He started his professional career with a stint in advertising as a Copywriter. After 4 years of life as a full-time copywriter in mainline and digital agencies, he switched to a freelance role, writing on films and web series. Over the course of 6 years as a freelance writer he has written features for Red Bull, Tinkle Comics, while writing scripts for ad films, corporate videos and short films.
He continues to work and develop his concepts and scripts for films and TV. He also has acting credits in a few commercials and a short film to his name. Contact: info dkoding. Press Release. Alan Harper and the makings of the worst character in TV history.
Two and a Half Men Alan Harper. View this post on Instagram. Share This. Trending Today. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Alan also dated his receptionist before screwing things over by sleeping with her mother. By far Alan's most serious relationship was with Lyndsey, a single mother who seemed fine on paper, but was often shown to be almost just as screwed up as Charlie on the inside.
Even that relationship did not ultimately last, and it was hinted in the series finale that Alan was doomed to stay single and live at the beach house for the rest of his life.
Alan did not have a happy childhood. A running theme of the show is how terrible a mother Evelyn was to both Charlie and Alan, being too caught up in remarrying and enjoying her life to focus on her sons. Evelyn would constantly belittle and dismiss Alan's accomplishments, a habit that continued in his adult years with Alan never really getting any kind of closure over his mommy issues.
Charlie was also not a very supportive older brother, stealing Alan's dates and playing practical jokes on his younger sibling.
Basically, Alan spent his formative years being beaten down by the people closest to him, a trend that continued into adulthood through his emasculating relationship with Judith. Despite being perennially down on his luck and in need of help from those around him, Alan manages to put a positive spin on most things in his life. His optimism ran out once and he tried to take his own life, but that attempt was unsuccessful.
It is hinted that while Alan will never find happiness in a relationship, he will still spend the rest of his life in luxury, living in the beach house with his billionaire buddy Walden. Chuck Lorre has confirmed that the opening theme song of the show, which is accompanied by a clip of the three leads singing along to the tune, is a lip-synced performance. The actual tune is sung by studio artists.
Men have cited the lack of attention people give Terry Crews or Corey Feldman whenever they talk about issues like sexual abuse. Alan reflects a worst-case-scenario.
In the overall gender dynamic, he draws every bad card and makes every wrong move. He marries a woman who hates him and exerts immense control over his life.
He has a callous, egocentric mother who gives him no affection, guidance, or support. The entire world takes advantage of him and he does nothing to stop it. If he gets kicked out of the house, he has nowhere to go.
If he makes any money, someone else ends up getting it, often his ex-wife or an ex-girlfriend. This is the kind of nightmare scenario that men genuinely worry about. If Alan Harper were gay or transsexual, then he would have organizations that support him. There are many groups that work hard to help disadvantaged members in the LGBT community. There are also plenty of organizations that help women as well. A character like Alan Harper lends himself to ridicule, but his situation is no laughing matter.
Society does nothing to help him and everything to mock him. On top of that, his situation can manifest in the real world, minus the laugh track. It is possible for a man to lose his home, his kid, and his money thanks to a vindictive wife.
Any debate that tries to take the side of men tends to get labeled as misogynistic. We can either take those concerns seriously or create a society where men may end up like Alan Harper, laughably pathetic and utterly destitute. However, the core of its comedy has serious implications and that are worth taking seriously, now more than ever. Filed under gender issues , human nature , Marriage and Relationships , political correctness , psychology , romance , sex in media , sex in society , sexuality , women's issues.
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Hi, and thanks for creating this article. Some still deny its existence! I really wish that the more vocal leaders of both gender-based-movements would shut up and ponder what their actions and sentiments create in terms of imagery of the opposite sex.
This behavior is displayed around Evelyn simply because she's his mother and Judith because of her powerful lawyer. At times when Alan has tried to stand up to Judith, he usually regrets it by either losing his nerve and let Judith have her way or going through on his courageous outbursts, which Judith makes him pay dearly for later on. Alan lives an extremely inactive sex life and normally resorts to chronic masturbation. His marriage with Judith was passionless, to say the least.
Charlie describes him as a man who was "married twelve years and had sex twelve times". Because of this, Alan becomes extremely clingy towards women whom he has only a sexual relationship with, mistaking his feelings for love.
After an entirely physical weekend with Nancy, a woman he met at the supermarket, he was prepared to elope to Vegas with her but was shot down when she called to say her husband had come to town early in " Frankenstein and the Horny Villagers ".
The prime example was with Kandi, who did seem to care for Alan but was incredibly stupid and had very little in common with him. They impulsively married in Vegas after Charlie and Mia's wedding was called off, only to divorce months later.
Also, Alan is revealed to use Viagra, which is specifically emphasized when he began masturbating all around the house. Charlie was also very surprised to discover that the cause of Alan's "non-stop whack-a-thon" was because he was cheap, as his Viagra pills expired next week but Alan adds to this " And horny" in " Twanging Your Magic Clanger ".
In " Ergo, The Booty Call " Jake accidentally had one of Alan's Viagra pills, thinking them to be vitamins, during his birthday party, to which Berta wittily adds, "the kid's gonna need another party hat" as to cover the erection. Despite being presented as a lonely man, Alan has had multiple girlfriends throughout the series, but whenever they got close, it's normally he who ends up ruining it. Examples include when he and Judith were close to reconciliation but after having sex, he became agitated that after their divorce her sexual moves bettered but chose to not do the same while married to him, in " Carpet Burns and a Bite Mark ".
Other occasions include when his envy overtook him after being given a house key by his girlfriend, Lindsey, whom he was convinced that Charlie was trying to steal her from him in " Skunk, Dog Crap and Ketchup " and breaking up with his girlfriend because of their loveless sex life when she in reality planned to have a threesome with her friend in " Meander to Your Dander ".
Despite his constant submission to women, Alan shows incredible confidence and charm at times but they are normally extremely brief. While arguing with Judith about Charlie bringing Myra as a date to her wedding, he hangs up on her with total confidence but admits that he was going to "pay for that" once he did; Berta referred to him having "phone cojones" in " Smooth as a Ken Doll. Known to be a doormat, Alan has allowed virtually every woman in his life to walk over him.
The reasoning behind this behavior is elaborated on by many characters, but Alan ultimately concludes that it was Evelyn's doing in her entirety. Loving his mother more than Charlie yet being the least favored, Alan demands affection but receives naught.
Evelyn sucked the joy out of her children's life because of her self-obsession and undermined his worth with no real love, which only made him more desperate for affection, transferring this desire for love to every woman he was in a relationship with, allowing himself to be whipped and ignore what he wanted to please them instead of himself. The irony of this is that his desire to be loved has made virtually every woman he commits himself to resent his existence.
Perhaps the closest thing Alan has ever had to mutually loving relationship was with a troubled single mother. His needs for affection caused him to lose his earning and his condo for Kandi, as he failed to realize that he needed to keep the money for himself and beware of Judith's scheme in making him more miserable. Alan is presented as being an extremely effeminate man, which others perceive as being gay but he defends as metrosexual. Amongst other things, he possesses an expansive and literate vocabulary, normally speaking in fluent and sophisticated sentences, has an extravagant and flamboyant sense of fashion, a fondness for Glee and Broadway theaters and plays such as The Lion King.
He also began doubting his own sexuality when he starts hanging around with his friend Eric, who was gay in " Tucked, Taped and Gorgeous ". Also, after the rest of his friends and family also mistook him for being gay and their lives became better, he was genuinely conflicted until he kissed Eric and discovered that he was in no way attracted to him and angrily kicked him out of his car when he discovered that he found Charlie to be the more attractive Harper.
Despite his effeminacy, Alan has a dark side and displays what appears to be a violent temper. When he discovered that Charlie had framed him for stealing Silly Putty when he was a boy, he angrily tried to beat down the door that Charlie was hiding behind in " The Price of Healthy Gums Is Eternal Vigilance ".
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