Ugly Betty, not very pretty

Hosea 2022-01-06 08:02:17

Probably when I was in my sophomore year, CCTV used to broadcast a Latin American TV series in a less golden night. The original name is unknown, but the Chinese name is indeed the fake "Ugly Betty". The rhythm of this play is extremely slow. Generally, if I watch it for 20 minutes, the dormitory will turn off the lights, but waiting until tomorrow, it seems like every second is the same. The inexhaustible originator of about 100 contemporary Korean dramas comes from the Latin American dramas of the year.
It's basically the same as "Ugly Betty", which is now infinitely successful at the Emmy Awards, a kind and talented ugly girl who fell into the fashion industry by mistake. Relying on his virtue and wisdom, he has won everyone's respect. There are family conspiracies, career traps, love entanglements, life thinking, and so on. Even the details of ugly girls such as vinyl-framed glasses, braces, thick lips, etc. are surprisingly similar. But a very important difference is that Latin Beatty finally became beautiful. Or it should be said that the actor is not ugly, she is still a big beauty, the film is just a step by step to let her ionize, change clothes, take off glasses, take off braces, and return to her true colors. And Betty of USA, from start to finish, did not improve at all, even the dressing style is the same as always in Queens.
So, the American TV series Betty should be the most advanced in breaking the ideology of judging people by appearance! Ugly is ugly, so why not be ugly to the end? This reminds me of the super-hot Korean film "The Ugly Girl Turns Back" some time ago. This time the heroine's ugliness has become more technical. It is estimated that the fake meat on her body will also have to work hard. Of course, it is not easy to be ugly. If you want to be beautiful, you will definitely not be able to change your image. Although the plot is quite funny, and the heroine is really beautiful, but in general two words-not degrading! Before turning over, she was stupid in addition to being ugly, and after turning over, she was still stupid except not being ugly. In short, a woman can be stupid but not ugly, and stupid can be euphemistically innocent, innocent, and kind. But ugliness can only be ugliness, in addition to ugliness, ugliness is always ugliness, only ugliness, ugliness has almost become a woman's sin and immorality. I know that it is human nature to seek beauty and avoid ugliness, and I don’t object to the manual effort, but why do I have to praise the virtues of ugly girls? After turning around, what Prince Charming loves is her beauty. The soul is still a beautiful face. To be a bitch and to set up an archway is just a human excuse that a man makes for himself. Do you think you are Zhuge Liang, marrying an unsalted woman can survive the ages?
I personally think that the most commendable aspect of the American TV series Betty is the beauty and ugliness of neither humble nor overbearing. It didn't justify Betty's ugliness or lack of taste. Yes, the screenwriter has such an attitude that she is indeed ugly, we just make her ugly, her life has nothing to do with beauty, since I wrote this story, I never wanted her to be beautiful. So Betty used the oldest virtues that the world has almost forgotten-persistence and loyalty to complete the entire 23 episodes of the first season. She did not harvest like the girl in the same position as her in "Devil Wears Prada". Status and men are just at a loss when they don't know which life to choose. She is still a little assistant, she is like her boss Daniel's housekeeper and nanny, the realization of the dream (to enter Salma Hayek's magazine as an editor) has also become a soap bubble. Similarly, her boss was once "Guangwu Zhongxing", and at the end of the first season he had to return to the ranks of playboys. Unfortunately, he also got drug addiction and suffered a car accident. It can be said that this Betty has escaped the Cinderella curse of a sparrow becoming a phoenix. She still can’t afford a ticket to Mexico. She and the person in her dreams still pass by. She is still facing all kinds of sneers and trivialities. She is still an ordinary and not beautiful, with too many problems. The girl who is waiting to be resolved, but is still doing her own way, she is not vulgar, she will become a princess, even if someone's princess, there is no!
However, I'm still a demon. The beautiful things for people can't catch my appetite. I like to see the sly smiling face behind the evil. So I think the little Gay Marc is so cute that it's smoking! Although it is flamboyant, slapstick, and sissy, but I am a delicate little person like rice porridge! He doesn't seem to have any virtues to commend, at best, he is the best way to reward him. But every one of his bad eyes seemed to scratch the itch in my heart. On Halloween, watching the parade and having fun in the office of the boss in front of me, the usual bowing down to the ears and Vinono are actually just appearances. He and her good friend Amanda satirized, teased, and exploited each other, which seemed much more interesting than the serious friendship between Betty and Christina. Sometimes he looks like a clown, and his gurgling eyes can't help but exaggerate, but this exaggeration sometimes appears under the masks of many people's moral integrity. Small traitors and small evils can always arouse my love for worldly life. Amanda is basically the female version of Marc, but more scheming, she will be very frank and ruthless, revealing her vanity and selfishness, and it is precisely this that makes her a person!
However, I still don't understand why "Ugly Betty" is so popular in the USA! At the risk of taking the context out of context, I only watched the first season, and felt that there were still many logical problems in it. For example, why does Alex have such a strong hatred for his father and insist on putting it to death and then hurrying? Why did he choose Wilhemina as the only person who knew he was transgender? And obviously, they are not confidants. Fey Sommer's tomb was empty, and there was no explanation at the end of the first season. What kind of person Bradford has, how many women have gone through the battlefield, how can he divorce Claire for Wilhemina's side words? In the same way, Alex has not seen a big battle before. How could he abandon everything and go to South America after hearing a few sweet words from the editor-in-chief of Brazil? Since Fey knows that Amanda is her daughter, how can she be so unlearned? After Claire went to jail, Bradford just didn't pay attention to it. The two sons were like okay people, neither paying nor doing anything? Of course, maybe in the second season, everything may come to light and justify one day.
Of course, the dialogue is also lacklustre, occasionally a little American humor, but the inspiration is fleeting, some plots are not tolerant of scrutiny, and some can be deleted directly. This is what I call not very pretty. But "Ugly Btty" is still very suitable for children like me who have nothing but optimism and need to believe that love and tolerance do exist. Free your poor IQ from the shadow of the genius screenwriters of "Prison Break", "Heroes", and "Crime Scene", and put aside the smoke of passive life of drunken gold fans created by "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex and the City". "The Troubles of Growing Up" and "Friends" have rendered the world peaceful, and since then. "Ugly Betty" tells you that the road is difficult, but at least there is laughter. Although in the end good people get rewards, everything will pass, but what you experience now will always be your period of painful fission. Watching while dancing, satisfies the desires of our little villains that we have but laugh at. Maybe sometimes it is necessary to use Betty's "Lei Feng" spirit to numb yourself, but asks for hard work and does not ask for it!

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Ugly Betty quotes

  • Marc St. James: What's wrong, Betty? Now that you're a big fancy editor, you don't even talk to the little people?

    Betty Suarez: Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over your loud shirt.

  • Marc St. James: [Marc and Amanda are trying to contact Gene Simmons] Maybe you need to communicate with him in his own language.

    Amanda Tanen: Hebrew?