1. All things must come to an end.
The year 2004 is an important node in the history of American drama. This year, the phenomenal evergreen drama Friends came to an end. Fans have not dried their sad tears of parting, and the eye-catching performances of several new dramas quickly occupied people's vision. It turned out to be the last collective explosion of American TV series, including medical drama's House M.D by Fox.
The rapid popularity of "House" benefited from the strong ratings of the Fox talent show "American Idol". House is naturally highly anticipated by Fox, and its performance in the following years has not failed to live up to its title of "Crown Prince" series, which is the treasure of Fox in terms of ratings and word of mouth. Therefore, this year has become the first year for many people to buy a house.
This eccentric and arrogant uncle has looked at our vicissitudes in his own way for 8 years. This companionship and waiting may not have changed us anything, but he has always been there. Even if the song is over, he is still there, in the dim light that we occasionally look back.
Second, angels and demons.
House has many negative labels, such as meanness, malice, willfulness and dictatorship ... but the most valuable thing about this role is that he can make people love and hate, and we will accept and even enjoy many of his shortcomings because we love him. But if there is such a person around us in real life, his interpersonal relationship will be poor or even marginalized, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't prevent us from being good at computers. His conceit comes from his lonely wisdom of seeking failure, and his deviance is based on his integrity and loyalty to himself. He lives in his own realm of "only paranoia can survive". Angels and demons are not his two masks, but appreciate each other in his soul.
"Angel Hair" Noodles
1, superb medical skills
If you don't know anything about this play and see someone watching Dr. House, you may mistakenly think that he is watching a science and education film. There are too many obscure medical terms here, but you will soon find that these medical terms are all floating clouds in this play. They only appear to make House's "solving the case" process appear true and credible, but I will still marvel at the writer's handy use of pathology. There must be one behind this.
It can be said that House received a challenging and confusing incurable disease, and the diagnosis and treatment process generally experienced constant self-denial. This process sometimes seems very thrilling, and even produces the illusion that good patients are dying because of their tossing. Finally, House can always find the final solution through epiphany, but this inspiration is often a trivial matter that has nothing to do with medicine and patients. In fact, this is a common routine in American dramas, especially some detective dramas. In a word, House's superb medical skills are not only reflected in his professional knowledge and clinical experience, but also in his focused imagination.
The sword is on one side.
The difference between House and other medical drama lies in its attention to cases. For example, The Story of the Emergency Room and Grey's Intern mainly show the treatment process, but here, the focus is on the diagnosis process, and the fun lies in solving puzzles. In order to avoid this boring process and form a small meeting pattern, Dr. House combined the expression techniques of criminal reasoning drama and became the CSI in medical drama. This type of integration is a great innovation of this play. Under this setting, it is much easier for House to take the unconventional measures of taking a slant of the sword.
The most surprising thing is that House often instructs his men to go deep into patients' homes, make a field survey of their living environment, and infer the causes of their illness according to their diet and daily life. This is actually the most commonly used crime scene investigation method in many crime dramas. Although all this information can be obtained through communication with patients, House's most convinced sentence is that "everyone is lying". No matter what the intention is, people will instinctively hide some key information from others. He is good at exposing other people's lies and likes to discover the truth by himself, so he can do whatever it takes. For example, if it is suspected that the disease is caused by excessive exercise, he will not hesitate to send the weak patient to the treadmill and observe the process of the disease from the side. This is clearly said by Sun Tzu's Art of War.
3. Shame bastard
From the outside, House is a bohemian person, which does not mean that there is something wrong with his lifestyle, but that he indulges himself and attacks others. He won't miss any stupid opportunity to show off his IQ and laugh at others. Even if such a person is extremely smart in life, he is usually considered an asshole, because his condescension will make you feel desperate. But the loveliness of this bastard is that he has his own bottom line.
A patient is in a state of extreme weakness and tension both physically and psychologically in the hospital, but House doesn't seem to care much about their feelings in the face of the patient. He can make fun of sarcasm as always, but he won't forget his duty as a doctor, both of which are his pleasure. He doesn't allow the slightest affectation to exist in himself. It is not his passion to comfort patients before and accept their thanks after recovery. His doctor's kindness will be shown in the opposite way. When he watches patients die in front of him, he will be ashamed of his helplessness, such as the woman who died at the scene of the accident at the end of the sixth season. A gentleman bastard who melts conceit and narcissism into his blood, and a cold-blooded genius who only relies on his own professional knowledge and wisdom to make judgments and choices, can always bring more feelings when revealing his weak and helpless side of human nature, and the most wonderful plot in Dr. House basically depends on this.
House is mean to his employees, and his ducklings seem to be used to his cynicism, but that doesn't mean they have no place in House's heart. He will even compromise or deal with them to protect their jobs, whether it is Volger facing the board of directors or Cuddy, the dean. Of course, this compromise has a principled bottom line. For example, he will use wisdom to resolve Volger's threat to his participation in the promotion of new drugs. House may not be a gentleman in essence, but he is a knight.
Step 4 show your true feelings
House is aloof, which makes it difficult for him to reveal his true feelings for a moment, and whenever such a moment comes, it will make people ecstatic. Apart from the doomed love between him and cuddy, two cases in the fourth season are the most memorable. One is episode 1 1, in which House gives a remote diagnosis to a female psychologist in the Antarctic. House's concern and worry really go beyond the general doctor-patient relationship, and the way of video communication adds a layer of ambiguity to their subtle relationship. There is also 16 episode, which is also the last episode of the season. House rarely can't cure patients, but what he can't do in this episode is his good friend Wilson's girlfriend Amber, a phone call that didn't get through, an untimely cold medicine, and a car accident that fell from the sky, pushing Amber and Wilson to where you want to go. House has an unshirkable responsibility for all this. As a doctor, from the moment she woke up and saw the circuit system around her, amber knew that she was standing on the gate of hell to give her lover a last look. In these few minutes, all they can do is snuggle up to each other and feel each other's breath. In fact, how many people in this world can die peacefully in the arms of their lovers? If you can design an ending for yourself, I think this farewell is what many people want. This became the saddest moment of tears in the whole drama, and it was not only the cold house that was shocked, but also every audience.
Demon face
1, drug addiction
I don't know how many people know the name vicodin through Dr. House. It is a narcotic painkiller, and it will be addictive if you take it often. This is also the most fatal shortcoming in House's proud life. House has cured so many incurable diseases, but there is nothing he can do about his leg with muscle necrosis. He can only make himself a "drug addict" of Vicodin.
There is a Achilli uz in ancient Greek mythology. When he was just born, his mother Sitis dipped him upside down into the Styx in order to make him a "golden bell jar", so Achray Uss was invulnerable, only the heel held by his mother became the only weakness, and he was finally killed by an arrow in the heel. This is the story of the famous Achilles heel. No matter how vivid the character is, House is still a fictional character created by the screenwriter. All his qualities are endowed by the creator, including this Achilles heel belonging to House, which is the only thing he is willing to give up his dignity for, and even the page in the pharmacy can use it to blackmail him.
2, quirks piled up
Maybe people with excess energy will find something to kill themselves. From this point of view, House is more like an old urchin. Although he looks elegant, he is an enthusiastic audience of daytime soap operas. Nothing can be done in the office except TV. He can even go to the vegetative ward to watch TV. This is a man you won't be surprised to find any quirks in him, whether it's eating lollipops in meetings or throwing balls in the office. The most incredible thing about him is that as a doctor, he refuses to wear a white coat and tries to avoid meeting patients. He prefers to get most of the patient's information through his assistant. However, his eccentricities sometimes work wonders. For example, he found that the hero of his favorite soap opera had a brain tumor by watching TV, but failed to convince him and was forced to kidnap him to the hospital for examination and treatment.
3. Abuse others.
House called his assistant "Little Duck". Ducks are not worth thinking about, even if they are worth thinking about, they can be ignored, but they must make a sound. House himself didn't really think about why. His usual practice is exclusion, and what is excluded is often the opinion of ducks, that is, he approaches the truth by denying others. In our opinion, this is really cruel to these assistants who are not mediocre. But the ducks don't seem to feel so sad. They think that the experience and knowledge they gained from it are more important than the dignity they lost in front of the house. Taub, for example, is a successful plastic surgeon, but he can give up his previous rich income and social status and willingly become an "old duck" following House. House's wisdom and talent are the basis of his arrogance, and he is also willing to take his arrogance to the extreme and seize every opportunity to tease others. Although his office philosophy is not black, it is not intended to be nice to people. Perhaps in his opinion, those who can accept and tolerate his malice are his true friends, so the closer he is, the closer he is, especially his two close friends, Wilson and Cuddy.
4, do not love outpatient service
I think if there is a doctor like House in China, he will definitely become a hot spot in the specialist clinic, and the patients' families will queue up there at midnight. But what House hates most is going to the clinic, which should be related to his hobby of not contacting patients, and cuddy often threatens or punishes him with the clinic. However, many people should like to watch House's plays in the clinic, because House was more like Sherlock Holmes than a doctor. His eyes are poisonous, he is good at observing and reasoning in details, and it is easy to expose patients' lies and tricks. Another thing to say is that he is very kind to children and good at communicating with them, which should be related to his old urchin style.
Third, sadomasochism
With House's lone wolf personality, he should not be ashamed to talk about friendship and love. He runs around like a piece of ice that won't melt. He likes the feeling that his sword is still in its sheath, looking around and people are upset. This instinctive aggression will make people around you feel silent. But House does not lack the respect of colleagues, the friendship of friends and the favor of the opposite sex. Apart from his professional authority and personality charm, the so-called true temperament is the most precious quality in him, and it is precisely because of this that people can reluctantly accept the SM-style communication with him.
1, Wilson
When watching the movie Sherlock Holmes, I often change Sherlock Holmes and Watson into House and Wilson in my mind, because their relationship and way of getting along are too similar.
Having a friend like Wilson is House's luck, his loyalty, his kindness and his taste. Never give up on him, accept his malice, help at critical moments, and enjoy everything except your lover. In such an era of no base and no happiness, these two groomsmen are the best targets of many corrupt friends. House will never accept others to replace him as the most important person in Wilson's life. When he saw signs of flirting between Wilson and his female neighbor, he immediately declared that he was Wilson's gay friend, so that the other party would retreat.
Compared with House's aggressiveness, Wilson's gentleness, courtesy and frugality make him look weak and low-key. A person who can tolerate a friend like House must be broad-minded. Wilson's remorse for House can only be explained by karma in his last life. House can invade his office, trample on his apartment, and spend his time at will, which is nothing to iron buddies, but House's bad habits directly led to his loss of his favorite woman, which became the biggest price Wilson paid to maintain this friendship.
Maybe every man wants to have a bosom friend like Wilson, but it's really hard to meet. I've seen too many relationships that ended badly. If we can have such friends, we wish them a gay life, just like House and Wilson.
caddy
Because there is a devil in the world in the hospital, Dean Cuddy has to turn himself into a fireman. House and the people around him came to cuddy with grievances. House, on the other hand, is more like a spoiled brat. Between their advance and retreat, it seems to be an endless game of confrontation. Cuddy is a very professional professional manager and an elegant and sexy woman. She combines these two points perfectly. But in love, she is a loser, and the house is her doom.
Generally speaking, cuddy is a golden couple, but she yearns for family life, so she will seriously adopt children and fall in love. But in the end, all the results of love only prove that House is irreplaceable in her heart. Although she doesn't want to admit it, she has been dependent on House in her heart, just like Vicodin. Seeing House jealous for her seems to be the safest way for her to feel House's love. But House is not a man who stops at lust. He will take action, but in House's subconscious, it should be just a conquest game. As for the reason why he intends to break up cuddy and her boyfriend, he told Wilson this way: "They are nothing more than two endings, either breaking up or growing old together. If it's a breakup, it's better to leave early than late; You are always together, and it is useless for me to make trouble again. "
The cohabitation relationship between House and cuddy is so incredible for Wilson, who knows them very well, that cuddy needs to put his hand in front of him to prove their relationship. It turned out to be a lose-lose adventure. Of course, if Lisa Edelstein, who plays Cuddy, doesn't make up his mind, the result may be another result, but House's reaction is reasonable. He is not inseparable from cuddy, but he can't accept the result of failure. Friendship is indeed safer than love, which is true for most people.
3. Duck
Actors in American TV dramas come and go often not because of the need of the plot, but because of the contract of the actors, especially the regular actors. In the eighth season of "House", the ducks around House changed three times.
The first wave is Cameron, Chase and Foreman. This team gives the audience the most tacit understanding and pleasing feeling, which should also be related to the first impression. In addition to the regular SM working relationship, the most interesting thing is the triangular relationship between Cameron and House and Chase, which lasted for a long time, including the team disintegration in the fourth season, the marriage between Cameron and Chase in the fifth season and Cameron's departure in the sixth season. Cameron's love for House is admired by little girls and cared by mature women. This love is doomed to be fruitless, but it is enough to make Cameron strong. Among House's ducklings, Cameron is also the most independent. Chase's admiration for House and his love for Cameron are simple, so he is also the most vulnerable party in this emotional pattern. In the end, Cameron's marriage with him was also a compromise result, which looked perfect, but in the shadow of House, it was difficult to make it a positive result.
The second dial is 13, Tao Bo and Koutna who joined in the fourth season, and Amber who later switched to Wilson's full-time lover. The most noteworthy thing here is the strange and mysterious 13, who should be the most distinctive figure in the whole play except House. She has a kind of Jianghu spirit and dusty atmosphere that others don't have, which can best complement House's yuppie temperament, so their opponents are also the best. Let my brother be euthanized even if he is in prison. It looks like a female version of House. If olivia wilde, the actress who plays 13, doesn't quit the regular cast because of scheduling problems, the screenwriter will let her develop a doomed love affair with House.
The third wave is Chi Park and Jessica Adams who joined last season. Finally, they saw the faces of regular actors in China in House. It's a pity that it's drawing to a close and withered before it blooms.
Finally, Foreman, the only duck who followed House from beginning to end, is also the only black face among regular actors. His relationship with House is the most delicate, and there is a situation where he is both an enemy and a friend. He has the experience of juvenile delinquency, but he also has a black-and-white view of good and evil. He respects House's medical skills, but he doesn't agree with House's way of practicing medicine and being a man. He resigned briefly because he didn't want to be like House. The most interesting form of inversion appeared last season. Foreman took over from Kadi as the dean of Princeton Teaching Hospital and became the boss of House, but he couldn't do what House did to him. He helped House get out of prison and often volunteered to be a "part-time" duck in House's medical team. He doesn't love House, but he loves this career that gives him a new life. To this end, he can even give up his position and dignity to a limited extent.
The itch of four or eight years
House is the most common plot unit drama in American TV series. The main plot of each episode is like this, but from the perspective of the whole drama, it is actually a minor plot of the play, and the main plot is the fate extension of House and the people around him, as well as the evolution of personality and psychology. However, compared with Grey's Intern, which was a hit in medical drama in the same period, House is not so emotional. It borrows the classification of sci-fi dramas, belongs to hard medical drama, and mainly relies on the diagnosis of surprise cases and the recognition and follow-up of the audience. Some emotional entanglements of fate didn't really unfold until the second half of the series. Moreover, because it is shot in different seasons and spans eight years, many plot settings are not entirely based on the needs of the plot itself, involving many external factors, such as the replacement of actors, the adjustment of costs, and the interest trend of the audience. So the combing here is limited to the main plot.
The first season: when the new series is launched, the first consideration is not to be cut off, so we should give full play to the core features of this series. So for the first time, we saw so many strange cases in a TV series. This is a sense of panic that can even make everyone feel insecure, because even a little unremarkable symptoms may hide diseases that can take their lives at any time. At the same time, we also got to know Dr. House, a grumpy and arrogant sven bastard, and all kinds of people around him. It can be said that the main plot of the first season is basically static, only in the layout of plump characters and relationships. It was only in the second half of the year that House and the chairman of the board had an argument about layoffs and the promotion of new drugs.
The second season: this should be the season to establish the status of the play, and the writers began to intensify their efforts for the main plot, which was well integrated with the incidental cases. House's ex-girlfriend Stacy, who appeared last season, stayed in the play, basically spanning the first half of the season, and House's parents also appeared, giving the audience and ducklings a clear understanding of House's past. Moreover, the main characters continue to experience disasters, and Chase's negligence leads to the death of the patient and faces the revocation of his medical license; Foreman was infected with a deadly virus during the treatment. In order to save Foreman's life, House spared no effort to let Cameron come to the last stop with the same virus. Until the last episode, one of House's former patients shot him for revenge. ...
Season 3: House's dependence on drugs led to serious consequences. A large number of vicodin in his family were discovered by police officer Terry, who wanted to sue him for drug trafficking. House tried every means to get rid of this annoying policeman, but he was finally taken to court. Fortunately, cuddy perjured himself and took advantage of a legal loophole, which set him free. But the worst thing happened at the end of the season, and his team faced dissolution.
Season 4: There are only 65,438+06 episodes in this season, which is due to the writers' strike in the United States this year, but it is quite a wonderful season. I always think that the second and fourth seasons of this drama are the best two seasons. House began to look for new ducks for himself. What he has to do is to choose three assistants from 40 candidates. So I played a game of Survivor in Princeton Teaching Hospital, which greatly increased the interest and suspense of the plot. Fox TV even set up an off-site interaction for this purpose, allowing viewers to vote for the right person in their hearts. And the death of amber mentioned earlier. House is helpless in front of a patient who can't afford to lose, and watching his favorite man and favorite woman say goodbye with tears is one of the most brilliant paragraphs in the whole play.
Season 5: House is still immersed in the regret of losing amber, and long-term drug abuse leads to hallucinations. Amber may appear at his side anytime and anywhere, whether in the hospital or at home, making him unable to extricate himself and finally being sent to a mental hospital. Another thing happened this season. Koutna, his newly recruited duckling, suddenly committed suicide. This is not because he deserved to die, but because Kal Penn, the actor who plays Koutna, has got a new job. But this job is not another crew, but went to the White House as an assistant director of public participation and worked for Obama. Finally, Cameron and Chase got married.
Season 6: This season begins in a mental hospital. House changed from a doctor to a patient, but he still managed to turn this place into his battlefield. Chase's sense of human justice overcame the doctor's sense of responsibility, and executed an African dictator who came to see a doctor by medical means, thus falling into a moral dilemma, which eventually led to the divorce of Cameron and Chase, and House won again. Cameron officially bid farewell to Dr. House and never looked back. However, the relationship between House and Cuddy was very smooth, and there was a confession moment at the end of the season.
Season 7: I don't know how many people, like me, are waiting to see how season 7 subverts the ending of season 6. It can be used as a stunt, but I still find it hard to accept that House is really serious about a woman, even if that woman is cuddy, because that's not House. But the screenwriter still let House and Cuddy live under the same roof, so we spent a season waiting for the screenwriter to break them up. Finally, House ended this relationship in a tragic way and sent himself to prison. This is also the most dull season. Lisa Edelstein terminated the contract and Cuddy left sadly.
Season 8: The first episode takes place in prison. We finally saw House, who had to bow his head under the low eaves. But Dr. House in this state is so interesting that I hope he can stay in prison for a few more episodes. In the past, the abused foreman became his own boss, and two new ducks arrived as scheduled. Although there is a glimmer of light in the eighth season, there is always a desolation that can't be driven away. We are getting old together with the house. It's time to say goodbye.
Five, hesitant
As an actor, it is lucky to be able to control a role like House in his acting career. Hugh laurie seems to have spent the first half of his unknown life waiting for the combination with this role. There's a saying in the film and television circle that either an actor or an actor, hugh laurie and House complement each other. Without either side, they can't survive. However, in the Emmy Award, the most professional award in American television, he was nominated for best actor almost every year, but he never really stood on the podium once. The Emmy Award really owes this Englishman who speaks fluent American English an absolute affirmation. This year is also the last chance.
As early as last year, when the cast of "House" was announced until the end of the eighth season, hugh laurie expressed her intention to retire from the screen permanently and retreat behind the scenes. "I think I might be interested in screenwriters, producers or directors, or other roles. I think the whole film and television field is wonderful. " With hugh laurie's talent, I am not surprised that he chose screenwriter and director as the development direction of his future career. In fact, he directed two episodes of Dr. House himself, and he was versatile. He has published music albums and novels, and I have no doubt about his creative ability. But about giving up acting career, I think maybe hugh laurie will feel a sense of emptiness after House. If he can meet a character who has touched him again, I believe he will appear again in front of the audience who love him. Originally in the entertainment circle, the so-called retirement comeback was just a word game.
For a TV station, the determination to end an evergreen drama is different from the determination to cut a new drama with poor ratings. This must be a difficult decision. The reason behind this is usually the difference in the remuneration of actors, because regular actors will rise to varying degrees every time they renew their contracts. For example, in 2004, hugh laurie paid only a modest five figures for each episode of House. By 2006, the film pay had risen to $250,000-$300,000 per episode. At present, his pay per episode is more than 400 thousand dollars, plus the share. This figure was signed in the eighth season. If we keep shooting, it may be around $500 thousand. Although the current ratings of "House" are acceptable, the overall trend is still sluggish, and TV stations, as acquirers, will inevitably consider the profit and loss risks of continuing broadcasting. Previously, the "House" crew also had long-term negotiations with Fox executives on the replay issue, but ultimately failed to reach an agreement.
"It's best to leave before the music stops, when there are still some promises and mysteries in the air." This is the words in the joint statement of the director and actor of House, which is not so much a free and easy farewell as a helpless footnote. But I believe many people, like me, really appreciate Dr. House's company for eight years. Falling in love with this role is actually accepting a life and a realm. Southern metropolis daily