Leo Biagi
Mr. Mitchel
Film making
04/08/20
The article I read was about new TV show the Witcher on Netflix. The article brings up other fantasy story’s such as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. The article mostly focuses on how movies and tv shows are adapted from books and why changes are made to appeal to modern audiences. The author of the article talks about how fantasy books have a lot more detail and extra world building. The author says that most fantasy stories focus on world build and what type of world the reader is in. Movies have a lot less time world build yet have to do so anyway. The author describes the way this is pulled off is through production design by adding backgrounds and having an uneducated character. In most fantasy movies they require a character for you to see the story through. This character is used for the other characters to explain things about the world or story without it coming off as the characters are talking to the audience. I agree with everything the author says but I also think that it is hard to generalize all fantasy stories. Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and the Witcher are compared very often and this is because they are all awesome fantasy shows that if you like one you will probably like the other. However they are still vastly different. Lord of the Rings has all different types of monsters magic and creatures just like the others however it is a fantasy adventure series. It is a hero’s joinery of characters crossing a treacherous land to destroy an evil artifact. Game of thrones tones back on the magic, monsters and sword fight yet still have it. Game of Thrones is more of a political drama set in fantasy times. Their is no clear good and bad, their is no one character that they dump exposition onto. It is fighting for power and greed and less of everyone teams up to fight the bad guy. The Witcher is a heavy blend of the two. While the books are more like lord of the ring the tv sho is more like gam of thrones. This is because it came out right after game of thrones and everyone wanted a new show like that. The Witcher doesn’t really have a character they explain the world to. You uncover the world and it’s inhabitants as you go through the series adding more mystery. I do think the author is right in comparing these types of media in certain areas because on paper they are very similar when in reality they are far apart.
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