“Library reviews are massive. The people liked the adult series with the rating R, a charismatic main character, memorable with a song. Everyone sings about minted coins-so maybe something is wrong with you?"
And I ask this question again: I’m crazy? Or the whole world?
First of all, let’s revere some statements of the showranner of the series Loren Hissrich:
"Many people wrote to me that they were upset by the reviews of" Witcher ". Know:
Who I should worry about? About "professional" critics who watched the first episode and simply won forward? Or about real fans who watched all eight episodes in one day and have already begun to revise them?"
I am writing from London, one of their most ethnically diverse cities. In America, we are talking about diversity, but here it seems organic. And we are talking about him because we have a long history of enslavement and oppression. Когда маятник исторически качнулся в одну сторону, естественно качнуть его в другую, чтобы найти середину.
A significant part of entertainment products is made in America, so it is reasonable that this approach penetrates into the cinema with series. I won’t say for others, but about the “Witcher” these are my thoughts about inclusiveness:
Polish books, with the Slavic spirit. It was important to save. But I asked the Poles – can Slavic culture be reduced purely to the color of the skin? The answer was "Lord, we hope not".
We are shooting a series for 190 countries. In all adaptations, changes are made with an eye on the audience in Geral and the Witches American accents. This was not in the books, but the developers prudently decided to make a game for a wide audience.
The Witcher is especially interesting in terms of displaying racism, because it refers to different species, and not about the color of the skin. "Other" characters make the shape of the ears, growth and so on. No one pays attention in books for skin color. In the series … no one. And point.
In the casting, we were glad to everyone and everyone. We saw people of different ages, nationalities and talent levels – from movie stars to Polish fans who have never played professionally. We have chosen the best actors.
I always emphasized that my decisions are not the result of liberal views. I hope this will explain my choice: the Polish culture is not a synonym for white skin;We need a wide audience;The books have allegories for racism;We are looking for the best actors.
As for the redheads – damn it, go out for protests, there is really shame and shame.
I also saw the tweet of one of the scriptwriters who said:
Looking ahead I will say – “and thank God!". Because even Uwe, Bolle copes with the film adaptation of games better than you – with the adaptation of books.
Hi all. Welcome to the review/Psychoanalysis session/Heyiter blog/Just an opinion on the series "Witcher" from Netflix. If you put the series “10 out of 10”, have not read books, are not familiar with the universe and you have come in the series, and you also do not accept an excellent point of view, then this text is not for you.
If you are interested in knowing – “What is this tumble there? The norms are serial!" – then welcome. I promise that there will be no passages like:
I know that two swords are conventionality in the game. In the book, Geralt took a specific tool for a particular case. No. I am reasonably, balanced, and at the same time I will explain popularly why the series “Witcher” from Netflix is a very mediocre fantasy series (like a wretched outpost from Si-Dab).
Well, how is the adaptation of books-in general, failure, somewhere at the level of the film adaptation of the draft. And even as a “work on motives” weaves far, far in the tail of the column.
Caution – spoilers!
“Witcher” is fantasy, but not quite ordinary. Not being a traditional fairy tale about wise elves, good gnomes and other characters described by Tolkien, the book does not roll to another extreme. There are no endless murders, and with detailed rejection of details, and among positive heroes there is no one who could be called a “scumbag”, which some authors like to produce.
For example, there is such a series of “Destroyed Empire” – this is an example of a bust with Chernukha in my opinion. The main character in his short life managed to:
1.Lose mother and brother.
2.Fleeing from the attempt, getting into the vigorous thorn bushes, from which he hallucinated and experienced hellish pain.
3.His father chose to hush up and bargain for the murder of loved ones, instead of revenge.
4.He was raped by a priest.
It worked to a certain limit and I empathized. From above a certain threshold, cruelty ceases to frighten and begins to irritate. The author – Mark Lawrence – does not understand this.
And there are many questions for the world order of his book ..
What the saga "witcher"? I’m not plot, I’m talking about ideas and content:
Progress.
Geralt every now and then catches himself that the times are not the same, and the troll, for example, does not need to be killed – after all, he supports the bridge in order. And Nennesk says that some plants can grow only in special greenhouses – "because the sun is not right".
Policy.
Nilfgard – constrained into a single whole that has converted to absolutism confronts the northern kingdoms that are still in feudal fragmentation. However, when the northerners still stop squabbles and take up the work quickly and decisively – even the brigades of the heavy cavalry of the southerners howl from pain.
But the intrigues and selfish interests do not go anywhere ..
Purpose.
Who would Geralt be, do not intervene? How fate would turn, he prefer it not the right to surprise, but just money? It was an accident? Rock? Fate?
And who would Yenifer become?
And Ciri?
War.
The horrors of war – when the villages and cities are burning, and the hour of the sword and ax come … And what happens after the war – when they don’t seem to be shot and cut, but there are a lot of corpses around, and there are a lot of brutal deserters and just robbers around the forests.
Mythologization.
By the way, an important aspect of the plot. We will every now and then give excerpts from the future – where, for example, young magicians consider Philip Eckhart a holy martyr, and Nilfgard cadets analyze the causes of defeat under the browning in accordance with the ideological course of the empire.
HATRED.
This is generally a separate topic of the entire saga.
Elves hate people. People hate all nonhumans and mutants in general. Krasnoles hate everyone who is trying to encroach on their booze. And those who encroach on their women are doubly hate.
The North hates the south, south-north, aristocrats hate jumps like diikstra, Dikstra hates pompous boobs of aristocrats, who regularly add his work.
Mages are trying to conduct this orchestra from the shadow, but it turns out badly – and what began as a small local intrigue into a total war and almost the local edition of the First World War.
And this is far from a complete list. And https://gambliicasino.uk/ yes – I understand that there is a difference between the language of the movie and the book. But in books, most ideas were nevertheless transmitted through dialogs and actions-which could and should be transferred to the screen.
However, about everything in order … as far as possible, taking into account the completely confusing installation. As if Ciri mounted, in the process of downloading from the past to the future ..
Series 1. In which the deer is not lucky.
The opening scene is good. Geralt fights with … um … kikimora? And in the end, everything ends logically: the head of the creatures is from the shoulders, and our witcher has a fresh venison for stew.
When there were the first images of Kevil in the image of a white wolf, I had certain doubts. Somehow everything was very puppet and glamorous … But in the series, this strange shine was removed from his hair, the witcher himself acquired a certain affliction and beatenness with life. Kevil moves is also very easy – especially for its massive complexion.
Although I would still like to see Mads Mikelson – he would come even better ..
Eh, it didn’t work out – not.
Next – the adaptation of the story "Lesser Evil". Stregobor, Renfrey, their mutual hatred and demand to make a choice – on which side the witcher … it would seem. But in reality, the whole conflict is bought and dry out in the bud. The book was the threat to arrange a massacre at the fair. In the series, everything is at threats of the level:
What is the essence of the conflict and hatred of Renfrey and the magician in the book? Yes, the fact that he, consider her life, let him go downhill-because of a certain prophecy! In fact, with his actions aimed at destroying the monster himself created it – reading this short story, we began to feel this burden.
Purpose – which presses like a grave plate.
It will be executed – one way or another. And it is possible that with his actions the magician only aggravated him. Acting on the basis of the principle of “smaller evil”, he created more evil more. Or did not create – which is also possible.
About the population of Blaviken, which Geralt saved – but it did not understand him, it also turned out to be a squint. In the book it was a scene of a massacre where we were shown "what witches can" ". And all this was terrifying and incomprehensible to the population: just the Witcher began to fall down the people!
And in the series, this is a crowd of armed bandits, from whom the people scatter – and begins to throw stones and dirt in a white wolf after they were dried up! What – they liked them? And yes – let’s notice a black cat in a white room right away.
Among the bandits, the population, magicians, knights and elves there are blacks and Asians. About why this monstrous blow along the entire film adaptation, destroying the whole spirit of the original we will talk separately, at the end. I’ll tell you shortly yet – to remove the story of mutual racial hatred so that no one is offended and withstand racial quotas for actors is a 99% fault idea.
The second storyline of the series is a zintra, where eighteen -year -old Tsiri, depicting a twelve -year -old one, is first standing behind Kalanta, which devotes people to the knights, and later hangs at a feast.
In Kalant’s book, the rules of wisdom, cunning, adoration of subjects and was a real ruler and man. She had her own ambitions, her cockroaches in her head. She loved her daughter – and her granddaughter, which did not prevent her from intriguing and trying to fulfill the prophecy.
Kalante from the series is a ceremony from the last seasons of Game of Thrones, crossed with Brown tart from the same series. From the first she got stupidity in solving political issues and intrigues, from the second – a craving for the tuning of enemies. True, unlike Gwindolin Christie, actress Jodie May, in principle, does not pull the fenc. Yes, she fought to Kalanta – but first of all as a leader. A little lake they will show her, bursting into the throne room in armor with some paws of a lion on the shoulders, sprayed with blood and almost throwing legs on the table ..
I am generally silent about the political acts of the local ruler of Tsintra: she says to her heiress, who will rule after her so that she does not score her head with thoughts about the war with Nilfgard (. ). Well, at the same feast it turns out that Nilfgard crossed the Yarug and began the war.
That’s damn … who would have thought? By the way, King Eisist is much more adequate and more worried about the zintra and her safety. In the book, he came up to the Gazintra from Skelig, took Kalanta’s wife, became a stepfather of Ciri, and in general there was a hard man who died in a battle with Nilleffers.
In the series, this is a smooth shaved representative nobleman, trolling his wife right during the initiation of people in knights. Not shy in the presence of a stepdaughter to complain that, they say, Kalante went in bed.
Well, on the further we are once again shown that the clash of the armies in the lord of the rings is almost a masterpiece of production, and the whole battle of Helm Padi is the peak of strategic obscenity ..
Cinthrian knights, Latin cavalry, subjected to a desperate jump of strange personalities. Strange personalities are dressed in armor from the troll scrotum, armed with swords and axes, and move – on foot, with cries and a hobby. This is not a construction of the army-this is a Bangsey-ata suicide. Let’s just think about what will happen to an inorganized infantry, which is trying to jump on the knights built to attack?
At first I thought-this is probably some kind of cunning plan! I don’t know-some "penalties", whom the Nilfs were launched on meat. Or “auxiliary parts” from the Krasnoludov, elves and all those who are eager to fight with northerners.
Well, you know – Nilfgard. Which was created based on the Roman Empire – with its militancy, iron order, legions of professional soldiers! Where the emperor rules, magicians serve the country, and aristocrats – fight or serve as officials! Absolute monarchy, which began to naturally roll everyone into the mud, emitting the deadly doses of imperial pathos … Upgraded to some sectarians or orcs from the lords of rings-for which the meaning of life to burn something, to cut someone. And then the resulting meat. Rap the cut.
They are fighting even more wretchedly than in the famous 3 series of seasons "Games of Thrones". Despite the chopped arms-legs-heads, from what is happening I want to pierce his face with his palm: the armor in the best traditions break through at a time, and there is no attempt to at least portray something similar to tactics. Just two crowds with a wild cry collided. One crowd – on horses, a friend – more – on foot. Personents were particularly caught in the eyes, when several Nilfgardians flew to the left and right, and a knight rides to the right and right on the right and right. Moreover, both sides of the conflict are running like on a sports jog – now I thought they are stopped and greeted.
Five minutes later, the zytrians are forced to retreat: after all, we all know that a crowd of meat in leather armor can easily have a fence in a clean field of lanterns on horses! (In fact, no …) Apparently, at some point a special teleporting magic was applied-which the zytrians removed all the horses from the zintrians, which is why they suddenly became pedestrians, and the superiority of the nilphs in numbers began to play a role.
Well, then this hand -to -hand person is diluted by a lone horseman Nilfov. And not just a rider – archer. That is, there are Lukes in this world – but in this battle only specifically this person remembered this. By the way, this is Kagyr – who managed to earn the order and gratitude from the emperor with one arrow. Because this is the hell, the most successful archer that I saw – unless Legolas boasts more efficiency!
One shot – and exactly in the eye of the king that sows panic into the ranks of the northerners!
And so, two days later (as we learn from the negotiations of Ciri and Moshavura), Kalanta comes all the faded, broken and wounded in the gang, and the Nilfgard army runs after it on the heels – and is already approaching the walls of the palace. Immediately Myshevur is arranged by a power barrier, and we understand that Netflix handobludes save even on the sounds of the battle.
The northerners cut each other with the help of poison provided by Afro-Sevelenin ..
… And the NILFs are fierce and arrange fun in the style of orcs, parallel to Calante, Carias tells:
Nilfgard does not take prisoners. This means right now they are torturing my citizens (. ). They tear out the insides from their eyes. They set fire to their legs. Running tongues to the dogs.
Apparently, the grandmother was firmly put his head. These are Nilfgardians, not Russians from COD! Kalanta is cut off a jump from the window, Ciri runs, simultaneously scaring off Kagyra with his twist of strength. Mysavur is captured – and soon it will be merged.
At the end of the series, I sat for a long time and thought – what it was?
If you look at it as a film adaptation "Lesser evil", then we can say in some way that "prank has been a success". Yes, not perfect – there are jambs – but in principle it would turn out a good short film. But then for some reason we were shown the assault on Tsintra, which is an event, to put it mildly, remote from the history of Renfrey.
But okay – then it should become much more understandable! – I thought, and moved to the next series … Then there was still weak hope.
Second series. Where the situation is confused.
If earlier we had two storylines, now there are three of them, very nice.
1.The past Ian.
2.Ciri after escaping from burning cyntra.
3.Geralt gets acquainted with the cradle and helps the peasants with the devil that they have a crop.
The easiest thing is with Geralt – this is the adaptation of the story "End of the world". True, very castrated – approximately like a showwriter guy. There is “Cher” T, which is actually Sylvana, he does the crushed crop.
Then it turns out that he steals not for himself – but for the elves that starve. In parallel with this, a acquaintance with the cradle occurs-yes, the old friend of the Witcher here is his obsessive sid-kick, whom only the lazy did not compare with a donkey from Shrek. True, there is one trouble: Kevil begins to fail.
Because the same Shrek once spoke, reacted to an obsessive comrade, tried to push him something. Geralt Kevvil, as if there are only two reactions: oh and fact. Yes, I understand everything – the witcher is not the most talkative person in the world. But not a log insensitive: he does not mind gloomily jokes, for example.
And in general – what was the point? Why was it to spend time on this development of friendly relations to the detriment of the plot of the story, according to which this piece of the series was shot? How many times have we seen how some chatty character meets with a gloomy main character and imposes on him in the roots? Sapkovsky threw this part for which thanks to him: “This is a friend of Geralt, they met when the buttercup was looking for a bodyguard because he climbed the wrong girl”.
I will say separately about the actor himself: the buttercup is like a womanizer and a musician.
I don’t know about the women, but he is a musician in life – Joei Bati plays in the group The Amazing Devil , which specializes in folk.
The local elves, to which buttercups and Geralt on the elves are not pulled at all. Once again I am wondering: why not take some top models, male and female for the role of elves?
Yes, they are not actors – but their lack of emotions on the face can emphasize the difference between elves and people. Let them always be calm: beautiful, but cold and detached. To play in contrast.
There is no goddess and a plot associated with her about a girl-zakharka in the village. There is no trace of the doom of the elves – there is simply a hyperactive psychopath that breaks the buttercup on the head, simultaneously an oster and smearing tears on the puffy cheeks.
And there is also an obsessive song about a coin that our translators carefully translated – thanks to them for it. Translating songs is not an easy task, and they coped with it.
Part with the past Yenifer, who opens the series, I liked.