Looking at the beauties wearing gorgeous bikinis and exaggerated heavy makeup on the poster, you might think that this is a visual communication that is full of cheap entertainment in the name of wrestling.
In fact, this is not a misunderstanding. In the play, their characters are indeed doing or planning to do such a thing. They are participating in a show called "GLOW", the full name is Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, which translates as the Beauty Wrestling League.
If you have watched or are familiar with WWE (formerly known as WWF)-American professional wrestling, you should understand that wrestling has already become a sports entertainment show in the United States. Player behavior and competition results are all scripted and regulated. Victory, similar to action movies, is not a fighting competitive sport, which is very different from wrestling.
The beauty wrestling composed of fourteen girls in this drama is more entertaining and enjoyable than the male wrestling.
Imagine that some exposed girls with heavy makeup, in the wrestling arena, she kicked her, she pressed her under her body, beauty and violence, two male favorite elements grouped together, it should be What an entertaining visual feast.
Although the things they do are cheap, they can only seduce the most obvious desires, but is the show cheap as a whole? Not at all!
First of all, you need to know its background. The inspiration for this series is from a very short but popular show "GLOW" in the 80s. Although the whole story is completely fictitious, the background of the story is still placed in the 80s. Of the United States.
Whether it's clothing, makeup, cars, streets, shops, or even music, they all have a complete sense of the 1980s.
Looking back at the recently broadcast "Summer Solstice", the background is set in 2000, but from their Korean hairstyles, air bangs, school uniforms, and makeup, how can you tell that it was 17 years ago?
Therefore, for the production team's efforts to restore, I will give him a compliment.
Look at the plot again. I seem to see the shadow of Stephen Chow in the body of the heroine Ruth.
She fell into the bottom of her career and claimed to be an actor, but she was always auditioning. When she asked the interviewer why she didn't give her a role but she always gave her audition opportunities, the interviewer replied like this:
The TV series audition failed, it can be said that the excellent competitors are too strong, but unexpectedly, in the casting of a show, competing with a bunch of strangers who have no photogenic experience will also be rejected by the director.
I was alone in my life. Walking on the street, I was robbed by a few children!
I was lonely, fortunately there was a girlfriend, but she actually put her husband to sleep!
Borrowing money to survive, and repeatedly frustrated, besides LOSER, what can we say about her?
But she didn't just give in. Just like the star in the king of comedy, no matter how others laugh at him or don't understand him, he always emphasized: In fact, I am an actor.
The same is true for Ruth. The director eliminated her, and she carefully studied the doorways of the wrestling competition at home, jumping around and acting like a crazy house.
The next day, facing everyone's surprise and watching a monkey show, he completely released and promoted himself in order to win the role of such a show.
The irony is that even though she worked so hard, the opportunity to be selected by the director was because her best friend Debbie broke into the audition scene angrily to beat her, and the director instantly selected Debbie as the girl for the show. The protagonist, and Ruth, can only be regarded as a gift.
In order to persuade Debbie to come to the show, the director even insulted and bullied Ruth to make Debbie happy.
Will Ruth quit the insult and embarrassment? Of course not, not only not, even when the director and the producer are quitting the quarrel, he intimately persuades the director who has always hated her to come back;
and in terms of the role, he arranged for himself a villain that the audience hates the most— -The dictatorship of the Soviet Union against the United States;
even though he was embarrassed when facing his girlfriends, he still spared no effort to partner with her in order to make the best program effect.
Such a heroine, how strong her heart should be! Another way of saying it is, what kind of land does her life have to be so desperate to sell her soul like this?
Let’s talk about the director-Sam. As a B-level film director, he is full of rebellion and contempt for the world. He thinks his director’s work is deep, but he is always regarded as just funny; it
took ten. The script prepared in the last year has almost completely collided with the content of the popular movie "Back to the Future" which is currently being released. His wife left him and even took away his favorite dog. (My favorite dog is also ironic enough)
Such a lonely and unlucky director may seem unruly and indulgent on the outside, but deep down in his heart, he is like a lonely child and a sad lonely old man.
There is another female protagonist, Debbie, who was also an actor before, but she could only play soy sauce in soap operas, and then she turned into a vegetable to lie down for several seasons. (Reminiscent of Fan Shengmei's father in Ode to Joy)
Dissatisfaction with work made her choose to marry and have children to be a housewife. However, when she learned that her husband had cheated on her, she was very angry but had no place to live because of the divorce and she could only choose to escape.
In the show of "GLOW", because of the director's blue eyes, she became the absolute protagonist and received the greatest attention and preference.
She can not participate in the collective life, the role she wants is to steal someone else's partner, she disagrees with the partner, the director keeps replacing her, and even if she wants to wear red, Ruth can't wear it.
But is she happy? How to deal with the follow-up of a cheating husband, how to balance the focus of work and life, and even to choose a family that can't let go or a career that you like?
So this American drama seems to be full of entertainment on the surface, but how much real sorrow is contained in it?
In addition, the 12 girls who participated in the show also have their own attractions. Simply put, they are a bunch of weird friends and dogs. However, there is no plot to tear up every word. It is still very interesting. Harmonious, especially at the critical moment, everyone worked hard together just to make this show a good one.
Although this American drama has a short release time, all 10 episodes of the first season have been released, and each episode is only more than 30 minutes. Anyway, I watched the entire season in one breath, and I hope you will enjoy it too.
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