1. Chariot of Desire-"Rome"
English name: Rome
TV station: HBO, BBC
Broadcast time: 2005-2006
"Rome" is the second TV series produced by HBO and BBC after "Brothers".
The history and culture of ancient Rome played a very important role in the development and establishment of Western civilization. The legendary character of this age of heroes is comparable to that of the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history. "Rome" extracts the most essential part of it. The main part of the story is the political and military careers of Caesar, Marcán Tony and Octavian, and it shows a panoramic view of the period from 52 BC to 30 BC. The historical situation of the transitional period from the Ancient Roman Republic to the Ancient Roman Empire ran through major historical events such as the death of Pompeii, the assassination of Caesar, the conquest of Mark Anthony, and the enthronement of Octavian. The whole play respects the original appearance of the history to the greatest extent. The important characters in the film are all historically traceable, and they spare no effort to reproduce many aspects of the ancient Roman folk customs and cultural architecture, leaving aside the main plot. It can also be viewed as an ancient Roman history.
In fact, these historical facts have been performed many times in various art forms in the West. The unique aspect of "Rome" is that it uses the perspective of two lower-level officers named Volenus and Plow to unfold the narrative. As a result, the fate of the common people, who are ups and downs with the country's turmoil, are intertwined with the political game of the careerists, making the plot more full and the social psychology in the changing times can be more fully displayed. The two male protagonists form the dual hero model of the drama's core storyline, which makes the historical telling of the show more entertaining and affinity, and the two people's mutual sympathy from the beginning to the later parting is also heartbreaking.
Politics is a struggle between men’s wisdom and desire, but "Rome" uses a lot of space to portray the women's scheming behind the political competition. The most important woman here is Atiyah, Caesar’s niece and Octavian’s mother. This is a woman born for desire, showing superb social skills and meticulous scheming in various political whirlpools, Pang During Pei’s administration, she did not hesitate to get rid of her son-in-law in order to dedicate her young daughter to Pompeii to eliminate the loneliness of his bereaved wife. After Caesar came to power, she regarded Caesar’s lover Seville as a thorn in her eyes and soon after that, Caesar died. Later, she immediately committed herself to Mark Anthony, who was in power. Attia’s grievances and feuds with Mark Anthony accounted for a large proportion in the second season, especially when Mark Anthony was exiled to Egypt, and when he had extravagant fornication with Cleopatra, Attia still had difficulty. Give up the nostalgia for him. Until the end of her motherhood, she would still shed tears for Mark Anthony's ruin. This is a woman who walks on the edge of lust and fights the world with feminine feminine wisdom as a weapon. She has both poisonous methods and watery tenderness. Especially in the face of crisis, she cares for her family. All decisions come from Instinctively, she is loyal to everything about herself, including desires. At the same time, "Rome"'s shaping of Cleopatra Cleopatra is also very subversive, making her more in line with the curiosity of modern audiences. Although she does not appear many times, it has become a strong driving force for the whole plot. The dark line.
2. Bloody
Romance- " The Tudors " English name: The Tudors
TV station: Showtime
Broadcasting time: The
Tudor dynasty in the history of 2007-2011 refers to the English dynasty from 1485 to 1603. From Henry VII to Elizabeth I, it has experienced five generations of kings and completed the transition of Britain from a feudal society to a capitalist society. Therefore, it is also one of the most critical periods in British history. "The Tudor Dynasty" tells the ruling legend and bloody romance of Henry VIII, the second generation of the dynasty. In history, Henry VIII was known for his great rejoicing, violent and perverse, and what made him most notorious was his shocking marriage life. His 6 wives, two divorced, two were executed, one died of postpartum pneumonia, and only the last one died due to his death. "The Tudor Dynasty" is based on the replacement of Henry VIII's harem.
The role of Henry VIII is Jonathan Les Meyers, who is famous for the movie "Velvet Gold Mine". "The Tudor" has created an excellent platform for Meyers to take the lead and give full play to his acting skills. The young king and the bleak old man in his twilight years, arrogance and cruelty, innocence and tenderness are unified in this neurotic and desperate figure. In four years, Meyers has truly achieved a union with Henry VIII. And the old drama bones Sam Neal, Peter O'Toole and Max von Sidor in the guest lineup are all treasures of the town.
The most brilliant description of royal love in Tudor is the story of Henry VIII declaring war on the world for a woman who is Anne Boleyn, the biological mother of Queen Elizabeth I. This glamorous woman, who was arranged by the king by her father to control the political affairs in an attempt to fly, was not as damaging to the country and the people as Concubine Yang, but it could also be said that she changed the destiny of a dynasty. To marry Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII must first depose Queen Catherine, who was a descendant of the Spanish royal family and had a daughter with him. This faced double resistance from diplomacy and the church. This also became the British goal of weakening the rights of the church. One of the fuses of the Reformation. "The Tudor Dynasty" provides a detailed, informative and sensible description of the process of Anne Boleyn’s messing with her dynasty based on beauty and foulness, and finally being framed by political opponents and beheaded by Henry VIII for adultery. It is only a description of the relationship between the two. It’s understandable that love has been uplifted. Love based on deception and fornication will inevitably lose many mainstream audiences. At the end of the second season, the creator used a whole episode to describe the process of Anne Boleyn being executed. In this deliberately enlarged process, the femme fatale was restored to a pure and pure quality. Ordinary women, the desire for life and the temptation of death coexist in their hearts. If this is a true relationship, whether it is abandoned by one's lover in a sentence of death, or forced to exchange dignity and self-esteem at the cost of the life of the lover, it is a heartbreaking thing. "It really makes people feel this kind of broken heart.
The scene that often appears in "The Tudor Dynasty" is the guillotine, and the king is like a tiger, which is the most basic state of the courtiers in the play. Cardinal Vossequan was in power and was a spiritual godfather of Henry VIII. However, because of inaction in persuading the Holy See to agree to dissolve the marriage relationship between Henry VIII and the queen, he eventually fell out of favor and was forced to commit suicide. Justice Thomas More was a good friend of Henry VIII and the author of the famous "Utopia", but he was guillotined for opposing Henry VIII's divorce. For this reason, Henry VIII regretted it afterwards and wailed. Crying, showing the indescribable loneliness and fragility under the cruel and jealous appearance. Thomas Cromwell was a very effective first minister in the middle and late years of Henry VIII's reign, but was beheaded for facilitating the discordant marriage between Henry VIII and his fourth wife, Queen Anne. The execution of Cromwell is one of the bloodiest scenes in the play. Because Cromwell made many enemies when carrying out the Reformation, he had a relationship with his enemies and arranged for a drunken executioner to execute the execution. As a result, he cut a lot of knives. Cut off Cromwell's head...
3. Violent Totem: "Spartacus"
English name: Spartacus: Blood and Sand
TV station: Starz
Premiere time: January 22, 2010
Starz TV station was originally a paid movie Taiwan, in 2008, they released their first original series "Crash", adapted from the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, using the original film's multi-character and multi-clue narrative method and the theme of ethnic conflict. Despite the addition of the original film production team including the director Paul Haggis, the response was mediocre after the show was broadcast, and it ended hurriedly after two seasons. In 2010, they launched "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", which was finally a shame and a great success.
The Chinese are no strangers to the Spartacus Uprising that broke out in 72 BC, and the epic film of the same name directed by Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas has been screened in the mainland. However, the success of "Blood and Sand" does not lie in its meticulous restoration of history under a strict world view, but in its ubiquitous stimulation and bombardment of the audience's senses. The violent and erotic scenes in it seem to be Challenge the limits of public media's acceptance of restricted content. "Blood and Sand" is very stylized from story to video. The story of Spartacus was actually just a hidden clue in the first season. The main body of the plot was transformed into a single-episode mission mode. In terms of styling and editing style, this is a TV version of "300", with a slightly crude CG effect, the gushing blood in the upgraded screen, and the lens' obsessive display of flesh, making the show closer to Hollywood B The type mode of the cascade.
Despite the visual line, the creators did not completely give up the discussion of themes and values. Most of "Blood and Sand" seems to be a bloody fight between gladiators, but it is actually a confrontation between the noble and the humble. This confrontation is a process of weaving hatred. In the end, we see that when the interests and dignity of the humble are endlessly trampled, the noble is actually digging a grave for themselves, because the destructive power of the humble under persecution is amazing. Because they have nothing to lose except pain and hatred. By the end of the first season of the 13th episode, all the grievances and grievances have been censored.
When Spartacus led the gladiator slaves to rush out of Capua, the plot should be about to enter the uprising phase closer to the protagonist’s life. Just as people are looking forward to the fire of purgatory on Vesuvius, the "Spartan" The second season of "Dax" was forced to run aground because the hero Andy Whitefield was suffering from cancer, so "Spartacus" had to shoot a prequel called "God of Arena" to fill the gap. The history of the fortune of the dead capua slave owner in the first season has nothing to do with Spartacus. Although it continues and aggravates the external style of the previous game’s main focus on violence and pornography, it has nothing to do with the theme. There is no accomplishment, it can only be regarded as a wild version of the sports fighting film, which is far from the connotation of the historical drama.
Although it is finally determined that the original lead actor is unlikely to return, the second season of "Spartacus" is still worth looking forward to. After breaking away from the environment setting of the arena, the plot will be in a more open and cruel way. Unfolding, facing the iron hoof of the Roman army led by Crassus, honor, life, faith, and dreams will turn into a dazzling totem of destiny on this violent battlefield.
4. The Evil Gene: "
The Borgias " English name: The Borgias
TV station: Showtime
Premiere time: April 3, 2011
" The Borgias " is a historical drama that Showtime succeeded to "The Tudor Dynasty", and it is in line with Like "The Tudor Dynasty", it uses a European-based creative team. The founder, producer, and screenwriter of the show is the famous Irish film director Neil Jordan. His representative works include "The Crying Game", "Interview with the Vampire", "The Brave Man", "Daffodil", etc., and his director's narration The film "Michael Collins" in the life of the founder of the Irish Republican Army won the Golden Lion Award at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. It can be said that he has extremely high attainments in the creation of historical films. The lead actor Rodriguez Borgia is the 63-year-old British national treasure actor Jeremy Irons. In 1990, he won the Oscar winner with "Reversal of Destiny", and also starred in "War Flies". , "Fire Lover", "Stolen Fragrance", "Lolita" and other masterpieces, he co-starred with Bruce Willis in "The New York Heist" ("Die Hard 3") as a blockbuster in 1995 Introduced to China, Chinese audiences should be very impressed with Simon, the cruel gentleman robber he starred in. In "The Borgia Family", Jeremy Irons continued this line of play, but his acting skills were more sophisticated.
The first season of "The Borgias" cost a total of 49 million US dollars. The two-hour premiere episode personally directed by Neil Jordan attracted 1.06 million viewers and achieved the highest premiere ratings of Showtime in the past seven years. The TV station booked the second season before the first season of the episode was broadcast.
The Borgia family is a notorious family in Italian history. They are known as the earliest mafia family. However, they have also put on a religious cloak over all the evil acts of murder, greed, and fornication. The story of "The Borgia Family" begins in 1492 when Rodrigue Borgia ascended to the throne of Pope Alexander VI through mass bribery. It can be said that the story is directed at the dark core of the series from the beginning.
As a prominent Spanish family, after relying on money to pave the way to take charge of the Holy See in an unconvincing situation, the Borgia family began a cruel party struggle. On the one hand, murder and hunting, on the other hand, marriage and peace, and all these activities. They were all done actively or passively by members of the family under Rodrigue’s lead, using the classic line: "Otherwise, what's the use of having relatives?"
Rodrigue’s character is not complicated, and his behavior The criterion is to maximize personal interests by unscrupulous means, but he is not completely without tenderness. The softest place in his heart is left to her little daughter Lucrezia. Whenever he faces the angelic daughter, Rodri Ge then showed a fatherly side that contrasted greatly with his daily behavior. After his 13-year-old daughter was married to Pesaro's Sifenza family, Rodriguez could only relive the warm father-daughter days of the past in his dreams. After waking up, he couldn't help but break his heart. Jeremy Irons showed strong control in the creation of this character. He did not exaggerate his arrogant and domineering side. Instead, he adopted a relatively introverted way, revealing the character through subtle facial expressions and gazes. The murderous intentions in the heart created an overall sense of deterrence under the calm and turbulent appearance. Under the background of this character, occasional indulgences and roars showed explosive power.
In fact, just as Rodriguez feared, Lucrezia had an unhappy life after marriage at first. Her husband, who was twice her age, didn’t understand Fengyue, acted violently, was almost a sadist in bed, and was notorious for this. The members of the family are full of contempt and disgust. And more importantly, the purpose of this marriage was not achieved. When the Borgia family was in danger, the Sifangsa family did not help. In the end, Rodrigue used a cruel and absurd method to humiliate Sifangsa and end it. This failed marriage. The story about this woman has just begun. In history, Lucrezia has been married three times and has many lovers. She is not inferior to her father in terms of the methods. How a holy girl transforms into a viper and venomous woman step by step will be a very fascinating aspect of "The Borgia Family".
In the play, Rodriguez’s eldest son Cezeri (Czezeri is the second son of the family in real history) occupy the position of the second core figure of the family in the play. Rodriguez was appointed as the Pope and immediately selected the wise and not evasive. The important mission of Cardinal Ruiyi and the many conspiracies of the Pope were carried out through him. At first it was just a dirty work for his father, but with the growth of his personal power and the maturity of his scheming, the tall, handsome, vigorous and possessive Chezeri more embodied a fascinating evil hero. Color, the turning point of his destiny occurred in 1503 when Rodriguez died. His nine-fold ice and fire will become the most embarrassing legend of destiny in the follow-up "Family Borgia". 【Global Screen】
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