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HBO's "Game of Thrones" is over, and Amazon's "Lord of the Rings" is still a long way off.
I thought that this year's magic drama, only the "Dark Matter Trilogy" jointly produced by BBC and HBO stood out.
Who would have thought that a ruthless character was killed halfway .
In the 1990s, it became a household name in Europe, publishing three collections of short stories and five novels, ranking second only to The Lord of the Rings, the originator of modern fantasy literature.
Compared with the great success of the original work, the game adapted from the novel is even more famous all over the world.
The sales exceeded 40 million, and it won the "Oscar" in the game industry, the 33rd Golden Joystick Award for Best Story, Best Visual Design, Best Game Moment, and Best Game of the Year. Four heavyweight awards.
It stands to reason that the congenital conditions are so excellent that adaptation into a film and television drama naturally has the potential to become the "next hit" .
However, the reputation is difficult to match. The original work and the game have such a good reputation, but it has declined sharply when it comes to film and television dramas.
The Game Party criticized the casting failure, and the Original Party accused the plot of being messy.
Could it be that a generation of divine dramas has fallen to the altar? I think the audience should really understand "it" first, and then make a conclusion:
The Witcher Season 1丨The Witcher
I believe that Netflix must be full of confidence in the show "The Witcher".
Not only did it rush to the end of "Game of Thrones" and "The Lord of the Rings" had not been completed, but also under the banner of the original work, it attracted a large number of fans.
It should be noted that Netflix purchased the adaptation rights of the original book, and the story in the game is a reasonable continuation of the end of the novel.
But in essence, the game does not break away from the spiritual core of the original.
So, if you haven't read the original book carefully, even if you've played the game, you can't fully understand the show.
1. The world view of [Witcher]
From 2700 to 1240 BC, the aborigines of the witcher continent were non-human races such as elves, goblins, and dwarves.
Until the "Celestial Convergence" event broke out, worlds of different dimensions collided, causing the worlds to be linked and interpenetrated.
So this disaster introduced supernatural creatures from different worlds into the Witcher Land, and some energy followed, which is the source of magic in the new world.
Humans also appeared in this period.
Hundreds of years later, because some human ancestors first mastered the power of chaos, the earliest group of magicians were born.
So in the human world, this chaotic force is called "the force" , but not everyone can have it.
Those who are naturally sensitive to this power are called "dharma sources" , and they are trained to use it for their own use.
There are also some people who have amazing magical talents, but are naturally repulsive to magic. Only when they are in danger, the ability will suddenly explode, and this group of people is called "Original Warlock" .
In fact, this setting is exactly the same as the "Muggles" and "Wizards" in "Harry Potter".
As the number of humans continues to increase, the territory continues to expand, inevitably encroaching on the living space of other races.
As a result, the contradiction between humans and non-human races deepened, and eventually led to the outbreak of many wars.
The Demon Hunter was also born in this context.
He changed his body structure through magic and drugs, and after years of rigorous training, he became a "super soldier" whose functions were far superior to ordinary people.
Witchers and Primordsmen are human, but not human.
Witchers were originally created to protect humans from monsters.
However, long-standing prejudice and some false rumors have made the witcher profession feared by the world and unpopular everywhere, just like those hated monsters.
So with the surrender of the inhuman race, humans turned their hatred on the witchers.
In the end, following a massive and extreme persecution, the witchers almost disappeared, and only a few survived.
2. The story line of [The Witcher]
As mentioned earlier, many fans of the original book felt that the plot of The Witcher was disorganized.
In this regard, I personally think that it is just that the screenwriter did not do a good job of laying the groundwork, which will make the audience feel that the timeline of the story is very confusing.
In fact, the core plot of "The Witcher" is mainly composed of the timeline of three characters.
The first timeline: Geralt the "Witcher" .
At the beginning of the film, a tense and exciting hunt kicked off the whole story.
Geralt , nicknamed "The White Wolf", is a trained professional witcher.
In the trial of green grass, the white wolf showed extraordinary endurance and survived. It is said that he has also undergone the witcher mutation experiment, so he is stronger than the average witcher.
From the princes and nobles to the common people. As long as he can afford the reward, he is willing to help slay demons and eliminate demons.
Although his work is wide-ranging, he remains neutral when it comes to human struggles.
However, a conspiracy theory about the "curse of the black sun" involved the white wolf in the whirlpool of struggle.
It is said that girls born during a solar eclipse are cursed to turn into monstrous monsters, and Princess Renfri of Creedon happened to be born on that day.
Later, Renfri's stepmother, who sees the future Renfri through Nehalonia's mirror, will kill her and many others.
She broke the news to the Brotherhood of Warlocks, and the Brotherhood sent Warlock Strigob to investigate.
During this time, Strigob went through several undercover investigations, claiming that Renfri's body had mutated.
But in fact, he just wanted to isolate the princess at the time.
So the stepmother hired hunters to hunt down the princess, but it was unsuccessful.
Since then, Renfri has been forced to live a life of displacement.
After many years, Renfri has gained the notoriety of "Shrike" for cruel methods and has already gotten rid of her stepmother.
So her next target is the warlock Strigob.
So Strigob wanted to hire Geralt for a lot of money, and persuaded him on the basis of "the lesser of two evils" .
However, Geralt did not intend to get rid of Renfri, but persuaded her to give up the revenge plan.
It's a pity that Renfri insisted on his own way, and Geralt finally had to do it, and since then he won the title of "Blavikan's Butcher" .
However, the dying Renfri told a prophecy about him before he died:
"The girl in the forest will always follow you, she is your destiny!"
This sentence leads to another protagonist.
Second Timeline: Cirella .
Sirella, the princess of Sintra Kingdom, later became the adopted daughter of White Wolf.
In the play, why is the fate of the two linked together?
Here, we must start with the struggle between the human kingdoms.
The entire witcher continent is divided into the Northern Kingdom and the Nilfgaard Empire.
The Nilfgaardian Empire is the most powerful nation in the witcher world, often expanding its territory northward by force.
Although Nilfgaard the Great holds absolute power, there are still internal forces against him.
So a long-planned rebellion took place, the overthrow of Emperor Fergus Enreth, but he was tortured by hostile forces for refusing to justify the coup.
To break his will, the usurper ordered the warlock to torture his heir Emhyr, turning him into a hedgehog-like monster.
Even so, Enris still did not give in, and eventually died tragically at the hands of the enemy.
In order to survive, his son Emhyr had to flee to the north.
In 1237, Emhyr inadvertently saved the life of King Rogna of Sintra while wandering in the forests of Sintra.
In return for his life-saving grace, the two made an agreement, the "law of accident" .
The "Law of Accidents" is an ancient law in the witcher world, which stipulates that those who save others can offer rewards to the rescued.
That is, something "that the saved person does not know, but he already has" , usually a child of the saved person.
When King Rogner returned home, he found that his wife Calanthe was pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl, Pavetta.
Fifteen years later, Calanthe accidentally discovered that Emhyr and Pavetta were in love, and invited Geralt the witcher to a banquet, hoping to use his hand to get rid of Emhyr.
As a result, Geralt helped Emhyr break the curse, and in the end he successfully married Pavita.
The grateful Emhyr was willing to give anything in return, so Geralt also proposed the "law of accident".
It was only then that he learned that Pavetta was pregnant, and they named the child Cerila.
However, over the years, Emhyr has always wanted to return to Nilfgaard and regain the throne that belonged to him.
Although he eventually ascended to the throne, he killed his wife Pavetta and left his daughter Cirella in Sintra.
In 1263, Emhyr led Nilfgaardian forces to take Sintra directly.
On the surface, he wanted to conquer the entire land of witchers. In fact, he was trying to get the blood of the ancients that flowed from Cirella .
It turned out that the ruler of the kingdom of Sintra is the descendant of the elf sage, and the ancient blood on Cirella is the purest, and she is also a source warlock .
Legend has it that those who possess the blood of the ancients will change the whole world and create a new world based on it.
In the end, the kingdom of Sintra fell, and Cirella, escorted by her guards, fled into the forest.
At the same time, the last female protagonist of the whole play also officially appeared.
Third timeline: Yennefer .
Yennefer, who likes to call her "Coconut Milk" when she's playing, is a sorceress, Geralt's love, and Cirella's adoptive mother.
She has half elf blood, and she was born with an extremely ugly appearance due to the curse she received as a child.
Before she and Geralt met, the entire show had been about Yennefer's study of magic at the Sorceress Academy.
In the end, she made a deal with the magician, trading her fertility for a seductive look.
The three protagonists and three story lines exist independently of each other, but in the end they come together to form a complete story.
It can be seen that "The Witcher" is not so chaotic, but the writers have disrupted the chronological order.
If you look closely, you will find that the story of Geralt and Yennefer actually happened 30 years ago in this timeline of Cirella.
After all, if you really want to understand "The Witcher", there are certain "threshold" requirements.
Interestingly, a long time ago, a Polish version of "The Witcher" was released at the same time as "The Lord of the Rings", and as a result, from word of mouth to the box office, it was slapped in almost all directions.
But the author is not afraid that the adaptation will have an impact on the work. He said frankly: because the producer has given too much!
So it may be learned from the previous work and "Game of Thrones", Netflix hired author Andrei Spakowski as the screenwriter.
As long as the plot does not change randomly, this drama still has the hope of becoming a "magic drama".
In my opinion, the content of the first season of "The Witcher" is just an extended trailer.
The real good show is yet to come!
Comparable to "The Lord of the Rings", the plot is not suitable for children. Why is this "restricted level" magic drama? Comparable to "The Lord of the Rings", the plot is not suitable for children. Why is this "restricted level" magic drama?
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