Character setting: double heroine (more open bisexual theme)
Eve: British (London-based) MI6 government covert operations officer, in his forties. Her duty is to protect important witnesses related to secret activities, and her "do not know each other" with the other protagonist of the show begins when Villanelle kills her important witness.
Cast selection: Asian (Korean) actor Wu Zhuoshan. For American dramas, there are not many American dramas that use people of color as the protagonists in order to highlight the contrast between the characters, and even fewer have Asians as the protagonists, because black people are more suitable for fighting dramas because of their strong limbs. , and the temperament and clear facial features and indifferent expressions exuded by Asian actors are obviously more suitable for taking the Kochi route.
Villanelle: In her twenties, she was imprisoned because the female teacher who fell in love with the school killed her husband and castrated him. After being released from prison, she received a simple killer training from the Russian officer Constantine, from time to time. She grew up in the killing mission and became a gold medal female killer. As a female killer from Russia, which is relatively backward in economy, her biggest hobby is to buy beautiful clothes and perfume. She is also full of interest in Eve, not only the cat and mouse in "Cat and Mouse", but also an intellectual attraction.
Cast selection: British actor Judy Comer plays the Russian female killer, not only because of the BBC's co-production with it, but also because many of the politically sensitive parts are not suitable for Russian actresses, and there are large dialogues in English. But Judy's hair color (gold) and big, deep facial features undoubtedly contributed to the creation of a typical Russian beauty.
The new mode of double heroine: contrast
1. Sexually open (Western) and sexually conservative (Eastern) [Clothing can also be seen]
The attitude of Westerners towards sex is as shown by Villanelle in the play. They do not pursue a long-term and stable sexual partnership, but pursue more and more differences. For example, she likes to have relationships with different people in different scenarios, they come from different countries, different genders, and different ages. And because of Villanelle's youth, her libido has always remained strong.
Eastern attitudes towards sex are like Eve and her husband - generally flat. Although Eve is engaged in such a dangerous and exciting job, she is also married, and she just wants to have a long-term stable family environment, so that she can integrate into the life of a normal person, and the sex life of their husband and wife has long been full of exhaustion—— I just want to sleep, I don't want to have sex.
2. Givers and Takers
In this play, Eve is obviously a giver. In addition to her role as a link in the unit, after all, there is the resolute and resolute female boss Caroline, and there are two lovely fresh meats who graduated from Cambridge, and she has a big case. Designated to ride. At home, she had to give her husband warmth, and even in her relationship with Villanelle, she was a giver—giving Villanelle a cold meal.
On the contrary, Villanelle is a taker. It is her duty as a killer to take people's lives, and she has more feelings for her old partner Constantine than her partner. She kidnapped her daughter, Forcing him to say "he loves himself a little more", even in the face of Eve (season 1), who is not yet familiar with her, dares to ask for it, these are all brought about by the psychological homeless.
3. Inadvertently doing a good job and inadvertently losing a job
As a gold-medal killer, Villanelle seldom shows her meticulous arrangements before killing the target person in this play. She always seems to finish it casually, but she hates this kind of life and she doesn't want to do it anymore. This line, but whenever she gets high commissions, she goes back to being a professional killer wearing a collar. Just like the student gods who won high scholarships with little effort.
Losing her job inadvertently obviously means Eve. In the first season, Eve still likes the institution she works for, but she often ignores the most important things because she pays attention to details, such as losing her job for the first time. It is to go to the toilet to touch up makeup and care about his hairstyle, and Villanella who ignores the toilet is the suspect. The second time she almost lost her job was because she used a woman's intuition. She felt that there was a secret between her boss Caroline and Constantine, which made Eve doubt the institution she worked for. This led to Caroline's restrictions on her missions in the second season. This is a typical example of students with poor grades in their student days.
In the second season, the feelings and personality types of the two heroines are undoubtedly upgraded again. The first intimate physical contact between the two triggered Villanelle's sexual pleasure in S&M - being stabbed by Eve and starting a reverse chase opposite to the first season - Villanelle tracking Eve.
Double heroine mode: From the two poles of the magnetic poles NS to the other side, whoever fights will have a stronger personality system.
At the beginning of this season, because Eve is too close to Villanelle, on the one hand, it refers to too much physical contact, on the other hand, it refers to the degree of spiritual fit, she was transferred by her boss Caroline to Villanella's case. , to pick up another killer - the ghost case and the arms case, and re-examine her work and life in the process. Her unconscious flirting with Xiao Xianrou Hugo is not only a soothing tune in the tense plot, but also a Examine the proof of life.
And Villanelle in this season can feel that she is much more mature emotionally and mentally than last season, and is no longer just a taker. Facing Eve, her selfless help is only like a giver, but Villanelle is a taker after all. She makes Eve crazy, and Eve makes her normal, but they cannot change each other. Yes, so Eve can only have sex with Hugo (male), and Villanelle can still kill her for loving Eve, just like the disfigured little boy she met in the hospital at the beginning. .
So it is not so much that since Villanelle was stabbed, the pursuit of Eve seems to have gradually weakened, and it also gave the audience a sweet feeling. Eve works. But once she is provoked and finds herself, it is impossible for her to be obedient.
In the scene of going to the hotel to catch someone in S2E3, Villanella panting and breathing towards Eve through the door panel, it can be said to be a strong sexual suggestion in psychology, but from a dramatic point of view, no matter what Whether it is the chorus in ancient Greek drama or the actor training method of modern Japanese drama master Suzuki Tadashi, the mystery of breathing can be traced in drama works and small theater plays. Here, it also became the climax of the whole play.
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