter the crew, which isolates the opportunity to meet with the media.

Even Feng Xiaogang went to the hospital to visit Fu Biao secretly.

This is not to say that "Hero" is not promoted, but it is to be promoted according to the rhythm of Good Dreams.

From time to time, it is open to reporters, give a little publicity material, keep the topic hot, and when the film is released, there will be another round of large-scale propaganda offensive.

Meng Jing's age is not very old, but his heart is not small.

She has interviewed many well-known figures in the entertainment industry, and her style is rational, a little sarcastic and mean.

She thinks that although she is an entertainer, she should look at this circle with a cold and onlooker mentality, not blindly obsessed, not infatuated, or disgusted, that is, an objective report.

Regardless of whether the interviewee is a big name or not, ask whatever you need to ask, and don't shy away from it.

That being said, she still has some headaches for today's interviewees.

This is probably the common opinion of entertainment journalists.

If you talk about the stars that domestic entertainment reporters are most reluctant to interview, the top three must be Jiang Wen, Chen Daoming and Wang Zhiwen, these three people do not play according to the routine.

Jiang Wen was aggressive in the face of reporters, and often left reporters speechless when asking questions, and the interview was like a war.

Chen Daoming is very serious and conscientious, and always habitually corrects the low-level questions raised by reporters, and by the way, conducts some ideological education for reporters, like taking a class.

For example, you must be cultured and socially responsible.

Wang Zhiwen is even more notoriously difficult, always putting on a straight face in the face of reporters, and also questioning the professionalism of reporters.

Now that these two people are filming together, the entertainment reporter's heart is broken.

It's not that the reporter really doesn't want to interview, every one of them is big news, but I'm a little worried.

They want to get the scoop, but they also have to face the embarrassing situation that may arise at any time, and they have to think twice about the questions they want to ask and do their homework before they come.

Meng Jing looked at the question he wanted to ask in the notebook, and felt okay.

At present, readers are most concerned about whether "Hero" can be on the Oscars like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and this question must be asked by many reporters.

There are also the differences between "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and box office expectations, etc.

Meng Jing felt that these questions were asked too early, how to ask the director and actors to answer, besides, always comparing the two movies is easy to arouse the other party's disgust.

Her entry point is the story and the actors.

What kind of story is this, the position of a group of the best domestic actors in this story, the space to play, this is the foundation of the movie.

Jiang Wen, Chen Daoming, Wang Zhiwen, Yu Feihong and Xu Jinglei, this is an ultra-luxurious lineup.

Meng Jing has some regrets, she prefers to have an exclusive interview, interview the director and each actor individually, and dig out the deeper things behind "Hero".

Does Haomeng Company follow the trend in making this film, or is it aspiring to make domestic blockbusters go to the world.

The true thoughts of the company's boss Lin Zixuan and the film's main creators.

But she knew that this was unlikely, and the relationship between "Sanlian Life Weekly" and Good Dream Company was not very good.

Because of her insistence on style, she ridiculed "My Sassy Girlfriend", believing that it was a mediocre and sensational commercial film, and the director compromised with the market and lost his sincere attitude as a literary and artistic worker.

Criticism of commercial films that are box office hits is easy to resonate with the intellectual community.

At the same time, she praised Ge You's "Carla is a Dog", and literary films are the favorite of petty bourgeoisie.

Meng Jing knows what kind of people her readers are, and what she writes should be consistent with the style of the magazine.

Good Dream Company has its own familiar media and reporters, and even if there is an exclusive interview, it will be handed over to those reporters.

This is where Meng Jing is depressed, Good Dream Company has become the vane of the mainland entertainment industry, and almost all the big news in the entertainment industry in the past two years is related to Good Dream Company.

If you can't get first-hand materials and exclusive interviews, how can you get ahead in the entertainment circle.

What she wants to interview most is Lin Zixuan, Lin Zixuan is a popular figure in this circle, from the nineties to the present, Lin Zixuan is both a witness and a creator.

The interview with Lin Zixuan is to uncover the development history of the domestic film and television industry in the past ten years.

For entertainment journalists, there is a great appeal.

In other words, as long as you get Lin Zixuan's interview, you can become famous.

It's just that Lin Zixuan's interviews are very rare, and at the end of 95, there was an interview with Lin Zixuan on "Contemporary Film", when Haomeng Company had just gained a firm foothold.

The interview proved to be forward-looking.

It is believed that Good Dream Company has found a successful path for private film companies, which is worth learning from.

Meng Jing set a goal for herself in her heart, she wanted to get Lin Zixuan's next interview.