冤家成双对第一季

这个系列的四部都在电脑里面存着，第一次看的时候很不喜欢，没感觉。

后来心情不好，然后突然点进去看，觉得很搞笑，一直笑个不停，真是喜欢。

《冤家对对碰》（Coupling）不仅暴笑，而且非常风骚。

它比《Sex and City》更猖狂，比《Friends》更恣肆好笑。

剧中有这样一幕：“御女无数“的Patrick陷入与美容狂Sally的恋爱后，试图争取点回自己公寓的自由。

此时，编剧组织了一场现代与古代时空交错的戏剧：女王Sally如同母蝎子一只，好整以暇地与“骑士”对弈，分别以温柔、可怜及崩溃攻势一步步瓦解骑士的抵抗。

结局自然是蝎子女王好整以暇地将骑士引回她的床帐。

Steve（Jack Davenport）因为偷看女同A片，被女朋友抓住。

他的脸象一袋土豆一样垮下来，一边强掰一边垂死挣扎。

Jeff(Richard Coyle)见到心怡的美女，嘴巴总是无边失控，不讲到把美女截肢或者弄断自己的一条腿不能结束。

Steve被逼得气急败坏之下，发表了一通维护男人对女性器官观赏权的演说，气势恢弘，不啻莎剧一场独角戏。

Jeff也在痛苦中，进行了一场异常艰难的脱序独白。

英剧的耍宝还是暗中以戏剧为底的。

Jack Davenport（《天才的瑞普利》的同性情人）是舞台剧出身，Richard Coyle也当过舞台剧演员。

搞笑以语言为主，不太出乖露丑。

言论比美剧放肆大胆，但幽默和旁观感让他们不会真正失控。

他们好象飘在空中，以另一个自己的狼狈相、以两性之间那种微妙的关系和不太见得人的欲想取乐。

另剧中的Jane（Gina Bellma）绝对是值得一看的丰胸长腿尤物，她类比穿越和YY的菲比，但控制力却是安吉丽娜·朱莉级的。

美剧最近有些断粮，电驴上忽然就搜到了BBC剧coupling，有点像美版friends.下来试看一下，发现：听惯了美音的我，居然无法接受伦敦腔。

是理解不了英式幽默？

还是因为听不懂英腔而妨碍我的理解？

反正同样是情景喜剧。

美剧让我笑得打哆嗦，英剧看下来，面无表情。。

也或许是被美国式幽默熏陶惯了。。

忽然，我想起来前几天电视上采访曼玉资深美女时，她一口伦敦腔让我顿时千里之外的感觉。

2010.09.07

I was just having no clue how to begin with my recommendation of Coupling, when suddenly I got a question: how to say 打吊瓶? I checked with Genius Kane, who initiated the recommendation and she didn’t have the answer, but, she recoiled with a stunning question: “coupling里没有？

”Haha! She has been meeting Coupling, the most classic drama I have ever seen for only 2 days! But she already has got such a response! What? A life encyclopaedia? Exactly! The first reason I recommend this drama to you, is its real-life focusing-faith. Every site you come across in this drama is as real as you can imagine- of course excluding those ancient and dreamy scenes out of dramatic needs.But that is far from the main reason I want everybody interested in the life in UK to see it. The main reason, is its unique sense of humour! So unique that it is even a bit hard to appreciate it at first; so unique that it always goes to extreme to disclose the purest emotion of human being; so unique that you can easily condone any disinclination caused by those unusual sex jokes simply because you would already have been amusedly out of breath! It is truly so unique that you can take a real deep look at this wonderful people, with even a few smart choices of words.The whole drama is a piece of art, and the creator Steven Moffat based the characters of Steve and Susan on himself and his wife (producer Sue Vertue), as he explains: "I have described the series as being 'my life as told by a drunk'. Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. As it happens, Sue and I are married; so I imagined a scenario about what would have happened if we had met ten years earlier, and took it from there!"I could not come up with any better descriptions of this TV series, but one thing is what at least I can assure you, this Steven, he is never exhausted in brooding weird, bizarre, peculiar, ludicrous but also tremendously entertaining and educational thoughts and ways of telling you so!What is the definition of Classic? My version is something old but never out-of-dated, and whenever you review it, you can still gain something new and novel and cutting edge from it, like the Bible, like New Concept English, like, “Apparently”, the COUPLING!Rob Belcher's review has made a superb epitome of this drama, he wrote: "this show will speak to anyone who's ever dated, been in a relationship, or just noticed that men and women are different creatures."I sincerely wish a perpetual life of Steven Moffat! I recommend this Sexy fairy tale weaved by 6 thirtysomething lovely actors to you, you would never feel losing your capital if you try to memorize every detail in it, trust me!

几年前第一次看这部剧的时候写的，那时并不熟悉Moffat模式，只是当下一种观感。

补充一点，很多笑点建立在剪辑上，是很纯粹的影视思维……十多年前的英国sitcom 号称英版Friends 但主题显然不像Friends那样纯品吧 事实上 差别还颇有些大 看了很意外 因为没想到这么好看 除了最后一季不太令人满意 与the IT Crowd同场竞技我只得将后者地位稍降一级了(喂 话说您的竞技场还有别家运动员吗) 在the IT Crowd中你很难不注意到荒诞\夸张的戏剧化表演的“气场” 而Coupling只以对话模式就通杀了一切相对更熟悉的美式sitcom的路数 我给我想到的这一部分路数编了个拗口的定性描述 ———— 既定场景下趣味之可能性发挥 像在Friends \ TBBT \ Modern Family经常看到的那样 人物互动的趣味性是主要的 话题则是次要的 事件过程中的趣味性是主要的 对它的看法(或者讨论)是次要的 有时候对白里还会无端端出现一些俏皮话 或者话题好像被引申到什么随机的更有趣的事情上去了 或者一干人等轮流聊到一干不甚相关的事 非“主讲人”在旁插科打诨 这种我觉得偏向于“随机的”“情境的”乐趣 与实际生活倒是很相像(不知道是否放之四海 也许有些执着之人就是死不肯三十秒换个话题) 区别只在于日常的人无法生活出“笑话集锦”的强度Coupling给人的感觉 它的对白非常密集\强大 也许果真就是所谓大英帝国“戏剧传统”的管中一斑么 不敢太肯定 直觉有关联 我给它也起了个说法 ———— 既定话题下场景之可能性选择 这部剧集的全部篇幅都是在探讨两性关系 因而可以看成是个大主题 每一集又分别关注在更小的论题上 为何叫“论题” 因为这六个人(通常以性别分三人一组)总是劳模般孜孜不倦地讨论他们的topic 至于在哪里发生讨论这件事 路上\酒吧里\家中还是别的地方 则根据“剧情需要”择优录用 甚至那些前置的后续的“故事”要怎么发生 好像究其根本也取决于“今天聊什么” 看许多喜剧 最后被加深的印象是某个角色的幽默绝伦 TA的话只是TA有趣的明证 看Coupling 不断惊呼话题本身的趣味是如此无穷无尽 尤其当丰富多变的语言用以奋力开拓这批趣味之时 只见角色们一本正经聊着各式各样男男女女的微小话题 (他们不会被随时变化的情形打断 “新的情况”往往帮助他们的内容) 他们看起来还真没有什么能把人乐坏的迹象 而场面已然妙趣横生看点很多 叙事方面也有不少叫不来名字的技巧 大概可以称为结构上的么 常见的譬如同一事件以不同角色的视角重复呈现 或是大玩时间空间连续性的游戏 ……

很久之前看了第一季六集，并没有太在意，只是听朋友讲这部比《老友记》好看，可是打开之后心里却很俗气的哎了一下，没有俊男靓女，没有温暖的纽约咖啡店，没有呆头鹅Ross和老好Joey,没有傻大姐Phebe和偏执的Monica，草草看了几眼也就没看下去，英式发音带着日不落的snobbish,那时候我倒是简单干脆的说着舌头拐弯的美式音，喜欢他们简单廉价的笑容，娱乐就是娱乐，给人二十分钟的逃避现实的时间，你可以不要嫁给可恶的牙医兜兜转转也会碰见执著的Ross,你就是冷笑话爆棚也可以找到让人可恨又可笑的Monica.可是剧情就是剧情，哪里有那么多灰姑娘会嫁给王子，十二点的钟声一响，你确定就有南瓜马车来接你逃回现实世界？

曾经最恨英国人讲笑话。

他四平八稳，泰山崩于前而色不变，拿腔拿调的说了很多-tion，-ment,你这里还在仔细的分辨英式发音的花哨，那里旁白已经笑喷了。

你只好恨自己的英文水平还不够，或者马列主义教育下思想太单纯，干笑两下拼命的想笑点在哪儿，这时候下一个笑点又出来了。。。

可是英国人的笑话又偏偏耐琢磨，二十分钟之后你都关掉电脑了，突然想起来，刚才那句话，真是好笑啊！！！

一本正经的笑话，就看你脑子够不够歪了。

　　重新看coupling还是那么好笑，又记了两段jeff和patrick对于lesbian porn的看法，大概能回答不少女生的困惑。

　　 　　jeff：oh, wouldn't that be great.being a lesbian.all the advantages of being a man but with less embarrassing genitals. plus, every time you have sex, there's four breasts! two guest breasts, and two you can take home afterwards.oh it's bloody brilliant! 　　 　　patrick：i like films with lesbians in them, 'cause it's nice to think that there are attracive women who can't find a boyfriend. 　　 　　BTW，patrick在E4的发型真的是soooooo gay。

主题曲是翻唱Nat King Cole的“，在《花样年华》里出现过，周慕云回到原来的住所去找苏丽珍，之后他们错过了，配乐恰好是，有点自嘲有点无奈的Quizas，Quizas，Quizas。

女声的PERHAPS，PERHAPS，PERHAPS，不如那种醇厚的男中音带给人更多烟熏的味道

i like naked women. i'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. we're born like that. we like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one! halfway down the birth cannal, we're already enjoying the view!! look, this is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. we like naked women, stockings, lesbians, and Sean Conneny best as James Bond, because that is what being a boy is, and if you don't like it, darling, join a film collective. I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of the table, but that doesn't stop me wanting to see several thousand more naked bottoms before i die! when man invented fire, he didn't say:"let's cook!" he said:"great now! we can see naked bottoms in the dark!" As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using to make pics of naked bottoms. we've turned the internet into an enormous intern'l database of naked bottoms. so you see the story of male achievement through ages, feeble though it may have been, has be the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms! Frankly, girls, i'm not sure how insulted you really ought to be.