The root of American dramas is a complete set of ecological structures, including "Broken Sisters", "Supernatural", "The Vampire Diaries", "The Walking Dead", "Lost" and other vulgar dramas, as well as "Doctor House" , "Grey's Anatomy", "CSI", "The White House" and other well-established series, they are the cornerstone of American drama. On top of that, mutations inspired good, thought-provoking dramas like "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," "Homeland," and "Blood Judgment," and from there, they're honed. The production of such fine works as "The Sopranos", "Band of Brothers", and "True Detective" is no less than excellent literary works in terms of form, content and charm.
To become a true classic, a TV drama cannot be constrained by its own popularity, nor be restricted by the type of subject matter. Only by being brave in development and devoting to subtlety can an excellent work be created.
"Game of Thrones" is a suspenseful fantasy drama that handles both suspense and magic in a unique way. In the development of suspense, one is the so-called "no protagonist halo", and the other is multi-character viewpoint narration, these two points have been discussed by many people, and they are omitted here. The development of magic lies in grasping the sense of distance between reality and imagination. On the one hand, it depicts a quaint and bizarre world. Exaggerated and absurd. This sense of distance weakens the blood and darkness of the story, as well as dispels the audience's aversion to sensory stimulation. As Mr. Zhu Guangqian said: "The masks and dances of opera, the abstraction of sculpture, the formalization of pictures, and the expression of poetry. Phonology and the like are not 'natural', but they are not unreasonable. They can transport us into another world, free us temporarily from the constraints of everyday practical life, and focus on the beauty of beauty without stickiness shape."
Although the handling of suspense and magic in "Game of Thrones" is unique, it is not unique. The only thing that it does not give up is that it inadvertently constructs a kind of similar words in the process of transforming from novels to images. The beauty of embroidered images that only exists in this literature, I secretly think that this is the greatest contribution of this play to popular art. This coincidence is not accidental, but the two cultures see similarities in all aspects.
Comparing "Game of Thrones" with the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it can be seen that the two are very different. If you compare it with the stories of the Three Kingdoms in drum lyrics, opera lyrics, and storytelling books, you can find surprising similarities. The "next time decomposition" of Huaben literature and the "tie buttons" in storytelling performances are suspense, and the expression of the endorsement style is equally important, that is, a multi-character viewpoint narrative. This is the tacit understanding of folk literature in terms of expression, but we One branch is not very prosperous now. In Wang Yuebo's "The Great Sui and Tang Dynasties", some of the original appearances are still preserved. As for Shan Tianfang, Liu Lanfang, and Tian Lianyuan, don't read it again.
The beauty of embroidery is, first and foremost, the value of modeling. The importance of shape to characters is mentioned as high as character ability and meritorious career. For example, Zhuge Liang appeared in "Lost in the Sky", reciting "Feather fan and silk towel, four-wheeled vehicle, as fast as the wind and clouds; , two generations of worthy officials." Zhuge Liang is not only a wise man, he is also a wise man who rides a four-wheeled cart with a feather fan and a turban. Another example is Guan Gong, who is in a green robe, has a red face and long beard, holds a green dragon sword, and rides a red rabbit horse. He reverses the case and says that he may be able to use an axe to change him. This is the magic power that is easy to spread.
Why emphasize the importance of styling? Because in popular literature, it is not suitable to leave blank. Although white space is elegant and pure, it is not easy for the general public to understand. There is always a period of time between the appearance of the characters in the play, the role they play, the display of character, and the creation of events. In order to keep the audience excited and not cold, it is necessary to strengthen the attractiveness of the modeling. This is a long-term practice. From the experience, the general format is as follows: wear it on the head, wear it on the body, tie it at the waist, hold it in the palm, sit and straddle. It's like Lu Bu's appearance: "He wears a purple-gold crown with three-pronged hair on his head, a red brocade robe of Xichuan flowers on his body, a chain armor with animal face swallowing his head, and a lion and lion belt around his waist. Rabbit and horse." It's really called a first mover, if you just go through the motions, casually say that you are wearing a golden helmet, wearing a gold armor, holding a silver gun in your palm, and sitting in a BMW, then the taste will be far worse. This truth is not a creation of China, but a consensus of the people of the world. For example, in Japanese anime, the transformation of characters will use a lot of close-up shots to explain their head-to-toe dressing, which is a kind of application.
In "Game of Thrones", the color of clothes, the style of armor, the light and shade of patterns, the texture of materials, and the complexity of accessories are all consistent with the characters' personalities and experiences. Jon's black fur cloak, Ygritte's velvet jacket, Blackfish's iron scales, to the little devil's gold-trimmed red waistcoat, Joffrey's gold embroidered shirt, Duke Tywin's black outer mirrored inner Gold-finished slim-fit leather trench coats can be said to be numerous and overwhelmed, striking to the point of grandstanding. Unlike "The Lord of the Rings" whose aesthetics are rooted in reality, "Game of Thrones" is always a "joke", and its characteristics are plain. It's not a bad thing to be plain, it's just different types, just like Jingyanggang Wusong Fighting the Tiger, there are both Shi Nai'an's novel version, Wang Shaotang's storytelling version, Gai Zhaotian's Peking Opera version, Gao Yuanjun's Allegro version, Liu Jiyou's comic book version . The effort has arrived, and it is also a fine product.
The typicalization of clothing does not prevent it from changing frequently. The same character can change clothes on different occasions or periods. For example, when James Lannister appeared on the scene, he wore a distinctive kings armor, and when he was captured, he wore tattered clothes. Lost a sackcloth; Daenerys wore a Greek-style plain gauze skirt when she appeared on the stage, and changed to straw and linen apron trousers when she got married, and then changed into a long blue silk dress with Gold waistband, gold shoulder buttons, gold beads. The shape change is accompanied by the poverty of life, which is a kind of internalization and externalization. This is similar to changing outfits in opera. When Qin Qiong sold horses, he wore a green arrow coat and a hat. I don't care if it is pretentious or not, I just want to shape a specific appearance at a specific moment.
The modeling range of the embroidered image concept not only covers the appearance (the scarred face of the hound, the long braid of the king of the horse), the temperament (the sinisterness of Littlefinger, the kindness of Samwell), the body shape (the little devil is a dwarf, and Britney is a giant), wearing ( Differences between classes), accessories (as small as Arya Stark's sewing needle, as large as the three dragons of Daenerys, the mother of the dragons), and also includes identities and nicknames. Originally, when reading alone, the identities and nicknames of the characters in the book only had the function of providing information, but when spreading, they added the role of decoration and rendering. "How is it, it seems to be too dry and bland, and it must be said "how about Lin Chong, the head of the 800,000 Imperial Guards", or "how about Lin Chong, the head of the leopard", so that you can say it happily and the audience can listen to it. People have always had this kind of requirement for legends that can be simply summarized. In "Game of Thrones", there are many people who take their identities and nicknames as topics, such as Kingsguard, King of the North, Knight of Hundred Flowers, King Lightning, King Killer, Little Devil, Magic Mountain, Hound, Old Bear, Broken Palm, etc. Wait, under each topic, there is a good article.
The modeling has achieved this step, and it is still character modeling. In addition to character modeling, there is also story modeling. If the storyline is the creative strategy, then the storyline is the creative strategy. The so-called story modeling is the stylized design of the outline of the story. In the words of storytelling artists, it is called "Book Liangzi", which can be summarized as four moments: birth, fame, reversal, and ending. Taking Jingzhong Yue Fei's biography as an example, the gun picks the small beam. Wang Shi was born, Qinglong Mountain broke eight hundred thousand and became famous, Zhuxian Town's twelve gold medals were a reversal, and Storm Wave Pavilion was the ending. The disadvantage of this design is that it is too rigid, and the advantage is an outline. This kind of outline can be flexed and stretched, and it can be compressed into a sentence when it is small, such as "Twin River City young wolf masters the plan, and the little devil in the Heishui River uses soldiers". Similar to excerpts, theatrical version, independent.
Written here, let's briefly summarize the beauty of embroidered statues. It is an object made in the popular art of classical themes, using various externalized figures as objects, using vassal symbolic and dramatic methods. Kind of fun. The style may not be high, but it is not low, it is a kind of leisure.
So why is it said that the beauty of embroidered images in "Game of Thrones" is a valuable creation? Because the sense of embroidery is originally a vague imagination, or a flat impression, it is difficult to put it on the screen and make it three-dimensional, and only the group phase can form the sense of embroidery. Each of us has an imagination of a character in our hearts, and there is a flash of inspiration, but as Mr. Zhu Guangqian said, "Poetry and poetry are two different things. Poetry must have works, and poetry must be accidentally shot in a specific form. Let others see it." The same is true of imagination, reality and imagination are two different things after all, and HBO actually painted this long scroll and created these realities, and couldn't help being awe-inspiring.
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