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.
There is a technique in ancient Greek drama called mechanical séance. Refers to the unexpected solution role, suddenly appearing, solving the problem.
Phoebe is the character in Friends.
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.
Therefore, Phoebe got married, and it was only when the young life of the six people dangled came to an end, and at this point, the play really came to an end.
Because she has her own world and family, she can no longer continue to intervene in the world of six people.
This means that the characters of the six who really have infinite possibilities, create everything and solve everything will have to wander away: this is really the 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?
Many people have mentioned that Joey and Phoebe could have been a couple.
On the contrary, I felt that they did not become a couple, which was the exquisite treatment.
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 I said earlier that Phoebe must not get married until season ten:
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.
Janice Litman-Goralnik – No one said her full name, right?
More often than not, we just call her:
“O-MY-GOD!”
One of the most classic mantras in the history of TV dramas?
She is a highly functional character in Friends, and whenever Chandler is needed to order a paragraph, she appears. Even made a cameo appearance with Ross for a one-night stand or something...
Probably the crew themselves feel that they keep taking her out, coincidentally a little embarrassed, and every time she appears in the later stage, Chandler has to look up to the sky and sigh:
"Why is she here?"
"(Met her so many times) How come I never met Beyoncé!"
Her character setting, at first glance, is a bit of a face: the pompous "O MY GOD" and the sheep-like laughter make the audience inadvertently agree with the "annoying" evaluation of a few friends, and then laugh at chandler trying to get rid of her by all means.
But after watching it for a long time, I liked her a lot.
Janice's first appearance was to be dumped by chandler. This seems to be her fate in the whole play. In fact, her first appearance, because the exaggeration is not obvious, I don't know why Chandler wants to dump her: I bought socks for Chandler, and I said very sweetly that I can change my clothes, that is, I will laugh when I drink coffee. What a cute girl!
Then it was the new Chinese New Year's Eve, who dumped her again; Valentine's Day, dumped her again. The latter time was a classic: Janice accepted it calmly and said the classic line:
"Something in the depths of your soul has been swapping me. You pushed me away and dragged me back. You long for me, you need me, you can't live without me. You just don't know it. ”
Kissed Chandler and coolly walked away.
Yes, Janice is cool.
In the second season, when Chandler was afraid that he would end up alone, he went to find Janice, and Janice came back triumphantly with a big belly, just to have fun watching Chandler's emoji. But then she came back and spent quite some time with chandler until it was completely over. That performance was wonderful. Janice told Chandler, "You were my soul mate, and I didn't expect us to last forever. Chandler pulled away one of her shoes, and Janice just walked barefoot and limped.
Again, cool.
Since then, Janice has basically become a semi-funny cross-scene character:
Came back and got into a "I'm going to Yemen" scene with Chandler, had a fight with Ross, rachel was present when she gave birth, she was there when Chandler went to test sperm, she was there when she bought a house...
Always responsible for coming out and making a lot of noise, laughing a few times, saying a few classic "O MY GODS", and then dashing away.
How cute is Janice?
She is passionate about life. Without any appearance, you will feel like she has been crushed by life. Divided, cheated and kicked, married and divorced, Janice will always be Janice.
She's cool. Not every girl can be left behind in a row and still confidently "you can't do without me" after being dumped continuously. Not every girl can walk and go barefoot.
Her every sentence is a terrier – which may be overlooked. In fact, in addition to "O MY GOD" and sheep laughter, Janice has a lot of funny routines.
"Why didn't you tell me on the phone when you were pregnant?"
"Then I'll miss your current look of shock!" Janice loves to have fun! ”
"We should live together!"
"What? I thought I was here for a pasta! I'm actually not that hungry! (This is a routine with Mo Wenwei Bai Jingjing's marriage proposal facing the Supreme Treasure, "I just woke up, I just want to come in to worship a teacher, my teeth have not been brushed yet" is a routine)
After starting the so-called "New York Day Trip" with Joey, he came back, looked very good with Joey, and smiled at Chandler and Joey's "Bye bye my dear, and you chandler" when he went out, which was very playful.
When it came time to break up with Ross, he also laughed at Joey: "I've got two out of three... Joey？ "Scared Joey's face is colorless.
Most importantly, Janice was kind. Very, very, kind.
In the whole play, only she was hurt: she was dumped and kicked and kicked by Chandler - but she basically didn't hurt anyone.
Even if he was injured by the hug and roll of chandler, there was no resentment.
In contrast to this:
Originally, she was going to stay at Chandler and Monica's house, but when she heard Monica say that Chandler still had feelings for her, she immediately left. Miao left two sentences when he left.
To Monica: I wish you both happiness and happiness for the rest of your lives.
To Chandler: You call me as soon as you mess up.
It is really a public and private balance, and there is no delay in both...
When Ross first got divorced, she listened to Ross talk. When Rachel gave birth, she encouraged Rachel.
When it came time for Chandler to take sperm, Janice naturally shook his head first and then comforted him.
When it came time for Chandler to buy a house, Janice of course still looked like a neighbor first, but as soon as Chandler showed the "actually I still love you" face, it scared her away again:
That's the fear of really messing up the chan-mo relationship.
Aside from the occasional joke of the atmosphere, she was a good girl. Exaggerated, but kind and strong.
I can totally understand why Chandler had a dead loop with her before she found Monica: Janice was a bit hilarious, but brilliant.
For a character like Chandler, he needs Joey's innocence and Monica's love to truly come out of the shadow of his youth. Before that, Janice's brilliance was his spare tire – so when he felt like he was going to die alone, he would go to Janice...
In line with personality: Janice is the most daring girl in the whole show to wear clothes. Any fancy clothes, she can wear, control steadily, the weather is extraordinary, and her personality is as brilliant as it is that people can't open their eyes.
Her presence is so strong that she doesn't even need to appear to influence the plot.
In the sixth season, her singing voice came out of the tape, which made the audience rejoice.
For actually all 10 seasons, she appeared in 18 episodes (and one episode of Sound), but you'd feel like she was everywhere, hovering over Chandler's head forever.
It was as if at any moment an O MY GOD would appear.
I guess for the audience, she is also such a lingering existence. Let's put it this way:
I can't look at Janice now and pronounce the word O MY GOD...
(Don't believe you want to try?) ）
Before falling in love with Monica, Chandler Bing had many labels that even his friends spat on him. Including but not limited to:
- Fear of commitment.
- Often misunderstood as gay, "you have the quality".
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- God knows the content of the work.
In fact, all of this points in the same direction:
In his bones, Chandler refused to clash and argue.
Probably the children who have experienced their parents quarreling and hiding in the corner in a silent daze have similar shadows, right?
Phoebe's fellow counselors talk about the character of everyone, Monica lacks love, Chandler defends himself with humor, pre-adolescent parental divorce, "textbook cases."
Chandler himself later added details intermittently: seeing parental sex scenes at the age of seven (thus casting a shadow over the relationship between men and women), divorcing his parents at the age of nine, and being stimulated on Thanksgiving Day. My father became a lady, and my mother wrote adult novels, and she was gorgeous. When I was in school, I read the little yellow book written by my mother in private by my classmates.
His sexual consciousness is distorted. In the episode in which Rachel plays the Star Wars Terrier pretending to be Princess Leah, there is actually a poignant detail. Chandler says that when he often has sex, he feels that the image of his mother lingers. In the first season, it was mentioned that he dreamed that he had a phone call in his private part, which his mother had called him. His own original words were "Oedipus Nightmare".
I doubt that his view of sex is therefore not very good. For example, he even needed Monica to teach him 7 7 7...
In his bones, he is afraid of intimacy, and in his bones he is afraid of intimacy, and he believes that there must be disputes in any intimate relationship.
After his initial argument with Monica, he thought he was going to break up, and Monica laughed and said that if you break up every time you quarrel, you can't continue your relationship with anyone- after saying this, she suddenly realized why Chandler didn't have any relationship lasted.
In his bones, he was still afraid of arguing.
In order to resist the fact that his parents were divorced, he wet the bed, taunted, and smoked. This also explains why he later began to smoke whenever he was stressed:
Probably every time he encountered something bad, he returned to the shadow of his youth. Smoking and mocking became his solace, so that he did not have to face the facts, that is, there was no need to argue.
He was always in all kinds of mockery, and even when asked for advice later, he said the classic "I'm not good at making suggestions, can I taunt it".
In its bones, it means taking responsibility, and being responsible means potential disputes.
Chandler didn't want to argue. He just wants "everyone not to take me too seriously."
At the beginning of the episode, the six people have their own troubles. Rachel pursues independence, Ross comes out of the shadow of marriage, Monica pursues parental identity and her own career, and Joey and Phoebe are poor. Chandler's career is impeccable, his emotions are not entangled, and at first glance he seems to be the most comfortable of the six, and there are idle jokes, but in fact, it is the most painful. The other five are more or less brave enough to face change and challenges, and may also solve problems: Rachel has a new job, Joey has a new role, Ross and Rachel are getting better, and Phoebe is a sanxian.
Only Chandler: His career is good, but it doesn't solve his problems.
He also had sexual encounters, and he was locked in a room with a supermodel, which also made the Dutch blonde girl like him, but this did not solve his problems.
His tragedy is hidden in his family and affects his life at any time and at any time.
Afraid of arguing, he didn't like his job but didn't dare quit.
Afraid of arguing, he couldn't even get out of the gym.
Fearing an argument, he went to Janice in a hurry, which was his haven.
For fear of arguing, Rachel's domineering female president boss, Joanna, can force him to break up with her.
And, Joey.
Joey and Chandler are far apart in economic standing. To be honest, there is no common language. Chandler needs to wrestle with Joey on issues like A Tale of Two Cities and The Lord of the Rings, and he gives Joey the stage name Joseph Stalin, which Joey doesn't understand. But why did they become best friends, even though Chandler kept Joey?
In the episode of buying a lazy man's chair, it is particularly obvious. Chandler is an elite with a separate office, but like Joey, he can happily stay at home and watch TV.
With Chandler's income, background, and education, he can go out and live a fancy life, but he hates possible disputes too much, preferring to take care of chickens and ducks at home, raise Joey, and even make pancakes for Joey's female companions.
Joey has a kind of Italian sunshine joy and innocence, which for Chandler is a huge soothing.
But he was passive, cautious, and afraid of serious occasions. So no matter whoever is around — Ross, Joey, or Monica — he's the one standing on the side.
Where there is no need for emotion, he is clever and hides in his own mockery.
When it is necessary to seriously say things, it is dumb to see the supermodel, and it is expected to be Ai Ai in the face of Monica.
He always wanted to use the atmosphere of showing everyone laughing freely and avoid letting the scene enter a serious state. So after talking about Ross falling in love with Rachel, he couldn't say anything clear; when Rachel shouted that it was a big deal, he desperately stressed: "No, this thing is very small, it is not important, it is insignificant!" ”
Not everyone has experienced Chandler's twisted teenage career.
But this, because of the fear of arguing, because of the habit of passivity, so jokes, avoid conflict, shrink in their own world experience, probably many people have?
Pinning his extra love on Chicken Duck, Joey, and the beach girl in the TV series, he obviously does an elite position but never boasts about it, so that no one among his friends knows that he does statistic analysis and data reconfiguration. He was easily influenced by hypnosis and at one point almost became a strong confident woman. He was actually the smartest of the six, and in fact both Phoebe and Joey were hired by him as an assistant to solve financial problems, but he never put himself above the others.
He probably wants to maintain a quiet life, no need to argue, no need to face conflict.
Of course, people have to change.
In the episode downstairs where Mr. Hay dies, the girls say it well: Chandler is aware of his problem and is trying to change.
In fact, he has been trying, but it is not obvious.
In the first season, when Ross's son was born, in the hospital, Chandler casually said to Monica, if we are forty years old and not married, why don't we be together?
This is actually a vague confession, but Monica has an obsessive-compulsive attack, questioning him why he is not married at the age of forty, forcing Chandler to "this parachute can't be opened!" "The rolling belt crawled to the ground.
In a memoir from two years ago, he said Monica was the most beautiful person he had ever met.
When he goes to the beach at the end of the third season, he and Monica ask if they can be a good boyfriend, and Monica laughs and passes.
In fact, Chandler has vaguely expressed it more than once, but because it is all too vague.
So that later back from Las Vegas, when Chandler said to Monica that he was going to live together, he also vaguely said that it was better for me to leave the box here, Monica did not understand, Chandler said bluntly that we would live together, this time you understand, right?
In hindsight, I would really be anxious for Monica: people's words are white, why don't you understand?
But from Monica's point of view, it is also understandable. She was a bright girl on the table, and pete was chasing her, and she wasn't even aware of it.
Chandler's knowledge of Monica is supported by another detail.
Before Monica lost her job and was bored, she urged Chandler to lose weight. Chandler was miserable, so he made a fuss and said that Monica was actually tired, right? Stress after losing your job, right? Cheer yourself up, right? Actually, don't be so tired... As she spoke, Monica softened and fell asleep.
His passivity and Monica's persistence are both the result of the shadow of youth. So he understood the bitterness behind Monica's going to be strong.
He is too clever, and his liking and understanding of Monica is really thin.
A teenager who is afraid of arguing, so passive, first spent his youth on the sunless sun beach like Joey, the shadow slowly faded, and began to learn to trust people and believe in friendship.
Then, finally, with Monica began.
When Monica taught him "7 7 7", did he ever think that he would finally be able to use it on himself?
In terms of setting, of the six people in "Friends", Rachel is an American sweetheart, a cheerleader, and a blonde beauty. Phoebe is the tallest, has a variety of tricks, and "I am very bendy". But I personally have always felt... Monica, especially Monica in the first season, is the most beautiful.
In the second season, when Monica and Rachel went to give Joey that stage play, Joey's big smoking gun agent shouted "She (Ray) body and her (Mo) face, I can make a big star!" The two girls listened to this and looked at each other's faces and breasts. It's a paragraph, but I think it's also quite realistic: Rachel is in better shape, and Monica has a more beautiful face. As for the next few seasons, after her body was overcontrolled, her state was somewhat ups and downs, and that was later. But such a beautiful girl, the feelings of the first four seasons are really difficult to say. Netflix UK version has done a statistic, the actual date in the show (not only living in legend, such as Joey slept all over New York, then it is impossible to count), Monica up, ten. And it only took four seasons—after all, after all, after talking to Chandler, she was obsessed with Chandler. Four seasons, so many unsuccessful emotional entanglements. Basically, in the early days, Monica was losing love. Monica's setting, the first episode was clear. She had only wanted to have a casual appointment, but the bartender on the other side used some routines, and she was pitted. When he found out that he had been pitted, Joey laughed madly, "Of course you are blinded!" Monica said something sad: "I just think he might be a good person..." Later, the counselor whom Phoebe interacted with also said to Monica: "Hang on, don't eat too much, that's a snack, not love." Monica grew up in a family with little love. Her mother herself was mean to her mother-in-law, so she was not kind enough to her daughter; her father was fine, but with obviously thick lines. The older brother is an elite school bully, the center of the family's aura. Because of the lack of love, I eat, so I am fat, so I have a vicious circle. In high school, he was Rachel's classmate. This gave birth to all her personalities: because of the lack of love, so longing for love; because she was not valued from childhood, she had a flattering personality; because she had to compete with Ross for her parents' favor, she was so strong and paranoid; because she loved to eat but did not want to indulge in eating, coupled with Chandler's encouragement of "you should be a chef", she became a chef.
Emotionally, it is embodied as: once someone shows a little love, she is easy to hook, and it is easy to be pitted. A bartender full of lies, a restaurant colleague who writes broken poems in a vassal style, and a high school student who hides his age. She didn't have the beautiful routines of the other two girls, and she knew how to get away with it. She likes to wake up and go straight to the point of being stunned. Even the boy who fainted in the car accident, she can take good care of it, and the ward is full of flowers. Of course, if you are just cheated into being pitted and unconditionally giving love, it is too simple. Monica got two magical companions in the second and third seasons. One is (I personally think) richard, the sexiest man in the whole series, and the other is Pete, the richest man in the whole series. Richard is well worth a big book. Tom Selleck itself is too red, and it is said that every time the audience screams, the scene will get out of control. The persona is also perfect: a 46-year-old single ophthalmologist with independent children, divorced on his own, with only one partner (his ex-wife), personable enough to be "James Bond!" as soon as Phoebe saw him. Ross later asked "Richard is sexy?" Rachel and Phoebe said in unison, "Ah that absolutely!" Rachel also said proudly that when he was a child, he had been kissed by Richard once on the nose, and Phoebe was envious. In fact, even Joey and Chandler adore adore him and learned to smoke cigars and grow a beard to tip. As for treating people and things, it is even more impeccable. So in later seasons, Chandler was a threat to Richard, and I understand it in particular: a huge psychological shadow, he knew how perfect Richard was.
However, such a perfect companion was abandoned by Monica. It was she who chose to give up. She wanted the child, and Richard hesitated, and at last he agreed, but said "if necessary" many times; Monica did not want to force Richard to break up. A small detail after the separation: She was very concerned about Richard's state, and when her father came to her door and told her that "Richard was in a bad state after breaking up with you", she went to sleep peacefully. Her competitive paranoia is reflected in such small things. Of course, that also reflects that her father still has a daughter in his heart. Later Porsche gifts, it can also be regarded as a foreshadowing here. Then she was chased by Monopoly Pete. The girl who put it on the shelf is estimated to have run away in a hurry. She kept delaying because she "didn't feel it." Later, when she finally got better, but found that Pete's paranoia was more amazing than hers, she chose to break up. Yes, although she often encounters unladylike people, Monica still breaks up with the perfect men (that is, they can't have children) and the obsessive rich man (that is, they are more paranoid). She is very lacking in love, easy to hook, easy to fall in love with people. A funny thing, the day Joey moved in, she invited him to drink lemonade; Joey would be mistaken, dragging on the spot, and the two of them had an embarrassment. In fact, the two of them were a bit interesting to each other at the time (Phoebe later confirmed it), but for Monica, it wasn't her rhythm, so don't. Probably this is her: not to settle down, not to seek perfection, but to have an emotional experience that can make her own decisions independently. Obviously lack of love, but too principled, so a girl like her, life is bound to be hard. So finally, the script sent her Chandler. On a London night, she was devastated by the drunken Englishman's mistake for Ross's mother. Obviously an irrelevant drunken stranger, she would still take that word seriously, it was really hard. Chandler comforted her and praised her, and the legend happened. A detail I really, very much liked: Before Chandler slept with Monica, he specifically asked her: How drunk was she? - All lying on the bed, can still ask this, Chandler is also a good boy. Monica said logically clearly: drunk enough to want to sleep with him; not drunk enough that he had to feel any guilt. - Translation: This is my own decision, you don't have to feel that you have taken advantage of me. Many girls who lack love will give up their own because others give them a little good; after that, no matter how hard they work, they must seek perfection. But Monica's strength is that when she is most vulnerable, she does not pretend to be delicate and has no routines. She lacks love, but she doesn't rely on fooling around to win love. Everything is your own choice. She can give you everything – as long as you give her the love she wants. So later, even the marriage proposal was asked for by herself, which is also the truth.
Many people say gunther is the seventh person outside the sixsome, and I don't quite agree. Say he's the seventh person in the café scene, no problem. But gunther's basic feature is resident.
His personality is also relatively flat, a functional role that is very clear.
To Rachel, sullen love to death and come back to life. To the others, a look of coldness.
This comparison is easy to laugh at.
Love for Rachel, such as spending a lot of money to buy her Sphinx cat that can't get her hands on it, sneaking a peek, accidentally saying "you can watch Rachel think as long as you want" when introducing his profession, and being full of malice towards all men associated with Rachel (speaking Danish, scolding Ross for a ezel donkey, slipping when he flew to hug Rachel). In short, it is like a gray wolf who can never catch the Pleasant Goat. By the end, it had become a small theater for "Gunther Fancy Miss Rachel".
I think the best thing to watch is the scene between him and the older ones outside of Rachel.
For example, he obviously smokes. Ask Chandler for a cigarette, take a sip and mutter,, I'm finally touching your lips again! Frightened, Chandler gave him the whole thing, "You keep it." ”
He has a pessimistic, negative, mournful, self-deprecating negativity.
For example, Joey asked him if the Porsche at the door was his, and he said coldly yes, I saved a few dollars an hour and saved 350 years to buy a Porsche.
For example, when Joey's soap opera career experienced a big shock, he was once unable to accept it, always fantasizing about making a comeback and refusing to play a small role. As a result, Gunther said lightly that he had also acted in soap operas before, and the role was dead. That made Joey realize how harsh reality was.
For example, at Ross's bachelor party, Chandler, because of his fight with friends, announces that he wants Gunther to be his best man. Gunther coldly dismantled the stage: "Do you know what my last name is?" ”
Because Rachel's parents quarreled and ended up with a birthday party episode on each side, Gunther slipped from the boring Monica group to the jubilant Joey group. After being spotted by Monica, he first lost a second of chagrin and then continued to twist and dance. Maybe Gunther was sullen like this:
"There's no way to change that anyway, just do it!"
It was this sullenness (which also included blonde hair and fancy dress color schemes) that made both Phoebe and Monica's mom say that Gunther was extremely sexy. Well, okay...
The old Gellers are the supporting characters I think have the strongest sense of existence in this show besides Janice.
Probably every time Monica talked about her mother, she was bitter and had a strong sense of existence. Just like in "I Love My Home", Ping's mother actually only appeared in four episodes (two episodes of the mother-in-law, one episode after the famous door, and the episode "Swimming Competition You Cross the River"), but we feel as if her old man's home is overwhelming and omnipresent.
Monica's mother is the more villainous character in the couple: after all, she criticizes Monica's cooking skills as soon as she appears, slaps Monica's carefully prepared sofa cushions, invites Monica to cook at home and prepares a thousand-dimensional in advance (no confidence in her daughter), and the preference for sons and daughters is excessive. So she is also the one who has been repeatedly restrained in the play. So Monica's anti-clienteque telling her not to bite her nails, as well as exposing Ross's unemployment and divorce in person, are all kinds of eyebrows.
I think There's a detail about Monica's mom that reflects her character. After Ross confessed to her about Feiye's divorce, she went to Chatler and lamented, "After all these years, although Ross has a drug problem, you have always been his friend, you are really a good person." Although he loves Ross, as soon as he hears him flying leaves, he decisively characterizes it as a drug problem.
In turn, when Rachel's mother was just about to get divorced and wanted to enjoy the single life, she asked if there were any leaves flying, which surprised Rachel.
Monica her dad was, the typical person was fine, but a little rough, and quite me-only. For example, in the episode where Chandler's toes are cut off, when he asks him for his car keys to go back to the kitchen to find his toes, he actually says, "I'm not going to get caught [let you drive my car]." "Like Monica's wedding budget to buy a small beachfront house. For example, Chandler sat on him by mistake during the sauna, feeling ashamed, and he happily called Monica to tell him about it. When Ross went to England to get married, the two fathers were rough and sloppy, which was just a contrast and very funny.
But when the mind can think of it, he is a good person. Monica, desperate after breaking up with Richard, came to comfort Monica, put her to sleep, and smoked a cigar and watched TV.
Monica's old utensils were flooded, and the father who secretly smoked was embarrassed, and finally gave it to Monica by Porsche.
Compared to his picky wife, Jack Geller belongs to the more cute one.
And, he really loves his wife. In his birthday episode, there was a very beautiful dialogue. Monica, who was over fifty years old, asked, "Have you ever thought about taking me for a young chick?" Her father said a wonderful love story: "No, isn't being with you the same as being with two 25-year-old beauties?" ”
Pretty.
And, speaking of this: in fact, the original families of six people have their own problems. Although Monica was devastated by her family, she was no longer confident, but compared with others, she was already good.
Rachel's parents, the marriage wasn't so perfect. Dad is a doctor, quite tough personality; mom stays in the family, nothing to do porcelain. The two don't deal with each other, but they also have their own hard work. Dad was under pressure as a doctor, and on the day of the birthday party for his daughter, a patient just died on the operating table, his usual diet was not healthy, and he had to support The three sisters of Rachel's loser (Rachel estimated that the pressure was still small after independence); the mother was married directly after graduating from college, and there was no social life in her life, so she also lamented to Rachel, "You didn't marry your Barry (that boring dentist), I married my Barry." ”
Therefore, Rachel's struggle in this decade is finally not to return to the old path of her mother. She had a baby, had a successful career, stayed independent, went through everything, and waited until the end.
Chandler's family is a one-word affair that directly forges his personality into what it was at the beginning of the series: hates arguments, refuses to commit, resists sexual intimacy, has a cold humor and self-defense, and so on. Qian Mama is actually quite enthusiastic, in addition to the unruly flow, there is no big problem, but when the mother is easy to give people pressure. The character of Qian Dad is extremely interesting. Originally, according to Chandler's description, I always thought that Qian Dad was not good to him, and it turned out that Qian Dad had his own problems, but he loved his son, and more than that, his son refused to accept him.
So the scene where Monica finally forces Chandler to go to Las Vegas to reunite with his dad is my favorite passage on the show. Qian Dad's every sentence is not too much to mention, but when he found the wedding rings of the two people, knowing that the wedding of the two was about to take place (and he had just learned), he lost his attitude for a while, turned his head and asked people abruptly, "So you are bald?" ”
At this point Chandler stood up and bravely said to his father that he hoped he would go to his wedding. It was the final peace between father and son, and this bump had passed.
Qian Dad then came to the stage and said, I want the bride and groom to know how lucky they are to meet each other - and then they start playing and dancing again, not to mention. But before that, his deep promise:
"Then I would't miss it for the world" — I would never miss this wedding in the world — I cried.
Phoebe is the most miserable of these families, but in the end, in fact, perhaps, is the most healing. She lost her mother when she was young, and she had no father. But the episode extends, she found her mother, found her father, found her brother, and gave birth to a child for her brother, and she also formed a very reliable family. The lullaby described by her unreliable dad when he finally reconciles with her, which fits the melody of "Smelly cat", hints that Phoebe was still influenced by her father's love.
Joey's house came out in a flash. Grandma and Grandma (I can't tell which one is which), one with a strong personality and making a good dessert; one who only speaks Italian but likes to watch American dramas. What both have in common is a deep love for their family – Italians. Joey's pile of sisters made me dizzy, and it's no wonder Chandler couldn't tell which one he kissed.
Joey's parents appeared in that episode, which is very meaningful. His dad loved his mom, but there was a lover out there; his mom (as if born with divine powers) knew this, but pretended not to care. "When he had a lover, he felt sorry and was very kind to me." Joey is at a loss for the relationship, but maybe it's a real-life marriage? Compared to the drastic separation of Rachel, Chandler and Phoebe's family, it seems that joey's family can still maintain a little bit of appearance. Adults have different ways of getting along with families, different accommodations and tolerances.
So, probably, in ten years, six people have found each other's love and life, and they have come out of the shadow of the family. Monica slowly gained the respect of her parents. Ross grew from a darling in the family to an empathetic father. Rachel did not return to his mother's old path and became independent. Chandler made peace with his parents. Phoebe found his father, mother and brother.
Oh yes, Joey Dad appeared in that episode, a detail. Joey and his dad asked Joey, have you ever loved? Joey said he didn't know, maybe.
His dad nodded and said, that's no.
Yes, Joey didn't really love.
To contact the thrill of Joy finally falling in love with Rachel, you can understand what Joey gave up for friendship and gave up his true first love.
An essential topic when talking about Ross Geller:
He and Rachel's eternal dispute, "We were on a break!" ”
Objectively speaking, his words are logically correct.
When Rachel said he needed a break, Ross misunderstood it for rest, and Rachel said, "No, a break from us."
Here Rachel confirmed that he was going to break. It's time to divide.
The next day she regretted it and asked Ross to get back together, but what happened in between was indeed we were on a break.
So at the end of the fourth season, on the plane, Dr. House says to Rachel, "You're just on a break," and Rachel changes color.
However, this is also a problem for Ross most of the time.
Ross was pampered by his parents and grew up with success in school. It is also easy to pursue your own career. In middle school, he had a crush on Rachel and married Carol.
Before the start of Friends, he lived such a life: a little sad, but very orthodox.
Most of the orthodox lives that are smooth sailing will feel to a greater or lesser extent:
Everything is taken for granted, and the world naturally works according to logic.
If something goes wrong, it's the mistake of the outside world.
When Ross was young, empathy wasn't good. He lives with Rachel in the third season, and when he plays with Monica and bullies his sister, he thinks Monica is having fun too.
He was caught sucking hemp by his parents, and he cleverly argued that chandler had brought him. As a result, after a series of things such as divorce, numbness, and job loss were exposed, they were torn against their mothers:
"I've been lied to in all these things."
This is the logic that people who grow up to be good children are used to:
As long as it works correctly, everything is fine; as long as I act logically myself, it's fine.
If something goes wrong, it's someone else's fault.
"We were on a break" is logically correct, especially this were emphasis, which is correct at the right point in time.
Ross believes that most problems can be deduced logically, and that people should act according to logic.
He likes to correct grammar, he likes to talk about his research, and his emotional failures are so annoying to Janice.
The bones all point to one point:
Ross likes to be logical and ruled; his logic and rules are right; he deserves the world's favor.
I've always suspected that that's why he didn't have a relationship with Rachel in middle school. People who have lost love will more or less want to rely on abandoning emotions to comfort and persuade themselves not to be too emotional.
So Ross' natural opponent is Phoebe.
Ross's logic always points to the only correct solution, and Phoebe can always tear down his desk. So Phoebe played with him:
Ross emphasizes that evolution is the only one that is correct. Phoebe asked him if he was arrogant enough to feel that there was no room for modification of the existing theory. Ross admits that it is theoretically possible, but it is considered to be a surrender. Phoebe immediately reversed again, saying that you originally insisted on science, and now you have given up insisting on it, how will you face your own research in the future? Furious, Ross turned around and left, Phoebe was amused.
- This is just Phoebe's beautiful words, and it will be interesting later.
Phoebe occupies an abandoned cat, not to say that it is his mother, Ross feels unreasonable, and demands that everyone return the cat - when Rachel laments "I hate Ross forever right." ”
This sentence is probably the voice she has accumulated for many years.
Then Phoebe did return the cat—she wasn't an unreasonable person either—but she trained Ross. A key point, she reminds Ross that she has lost her mother and wants an emotional sustenance, is it okay to be a friend? Asked how to compensate, Rachel suggested that Ross apologize to the cat.
Ross confessed and apologized.
This can actually be seen as an apology to Phoebe, and to Rachel.
It can also be understood that Ross is changing.
In fact, the entire ten seasons are the process of Ross's continuous disintegration of "always right", and it is also the process of his continuous identification with the diversity of the world.
In the first episode of the first season, he was still indignantly "I'm 26 years old, and I'm divorced!" He was still busy correcting his friends' grammatical mistakes, but in ten years, he divorced three times, and in front of the unmarried father of two children, from the museum to the university, he was also suspended for a time, and he also fell in love with a female student. I have also kissed my friend's mother, and I have also robbed my girlfriend with the academic elite. He danced on TV when he went on a beach vacation with his schoolgirls, and Rachel taunted, "Oh, Professor Geller!" ”
With Emily, he felt different and stressed that he "liked that me."
He tried all kinds of new things, and ended up wearing leather pants and getting ugly; later he also whitened his teeth and failed to tan, but he was "trying something new".
He's constantly being exposed by Monica: he wears women's clothes too, he plays with dolls, it's just that he keeps trying to avoid it.
Slowly, he accepted other things he hadn't accepted before.
He once regarded Susan as a love rival, but when Susan and Carol faced a marital crisis, he supported the same-sex couple. So Susan asks Ross to dance at her wedding, "I'll let you lead the dance," which made Carol burst into tears: her two most beloved lovers, talked about peace.
He probably acknowledged that the world has more than one answer, one path, one way of life. He still stubbornly sticks to his principles — that's where his jokes come from — but he often mingles with the interests of his friends. With his own kindness and gentleness and new empathy, there are wonderful passages.
Of the six, the most angry were Joey and Phoebe. However, when Ross took Joey to work at the museum, he sat at a table for the sake of his buddies and broke down the barriers to his career.
He bought Ahoebe a bicycle to solve his childhood regrets, but when Phoebe refused to continue learning to ride, he used the Phoebe-style psychic technique of "if you don't ride the bike, the bike will be sad and die", to reconcile with Phoebe.
Before he and Rachel finally reconciled, there were four details that I was extremely impressed with.
First, after he and Rachel broke up, they were going to record TV shows. Rachel suffered a rib injury, so he gave up recording and took Rachel to the hospital without success.
Second, when Rachel's sister Gill seduced him, he didn't accept it. The passage he said to Rachel afterwards was very logical to him: he didn't know if the double R could still be together, but he also knew that there was no hope of a double R with Gill, "I don't want us to never be able to." 」 Even if it was a possibility, he wanted to keep it. This passage made Chandler, who had a hard heart that could not shed tears before, cry. After all, they are all college seniors and sullen in their bones, and Chandler understands Ross's euphemistic affection.
Third, the one she conceived Emma was clearly Rachel's fault (she started by telling the seducer story). Ross insisted, was forced by Rachel, everyone watched the videotape together, and finally after the truth came out, Ross also went to comfort Rachel, saying that even if she did not seduce herself, he would be emotional to her. It was really from beginning to end, very much to give her steps.
Fourth, Rachel's father was hospitalized, and when Rachel was extremely helpless, he wanted to sleep with Ross for one night, and Ross felt that he was taking advantage of this, and refused, which was a gentleman's act for him; Rachel then told him that between the two of them, there was never a word of the tabel.
He has always been affectionate with Rachel, but the initial separation is because of the collision of each other's principles.
By season ten, he was no longer the promiscuous Ross. So he finally made peace with Rachel, in fact, he also made peace with this colorful world.
Presumably he finally realized that the world is not driven by pure logic, but also by feelings and other factors.
So whether or not on a break is no longer the point.
In the first episode of the first season, when Rachel cuts her credit card, Monica tells her Welcome to the real world, it sucks, you gonna love it.
In fact, this is also very suitable for Ross who has just left the "orthodox life" and wants to start to experience all the sour, sweet and bitter in the world.
Rachel and Guo Furong, both ran away from home, broke into a restaurant lobby (café/Tongfu Inn), met a hostess (Monica/Tong Xiangyu), met a scholar (Ross/Lu Qinghou), and then began a magnificent life.
In fact, that was one of the first memes I liked "Friends". Ross was exclaiming, "I just want to get married," and Rachel rushed in in in his wedding dress (what a meaningful foreshadowing), and Chandler said to the door that his first meme of the show was, "I just want a million dollars!" ”
Rachel's character stood still in the first episode.
Lack of consideration, easy to submit (Monica later called push over): Obviously there was dissatisfaction, but it was dragged on until the wedding dress was put on before he thought of running away.
Impulse: Once decided, wear a wedding dress and run away.
Self-centered: Hugs Monica and says come to her; Monica laughs at herself that she wasn't invited to her wedding, Rachel says Oops I hope we don't mention this...
Pampering, buying, buying, buying:
"I didn't find a job, but I bought boots!"
"Who pays for your boots?"
"Credit card!"
"Who still pays the credit card?"
(Reluctantly) "My dad..."
In the second season, when Rachel's mother was about to get divorced, she said, "You didn't marry your Barry (the mediocre dentist), I married mine." ”
Later, when Joey bought the boat, Rachel taught him to sail the boat, yelled and realized, "I'm the same as my dad!" ”
In rachel's bones, he has the personalities of his father and mother. Mother's gentleness, kindness and easy to be swayed by others; father's stubbornness and toughness.
Soft on the outside and tough on the inside.
All her subsequent fates started from this point.
Initially, Rachel was spoiled by the big lady from childhood. Marriage was agreed without consideration. On the eve of the wedding, I felt that it was not quite right, and I resolutely ran away from home. She called her dad and said, "Maybe I don't need your money — wait I just said maybe!" "Dad hung up the phone and she went to the café waiter. It all starts from scratch.
In a brutal episode, her sisters come to the café to find her, poking and poking and showing off that they are married, promoted, and so on. Since she was a child living in a similar environment, the stimulation she has received is not insignificant. Few people can really survive the pressure of similar comparison. Caroline in "Bankruptcy Sisters" experienced something similar, but she couldn't do it: she was bankrupt. Rachel had a choice, and she chose to stay and keep fighting.
The first time she went to do laundry, she was first bullied by an aunt — after all, she was a pushover — but with Ross's encouragement, she threw herself into the laundry basket. Ross sighed and said that a new woman had been born.
Yes, from then on, Rachel really hardened.
Of course, she is still a big miss temper. For example, from the beginning to the end, she did not take out much garbage, and occasionally dumped it once and was disciplined by Old Cui to cry. For example, she promised Monica that she would clean, and Monica said that you now say where the cleaning tools are placed and I lose. But she also said in that episode of Monica that Rachel was really kind and caring:
In her bones, she was a good girl.
Occasionally, she would take a few malicious strokes, such as calling her nasty bridesmaid, saying in a good voice at the end, "I hope that after you marry Barry, the child you have has has his hairline (which is ugly) and your nose (obviously ugly)!" Quickly hung up: "I know this trick is very cheap, but I am so cool!" ”
For example, when Phoebe was about to give Julie a haircut, she was slightly misled; later, she misled Bonnie even more directly, asking her to cut one of her blonde hairs.
After all, she and Ross stand in the protagonist's perspective. She is a person whose strengths and weaknesses are obvious, so that the script can be written.
Rachel's softness made her try not to take responsibility. So she often pushes and urges, and likes to give all the responsibility to her teammates. For example, when she was pregnant with Emma, she tried to put the blame on Ross, and when we finally watched the tape together, she was immediately embarrassed.
But in turn, the series advanced, and she slowly took on her own responsibilities in other aspects. A very often occurring scenario is that Rachel pursues something, at first asks for a good posture, finds an attempt, and fights.
For example, she tried to seduce Joshua, but she tried, so she was so fierce that the cheerleaders uniform was pulled out.
For example, looking for a promotion, she finds that Joanna is tripping her up, so she goes to the office and negotiates with Joanna while she is about to cry.
For example, when I first arrived at the new unit, I found that my superiors and colleagues were smoking, and in order to integrate into the working atmosphere, I smoked myself as soon as I was fierce.
Most of Rachel's jokes come from "not doing something well — a fierce, awkward situation, but she spelled it out." After giving birth, she took Emma back to work for the first time, and found that she had been robbed of her job by the new poisonous handsome guy, so she immediately returned to her post and sat in a lowered chair, and had to fight.
Later in the episode, her two ignorant girls have visited. The two girls looked at the serious loser, especially untreated. Rachel's father admitted that Rachel was his only proud daughter, and Rachel rejoiced. At this time, I can't help but think: If Rachel didn't come out independent, would she be like these two girls, mixing in the social circle every day, buying and buying, and doing something particularly unlipscent?
No more than not knowing, to compare The Rachel of the tenth season with the first season, to see the big lady who was scared when she cut the credit card, couldn't find a job and bought a pair of boots to be satisfied, and the coffee could kill the plants, in order to see her growing step by step.
Rachel has moved many times compared to Monica and Joey, where they always lived. She has been roommates with Monica, Ross, Phoebe, and Joey. From the runaway lady who stayed at home in the first season, to the single mother career woman who traveled to many places in the tenth season.
In fact, the charm of Rachel's character is not that she does the right thing, but that she is always in the → of continuous failure→ fierce, with a less good-looking posture, continue to fight, and, from the beginning to the end to be herself. She is easily influenced, afraid of responsibility, and self-centered, and always makes things worse; but her stubbornness and kindness can make her unambiguous when big things come.
For example, it was Joshua she chased, but found that Joshua had nothing to do, and after being scared away by her wedding dress, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "Okay."
For example, when she was self-centered to the extreme and ran to London for a wedding, dr. House said on the plane that she was a "terrible person", but when she really arrived at the scene, she still accepted it, just made a gentle blessing.
For example, she covets beauty and is with Tag, a little handsome guy. But at the age of 30, he found that he had his own plans, so he broke up with Tag without looking back.
For example, she got involved with Bruce Willis, but after finding out that Willis was a crying bag, she directly kicked him.
For example, at the end of the episode, she hesitates when she gets on the plane, stumbling when she calls on the plane; but as she talks, she decides; she decides; she decides, and immediately turns back and gets off the plane.
She has been entangled with Ross for ten years, although it is the setting of the script, but there is her stubbornness in it.
On a few occasions in between, she and Ross each described the heart song to their friends: the first time together, it was not appropriate; after that, what if they felt that they were together again, what if something went wrong again?
Subconsciously, they both took each other for themselves — so she couldn't accept her sister dating Ross — but they were too stubborn to think it was 100 percent appropriate and they were definitely not together. So she decided to have children, but wouldn't marry Ross casually.
So many viewers will go from being annoying Rachel to becoming substitutes for Rachel and even liking her.
Like every ordinary person, when she first entered the adult world, she was self-centered, scared, and easily shaken. Encouraged by Monica, Welcome to the real world, it sucks, you gonna lov it.
But walking, Rachel's persistence in facing a desperate situation in everything, even if the posture is not good, must be insisted, this stubbornness and independence, will make people feel admired.
After all, many people are: when they enter life, they experience a similar confusion to Rachel, and they hope that with her bravery, they can last until the end.