I started to get in touch with Friends when I was in high school, and I watched it on and off for three years since my first year of high school (of course I am a post-zero, not a real-time update). When are you going to watch it? Our high school has two to three days off every month, which is considered a mini-long vacation. Few people stay in the school. I have long heard the name of Friends, saying that it is a magical drama for learning English. I was at home one day on vacation, so I clicked it and watched it at will. At that time, Sohu still had the copyright to Friends, and it was still an uncensored version. It was a good old time, so when I first met Friends, I had to thank the Sohu platform. When the classic season1episode1 Central Perk came into view, my first impression was actually-OMG, it's too old. Of course it's as good as Friends, and in no time you'll be in a coffee shop or Monica's apartment, laughing with your old friends. Haha, when I think about it now, the scene of chasing Friends is still vivid in my mind. I was very impressed with the fall of my second year of high school. When I got home, I threw my schoolbag on the bed, took out a red dragon fruit from the refrigerator, picked up the spoon, and turned on the computer to watch Friends. one episode. My mouth was full of red, and I was embarrassed, still sticking to the screen with relish and laughing, watching Ross's choice. At that time, no one of my friends watched Friends, so I just watched Friends while I was on vacation. Friends accompanied me throughout my high school years, and I did a little ceremony to choose the last episode of Friends to watch the day before the college entrance examination, because I wanted my beloved friends to paint the perfect picture of my equally beautiful high school days period. I have never regarded Friends as an English learning tool, but with feelings, thoughts, romance, warmth, and love.
When I was a freshman, I took out Friends and watched it all over again. At this time, it feels very different from high school. High school is purely watching sitcom. The scenes I remember in my mind are laughing and slapsticking. The impressive lines are jokes one by one. The evaluation of the whole episode is Adjective funny. But when I revisited it, I seemed to follow the pace of six people. In just a few months, I lived with them for ten years and became friends with them for ten years. Ten years of friends, ah, has long been a family-like existence. When watching the last episode, I still remember that I was alone in the dormitory. The camera circled around the apartment. It was empty. smashed. That feeling is that the friends you have known for ten years suddenly left and returned to the real life of them that you can't see, and continue to live, and I miss them very much. Watching Friends has become a habit, and this habit, or every time I revisit Friends after that, is nothing more than a memory of the past ten years of life with my old friend.
Fortunately, following the footsteps of Friends, I was able to find a lot of documentaries, interviews, advertisements made by actors and the stories behind it, and I had thoughts again. He also went to open Weibo, and continued to dig for clues. Only then did he know that a person named Du Xin (more used to call him Gunther) had perfectly reproduced Central Perk, and it was published in the 45th issue of Sanlian Weekly in 2019. read his story. Gunther is the nerd who loves Friends the most and is the bravest I know. It is not so much the Central Perk in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen that Gunther has realized the "future" in the present. The spiritual sanctuary they created. After adding Gunther's WeChat, I learned that during the epidemic, he just managed to keep the cafe down by selling ear-hanging coffee. On weekdays, I watched him share Friends and the daily life of the cafe in the circle of friends. Impressed.
The National Day the year before last went to the bustling Guangzhou specifically to worship the Central Perk in the Zhujiang New Town. Of course, the Guangzhou Tower was next to each other, and the Central Perk was quietly huddled in a group of high-rise buildings. After meeting with her friend K at that time, she took her to the cafe with great interest, but unfortunately she is not a fan of old friends. Jia Jia is even more indifferent. And when I saw the Central Perk sticker on the glass of the cafe, I couldn't help sighing, "Finally!" I know that in real life, at least around me, there will not be a 100% restored old friend story, but it is true in real life, someone created Central Perk for you, at least to let you have all the thoughts that you have nowhere to put. I want to have a place to stay. There were not many people in the store at night. After walking around the cafe slowly, I sat down and chatted with the clerk. I shared my love for Friends with them with the feeling of winning a lottery No matter how many times I watched it, the clerk was quite calm. He said that more or less people who came here had read Friends several times. I watched Friends playing on the screen, ordered something and ate it. Due to time constraints, I couldn't sit for too long. Before I left, I said hello to the clerk. The clerk said enthusiastically, "Let's play again." I smiled and nodded. It's a pity that I have to leave for Wuhan the next day, and I don't know when I will come again.
In Reunion, many super stars shared their first impressions of Friends and the clips they couldn't put it down. The subtitles po included their names, identities, achievements, and close-ups of the camera. Instead, I am a scene of those ordinary people from various countries. The interview is unforgettable. I love seeing the growth stories of tiny and mundane individuals beneath the infinite web of tenderness that Friends stretches out. Liz from Mexico said, "Like every Chandler, I found my Monica." Nancy from Ghana said, "They have saved more lives even if they don't know them." Said Pabitra from India, "No matter how much pain, anxiety, or trouble you are in, if you are staring at a screen which is playing Friends, you are gonna laugh." Friends brings me the company and moving like a family, through my love for Friends, I also get to know It is also a great experience to meet other strangers who are also obsessed with it and learn their stories. The inextricable connection between people is so wonderful.
As Matthew said in the interview, "We picked up where we left off." Seeing the six people returning to the studio of the year, around the classic orange sofa, seeing the familiar Gabriel Weiss font, hearing the scene The familiar bgm and the unchanging voices of the six old friends between the cuts, seeing Courtney write the lines on the apple, seeing Lisa's Phoebe-style reaction to the bug, and seeing Matthew jokingly say "I don'" t hear from anyone." Seeing Jennifer and David telling each other's brief crush stories, and seeing Matt wearing a thick stack of clothes doing lunges and saying the classic "Could I be wearing more clothes", it's like Friends from never left. At the end of Reunion, the six old friends embraced, the end of an era.
I have always felt that whether it is a love for a person or a thing that is almost obsessive, it actually needs the right time and place. You will have preconceived ideas about which one you saw for the first time, and that one may be the most memorable for you; what accompanied you in your most difficult days, you may choose to continue to accompany you forever. what. When Rachel just learned to be independent, she saw a group of friends who supported her playing games seriously and said to the phone with satisfaction, "I've got magic beans!" Say, Friends is my magic bean.
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