Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2015 20:07:07 GMT
I disagreed somewhat with this article but felt it was worthy of posting because the author did some good comparisons with other media in regards to female nudity and how Cersei was depicted being generally far more unrealistic (gorgeous body double) than in the books.
watchersonthewall.com/anatomy-of-a-throne-mothers-mercy/#more-40465
My major disagreement is that so much of the raw emotion and thoughts Cersei had (her arrogant pride vs. breaking down in reality) could not be portrayed on-screen. The author seems to think they left out too much.
No matter how fantastic an actress Lena is (and she really does deserve an Emmy for it) she cannot possibly portray every little nuance of Cersei's thought processes. There's no internal dialogue option. THAT was really what brought the Walk of Shame to a painful point in the books. She was hallucinating from prolonged isolation and being deprived food - but they chose not to show all the people she saw in her hallucinations. I understood that would have been difficult to do in a realistic way on screen because hallucinations are of course not very realistic to begin with.
I will agree, they willingly showed the naked backside of the aging/droopy High Septon during his own Walk of Shame earlier - and part of Cersei's "fall" is that she went into the walk thinking she was as regal and beautiful as she always was, only to realize by the end she's showing weight gain from drinking and binging, sagging breasts and stomach from child bearing and age, and that without her beautiful gowns and hair, she's no different from any other woman, even a peasant, of similar age. That is why the walk of shame is so powerful. It allows the common folk to see a mighty figure they fear brought down to their own level.
Curious what some of you felt about the scene vs. what this writer had to say about some of the subtleties shown or not shown.
watchersonthewall.com/anatomy-of-a-throne-mothers-mercy/#more-40465
My major disagreement is that so much of the raw emotion and thoughts Cersei had (her arrogant pride vs. breaking down in reality) could not be portrayed on-screen. The author seems to think they left out too much.
No matter how fantastic an actress Lena is (and she really does deserve an Emmy for it) she cannot possibly portray every little nuance of Cersei's thought processes. There's no internal dialogue option. THAT was really what brought the Walk of Shame to a painful point in the books. She was hallucinating from prolonged isolation and being deprived food - but they chose not to show all the people she saw in her hallucinations. I understood that would have been difficult to do in a realistic way on screen because hallucinations are of course not very realistic to begin with.
I will agree, they willingly showed the naked backside of the aging/droopy High Septon during his own Walk of Shame earlier - and part of Cersei's "fall" is that she went into the walk thinking she was as regal and beautiful as she always was, only to realize by the end she's showing weight gain from drinking and binging, sagging breasts and stomach from child bearing and age, and that without her beautiful gowns and hair, she's no different from any other woman, even a peasant, of similar age. That is why the walk of shame is so powerful. It allows the common folk to see a mighty figure they fear brought down to their own level.
Curious what some of you felt about the scene vs. what this writer had to say about some of the subtleties shown or not shown.