After the end of "24 Hours" last year, I stopped waiting for any American dramas. At that time, it was really empty. HBO was preparing to shoot George Martin's epic "A Song of Ice and Fire" news. I was dubious and didn't put it on the waiting list.
George Martin was born in 1948. He started writing professionally at the age of 23 and won the Hugo Award at the age of 27. In 1989, he began to devote himself to Hollywood and was the screenwriter of "Beauty and the Beast". In 1996, he returned to the literary world to start the creation of fantasy literature. "Game of Thrones" is the first volume of "A Song of Ice and Fire." Seven volumes are expected to be written, and at present, news of the publication of the fifth volume in English has just been reported.
I have the first four volumes in Chinese, and I originally planned to read them together. I don't wait very patiently. For example, I never watch a series on TV. Those who are interested will wait for the disc to be released and buy a set, and watch the whole book at a time. Later, I found out that the fans of ice and fire all over the world probably had a mindset with me. Martin could not afford to wait. It is still uncertain whether he can write this book in his lifetime, so after the third volume is available, I have a good day. , The light rainy day, neither cold nor hot, began the journey of ice and fire.
Then I reluctantly fell into waiting like everyone else, cursing the author's procrastination in publishing a volume in three years, and praying that God would bless him to write the complete book before he sees the seven gods.
Compared with "The Lord of the Rings", "A Song of Ice and Fire" is better. It does not have a clear opposition between good and evil, but a complex epic, love stories, court conspiracies, betrayals and wars, dragons and ghosts... in these Among the common elements in fantasy novels, characters and humanity have reached an incredible depth. During the reading period, as the plot unfolds, the kind of enthusiasm and the pleasure of reading are only experienced when I first read Jin Yong's novels in college.
When the fourth volume came out, I reviewed the first three volumes before I started to read it. It was very slow, because until the fifth volume was far away, I was worried while watching that Martin spread the stall too much, and proceeded according to this plot. , It’s really hard to say whether the seven volumes can be finished. As time goes by, the expectation fades.
I didn't take HBO seriously, but it's coming soon. The first season of "A Song of Ice and Fire" "Game of Thrones" will be broadcast in mid-April. So, for the first time I watched an American TV show, waiting for the new episode to be broadcast, looking for 720P sources from the Internet, and then looking for subtitles from everyone recognized as authoritative, and downloading them. Almost two days after it was broadcast on HBO, I was able to watch the high-definition video.
Slowly I feel that waiting for one episode like this is also quite interesting. The plot in the novel is well understood for a long time. All I want to see is how to present it visually. There are both small disappointments and admiration for HBO's ability to simplify the complexity and simplify it. There are hundreds of characters with names and surnames in Binghuo. There are more than a dozen protagonists and main supporting actors in the narrative perspective. It has created a world of its own, so it has a lot of clues. The TV series is not as broad and profound as the original book, but it has grasped the essence of the original book and focused on shaping the characters-there are no good people or bad people, no pure good and evil, only destiny. Everyone has to face his own destiny and make a choice. From weak to strong, from swing to firm, this is growth.
Growth is also one of the motifs of all epics.
The last scene of the first season was quite shocking. Danilis, the last heir of the Targaryen clan, was reborn from the fire with the dragon, just like the wizard’s prophecy in the book-you are destined to set up three flames, one for a living. , One group is death, one group is love.
And I started to wait for the next season, just like the oath of the night watchmen in the book: The long night is coming, I will watch from now on...
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