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带“一些知识分子的端庄，一点点晚来风急的人性化”的《万象》，对稍具文人意趣的读者来说并不陌生。它当年曾经是张爱玲、傅雷、郑逸梅、柯灵等许多文化名人会聚的雅舍，新时期《万象》复刊，自然也少不了旧雨新知，黄裳、舒芜、王蒙、夏志清、李欧梵、黄仁宇、董桥、林行止、王安忆、巴宇特、恺蒂、毛尖等等，亦都济济一堂常在《万象》雅聚。
少壮派毛尖在《万象》舞台上的好戏是电影笔记，她将世界浩如烟海的电影胶卷中值得点评的精彩片断拉出来点评，揭示星光灿烂背后的黯然，让人在惊叹中不知不觉沉迷于作者的文字，于是毛尖文名就这样从《万象》生发开去。
如今在海外的华文读者群中毛尖很受追捧，香港《信报》《明报月刊》、台北《联合报》《中国时报》、新加坡《联合早报》都开设了她的专栏，她的著作也一本接一本出来：《非常罪 非常美――毛尖电影笔记》《当世界向右的时候》《慢慢微笑――毛尖自选集》《没有你不行，有你也不行――毛尖文化生活笔记》以及译作李欧梵教授的《上海摩登――一种新都市文化在中国》等。
出了名的毛尖很忙，因上海事多她不能回宁波，我的访谈就通过网络、电话进行。
宁波、上海、香港的人和事
毛尖18岁考入上海华东师范大学后离开宁波，今年36岁。毛尖爱故土，至今她做的很多梦，梦境全是宁波老家的。她说：“那时住在解放桥下的宝记巷，记得我们家的门一直是开着的，吃夜饭的时候，总有邻居在旁边看，一边传播新闻和里巷流言，一边拉些家常。现在回头想想，那个时代的确是挺文学的，而且当时文学啊、作家啊，这些名词都是有光芒的。记得小时候说理想，我们许多人都会说长大后做老师当作家什么的。”
毛尖终于实现了自己的理想。其实，她的作文很早就显山露水了，在宁波效实中学读书时毛尖曾担任学校北斗文学社社长，她还和同学一起办刊物，取名《野草》，自己画画自己刻字，她笑着说：“那个不知天高地厚的年龄实在是有激情啊，我们给当时的一些知名作家写信寄刊物，包括王安忆、陈村。后来遇到他们，谈到少年时候等待他们回信的心情，还能回忆起当年的心跳。不过，也应该感谢那个年代，那个不那么功利的年代，我的小学和中学还没有被升学率这些东西缠住，还有很多空间可以做‘没用’的梦。”
如果说宁波是毛尖文学的梦怀，那上海就是毛尖文学的梦乡了。在随笔中毛尖经常写上海。她说，上海给我很大的影响，我的青春期在这里度过，在这个城市恋爱、结婚、生子，我的人生最重要的一些阶段都和这个城市有关。因为爱上海，她也批评上海，常挑剔它的陋习，戏说它的圆滑。在毛尖固有的印象中，上海应该是部好看的电影，但现在“越来越令人担忧其走向了”。
香港是毛尖的一个驿站，毛尖曾到那里读博深造，虽然只有短短的三年，但无疑是很有意义的，而这种意义是在离开香港以后才逐渐呈现出来的。她回到上海，文化和生活对照系中就多了一个参数，多了一个“香港格式塔”。她曾在《香港制造》一文中写道：“香港的时空感的确和其他城市不同。港人追求每一寸每一分的利用率，在香港生活惯了的人，跑到别的城市感觉就像被按了一个‘慢放键’。”尽管毛尖自称在港三年书没好好读，电影倒看了不少，但多多少少这个城市的节拍对她是有促进的。李欧梵著作《上海摩登――一种新都市文化在中国》就是那时翻译的。李先生上课用的是英文初稿，毛尖一边听课一边译，这也是沾了港人精打细算时间的习气呢！
到香港求学更重要的还是拓展了视野。正如她的评论所言“经历久了，观人论世，自然比乡原辈通情达理。”
从《射雕》到痴情电影
毛尖痴情电影，小时便不知看了多少电影，连片前加映的科教片都舍不得错过。她在《光影岁月匆匆过》一文中写道：“如果谁问我少年时代最难忘的记忆，看《射雕》和《上海滩》的经历可以算。这两部连续集全面替代了《青少年修养》，成为我们行动的纲领。一个儿时朋友说，他后来恋爱，心中始终交战，是应找黄蓉还是该觅位冯程程？他说，当年只要在电视上看见翁美玲和赵雅芝，他就魂飞魄散，并真正理解‘颤抖’是什么。还说有一回，《上海滩》看到中途，冯程程教堂结婚，许文强后来赶到，就在这紧要关头他的小脚奶奶慢腾腾打电视机前走过，他便一把上前把奶奶推倒，这事后来让他爹揍了整整半小时。”
看电影是要破费的，从前毛尖都是老老实实地把一毛二毛一元二元的零钱积攒起来，然后去买一张张电影票。香港念书时毛尖拥有奖学金，看电影条件也好了。她说母校科技大学有最好的电影收藏，我总泡在那里，一天三部的流量，管理员都以为我是放电影的。
毛尖的电影不是白看的，后来终于化成了电影笔记。她开篇就来个《立即做爱》，写的是大导演斯丹利库比利克的最后岁月，发在《万象》杂志上。当谈到她将电影笔记连续写下去的动力时，毛尖说那是因为《万象》掌柜陆灏先生逼得很紧，当然自己多年的影迷生涯，也有些“色胆包天”，自以为有些见解了，所以一发而不可收。
对于电影毛尖确实有见解。《非常罪 非常美》一文，写的是雷妮瑞芬舒丹，这位德意志第三帝国时代才华横溢的女人，就因为受希特勒之邀，拍了纪录片《意志的胜利》和《奥林匹亚》而一生受严惩，然而这两部影片艺术之经典又一直让世人叹为观止。美国评论界称：“这部影片是摄影机的胜利，是银幕的史诗。”
毛尖在电影笔记中的一些文章标题，看上去都很触目惊心：《屁股、帝国大厦和高度孤独》《立即做爱》《照亮黛德丽的脸！照亮黛德丽的腿！》《对不起，亲爱的，我要杀你！》等等。其实看了书后，人们都觉得这些题目十分妥帖。《屁股、帝国大厦和高度孤独》原来是三部影片名的排列，我对毛尖说：“亏你想得出来，不怕把人吓坏？”据说毛尖的父亲看到《立即做爱》后，吃惊不小，他老人家赶紧把在宁波所看到的这一期《万象》杂志统统收藏到自己家里去。毛尖笑呵呵道：“一个孩子的写作和她的成长是一样的，所有的父母都担惊受怕，尤其像我这样不是特别循规蹈矩的，父母担的心就更多一些吧。”
率真的笔墨显示独特个性
毛尖个性爽直，笔墨率真。读她的文章尤其是人物侧记，有时会觉得其出言不逊，稍一回味却又觉得妥善到位，真是歪打正着。
《不良老年》写的是出版界大佬、编了几十年《读书》杂志的沈昌文先生。她劈头就这样唐突他：“第一次见到沈昌文先生吃了一惊，他看上去太不像知识分子，不儒不雅不清高，整个人暖乎乎兴冲冲，散发着我们宁波汤团的热气。”继而笔锋一转，恭维道：“武侠小说中的那些不世高手，一出场，常常让人误以为是少林寺的烧火僧。”她描写《半仙刘公》更放肆：“他出门往右，野眼看看，绅心撞撞，地铁里的后生哥后生女，全然不顾刘公思想准备不够，搂定青山不放松，刘公一边感叹乍乍泄出的地铁春光，一边设计心眼坏坏的情节：一刹车，香吻旁落。”毛尖如此造次刘绍铭教授为的是啥？“都是因为读了他的自选集《烟雨平生》，有荤有素，有人有仙，好看得紧。”好家伙，原来她替刘公做了一个广告。
毛尖敢于“撒野”。她玩笑说，朋友圈里若要问一些尴尬问题，常常是自己傻大姐一般出场，所以，实话实说的她，常会犯点“禁忌”。
今年5月毛尖应新加坡华语文化论坛之邀前往演讲，有读者围攻不同意毛尖的观点，毛尖说引起争论是良性效应。
写都市，论电影，未免被贴上小资标签。曾经有时尚杂志给毛尖做专访，题目就叫《毛尖：小资教母》，这是指她比较擅长写“声色犬马”类文章的缘故。但现在毛尖冒“尖”了，她的文章较多关注起社会问题。
毛尖任教于华东师范大学对外汉语系，写文章是业余的。她说，只是有了孩子以后明显觉得精力不够，曾经一度一个星期写七八个专栏，一天写六七篇也有，不过那比较像青春期写作，有说不完的废话，现在不敢了，而且专栏写久了有自我复制的感觉，这需要特别警惕，但有时也避免不了。
眼下，毛尖除了给香港《信报》《明报月刊》、台北《联合报》《中国时报》、新加坡《联合早报》写专栏外，也为港台的《亚洲周刊》《香港文学》《印刻文学月刊》《文讯》《字花》和内地的《上海一周》《新民周刊》等写文章。谈到创作计划，她说现在要写一本新的电影书，手头还有两个课题有待完成，一个是关于英国文学的，一个是关于上海文化的。
Eminent Writer Keeps a Busy Schedule
By Bao Danhong
As Panorama, a monthly literary review which was first published in the 1940s and made its comeback in 1998, has regained national fame among the Chinese literati and won overseas readership, many of its regular contributors have become well known.
My friend Maojian (her penname), a film critic, is one of the younger writers whose literary talents have been established through their reviews published in Panorama.
At present, she writes columns for two newspapers in Taiwan, two in Hong Kong and one in Singapore and has four books published.
My interview with her was made possible by Internet instant messaging and telephone, for I am in Ningbo and she is in Shanghai.
Shanghai and Hong Kong
Maojian, a 36-year-old native of Ningbo, left for Shanghai at the age of 18 where she studied at the East China Normal University. She has been in Shanghai ever since. A life away from Ningbo gives her an opportunity to develop and enjoy a sweet nostalgia for the hometown. She has vivid memories of her younger years in Ningbo: her home in a narrow lane, neighbors, small talks and rumors, her playmates' ambitions for a lifelong writing career and literary glories, etc.
Her talent showed in her middle school days. She was the president of a student literary club. She published a student literary magazine named "Wild Grass", wrote letters and sent the magazines to the authors she and her fellow students admired. Her ambition in childhood years has come true. She is a writer.
If Maojian frequently revisits Ningbo in dreams, now Shanghai is the dreamland for her literary career. The thriving metropolis is a frequent subject of her writings. She explains the importance of Shanghai this way: "Shanghai has exerted a big impact on me. My youth flourished in Shanghai. I fell in love, got married, and gave birth to my baby in Shanghai. Some important phases in my life have had close association with the city. I love Shanghai, criticize its defects and lampoon its street smartness." She comments that Shanghai should be a thriller film getting more and more breathtaking as plots unfolds. But she is now seriously concerned with its future.
She spent three years in Hong Kong studying for Ph.D. The three years are now playing an increasingly important role in her life. Back in Shanghai, she views Hong Kong as an additional frame of reference to examine the life in Shanghai. The fast pace of Hong Kong gives her a new way to look at the issue of efficiency. What is more, the three years in Hong Kong gave her golden opportunities to watch movies and opened her to academic studies that broadened her horizons.
Passion for Cinema
Maojian was a film fan even as a young girl. Her education of silver fantasies started with two Hong Kong television hits which were all the rage on the mainland in the 1980s. One was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which was adapted from Luis Cha's kongfu novel, and the other was "Shanghai Bund". The two fantasies even became guidelines for her and her teenage fellows to develop values.
In order to watch films, the young girl saved every penny of her pocket money. She was so fascinated with films that she even wouldn't miss any short news documentaries and science and educational films before a feature film was screened. In Hong Kong, her scholarship made her life easy and made it possible for her to access the university's large film collection. She watched films at the university library so frequently that some staffers there even mistook her as a projectionist at the library's movie house.
Film Criticism
The films she had watched prepared her for film criticism. Maojian's first review published in Panorama was about the last few years of the British film director Stanley Kubrick. Explaining her writings for the literary review, Maojian said she owes her reviews to Mr. Lu Hao who constantly presses her for contributions. Since she knew she had something to say about films, she has not been able to stop writing about them.
Many of her reviews have attention-grabbing titles that may seem offensive at first sight. But they are not indecent and they are not claptraps. These highly readable reviews offer insights and good-taste good-class criticism. After reading her reviews, one would agree that these seemly alarming titles fit contents perfectly and that the reviews are decent. But her father cannot stop worrying. One day, so freaked by a startling title by his sensation-seeking daughter, the old man rushed out hurriedly and bought all the copies of that issue of Panorama he could find in Ningbo. Maojian later learned her father's response and said she understood her parents' concern.
Maojian is a candid and honest writer. Her essays are sensuous and hilarious, especially those that offer moving and convincing literary sketches of the scholars she knows well.
Now a teacher at the Chinese-as-a-Foreign Language Department of the East China Normal University, she writes in her spare time. In her younger days, she wrote six or seven weekly columns simultaneously and sometimes produced six or seven reviews within a day. Unwilling to be that prolific now, she guards against repeating herself and tries to stay away from nonsense. Moreover, part of her attention has shifted to important social issues. But her schedule as a writer and teacher is still fully loaded. In addition to writing columns for five overseas Chinese-language newspapers, she also writes regularly for some literary magazines in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Shanghai. She is planning to write a book on cinema and has two academic studies to complete.
(Translated by David)