Among them, USA Today made a special page with Flash to help you review some touching scenes in each season. MSN used a still picture of six old friends walking side by side on the street with their backs to the audience. Chandler is holding white roses, Rachel is holding red roses, and Ross is holding champagne. The picture is so relaxed, harmonious and harmonious. It is reminiscent of the first time in Central Perk, when Rachel escaped from marriage and ran in in a snow-white wedding dress; it reminds of the six people celebrating their 30th birthday together and then feeling sad.
Few TV series can resonate with so many people in such a wide circle over such a long period of time. Many things are destined to become classics, such as the name Central Perk, Rachel's hair style, Joey's mantra "How you doin'?", and even screenwriters who use TOW-like naming methods for laziness have become popular. Maybe one day you will sing Phoebe's famous "Smelly cat" with people in the United States, as everyone knows and understands like you sing Luo Jiaying's version of Only You in China, :)
What's interesting is that when this drama has not been officially introduced to China, it has already had a large number of Friends fans when it was only spread among the young people in a private way. Even if we don't understand many of the hilarious jokes and puns because of language and culture, they still don't prevent everyone from loving her sincerely. I love that many people are familiar with every scene and detail in more than 200 episodes. Some people even ask each other in the forum to discuss and study the small details in the drama for fun. This kind of grand occasion may only be Jin Yong's novels in the Chinese-speaking world. Can be comparable. Since the domestic university graduates started to find jobs on their own in 1998, more and more young people no longer have the shelter of their work units and have begun to face their lives independently. They wandered in major cities, rented houses together, went out to eat together, traveled together, shared the joys and worries of life together and grew up together. Therefore, even if the culture is different, we can all empathize with the scenes in the play.
Our love for her is not only derived from those happy, comfortable and knowing jokes, but also because she is so close to life, almost the young people of this generation may encounter in the process of working, living and growing up in society. All kinds of problems are presented in a relaxed and witty way. In the play, in addition to Ross is a university professor, Chandler is a financial staff with a good and stable income, Rachel is a waiter, Monica is a chef, Phoebe is a masseur, Joey is an actor with bad luck, among which Chandler and Phoebe's backgrounds are well-known. tragic. According to the popular saying, they are mostly Grass Roots, and there must be many troubles and helplessness in real life. They will also be selfish and vain, and they will speak ill of others behind their backs and expose each other's shortcomings, but they are more of a positive, happy life attitude and warm and touching friendship. In the seventh season, Chandler portrayed Monica's imaginary life after marriage: to live in a small place on the outskirts of the city so that children can learn to ride a bicycle or other things, and to raise a kitten with a bell around its neck as it walks. You can hear the sound when you pass the small door, and I don't forget to add a house with a garage so that Joey can take care of it. Because everyone thinks Joey is too diligent, in his later years there is no one to accompany him and no one takes care of him.
I have watched the first to ninth seasons last year, and many of the plots have been blurred. The most impressive is the episode where Rachel gave birth. The tension in the delivery room and the joy after the birth of the child feel so real. An unprecedented experience, like having personally experienced the role change from a child of a person to a parent. The shock of the soul transcends a film on the screen, but is about love and responsibility, which makes people heart-stirring and palpitating. .
I don’t know if you ten years later, I still remember the handsome, cute and somewhat nerdy Ross, the charming and spontaneous but somewhat pampered Rachel, the leader and the rule-crazy Monica, the somewhat sissy Chandler who often abuses a sense of humor, kind but Joey, who often reacts slowly and can't understand other people's jokes, and Phoebe, who is caring and always thinking in unexpected ways.
I hope we can still remember it, as if we always miss the precious friendship and youthful years.
Mark
2004.5.6 23:32
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