This Christmas and Christmas Eve, we get good news, bad news.
The good news is that the "Friends: Reunion" that has been circulating for many years is finally coming, and the bad news is that the author of the opening song of "Friends" died of cardiac arrest on Christmas Eve.
The reunion gave us the most satisfactory ending, and the death also brought deep regrets, but no matter which news, what lingered behind it was still the touch and warmth that this drama brought to us in the past 25 years.
According to the latest news brought by the US media, "Rachel" Jennifer Aniston, "Monica" Cotney Cox, "Phoebe" Lisa Cudjo "three sisters", recently combined on the cover of "People", and finally confirmed that "Friends" will launch a reunion special.
It is reported that this version will be created by Warner's streaming platform hbo max, and the six protagonists in the original drama, as well as the two gold medal creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, will all return.
Although more details are still inconvenient to reveal, the nails in the reunion chapter have given fans a shot in the arm, which can be called the best Christmas gift this year.
Thousands of fans have begun to imagine whether the two children in the house on the outskirts of Chandler and Monica have grown up healthy and happy, and whether there will be a room reserved for Joey.
Is Rachel and Rose in a situation where they are in a state of separation, while rushing to take their daughter Emma, while re-loving New York City, making fans cry for a while and eat candy for a while.
"Weird" Phoebe did not have sophie and Mike junior with Mike, and successfully became the soccer mom of his heart, and Joey was alone in the show business circle.
Will "Laughter Kill Janice" appear? Will guther still be in the central perk café?
Too many possibilities, too many belated touches, too many unexpected warmths, just hearing "definite reunion" has overwhelmed us.
You should know that this "first American drama" that accompanied the enlightenment of american dramas Chinese generations, as well as the familiar theme song i'll be there for you and the almost classic clapping beat in it, have been deeply imprinted in the mind, so that every fan of the drama is like a family treasure.
But to our sadness, the allee willis who created the classic melody left.
According to CNN, Willis not only created the theme song "I'll Be There for You" in "Friends", but also the songs "September" and "Phuket Wonderland" in "Earth, Wind and Fire", and won two Grammy Awards.
At the age of 72, she died of cardiac arrest. And on December 6, Ron Lebman, who played Rachel's father in "Friends", also died. He struggled with pneumonia for a long time during his lifetime.
As an old drama bone that has won Emmy Awards, he has participated in such masterpieces as "Love Returns to New Jersey", "Lost Life", "Slaughterhouse No. 5" and so on, and each role is very vivid.
Not to mention that in "Friends", Lebman's hilarious rendition makes Rachel's doctor father become our indelible old friend memory.
We've started saying goodbye to people in Friends.
Fortunately, the protagonists' vows of "it is impossible to shoot and reunite, it will destroy the classics in everyone's hearts" statement, and finally "punched in the face".
People who don't watch "Friends" often ask, "Does the show reflect the culture, or does the culture determine what will appear in the show?" ”
This problem, which sounds like "chicken or egg first", actually reflects that "Friends" embodies popular culture on the one hand, and creates the dual attributes of popular culture on the other.
Take the memes of pop culture, for example, "Friends" is really keeping up.
One Thanksgiving, Monica's parents were coming for dinner. Monica asked Chandler, "Guess who's coming to the dinner?" Chandler blurted out, "Sidney . Potter?"
Sidney · Potter was the first black film to win an Oscar, and that gold-winning film was a movie called "Guess Who's Coming to dinner."
Chandler's joke not only happens to be on Monica's problem, but also the plot of "the unwelcome son-in-law meets the girl's parents" also coincides with the content of the movie.
In the more advanced episodes, Phoebe cuts the hair of Chandler and Joey because the effect is quite good, and everyone is crazy for commercial praise.
Monica, who had seen someone else's buyer show, said she wanted to place an order, and asked Phoebe to cut her beautiful hair as well: "I want Demi ... Moore's same!" Demi · Moore is the melancholy and beautiful heroine of the ghostly love.
However, Phoebe listened, Dudley · Dudley Moore is the one who played the noble brother in "The Young Master".
Phoebe, who bore the aura of a hairdresser, cut Monica's hair three times by five.
Although this funny plot is still a harmonic melody in the end, it also reflects the popular culture of the TV series of that year.
In addition, for classic literature and popular reading, "Friends" is really doing a very good job.
Phoebe, who has not been to high school, enrolled in class to study "Wuthering Heights", Rachel, who has been in high school but is not good at studying, but comes to join in the class, and when she finally answers the question, she steals Phoebe's answer, making Phoebe ugly in class. So while reading Jane Eyre, Phoebe also retaliated back minute by minute.
Who doesn't laugh when they see this?
These wonderful clips make people smile when watching, sigh wonderful, and then suddenly sad, when can such a solid plot appear in domestic films?
But this is not the end, the good of "Friends" is not simply to reflect pop culture, its cleverness is to turn itself into a pop.
One of the most notable manifestations of this is Rachel's hairstyle: the rachel haircut, which looks like a long foot.
When "Friends" gradually became popular, this hairstyle became more and more popular, and many young girls competed to cut this hairstyle, and the popularity shocked Tony's teacher in the hair salon.
For the makeup and hair teacher, she just picked up scissors and cut out a hairstyle that she thought was good-looking and in line with Rachel's personality, but in the eyes of the audience, it became a mark and footnote in history.
"Friends" not only reflects a sense of the times, invisibly has the imprint of time, but beyond that, it transcends time and quietly wins the love and pity of everyone.
In 1994, "Friends" came out. Really thankful for that year. A magical year in the history of cinema, as well as for American dramas.
Today, 25 years later, you can still say that in the history of American dramas, there are very few dramas like this that have successfully portrayed characters, reached a wide range of audiences, and influenced time for a long time.
It makes love around and friendship live opposite, which has become the dream of all young people.
Take Joey and Chandler, who would have thought that the friendship between two men makes countless people cry and laugh, although sometimes it is a loss of friends, but just by a look, an action, the other party will understand, needless to say.
As friends, you don't need to do anything earth-shattering together, there is a saying that "dirty secrets make friends," but in fact, "dumb stuff also make friends", doing something stupid together, is really cute.
This kind of tacit understanding of taking care of each other and understanding each other after having a wife is really valuable.
Of course, the way friendship is presented is not only one, sometimes some of the more peculiar combinations can also wipe out the spark that makes us cry.
"Weirdo" Phoebe grew up witnessing her mother's death and father's departure, living in a cardboard box as a teenager, wandering the streets, and her dream is to learn to ride a bicycle, because no one has ever supported her behind.
So when Ross gave her a pink Barbie bike, our first reaction was not how strange the size and color of the bike was, but that we understood that true friends understood all the pain points in us, no matter how much we ourselves had stifled each other, but in that most vulnerable moment, true friends must be with us.
If you talk about feelings, when the pursuit of love has repeatedly failed, and the fate on the road of love is uncertain, want to love but dare not love, is not it the state of collapse that countless people have experienced?
And once you meet the right person, you will see that without too much blessing from the Sea Oath Mountain Alliance, without too much careful maintenance, one day, when you say everything that happens to each other like a paragraph, this is the most ideal state, the most perfect bondage.
Of course, this pattern of friends becoming lovers has its own advantages, but Rose and Rachel's sadistic love affair goes around, which makes our mood turn cloudy and sunny.
In fact, who should be who is already predestined, when Rose listed a whole bunch of Julie's virtues, he said disappointedly, "She's not rachel." But she's not Rachel!
Yeah, just because you're not her, so even if you're good, I can't choose you, you're not bad at all, just lose because you're not her. She is the only one who is my "lobster".
For 25 years, old friends hang out together at the central café for 25 years.
It's Monica wearing a turkey:
It was Chandler who joked when he was uncomfortable:
It's Rachel who doesn't want to be a "shoe":
Love dinosaurs comparable to Rachel's Rose:
And Joey, who watched The Shining so scared that he put the book in the fridge:
As long as they are still there drinking coffee and chatting, our friendship will not disperse, our love will not die, we will continue to look at it, see the earth and the sky.