Yes, according to an interview with Gotham magazine by kevinspacey fowler (actress Frances Underwood), Bill Clinton told him himself that the authenticity of the American version of House of Cards is as high as 99%.
This is an interview on 20 15, and House of Cards is still in its third season. The prototype is widely regarded as Claire of Hillary Clinton. She is also a very attractive character and is welcomed by the audience, especially the male audience. Who would have thought that she later poisoned her lover in order to keep power?
Lord michael dobbs, the original author of House of Cards, is also the executive producer of the American version of House of Cards. In an interview with BuzzFeed News on 20 16, Claire's image design can be used for reference by Hillary. Of course, when he portrayed the female politician in the late 1980s, he alluded to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At that time, he was her staff adviser.
Finally, the relationship between them collapsed, which became the direct driving force for dobbs to create novels. As dobbs himself is a senior politician-he was the vice-chairman of the British Conservative Party and is still active in British politics, this political novel is regarded as "highly realistic" and describes the unbearable hidden behind the scenes of British politics.
Later, the BBC made a TV series based on this, which was also a great success.
I have no intention of discussing politics in this article. Like the original author of House of Cards, I am more interested in "people in politics and their humanity". To be more specific, I am interested in the attitude of such a group of political animals trying to stay at the top of the power chain towards marriage and love.
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What's the difference between political animals and ordinary people?
In the fifth season, the then first lady of the United States, Claire Underwood, had a midnight conversation with her lover, the famous novelist Tom Yates, which left a deep impression on me.
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Claire: What's the worst thing you've ever done?
Tom: I pretend to love someone I don't really love.
Claire: Does she know?
Tom: Yes, but she pretended not to know.
Claire: I did something very, very bad.
Tom: I understand. You don't have to tell me.
Claire: Underwood (then US President Francis Underwood, Claire's husband) killed Zoe Barnes and Peter.
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Seeing this, I deeply sigh that Claire and Tom are obviously two kinds of creatures. A person who regards politics and power as the most important theme in his life can do whatever it takes and have no moral guilt; The other person's foothold in life is love. So, they are doomed to separate.
Although the novelist Tom has a keen insight into the political animal Underwood and his wife, this ordinary man, a middle-aged literary man who pretends to love someone he doesn't really love, will never enter a truly profound relationship with Claire.
The essence of their relationship, for Claire, is just a temporary passion based on lust and heartbeat. They are emotionally connected, but they are only valuable when Claire is emotionally fragile and needs physical comfort from men. Claire's deep desire for more power has never been love and secular daily life, but her great political ambition, extreme desire for power, and control and influence on the fate of others.
Tom can understand this, but the depth of this understanding is only superficial because he is not a political animal at all.
When two people are not on the same channel at all, one party will simply "imagine" the behavior logic of the other party. Just like that famous psychological case, only a pervert killer can understand the logic of a pervert killer.
So, Claire and Frances are the same kind of people. They have the same ambition, values and behavioral logic, and have closely tied interests. Therefore, they advance and retreat together and become allies and comrades-in-arms fighting together.
No, even, the word "love" should not be used to describe it.
When Tom said "I love you" to Claire after his passion, Claire gave him "I might love you". I may love you. She used the word "possible" to express the lowest possibility, not even "possible".
To be precise, Claire just likes Tom, not loves him.
Once Tom becomes an obstacle to Claire's political interests, he must be sacrificed.
Therefore, Tom was doomed to be broken up and poisoned. How cruel he can be to political animals, and how cruel he can trample on human moral standards and even laws for power. He has no imagination at all.
He is too close to political animals, knows too many secrets, can write, and even writes a true story between them into a novel. A born writer, he couldn't help writing, but at least he didn't send the manuscript to the publisher, but gave the only manuscript to Claire. Even when he was broken up, he still believed in love and gave his lover a confession, an explanation and a protection. However, he is too naive.
His naive love attracted him to death. At this time, Frances and Claire, who have been successfully elected, are ruthlessly cleaning up the old people. Including Tom, it has been three generations. What political animals want is not temporary stability, but extinction without future trouble. Poor Tom drank the poisoned wine given to him by Claire, made love to her, and thought about Claire's beauty and kindness until his death. Believing in love, he never dreamed that his infatuated beauty ended him like this.
Don't touch anything, and don't be emotional about political animals.
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So, is there really deep love between Claire and Frances?
I used to think so, maybe the couple thought so themselves, because they are the same kind of people and allies who can fight together. They often tell each other-"I will never love anyone as much as I love you", but later, I found myself wrong. In other words, I don't want to call the relationship and connection between these political animals "love". It defiles such a beautiful word as love.
Indeed, they have struggled together for 30 years and have experienced extramarital affairs more than once. Frances even had a homosexual relationship with his personal trainer, but the affair never shook their marriage.
Is it because of love? Not exactly. It is because they have accumulated the deepest understanding of each other in the past 30 years and become the best partners and the best combination of interest alliances that can help each other realize their political ambitions. They can only have a real crisis because of the break of the interest chain, as shown in the play. However, it will never be because of the feelings themselves.
When "Breakfast for Three" appeared openly in the White House, I was still confused. Did Frances sublimate to love Claire?
Claire and Tom became lovers, and Tom wrote a speech for himself and Francis. When Frances learned about it, she was completely jealous, didn't ask questions, didn't get angry, and even calmly developed a theory of "beyond marriage", openly allowing two people to associate. "He can give you what I can't, and you need him, so I am willing to do what is good for you." The president who just had a liver transplant generously allowed another man to meet his wife's emotional and physical needs.
It really looks like a little love beyond the exclusiveness between secular men and women, like a more advanced love-I am willing to fulfill your happiness and needs. I have also discussed it with my team partners in confusion. As a result, everyone agrees that this is not great love, but no love. They are no longer relationships, but partnerships.
Love, it has its own unique DNA. True love may indeed make people sacrifice and fulfill, but true love will definitely hurt when it encounters betrayal and strangeness. No matter how you pretend, you can't be as calm, rational and calm as Mr. President.
So the president only regards the essence of the relationship between the two as a combination of interests, not a combination of husband and wife. In his view, what is good for Claire is also good for their combination-after all, they are going to run for president and vice president together. At this time, it is most important to maintain internal stability and improve the overall combat effectiveness of the team, especially at the most difficult juncture of their campaign.
As a result, Tom became a "special" figure who could freely enter and leave the White House presidential residence, and even openly stayed at the White House to sleep with Claire at night. Three people casually shared breakfast, tacitly.
The relationship between husband and wife does not mean that they are true love, but only that interests are indeed a solid cornerstone to bind any relationship, including the relationship between husband and wife. If you want the relationship to never disintegrate, you only need the interest chain to never disintegrate. However, this interest-oriented relationship is also particularly fragile, with scattered interests and distracted people. Even if there is a little trouble, these two political animals will not fully trust each other and suspect each other. When the interests of two people conflict, the former allies suddenly become today's opponents.
At the end of the fifth season, President Francis, caught in the crisis of investigation and impeachment, intends to resign and give way to his wife who is already the vice president, but only if she promises to pardon him for all his crimes, otherwise she will withdraw her decision to resign. Under pressure and pressure, Claire first agreed, but changed her mind when she delivered her inaugural speech. The former president, who had a premonition that he would be dumped by his wife, faced the camera and spit out a sentence: If you don't say it? I will kill you.
This ending is what he expected. Later, he called his wife to intervene. The first time, no one answered, and the second time, I hung up. At the end of the fifth season, in the last scene, Claire, who is on the presidency, looks at the camera: It's my turn.
Claire's era in American politics officially opened. Officially at the peak of power, she is never willing to be a marionette for her husband and former president.
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In House of Cards, political animals who always climb to the top of the power chain never believe in true love. Both men and women. They may have short-term mood swings, like this and that, but never talk about love. People who love each other, whether men or women, will not love each other.
Frances pushed her lover Zoe off the subway. Do you think this is the ruthlessness of male politicians? Claire, a female politician, was horribly ruthless when she poisoned Tom. When she calmly told Frances that she had killed her lover with her own hands, there was a hint of pride and pride in her mouth. At this point, she broke through the final bottom line, and she is no different from her biting husband.
Political animals are animals without sex. Its attribute is only about the desire for power. Whoever gets in their way will die.
Extreme power, even the power that still needs to be restricted by the system, brings people extreme excitement and pleasure. I'm afraid only great wealth in this world can be compared with war.
The more obsessed with power, the more obsessed.
Frances's opponent, Governor Conway, was originally in high spirits and full of justice to change the country, but with the deepening of the power struggle, the closer he got to the peak of power, the more he deviated from the track, tried every means to achieve his goal, and finally completely lost his shape.
The corrosive power of power on people is really terrible.
Compared with power, love, together with the pleasure brought by hormones such as love and sex, is only a dispensable dessert for political animals.
In House of Cards, people who believe in love are either dead or expelled from the top of the power chain. Adam, who risked his life to invade the national security system for love, helped his ex-lover to work for the Underwood couple and manipulated the election by illegal means. As a result, they both lost their lives. Remy, a businessman/former politician who believes in love, and Jackie, a member of parliament, were both expelled from the inner circle of power.
Finally, I want to say that it is not only a political animal, but also a fierce economic animal. I don't talk about love. Li Zekai can like Liang Luoshi and make her pay a huge breakup fee for three children. But he won't really fall in love with her and hand over his cards.
It's too cold up there. Some places, where there is no love.
Fortunately, I'm just an ordinary person.
Francis, when you face Claire, you can obviously feel completely different from others' disguise, disdain and control, but show your deepest frustration and helplessness. On the contrary, he obviously doesn't love Zoe. Basically, Francis has never really looked at her, and she is still putting on airs, which also shows that she is just a pawn.
For an overbearing politician, there is no doubt that only the most trusted people will show their weakest side naked in front of women.
In addition, Francis is the most respectful attitude when communicating with Claire, and there is no one. At this time, he regarded Claire as another kind of communication, with full respect and basically no tricks. Even in the face of President Tusk's boss, he still failed to treat Claire well, which fully shows that Francis cares about this person.
When Claire left home, Francis showed a completely different sense of loss and helplessness from Zoe for the first time, which also showed that he cared about this person.
True love is not sending flowers or going to bed, but a harbor when you are helpless. This harbor is Francis' spiritual sustenance, and both are mutual harbors.
As for Claire, we can see her love from her monologues with the photographer.
Why can we still be together after cheating? Let me explain something to you.
Let me quote a line from House of Cards (Claire recalls Frank's proposal).
He said, "If you only want happiness, then refuse me. I'm not going to have a bunch of children with you and count the days of retirement. I promise you will get rid of these pains and never get bored. " He's special. Many people proposed to me, but he was the only one who understood me. He didn't regard me as a goddess, and he knew that I didn't want to be worshipped or spoiled, so he took my hand and put a ring on me. Because he knew I would say yes. He is the kind of person who always knows how to get what he wants.
In the whole House of Cards, from the first season to the third season, there is actually no intimate scene between them, but their understanding of each other's eyes and tacit cooperation are desirable.
To give another real chestnut, former US President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can also be called "efficient couples"-
Clinton and Hillary drove out shopping and ran out of gas. Clinton stopped at the gas station to refuel. Halfway through, I found Hillary chatting with a gas station worker, chatting happily and flirting with each other. On the way back, Clinton was a little jealous and asked who Hillary was. Hillary is not shy either. He is one of my ex-boyfriends. Clinton said arrogantly, then you are lucky to follow me, otherwise you can only be the wife of a gas station worker. Hillary fought back immediately. No way, you are so lucky. Otherwise, that person will be the next president of the United States.
Whether the original intention of this joke is to dispel and satirize the seriousness and justice of politics, what do you see from this couple's words?
Powerful! Steady! Match!
This super-high-energy love between Clinton and Hillary can't be maintained by a person with different weaknesses.
In fact, the hero and heroine of House of Cards are very similar to Clinton and Hillary. Both husband and wife are colleagues and politicians. When they choose to be together, they are all strong in life. Both husband and wife appreciate their partners very much, and they are more active and devoted than ordinary people in managing marriage.
Seeing this, many people want to ask: What about the Clinton sex scandal?
Please allow us to put aside secular morality. You see, even Clinton's sex scandal failed to break up his marriage with Hillary, and Hillary dared to publish a book and publicly expose her bisexuality in the White House.
We can imagine that whether it's cheating, cheating or a threesome, it's just some small games they make fun of their married life. After all, people are instinctive-although these are easy to disintegrate ordinary families, because couples in ordinary families often fall in love from the beginning, and most of them turn into deserts after the hormone dopamine burns. Even if they are covered with green plants called "affection", it is always difficult to resist the fire again. By contrast, Clinton and Hillary, Frank and Claire are really better than the average couple.
That's why. Powerful! Steady! Match!
In House of Cards, Claire and Frances have been together for 30 years, and both of them have had extramarital affairs more than once. Frances even had a homosexual relationship with her personal trainer, but the emotional infidelity never shook their marriage. Is it because of love? Not exactly. It is because they have accumulated the deepest understanding of each other in the past 30 years and become the best partners and the best combination of interest alliances that can help each other realize their political ambitions. They can only have a real crisis because of the break of the interest chain, as shown in the play. However, it will never be because of the feelings themselves.
Political animals who can always climb to the top of the power chain never believe in true love. Both men and women. They may have short-term mood swings, like this and that, but never talk about love. People who love each other, whether men or women, will not love each other.
Political animals are animals without sex. Its attribute is only about the desire for power. Whoever gets in their way will die. Extreme power, even the power that still needs to be restricted by the system, brings people extreme excitement and pleasure. I'm afraid only great wealth in this world can be compared with war.
In House of Cards, people who believe in love are either dead or expelled from the top of the power chain.
Finally, I want to say that it is not only a political animal, but also a fierce economic animal. I don't talk about love. Li Zekai can like Liang Luoshi and make her pay a huge breakup fee for three children. But he won't really fall in love with her and hand over his cards.
It's too cold up there. Some places, where there is no love.
In the fifth season, the then first lady of the United States, Claire Underwood, had a midnight conversation with her lover, the famous novelist Tom Yates, which left a deep impression on me.
"
Claire: What's the worst thing you've ever done?
Tom: I pretend to love someone I don't really love.
Claire: Does she know?
Tom: Yes, but she pretended not to know.
Claire: I did something very, very bad.
Tom: I understand. You don't have to tell me.
Claire: Underwood (then US President Francis Underwood, Claire's husband) killed Zoe Barnes and Peter.
"
Seeing this, I deeply sigh that Claire and Tom are obviously two kinds of creatures. A person who regards politics and power as the most important theme in his life can do whatever it takes and have no moral guilt; The other person's foothold in life is love. So, they are doomed to separate.
Although the novelist Tom has a keen insight into the political animal Underwood and his wife, this ordinary man, a middle-aged literary man who pretends to love someone he doesn't really love, will never enter a truly profound relationship with Claire.
The essence of their relationship, for Claire, is just a temporary passion based on lust and heartbeat. They are emotionally connected, but they are only valuable when Claire is emotionally fragile and needs physical comfort from men. Claire's deep desire for more power has never been love and secular daily life, but her great political ambition, extreme desire for power, and control and influence on the fate of others.
Tom can understand this, but the depth of this understanding is only superficial because he is not a political animal at all.
When two people are not on the same channel at all, one party will simply "imagine" the behavior logic of the other party. Just like that famous psychological case, only a pervert killer can understand the logic of a pervert killer.
So, Claire and Frances are the same kind of people. They have the same ambition, values and behavioral logic, and have closely tied interests. Therefore, they advance and retreat together and become allies and comrades-in-arms fighting together.
Francis and Claire can still be together. First of all, it's not because of love. They are actually political partners and interest alliances under the cover of marriage. The pleasure of the two of them sharing the supreme power together is like dessert compared with the freshness brought by love. It's delicious, but that's all. This is a politician. The plot of this story is based on former US President Bill Clinton and his wife. After the "zipper door" happened, from the outside world, if the husband cheated, the wife would definitely make trouble or choose to divorce. Hillary not only didn't make trouble, but also didn't get divorced. Instead, she stood firmly on her husband's side and finally helped Clinton tide over the difficulties.
House of Cards can be said to refresh my three views, which is shocking. Let alone the darkness behind American politics today. First of all, the hero and heroine destroy the political marriage of the three views. This can't be called marriage or love.
First of all, I have been married for 30 years and have no children. In my cognition, he is an abnormal person. Such a person can still be president. It can be seen that the two of them are using each other together. The other party is just a tool on their own political road. For a tool, it only needs him to achieve or help me achieve the political goal I want. These two people can be said to be indifferent people in a positive sense, with only politics in their eyes and hearts. Do you think these two people can't accept cheating? What's more, they had a threesome.
Compared with power, love, together with the pleasure brought by hormones such as love and sex, is only a dispensable dessert for the protagonist here.
Cheating is such a thing, the bottom people have it, and so do the elites. The difference is that some people make trouble to death, but in the eyes of smart enough people, this is only part of human weakness, so it won't be strange. Cheating is just a piece of cake compared with other things in their eyes.
In medieval aristocrats, women cheating on men was the representative of charm. Anyone who is jealous is narrow-minded, without aristocratic temperament, and will be looked down upon. In addition, if you are an aristocrat, you have never cheated or no one has hooked up with you, or it is shameful in private. Otherwise, how come there are so many noble princes and kings in Europe and Russia? Of course, it would be even more stupid to have an affair with an inferior person. The TV series inherits this point well, and the more elite, the more free.
House of Cards is still in its third season. The prototype is widely regarded as Claire of Hillary Clinton. She is also a very attractive character and is welcomed by the audience, especially the male audience. Who would have thought that she later poisoned her lover in order to keep power?
Lord michael dobbs, the original author of House of Cards, is also the executive producer of the American version of House of Cards. In an interview with BuzzFeed News on 20 16, Claire's image design can be used for reference by Hillary. Of course, when he portrayed the female politician in the late 1980s, he alluded to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At that time, he was her staff adviser.
Finally, the relationship between them collapsed, which became the direct driving force for dobbs to create novels. As dobbs himself is a senior politician-he was the vice-chairman of the British Conservative Party and is still active in British politics, this political novel is regarded as "highly realistic" and describes the unbearable hidden behind the scenes of British politics.
Later, the BBC made a TV series based on this, which was also a great success.
I have no intention of discussing politics in this article. Like the original author of House of Cards, I am more interested in "people in politics and their humanity". To be more specific, I am interested in the attitude of such a group of political animals trying to stay at the top of the power chain towards marriage and love.
0 1
What's the difference between political animals and ordinary people?
In the fifth season, the then first lady of the United States, Claire Underwood, had a midnight conversation with her lover, the famous novelist Tom Yates, which left a deep impression on me.
"
Claire: What's the worst thing you've ever done?
Tom: I pretend to love someone I don't really love.
Claire: Does she know?
Tom: Yes, but she pretended not to know.
Claire: I did something very, very bad.
Tom: I understand. You don't have to tell me.
Claire: Underwood (then US President Francis Underwood, Claire's husband) killed Zoe Barnes and Peter.
"
Seeing this, I deeply sigh that Claire and Tom are obviously two kinds of creatures. A person who regards politics and power as the most important theme in his life can do whatever it takes and have no moral guilt; The other person's foothold in life is love. So, they are doomed to separate.
Although the novelist Tom has a keen insight into the political animal Underwood and his wife, this ordinary man, a middle-aged literary man who pretends to love someone he doesn't really love, will never enter a truly profound relationship with Claire.
The essence of their relationship, for Claire, is just a temporary passion based on lust and heartbeat. They are emotionally connected, but they are only valuable when Claire is emotionally fragile and needs physical comfort from men. Claire's deep desire for greater power At the end of the fifth season, President Francis, who was caught in the crisis of investigation and impeachment, decided to resign and give way to his wife who was already the vice president, but only if she promised to pardon him for all his crimes, otherwise she would withdraw her decision to resign. Under pressure and pressure, Claire first agreed, but changed her mind when she delivered her inaugural speech. The former president, who had a premonition that he would be dumped by his wife, faced the camera and spit out a sentence: If you don't tell me, I will kill you.
This ending is what he expected. Later, he called his wife to intervene. The first time, no one answered, and the second time, I hung up. At the end of the fifth season, in the last scene, Claire, who is on the presidency, looks at the camera: It's my turn.
Claire's era in American politics officially opened. Officially at the peak of power, she is never willing to be a marionette for her husband and former president.
03
In House of Cards, political animals who always climb to the top of the power chain never believe in true love. Both men and women. They may have short-term mood swings, like this and that, but they never talk about love. People who love each other, whether men or women, will not love each other.
Frances pushed her lover Zoe off the subway. Do you think this is the ruthlessness of male politicians? Claire, a female politician, was horribly ruthless when she poisoned Tom. When she calmly told Frances that she had killed her lover with her own hands, there was a hint of pride and pride in her mouth. At this point, she broke through the final bottom line, and she is no different from her biting husband.
Political animals are animals without sex. Its attribute is only about the desire for power. Whoever gets in their way will die.
Extreme power, even the power that still needs to be restricted by the system, brings people extreme excitement and pleasure. I'm afraid only great wealth in this world can be compared with war.
The more obsessed with power, the more obsessed.
Frances's opponent, Governor Conway, was originally in high spirits and full of justice to change the country, but with the deepening of the power struggle, the closer he got to the peak of power, the more he deviated from the track, tried every means to achieve his goal, and finally completely lost his shape.
The corrosive power of power on people is really terrible.
Compared with power, love, together with the pleasure brought by hormones such as love and sex, is only a dispensable dessert for political animals.
In House of Cards, people who believe in love are either dead or expelled from the top of the power chain. Adam, who risked his life to invade the national security system for love, helped his ex-lover to work for the Underwood couple and manipulated the election by illegal means. As a result, they both lost their lives. Remy, a businessman/former politician who believes in love, and Jackie, a member of parliament, were both expelled from the inner circle of power.
Finally, I want to say that it is not only a political animal, but also a fierce economic animal. I don't talk about love. Li Zekai can like Liang Luoshi and make her pay a huge breakup fee for her three children. But he won't really fall in love with her and hand over his cards.