冤家成双对 第一季

        在中国美剧迷中，迄今为止最有影响的美剧算是《老友记》，它另一个译名《六人行》倒是简单的体现了人物格局，六个人，成两对，剩下两个看起来相对不着调的没有搭配，但是也都获得了自己的幸福。而在英国，同样有部六人格局的好友剧集，那就是《冤家成双对》（Coupling），六位好友同样献上了充满欢笑与友情的电影，只不过，带着英国喜剧荒诞与夸张的基因，话题上大打男女性事，让它形成了自己独特的风格，足以令观者留下深刻的印象。

        我一直认为，对于电视剧，编剧作用极大，而对于喜剧，编剧的重量更是要再添一笔。《冤家成双对》的编剧强悍在于桥段架构上时有闪光点，善于制造巧合、冲突，甚至反转，在其中营造笑料。而在台词上，更是充满了创造力与想象力，特别是比喻和类比非常巧妙和大胆，很多对性事不同元素的比喻让人耳目一新，同时爆笑不已。而一部剧集选择男女的爱与性作为主线还是挺有难度的选择，因为咋一看这束缚了题材，但是转而又想，这又是一个最有发掘潜力的题材。而在展现这个题材时，一个贯穿其中的线就是男女的观念对比，这是这部剧集最有意思的地方，常常，我们可以看到，剧中每集，对于一个话题，一边是三个男人在一起议论，另一边马上是三个女人在酒吧议论，而且导演常常采取并行场面相互切换的手法，制造了巨大的观念差异对比。而当男女间在各自以前面所说的夸张巧妙的台词，表述他们对某一个性爱问题的看法时，制造的对比笑果自然就令人捧腹了。而这部剧集编剧的高超之处就在于，它讲述的是看似带情带色的东西，表达也常常直白露骨，但是却又于其中蕴含令人共鸣的哲理，达到了难得的乐而不淫的境界。

        任何剧集都离不开个性鲜明的角色，而《冤家成双对》的六大角色可谓个性鲜明到极致。Steve Taylor在剧中属于一个典型的成长中，带着孩子气的男人，他相对成熟，在两性关系间常常摸不到门道，结果就是常常做出些弄巧成拙的事情。而他的两个哥们儿却是两个极端，Jeff是剧中我最喜欢的一个角色了，他属于一个典型的色大胆小，同时常常出言不慎的男人，时刻显的处于一种性压抑状态，他也是本剧笑点的关键，他的不着调，不合时宜的语言和行为，常常能激起一阵欢乐的连锁反应。而Patrick Maitland则是一个在男女关系上过分“成熟”的人，而这里的“成熟”指的是他一种极度性功利主义的倾向，他可以娴熟的吸引女人，在完事儿后他又总是娴熟的脱身回家在自己的床上入睡，他常常制造冷幽默的笑点，常常是当Jeff引发一场笑料，Patrick会以一种看似镇定的表情来个冷笑话似的的催化，将笑果推向最佳。与Patrick相对应的女方角色就是Sally Harper了，此人也属于偏冷的一类，内心其实火热中略带自卑的焦灼，但是对外却颇有高傲之风，也不时抛出一两句冷笑话。本质上，Sally渴望着爱情，所以她与看起来挺风流的Patrick间的故事就在反差中带着趣味，挤兑中带着融合，也是本剧后段一条重要的线索。而与Jeff的不着调相对，Jane Christie则是女方阵营一个更加不着调的女人，她的特点就是极端不成熟和孩子气，但是比Jeff好的是，富有一丝魅力，倒是不至于像Jeff那么压抑，但是一样磕磕绊绊，也时常如花痴一般迷上一个男人。Jane的笑料常常来自于她反应上的慢半拍和经常性的一惊一咋，南辕北辙，对牛弹琴一般的对话时常制造令人意想不到的故事。在剧中显得最为成熟的要属Susan Walker，而她与Steve也是片中一条贯穿整部剧集的爱情主线，类似于《老友记》中的Ross和Rachel，两人亲亲爱爱，又分分合合，在他们身上，将恋爱中的种种可能都一一以戏剧化的方式呈现，也同时保持这部剧集恣意汪洋的欢乐中有一条主流价值观的走向。

        于是，今天看来，六个人物似乎对不同的观众都有打击点，Steve与Susan主打恋爱中的男女，Sally主攻剩女，Jane让成长中的少女共鸣，Jeff则让宅男之类两性关系中的悲催男惺惺相惜，Patrick则引发男性风流的幻想。六人各有特点，同时在本剧中又有着很紧密的互补和联系，在《冤家成双对》中，一个笑料往往都是六个人共同完成，很少两三个角色铸就，只是可能两三个人为主，其他角色的催化作用必不可少。这也就造成了，当本剧拍到第四季时，Jeff这个角色没了，尽管编剧在剧情安排上依然出色，但是重新引入的一个角色却始终无法让人感到与其他五人和谐，让整体质量与前三季相比也大打折扣，所以，本剧终于第四季也是令人感到可惜，但是又令人感到明智的抉择。

        好的喜剧常常是在让人狂笑后产生回味、感动的，《冤家成双对》的笑果极佳，属于那种能让人爆笑的“猛剧”。但是，它却不乏温情与余味：当Jeff在爱上一个女主管，一日被主管蒙上双眼走进生日庆祝会上，他不知周围有人，却以为是良辰已到，当他就这样欣喜欢乐的脱个精光时，众人诧异的眼神制造了让人狂笑的效果。而之后，众人离去，女主管却微笑着也开始摇摆着脱衣的一刻，你感到的是一种感动和励志，那个在感情上幼稚胆怯，但是却无比真诚的Jeff终于赢得了爱情。而玩世不恭的Patrick在两位好友活宝似的“蜘蛛侠”主题歌中向Susan的表白，也是让人感动着大笑。如此桥段，在剧中比比皆是，从而造就了这部高水准的英国电视剧，其编剧之强大令人惊异，欢乐后的回味令人愉悦，作为在IMDB高达9.2分的喜剧，《冤家成双对》绝对是探讨男女关系的喜剧精品，值得一看，值得回味。

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这部戏绝对可以作为喜剧的教材，台词精雕细琢。也难怪，那么红的剧5年才出了28集，慢工出细活，完全不担心观众会忘了跟。

好评楼上的已经说了很多，就翻译第一集一小段台词让大家自己判断吧。

Jeff： 你真要干？
Steve：对，我决定了。
Jeff： 她知道你要甩她吗？
Steve：应该知道。每次见面我都提出分手，已经提了四回了。
Jeff： 那怎么还没甩掉？
Steve：我们上床了。
Jeff： 你们上床了？
Steve：她逼我的。
Jeff： 怎么逼？
Steve：她要求的。
Jeff： 她主动要求？
Steve：是呀！
Jeff： 她是魔鬼！
Steve：上次甩她，结果我们把床弄塌了，她就以为我们复合了。
Jeff： 蠢！
Steve：是呀，爱情不止是床。
Jeff： 你提出分手后，她就要求上床？
Steve：是呀。那次我都要走了；我想我总算脱身了。她就靠过来，看着我的眼睛说：“我穿了连裤袜”。
Jeff： 天哪！
Steve：她以前从来没穿过，处那么久了，一次也没穿。我还求过她。
Jeff： 史蒂夫，你有权看她的连裤袜。


Sally：他说为什么要见你了吗？
Susan：没说。
Sally：可能他要求婚。不是说上周末你们过得很开心吗？
Susan：是啊。
Sally：那么你是不是还想和他……
Susan：爱情不只是床。
Sally：可能你应该嫁他。
Susan：没那回事，我们很随便的。全在床上，偶尔聊两句。
Sally：万一他是你的最后机会呢？万一你以后没机会了呢？记住，脸只会一天天变松。打三十岁起，我就每天控制面部表情，要微笑也只对单身汉笑，决不浪费，免得脸变松了。
Susan：你整天就担心这些？
Sally：你以为我干吗挑这份工作？就是为了让自己别老担心头发。
Susan：这番话居然出自我的美容师之口。
Sally：倒提醒我了。星期三晚上来做脸。
Susan：好的，但别一看见皱纹就数出来。
Sally：我数出声了吗？
Susan：你还给我建了档呢!
Sally：萨莉，你有没有想过，年龄会带来智慧和更多自信。
Susan：苏珊，年龄带给你更多需要修理的地方。


Susan： 玛丽•凯利才不喜欢你呢
Patrick：她的一举一动都说明她喜欢我。
Susan： 对你而言，女人做什么动作才算不喜欢你呢？
Patrick：还真没碰见过。
  

　　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。

A: I told you he was not your type
B: I am surprised he was ever yours, what do you see in him, he's so dull! I need personality verve humor. I see why you call him donkey brain.
A: Actually I call him donkey
B: yeah but I got your point
A: No you didn't
B: What you mean...
A: some men are born lucky. some men are born very lucky
B: what was Patrik born
A: a tripod
B: you let me dumped a tripod, you bitch!


英国人果然很尖刻

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!

I’m a bloke. I’m supposed to like them. We’re born like that. We like naked women as asoon as we’re pulled out of one. Halfway down the birth canal, we’re already enjoying the view.

Look, it is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche. We like naked women, stockings, lesbians, and sean connery 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. Because that’s what being a bloke is.

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 it to make pictures of naked bottoms. We’ve turned the internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms.


看到这之后就真正爱上这部剧了。

>>现在重新看这部剧，发现果然像楼下某位同学所说是S1E4里出现的，同一集里还有另外两位男生提到的对于lesbian porn的看法我也记下来了。