After the finale of Game of Thrones last week, I just casually joked with everyone. Originally, I have watched American dramas for nearly 20 years, and I am not a new warrior. But this morning, I read a few articles by elite intellectuals about the finale of Game of Thrones, trying to explain why the audience was dissatisfied with the finale of Game of Thrones. I can’t finish the performance (the original expression is more elite), I think that the audience does not understand the essence of totalitarianism, that the audience has walked into Hollywood stereotyped TV series and is dominated by characters and emotions, etc., and directly said that the audience is a rabble... Seeing that I was really stuck in my throat, I rolled my eyes and decided to write a few sentences.
In the past few years of Game of Thrones, I have only written an article seriously, which is about Snow's "The Dilemma of the Great Demon and Snow's Choice". He was threw a multiple choice question by the big devil: Jia Ling was tied to one boat, and there were many people on the other boat. Press the button and blow up Jia Ling to save a boat of people. If it was you, what would you choose?
Generally speaking, everyone talks about the option of choosing one or the other, but Jon is not, Jon is not reconciled, he always fights to the last second, desperately trying to find the third option, and then he is caught in a predicament Inspiration, sparking his imagination and creativity, found a third way.
After watching American dramas for so many years, in such suspense-driven plots, the protagonist often faces the difficulties given by the great devil, and the third option he finds is one of the greatest charms of American dramas.
Of course, the audience knows that this is not a choice made by the protagonist of the story, but depends on the extraordinary imagination of the screenwriter, on human nature, on the relevance of things, especially on the details. After chasing American dramas for so many years, similar to American dramas driven by suspense plots, what we want to watch is the imagination of the screenwriter. Wow, it turns out that this matter and this kind of solution to the problem are beyond my imagination.
That's why we decided to pursue a drama and couldn't stop it. It's not just the grand and fantastic picture that is called imagination. It's not that the dragon flying in the sky is called imagination. It's the most difficult to imagine human nature, which is reasonable and unexpected.
Especially the last point, the imagination of the details, is especially important. Because even if you come up with the third answer, the imagination of the details is the basic element that perfects the process and can achieve self-justification and support the ultimate realization of this imagination. Speaking of which, I'm going to offer my favorite again, a scene from the first two seasons of an old American drama "Twenty-Four" as an example (this show is also the best of the first two seasons.).
The terrorist ordered Xiaoqiang to kill his co-workers, or press the button and many people would die. After hesitating for a few seconds, Xiaoqiang made a decision and shot his colleague. Then after the past few episodes, the colleague came to life again, and then the audience knew that Xiaoqiang had put a body armor on his colleague.
I describe it in words, you may think what this is, but it is very difficult to present this process completely under the eyes of the audience (also terrorists), you can also see the bulletproof vest, all his You also saw the action, but you just didn't notice how and when he decided, and secretly put on his body armor.
If you have really realized a work and polished an idea in your heart into a real look, you will know that these are the hardest.
This is called imagination of details. How to imagine and deal with these details is also one of the most talented skills of creators. Details are the hardest, and justifying it is the hardest. As a creator, you have 10,000 fantastic ideas, how many books you have read, no matter how profound your thoughts are, no matter how extraordinary you are, as long as you have no imagination about details, you can’t play with details, and you can’t use them. The details of your story are polished to a solid level, and if you can't stand it, the audience won't buy it.
A literary and artistic work, structure, and concept determine your starting point, but the details determine the height you can reach in the end.
So the collapse of Game of Thrones is not the collapse of the human design, but the collapse of the imagination.
The blackening of Long Ma is not so difficult to understand at all. As an ordinary audience, although I am not a wise man who has read thousands of volumes, I also read some philosophy books and history books, so I don’t understand these things. These are the old ones in history books, and the old ones don’t matter. details.
Snow has been fighting for so long, and I dared to write about him after watching seven seasons. In the end, when faced with the last question of the big devil, he directly and rudely gave me a choice between two.
It really gives people a feeling of being too tired, suddenly giving up the struggle, just picking a button and pressing it. This is the most frustrating thing for the audience. Because the audience is not a fool, they can feel that behind this, the main creator suddenly gave up creation, gave up imagination, and gave up pursuit.
The audience has been burning your brains with you for so long, just when everyone is mobilized, they are all using their brains, using their imagination to create and imagine, guess what the third option might be, it must be smarter than us, we When you can't think of a way. You suddenly drop the exam completely and choose between the two at random.
And the reason is that without any imagination of details, it can only be understood as a kind of political correctness. The tyrant must die, the symbol of totalitarianism collapses, and a man who is indifferent to the world is replaced as the king, but the power of the empire is weakened, and the world is peaceful from now on.
In the first few episodes of this play, everyone thought Game of Thrones was very cool, because it always disdain for political correctness, and it is different from the "Twenty-Four Hours" I gave an example earlier. The values of that play , it can be said that it is the direction of political correctness from beginning to end, and this political correctness of others (in fact, it is very difficult to write good political correctness), from the perspective of storytelling, the details are very scrutinized, Not sloppy at all. The game set up by the big devil, Xiaoqiang has all been cracked perfectly.
Game of Thrones has been a subversive image from the beginning, especially subverting a lot of politically correct stuff. So today's political correctness without a complete process and details that can stand up to scrutiny is like being temporarily caught to perfunctory audiences. This is the real reason why many audiences feel offended, and it's really not because of the dragon. Mom turned black, not because Jon killed his lover, not for any character, but because he felt that he was being perfunctory by the creator.
With any high-level cultural interpretation, you can't dilute the audience's strong sense of being perfunctory. After all, this is a work of literature and art. If it does not require any imagination and creativity, but only explains the dry theory of sociology, politics, and history, it is not a literary and artistic creation. If the audience just wants to see those things interpreted by elite intellectuals (frankly, I don't think those interpretations are new), then it's not good to go directly to the book.
In any case, the finale of Game of Thrones, the creator's imagination and creativity, can't be made up for by one or two beautiful shots. Of course, this does not affect the fact that it is still a good work as a whole. At least it has contributed extraordinary imagination, and it also treats the audience as smart people, but it collapsed in the end, and it is normal for the audience to complain, so let everyone complain. Intellectuals shouldn't always treat TV viewers as shallow fools, it's not good.
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