I think we must first understand the screenwriter’s intentions. From the very beginning, his old man did not intend to apply real-life legal standards to this play. After all, prison escape itself is a major malicious criminal offense, and its nature is no less than murder, arson, and robbery, regardless of the legitimate reasons. What the screenwriter really wants to do is to use the framework of prison escape to interpret the family affection, the friendship of friends, the confidence in future hopes, etc., as well as the extravagant and exciting plot and emphasize the conflicts of the characters. Therefore, even though the prisoners in Fox River have various backgrounds as rapists, they are all just to create background conditions for the rationality of the characters, not to interpret how evil they are and the performance of the characters in the play. Also proved this. Tea's love for T-Bag is basically based on this premise. When understanding the characters in the escape, shield their criminal background and pay more attention to their behavior, psychological activities, and the relationship, contradictions, and conflicts between the characters. And human nature.
The following are some of the "shining points" on T-Bag that I have experienced. Welcome to comment and add. I added quotation marks for "Shine Spot" because the director and actor did some extreme things in order to keep the role of T-Bag from being too far away from his criminal background. Which level to analyze this role depends on us.
(1) Starting from 0, everything depends on yourself
T-Bag does not have John’s underworld family background, and has no inherent advantages in body shape, and it is still a pervert that is despised by many other prisoners. With this disadvantage, how did he become a pure alliance in just two or three years? The boss of T-Bag is not explained at all in the play, but we may be able to see some clues from the scene where T-Bag appeared on the scene with Michael. T-Bag is a guy who is good at trying to figure out the psychology of others. He uses fish's panic and nervous psychology to emphasize the sinister gang disputes in the prison, and then lures fish to grab his pants pocket for his protection. Although the protagonist's law of invincibility prevents Michael from eating him, after all, there is only one protagonist and there are a bunch of prisoners, which is definitely enough for him to win. Of course, psychological tactics are definitely only one of T-Bag's methods to win over and control members, but no matter what other methods there are, they must rely on his own abilities. On the other hand, some young people who have just stepped into society today have low-mindedness, low-handedness, unreliable work, and only complain about themselves and complain that they don't have a chief or a business dad. At this time, should they look at how T-Bag won a place on their own strength alone? Of course, I don't mean to learn from his conspiracy, scheming, blaming, etc., but only referring to the spirit and will of relying on his own hands to work hard to create a heaven.
(2) super self-protection awareness
may be due to childhood abuse and bullying by reason of, T-Bag super nervous self-protection has been developed to protect yourself would be pre-emptive realm. This kind of extreme self-protection behavior has appeared many times in PB, such as killing CO Bob to ensure that the escape plan is not leaked; through various means to ensure that oneself will not be removed from the escape team by other PI members; do not believe in John's reconciliation at all. Still planning to kill John first; kill the veterinarian to ensure his own safety, and so on. And afterwards, many signs proved that his actions were indeed a guarantee for the success of the escape and his own safety. Let’s look at some of the flowers in our greenhouses. Because they have been guarded and protected by their parents since childhood, they are pure and unsuspecting. Once you step into the society, you are often sold for money. The old people have always said that there must be no harm or defensiveness. Although T-Bag's extreme self-protection behavior is undesirable, his self-protection consciousness definitely teaches us a lesson. Only by protecting yourself can you be able to protect your relatives, lovers and friends!
(3) Smart and sensitive
PB was staged until the seventh episode of the second season. Many viewers found that T-Bag's head was no less than the leading actor. In fact, there were many performances in the first season. For example, seeing the hole behind the sink, he immediately realized that Michael was going to escape from prison, and quickly put himself into the escape team through coercion and temptation; some clues would be able to realize " The taste of conspiracy"; in the second season, the leading actor got the map in one step, and made a plan to adjust the tiger away from the mountain, so that the brothers had to take him on a treasure hunt. Today, I just learned that in the eighth episode, he saw through the actor's strategy and changed the dollar. Some people have always said that incest fetus is either an idiot or a genius. It seems that even if T-Bag does not belong to the latter, it is clever enough. Smart men are always likable, and this applies to both Michael and T-Bag, gold-collar workers and ordinary people.
(4) the style of its own way
a lot of people hate T-Bag behavior different from the ordinary people, like while twisting side sway when walking, sometimes skipping, sit not sit with the station did not stand with facial features always disturbed subdivision shift Moving around, his eyes are sometimes obscene and sometimes sinister, and his voice is sharp and harsh when he speaks. His weird and perverse behavior is undoubtedly unacceptable in normal society, let alone his sexual orientation. But I just like tea, why? Because T-Bag shouted out the heart of the tea people: "This is me, why should I change myself according to your preferences and standards? I just want to live and survive the way I like!" Let the suits and skirts go to hell ! Let the professional smile die! We have been wandering and hesitating in perseverance and compromise all our lives, and without exception, our spikes will be more and more flattened, and we will become more and more accustomed to compromise. Although, in order to adapt to the objective environment, these are necessary and helpless, but at least we are intoxicated by T-BagYY.
(5) a skill
like playing a musical instrument will be more affected by boys as girls of all ages, T-Bag's ability to make tea, playing children who greatly admire. Although there are not too many shots in the play to show T-Bag's card playing skills, T-Bag's sentence "Only five people in the United States can compete with me" is enough to reflect the level of T-Bag.
(6) Humorous lines
I don't know what other teas think. Anyway, I think the screenwriter must have a preference for T-Bag, otherwise, how can he give him almost all the best lines? Other characters can only pick him up and say the rest. These humorous or amused or acrimonious or narrow-minded lines plus Robert Knepper's interpretation make T-Bag not only not terrible and hateful, but cute and humorous. If the previous reasons are somewhat dogmatic, then this one is really the ultimate reason why tea becomes tea!
(7) the other side of T-Bag: The type of home gentle man
T-Bag Episode 16 articles in the memories of the audience is clearly the most surprise, even more than there is Sara history of drug use. T-Bag, with his hair neatly combed and a clean shaved chin, is still wearing a plaid shirt that represents the most home-like style. Crabs can't stand this the most, and he was completely hit by him! This episode allowed the audience to see T-Bag's human kindness. If it weren't for the birth and growth experience he couldn't choose, he would be a good man, husband and father.
Finally, let's take a look at Robert Knepper's experience in shaping T-Bag mentioned in the interview. He said: "You can never just follow the bad guy's popular way when playing a bad guy, so you won't be successful. When I play T-Bag, I try to make him full of charm. He is like a castle. Sovereign, take care of your family, you can’t invade him". Facts have proved that his way of interpretation is indeed a turn of events, making the character of T-Bag full of three-dimensional, attractive, and ushered in the love of many PB fans. On behalf of all teas, I would like to thank Robert Knepper, a dedicated and professional actor. Without him (and of course the choreographer), there would be no tea bags as it is now, and there would be no tea like ours. Although the fate of tea bags is not optimistic, I still hope that the escape of tea bags can go further.
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