The first issue of "Ally McBeal" was very good, and the audience felt sympathy for Ally. She was a good child. Her childhood sweetheart boyfriend transferred schools because he couldn't accept that she was not as good in his studies. shadow. When I just started working, I was sexually harassed by my boss again. I resigned and went to a small law firm run by a classmate. Who would have guessed that the first love that had been connected with each other was also in the same office, and the story started. Viewers watch with sympathy for all the misunderstandings the protagonist suffers on the issue of men and women, but honestly, by the sixth episode, you start to hate this female lawyer who has no antidote. She is stubborn, domineering, and always beats people with a big stick of morality and civilization. She is really a very unlikable woman. This kind of role is most pleasing to women who have a certain prejudice and hatred for men. Another flaw of the play is that the characters in it are not as exaggerated as in "Six People", and they are not as real as in "Sex and the City". The psychological activities of all the characters and the storyline of the play are very experienced by TV drama writers. The law of success wrote: here's the fight, here's the kiss, here's another little baggage. Basically, after watching six episodes, there are no surprises.
The whole world knows Americans' love for silly big sisters, so the heroines in American dramas are more or less silly big sisters. Ally is a typical example.
The story begins when Ally comes to work in a law firm run by a college classmate because she can't stand the sexual harassment of her colleagues in the company. There, the two bosses are Richard, a college classmate who loves "by gone" as a mantra and is obsessed with women's necks, and Richard who loves to make all kinds of noises in court or think with bare feet and use an automatic toilet flusher as a toy. John, Elain, secretary Elain who loves to invent all sorts of weird stuff, and Nell, the smiling but frosty beauty who is new to S2, and Ling, her mean-spirited friend who can kill with eyes, and Ally's first boyfriend, Billy, and his wife Georgia. On the one hand, working with your first boyfriend is dramatic enough, not to mention that with his wife by his side, and those eccentric colleagues, Ally Mcbeal has so many stories to tell.
However, unexpectedly, although the main line is indeed about the tangled relationship between Ally and Billy, the sub-line of the show is obviously more exciting, so although Ally is an absolute heroine, Billy can only It's just male N number. This is quite similar to Grey's Anatomy. The main line is also entangled with Meredith and Derek, but after the entanglement, it really can't stand the bottleneck, which attracts countless American TV fans to roar there, why is GA so poor. Ally doesn't have this problem, because obviously the audience is more willing to watch those interesting subplots, and the fact is that the screenwriter has indeed weakened the "mainline" of Ally and Billy in the later stage. Of course, who made Georgia virtuous and virtuous? It can be tolerated, entanglement is entanglement, with such a wife by his side, it is impossible for Billy to have a result with Ally.
So, what is this so-called more exciting sideline? To put it bluntly, it is still similar to GA. GA is talking about the relationship between men and women in the cloak of medicine, while AM, which is 8 years earlier than it, is wearing a legal vest to say the same thing.
In American dramas, there are few pure love dramas of life and death. This should have a lot to do with the audience watching American dramas. The young people who are still addicted to love fantasy have no time to watch TV at all~~ But dramas about the relationship between men and women , it is not much more general. How can we make this topic meaningful? It is very important to find an attachment that can be told, and in this play, the law is such an attachment.
AM has a Chinese name called "Legal Beauty", but don't be fooled by this name and think it is a "Legal drama". How weird and outlandish the cases in AM are, from suing God for being unfair, to calling for annulment of a 9-year marriage for her alleged sex addiction, to Ally being charged with contempt of court for having a short skirt, and so on, basically, No matter how bizarre the case is, the final climax is that Ally and his partners finally face the jury's emotional closing statement with "love", and the success or failure of the case basically depends on what AM wants to tell the audience. what exactly is it. AM has seen a lot, and "objection" or "Unacceptable" has become the most familiar word.
Of course, if it's just these, AM probably won't become a classic that has been passed down to this day. Some specific details of its success are necessary to know. For example, Ally's fantasies, from Elain, who at first looked at the nagging, fantasized about her growing head, to the dancing little man who appeared from time to time, or when he saw a handsome man beside him, he fantasized that his tongue was stretched enough. Go licking people, or the "throwing trilogy" of the garbage truck in your head when you dump people or get dumped, and so on. The TV shows the psychological activities of the characters vividly, which is a major feature of this play, adding a lot of laughs to it.
And then there is the shared toilet for men and women. Anything like this has to have a place where all the characters come together and do something. AM didn't set it up as a common room or office, so how could it match the weird atmosphere of the show, so there is such a shared toilet for men and women. No matter who was there whispering who, there was always someone involved who happened to be in the cubicle and just lifted his leg to avoid inspection and heard something he shouldn't have heard, or was frightened by John's automatic toilet flusher. one. It's hard to imagine how much less would happen to AM without this shared toilet. Ally was frightened countless times in it, fell down countless times, John danced his weird dance to the singing of Barry White in his head countless times, and Ally Georgia Nell and Ling's four-girl scuffle, Or John's poor tree frog that was thrown into a coma by Nell and Georgia after climbing up the toilet, etc. Shared toilets are to AM what Central Perk is to Friends. As mentioned earlier, one of John's major characteristics is that he likes to make all kinds of sounds in the courtroom to distract the jury's attention. These sounds are complete, the initial wake-up snot, and the sound of insole, which later seems to be very pediatric. John would even use a trumpet to call out "objection" instead of himself, or a toy monkey beating a gong, or even a flamethrower, citing a sore throat. If someone thinks that judges in real life can really tolerate all this, it is obviously too naive. Therefore, this TV series just borrowed the form of the law. The core of it is that it really has nothing to do with the law. John, the strange little man, stands out because of these special performances.
At the same time, in the female supporting role, there will naturally be such a brilliant role, and the only choice is Ling played by Lucy Alexis Liu . At first glance, I only thought that Ling was a mean woman who loved to tell people and swept people with fierce eyes. As the plot progressed, the role became more and more full, and Ling could do many things that others seemed to be unable to do. Ling's swaying She dances well, Ling is even a lawyer herself, and although she speaks harshly, every word is truth. Her words "Don't Ling me" coupled with her "fierce" eyes made me laugh to the extreme. It was Ling who called John "strange little man".
Of course, this film directly uses the heroine's name Ally Mcbeal as the title, which certainly shows the importance of this role. Just like what I said at the beginning of this article, basically, Ally is a silly big sister, a cute silly big sister who is struggling to find love and doubting herself from time to time. In order to get rid of a boring suitor, she can kiss her rival Georgia and pretend to be gay, she can comfort her with lies in the face of the professor's wife she had dated back then, she can encourage John to pursue love bravely, and she can ask the mean Ling for help for Elain, Wait, wait, so, even though Ally is emotionally involved too much (crap, what about a TV show~), it's not annoying. Finally, I have to say that not only the main characters in this play are "weird", it can almost be said that the characters appearing in the play are more or less abnormal. Richard's ex-girlfriend, Judge Whipper, and the old judge Happy, who loves to watch people's teeth, Tracy, the old psychiatrist who John introduced to Ally, who loves to play lights and sing, and even Walter Bruce Willis who only played a cameo in one episode. A psychiatrist, as well as Rosie O'Donal's cameo role of Marriage and family counseling, and more. But comedy, the weirder the characters, the better, and the more bizarre the stories, the better. We are used to seeing normal people and normal things in our lives. Only in these unrestrained stories can we win the point where there are fewer and fewer modern people. smile.
If you want to relax and discuss the relationship between men and women by the way, Ally Mcbeal is a good choice, and it has already ended, and it will not make you anxious week after week.
