Chapter 458: Bringing Game of Thrones to the Stage (17)
Is Cersei smart?
Cleverness is cleverness, of course, but it's more about being clever.
Cersei can't see the big picture, and her pattern has never broken through the family.
Until the seventh season, the Westeros continent was split in two, Cersei's children were also dead, and she took the crown.
Cersei can't fight the Mother of Dragons, whether it is the hearts of the Westeros continent, wealth or the army, she is not as good as the Dragon Mother.
If it weren't for the little devil to avoid the misery of life, maybe the Dragon Mother would have burned King's Landing.
She also had a plan, and she and Littlefinger planned to assassinate Bran, planned to remove Naidra from power, and planned Jaime to sneak up on the Tyrells to steal their wealth.
The most spectacular thing is that after being humiliated by the hemp finch and others, they planned to blow up the Great Holy Church. From a political point of view, this is not absolutely advantageous for her, but it is the most simple and neat.
Cersei is a person who hates the world and hates everyone but her family. The nun who was locked up by the hemp finch and humiliated her was arrested and treated the same, and was also strengthened by the magic mountain.
Prince Oberon's lover, Ellaria, put poison on her lips and kissed Messira, who was poisoned and died.
Cersei, who caught Ellaria's and Oberon's daughter, poisoned the girl in the same way, but instead of letting Oberon's daughter die immediately, she watched Ellaria watch her day by day on the verge of death.
So far, from the duke's daughter, to the queen, to the queen mother, and finally became the king himself.
Lady Cersei has achieved a lot of things, but she hasn't done a single decent thing, and of course, she doesn't care about anything big.
After all, all the people she cared about were dead.
Jaime is the only one left, but Jaime is about to betray her.
Cersei spent most of her life as a tragedy. Her bad temper and vicious heart are obvious to all.
But don't forget, the evil she did and the suffering she suffered are basically equivalent.
Someone asked, why isn't Cersei dead?
I want to say, you're so kind, and that's what makes her die?
She is worse than dead.
As the daughter of the Duke of Lannister's family, the former queen and later the queen mother, she has a graceful figure and beautiful long hair, arrogant and noble.
And now, the long golden hair has been minus, and the fruit is paraded through the streets and thrown with feces.
As a mother, the eldest son was poisoned, the second son jumped off the building, and the younger daughter was also poisoned.
As a wife, her husband didn't take her seriously when he was young and handsome, and he was bent on other women.
When she was old, she was an alcoholic, fat like a pig, and she still didn't take her seriously, still thinking about other women.
What is left of this woman's life?
It wasn't surprising to learn that she had the idea of letting the Wraiths destroy Westeros.
"Game of Thrones" is a magical work that Martin spent half of his life doing, and the themes are very clear, human nature, war, power struggle, growth, and faith.
In addition to the entanglements of the human world, magic is also a highlight that has to be mentioned.
This is also Li Yaoyang's biggest headache, so he can only try to avoid the use of magic elements.
Just like Old Man Martin, let it be an embellishment and an accent, deliberately avoiding the abuse of magic.
The appearance of the magic dragon showed the revival of magic, and only then did the magic world increase, the shadow killer, the night king became stronger, the biochemical magic mountain, the Quells wizard did evil, and the magic was resurrected......
The witch pretended to save the king of horses, exchanged her life for her life, killed the king of horses' mount to hide people's eyes and ears, and used black magic to sacrifice the mother of dragons and the children of the king of horses.
Although the witch was killed by the Mother of Dragons is controversial among fans, it is personally believed that the Mother of Dragons then walked into the fire with the dragon egg in her arms, and the witch was cremated at the same time, inadvertently injecting magical blessings into the dragon's hatching.
When it was Danielly Targaryen who hugged the dragon egg and resolutely walked into the sea of fire, Kalixi on the Dothraki steppe, the smoke cleared, and above the ashes, surrounded by three-headed dragons, she had a more shocking identity - the mother of dragons!
Since then, this name has its own magnificent BGM. After that episode, the audience began to believe that this petite girl with a noble bloodline had regained her innate self-confidence.
With a strong personality and a soft and kind personality, coupled with the special ability of fire resistance, she is the dazzling face of the gods after throwing a coin to the ground, and her followers are not afraid of the powerful three-headed dragon behind her, but believe that she is the true leader who changes the old rules, breaks the shackles, and resists the dark forces with fire and light.
The burly lizard, from Yaxia, is a mysterious female mage hidden under a mask and robes, and her eyes are full of mystery.
In the book, the lizard warns the Mother of Dragons with precise predictions: the glass candle is lit, the Pale Mare is coming, and the rest is not far behind.
The sea monster and the black flame, the lion and the griffin, the child of the sun and the dragon of the play, all of them are not believed.
Keep in mind the immortals, and keep an eye out for the fragrant steward.
Beware of everyone, they will see this miracle of rebirth day and night, and then they will be born with greed.
Because dragon's flesh is made of fire, and fire is power!
The evil power in the male witch, good at black magic, killed the eleven giants in seconds, tried to occupy the demon dragon and imprisoned the dragon mother, but was engulfed by the dragon flame, and escaped unexpectedly, disguised as a child and tried to assassinate the dragon mother with a poisonous beetle, but was stopped by Sir Barristan.
Confident, resolute and charismatic, every word is meaningful and predictive accurately.
The understatement of Varys' secret and tragic childhood experiences, the contempt for the low-level wizard who hurt Varys, the awe of the Lord of Light, and the powerful confidence and mystery of his gestures.
Cobain, who was expelled from the school city for his involvement in the dark arts, was rescued by Robb Stark in troubled times.
Later, he saved Jaime by chance, and since then he has been attached to Cersei, and has a broad platform for self-expression, and finally forged the dying magic mountain into a biochemical machine with potions and black magic, and became a terrifying puppet around Cersei.
Thoros, the red-robed monk of Mill, is from the same sect as Melisandre and Jinwala, and believes in the Lord of Light.
Like Robert, he was an alcoholic, debauched and spontaneous, and keen to participate in various martial arts competitions. Strong in martial arts, make good use of wildfire scorching swords, wield fire swords to take the lead in fighting.
When quelling the Greyjoy rebellion, Soros took the lead in breaking into the enemy line with his fire sword, and the rebels thought that the gods had descended to earth and were crushed at the touch of a button, so they became famous in the battle.
Before the dragon appeared, Soros would only play some small tricks such as wildfire, and with the revival of magic, Soros used magic to resurrect the "Lightning King" Berry Dondelien many times in the Brotherhood of No Flags, and also made Melisandre realize that the Lord of Light began to give believers more powerful magic.
This paved the way for Jon Snow's resurrection.
Ever since he became disabled, Bran has been receiving the call of the Three-Eyed Raven intermittently, and the crow in his dreams is mysterious and hopeful.
You'll never be able to walk anymore, but you can fly!
Bran, who is on a mission, goes all the way north without distractions.
To the north of the Great Wall of Desperation, there is the mysterious place of Bran's transformation.
The audience is looking forward to this magic clue in their hearts, and expects that they will follow Bran to become a three-eyed crow in the end, soaring into the sky!
Jia Kun. Hegar, leader of the Faceless!
Although the faceless faceless's face-changing technique cannot be counted as magic, it is closer to the face-changing technique of Sichuan Opera, but in the author's heart, when Jia Kun and Arya were separated, the shock of changing the face of the head was not inferior to other magical effects in the film.
The Faceless, the most mysterious and unfathomable organization in the show, has since appeared. All mortals die, and all mortals need to serve!
Even if someone gave me a high-energy warning when watching the movie at that time, the shock brought to me by the strong introduction of this black magic at that time would not be reduced in the slightest!
Melisandre struggles to give birth to the Shadow Killer in a dark hole!
I seem to be trembling in horror next to the stone with the onion knight!
Such a strong sensory experience and sense of substitution make people immersive, trembling, frightened, and shocking.
After the dragon appeared, magic began to recover, Melisandre also felt the leap in her mana, and the powerful and terrifying power of black magic began to participate in the power struggle, making the audience even more addicted to the Game of Thrones plot.
Melisandre has many flaws, misinterprets all kinds of revelations, is cruel to extremes, and has done many wrong things.
But she is the only wizard who represents humanity, Melisandre is far less powerful and perfect than Gandalf, but like the raging flames of the towering scimitar in the cold night before the final battle, igniting the battlefield of dead silence.
Even if the flames of the forest were immediately engulfed by the silent cold night, it still could not diminish the shock and emotion that Melisandre had rushed to help me.
Burning himself before dawn and ashes, this faithful follower of the Lord of Light has finally fulfilled his mission!
Melisandre successfully guides Arya to regain her courage to kill the Night King, and in the faint light of dawn, Melisandre staggers away with the wind, as if she can feel her relief through the screen.
In the past few hundred years, she has misinterpreted all kinds of revelations, gone through many detours, and done many cruel things according to her own judgment.
She has her limitations, but she has played a vital role in several key moments, such as bringing Stannis back to the Wall, Jon's resurrection, and facilitating the fusion of Ice and Fire in Mother Snowron.
In the end, the battle of life and death tried her best, the oil ran out, and with the fall of the ruby necklace, Melisandre staggered into ashes, and some viewers admired her for this role.
The magic in the entire Game of Thrones can be divided into several categories, the first of which is life magic.
This type of magic is mainly "resurrected", and there is currently no healing magic in the series, and life magic has been shown twice, both of which are resurrections.
One was Soros's resurrection of Berry Dondelion; The other was when Melisandre resurrected Jon Snow (in the original book, Soros resurrected Caitlin Stark).
Thoros and Melisandre are both red-robed monks who believe in the Lord of Light, so perhaps resurrection is one of the main businesses of the Lord of Light.
It should also be mentioned that Melisandre has an identity in addition to the red-robed monk - Shadowbinder, which will be mentioned later.
Then there's undead magic.
After talking about life magic, it is natural to talk about undead magic.
Necromantic magic can also be used to restore the deceased, but the "resurrected" deceased in this way does not have a mind of their own.
When it comes to undead magic, it is certainly impossible to avoid "ghosts", which can transform the dead into "ghouls" to continue to serve them.
From the seventh season of Game of Thrones, it is known that if a stranger dies, then the ghoul he transforms will also "rest in peace".
One of the traits of transformed ghouls is that they have blue eyes.
The way to deal with them is to use Valyrian steel weapons or dragon crystal weapons, and besides, they are afraid of fire.
Another potential to master the magic is Cersei's Hand of the King, Cobain.
There are three main reasons why Cobain has mastered necromancy:
First, Cobain was a bachelor expelled from the school, and it was mentioned in the original book that Coben was deprived of his bachelor's qualification by the school city because of some prohibited "live" experiments; Second, the "resurrection" of the Magic Mountain is not strictly speaking, it is not strictly speaking, and the current Magic Mountain is more like a "zombie" that obeys Cersei's orders;
Third, in the seventh season of "Game of Thrones", when Snow presented the ghouls to Cersei, Cobain looked at the ghouls not with horror and worry, but with curiosity and incomprehension.
Of course, it may be that Coben himself wanted to study resurrection magic, but he clicked on the wrong technology tree, and the person who caused him to "resurrect" was alive and vibrant, but had no thoughts, and was just a walking corpse, so Uncle Mei here boiled it down to the category of necromancy.
Then there's control magic.
This type of magic can invade other creatures with its own mind and control them to act according to the caster's will.
In Westeros, the person who masters this magic is called the Shapeshifter.
Two people who demonstrate this skill in the series are Bran, who controls Summer, Raven, and Addo;
The other is the Shapeshifter among the Wildlings, and when the Wildlings invaded the Wall, a Thorn used the Shapeling's skills to control the birds and observe the Night's Watch defenses on the Wall.
In addition, Jiujian Reed and the Three-Eyed Raven should also master this skill.
Jiujian has been teaching Bran about the shapeshifters since he found Bran;
And the Sanya Crow, as a green prophet, shapeshifter is a basic skill.
Then there's prophetic magic.
This doesn't need to be explained, the prophecy appears many times in the play.
and immunity-type magic.
It's actually not easy to define whether it's magic or blood, and Uncle Mei attributes it to magic because:
This ability cannot be explained by science.
This type of magic only spreads in the Targaryen bloodline, and the ability is not to be damaged by fire, which is known as "fire immunity".
There are also things like Green Vision:
It can be called a god-level skill, and can browse anything that has happened in this world, but it depends on Yuliangmu. Bran has this ability, and so does the Three-Eyed Raven.
However, there are limitations to this ability, you need to know the general time and place, similar to if you have a search engine, but if you don't type keywords, then this ability will not give you any feedback.
Magic of the Children of the Forest:
The Sons of the Forest can transform humans into wraiths, and Bunyan Stark into warriors who hunt ghouls.