![]() ![]() In an interview with Vulture, Shakman said when the dragons hit the battlefield, he wanted it to look like the introduction of an awe-inspiring weapon. One of the men behind the camera for the pivotal episode, director Matt Shakman, spilled the beans on the work it took to make it all happen. For those of you who have your act together and watched one of the greatest episodes in the show's history, you were finally able to witness the full strength of Drogon, one of Khaleesi's three powerful dragons. The Arya Stark who’s arrived now is this assassin, this fighter, who’s a far cry from the little sister she knew before, so she’s taking stock of that and trying to figure out what that means for her relationship.If you missed the latest episode of Game of Thrones, "The Spoils of War," it's my contractual obligation to ask you what the hell you're doing with your life and to rectify this situation immediately. Then you have maybe the most important point of view, which is Sansa looking down from above, seeing her sister who is no longer really this person she knew. But then you shift over to Brienne as she suddenly realizes this ninja is coming at her, and she’s trying to react to it. You have Arya coming in to that courtyard, wandering around her old home, and she finds Brienne. It’s kind of similar to the big battle at the end in that you have multiple points of view. There are some stunt shots in it, but for the most part, that is the actors delivering it. ![]() They are so good in it, and the actors trained for so long - well over a month, I think - to be able to do that fight themselves. But the sword fight between Arya and Brienne was another impressive sequence. The battle was the big technical lift of the episode. So technically it’s three different shots. Then, when Bronn dives down to stab a Dothraki, and we tilt up to Drogon flying overhead and then come back to him for his final steps before a burning wagon comes through - that’s a blend. There’s one blend when a bunch of Lannister troops flee through the frame - we pan right and we see a man on fire get slammed by a horse, then we pan back to Bronn. So was that Bronn sequence a single shot? Or just edited to seem that way?įor the most part it is. I looked at a lot of different references and did what I could to pull from them as inspiration. I looked at “Children of Men.” Bronn running through the field of horror was very similar to some of those Clive Owen oners as he’s running through hell with death all around him. That to me was very much what it should feel like for Jaime, watching men die left and right around him. I looked at “ Saving Private Ryan,” the opening battle on the beach, where the sound drops out and Tom Hanks is watching men being burned alive and shot to death. To hang it on Jaime’s shoulders as he sees his men dying was the most important thing for me.ĭid you rewatch any of those earlier battle episodes to get a better feel for the show’s visual grammar in regards to combat scenes? That was the chief thematic focus of the episode. So one of the first decisions I made was to focus more on Jaime and Bronn than on Daenerys - to focus on what it was like to be with these men on the ground in the middle of this horrific moment when war changes forever, when traditional fighting goes out the window and suddenly you have the introduction of something like napalm. But this was a chance to frame it in a different way. We’ve seen them in heroic situations - Daenerys taking on the slavers in Meereen and watching from above as she deals death from the sky. It was the first time we saw a battle with the dragons between people that we actually like. “Game of Thrones” is known for stunning combat sequences in episodes like “Hardhome” and “Battle of the Bastards.” How was this one different? “He suggested maybe I come work on the show,” Mr. And while he acknowledged that having directed “Sunny” didn’t specifically translate to dragon battles, it was a cameo on that series by the “Game of Thrones” co-creator David Benioff, a longtime acquaintance, that led to the gig. Shakman has directed more than 40 episodes of that zany comedy (he’s also an executive producer). ![]() Which makes it surprising to learn that the show he worked on most before “Game of Thrones” was “ It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” - Mr. The director Matt Shakman made his “Game of Thrones” debut Sunday with an episode full of thrilling action set pieces, including Daenerys Targaryen’s fiery dragon-and-Dothraki assault on the Lannister army and Arya and Brienne’s electrifying sword fight. This interview includes spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones.” ![]()
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