Pick up yesterday.
Phoebe Buffay, Phoebe Buffy.
Of the six people in Friends, the potential god.
Man has his limitations, God does not.
People can only create and solve problems within their own capabilities. God is omnipotent.
So is Phoebe.
In terms of setting, Phoebe is very magical:
Hippie, swinging, playing the piano, parents with a messy historical background, tragic childhood, seems to be fluent in French and simple Italian, can fight, can be psychic, very street, rich experience is difficult to say.
Why does it have to be like this?
The baggage points of the six people have written before:
Chandler's cold jokes, intimate fears, Janice and no femininity.
Monica's paranoia, childhood fat, cleanliness and competitiveness.
Ross's nerdy and dinosaur terrier, as well as a little stinky beauty— many of his jokes, such as leather pants, teeth and tanning, are related to looks.
Rachel's laugh point is a typical American blonde character: small willfulness, small cleverness, and a variety of "many people used to chase yo" brought out of the edge of the ball.
But these four people are all office workers, and the world is relatively closed. Unit, kitchen, school/museum and café. There are only a few contradictions and characters that can emerge.
The remaining two are the plot of the golden oil.
Joey is in charge of gluttony and all kinds of male-female relationships – but because he's stupid, it doesn't bother.
Phoebe is responsible for the street style and some inappropriate strips – but because she's weird, it doesn't bother.
What makes Phoebe unique is that she has too many possibilities and no image baggage. So that contradictions can be conjured up at any time and resolved.
For example, Rachel is in love with the Joshua and grinds, while Phoebe can step on two boats in one set, and get a firefighter and a muscle teacher at the same time. You won't be weird either.
For example, she can get angry with Ross out of thin air and ignore it for an entire episode; the last sentence, "Oh is a dream", is over in one episode.
For example, rachel and Monica fight over Shanggwindon, and when the fight is out of control, Phoebe grabs both ears with both hands and solves it.
For example, when Chandler can't smoke well, Phoebe can solve it with the phrase "You quit smoking and I'll give you $7,000 (a sum of money she doesn't want)".
She can always work as a masseuse, a driver, a toner seller, a female secretary, and a taxi driver.
You can suddenly say that you are also the boyfriend in the submarine, the lover of the scientist in Minsk, the ambiguous with the people upstairs, the date with the health inspector, the cook in the Chinese restaurant, the arcade game swear, the recording of a MV, the writing of advertising songs, the playing of slot machines, the release of a ring out of thin air (creating a contradiction), and then blindly saying that he is dying and cheating back the ring (resolving the contradiction).
No one is weird.
Later in "Friends", some details are obviously advertising insertions. For example, pottery barn furniture, such as Nestlé's cookies.
Forcing ads to appear obtrusive, but once they revolve around Phoebe's freak temper, the ads are wiped out.
It's so good to use.
The daily structure of Friends is that six people are roughly divided into three groups, each with a set of stories.
The usefulness of Phoebe is especially evident here:
She can get into seriousness with Ross (discuss evolution, learn to ride a bike, hate him in her dreams).
You can team up with Rachel (argue about running, making trouble moving, grabbing your phone).
You can toss with Monica (haircuts, massages, arguments about singing outside the restaurant and garlic taste is not heavy).
Mix with Chandler (be his female secretary, go buy a wedding ring together, and go find your dad together, "I am very bendy").
You can group stories with Joey anytime, anywhere (driving from Las Vegas back to New York, releasing pigeons for the scientist boyfriend, kissing Joey on his 30th birthday).
Four out of six people have a relatively single, closed lifestyle of office workers, and it is difficult to introduce outsiders. Joey is an actor, but he is more stunned, and the role is basically in the sister to eat and drink.
Only Phoebe, when needed, her grandmother, mom, dad and weird brothers, her composer partner, boyfriends and girlfriends out of thin air (she is unisex anyway), creating conflicts and resolving them.
Since everyone tacitly agrees that "Phoebe can do everything anyway", they can do everything.
Even if she suddenly found a diplomat who couldn't understand her own language to fall in love and dragged Monica to her, the eldest sister felt that it was taken for granted: this is what she did.
This trait was used to the pinnacle of her pregnancy.
Originally, it was the actress Lisa Kudrow herself who was pregnant. However, in the plot, Phoebe is arranged to conceive for his brother, and everyone can accept it. Anyway, everyone defaults:
"Phoebe is such a weirdo and at the same time so kind; because of the lack of love when he was young, he was especially willing to help his relatives and raise his children."
It's so easy to use.
This is also the reason why the screenwriter has not designed the main plot and partner for her:
She must be a free, free-spirited person who is ready to create problems and solve problems.
She cannot be tied up, she cannot be controlled, she must be alone, and she must be the creator and fire extinguisher of the six people at any time.
And, her personal line.
The plot of the six people has its own growth line. Rachel's Runaway Lady grows, Ross's paranoid nerd matures, Chandler breaks out of intimacy fear, and Monica goes from being a loveless girl to a happy wife. Joey went from being an unqualified actor to an ass stand-in to an actor who was nominated (albeit a scoreless award).
The story of Phoebe's line is:
Lost his grandmother, but found his mother, found his father, found his brother. Triplets were conceived. Pretty satisfying, right?
Another little dark line:
Four of the six lived on the opposite side for a long time, Ross lived alone but later moved across the street, and only Phoebe lived alone: she initially left Monica as her roommate, but was also pursuing independence.
She wandered outside of the group—And Rachel accidentally slipped up, "You're not a relative or friend, and you live far away..."
But after that, Phoebe stayed back and became a good roommate with Rachel. She can accept other people entering her world (although she will still mess with Rachel over running problems). She's also been involved in life within her friends and lives a less street life — so when she happens to meet the buddy she used to rob with, people say she's changed.
In the end, Joey accidentally brought her a fateful marriage, and she performed one of the most ups and downs of the six people in a short season, ending.
This is actually a story of a street monster girl who slowly integrates into society through friendship, and finally can believe in people and meet love.
So the six of them came to an end in their dangling youth lives, and Phoebe got married, which meant that the characters of the six who really had infinite possibilities, created everything and solved everything were going to wander away: this really had to end.
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?
So, why can't they be together?
One of the six friends has become a couple, which is a high probability; becoming two pairs is already a blessing of the screenwriter's fate.
Three pairs, then there is a suspicion of making up.
From the perspective of the script, the contradiction of the split and combination of the double R runs through the whole process, and Qian Mo's love to marriage is the axis of the fifth season to the end. If you add to the love affair between Joey and Phoebe, there is a lack of actionable flexibility - if each episode has to arrange three groups of six people, it is too hard for the script writer.
This is also the reason why, as mentioned earlier, Phoebe must not get married until the tenth season:
After getting married, she couldn't be a roommate with any of her friends, and she couldn't throw Mike away from mixing with friends every day, so the script lacked flexibility.
What if she was really in love with Joey and married?
I can't really write a script.
Of course, who would say that Joey and Phoebe can consider the finale directly together and give an explanation? - That's a bit blunt, a little bit of a pulling match.
And, too bad for these two characters.
Anyone who watches the show will notice that Joey and Phoebe have many small ambiguous hints.
For example, the two will go out to eat alone, and Phoebe also shouts that "no matter how big things are, you can't miss your friend's dinner!" ”
For example, when Phoebe seduces Chandler in that episode, Joey Shadowless directly unlocks Phoebe's bra.
For example, when everyone turns 30, Phoebe laments that two of his wishes have not been met: he has not yet met a perfect kiss, he has not met a Portuguese; Joey gives Phoebe a "perfect kiss", and, "I have Portuguese blood!" ”
For example, Phoebe set Ross and Joey as spare tires, and after being debunked by Rachel, the two of them selected the spare tire by lot, and Phoebe obviously liked Joey more.
The sweetest passage is joey's long-term non-eating of meat for the sake of Phoebe's hormonal problems when she was pregnant—a great sacrifice for Joey's character of two big pizzas on Fridays, killing a meatball sandwich, and yelling at Rachel when he dropped a slice of sauce beef.
In fact, matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow both admitted that they had wanted Joey and Phoebe to be private gunners. So the audience felt that they were ambiguous and quite right.
But the screenwriter never made that clear, and it's smart.
Phoebe has said one thing that is spot on. When she recalls her past life, Joey happily says that she can't remember her past life. Phoebe said, of course, "You didn't have a past life, you're brand new." ”
It's superstitious, but that's it.
Phoebe has a kind of god who has experienced everything, and can always come up with all kinds of weird but sophisticated solutions.
Joey was a naïve big boy, and the more he got, the more stupid he became.
Both of them are unruly, but Phoebe is a human player who ignores all kinds of rules.
Joey is instinctively supreme: eating, drinking and loving.
They both admire each other, but if they are really together, will it be appropriate?
It is worth mentioning that many of Phoebe's scenes with Joey are Phoebe teaching Joey: teaching French, teaching guitar, is not a success.
Many others are Phooebe tricking Joey: for example, playing the agent, such as Joey foolishly thinking that Phoebe is going to be a single mother, so he proposes to Phoebe. Monica told Photobe that when you didn't have a baby, Joey would find out that you were fakely pregnant. Phoebe said to Joey's face, "He is Joey!" That's really treating Joey like a stupid kid.
Phoebe (and Chandler) treats Joey with a kind of innocent care. Chandler occasionally complains about cold jokes, and Phoebe is basically protecting Joey's innocence.
So the relationship between the two of them is more like a little ambiguous brother and sister.
Joey has a little respect for Phoebe: after thinking that Phoebe went to shoot porn, he refuses to watch it, and says that the friends who watched it are perverts; when he heard that it was Photobe's twin sisters, he immediately asked to make up for it...
Phoebe shoots, beat to death and doesn't look at it; it's not Phoebe's shooting, and it won't miss a second...
This is the true buddy spirit.
Joey slept all over New York, but never met true love. In the first season, his dad asked him "Joe, have you ever loved?" Joey said he didn't know, and his dad nodded and said, "That's no." Joey then seemed to fall in love three times, once with the actress of the same show, once with the girl who also put him asleep, and once with Rachel. None of them are quite like Phoebe. In fact, Joey talked about why he liked the girl the second time because he had the same interests.
And Phoebe's hobbies, if nothing else, just not eating meat is enough to keep the two of them together.
Phoebe's real lover, on the other hand, is a scientist in Minsk and her husband, Mike. The beauty of both of them is that they both think that Phoebe's weirdness is normal and even charming. Both of them, directly or indirectly, encourage, conform to, and indulge Phoebe's eccentric personality.
Phoebe is a person who has experienced too much, and the love she needs is the warmth of the family, and the pure tolerance. Joey himself is still a big boy, he and Phoebe can have very good chemistry, but the long-term relationship, is another matter.
The ride from Las Vegas back to New York was typical: Joey's voice sang well and apologized sweetly at the end, but when his big boy personality emerged, Phoebe yelled at him angrily — just as he yelled at him when he was teaching French and guitar.
So that's it. Joey, the big boy, needs a girl with similar interests, and Phoebe, the psychic witch, needs a boy who indulges her weirdness.
As shown in the episode in which "The Tale of Wulin" all pay tributes: six people sit and think about their minds, Joey hums a song in his head, Phoebe: "Who's humming?" ”
It's the same as "you don't have a past life, you're new," with a bit of spiritual transparency to each other.
This kind of one-point perception, many times, is better than the lovers who are tired of being together. Didn't Joey play his dad role when Phoebe got married... Joey is family to Phoebe, not necessarily lover.
Lovely people don't have to be together— there are lovely relationships in the world than being together.