The blue skirt, walking through the mud pool, was stained with a large amount of sludge.
"The second half of the eighteenth century,
One in five London women earns a living by selling sex"
Such a line of words is the beginning of a drama... I really have no way not to watch it. You know, I just watched the ending of the two outdated female stars in the perfect drama "The Enemy" .
"Famous Shu" (Harlots) really has a similar aura to the word "enemy". In fact, Harlots means prostitutes, but it is translated as "Ming Shu", but it has a background of the times. Its other translation is called "Oiran". Like the "Oiran" by Ninagawa Shika ten years ago, "Ming Shu" is about those things about the women of Huajie . The difference is that its historical background is placed in the British Georgian period in the eighteenth century.
Of course, as an erotic movie lover, I obviously started with the mentality of hunting for beauty... The beginning of it, of course, is really yellow enough to make you stunned. Is this really an English drama? ! Is this really a British drama that has always been around? ! It actually can be so dissolute.
Feel the atmosphere of that HOT. Such a few shots have almost established it as the largest scale in a British drama I have ever seen. It's been a long time since I saw so many crisp breasts bulging like a meat bun... The last time I saw such a mountain of milk in a concentrated manner was in Fan Bingbing's "The Legend of Wu Meiniang". However, do you remember? After a few episodes, all the boobs were cut off! Unexpectedly, after a few years, I can stop breastfeeding again and continue.
Of course, it is not the BBC that can produce such controversial large-scale works, but ITV , the earliest commercial TV station in the UK, which is good at period dramas. The joint broadcast is Hulu , one of the most important video sites in the United States . Therefore, so fierce, also have the American credit.
The two co-directors are also women: Kochi Gilzo and Chinaa Muyang. The former is the director of my favorite British drama "Showtime 1", and the latter is the director of last year's well-received drama "Lost Thirteen Years", and also directed the "Secret Diary of a Call Girl".
Based on real women , the show is about the rivalry between two Flower Street prostitutes, Margaret Wells and Lydia Quigley.
The ladies under the two men have different styles. Margaret's girls were more free to discipline and rougher. They used to do business in the poor areas of London, and finally raised the money to move to the wealthy area of Soho.
Lydia set up a more upscale store in Soho, more like a club. Her girls had to watch Shakespeare, learn French, and be well-mannered, because they served the dignitaries of London. Lydia bought them nice clothes, deducted from their wages, of course, and locked them up to prevent them from running away.
When one of Margaret's girls jumped to Lydia's place, the "interview" dialogue went like this:
"Do you know a musical instrument?" "Does the flute count?"
Lydia was naturally unhappy that Margaret opened the store in her own block and tried every means to make trouble. And Margaret has never been a fuel-efficient lamp. It's hard to tell which one is the good guy and which one is the bad guy .
Harris'sList
In the beginning, Margaret's youngest daughter Lucy was reading a book in her mother's brothel. That book is historically well-documented. It is the "List of Miss Harris Covent Garden" written by British historian Hayley Reubenhold. It can be called the public comment on the spring shopping world at that time ... It commented on the appearance, behavior, service, and service of the spring girls in London Flower Street. All brothels are very concerned about the evaluation of their ladies, because they will Affect the reputation and business of your store.
In this "comment", important characters appear...
This is Margaret's eldest daughter, Charlotte , who is already the most famous courtesan in London, and the baron who takes care of her is fascinated by her. But precisely, she is a master who does not love money, and she is unwilling to sign a contract of sale, because she still wants freedom, and even she still longs for love. This smart, willful, and profligate oiran was the biggest reason I first watched this show. Her actor is Jessica Brown Findlay, the third lady who died early in "Downton Abbey", the only angel among the three Downton sisters. Years later, I saw her again in a British drama, playing such a charming woman who doesn't care about anything, she is still so beautiful.
When she actually does appear, her flirting lines with the baron are also yellow and funny.
Margaret's teaching to her daughters is: "In this world, money is the only power a woman has."
The youngest daughter, Lucy, was a little unpleasant. She was doted on by her mother and had high hopes since she was a child. And the grandma's high hopes for her daughter... become a courtesan, can become the lover of a noble, and have no worries about food and clothing. Lucy will be a little arrogant and feel that she is different from the young ladies under her mother, although her first night is still going to be auctioned.
Margaret is very good at business, and she sold her youngest daughter's first night several times, the first time to the Baron, because he was frustrated with Charlotte and wanted a balance on Lucy... However, how? None responded.
This British drama with three wrong views, I'm really following it while watching it... Learn English!
for example:
vixen wickedestharpy
prostitute, lover doxy
big boy a manchild
under the sign shortstraw
Morning Cannon earlyrising
But I was caught off guard, and I would still be stunned by such a large-scale sentence... I thought that I had seen a lot of erotic movies and seen the world...
"Famous Shu" was on the air, and I was chasing it very anxiously. At present, two old prostitutes are fighting to the death. I guess the two sisters in the back will also tear it apart. Although at present, they are still very sisterly discussing bed skills with each other...
However, Mr. Huang is still a lover of orthodox British dramas. I just have a deep interest in the subject of brothels... I especially want to do in-depth interviews with the ladies ... Moreover, it is a big regret that I have not been to Dongguan. I admit that I went for eroticism, but in fact, apart from being shocked by such straightforward lines again and again, what I can feel is still a life like a black hole.
This British drama is worth watching so much more than just... Hwang. The group show inside is very exciting. The first large-scale group show is that Lydia wants to ruin Margaret's business and find someone to "sweep pornography"...
There's also a group scene where Margaret's gang of prostitutes riot in the courtroom. It is still very good to live the wonderful addiction of British dramas. Including the scene where the oiran died of syphilis and everyone mourned, there is a kind of absurdity in the grief.
The colors inside are also amazing. Although, it's really hard for British dramas to have particularly good-looking actors... Anyway, there are almost no good-looking people in them at present. Beauty, that is, my third lady is more beautiful.
But they played well. The character matching is also very good.
Wei Dao's blind nun, it is said that the reason for her blindness is that on the wedding night, she saw her husband's genitals and felt that she saw dirt, so she blinded herself...
Margaret's ex-boyfriend, a slave girl accepted by a manor.
An aristocratic couple who openly raise a mistress and a lover, and have unusual hobbies.
The CPs inside also have their own ups and downs... Lydia's mother and son fell in love with Emily who escaped from Margaret.
The coachman, who was also cared for, had to invite Charlotte to elope with him.
What I really want to see at the moment is this pair of women... It's really rare to have some true feelings.
Also, that is, the original sound of this drama is very, very, very good...! ! ! Electronic music, psychedelic, folk... Very modern, but blended just right. I searched for it on the Internet, but the original sound still didn't come out, but some enthusiastic netizens have sorted them out, some people have cut the audio and put it on Netease Cloud, and some even sang a few songs by the street girl in it that were so good that they sounded so good, there was one song. , sang "My brother soldier...", it should be called——
"The Southern Soldier Boy".
This "Ming Shu" just made me fall in love with screenshots...
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