I'm ashamed, I haven't read the original, I'm here for Eddie Redmayne, so I can only comment on the play itself, the following complaints are not for the book. Well, first of all, the script's narrative is sprawling, rushed, and straight. After reading the short review, the original work is very large, and it is difficult to condense and adapt. In this case, every second should be precious. I didn't expect that the whole play was narrated from the beginning to the end without any suspense and thoughts. On this basis, there are still many cluttered scenes with only one character saying a word for more than ten seconds, which has no narrative significance at all. For example, in the third episode, Stephen dreamed of the old king's cursed prophecy, and the prophecy was fulfilled within this episode. Why is there such a hurry? In the last episode, Waleren planned to murder Alfred in order to frame Jack. The show honestly first shows you Waleren saying "I have a plan" to William, then shows you how he secretly found Alfred to plan, and then completely filmed how Alfred Fighting with Jack and getting poisoned on the knife, why is it so long?
The script is too messy, so the characters can't stand up, and even the logic of the action is difficult to understand. Basically, the screenwriter's face is forcibly swallowed by the audience. The villain will be bad to the end, all the evil things will be done, and the children will be amused. The background logic of Ellen and her son Jack is very unreliable. Why does Ellen know everything, and where did she learn her skills? How could Jack know how to read and build a church? The most important thing is that I can understand Tom wanting to build a church. Why does Jack want to build a church? Why does Ellen help the Tom family, and what are her motivations and demands throughout the story? I haven't figured it out yet. Ellen and Tom fell in love with the sunset in the blink of an eye. They had to kiss when they met. There were still many passionate scenes, but the motives and logic of the characters couldn't convince the audience at all. They have already kissed 10,086 times. There is no chemical reaction between the two.
By the way, when it comes to kissing scenes, does the screenwriter of this show only have one way of expressing emotions and that is kissing? Imagine a village built a barricade against the enemy within two days (…), and then there is this scene, the opening scene, a group of workers resting on the barricade at night, the camera turns to our protagonist and his wife, and then they both clock in the same way Kissing, then our protagonist just said "I love you", then, then, cut to the next day to fight... Freckled teacher, I'm embarrassed for you.
For another example, Richard was stunned, stupid, and weak compared to his sister Aliena at the beginning. How could he recruit King Stephen to become the number one knight in England for a few years, and go straight to the head of the enemy general? It doesn't make sense. Maud's defeat in France is a big background event that can be remedied with a voice-over at the end of the last episode. It has to be reserved for the next episode for an unimportant character to mention a sentence before the audience knows that Maud has returned to France. I can't understand. Richard was the one who killed Glocester, so what happens when Maud's son takes the throne back? How do they keep their titles? I don't know, the screenwriter left the mess behind. Why did Phillip change his mind and let Jack come back, how did Jack become a priest, how did he go to France, how did he return to the vulgarity, and so on, the subway man looked at his phone.
In terms of the structure of the episode, because of the scattered script, the two clues (the construction of the church and the battle for the throne) are mixed together like knotted hair, so I won't talk about it anymore. The core problem is that Tom died too late, making it difficult to understand whether the central character is Tom or Jack; if the core is not a hero but the construction of churches and the invention and application of new technologies, there will be no episodes in the "Progress of Human Intelligence". ” on the level of heart and mind. Episode 7 only started talking about Jack reading the original geometry in France, and then he learned the epoch-making knowledge of architecture (excuse me) with a snap. It was too rushed to kill the plot, and there was little room for the new generation to grow.
Also, Ellen's acting skills are really hard to compliment! If the illogical character building and plot narrative are indeed debuffs, she did not have any scenes in the whole process that could convince people in terms of emotional expression and psychological shaping, her expression was stiff, and she had only tasted it. Other than that, it has no effect, and if there is no such character's story, it will not affect at all. Even the shape has not changed. After ten years, wearing a white wig is better than my son's skin. Let's take some snacks.
I really don't know what to give to Samsung. Maybe it's Eddie's red hair look, friends, it's red hair...
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