Mary Sue drama, 28 days on the line, 82 million families around the world to watch, ranked first in the ratings in many countries, angry brush Netflix records? What kind of drama is this?
Is Bridgeton the regency gossip girl + Pride and Prejudice? There are gorgeous costumes, handsome men and beautiful women, and exaggerated and bizarre, bizarre story lines...
One month after it was launched, the media were amazed.
Many media said:
Bridgeton subverts tradition and shows us a costume romance drama that is not limited in scope and audience size.
The empowerment of people of color and women makes Bridgeton approachable and up-to-date, resonating with audiences around the world.
There are also media urging the BBC to work hard
The BBC wants to accelerate the development of online streaming platforms. The American giant Netflix is no longer a threat, but an existential moment.
As a result, as shown in the following figure news, several major media giants in the United Kingdom, BBC, ITV, channel four, channel five, are planning, ready to unite and unite forces to develop a unified streaming media platform to jointly compete with the AMERICAN giant Netflix.
Of course, some film critics complained:
Netflix is in accordance with big data, completely cater to the audience cool point, like cooking, add a variety of fierce materials (really fierce), and then add a little "female strength" and "racial diversity" fashionable views as condiments, with brocade dresses, beautiful men and women.
Bridgeton's drama, in fact, is a soap opera with bad content, that is, a soap opera that is eye-catching and out-of-place.
Don't shy away from intimate behavior at all, even over the line!
Indeed, according to the strict social rules of London during the Regency period, Bridgeton was a bizarre soap opera that combined all sorts of absurd and outrageous behavior.
However, this blockbuster filmed by Netflix is not a story made up by big data.
It is indeed adapted from a novel, the original book is from the best-selling novel of Aunt Joan Yao, Julia Quinn. Julia Quinn's eight "Bridgeton" series of novels, titled You Pinned.
The first book: The Duke and Me (probably called "The Domineering Duke Falls in Love with Me" is more appropriate, basically summarizing the contents of the book)
Book II: The Viscount Who Loves Me (The Story of Big Brother Bridgeton)
Book Three: A Gentleman's Proposal
This sweet style continues eight books.
If Austen's novels are all about the (often painful) real life of the world.
Bridgeton, then, is filled with guilty pleasures of "guilty pleasure", and those sparkling hidden swirls.
It seems to remind you to look at all this dialectically.
Glitzy and glamorous, as if everything was under control in the last second.
The next second, the hidden desire dragged everyone into an uncontrollable vortex, overwhelmed, or even missing.
Cambridge Jun felt that this drama really had a second on the head.
It was as if the gossip girls who had seen New York's Upper East Side were ghosted and traveled to Regency London.
Like "Gossip Girl", this drama also has a gossip queen who has seen the dragon and disappeared.
She begins by publishing scandals and gossip about high society in the form of a narrator.
Gossip Diva is also known as Lady Whistledown, "Downward Whistleblower". The elegant voice comes from the heroine of The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews.
The voice with a tone enters the soul for a second, and the glitz of the imperial era when the sun never sets is also slowly unfolding with the curtain.
We inhabit time like a fish in the water. Our existence is to exist in time. Its majestic music nourishes us, opens the whole world to us, troubles us, frightens us, and calms us.
Anyway, this glittering and colorful drama, I brushed it off in one night.
The first episode has the taste of "Pride and Prejudice" + "Gossip Girl".
In the fifth episode, I found out that it was "Fifty Shades of Grey".
By the sixth episode, isn't this "Butterfly Dream"?
Episode eight, this scene, I'm afraid to go into "Alice in The Hunt" and "Pride and Prejudice"?
Probably, this is Regency Romance in 2020...
Soul-saving goddess or godsip girl
Mary Sue, it turns out that people all over the world like it.
The plot is a little bit familiar.
During the Regency period, the girls of London's high society, through strategy, finally found a good person in the highly competitive marriage market.
The proud heroine meets the proud heroine, who inevitably fights with words and words, goes through misunderstandings and twists, and finally harvests true love.
The opening ceremony is a celebrity dance. The ladies in London's waiting for the word are all looked over by the queen, and then officially enter London's social vanity fair to seek good luck.
The Queen is a brilliant figure, even though she is also mired in an unhappy marriage.
She often shows a small expression of arrogance and disgust, but she looks a little cute.
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In this play, there are still vivid and vivid appearances from time to time.... High society scenes are taught on the spot.
There is also the problem of the Poison Tongue Queen's Critical Strike Soul.
In the Regency era, the Empire was on the rise of the sun. At that time, men occupied an absolutely dominant position in the marriage market.
Eighteenth-century English inheritance law stipulated that a daughter could not inherit immovable property. The primogeniture system and the limited inheritance rights are quite strange.
Primogeniture is the first principle, and if there are no sons, it is inherited by other males in the family.
For example, the three ladies of "Downton Abbey" and the five daughters of "Pride and Prejudice" have encountered the same dilemma, and the grandmothers and mothers are eager to arrange the marriage of their daughters.
In those days, marriage wasn't a top priority. Marriage is the only major event.
The topic is realistic.
The girls were dressed in valuable dresses, surrounded by hungry mothers and fathers who carefully chose spouses for their daughters that would bring the greatest benefit.
The short ins and outs of the parents, there is no lingering sympathy for life and death, it is the daily life of some dance party social gossip and tea drinking, but it hides intrigue and painstaking efforts.
It is not easy for upper-middle-class women to find their ideal husbands.
The root cause of gender inequality is that women are institutionally deprived of their independent economic base.
Because British women have no property rights after marriage, even women from the top nobility cannot escape the fate of being subject to their husbands.
It's not that married men in Britain at that time were all thin lovers who snubbed their wives, but women who lived less than they wanted after marriage faced a desperate dilemma: there was no exit mechanism in their marriages.
This marriage market is based on the principle of equal exchange.
Sons of aristocratic families without inheritance hoped to find the daughters of wealthy merchants in order to improve their economic situation.
The sons of wealthy merchants hoped to find the daughters of nobles and thus improve their social status.
The supply and demand relationship between men and women in the marriage market is unbalanced, and the phenomenon of women being unmarried for life is common.
At the beginning of the social season, there are nervous admissions. For example, the Yutun family is actually an outsider, and the girls stumble and sincerely visit the queen.
The queen is also a face of unlovable disgust.
Of course, there are also the daughters of the old Qian family who pace confidently, who have been handpicked by the queen to be flawless and have since marched in peace.
As a modern audience, I clearly see the inner volume of the 19th-century London marriage market and the hardships of the London "marriage market" workers in this play.
This kind of marriage is essentially business.
Parents on both sides look at the return on investment of the marriage.
After the two sides have the intention, they begin to discuss specific matters, and finally reach an agreement, which clearly stipulates the woman's dowry, how much pocket money the man gives to the woman, and the distribution of property.
The top aristocratic women could not escape the fate of being subject to their husbands, and there was no exit mechanism for their marriages.
The show deals with scandals, passions, classes, native families, female independence, and other topics that modern people can instantly empathize with.
The lines are very witty, the dialogue is very fast, the costumes are very exquisite, the color matching is very healing, the heroine is very pure, double the speed of brushing, or quite cool.
Two families: the "upstart" Feather Tun family and the "old money" Bridgeton family, came to the fore.
The Bridgeton family had eight children, four boys and four women.
The son Yushu is facing the wind, and the daughter is falling into the city. Their names are sorted by ABCDEFGH – Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, Hyacinth.
So I heard that this show will continue for eight seasons.
Each child's story has something different and wonderful.
The eldest daughter Daphne sinks into the fish and falls into the goose. She longs for true love, has a big family, trusts a lover, is harmonious, and has children and grandchildren.
She diligently went on a blind date, and gave the Bridgeton family the responsibility that the eldest daughter should resist.
The male protagonist is Duke Simon of the Hastings family.
He was a man of charisma and rebellious spirit. Because of his original family, his father's indifference and excessive demands on perfectionism led to his childhood trauma.
He was single and feared marriage.
Although Daphne came out on top at the Celebrity Ball, she won the Queen's hand-picked "impeccable" perfection and sat on the top spot of this season's London socialites.
But in fact, she had a strange phenomenon of no market in the marriage market.
The next day, at the door of Daphne's house, except for the person who always harassed her, who came to propose, there was no other London boy who came to visit.
The family was in distress.
At the second ball, Daphne is taunted and ridiculed by the Queen of Poisonous Tongues.
In this case, Daphne and the Duke were also aware of this awkward ball.
In order to avoid the harasser, Daphne accidentally bumped into the Duke.
As a result, she was misunderstood by the Duke, thinking that she was taking the opportunity to talk. Duke Simon sneered at Daphne.
Of course, Daphne did not let him go, and also sneered at Simon. It was a beginning full of pride and prejudice.
Perhaps it was the narrow road, and Daphne met Simon again a few days later by chance.
Simon wants to get rid of the elders' urging, and Daphne, who is now trapped in the dilemma of no one to pursue, can also use the pursuit of Duke Simon to attract the attention of the high-society princes.
So at the bold suggestion of Duke Simon, the two reached an agreement and pretended to be attracted to each other.
Such a single duke will not be harassed by his mother and daughters.
The heroine Daphne can also increase her value, wait for the price and sell, and find a ruyi Langjun.
Sure enough, in the third episode, there is a spoiler: the queen's nephew prince.
But at this time, Daphne and the Duke slowly became fond of each other in the mouth, and began to fake the real thing.
She was not at all interested in the prince's conversation, but she hid in the gallery with the duke, and the two had a secret relationship.
However, the stubborn and arrogant duke insisted on celibacy.
He realized that he had fallen in love with the heroine.
So I made up my mind and indifferently drew a line with the heroine.
Fearing marriage, the Duke insisted on his principle of non-marriage and told Daphne that he was playing a trick.
The Duke's cold attitude made Daphne sad.
Meanwhile, the Queen is bent on matching Daphne and her prince nephew.
A good drama is staged.
It was another dance party, and Daphne was generously admitted.
Under the eyes of everyone, hand-cranked feather fan, slowly paced, down the stairs, each step was swaying, with the style of sinking fish and falling geese in his eyes.
Sure enough, Daphne managed to arouse the prince's strong interest.
The prince presented Daphne with an expensive promise, and the representative immediately asked for marriage.
Daphne, who had completed the task of marriage, was a little confused at this time, she was overwhelmed, felt suffocated, so she ran to the garden to catch her breath.
Duke Simon saw Daphne running out and worried about her, so he chased her out.
The two quarrel and then kiss, when they are bumped into by Daphne's eldest brother. The brother was furious and asked the Duke to marry her sister, but the Duke refused.
A scene of dog blood was staged.
The brother and the duke will shoot and duel in the grove to protect his sister's reputation.
When her sister Daphne heard about it, she hurried to stop it.
Foreshadowing what will happen, we'll go on tomorrow.
This is the main content of the first four episodes.... Five to eight episodes will be spoken tomorrow.
I am Cambridge Jun, a british drama level 10 scholar, welcome to pay attention to light blue and deep blue.