I watched ten episodes of "Emily in Paris" and became a "couch potato" once. To be honest, without Lily Collins' beauty, such a soap opera would not be able to welcome such a large audience. After reading it, I mainly have the following feelings:
The first is the arrogance of American centrism. Emily is a typical American personality, humorous, optimistic, confident, generous, full of competitive awareness, energetic, with impeccable popularity, her brain is always online, running at a high speed, and she can use perfect tricks at any time, PK to get rid of obstacles in work . The most typical is that Emily is a French novice, but she can say naively: "Fake it till you make it". Facing the French people who are famous for their xenophobic mentality and elegance and fashion, she doesn't seem to agree, and she does her own way. Wearing the match that you like, speaking in English without being humble but a little arrogant, and stubbornly asking the other party to adapt to their own language, is this American confidence particularly familiar? Some gangsters may fight back: people are originally English films, fine, and the strong use of English is only a consistent but not big aspect, and what is more remarkable is the sense of superiority of the American values of "high above". In TV dramas, the laziness, sexiness, and hedonism of the French cultural character are synonymous with complacent and inefficient in terms of work. Even in terms of feminist consciousness, it is unable to lift its head in the face of American values. You know, the prelude to the feminist movement started in France. Now, Emily pointed out the "male gaze" of French collaborators for the first time, reminding them that they cannot ignore it. The cultural thinking of young people in the new era. After the whole episode, the romance of Paris is only left with the highly unified ancient buildings from the overlook, the unique French desserts, and the intangible technology of French men. . The Americans also exported a wave of stereotypes about the Chinese by the way. Emily's best friend Mandy is a Chinese girl who escaped the shackles of the fence. In order to show her determination to betray Chinese values, although Mandy grew up in China, she The character setting is almost as enthusiastic, lovely, and outgoing as Emily, and at the same time has no interest in inheriting and managing the family wealth as China's "zipper king", because this work is so boring and boring, which stifles her pursuit of freedom. The nature of her, Paris is the paradise in which she unfolds her life. So it took a step to reinforce the prejudice of the Chinese people being serious, boring, restrained, and conservative in thinking. In short, the show does not have the sincerity of exploring cultural differences, only the ubiquitous American sense of superiority.
The second is about the confrontation between the old elite consciousness and the new civilian consciousness. This is especially evident in Emily's work. Emily's company is mainly responsible for providing marketing strategies for luxury brand companies. Her appearance has indeed brought an American perspective to the company. Her work idea conforms to the current trend of the times, which is to use Internet social networking to increase brand exposure. The female boss, Xi Wei, disapproved and strongly disagreed with this, believing that her method "exposed everything to the sun without any secrets", and the attribute of luxury is mystery, which can be said to be the difference between the two. In an era when consumerism is so prevalent, luxury goods have long been unveiled, and most of them are no longer the status symbol of a certain class. More ordinary people "vulgar" long for the illusion of luxury. And the money in their hands has also begun to support related expenses. Whether to open the door to welcome more civilian consumers or continue to maintain their elite high profile is the choice that luxury brands must make under the new situation. At the same time, the fashion industry has also ushered in a crisis. The predecessor designer Peel encountered sharp provocations from the emerging designer Gray Space Brothers. When Emily's white dress was sprayed by Gray Space Brothers after a high price auction, French elegance became American style. The trend advertised itself as the object of his performance art, Peel fell into a long-term depression, and he could not understand how a large hooded sweater with an unintelligible pattern could be called fashion. Seeing that Peel was about to lose the battle, with his gray hair, he had a brainstorm and rushed to design a series of works, breaking the simple and elegant in the past. The use of bold colors, exaggerated and complicated designs won the attention of everyone present and made the gray space brothers. Also stunned. I don’t know what the screenwriter wants to convey is that elite designers can always cater to the trend and make extraordinary moves, but just dismiss it, or do they have to change themselves to maintain their vitality?
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