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The development of people of color, especially Asians, in Hollywood is often subject to various restrictions.
Even if a very small number of lucky people come out of the mix, they will be used as a human flesh mask carefully erected by Hollywood to show "political correctness", or as a prop for the white left to play with racism.
(Okafina won the 77th Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy)
Among them was a Korean-American actress who was jokingly referred to as Lin Yongjian's half-sister.
Because her appearance did not conform to the public aesthetic, she was even persuaded by her family to go for plastic surgery.
The first half of her life was mediocre, and she was one of many supporting professionals who "knew but couldn't name".
A supporting role in a longevity American drama, she played for a full 8 years, but she retreated when it was difficult to be remembered by the audience.
It wasn't until 2018 that she finally got the opportunity to play the heroine.
At the age of 47, she co-starred with a post-90s little beauty on the same stage, and became popular all over the world, and she won the 76th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress with the drama!
The play was called Killing Eve.
Her name is Wu Shanzhuo.
Today, I want to tell you about the latest American drama starring Wu Shanzhuo:
Head of the English Department
Eve, the protagonist played by Sandra Wu, taught at the prestigious Pembroke College in the United Kingdom, and finally became the head of the English department of the ace department at the age of 46.
She is not only the first female department chair in the university, but also a very small number of people of color among the university faculty, and she is also an Asian, which is a minority in the minority.
To use an inappropriate analogy, this is equivalent to the head of the Chinese department of Peking University, who is actually Beyoncé.
The dean had high hopes for her.
The English department is full of respected elders, and if you throw a brick, you can hit a Nobel Prize in Literature.
However, Eve's first task was to fire the three most senior literary giants.
As the saying goes, there is an old family, such as a treasure. It's not that the great college can't afford to raise these old antiques.
Mainly they really can't keep up with the times, no one chooses their courses at all, and the number of people participating in the entire college has dropped by 30%, so the college budget has been seriously reduced.
In order to dissuade these old antiques, the academy can be said to do everything to the extreme.
The office of one of the female professors was moved to the basement, next to the gym.
The female professor said that she was physically well and hoped to increase her efforts.
In addition to struggling with her seniors, Eve also had to help her friend Xiao Hei apply for the annual outstanding lecturer class, thus obtaining a tenured teaching position.
Teachers with tenured teaching positions can be extended to retirement once they are hired, and are not subject to the assessment of the school's various stages of teaching and scientific research workload.
There is no pressure to be dismissed, and I also enjoy the tenured professorship allowance issued by the school, which is simply refreshing!
The original intention of this system is to provide professors with a relaxed and harmonious academic environment, so that they can concentrate on academic research and produce more master-level figures.
However, tenure may also only become a treatment, for example, the well-respected titans in the English department, per capita tenure, make the department a pool of stagnant water.
Those who are responsible for reviewing Xiao Hei's qualifications are the three old seniors who are to be dissuaded.
Eve could only work with the mud inside and come up with a way to teach together, but with little success.
Blessings are incomparable, and misfortunes are not alone.
Mrs. Dean tries to overstep her authority by inviting an actor to serve as a teacher for an outstanding lecturer class, using his star effect to inject fresh blood into the decaying English department.
He is David Duchorany, the actor in The X-Files, Agent Mulder.
(The Head of the English Department really brought in David Duchonny himself...) ）
After all, he is not only an actor, but also a New York Times best-selling author.
Work is enough for Eve to be upset, but there is more stress in life.
As the saying goes, every family has a difficult scripture, and Eve's family book is afraid of the Transformers Sutra.
Eve is single, but there are old and young: her adopted daughter is not only precocious, but also mentally ill.
Every day is either a scary child painting or a voyeuristic babysitter going to the bathroom.
Eve's father doesn't speak English, has trouble taking care of himself, and often loses his granddaughter.
Eve also has an ambiguous object, Bill.
His prestige in the English department was so high that once their relationship went any further, the distinction between public and private would be unclear.
Now that Bill's wife is newly bereaved and her daughter is going to college, old Bill has suddenly become an empty nester.
In terms of self-care ability, he can be rounded up and can be directly returned to zero.
Fortunately, he is talented and has a strong personality charm.
Unkempt hair, sparse mustache, smoking marijuana in the greenhouse, hugging schoolgirls and laughing haha.
The point is that he was bold enough to openly salute the Nazis in literature class, and asked who else!
This unruliness caused him trouble: a scene of him paying tribute to the Nazi military salute was filmed by students, and the malicious P-picture went viral on the Internet.
Originally, he wanted to vividly interpret absurdism, but was mistaken for Nazism by students who did not know the truth.
The chairman received a call from the patron and the alumni, and the students who followed Bill on the project and owed a bunch of student loans also had to follow the bad luck.
Originally, Bill only needed to sign a letter of apology with the college's crisis management director, everyone knew that Bill was not a Nazi, and the students just wanted to see the school's statement.
But as a proud bone of a literati, he did not allow himself to sign a joint name with others, even if it was an apology letter!
Bill was so ashamed that he had to go to the town hall and confront the students face to face.
Although the truth became clearer and clearer, Bill clearly underestimated the destructive power of public opinion and higher estimated the rationality of his students.
The public debate was seen by the students as an externalization of his arrogant attitude.
Bill thought that the college campus should be to maintain the equality and freedom of communication of everyone.
But in the eyes of the students, he is a tenured recipient, and he is not equal to them.
When it comes to Nazi military salutes, Bill can't erase his face, doesn't apologize positively, and even avoids the importance.
In addition, in order to hold a donation event, the dean suddenly came to the scene with the school police to clear the scene, and the scene instantly escalated to a march against Bill.
Faced with a family that is getting out of control, a confused love, and a difficult job, how does Eve struggle in this muddy water?
When I first saw the trailer, I had a suspicion that the English Department Chair would again promote political correctness and rub the topic of women, Asians and people of color.
The plight of women and minorities in the workplace is indeed pervasive.
But "The Head of the English Department" wants to express much more than that, but uses topics such as sexism and subject anxiety to convey a "no pandering" attitude.
It is said that school is a small society, which is not false at all.
Even in the ivory towers of colleges and universities, women and minorities remain targets of discrimination:
The three old professors are all facing the danger of being dissuaded, but only the female professor, who has a relatively optimistic number of course candidates, has moved her office to the basement without permission.
Xiao Hei's ability is obvious to all, but even if she tries harder, with the full support of Eve, the head of the female department, it is still difficult for white men to dominate the academic community.
Even the outstanding teacher classes that were almost in hand were taken away by the male star who was killed halfway.
And Eve, she can be called a label collection, both women and ethnic minorities, and she is struggling to carry out her work.
But neither the old professor nor Eve pandered to the rules or the superiors.
"Head of English Department" also reflects disciplinary anxiety.
The English department in the United Kingdom, just like the Chinese department of China's universities, is actually in a rather awkward situation:
Students can't learn programming and engineering, can't write what they've learned as skills on their resumes, and are often confused about their future after graduation.
The content taught by faculties cannot be quantified and cannot produce intuitive social value.
The generation that grows up in the information age will wonder:
The world of flowers and flowers is so wonderful, I can pay attention to the earth's climate change, care about the latest situation in Afghanistan, gossip about a certain star's gossip and love history...
Why do you have to spend a lot of time analyzing the rhyme of this poem?
Baidu Encyclopedia or a certain petal, you get only information from these channels, not knowledge.
As literary critic Harold Bloom put it:
"The information we can get is endless, but where does wisdom come from?"
This is the "1850~1918 American Literature Overview" course taught by the old professor, and it cannot be said that there is no one to choose.
The old professors have not updated the course handouts for 30 years, and believe that the classics do not need to be changed, let alone to meet the needs of students.
For students to question their teaching methods, it is even more problematic where there are points, so easy!
The students even developed subtle feelings for them that went beyond the teacher-student relationship, and these literary titans probably never dreamed that they would one day become humanoid Viagra.
In contrast, the young teacher Xiao Hei, who is extremely popular among students, pays attention to communication with students, and uses an in-depth and simple way to follow the rules and induce students.
Look at Professor Xiao Hei's "Novels and Sex" class, there are many people who can't choose.
Despite their very different positions and perspectives, both older and younger teachers have chosen not to pander.
That being said, knowledge also has to be updated. The Yangchun White Snow, which has always been high and low, can only be shelved in the end.
Teacher Luo Xiang and Teacher Dai Jianye have successively entered the B station, and their videos are both informative and entertaining, and often directly hit hot topics.
Use young people's words to talk on platforms that young people love.
However, not all knowledge can be entertained and fragmented, as the two teachers have emphasized many times in the video - their original intention of making videos is only to attract more young people to actively contact knowledge and cultivate interest in learning.
Seemingly catering to the audience, but in fact adhering to the principle, it is "gentlemen and different".
Looking at the actress Wu Shanzhuo, who plays the heroine, she is definitely an outlier in the show business circle, and she is also a typical example of refusing to cater to most.
Sandra Wu is a Korean Canadian whose parents are highly qualified students at the University of Toronto, her father is in business, and her mother is a biochemist.
Following the path of life that her parents planned for her, Wu Shanzhuo eventually either entered academia or made a difference in her only love, ballet.
It wasn't until she was ten years old that she unexpectedly walked into the theater with her parents. Since then, Wu Shanzhuo's life has completely deviated from the established track.
For a conservative Korean family, acting is tantamount to selling art on the street.
Sandra Won a four-year full scholarship to journalism at Carleton University, but instead of going to college, she entered the National Theatre School of Canada.
Stubborn to some stubbornness, once identified with one thing, it will never waver, and it will not cater to the feelings and opinions of others, this is Wu Shanzhuo.
But her acting path is very bumpy.
Born without attractive beauty and attractive figure, Sandra Wu struggled in Hollywood, which discriminated against Asians, and could only get some supporting roles that you can't name.
For example, the landlord in "Fruit Hard Candy" who catches a glimpse.
In the American drama "Grey's Anatomy", because Christina Yang's role is well known to the audience, Wu Shanzhuo chose to retreat in a rapids.
"I explored everything with this role and I felt like I had done my job."
Sandra Wu has acted in stage plays, dubbed animations, and continued to take in unpopular supporting roles.
Wu Shanzhuo is constantly honing and breaking through herself, rather than catering to the audience, and always plays her female number two in a play.
Finally, in 2018, she received an offer from Kill Eve.
At first, she thought it was another supporting role, but she didn't expect that she was "Eve" who was "killed".
Remember that Eve in the original script was a white woman.
The original casting was the screenwriter of "Killing Eve" and the heroine of "London Life", Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
In the end, Wu Shanzhuo won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress with her superb acting skills and the strong sense of CP of "Little Pervert" Judy Comer.
It also became the first Asian American in the history of the Emmy Awards to be nominated for "Best Drama Actress".
Parents, who had once opposed her, proudly took a picture with their daughter's poster.
Everything should be attributed to The efforts of Wu Shanzhuo and the spirit of resistance contained in her.
This "Head of the English Department" is another breakthrough for Wu Shanzhuo.
On the road to growth, we will always encounter various setbacks and face the doubts of various people.
In order to cater to others, they are forced to change their will, just as Eve, the head of the department in the play, originally did.
Eve finally chose to resign, because there is no end to flattery, and there is no way out without pandering.
May everyone be able to stick to themselves.
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