I think many "Game of Thrones" fans will be like me, revisiting the first six seasons while looking forward to the seventh season.
Let's go back to the ice-covered and snow-covered Great Wall as far away as the end of the world. As the heavy gates creak up, our hearts follow the three solemn-looking night watchmen through the darkness. In the passage under the deep Great Wall, three people, three horses, and two burning torches slowly walked out from the gate on the north side. Against the backdrop of the 700-foot-high Great Wall cliffs, they were as humble and small as ants... To the north, enter the unknown, terrifying, dark and dense virgin forest haunted by savages and the legendary White Walkers...
In the last article: Geography and History, we tried to use the method of imagery to think in our Construct an illusory Westeros continent in his heart: a land located in the northern hemisphere, surrounded by sea on three sides, long and narrow from north to south, and shaped like a dumbbell. To the southeast of the land, across the narrow sea is another eastern continent: Essos. As a non-original party, the advantage of our thinking in this way is that we are familiar with the geographical environment and orientation of the story, so as to follow the dizzying spatial transformation of the TV series.
After we are familiar with and understand the spatial dimension of "Game of Thrones", this article starts with the story.
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The story happened a long, long time ago. In the northernmost part of this continent, there stood a desperate Great Wall that was seven hundred feet high and stretched for hundreds of miles. Three night watchmen entered the virgin forest north of the Great Wall in the forbidden area of the civilized world, and they saw the Great Wall. In the legend of the disappearance, the White Walkers who haunted the winter night a thousand years ago, two of them were killed silently by the White Walkers, and one of them was so frightened that he lost his soul. deserters.
With the low, tragic, dignified, and very historical sense of the string concerto, the opening song of "A Song of Ice and Fire" like a symphony of fate, "Game of Thrones" slowly kicked off. Telling a story of love and hate intertwined a long time ago, rights and honors, duties and obligations, loyalty and betrayal, killing and rebirth, ice and fire, those vivid protagonists...
The active Lego bricks build the Wester All kinds of man-made buildings on the Luo Continent are just like the products of human civilization activities. The huge gears turn, like the drive and evolution of history. The wheel of fortune glows and spins in the dark, symbolizing impermanence and reincarnation. Swords, lights, swords, and shadows tell the story of the never-ending struggle for power on this continent, and the city head changes the king's flag. The dragon, the lion, the wolf, and the deer hint at how the four main players in this game of power will decide the winner, but the outcome will be certain: win or die.
On the desolate and cold northern plateau, the frightened night watchman ran wildly all the way, and was finally captured by the besieging and blocking northern cavalry troops. A swift horse galloped away, revealing a lonely castle on the empty horizon. Subtitle launch: Winter Fell.
Our viewpoint was taken from the ghost forest outside the Great Wall to the important town of Winterfell in the north. The story begins here.
We met the Starks. The first picture is of three people. On the left is a utterly beautiful boy who is struggling to draw a bow that is a little heavy for his age. In the middle is a teenager with thick black curly hair, his eyes are obviously looking at The archery target in front; the red-haired teenager on the right looks at the boy with the bow in his arms. The boy fired the arrow, but it was too far off the target, and the arrow hit the barrel on one side. The black-haired teenager in the middle leaned down and said to the boy, "Come on, my father is watching." The boy turned to look at the balcony upstairs.
On the balcony, there was a tall man with thick black hair and a beard, next to a red-haired woman, both of them looked at the boy with love and concern in their eyes.
The black-haired boy added, "Your mother is too." The boy turned around and nodded earnestly to the black-haired boy. The boy took the arrow and drew the bow again.
The camera cuts to the eaves of the porch, and a person who looks like a nun is admiring a red-haired girl: "As beautiful as always! Very good!" The girl politely responded: "Thank you." The nun then praised: "I really like it The patterns on these corners, the hands are so good! It's so beautiful! The stitches..." The
camera pushed past the girl, and we saw another younger black-haired girl, a girl to be exact, also holding in her hand The needle and thread of the embroidery, but her eyes turned to the red-haired girl, her face was helpless and disdainful, her mind was obviously not on the female red in her hand, she seemed to hear a sound, and looked around for it.
The camera moves to the boy shooting the arrow again, this time missing the target again. The two teenagers watching on the side couldn't help laughing. Another little boy appeared in the picture, riding on the saddle on the stake, also giggling.
At this moment, the man on the balcony said, "Who of the laughing people became a sharp archer at the age of ten? Let's practice, Bran, continue."
The boy named Bran was obviously a little embarrassed, and the black-haired boy warned again. : "Don't think too much, Bran." The red-haired boy also said, "Relax your arms, Bran." Bran aimed more intently this time.
Suddenly there was a "whoosh" behind him, and an arrow hit the bullseye. The arrow in Bran's hand had not yet been fired, and the three of them looked back in astonishment. It turned out to be the little black-haired girl just now, holding a bow and curtseying naughty at them. Bran jumped over the wall in anger and chased after him, the girl turned and ran away quickly, and everyone burst into laughter.
At this time, a saber warrior with white beard and hair and another brown-haired boy came to Bran's parents, and first saluted the two of them: "Lord Stark! Madam!" and then reported: "There is a mountain patrol. The news that the guards have come, a night watchman deserter has been caught." Lord Stark listened, his face was solemn, he pondered a little, and instructed the brown-haired boy behind the samurai: "Prepare a horse." The lady beside him obviously knew what was going to happen. , she asked Stark: "Does it have to be like this?" Stark told her solemnly: "He broke his oath. Kate." The warrior followed up: "The law is the law. Madam." Madame Kate lowered her head helplessly. head. Stark said to the warrior, "Let Bran come with me." Kate obviously didn't understand Stark's order: "Ned, he's only ten years old, so he's not suitable for observation, right?" "He's always grown up. One day," said Stark decisively, "and Winter is coming." Then he strode away.
In the open space downstairs, the black-haired boy was cleaning up the scattered arrowheads. On the balcony, Mrs. Kate looked at him with complex and indifferent eyes, he looked up at her, and immediately lowered his head.
This is the first scene of the first episode of the first season of Game of Thrones. Next we must also restore the second scene in this way.
The second scene of the first episode of the first season: execution, encountering a direwolf cub on the road.
Immediately after the first scene, the execution ground outside Winterfell. Before the execution, Ned (forgot? Mrs. Stark calls him that in the first scene) draws a long, heavy greatsword (we'll know it's called later) from the scabbard in the hands of the brunette. "Ice", forged with precious Valyrian steel), bowed his head and recited: "In the name of Robert I of House Baratheon, ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and guardian of the Realm, I, History Ed from the Tucker family, the Duke of Winterfell and the Guardian of the North, has sentenced you to death." The black-haired boy solemnly said to Bran, who was watching the execution, "Don't turn your head! Father will know." De Stark swung his great sword, and the head of the Night's Watch deserter was chopped off. The black-haired boy said to Bran, who had not turned his head and kept watching the execution: "You did a good job." The red-haired boy stroked Bran with his hand, expressing his affirmation.
Ed came to Bran, who was watching the execution for the first time, and asked, "Do you know why I killed him?"
"Jon said he was a deserter," Bran replied.
"Then do you know why I'm doing the execution myself?"
"An old tradition. Right?"
Ed nodded in approval, then added, "The condemned must execute himself."
"Did he really see the White Walkers? ?" Bran asked his father.
"The White Walkers disappeared thousands of years ago," Ed said.
"So he lied?" Bran stared at his father.
Ed was noncommittal, just said: "The world of madness is in the eyes of mad people." After speaking, he turned and left.
On the way back, Ed Stark and his party found a huge stag corpse that had been killed and had begun to rot. The brown-haired boy asked, "Is it a mountain lion (did it)?" Surprised, but affirmed: "There are no mountain lions in the nearby forest."
Going further, they finally understood the cause of the stag's death: a huge dead animal with a broken neck left. The antlers of the antlers, and several cubs were still screaming "Ow Ow" beside the corpse. The brown-haired boy asked, "Is it a monster?" Ed replied affirmatively, "It's a direwolf. It's tenacious!" Then, he pulled out the broken antler from the direwolf's corpse.
The red-haired boy said, "There are no direwolf south of the Great Wall." The black-haired boy (by this time we already knew he was the Jon Bran said) said, "Isn't there five here?" Picking up a cub next to the direwolf's body, he asked Bran, "Would you like to hug it?" Bran hugged the direwolf cub and asked worriedly, "What about the cubs? Their mother died."
The saber warrior replied with a blank face: "They don't belong here." The brown-haired boy said, "It's better to give them a good time." Then he drew the dagger from his waist. Ed also reluctantly told Bran: "The she-wolf is dead, and they won't live long." The brown-haired boy reached out and grabbed the little wolf in Bran's arms. "Yes, give it to me." Bran was anxious He had to shout, "No!" The red-haired boy looked very angry, and said sternly to the brown-haired boy: "Put the dagger away!" The brown-haired boy responded in dissatisfaction: "I obey your father, not you. Bran begged: "Please, father." Ed said apologetically to Bran: "I'm sorry, Bran."
At this moment, the boy named Jon stood up and said aloud: "Lord Stark, there are five little wolves in total, just one for each of the Stark children. The direwolf is the crest of your family! It's fate to meet them."
Jon said loudly The words made everyone quiet, and everyone looked at Ed, waiting for his decision.
Eddard Stark pondered for a while, and finally agreed, and said solemnly: "You have to train them yourself, feed them yourself, and if they die, you have to bury them yourself." One of the
five little wolves was hugged come out. Bran looked at Jon with empty hands and was very sympathetic. "What about you?" Jon said lightly: "I'm not a member of the Stark family."
Just as everyone turned to leave, Jon seemed to hear something With a voice, he turned around, and from under the she-wolf's body, he took out another snow-white wolf with a completely different coat color from the other five.
When the brown-haired boy saw it, he not only smiled, "Xue Nuo, this is a bastard, you must be yours." Jon didn't refute him, he embraced the last snow-white wolf, and looked at the red-haired boy earnestly. The hairy boy looked at him and nodded affirmatively.
The reason why we put so much effort into restoring the two scenes at the beginning of "Game of Thrones" like a split-shot script is to let non-original drama fans understand the identities, interrelationships and relationships of the characters through the drama itself. environment.
What do we see in both of the above scenes?
1. The boy who practiced archery was named Bran. Because the black-haired boy called him that.
2. Bran and the black-haired boy are brothers. Because the brunette told Bran that (our) father was watching you.
3. The black-haired man on the balcony on the second floor is the father. Because he was looking at Bran.
4. The red-haired woman beside the man is Bran's mother, not the brunette's. Because the dark-haired teenager emphasized that "your" mother was too.
5. The man's surname is Stark, he is a nobleman, and he is the leader of Winterfell. Because the saber warriors called him "Lord Stark" and reported to him a deserter who had caught a Night's Watch.
6. The man's name is "Ned" (Ed's nickname) and his wife's "Kate" (Caitlyn's nickname). Because they call each other that.
7. The two embroidered teenage girls are apparently the daughters of the family, inheriting the hair color of their parents, one red and one black. The eldest daughter is dignified, well-bred, serious in her work, and always says "thank you" in response to the nun's compliments. The youngest daughter is lively and active, and she is obviously better at the bow and arrow and archery skills that men need to master than embroidery.
8. Bran is ten years old and has just started practicing archery.
9. The wife of the family, Caitlin, knows the laws and rules of the family, but she is more merciful and does not want to see bloodshed. Therefore, I asked my husband if he could be lenient to the deserters.
10. Eddard Stark is a principled patriarch and a majestic head of the family. He keeps his word, he must enforce the law, because those who break their oath must be punished.
11. Eddard Stark's education and cultivation of his children has a family heritage, and he has to accept the family's traditions and values since he was a child, so he asked Bran to observe the execution, although the execution scene was bloody and violent.
12. Mother Caitlin worried that Bran, who was only ten years old, would not be able to withstand the horror of execution. In her eyes, Bran was still a child, but she knew how to respect and obey her husband.
13. Now we know the identity of the deserter: the night watchman. Like the two cavalry in the wedge that were killed by the White Walkers.
14. Breaking the oath here is a very serious matter, and the deserter is also very aware that as a man he has to bear the consequences: "I know that I have broken my oath, I know that I am a deserter."
15. Stark According to the tradition, the males of the family have to observe the punishment, and they have to turn their heads and look directly at them.
16. The environment in which the story takes place is a monarchy with a vassal system composed of seven kingdoms. The monarch of this country is "Robert I of Baratheon", and the canonical title is "ruler of the seven kingdoms and guardian of the whole territory". Sentencing criminals to death, in the name of the king.
17. Ed's own identity is "Ed of House Stark, Duke of Winterfell, Guardian of the North".
18. Bran lived up to his father's expectations and bravely faced the bloody execution. His father also told him that "those who declare the death penalty must be executed in person", which is also a family tradition.
19. Are there any fabled White Walkers from legends that deserters claim to have seen? Eddard didn't have an answer himself, he could only say from experience that the White Walkers disappeared thousands of years ago.
20. The black-haired boy is called "Jon". He taught Bran the traditions and precautions about the observation sentence. It seems that Jon is closer to Bran than other siblings, and he is more caring and caring. Bran.
21. The direwolf appeared near Winterfell, south of the Great Wall! The red-haired boy said, "There is no direwolf south of the Great Wall." Why did the direwolf run to the south of the Great Wall? What does this portend?
22. The huge stag died in the fight with this monster-like direwolf, and the direwolf was eventually inserted into the throat by the antlers of the buck and died. Deep meaning. And it seems that the reason why the female wolf is fighting for her life is to protect the cubs under her.
23. The Stark family has five children because five cubs were found first, Jon said to Eddard, and each of your five children happens to be one.
24. The "heraldry" of the Stark family, that is, the family emblem, is the direwolf. Meeting the direwolf is the fate of the Stark family. Be sure to remember this quote from Jon! Five children, five wolves, the fate of the family, the fate of the five children is intertwined with the five wolves, and the whole story develops in the future.
25. Bran is a kind, sensible, and compassionate child. He can't bear to abandon these little wolves who have lost their mothers like this, and he can't bear to watch his alien brother Jon have no wolves, because his brother Each has sisters. And Jon is also a descendant of "Wolf".
27. Jon's appearance is different, he loves his brother Bran, his "half-sister" (this question is an ultimate problem of "Ice and Fire", which will gradually become clear as the plot develops), told Bran Be like a man from a young age, with dignity and a sense of honor. Jon's daring to defy all opinions and correct the majestic Lord Stark's decision, this is not just giving little brother Bran a favorite "pet", but also reflects his reverence for nature and love for life .
26. Jon is Ed's illegitimate son because the brunette calls him "Snow". Later we learned from the mouth of the little devil Tyrion that all the illegitimate children in the north were surnamed "Snow". Therefore, we understand why Mrs. Stark, who is so kind and respectful to her husband and son, is so indifferent to Jon Snow, even full of hatred.
27. The brunette (later we know Ed's adopted son, Theon Greyjoy) is impulsive and obedient to Eddard, but not to the red-haired boy (later we know he is the Stark family) The eldest son, Robb Stark), was very disdainful, and it was not yet the young master's turn to issue orders. It seems that the interior of this family is not as harmonious as it appears on the surface. The family relationship is complicated and undercurrents are surging, which also lays the groundwork for the tragedy that follows.
28. Eddard Stark is both the majestic Duke of Winterfell and the guardian of the North, and a loving father. He is loyal to the country, respects the law, and is strict in the education of his children, but under his majestic appearance , still full of fatherly love. He eventually took Jon's advice and agreed to leave behind six motherless wolves. But he also established a principle for the children that raising wolves should be done by hand. He also practiced this principle without hesitation. Later, in a fight between children, he was forced by Cersei to kill Sansa's little wolf, an innocent lady.
29. "Winter is coming"! This famous Stark family motto will be mentioned countless times in the future. Now we don't know when the winter will come, but it tightens our hearts all of a sudden. This is a prophecy and the fate of the family, and it will accompany the Stark family's suffering.
In the next article, we will continue this story. (to be continued)
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