Television under the laws of literature - The Free Press

TV drama channel HBO «Game of Thrones” (original – Game of Thrones), showing the third season which ended in June, was perhaps the turning point for the whole genre.

Famous TV series, collecting millions of fan clubs have existed for a long time – to recall “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who” or “The Sopranos” … And even if the Soviet “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. But in any case, the history of television, until recently, were confined to a ghetto of meaning: it could be condescending love, quote catch phrases, but taken seriously – it is childhood or diagnosis. But the civilized world over the years, it became infantile, and “high TV”, on the contrary, all the more serious, and there are adults in discussing social networking perspective candidates for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. With the beginning of the “Game of Thrones” last bastion fell: even those who previously believed, not without reason series “pastime loafers”, admitted that swallowed ten episodes in one night. Something similar happened with Tolkien’s epic, which once and for all put the fantasy genre of discharge, which is not possible literary value, and no wonder the writer who wrote the original source “Thrones” – “A Song of Ice and Fire”, named JRR / Martin /. New time – new format, without becoming a literary event, the history of Westeros conquered the world in the form of a television series. Many parallels with Tolkien and in addition to the initials of writers so if Tolkien was based on Celtic and Germanic epic, then Martin is repelled by a true story, which explains the vital bloodlust of his creation, by contrast attracts kidalty from the world of vegetarian cafes, wine shops and funny dog ??breeds . Facebook divided into Starks and Lannisters – and that Moscow designer screams from your page Hear me roar!, A restaurant critic from St. Petersburg warns him: Winter is coming! .. Many fans of the series is fundamentally not read the original, it makes sense – good- quality in general, the book undoubtedly plays TV series by revolutionary; imagine “Doctor House”, where the hero Hugh Laurie died at the tenth series of pneumonia. Something similar happened with the older Stark at the end of the first season, but it is not taught the audience what we are dealing with a fundamentally new nomination for success. Proof – a frenzied reaction to the 9-th series of the third season of Red Wedding, which was already the collective sacrifice of the key characters.

novelty of “Thrones” is not in the budget and Hollywood actors (Sean Bean as Ned Stark – role of Vronsky to Boromir, or gorgeous Lena Headey in the role of Circe Lannister), but rather in the fact that the critics began to see clearly the trend of TV drama a new novel form finally has found the perfect – at this moment – the embodiment. All over the world people are reading is not that less they read shorter, but the ashes of literature with its endless ways of telling long stories secretly tapping into our heart. Someone has to pick up the fallen banner – and that his embracing the TV producers and writers, from those that more intelligent. Flouting the laws of its own genre, they install into his methods and mechanisms invented by writers, spit on the pleasantness of pictures, entertainment and happy-ZND – and win. Despise political correctness, saturated cloth jokes about gay characters and at the same time make the horse cours e – one of the most attractive male characters is a dwarf: the actor Peter Dinkleydzha (135 cm tall), which plays a cynical humanist Tyrion “Besa” Lannister, crowds of fans around the world , “Emmy” and “Golden Globe».

Meanwhile, for all the historicity of “Game of Thrones” – The Seven Kingdoms can be freely as rhyme with medieval England, and with Europe as a whole, where the Kings of the North – Starkey, as already mentioned, are very similar in Russian, sea warriors Greydzhoi – Scandinavians , while the Lannister lion on the coat of arms, and with them at all clear, telecine is naturally reflects today’s people’s perception of the world and their place in it, as a whole – in a hopeless division. Which is also a sign of the literature. This view could be called “the revision of all illusions”, from the Christian to the communist; carrier humanism here can serve only a specific person, not the party, clan, family, or community of interest. Believe in person, do not believe in people – that could be the motto of this great campaign setting.