看得出来,亚马逊这次野心很大,从本剧的海报就可见一斑。
这里只从一个维度来谈一谈。
S1E07,女主去见业界翘楚Sophie Lennon。当以“扮演”来自皇后区的市井女人而名声在外的Sophie询问女主要以什么形象表演喜剧,并得到女主准备以自己真实一面示人的回答时,Sophie不由得摇头,告诉女主:“No one wants that. The mainstreamers, the people who buy the dish soap and the dog food, who pay for Modigliani's, they want a character."
女主有些惊讶,反问道:“But Bob Hope doesn't have a character. Lenny Bruce doesn't have a character."
Sophie犀利地回答:“They have dicks. Do you have a dick?"
"Darling, Look at you. I mean. Really, men don't want to laugh you. They want to fu*k you. You can't go up there and be a women. You've got to be a thing."
从设定上来说 Miriam Midge Maisel 实在是当之无愧的标准“白富美”,家境优渥,成绩优异,长相出众,品味不俗。用她自己的话来说,她的人生什么都完美。
但她26岁之前的人生,完美的耐人寻味。大学专业选择的是俄国文学,谈不上喜欢不喜欢,但看上去足够“安全”。选择朋友主要不是看是否志趣相投,而是看是否足够平庸和愚钝。这么做的理由是,太过靓丽和精明的女伴会有更高概率抢走她的男朋友。丈夫是企业高管,公公经营着不小的产业,自己膝下已有一子一女,父母家就在自己豪华公寓的楼上,孩子们随时都可以丢给自己母亲去照顾。衣服可以高级定制,天天不重样,身材每天都要量,十年如一日。妆容永远精致美丽,最关键的一点,永远不能让丈夫看到素颜的自己。嘘,这是妈妈仔细叮嘱过的,成就美满婚姻的小秘密。
结果呢?
除了优秀的人物塑造,亮眼的喜剧感与脚踏实地的幽默感,这部剧的可圈可点之处,更在于塑造了一个处于觉醒中的女性角色。长久以来,影视剧中的女性角色或是已经高度标签化的温柔宽容的妻子和母亲,或是等待爱情拯救的小女人,或是风姿绰约的性感尤物,再或是替换成男性角色也毫不违和的“女强人”。她们的出现主要服务于各种与男性的关系之中,得到“王子”的爱情似乎才是她们功成名就,可被称道的美满结局。至于其他的女性形象,无外乎是愚蠢唠叨的市井妇人和面容模糊的怨妇。
但自从 Miriam对想要浪子回头的丈夫说出那个“不”字开始,这部剧就似乎想要和之前的那些剧划开界线。所以我们开始看到一个有些张扬,甚至有些“不识好歹”的女主。当业界大佬Harry在台下考察她的时候,Miriam先是犹豫着说些从女人嘴里听到颇为有趣的话,随后她干脆抛开那层安全的面具,开始诘问Sophie Lennon想要讨好的价值观。
I love my mother, I really do. I just wish sometimes she would just relax.Not worry about things.
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She's so focused on me and I don't understand it. Because.. So what if I work? So what if I get divorced? So what if I'm alone? Why do women care about how people look at them or see them? All women, beautiful women, successful women. .....
'Sophie Lennon'!You're gonna sit in your million-dollar townhouse, on some chairs that's historical and tell me that men won't think I'm funny because I don't look like a dump truck?(laughter)
Why do women have to pretend to be something that they are not? (WOMEN: right!)
Why do we have to pretend to be stupid when we are not stupid? (WOMEN: Yeah!)
Why do we have to pretend to be helpless when we're not helpless? (whoops!)
Why do we have to pretend to be sorry when we have nothing to be sorry about?
象征着主流价值的Harry听完这席话后愤然离去,扬言这个行业会对女主和她的经纪人变得非常不友好。觉醒中的女性啊,你们动了谁的蛋糕?
这样一部剧,只被看作是服装搭配教程、怎样做一个精致的女人教程、完虐渣男的家庭伦理剧可就太没意思了。
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