#TriviaTV - Penulis GAME OF THRONES Akui Masalah Disebalik Tabir Produksi!

“When we were outlining [GOT] season one, and at that point it was just the two of us and Bryan Cogman, we’d start putting scenes out in index cards on the board, as you do; with different colors for each plotline.“

“At one point we had 112 different colors on the board. I remember looking at it and wondering ‘Is this actually going to make sense to anybody? Is this going to be something people can follow?’“

— David Benioff dan D.B. Weiss, Austin Film Festival, (2019).

Penyelia produksi serta para penulis GAME OF THRONES (GOT) David Benioff dan D.B. Weiss (D&D) mengemparkan penonton di Festival Filem Austin minggu lepas, apabila mereka mengakui kesalahan-kesalahan yang berlaku disebalik tabir ketika mengadaptasikan siri novel George R.R. Martin – A Song of Ice And Fire – ke kaca televisyen (TV):

Walaupun musim-musim awal siri TV GOT berjaya memenangi pelbagai anugerah serta hati peminat tegar sedunia, namun musim-musim penghujung mengundang banyak kontroversi – dengan kecaman utamanya dilontarkan kepada D&D.

Dalam sebuah panel di Festival Filem Austin minggu lepas, D&D berkongsi pengalaman mereka mengadaptasikan GOT selama 10 tahun serta masalah-masalah disebalik tabir.

Episod pertama terpaksa melalui sesi penggambaran sebanyak dua kali kerana D&D tidak pernah menulis skrip untuk dunia TV – “Everything we could make a mistake in [basic scriptwriting for TV], we did.”

Duo ini juga mengakui bahawa mereka tidak memahami watak-watak nukilan George R.R. Martin pada mulanya, sehinggakan HBO memaksa mereka untuk menulis dan merakam kandungan sebanyak 100 minit untuk setiap episod – kerana episod-episod awal hanya mempunyai kandungan sebanyak 39 minit.

Berkenaan kritikan bahawa siri TV GOT terlalu ganas, mereka mengakui bahawa ia agak keterlaluan pada beberapa peringkat – “We went too far with some of those.”

Liputan Langsung Oleh @ForArya

Penulis dan peminat tegar GOT, Needle & Pen (@ForArya) membuat liputan langsung daripada panel di Festival Filem Austin minggu lepas melalui laman Twitternya, yang mengungkit pelbagai kenyataan kontroversial oleh D&D:

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— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

David is also saying that he went to fan casting pages and that is how they found Jason Mamoa.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

They are describing their pitch and how nervous they were. They pitched to Carolyn Strauss who has a reputation of being a tough pitch. They were very nervous “because of how bad we wanted.”
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

They talking about the pilot and their friends who they let watch their first attempt at a pilot. One of the people was Craig Mazin (wrote Chernobyl) Scott Frank and Ted Griffin. He acknowledged that the first pilot was basic writing mistakes.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Dan is saying that #GameofThrones was basically an expensive film school for he and Dave. For example, they had no idea how to work with costume designers, and it was a huge learning experience.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

The moderator is asking them about their comments acknowledging they didn’t understand the characters, and the extra minutes helped them understand the characters better. 😳
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

The moderator asked why they chose to write all the episodes by themselves: “Because we didn’t know better.” David said HBO wanted them to hire other writers and they decided to have Bryan Cogman, their assistant, write four episodes.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

She is asking about the violence. David: “TBH we went too far with some of those.”

He comments on the jousting scene with the Mountain and how when they killed Sir Hugh, that it was in the scene too long. He compares it to Ozark’s Jason Bateman’s toenail being ripped out.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

They used every season as a learning experience. The CGI of the dragons was particularly challenging. They said by season 4 that Miguel was doing night shoots they had decided no one would miss them if they backed away.

*battle of winterfell took 10 straight weeks
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

“The two of us and Miguel spent a lot of time together.” They talked with him about the shots always being from someone’s POV, so it didn’t feel like a video game.

S1 we wanted to have a battle but we ran out of money. (The extra 100 minutes.) Thus the drinking game scene.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

They are expressing regret about putting the baby on the block of ice and him screaming. The mother was not happy bc Dan just kept talking about a close-up of the baby’s penis.

*They are very granular in details of shots, admitting losing sight of the big picture.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Did you really sit down and try to boil the elements of the books down? Did you really try to understand it’s major elements.

No. We didn’t. The scope was too big. It was about the scenes we were trying to depict and the show was about power.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Dab is saying how much they loved the books, but they had to make it their own. They have stressed several times about giving up 10 years of their life.

They reference David Chase and the Sopranos and how he said this was all such a blur.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Q&A: how did you have a life – keep families going, etc.

We loved our Game of Thrines family. But it was very hard. Our kids and wives became best friends and it felt like a big family.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

He is talking about how this being what he dreamed of since 8, and they never even dreamed this big.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Casting also dictated how and when they killed people.

Question about scouting locations. They are crediting the Location director in Belfast. Sorry, I didn’t catch name.
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

He said that they wouldn’t hire writers unless they were willing to be part of the production team.

(Vanessa wrote the Shape of Water.)
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

They decided to pitch the pilot, and not the series, in a way that was understandable to folks they were pitching. Then they did a vague overview of the series, with not a lot of details.

“There was no good way to summarize the story. So we didn’t.”
— Needle & Pen – Yeah, *that* Game of Thrones Thread (@ForArya) October 26, 2019

Kritikan Untuk Liputan @ForArya

Namun, menurut laman Watchers on the Wall bebenang Twitter @ForArya menonjolkan D&D di dalam versi yang seburuk mungkin – kerap kali mengambil lawak jenaka ketika panel tersebut sebagai kenyataan benar, serta memetik pernyataan mereka secara salah.

Ikuti panel GAME OF THRONES di Festival Filem Austin di dalam bentuk audio di bawah untuk mendengar pengakuan penulis D&D sepenuhnya:

https://soundcloud.com/aboynamedart/got-panel-at-austin-film-festival

#SoalanCepumas

Apakah pendapat anda tentang kenyataan oleh David Benioff dan D.B. Weiss tentang pengalaman mereka disebalik tabir GAME OF THRONES selama 10 tahun ini?

Adakah D&D melambangkan masalah sistemik di industri Hollywood dimana lelaki berkulit putih mendapat lebih banyak peluang untuk berkarya sehingga berjaya – walaupun mereka kurang mahir jika dibandingkan dengan penulis wanita ataupun yang bukan berkulit putih? 🤔

Bincangkan.

#TriviaTV – Penulis GAME OF THRONES Akui Masalah Disebalik Tabir Produksi!