Head Cases Opening
1. The place where the story takes place
1. Crane, Poole & schmidt law firm (hereinafter referred to as CPS law firm)
1) Conference room: internal discussion, client communication, etc.
2) Each protagonist's office: client communication, dialogue between the protagonists & balabalabalala 3) Corridor ,
lounge
4) Balcony When BL is based on legal practice, the most important scene selection is the law firm and the court. Basically, the more exciting closing statements and personality collisions also occur in these two places. Among them, Denny and Alan's balcony night talk, champagne and cigars, as the end of each episode, the highlights are constant, which can be said to be the biggest feature of the show, no one. 2. The first episode of the main line of this episode talks about three cases, all of which are finished in this episode, that is, there are results, and two of them go to court. 1. Can a black girl play the little white girl Annie in the stage play Annie?
Alan defends and fights Brad for the first time on the case. The contradiction in this case is that private investors have the right to choose small actors according to the script requirements and their own preferences. According to this standard, the little black girl Sarah should not even have an interview opportunity. This interview opportunity is similar to us for investors. She said that she would be a bitch and build a memorial arch. It was decided early on that the little girl would not be selected. As Sarah's mother said, she had an interview opportunity and could not be selected. The little girl would doubt her own strength. The strength of the little girl is comparable, and there is no suspicion of black box operation. The point of this case is that parents in the world are the same, mothers in the United States want their daughters to become phoenixes regardless of the cost, and little girls with a strong mother but a lot of ideas in their hearts are all the same. Challenge to trust to complete satisfaction, all condensed into three expressions. Of course, the highlight of this case is the speech in court by a celebrity pastor. The United States is really a country that worships personal speech. A successful speech can directly determine the direction of things instead of thinking. This is also the starting point for alan to use the same celebrity to give another speech later. In this scene, we see the tolerance and even love of "pull the rabbit out of the hat" in American society.
2. The case of divorced husband preventing his wife from immigrating with their children
Then we saw the helplessness of American law in this case. The husband and wife promised each other to complete their college courses, but the husband abandoned his wife and children after graduation and found a job, and the wife raised two children while supporting herself. After graduating four years later, she got a job in another state. Moved with children but husband blocked in the name of paternal visitation rights. The setting of the image of this husband is like an irony of the screenwriter to the "successful people in business". He is merciful everywhere, seeing beautiful girls who say nothing and hire prostitutes. . He had nothing to do, and he did things that would harm others and not himself, and what he did harm was the woman he once loved. However, he would shed a tear in court and succeeded in getting the judge's sympathy on his side. After the sentence was pronounced, the husband looked at his desperate wife and wiped the corners of his eyes. The contrast was strong.
Let's leave the most dramatic ending of this case to the characters of alan below :)
3. Ernie Dell's request for a private detective case
This case is interspersed in the series, and in addition to the character and the story itself, Ernie, like Edwin, plays a role as a contrasting character, and it is Denny. First of all, Ernie didn't want other lawyers, even Lori, who had known each other for many years, to tell what happened, which shows the depth of trust between him and Denny. Then, Ernie was moved by Denny's sincere remarks, and then Ernie still didn't give up. He found a private detective and learned the truth. He needed to make a decision with Denny, so we saw the rivalry between the two Mr.Big. The highlight of this case is the performance of Denny facing Ernie twice. You can say that this old guy is a rogue, but you can never deny his self-justification skills and super aura, which will be strong in later episodes Echoing the case, Denny said that even if you are wrong you have to think you are right, and keep saying it until the whole world thinks it is right, so you can win, winning is all. This case tells us that because of emotional injury, in the United States, there is no necessary relationship with age. Well, we'll see Denny's injury in later episodes.
3. Characters in this episode
1. The main character appeared
in the first episode of BL. The first episode was so exciting that the complex character and behavior of the protagonist were completely explained in the space of one episode, and the characters were constantly advancing. It can be seen that the screenwriter has a very clear grasp of the protagonist when writing the character analysis at the beginning, and the story of each episode is just constantly verifying, advancing and showing this character.
Denny Crane:
A fat old man with money and power. He doesn't have sex with him as soon as he makes his debut. The second child of his family, as a named partner, sleeps with the wife of the company's biggest client.
Talk to alan's bar, two encounters with Ernie, sideline celebrity priest appearances, and the final balcony night talk. There is no reason for his shrewd philosophy of life, but he must have a strong aura, face problems head-on, do not pursue meaning, and live in the moment.
The interesting thing about this character is that neither he nor Alan nor his colleagues in the play or the audience can tell whether he is really confused or fake; Unexpected; he is afraid of aging but often so strong that you can't feel his fear; he will be confused but always free himself from the entanglement.
2. Second appearance The
so-called second appearance is about telling one or two points of their character, but there will be more in the later plot.
Alan Shore: After rewatching it twice, I think this episode about Alan should still be included in the second appearance. First, his legal skills, including his brilliant long-form closing, were not brought into play; second, other character traits were just touched upon, not reiterated and expanded upon. These character traits include: he shows a democratic view among black girls, naughty and useless about money when betting with brad, intuitive grasp of human nature when chatting with sally bar, clever use of "rabbit" allusions, etc. .
After reading it several times, I suddenly had a strange idea that alan used the method of extortion by prostitutes to solve the second losing case above, not out of some kind of noble morality, and certainly not out of a sense of disapproval of Sally. The love for him should be when he looked back at the bar with Sally and saw that this bad husband was the man who provoked Tara at the front desk of the CPS law firm, so he took action. Therefore, the brilliance of BL dramas is also there. It never pretends to be noble. Many things are just out of "I am happy", and most of the positive results are just by the way.
Tara: Borrowing Lori's mouth to say Tara's Hot, and it's nasty hot, flirting with Ernie for a while, which verifies this argument. But Tara's lawyer ability and aura have not been brought into play in this episode.
Lori: Intellectual, dependable. But in the section where she is looking for tara, you will see that this beautiful blonde female lawyer has a natural preference for playing cards out of common sense, which hides why she loves alan, and her who has never been positively portrayed. the past.
Brad: It represents all the positive things, self-discipline, military background, fitness, good professionalism, etc., but in the play the interesting ones appear as negatives, in fact, he doesn't like alan because he works so hard and looks so good, but The girls all like alan more, and the bet is still competitive, out of the jealousy and vanity of the little boy.
Paul: Manager, exist as a threat to Denny.
Sally: In the workplace in this play, almost all female lawyers wear dark uniforms as the main dress, only Sally has always been relatively fancy, which first reflects her beauty, and second, it also shows that she does not match the industry well enough , which shows that this girl has insufficient aura as a lawyer, but she is very kind, and her love for alan is even more tangled. She is more like the girl next door than a professional lawyer.
The funny thing is that these people who seem a little annoying at first gradually fall in love with me, and for good reason.
3. Contrasting characters
Edwin & Ernie: The naming of the partner was driven crazy at the beginning, and in such a dramatic way, it pointed out the high pressure of the legal industry. In this episode of alan and Denny's bar scene and balcony scene, Edwin is mentioned , a crumbling successful lawyer, just as successful as Denny. Denny's explanation for this is that he always doubts life, so he collapses, we don't doubt it, we live in the moment, so there's no need to be afraid. Was Denny scared? The part where he persuaded Ernie about pride was actually persuading himself.
Fourth, the protagonist's emotional entanglement line
Alan and Sally are dating, Sally loves Alan and knows that there are many things in his character that he can't grasp, but Sally is a completely emotional woman, she can see that the relationship with Alan is not going well, she still has to go stubbornly Going down, even if it hurts himself later, in fact, it can be seen from this point that Sally is weak among the lawyers. Brad is Sally's old lover, he once left her and now doesn't like seeing his old lover with someone else, especially this one he doesn't like. Tara is a woman with high emotional intelligence in this show, and Alan's infatuation with her started in the first episode, and it was also seen for Lori and Sally. Alan saw that there was a smile in the past between Brad and Sally, which directly reminded me of his reaction when he found out about the entanglement between Tara and his ex-boyfriend. The same man's feelings for different women are really different. It's chilling. . .
Alan and Denny's feelings, I don't talk about friendship, because feelings are more suitable here :) These two people have a kind of identity, but they are obviously very different in performance, one is a thorough Democrat, and the other is a steadfast Republican. Alan's conversation with Denny's bar first confirmed their mutual recognition. Denny defended Alan by arranging a celebrity priest to reverse Alan's case, and Alan's use of "rabbit" allusions precisely shows his affirmative imitation and sublimation of Denny's behavior.
You have to believe the way Alan looked at Denny when he said "Denny Crane" in my Balcony Night Talk, it's not just reverence.
5. Flashpoints in this episode
1. Alan's first line is to call Tara
2. Sally's expression is very unnatural when she hears Brad's name
3. Brad returns the line "I'm sorry, we're not here to fight this little thing" to Alan
4 . Bad husband meets Tara at the front desk of
CPS law firm, Alan interrupts
8. Celebrity pastor saying " Denny Crane " in
alan 's ear after speaking
When I first saw brad and hugged him and at the end of the balcony, I didn't see the eyes that brad cast at
him at all The central words, Edwin has no tomorrow, Ernie fears tomorrow, little black girls sing about tomorrow, Denny and Alan discuss tomorrow. The balcony in this episode is entirely Denny's.
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