Joey and Phoebe have one thing in common:
All of them are the golden oil of the six people, all of whom have made great sacrifices for the double R main line and the CM relationship.
Of course, Phoebe is a mysterious and mechanical séance, and Joey is simplified: stay, eat, sleep.
In the first season, Joey was a normal man when he was not fat. Of course, it is also popular, but unlike the back, it seems that it has "slept all the New York girls". Of course, I also eat greedily, but unlike the back, I have been so mad that I have stolen the desserts of my female companions. It's a bit stupid, of course, but it's not as exaggerated as it is in the back.
Two details.
One is the night of the blackout, ross tries to confess, Joey is very sensitive to dissuade him, saying that he has broken his heart, telling him that "you have been in the circle of friends friend zone for too long." ”
- His grasp of emotions is very sensitive.
The second is everyone's classic opening statement. The girls said kissing was more important. Chandler made a classic analogy that kissing is like an opening show, and we like it, but we won't buy tickets for it; after the film is over, the girls still want to see the opening, and we are all falling asleep. Rachel hit back: It's better to let the opening show be serious, or you'll have to watch it yourself at home next time (and Monica with a triumphant high-five).
At this time, only Joey was outside the situation, asking: Are we still talking about male and female love?
- He is not very good at metaphors and literary rhetoric, and his reaction is slow.
The second point slowly became a terrier.
For example, if he wanted to take a stage name, Chandler played word games and persuaded him to name him "Joseph Stalin".
For example, he only watched "The Shining" and not "Little Women", and asked Rachel if the latter was a horror story.
For example, he has no idea which twin cities "A Tale of Two Cities" is, and after buying the encyclopedia, he is proficient in V-word starting words, but he knows nothing about the K-word starting words.
The uncle who sold the encyclopedia described the scene — "Friends are nodding frequently, you are alone outside the situation" — fits his situation.
The settings in the back are also slowly completed.
For example, Joey's father, a fat uncle, and the doctor dad of the Rachel family, and the father who drives a Porsche in geller's family, are obviously not a class.
The Joey people are of Italian descent, and their home is Queens, a multi-yuan place, but obviously not a rich family.
He mentioned his education, mostly in high school— Ross asked him if he hadn't read The Lord of the Rings in high school. Joey said no, but "I slept with girls in high school!" ”
Phoebe was out on the streets, and Joey was slightly taller: the family was intact, but not wealthy either. He came to New York as an actor and worked part-time. Phoebe is obsessed with her career: she's too fairy.
But Joey's misery is very realistic:
When actors don't do a good job, they do everything. Serve coffee, sell Christmas trees, donate sperm, work as an advertising model, sell perfumes. Even as an actor, you have to be an ass stand-in and the like.
The careers of the six men, Ross and Chandler, were almost all smooth sailing, and the latter resigned at one point in pursuit of self-interest.
Monica was unemployed for a while, went to a civilian restaurant to play a retro chef, but after that it was all smooth.
Rachel is a coffee → department store→ Ralph Lauren, and the fashion industry is very good. Phoebe doesn't care what he does.
In comparison, Joey's acting career is really not going well. The second season once reached its peak, and they were able to move out to rent a mansion, and within two days the character died and he was cut. Acting in stage plays was despised, auditions for various films were not passed, and teaching people to act as a result, students also took away his competitive roles.
After the second season, he was obsessed with recalling his doctor character: it looked funny, but it was cruel to think about it. It was the most glorious moment of his life, and how terrible would it be if he never went back?
Fortunately, it was a comedy after all, so later he became popular again, and even became the richest character of the six, writing checks and playing like a child.
But here it is also revealed that his stay, eating and sleeping have their significance:
You have to portray him as a delicious and greedy optimist, a man who roars when he drops beef sauce, dizzys when he sees a sandwich, and takes a breath at the sight of chocolate, in order to survive so many life crises that are enough to make people despair.
He also had to maintain his status as a less successful actor on a regular basis to have enough reason to continue living in the apartment and partnering with Chandler.
Well, speaking of Chandler.
The later script hinted countless times that it had always been Chandler who was raising Joey. Joey didn't even know how to pay for electricity, the money he owed Chandler forever, and the rent wasn't quite clear. Putting aside the style of the New York tabloids in reality, Joey became popular later, and it is estimated that there will be a "popular actor who was adopted by another former data company executive to live with for at least seven years" and the like. But at the same time, Joey is giving Chandler a otaku life at ease.
When Chandler first checked in, Joey taught him to sit in front of the TV, watch beautiful women run, and drink beer. Then Joey got some money and bought two slacker chairs and two otaku squatting at home, "Inside good, outside bad!" For Chandler's personality, loneliness can really kill people, just like the lonely Mr. Hay downstairs.
Good thing there is Joey.
In a way, Chandler carries the burden of life for Joey with his intelligence and high salary, and Joey carries the psychological shadow for Chandler with his brilliance.
When Chandler was finally mature enough to live as an adult, Monica took Chandler from Joey.
Chandler made two jokes, one of which was to say to Ross, "I can't inherit [your daughter] Emma when you die, then you can't get Joey when I die."
The second is to tell Monica to buy a house and leave a room for Joey to retire. The latter was supposed to be a joke, but at the end of the tenth season, when Chandler bought a house, he really left a room for Joey.
So Chandler's mental journey through the shadows is janice→ Joey→ Monica. Joey is the key to Chandler's true maturity.
In fact, it's more than that.
Chandler and Ross are bullied over coffee and plan to seek revenge on Joey. Ross moved the couch and sent Rachel to find someone, the first to look for joey: he was the strongest. Playing rugby, both sides picked people, the first one was Joey being picked.
Phoebe is streety, but Joey is the physically most reliable of the six. But he is also the most innocent person, who can fall and not be hurt.
So career troughs, love setbacks, he can survive by eating, sleeping, staying, and in turn, become a comforter for the other five people, and the script's eternal source of comedy.
That's the sacrifice he's made throughout ten seasons.
At last......
Joey is a simple person, but Matt LeBlanc, who plays him, is not staying.
If you read his interviews privately, it is easy to see that he is a very stylish person, the kind of gentle and kind, but you definitely do not want to make him angry. More than one comment has said that if he did not act in comedy, in fact, when he was old, he was very suitable for playing a godfather role. When he didn't have the exaggerated expression in the comedy, he lowered his voice, and you can fully understand why he put his sister one by one.
Once on a TV show, the Mother of Dragons made a wish to Matt leBlanc and asked him to read a word to herself.
So Matt said a long list of gentle words.
One second the Mother of Dragons was still listening carefully, and the next second it suddenly exploded.
It was only because Matt leBlanc finally said the line she wanted to hear, the three words that Joey slept all over New York:
How u doing?