侯斯顿第一季

我看到楼里很多人对大小姐忿忿不平，有人嫌她长得难看，有人嫌她脾气太差，还有人嫌她太过势力，神马什马滴...
胖子马修就算长了个双下巴，没有身材没有脸蛋，但是看到大小姐如此践踏马修同学的真心，我们还是坐不住了，许多人挺身而出，扬言要胖子继承人配给三小姐。

玛丽同学真的这么不招人待见么？她就那么丑么？她配不上前帅哥胖纸马修么？我们可以来一一论证这些个问题。

大小姐确实是不招人待见的，最起码，影片的开头是要把她塑造成这种形象。她长得如此的棱角，白得像个吸血鬼，浑身散发着千年冰山样的黑寡妇气息，未婚夫兼堂兄死了还一点都不伤心，一心只想着不要把订婚的事情泄露出去。说话刻薄的要死，一脸的没表情，她的气场似乎时刻都在尖叫着，下等人，都去死，死，死。。。
而且，她还爱钱，为了钱和title，她和堂兄定了婚。现在堂兄死了，她要争财产，她还要吊帅哥公爵，因为公爵夫人这个荣誉称号。
这是怎样的一个极品哦。。。

此处，话锋一转，我们看到在阁楼里，玛丽同学向Bates道了歉。原本进房间的是邪恶gay公爵，也不是玛丽。再说，其实也在自己家里，仆人的房间，算不上什么。不过玛丽同学说，我做错了，所以我道歉，这是我做人的原则。这是我们第一次看到玛丽同学人品的闪光点。

我开始倾心于她，to be honest,是因为我被大小姐的骑装秒的风中凌乱，那是怎样一种御的气质阿，利落女王范阿。。。
回到正题就是，就在这个节骨眼，我也同时肯定了大小姐的人品。从她对那个"EN"的态度。
Napier同学是个品貌端正，有正当职业，有大好前途，有title,有财产的五好青年。EN对于玛丽,算不上高攀，门当户对是至少的。况且Napier是真的挺喜欢她，不是看上了她的钱。也不是想玩弄她，是要打算和她谈婚论嫁。除了人闷了一点，简直是完美丈夫。
玛丽后来就直接pass掉他了，土耳其帅哥死后，她也还是不拽他，连装都不屑于装。后来我们发现，玛丽根本压根没打算为钱嫁人，她会不会嫁给她那个倒霉堂兄也是个问号。
再后来，即使她名声堪忧，年纪渐大，冒着嫁不出去的危险，她也不愿意嫁给胖子马修（多少姑娘，这里恨的牙痒痒阿，肥Dan，虽然肥了一点，但是人家多深情，多可爱，居然不要，不要，你竟敢不要！！！）。因为和一个不爱的人过一辈子，她做不到。
所以，看到没有，玛丽小姐才是高举真爱大旗的那一个（当然前提是那个男人还要有财有貌，穷小子，也是不行的）。在英国，由于限定继承的关系，多少人为了钱为了title结婚，不用多做research,去翻翻Austen阿姨的言情小说就能窥见一二。
这里我们再一次看到了玛丽同学，独立人格的闪光点。

直到，Robert说了那个Custodian理论（这个我非常欣赏）,我个人认为，这里才是Mary和Matthew关系的转折点。从这以后，她几乎放弃了对财产的争夺，也是从这里开始，她不再以一个入侵者，竞争对手的来看待Matthew。当她以一个不带偏见的新眼光去认识这个男人的时候，她爱上了他。
我能看到，Mary是很清高的，但是她却不是一个自视清高的人。她懂得承认自己的错误，也能听进别人的观点，只要是合情理的。她很理性，也没有什么偏见。
她很有家族荣誉感，这是英国贵族的特质。她不象二小姐，为了自己报复，不惜家族名誉。也许大小姐很有手段，你知道她毁了二小姐的婚事，吊男人也很有一套。但是，我还是要说，大小姐不失为一个正直高尚的人。

当然，她还很关心仆人，但做得不动声色。她也没有那么嫌贫爱富，马修同学当时差点失去继承权，她还是有考虑嫁给他。她是很实在的一个姑娘，有什么说什么，从不说谎。

大小姐其实有种种美好的品质，但是并不是一个人见人爱，花见花开得姑娘。她嘴硬心软，为人内敛，生怕人觉得她是个好人。我想，如果你看得深一点，会发现，她刻薄的表面下，是个值得人爱的好姑娘。

也许我年纪大了，对三小姐这种热血文艺女青年范太有免疫力了。我觉得三小姐好像英国版的琼瑶女主角。她也许很善良，很可爱，有点激进，很有理想，但是却不太实际。如果最后搞出点家族没落的剧情（因为一战了嘛），她是肯定指望不上了，能不煽风点火坏事就不错了。什么家族复兴之类的狗血，显然只有大小姐才能handle.
这就是为啥，胖子Matthew对着三小姐笑得很有爱，但是就是不爱的原因。

再说说，漂不漂亮的问题。我个人觉得三个人里面，其实还是大小姐最好看，或者说最有味道。我承认三小姐也是很萌的，但是她太甜了，没啥余味。
Mary其实很白，甚至有点苍白，五官很干净，加上高挑的柴火棍身材，穿起纱裙礼服，很仙。。。记得送受伤的sybil回大宅的时候，大小姐和司机讲了几句，导演给了一个侧影，秒人啊，优雅啊，高贵阿，各种秒。
然而，大小姐的布衣服（骑装除外），气场就要弱很多了。
另外，大小姐常常一副扑克脸，眉毛浓密，嘴唇很薄。有人觉得她刻薄，我到觉得她很御。我对御姐没有什么抵抗力，我承认啦。。。

希望多拍几季，下一季编剧要给力！
Dan同学，你一个双下巴，站在骨头架子的大小姐面前不会自惭形秽吗？？减肥吧！不求回到nick的时代，怎么样也该到Edward的程度吧。
否则，支持五好青年Napier同学给你制造麻烦，大小姐甩了你！


那个啥，虽然也有人不喜欢大小姐，不过能盖这么高的楼，说明大小姐人气还是最高阿，甚欣慰！
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拖出来又看一遍，因为发现里面的英文很美。

虽然有些说法可能很old fashion。现实世界是用不上了，不过就是超级elegant。

再看一遍，发现其实叙事真的是简洁又紧凑，好多事前面都是有埋伏笔的。


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Episode 1

Nothing in life is sure

What ever you say, I know it

You are a darling

I’m not as sad as I should be, that’s what makes me sad.

I won’t be doing you a favor in the long run if it is too much for you

It’s a bloody business, but I can’t see any way round it.

- So he slipped the hook.
- At least I’m not fishing with no bait.

- How was I to know he wouldn’t take her without the money?
- Don’t pretend to be a child because it suits you.
- Do you think she would have been happy, with a fortune hunter?


Episode 2
Is it your place to do so?

-I’m sorry Mary was rather sharp this evening.
-I doubt if Cousin Mary and I are destined to be close friends.

They won’t make a match between them, if that’s what they’re thinking.

We’re running out of options.

We all have different parts to play, and we must all be allowed to play them.

Do you find me very ridiculous, putting on airs and graces I’ve no right to?

Episode 3

Mary won’t take Matthew Crawley, so we’d better get here settled before the bloom is quite gone off the rose.

It’s not brilliant, but I’m pleased

She wants to keep it private, not secret.

I said you could go for a drink of water, no a trip up the Nile.

- Don’t you read the papers?
- I’m too busy living a life.

When it comes to Cousin Mary, she’s quite capable of doing her own flirting, I assure you.

Sometimes we must endure a little pain in order to achieve satisfaction.

It seems we must brush up on our powers of fascination

I will not repeat your words to my father since I should hate to see you cast out into the darkness, but can we agree to consider them unsaid?

We must have a care for feminine sensibilities, they are finer and more fragile than our own.

There are plenty more fish in the sea than ever came out of it.

Life can be terribly unfair, can’t it?

Everything seems so golden, one minute, then turns to ashes, the next.


Episode 4
Women like me don’t have a life. We choose clothes and pay calls and work for charity and do the season. But, really, we’re stuck in a waiting room until we marry.

I’m not quite sure how to phrase it when I tell her.

- something to remind you of me.
- I don’t need help to remember you.


I’d rather wait a week for the right anser, than get a wrong one in a hurry.

I was right when I said she was looking sparkly eyed.

I’d never marry any man that I was told to. I’m stubborn. I wish I wasn’t, but I am.

I took a lover with no thought of marriage.

When I’ve ruined myself, I must have a powerful protector to hide behind.


Episode 5
Then she’s barking up the wrong tree.


-What about Anthony Strallan?
-Anthony Strallan is at least my age and as dull as paint. I doubt she’d want to sit next to him at dinner, let alone marry him.

Turn the tables on him, before he has the chance to nail you.

It’s easy to be generous when you have nothing to lose.

- Well, watch out. I think she has big plans for you.
- Then she’s in for an equally big disappointment

- Perhaps Mr. Patrick did love her back, he just couldn’t say.
- Why ever not?
- Sometimes we’re not at liberty to speak. Sometimes it wouldn’t be right.


She seems to think that you are in possession of some knowledge that is uncomfortable for you. Because if that is the case, then I don’t think it fair on you. Why should you be burdened with Mary’s secret?

- His position may not be quite like Papa’s, but it would still make a force for good in the county.
- Mama, not again. How many times am I to be ordered to marry the man sitting next to me at dinner?
- As many times as it takes.

I suppose you didn’t want him when he wanted you, and now it’s the other way round.


Episode 6

You are not in any trouble, or any danger of trouble.


If you really like an argument, we should see more of each other.

I always thought this family might be approaching dissolution. I didn’t know dissolution was already upon us.

That can’t be the whole story.

- Are you a creature of duty?
- Not entirely.
- When you laugh with me or flirt with me, is that a duty? Are you conforming to the fitness of things? Doing what’s expected?
- Don’t play with me. I don’t deserve it. Not from you.


Episode 7
If it is a boy, you should see it as a release, not a disappointment.

- Mrs. Bird, Lord Grantham has rather a favor to ask of you.
- I’m surprised Lord Grantham knows that I exist, sir.

It will be no surprise to you that Miss O’Brien has been unwilling to let things drop.

- Please tell me that this account is false, at least in part.
- I wish I could.

- So ask Mathew to wait until the child is born. If it is a girl, you can wed him happily and all will be as it was before.
- But if I delay, won’t he think I’m only after him for his position? Besides, I’m not sure I want to put him off even without the title.

Oh, come along, Mary, be sensible. Can you really see yourself dawdling your life away as the wife of a country solicitor?

- If you take Mathew now, when his whole future is at risk, he will love you to the end of his days.
- Why, Granny, you’re a romantic!
- I’ve been called many things, but never that.

Do you love me enough to spend your life with me?

- Will you miss me?
- Try not to miss me. It will be a good practice.

Don’t pretend Mary’s sudden reluctance can’t be traced back to you.
Be careful, my lad. Or you’ll end up with no job and a broken heart.

- Would you’ve stayed, if I’d accepted you?
- Of course.
- So I’ve ruined everything?
- You’ve shown me I’ve been living in a dream. It’s time to return to real life. Wish me luck with it, Mary. God know I wish the best for you.

I’m afraid your meddling has cost Mary the only decent offer she’ll ever get.

      日不落帝国的庄园往事里，承载着维多利亚时代最后的梦……君主立宪制之后，英国皇室让渡了他们的权力，资本家购买爵位和土地成为 “新贵”之后，贵族成分也发生了嬗变，贵族血统也渐渐仅仅成为了一个荣誉性质的象征。而Grantham伯爵和他的家人却继承和延续了那些美好高贵的传统贵族精神-----尊严、责任和教养，他宽容、善良、重视家庭，宅心仁厚，对待仆人像家人一样的关爱。所以也许，英国贵族在日薄西山之后仍得以传承百年，并非权钱所赐。贵族意味着责任和担当，他们珍惜这份荣誉。

      维多利亚时代，社会繁荣而思潮涌动，但虽然工业革命已经开始了一百多年了，这却是一个回顾过去的时期。

      人们喜欢古老的邸宅庭园里的下午茶、草坪网球场、林荫中的农舍、喜欢安静的乡村小路上骑着自行车和工业时代的新机器摩托车旅行。夫人小姐们的服装配饰也洋溢着无处不在的浪漫主义与古典主义气质，她们的穿着趋向于华丽精致却又含蓄保守，用大量的蕾丝、细纱、荷叶边、缎带、蝴蝶结、蛋糕裙，以及立领、高腰、公主袖、羊腿袖等宫廷款式。淡薰衣草紫色的眼妆如下午茶般清甜悠闲，桌布和餐巾也因为刺绣蕾丝而情调十足。人们大都还保持有优雅的情致和礼仪。餐桌上老伯爵夫人温婉庄重的谈吐间满是对过去美好时光的眷恋。

      英国是不希求城市社会模式的，因为没有比他们更热衷于田园生活的了，意大利人建造了街道和广场，不分昼夜的高朋满座。英国的贵族却在远离喧嚣的庄园里回归宁静，将房舍当成城堡。他们热爱花园、草场、大雁、绵羊。唐顿庄园也一定是被万能布朗改造过的，在这里自然从未被遗忘，没有轴线、对称、修剪植物、花坛、水渠、喷泉等不自然的东西。也没有庙宇、纪念物、碑铭等具体形式，甚至连通往建筑的林荫道都没有。有的只是庄重的丛林和欢乐的田野，诗人的感觉和画家的眼睛。从建筑向外望时，所看到的画面，一直到地平线，都是一个整体。牧场和草地很好地衔接在一起，视线开阔，一望无际。大片的起伏开阔的漫坡草地是园林的主体，一直延展到主体建筑物的墙根，建筑物跟前不留一点几何痕迹。深深浅浅的树丛在草地的大背景上纵横抹下了大笔触的色块，构图单纯而有力。目力所及的范围内没有村庄的农舍。邸宅旁边没有菜园、杂院、下房、马厩，整个建筑庄重而容器地坐落在极度纯净的自然风景园里。

      此时艺术文化界的现代主义运动如火如荼的进行着，拉斐尔前派兄弟会追求返璞归真、真实自然的画风，工艺美术运动提倡简单的、朴实无华的设计，德国包豪斯轰轰烈烈地开展着，杰里科、唐纳德等现代主义设计师初露锋芒。柯布西耶的现代主义思想被正人们津津乐道着。建筑师开始运用几何形体组织空间，雕刻家和画家们也都转向应用艺术和功能主义。

      而Grantham伯爵家的宅邸却是兼具意大利文艺复兴风格和哥特复兴风格的古典主义建筑，它高大宏伟，采用精致的石制窗花格，有丰富多彩的整体视觉效果和对称美，内部是无比复杂细致的装饰。后世评论这样的建筑是繁琐庸俗、华而不实、秀媚甜俗和空虚浅薄的匠气艺术，是反功能的，哗众取宠的，是没落的贵族阶级颓废浮华的审美理想的表现。

      也许之后的现代建筑确实创造出一种工业化时代真实而简洁的技术美，带给什么一种前所未有的工业理性，可是同时我们却看到了一种空洞的形式感和不顾一切的非文化性商业动机。而在唐顿宅邸这样的新古典主义建筑中，反而流露出一种沉甸甸的文化意蕴，不管它是隐喻的还是露骨的，统筹设计还是通过矫饰堆砌而成的，这都是值得称颂的吧。

      影片以一战的开始而告终，贵族文化的核心之一是骑士精神。一个贵族家庭的孩子必须要学习剑术、马术，必要时还得决斗，目的就是要学习怎样成为一个具有勇气与胆量的人。贵族在战争中有冲锋在前的传统。1914年末的阵亡名单上，有很多贵族的儿子，一些贵族家庭因此血胤灭绝。Grantham伯爵老了，应该不会去参战了吧，他没有儿子，一定会鼓励他的仆人去参战，Matthew和Branson应该会去冲锋陷阵吧。。