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The most magnificent work in the history of American drama "Game of Thrones" finally ushered in the eighth season . Countless people are eagerly looking forward to it.
As the king of an American drama that has won 13 Emmy Awards, the film still remembers the spring of 2011, the first night I saw "Quan You"-I watched two episodes and abandoned it.
To be honest, the world view of "Quanyou" is like a mountain. When watching the first season, you are only at the foot of the mountain. The dense plot line and numerous characters form a complex universe. The first time you look at it, you will be overwhelmed by dazzling information.
The next night, I stood patiently and watched a few more episodes. Suddenly, it was like Tao Yuanming who had discovered Taohuayuan, suddenly enlightened, and quickly entered the pit.
The charm of "Quanyou" lies in its complexity. Every plot of it is nothing like this at first glance, but the more you look later, the more you are convinced by the screenwriter and original author Martin. Those foreshadowing in the multi-line story of the group portrait are buried just right, neatly, and logically echoing each other.
Master Martin who likes to kill the protagonist most in the story
In the foreshadowing, there are also various chewy details hidden. The whole play is like a big airtight net. Sometimes the buttons left in the first season will be unlocked in the sixth season.
For many fans who have entered the pit of "Quanyou", the joy of watching "Quanyou" lies in discovering these details. Many details, just watch the episode once, you will quickly ignore and forget.
So in repainting again and again, I was like admiring a gorgeous Gothic or Baroque building, constantly marveling at the ingenuity of the script.
In the process, I sorted out 10 interesting details in "Quanyou", opened the notebook, and looked back at them again. I am really impressed by the name of the drama, and I deserve it .
Detail 1: The hint of wolf and deer
In the first three seasons of "Quanyou", the main storyline was the dispute between the Stark family , the wolf family in Westeros , and the Lannister family , the lion family .
The source of their struggle is the throne of Baratheon of the Deer family.
At the beginning of S01E01, the story has already laid the groundwork. When the wolf father Ed was walking in the forest with his children, he ran into a dead elk, which symbolized the death of the deer king Robert. Then Ed deliberately asked "Is it a lion's masterpiece?"
Later, he saw the corpse of an ice wolf, symbolizing the death of Wolf Dad.
This kind of plot hint also appeared in Tai Wen, the lion's patron during S01E07. The first time he appeared in the play, he was cutting deerskin-obviously, this was the director telling everyone that the death of the deer king had nothing to do with him.
Detail 2: The execution of the wolf family must beheaded
It is also S01E01. The beginning is when the night watchman meets the strange ghost, only one survived and returned. Because he violated the night watchman's oath, he will be beheaded.
Before the execution, Ed brought his sons to the execution ground. He told the children of the wolf family that the Stark family had a tradition that if a person was sentenced to death, he had to do it himself .
You may not remember this sentence as an audience, but the wolf kids in the room listened to it.
S02E06, the adopted son Theon, betrayed the young wolf master, raided Winterfell, the wolf home base camp with empty troops, and personally beheaded the stubborn coach Rodlik.
In S03E05, the eldest son Robb killed two captives of the lion family because of his vassal Kastar. Robb sentenced Kastark to death. He personally cut off Kastark's head.
S05E03, the illegitimate son Jon Snow, after he became the commander-in-chief of the night watchman, Janos Slinter refused to follow his orders. In order to follow your example, even if Janos begged for mercy, Snow still cut off Janos's neck with his own hands. By the way, Jenos is the golden-robed boss who once betrayed Wolf Dad, so Xue Nuo can be considered revenge for his father.
Detail 3: The family crest of the wolf family, from running wolf to decapitated wolf
In the story of the first season of "Quan You", the wolf family owner Ed has not been beheaded by Joffrey. The family crest of the wolf family in the play has always been two versions: one is a running wolf, the other is Because there are only wolf heads. In Winterfell City and the capital Junlin City, you can see the logo of Ben Wolf. The letter that Ed had written was also sealed with Benlang seal lacquer.
But after Ed was beheaded, the crest of the wolf family no longer showed the running wolf pattern, and the wolf head pattern was uniformly replaced. The symbol of the wolf head is obvious, it is like a broken head. This is the huge grudge of the wolf family across the whole play. Remember the mantra of the wolf family?
"The North will never be forgotten."
Detail 4: Follow the way of the other, and return the body to the other
In the matter of killing and being killed, the rules of the world of "Quanyou" are very fair—however you kill, you die.
1. Ed cut off the head of the escape night watchman, and his head was also cut off by King Joffrey.
2. At the Scarlet Wedding, the eldest son Robb of the wolf family and his mother Caitlin were killed. Robb was stabbed to death with a dagger by Old Skinner. Later, Old Skinner was also stabbed to death with a dagger. It was his illegitimate son Xiaoshan who killed him.
3. It was also a bloody wedding, and Caitlin was cut by someone sent by Old Frey. Coincidentally, Old Skinner died under the throat-cutting blade of Erya, the youngest daughter of the wolf family.
4. Jon Snow’s lover, Ygorite, was good at archery and shot many innocent villagers to death. And she eventually died under the flying feathers of a villager boy Ollie.
5. Caitlin's sister Lysa, whoever is not pleasing to the eye, will throw people down the moon gate of Eagle's Nest City. Guess how Lysa died herself? I was also thrown from here by my little finger.
6. Little Skinner likes to throw prisoners into the kennel for wild dogs to gnaw. In his final ending, he was also locked in his kennel by Sansha and devoured by wild dogs.
7. Aralia, the mistress of the Red Viper, smeared poison on her lips in order to get revenge, and killed Cersei's daughter Mesera with a kiss. In return, Cersei used the same method of applying poison to her lips to poison Aralia's daughter and let her witness her death.
8. The "Queen of Thorns" of the Tyrell family poisoned the then-reigning Emperor Geoffrey with a glass of poisoned wine. She herself finally returned to the West with a glass of poisonous wine.
9, Bran was seen by Bran because of incest with his sister, James pushed Bran down the wall in a hurry, causing Bran to become disabled. In the following story, James was cut off by the Bolton family leader Locke and became disabled.
Looking at these death-by-deal methods, you will directly feel the density of death in "Quanyou". Let me talk about another point of knowledge. So far, the only normal natural death in the whole play, that is, old age, is the only Bachelor Yimon in the Black Castle.
Detail 5: Authentic and Little Devil
S04E10, the little devil, as the "most unwelcome person" of the lion family , has always been disgusted by his father Tai Wen. Later, he was falsely accused of poisoning Joffrey and was sentenced to death and was about to behead his head. Fortunately, he was finally saved by his brother James.
But before he left, the little devil turned and got into a tunnel, and through this tunnel came to his father Tai Wen's bedroom, and finally shot his father who was going out with a crossbow to death.
You may overlook a question, that is, how did the little devil know this secret path to the Prime Minister's Tower?
In fact, the screenwriter laid the groundwork as early as the ninth episode of the second season. Before the Battle of Heishuihe, Varys once gave the little devil a tunnel map of the Red Fort, so that in case of defeat, the little devil can escape from the tunnel. .
At that time, the little devil was the prime minister, and he lived in the prime minister's tower where his father Tai Wen would live in the future. Therefore, the underground distribution under the prime minister's tower, of course, the little devil will remember that he is very familiar.
What's interesting is that the little devil also designed the underground system of Kaiyan City in his hometown before. This allowed the little devil to turn to Queen Daenerys before and when he led troops to attack Kaiyan City, he would enter Kaiyan from the waterway.
In addition, the crossbow used by the little devil to kill his father was the one used by Joffrey, who was still alive, to torture prostitutes two seasons ago. One of the important reasons for the little devil to kill his father is also because he calls his beloved a prostitute.
Detail 6: Cersei's prophecy
As a child, Cersei looked for a witch to predict her future life. The witch gave four predictions.
Article 1: "You will not marry the prince, you will marry the king".
Many years later, Cersei did marry the deer king Robert.
Article 2: "You and the king will have no children, the king will have twenty illegitimate children, and you will have three."
This prophecy fully confirmed the reality. Cersei's three children were all born of incest with his brother James. And Robert, King Deer, indeed has many illegitimate children. Cersei and Robert once had a son, but he died after giving birth.
Article 3: "Your child will use gold as a crown and gold as a shroud."
Cersei's three children all died in the struggle for power. The eldest son, Geoffrey, was poisoned by Old Rose at the wedding banquet. The second son Toman, because Cersei bombed the cathedral and killed his queen, jumped the tower and killed himself. His daughter Mesera was also poisoned to death by the mistress of the Red Viper.
These three predictions of the witch have all been fulfilled one by one. But there is another prediction, currently hanging over Cersei's head.
In this prophecy, the witch mentioned: after Cersei becomes queen, there will be a queen younger than her, who will overthrow her rule and take away everything she treasures.
This queen has a double meaning, that is, it may be a queen or a queen. Cersei always thought this queen was a little rose. But the latter is dead, and the prophecy has not yet been fulfilled. According to the current plot, it must be Dragon Mother who overthrew Cersei .
In the original book, Cersei also has a prophecy: one day in the future, when you are drowned in tears, your brother will strangle your pale throat and take your life.
This prophecy can explain why Cersei has been guarding against the little devil and caring about his threats. And it also makes the original party very much looking forward to seeing whether Cersei and James will eventually kill each other.
As a rule, the prophecies in "Quanyou" will basically be fulfilled. After Robert's death, his brother Stannis fought for the throne with the red-robed witch. They once captured Robert's illegitimate son Zendley, sucked his blood with three leeches and threw it into the fire. Stannis read the names of three people: Geoffrey, Robb Stark, and Baron Greyjoy.
The red robe witch predicted that all three of them would die of unfaithful fate, but they would die of poisoned wine, sharp knife, and falling bridge.
Even more frightening is that the wolf family takes care of Bran’s grandmother who has fallen paralyzed. The horror stories about strange ghosts she told Bran were all true. Even savages will sacrifice babies to strange ghosts, which also appear in the later plot.
Detail 7: Does the little finger recognize Er Ya?
As the most chaotic opportunist in the world of "Quanyou", Littlefinger is the most cunning character in the entire series.
In S02E05, in Herrenborg, when Littlefinger met with Tai Wen, Er Ya happened to pretend to be Tai Wen's maid. On the wine table, little finger and Erya had a brief eye contact, and the corner of her little finger's mouth was slightly tilted, but then, when her eyes rolled, she did not mention this maid to Tai Wen, who was the daughter of the wolf family.
Because this clip is very short, many fans are wondering: Did Little Finger recognize Er Ya?
The answer is: of course I recognize it.
Because in the following episodes, Little Finger persuaded Sansha to leave with him, and specifically mentioned a sentence "I met your mother and sister". Sansha expressed surprise, and Little Finger added, "Your sister still Alive".
The little finger who is least noticed knows everything. He only speaks the right words when it is suitable. As long as everything fits his motto: Chaos is a ladder.
Detail 8: Don’t ignore any passerby
In S03E01, the young wolf master Robb passed by Herrenborg and saved a dying old man. Such a passerby, in the plot arrangement, seems to be just a little dragon suit that embodies Robb's decent man.
But at that time the young wolf master asked his name, and he also answered.
Cobain, a bachelor who was expelled from Xuecheng for indulging in in vivo medical experiments. In subsequent episodes, Cobain walked with James, the lion family who also fled, and healed his severed hand injury.
Later, he returned to King’s Landing with James, made a metal prosthetic hand for James, and turned the poisoned lion family into a biochemical warrior. In the later period, Cobain became the most important, even the only one around Cersei. Confidant. He also modified a giant crossbow that can shoot dragons.
A seemingly inconspicuous passerby, in this way, quietly turned into thunder in a silent place.
Detail 9: no one can protect me
The wolf family's daughter Sanshou has suffered humiliation all the way since she was accused of marrying Joffrey. She was abused by Joffrey, married to the dwarf little devil, and was ridiculed at the wedding. Her last husband was Xiao Pei Pi, and even treated the three fools as pure vents. So Sansha has a catch phrase, which is: noonecanprotectme (no one can protect me).
The screenwriter made a big joke here. Because noone is the name of another profession in the world of power travel— faceless people (nameless people), they can disguise themselves and kill people invisible through training. Three silly sister Erya, it is such a faceless man.
And in the plot of the seventh season, Er Ya did come to Sansha's side, and used her wisdom and skill to get rid of the little finger that had been using her sister.
This noone really protected the three fools. The three silly mantra has become a unique prophecy.
Detail 10: Bachelors are hiding secrets
At the beginning of each episode of "Quan You", there will be a multiple metal ring at the beginning. In the center of the ring is a luminous body that looks like the sun. This metal ring keeps rolling, and then is the map of the entire Quanyou world.
Many fans of the show are actually at a loss for the initial circle, and they don't know where it came from. In fact, when you see the pendants of the Xuecheng Library in the back, you will suddenly see-it turns out that they are a symbol of the bachelor's degree.
Sam, one of the protagonists in the play, loves reading, and his ideal in life is to become a bachelor. When he went to learn to practice in the city, he knew that many books about magic, strange ghosts, etc., were regarded as taboos and were placed in the secret room of the library. Even if an army of strange ghosts oppresses the environment, the bachelors will turn a blind eye to it, and would rather not believe it. Bachelors, there must be some secrets hidden.
Bachelors will wear a ring pendant around their necks according to the characteristics of the knowledge they have learned. Even the Bachelor Luwen, who wears a pendant that symbolizes the study of magic knowledge, keeps telling Bran that everything is an illusion when Bran has a sign of magical awakening.
What are the bachelors hiding? The first and most important shot combined with the title is the pendant of the Xuecheng Library. It may be guessed that the bachelors learn from all directions, and what they intend to cover up is the starting point of all stories.
Okay, so much eloquence, but only 10 details.
Due to space limitations, there are still many details about this drama, popular science, background knowledge introduction, I can not go into details here.
For example, the king of Westeros is known as the king of the Andals, the Loina and the "Ancestors", the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the guardian of the whole territory.
I guess many people know which of the seven kingdoms are, but do you know which of the seven kingdoms are the descendants of the Andals, which are the descendants of the Loena, and which are the descendants of the ancestors?
Do you know the nine families of the Seven Kingdoms, which believe in the Seven Gods, which believe in the Old Gods, and who believe in the Drowned God?
Do you know what beliefs exist on the Essos continent on the other side of the Narrow Sea?
Do you know which nine cities are the nine free trade city states?
Do you know that the great master, the good master, and the virtuous master correspond to the slave owners in which three cities in Slave Bay?
Do you know that there are those roles. Did your mother die because of his dystocia?
Can you accurately tell the family names of several vassal families in the North?
Do you know what stories happened at the Crossroad Inn?
Do you know which battle the mad king became mad because of?
do you know? Did you know everything? Ah?
Finally, I have to sigh again that the screenwriter of "Quan You" is really abnormal!
Bye bye.
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