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Game of Thrones, an 8-year macro epic that lasted 8 years, finally came to an end on May 20, 2019, with 8 years, 8 seasons, and 73 episodes, and Game of Thrones, hailed as "the best drama in history (not one of them)" and "the most expensive American drama", created a myth in the history of world television dramas. Although "Game of Thrones - Season Eight" has been questioned, criticized and even insulted by most fans around the world because of the bad end of the plot, perhaps we should still thank all the casts in the show and thank the eight years of good times that the show has spent with us.
"Game of Thrones" has made the majority of fans cry, laugh, scold, hate, after the baptism of time, the emotions accumulated by "Game of Thrones - Season Eight" have long been slowly dredged, 6.2 points, is the final score it left for us. But the surprises and joys that eight years of "Game of Thrones" have brought to our lives are not something that can be evaluated by scores.
Today, the best way to leave comes --- Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch: a documentary that chronicles the entire filming of Game of Thrones Season 8 in the most common language of footage. Most of the pictures inside are first exposures, and without it, we can't imagine how such an effect drama would be filmed.
In the film, you can see the scene of all the actors in the first season getting together to read the play, of course, those who "died" are still there, the complete Stark family, the second lady who has not yet grown up; You can see realistic and valuable special effects makeup; you can even see ghouls eating box lunches and playing with mobile phones...
Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch is produced by HBO and directed by Jenny Finley and directed by David Benioff / D.B. Weiss / Emilia Clark / Kit Harrington / Sophie Turner / Maisie Williams / Alfie Allen / Peter Tinraki / Jacob Anderson / Lina Heidi / Bernadette Caulfield / Gwendolan Christie / Nicola Coster-Vardo / Liam Cunningham / Natalie Emmanuel / Vladimir Fdick / Ian The documentary starring Gray / Conless Hill / Christopher Hayview / Roy McCain / David Nat and all the "Game of Thrones" staff members was released in the United States on May 26, 2019. The film focuses on everything fans want to know about the people related to "Game of Thrones": the protagonist in the makeup room, the Night King who is also the director of the action scene, the scene manager, the set designer, and the various behind-the-scenes workers who are full-time "snow-making" perform in groups to reflect the comprehensive, shocking and transparent influence brought about by the "Game of Thrones" drama.
Regardless of our views on the ending of Game of Thrones, we have to accept the fact that the "Continent of Westeros" that we have been looking forward to, chasing, and talking about for so long will eventually say goodbye to us. This feeling is indeed a bit of a mixture of tastes. Fortunately, HBO also gave us a parting gift to let us adjust our mood before waiting for a few prequel works to arrive. "Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch" did not become a work of redemption and compensation, but more like a cherished goodbye. The documentary reveals the rehearsal of several major plays in the eighth season, including the suspense of the life and death of several important characters, and there are more direct and sincere expressions at the rehearsal scene. The two-hour video content takes us to witness the behind-the-scenes footage of the final season, and also lets us understand how this epic drama spanning a decade spans how it was realized under the blood of thousands of people.
Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch is filmed in a manner reminiscent of Star Wars documentaries such as The Beginning and The Director and the Jedi. The film's director, Jenny Finley, unveils Game of Thrones, showing us the challenges of creating its fantasy world and how to bring those magnificent battle scenes to life.
Building key characters and their story lines will always be at the heart of documentary creation. The actor star is of course the most natural and advantageous key person in a TV series filming documentary, but in addition to choosing individual main actors as key characters, this film does not choose David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, which are familiar to us, but let several unknown crew members become the protagonists of this film, jointly promoting the development of the plot narrative. For example, the lady in charge of the group costume, the aunt who opened the mobile commissary with the crew, the black brother who is responsible for setting the scene who particularly hates wasting supplies, the actor of the Night King - an action stuntman from the Czech Republic, Vladimir Vedik, and even a power game fan Andrew McRae who has been running dragon sets in this series for six consecutive years... In the transformation of the documentary scene and the development of the plot, these characters appear repeatedly in turn, or confirm some of the states of the protagonist actors, or show the efforts and emotions of the crew, which further affects the attention and emotional direction of the audience.
This perspective focuses on the hardships of the blue-collar class, and it also makes the charm of the whole documentary. Seeing how these hidden, obscure people work hard every day and make priceless contributions to the final cost does give people a novel look.
"Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch" does not have a deep emotional dismantling, and the plot is not driven by key characters, but according to the filming order and plot sequence of the eighth season of Game of Thrones; there is no dramatic shot that reflects the tension between the personnel, but it just avoids many common problems of over-lengthy and optimistic records. It admits that even in such an epic masterpiece, there are a lot of trivial, boring chores, and sometimes it can make you very frustrated. If you like the unpretentiousness of the scenes of actors being slowly disguised as zombies, warriors in armor walking around, or snacking and chatting, then The Last Night's Watch won't disappoint you.
The content of "Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch" is basically the set recording and tidbits of "Game of Thrones - Season 8", all the cast members are like a family, and the inside and outside of the show are like a grand party! Perhaps more exhausting than the sense of relief and parting that finally ended the entire series, as one of the staff members said: It must be over, because you can't go beyond this scale.
Regardless of the merits of Game of Thrones Season 8, for these staff who have been together for nearly a decade, the shooting time is also an unforgettable golden age in their lives; for us, it is a series to watch and play, and for them it is not only work or even life itself.
So when fans launched a petition online to "ask HBO to remake season eight," Sophie Turner only uttered this boycott in an interview with The New York Times: "The wonder of game of Thrones is that it's always full of reversals and unexpected plots, starting with the execution of Ned Stark in the first season." So the dragon mother becomes a crazy queen, not to let the fans have a negative view, and it is normal for people to accept it at once, just because it is not the plot direction they imagined. These petitions and all the stuff like that, I think, are disrespectful to the crew, the writers, the creators, who have worked tirelessly for 10 years. It took 11 months to do the last season, more than fifty nights of night scenes, and so many people worked hard for this show. People devalue it to nothing just because they don't see what they want to see, which is disrespectful. ”
The third episode of "Game of Thrones - Season 8" has 11 weeks of night scenes and 55 night shooting cycles, which is the longest in film history. In this film, everyone is anxious, and every dream is unstable. Everyone is very conflicted, on the one hand, they want to end the shooting a little faster, and on the other hand, they don't want to end it. Because it's over, it's really over...
Veteran dragon set Andrew McRae, although he runs the dragon set, has been in the cast for 5 years, longer than many protagonists. Every year, every year it was the character, the Stark family's personal bodyguard. He doesn't even know if he has a shot in the show, but he loves Game of Thrones as always, loves his character, loves the show.
His enthusiasm makes the camera particularly vivid, even if he just sits for many days and nights, playing a nobody. In the end, his story also reached a certain degree of perfection, and he was able to shoot a relatively important shot next to Snow, which made him happy;
Andrew also reveals the secret in the play, because of the love of the script and the characters played, the dragon set crew of "Game of Thrones" also has a "chain of contempt": the Starks' soldiers are at the top, then the Lannisters, and finally Bolton... An occasional conversation with Snow was enough for him to blow for a lifetime;
When he saw the "Bolton soldiers", he couldn't help but spit a few words.
At the moment of the killing, Andrew could not suppress his inner emotions. He choked, shook his head, and even cried, saying he had never expected to be so upset.
The Night King can be said to be the most fanatic character after the end of "Game of Thrones". Before becoming the Night King, Vladimir Fdick had already played a lot of soy sauce in "Game of Thrones", played ordinary ghosts, and soldiers, etc., and he was also one of the action directors of the sixth season, helping to complete a lot of dangerous stunts. It can be said that he is a "hidden hero" of this drama on all levels;
In the documentary, he talks about his birth in Czechoslovakia and his special era after the Revolution, when Czech boys loved to grow long hair and either joined the gang or became an actor, and he chose to be an actor. He said that many of his friends in his hometown had long since died, so he felt that he was particularly lucky because he met Game of Thrones;
When he received the role notification call, he didn't hear what the phone said, only heard the word "King" and immediately agreed, because as long as he played the king, then any king could...
While filming, he saw a lot of fans gathered around the studio, and mischievously said to the photographer, "I'm going to go over and see if they know me?"
He approached the fans and asked everyone if they knew who he was. Many people answered "The Night King" and said: I hope you win the war, and wish him a final victory.
What everyone pours into "Game of Thrones" is not only hard work, but also love from the heart.
So we see the unadorned anger of Varys' played Conless Hill at the script "Read Aloud" conference when he hears the plot of his eventual execution by the Mother of Dragons;
Snow's actor Kit Harrington reacts even more nervously when he hears his ending with the Mother of Dragons! First he inhaled a cool breath;
Then Kit Harrington's shock, helplessness, and unrequited grief when he learns that the Mother of Dragons died at his own hands;
The script "Read aloud" ends, everyone applauds and celebrates, while Harrington and Clark are already immersed in emotions and can't help themselves...
With no cold numbers, no star narration, and no official announcements, Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch is like the Night's Watch in Game of Thrones, showing us the filming process of the eighth season of Game of Thrones with the same ordinary perspective as ours, in a small, subtle, and ordinary way.
Most of the audience will only stare at the tip of the tower, ignoring the bricks and tiles on the lower level. There is a delicate relationship between the work itself and the audience, a work may still be unfinished after completion and release, and only through the audience's interpretation and evaluation can it be truly complete; and "Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch" provides the audience with another perspective: don't indulge in the thrill of narrative, which is an extremely important part of a film and television work, but not all. Looking at the series from behind the scenes, perhaps some viewers will give up the pursuit of the plot and feel and understand it from different angles...
Game of Thrones begins with the Starks in Winterfell, until everyone on the crew leaves with their luggage. I prefer Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch to the seventh episode than the sixth episode of season eight. Let the epic become a real texture, let the divine drama have fireworks, let ordinary people have the breath of nobility, this kind of small and magnificent, the smooth docking of reality and magic, is the main theme that should always run through "Game of Thrones".
At the end of the song, everyone ushered in a new beginning:
Veteran dragon suit actor Andrew McRae became a tour guide at the "Game of Thrones" filming location, and his veteran filming experience made him feel comfortable with his new job;
Mother Dragon left two words on the makeup mirror that had been with her for eight years – goodbye, Dani: (;hello, Emilia:)...
Game of Thrones is both the end and the beginning. But I believe that "Game of Thrones" has long been integrated into the lives of many fans who have been following the drama for eight years. We admire the candor of Game of Thrones: The Last Night's Watch, but we also have to say one thing: goodbye, Game of Thrones; and most of our youth...
the shield that guards the realms of men, for this night, and all the nights to come.
I dedicate my life and glory to the night watchman, tonight, night and night.
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