Mixed Famous and True Fragrance Warning - "The Witcher Season 1"
Today, let's talk about the American drama "The Witcher Season 1".
The title of The Witcher Season 1 (2019) is also known as The Witcher (Hong Kong/Taiwan) / The Witcher / The Witcher.
On December 20, 2019, Netflix released the long-awaited "The Witcher". All eight episodes of the first season were released at once, to the delight of the eagerly-anticipated audience.
Since Netflix officially announced the production of "The Witcher" in May 2017, the show has been in production for almost two and a half years. It is said that this drama is planned to have a total of 7 seasons. From the content of the first season, the whole story is only the beginning.
During the production period, a little bit of trouble in "The Witcher" can become a hot topic of discussion among fans, from "script story", "characters", to "casting", "live highlights" and "launch date", book fans, game fans , The expectations of the fans are very strong.
After the hit of The Witcher, the original novel topped Amazon, and the number of online games for the series also hit a new high.
Judging from the performance of the first season, "The Witcher" alone is definitely a well-made and sincere work according to the standards of TV series, but from the perspective of book fans and game fans, this show is slightly unsatisfactory. .
In the first season of "The Witcher", the storyline of the original book was greatly simplified, and the main plots were integrated and adapted, so that many characters were intertwined to interpret the story that happened in the fantasy world.
There are three main clues in this season.
The first main line is Geralt the Witcher.
Geralt is white-haired, known as the "White Wolf". He is a demon hunter who earns a living by helping others destroy monsters to earn bounties.
Geralt believes in neutrality and is unwilling to intervene in any power. He said that when there are two evils in front of him, he will not choose.
However, people cannot help themselves in the arena, and sometimes he must choose a small evil to avoid a big evil.
The story begins when he gets the title of "Blavican Butcher".
The second main line is the sorceress Yennefer.
Yennefer was originally just a disabled girl, with a quarter of elf blood, her body was twisted and ugly, and she was favored by the warlock students because of her magical power. After careful training and hard work, Yennefer succeeded in The ugly duckling transformed into a white swan, not only powerful but also beautiful.
Yennefer lost her fertility because of practicing magic and changing her appearance, so she insisted on finding a way to restore fertility in order to make up for her physical shortcomings.
The third main line is Princess Ciri.
Ciri was originally the princess of Sintra, pampered and unhappy. As the main city of Sintra was captured by the powerful southern empire Nilfgaard, and the grandmother king died in battle, Ciri had to live in exile to find Geralt, who had a fateful connection.
Ciri also wields the magical force, which is one reason she was hunted. It's just that Ciri is untrained and can't master magic yet.
The editing of The Witcher is so overbearing that it's easy to confuse anyone unfamiliar with the series.
The Witcher tells the story in a similar POV style to Game of Thrones, constantly switching back and forth between the three main characters. Audiences are generally familiar with this approach and do not find it difficult to understand. The downside of editing is that before a story is told, it cuts to another protagonist.
Storytelling from a POV perspective is perfectly fine, the problem is not telling the story according to the timeline. A character who was whipped by a corpse a second ago might be dancing and singing in the next second, but at first glance, he thought he was playing corpse fraud.
The stories of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri are completely different across time. Among them, Yennefer's story spans decades. Because the warlock is proficient in magic, his life span is very long and his appearance will not age; Geralt's story The span of time is less than Yennefer, but there are also many years; the shortest is Ciri, probably only a few months before and after.
"The Witcher" wants to use a method similar to "Dunkirk" to edit stories of different lengths together. The ambition is there, but the actual effect is not recognized.
The original The Witcher emphasized morality and the connection of fate.
In "The Witcher", there is no absolute good and evil, everyone can make choices about the development of things according to their own cognition, and these choices will not affect the future immediately, but gradually accumulate and affect the final ending. Each choice will cause some trade-offs, may not receive the tasks of some forces, may affect the character's goodwill and so on.
And Geralt has repeatedly emphasized: "People linked by destiny will always find each other." (People linked by destiny will always find each other.)
In the show, Geralt and Ciri also find each other twice. One is the accidental law of the hedgehog knight, and the other is the accidental law of the farmer, not to mention Geralt and Ciri, the audience will also find it amazing.
Fatalism is so magical, no matter how much people doubt it, fate will always bring everyone together in the end.
"The Witcher" is full of sincerity. Although the plot progresses slightly faster, there are several important scenes in the original book.
For example, Geralt chooses a minor evil between Renfri and Strigob, and successfully obtains the achievement of "Blavikan Butcher"; the Sintra Massacre where the kingship alternates; Geralt fights vampire birds and many other monsters; Weita's marriage banquet; Geralt and Yennefer's first encounter; Geralt and the Golden Dragon Three Jackdaws; Geralt and Ciri's two accidental laws; the human flesh grinder-like battle of Solden, etc.
To say "The Witcher"'s biggest flaw would be the casting that everyone criticized.
The politically correct casting ended up making the entire show incorrect in the eyes of the audience. Political correctness itself is not correct. To change the attributes of the characters in the play for the sake of political correctness is disrespect to this series.
In the whole play, I think only two characters are more satisfying. One is Geralt, played by Henry Cavill, and the other is Renfri, played by Emma Appleton. Besides, all the characters are so dark that the audience will definitely wonder, who am I, where am I, what am I looking at?
If medieval witches looked like these people, burning witches doesn't seem like such an unacceptably inhuman act.
The characters who were originally known for their glamorous beauty in the original book and the game have all changed their tone here. The heroic and aggressive Yennefer has become an ordinary Middle Eastern appearance.
The charming red-haired Triss has become an aunt with a forehead tattoo,
Black-haired and green-eyed elegant and beautiful sorceress Fringera Vigo successfully "blackened",
Even the elves have become night elves...
Tucao returns to Tucao, seeing "The Witcher" successfully turned into an episode, everyone must be thinking "really fragrant" in their hearts. The big fight scenes aren't quite as grand as Game of Thrones, but Geralt's brilliant performance and long takes will definitely keep you hooked.
The whole story of the first season is just the beginning, looking forward to the follow-up development.
The long-span split-line narrative has mixed praise and praise.
Super refreshing battle fan's casting, Maka warns.
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