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A good script makes a good actor.
In the golden age of Hollywood, the superstar Joan Crawford, who is nearly forty years old, won the first Oscar of her acting career with "Mildred Pierce" (Mildred Pierce), and quickly thawed her cold period and achieved Hollywood's most An incredible comeback.
Half a century later, British actress Kate Winslet filmed the mini-series "Desire", which won the Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award in one fell swoop.
What kind of magical script is this?
The main line revolves around the female protagonist Mildred, from a housewife counterattack to a female restaurant owner. How did this middle-aged woman with strong career ambition break through the layers of barriers and move forward step by step?
In addition to the career line, the heroine also has a family ethics line with her daughter.
The script is easy to understand, but has a sharp feel and is endowed with a more artistic sense.
Today, we will revisit the mini-series version of "Desire of the Sea" and take a look at this wonderful housewife metamorphosis.
Excellent housewives are definitely masters in project management . Facing the dense trivial matters every day, they can always calmly and patiently complete them one by one.
This forges their superpowers to multi-task side by side .
Mildred has a high level of cooking and often sells his own pies in the wives circle, and has accumulated a good reputation in a small area.
During the Great Depression, in the face of her husband's derailment, she decided to support the family by herself, so she started looking for a job. After all, there were two children to support in the family.
At the beginning, she suffered all kinds of setbacks. After all, her age was here, and her employment competitiveness was very limited.
She didn't change her mentality either. Seeing that the hotel was recruiting waiters, she stood outside the door timidly and looked around, then immediately turned around and ran out.
But Mildred has a sense of arrogance. Even if the general environment is not good, she still keeps her spirit in the process of being selected, and also strengthens a little bargaining chip. No matter how bad the general environment is, she must choose a slightly better platform.
The talent agency introduced her to a job as a private housekeeper, and she said lightly: I was selected for the job as a waiter in a restaurant, and I was still hesitating.
Of course, she found herself a step down.
However, the housekeeper's job is not good, and the hostess is a former star, demanding not to say, very disrespectful to people. This is just the interview session, and all kinds of pretense have completely irritated Mildred:
The old lady is not suitable for this job, you should be clever.
How to solve the problem of survivability?
Mildred finally chose to work as a waiter in a small restaurant: during the Great Depression, only restaurants had traffic, and no other industries could.
She adapts very quickly. Although she has bumps and bumps and various small mistakes, the more she supports, the stronger she becomes.
Her biggest advantage is that she has the ability to receive information quickly, and constantly optimize herself in a diligent way.
On the first day of work, the customer asked "don't add gravy".
She returned the original words to the chef, and was criticized by colleagues: It is very important to communicate with the chef, and you must know how to use "professional language".
Replace the word "don't" with "control," which is a kitchen jargon.
Mildred received all kinds of ridicule on her first day at work. Everyone was waiting to see her jokes, but why did she still get criticism and advice from her colleagues?
You know, Mildred isn't a vibrant little girl anymore.
She can only rely on her own steadfastness and hard work. The other waiters are already old fritters, thinking of ways to be lazy while working, without the alarm bells that must have been ringing during the Great Depression.
Suddenly, such a desperate eldest sister appeared, and there is indeed a chance to keep her.
Mildred's ambitions don't stop there.
In the evenings, she did end-plate exercises at home, placing stones on a plate.
During the day, she works hard and actively listens to information from diners.
Many people have reported that the pies in the store are extremely unpalatable, and the waiters and bosses also feel the same: It's just that the economy is so sluggish, how can you expect anything delicious?
The world is not an excuse for lowering standards.
Mildred volunteered to sell the pies he made. He tried to make three first for diners to evaluate, and if the feedback was good, then rationed them every day.
Her ambitions soon shone brightly, and her pie was well-received and sold well.
The hurdle of the first stage is over.
What energy does she have stored at this stage?
Extremely adaptable. Having been a housewife for many years, it can be difficult to switch seamlessly into a new environment.
Mildred knows how to do "skill grafting" . Some basic skills can be completed, such as doing housework at home and serving dishes in restaurants. There are many general skills in the middle.
She used the basic skills of housework to complete the "skill upgrade" in the restaurant , so that she can quickly adapt to the new working environment and continuously enhance her self-confidence.
Many people are unable to start a new job because you haven't found the right combination of the existing skills and the new environment.
Next, Mildred saw a huge business opportunity. Since diners are now dissatisfied with the food in the store, why didn't she set up her own business?
She began to calculate the cost with a small notebook, and asked a friend to invest.
On the first day of opening, Mildred was a little nervous, but she told herself that she couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
She has her own opinions. For example, other people's chickens are eaten whole, but she prefers to break the tradition and divide them.
When she was a waiter before, Mildred collected almost half of the market information. She did market research while working as a waiter .
Facts have proved that her unique vision, coupled with years of good cooking skills, has given her restaurant a more warm "homey taste".
Diners rave about it.
Mildred went from a housewife to a waiter, and finally successfully transformed into a female boss. She broke through the shortcomings of many traditional housewives.
Many housewives are used to staying in the comfort zone of their own environment for a long time, but they become unnatural when they are in an unfamiliar environment.
Communication skills are the most basic touchstone.
This is the same reason that many people have stage fright. From the age of study to the age of work, it is because you lack the most basic self-confidence and certainty in an unfamiliar environment.
Mildred is not stage fright, and has a strong ability to accept new things. Facing a new environment, she not only actively adapts, but also observes many new things and new characteristics.
She has a strong thirst for knowledge and is uneasy about the status quo. Many housewives have been in the greenhouse for a long time, and their ability to resist risks is too poor to go out of the greenhouse. Mainly because of the rigidity of thinking, if you change the environment and scene, you will be completely ignorant.
There is also such a lovely housewife in the recently hit "Deadly Woman". She has not transformed into a business, but she has also demonstrated the unique wisdom of housewives.
If you can handle complex marriages well, you have the potential to handle complex relationships well.
Facing her husband's cheating, Beth did not get angry. Instead, she tried her best to be a plastic sister with Xiao San, trying to understand each other and grasping the weaknesses of each other, so as to slowly disintegrate this bunting.
At the same time, in the face of her out-of-control husband, she also adopted a strategy of "appropriate tightening".
In the just-updated third episode, she ran to her husband's office and stole his work papers, forcing him to work overtime instead of having dinner with the mistress.
Her husband, who doesn't know the truth, is being played around by her.
Xiaosan had to make an appointment with the wife of the main room to talk earnestly about the sisters.
Xiaosan's ambition is not in men, she is just for fun, she has her own career goal - to be a singer.
In this bloody marriage case, there is no chicken jumping in the traditional plot, and Beth is endowed with a rare calm and restraint.
Perhaps her ultimate goal is not to restore the invincible true love she swore in her marriage, she just uses a piece of chicken feathers to practice her skills and prove that she is not a simple housewife.
Isn't living a life of dealing with inexhaustible complex interpersonal relationships? If this hurdle can be overcome, her anti-risk ability will be gorgeously upgraded.
Don't underestimate a housewife who can cook. She has knowledge of all kinds of food, rice, oil, salt, and salt. These knowledges are definitely a rare hard power in a social environment outside the family.
There are no fixed formulas and templates for strong women, as long as you believe in yourself: I am inherently strong.
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