Generally speaking, film and television works adapted from novels are difficult to be evaluated as surpassing the original. For novels such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Ice Fire" with high literary attainments and excellent storytelling, everyone's criterion for adapting film and television dramas is how well the original work is restored. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy has been acclaimed because he does present the novel's grandiose scenes and epic plots, restoring them so successfully that they are classics. The story of "A Song of Ice and Fire" is just like the other side of "Lord of the Rings", which rarely shows the grand epic war, but focuses on court battles and power games. If The Lord of the Rings is a fairy tale, full of brave heroes, noble knights, and wise wizards, then "Frozen" is like a dark fairy tale for adults, full of dirty conspiracies and courtiers who have different ideas. , and a knight who kills without blinking an eye. The Lord of the Rings is a simple contest between good and evil, and "Fire and Ice" tells us that reality is cruel, and it is crueler than imagined.
HBO has enough financial resources to create such an epic drama, and the scenes, costumes, and weapons in the drama are extremely elegant. The gloomy picture, the simple and textured clothes and the steel swords and armors perfectly restore the medieval style. The Middle Ages were chaotic for Europe, and this show amplifies the chaos, so many bloody scenes are displayed without hesitation.
However, a TV series is not a movie after all. In the battle of the Green Fork in the first season, the macro battle scene was not shown in the play. In fact, it is more than that. Although the play tried to follow the content of the original book in the previous seasons, but Edited in some places. Each episode of the show needs great conflict and plot advancement to attract the audience, and too many secondary characters can distract the audience, obviously the novel does not have these concerns. In this way, the main characters in the play have to take on more scenes.
A lot of the characters on the show are brilliant, and the few characters at the center of Game of Thrones: Cersei, Littlefinger, Varys, and Tyrion have too much room for expression. Among them, Littlefinger and Wallis have long been veteran gamers and senior players of the game of power, so they humiliated the royal family and seemed to be controlled by others, but they were always able to walk among the powerful. The common feature of these two people is that they have no noble blood, and they have come all the way, so they dare not offend the Lannister family, nor the Stark family. But after the final conflict, they found that the two of them were still standing firmly.
Many say that in this game of power that has engulfed the Seven Powers, all the good guys die or run away, while all the bad guys are on the winner's side. Yes, Eddard Stark has always represented nobility, justice, and loyalty. When such a great man was imprisoned and then beheaded, the show tells us that nobility and integrity cannot play this game of power. And the representative of the bad guy in the game center is Cersei. She has implemented a series of methods to protect Eddard Stark to the point of being ruthless. In fact, both Varys and Littlefinger have pointed out Eddard Stark before. This game is not won by normal rules. What kind of means must be used to deal with what kind of person. It's a pity that Ed's sense of honor is above all else, so he loses a mess.
If Eddard Stark represents the highest point of morality and honor in this epic, then Tyrion is undoubtedly the one who can lead the whole epic and affect the entire world of Westeros.
Tyrion, on the other hand, was an untimely person. First he was a dwarf, and second he was a Lannister-born dwarf. Therefore, his honest behavior made his relatives very disliked, and he was good at calculating, which made the other families give up three points. So there are not many people in that world who like him. This dwarf was not easy to live, but he was still a good man. As the Game of Thrones begins, Tyrion begins to mediate in the dirty game by relying on his intellect, unlike Ed, he knows that having a noble soul can't fight someone like his sister, he He is a good man, but he must also be an unscrupulous warrior. He eventually defeated Stannis' attack while fighting his sister, preventing the kingdom's fall. But he is a Lannister dwarf, he did all the things a great hero should do, but he didn't get the slightest reward that a hero deserves, and even was almost killed on the battlefield. When everyone finally held up his father as a savior, he was left on a bed in a remote room.
So at the end of the fourth season, when he was framed and sent to the Inquisition, he finally reached the limit of his patience. As Prime Minister, he protected the whole of King's Landing, but he was always regarded as a devil by the people; His father tried him, his sister sued him, and the woman he loved most humiliated him in court, accusing him of various "bad deeds." He was going to exchange his life for silence, but he couldn't help it. It's not that he's not smart, it's that he is completely desperate for the world. He turned around and shouted "I wish I was the devil you were talking about"! He didn't surrender to the world, but after fate kept playing with him, he still couldn't escape death.
Of course the author will not kill Tyrion, because he is the soul of the whole novel. His first half of the road went to the lowest trough and almost died. But as much suffering as this character suffers, there is so much hope. He is a giant in Maester Aemon's mouth, so he must rise. So he finally vented all his anger, committed heinous crimes, fled far away from home, and embarked on the road of his rise.
The character of Tyrion not only drives the direction of the story, but also the hope of the audience. And with his departure, King's Landing, the center of the power game, has not many important people left. The focus of the story gradually shifts to Dorne and the East.
The first episode of the new season is an account of the directions of the characters in the previous story. Cersei and the Tyrell family are at war in King's Landing; on the Great Wall in the north, Qiong En is caught in an upcoming problem; Long Ma continues. Tangled in her Virgin mentality; Littlefinger guides Sansa's path to black belly; what really advances the story is Tyrion's path of exile.
Predictably, the upcoming plot is significantly faster-paced than the novel, and will omit a lot of tedious details and characters. As the story develops, we will witness the growth or transformation of each character, as well as the rise or fall of different characters.
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