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Last May, 19 children and two of their teachers were murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. [qh]
去年5月，在德克萨斯州乌瓦尔德市的罗布小学，19名学生与两名老师被谋杀。[qh]
The next day, Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary, shared a message — one of many — that she’d received in response to the massacre: a request from a fan that she write a school-shooting story line into her comedy.[qh]
翌日，美国广播公司情景喜剧《小学风云》的主创兼主演昆塔·布伦森分享了一条消息——这是她收到的回应大屠杀事件的众多消息之一: 一位粉丝要求她在喜剧中写一个校园枪击案的故事情节。[qh]
“People are that deeply removed from demanding more from the politicians they’ve elected and are instead demanding ‘entertainment,’” Brunson wrote on Twitter. [qh]
布伦森在推特上写道:“人们已经不再对他们选出的政客要求更多，而是要求‘娱乐’。”[qh]
“I can’t ask ‘are yall ok’ anymore because the answer is ‘no.’”[qh]
“我不能再问‘你还好吗’，因为答案是‘不好’。”[qh]
Brunson’s frustration was understandable. [qh]
布伦森的沮丧可以理解。[qh]
Yet it’s also hard to blame the fans who, as they grieved a real shooting, sought comfort in a fictional one. [qh]
然而，我们也很难责怪那些对真实的枪击事件感到悲痛，转而在虚构的枪击世界中寻求安慰的粉丝。[qh]
They have been conditioned to expect that the news will instantaneously become entertainment.[qh]
他们已经习惯于期待新闻立即变为娱乐。[qh]
Almost as soon as a big event happens, a production company repurposes it as a pseudo-fiction. [qh]
几乎一有大事发生，制片公司就会将其改编成一部虚构小说。[qh]
In 2019, two Boeing 737 Max airplanes crashed, killing 346 people; by early 2020, Variety was announcing, “Boeing 737 Max Disaster Series in Works.” [qh]
2019年，两架波音737 Max飞机坠毁，346人遇难; 2020年初，《综艺》杂志宣布“波音737 Max灾难系列影片正在上演。”[qh]
In July 2020, The Hollywood Reporter shared that Adam McKay’s next project at HBO would “take on the timeliest of subjects: the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.”[qh]
2020年7月，《好莱坞记者报》分享说，亚当·麦凯在HBO的下一个项目将“呈现最具时代性的主题: 开发新冠疫苗的竞赛”。[qh]
In January 2021, Reddit users collaborated to inflate the stock of the video game store GameStop; a week later, MGM announced that it had landed the film rights to a book proposal — a book proposal, not an actual book — about the story. [qh]
2021年1月，Reddit(社交新闻站点)用户合谋抬高了电子游戏商店GameStop的股价；一周后，米高梅公司宣布已获得一本关于这个故事的未出版书籍的电影版权——一本计划出版的书籍，而非一本已出版的实体书。[qh]
In the metaverse, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as wry dramedy on HBO Max.[qh]
历史在元宇宙中重演，先是悲剧，然后是HBO Max的讽刺喜剧。[qh]
Producers have been ripping plots from the headlines for as long as there have been headlines to rip them from. [qh]
只要有头条新闻可以窃取情节，制片人就一直在这些新闻上窃取。[qh]
The difference today is the speed and the scale of the conversion. [qh]
今天的区别在于转换的速度和规模。[qh]
There are commercial reasons for this frenzy of optioning. [qh]
这种疯狂的选择有商业原因。[qh]
In general, plundering reality is much easier and cheaper than inventing something new.[qh]
总而言之，剽窃现实要比发明新东西容易得多，也便宜得多。[qh]
The streaming platforms wouldn’t keep making the series, however, if viewers didn’t watch them. And watching them can be disorienting.[qh]
然而，如果观众不看这些系列影片的话，流媒体平台就不会继续制作了。观看这些影片会让人迷失方向。[qh]
