"Only talk about Fengyue, not about life. - Mrs. Lan Bing's letterhead"
Recently, the palace fighting drama "Strategy of Yanxi Palace" has often been swiped, but the second season of the also popular British drama "Famous Shu" is not inferior to it. It is also a story of "fighting" between women. Gao, it's almost breaking 9! ↓
Today, let's not talk about life, let's talk about the story of this romantic woman.
Mingshu (Harlots) means "prostitute" if it is literally translated, so what this British drama is talking about is very straightforward, as can be seen from the title.
However, the background of the story can be traced back to Britain, which had entered the industrial revolution in the middle of the 18th century. At the same time, France was when Louis XVI was in power. Therefore, under the leadership of Louis XVI and the queen, exaggerated and gorgeous Louis XVI was popular among the European aristocracy. Cocoa wind↓
Therefore, in the "Famous Shu" under the background of the same era, you can also see gorgeous and beautiful Rococo costumes, which are very visually impactful and very elegant↓
Affected by this trend, contemporary aristocratic men and women like to smear thick rouge and put "beauty moles" on their faces or bodies↓
Beauty mole first appeared in France in the 16th century, not only round, but also heart-shaped, stars, sun, moon, etc.↓
There are different opinions about the location of these "beauty moles". For example, the mole near the temple means passion, the mole near the lips shows coquettishness, the middle of the forehead indicates extravagance, the middle of the cheek indicates playfulness, and near the nose is the love of adventure, etc. Wait. And some "mole" can also cover spots, acne, scars.
Having said so much, it seems that we are going to get to the point. They all say that where there are people, there must be rivers and lakes, and where there are women, there must be palace fights . This sentence seems to be true. And "Famous Shu" tells the story of a group of women surrounding a group of men, fighting for beauty, scheming, and business customers.
As said at the beginning of the play, "In 1763, in London, one-fifth of women were selling themselves." William Hogarth, a famous British painter in the 18th century, has a very famous set of works called "The Life of a Prostitute". There are six paintings in this group, telling about the ups and downs of a woman named More in the big city of London. In the first painting, she came to London from the village, and as soon as she got off the carriage, she was attracted by the brothel's prostitute, who encouraged her to enter the porn industry... and this group of paintings was also used as inspiration material and edited into the title of "Famous Shu" Medium↓
In the 18th century, British women did not have the right to inherit property, and the class hierarchy was very strict.
Nobles will also pass their titles, property and land to their eldest sons, and if there are no sons, they will be inherited by the eldest male in the family, with the exception of some nobles. Friends who have watched "Downton Abbey" should be familiar with it.
In this context, girls can't even dream of changing their class by marrying into a wealthy aristocrat. Poor girls can only be mistresses at most, and find a stable financial sponsor to avoid falling into the dust.
So the protagonist, the Wells family, headed by her mother, runs a brothel in the middle and lower slums, but her lifelong wish is for her two daughters to find a good aristocratic patron and join the upper class. She has been fighting against her old rival, Lidia, the prostitute who serves the upper class. No matter whether she uses conspiracy or conspiracy, she is a positive representative of kindness and never admit defeat in the play, actively changing and influencing the fate of the people around her.
Lydia is a complete villain. In order to get clients from the upper class, she does not hesitate to kidnap innocent virgins, and the methods are extremely dirty↓
The eldest daughter of the Wells family is like a wild horse and a rose in full bloom, bright and fragrant. She loves freedom and yearns for true love. When the baron likened her to a pineapple, she saw through the absurdity of their relationship, so she would rather die than sign a contract. The eldest daughter has inherited the bravery of her mother, but she has not yet blessed her wisdom in the chaos. I look forward to her resourcefulness in the subsequent revenge drama.↓
The young daughter of the Wells family was well protected by her mother since she was a child. Her mother spent a lot of money to let her read and learn the piano, waiting for a baron to reach the sky in the future, but the plan often failed to keep up with the changes. Under the protection of her mother, although the little daughter is like a pure and unscrupulous little white rabbit, she always encounters inhumans, either sexual perversions or perversions. The younger daughter, who is now in love with the "blackened" baron, is likely to be "trained" into a different look.
Just like when we play Werewolf, we will set up different characters such as werewolves, prophets, villagers, witches, hunters, etc., the characters in "Famous Shu" also have different "masks" in the abstract, and everyone goes back and forth between different masks. Converting, as the law of hunters killing wolves, is occasionally killed by wolves. If the probability of the banker winning in a game is higher, then the person in control of the overall situation in the play can still be said to be a British aristocrat.
But throughout the whole play, women's active participation in social activities has gradually improved their social status, which has also led to the liberation of their ideological consciousness, which is extremely rare in a patriarchal society. Therefore, some people say that "Ming Shu" talks about women's sexuality on the outside, but actually expresses women's rights on the inside.
Lan Bing's biggest impression after watching this drama is that women must live for themselves, and even if they are put into the quagmire again and again by fate, they must have the courage to fight.
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