A few days ago, I heard that "The Big Bang Theory" will complete its final season (12 seasons) in May 2019. For a while, it reminded me of when I first started watching this American TV show when I was in college. At first, it was because college life was really boring, and I accidentally clicked on Tencent Video. At the beginning I watched it from the second season. Later, after graduating from university and working, I rarely watched it. On the one hand, I did not have enough time after work, on the other hand I watched the big bang.
A few days ago, I heard that "The Big Bang Theory" will complete its final season (12 seasons) in May 2019. For a while, it reminded me of when I first started watching this American TV show when I was in college. At first, it was because college life was really boring, and I accidentally clicked on Tencent Video. At the beginning I watched it from the second season. Later, after graduating from college and working, I rarely watched it. On the one hand, there is really little time after work. On the other hand, I watch the big bang for a long time and there will be some aesthetic fatigue. The content is no longer so interesting
Speaking of interesting, it made me suddenly think of another sitcom with the same theme (English drama) "The IT crowed", which is a British comedy that left a deep impression on me. It is about some interesting things that happened between two technical geeks and a female manager in the IT department of a company
If you have watched these two dramas at the same time, you will find that there is a big difference between them. American humor and British humor are not the same style at all. British humor is particularly exaggerated, unreasonable, even sarcastic and funny. He will use some very exaggerated performance techniques that you can hardly imagine, such as the "Fire Screensaver" in the first season.
A serious nonsense, but it makes people laugh
There are fire extinguishers on fire . I have never seen or even heard of something more outrageous and funny than a fire extinguisher.
That’s not even the case, the camera turns
"Made in Britain-Made in Britain", this is a complete blackout of my country
In fact, people who understand British culture should understand that British people are particularly fond of satire, and even things from their own country can be used to ridicule and entertain. There are many such satires in the play, such as 0118 999 881 999 119 725, which is actually a phone number! Yes, but also emergency services telephone ** ** There is no mistake, hey emergency services. This phone number is interpreted and packaged as an advertisement for government emergency services in the play, which is actually a mockery of the inefficiency of the government. It’s hard for you to imagine an elderly person making this phone call when he is about to fall down the stairs.
British humor also pays attention to reversal and contrast, such as the episode of Moss and Ray's skipped work. The front foot says, "We are colleagues, I won't leave you alone..." Scenes where the back foot runs away, and so on, can be seen everywhere in dramas. So that I sometimes vaguely feel that this British humor is very similar to the funny and refreshing personality in the bones of Northeastern people.
In my opinion this play are a lot of elements from the British culture of rock and roll spirit
I said that college time was very boring, and I was really fine back then. I went to the library to see some rock and roll things, so I was very impressed when watching this show.
Rock music originated from the 1960s to the late 1990s. There may be a few people who are impressed with early rock: Elvis Presley in the United States, the Beatles in the United Kingdom (The Beatles), and then To the later punk style Pink Floyd, and then to the familiar Mike Jason and Bon Jovi of our generation. You will find that rock has developed for so many years, but the core of rock has not changed. In my opinion, the spirit of rock is the kind of loneliness in pursuit of freedom. In fact, especially in China, most people's impression of rock and roll is the stage of noisy, messy, and swear words. Everyone did not realize that in fact everyone has the spirit of rock and roll in their hearts. The pursuit of life, the desire for freedom, the accusations of injustice in the world — these are all. In fact, rock music is very simple. The rhythmic things are rock and roll, and the essence of rock is to stimulate people’s hearing (to the sound) primitive power, which is a particularly original and authentic way of expression.
To quote a lyric from Xie Tianxiao's "Fate or Coincidence":
"Fate gave me a pair of eyes, put them in my heart, and weep for the brave, and sigh for the uneven world..."
Turning the topic to this drama again, I saw a lot of rock elements in this drama, whether it is the design of the plot, the acting skills of the actors (gothic male), and the costumes (Jane’s violent hairstyle) are full of rock style.
At the same time, this is a comedy about IT technology. It is not easy for this theme to design the perfect role of a programmer engaged in IT. Although the director is shooting comedy, he has a deep understanding of actor roles, and he is well versed in programmers' routines, just like Roy's feedback when he often picks up the phone, "Have you tried turning it off and on again-restart." People who understand this sentence will naturally understand, as the saying goes, "O&M has three treasures to log off, restart, and install the system." Also, those who are attentive will find the opening song in this show very interesting. There are only two tones, matched with different scales. It sounds very rhythmic. Does it symbolize the binary 0 and 1 in the programmer's world? Woolen cloth
In fact, what impressed me the most was "The Internet" in the 2013 special chapter. This section can be said to perfectly reflect the director’s psychological understanding of programmers, and the stupid and sweet behavior of the bystanders became clear. Compared. When Moss says to Jane "This, Jan is The Internet-Jane, this is the Internet", the programmer will probably laugh.
This episode is in the true sense of an episode completely filmed from the perspective of a programmer. After watching it, you will have the feeling that this episode is filmed for yourself. This feeling is not found in other dramas or movies. At first it seemed unreasonable and weird, and finally gradually fermented that Jen actually took the company to tell a large group of people that the thing on this box was the entire Internet. What was absurd was that everyone believed it! In the end, the Internet was thrown down and the whole "farce" ended. While watching the whole episode, I am very happy at the same time that the director's precise design of the script and the excellent acting skills of the actors. On the other hand, most people in China are still in the stage of ``jeans and plaid shirts'' in their understanding of programmers.
To fully understand this play, you need to have a little knowledge of British culture and rock. There are many well-known rock bands in the UK, such as the Beatles, Freud, the Rolling Stones, and Sex Pistols. These have become the historical and cultural genes of the British, and the program from rock to madness has been written into the bones of the British. You can hardly imagine a middle-aged man holding an electric guitar at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics and performing a concert there. You will discover how much this country attaches importance to cultural inheritance, and at the same time how much recognition and "tolerance" is for the public's critical and satirical thinking
In fact, I think that programmers who pursue technology to the level of nerd have a very strong rock spirit, desperately pursuing truth like rock and roll, and hate any rules and restrictions. Very often, especially in a country that does not value technology (forecast the next topic), although people around have a deep prejudice against programmers, the rock spirit in their bones makes them truly unique.
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