Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones was originally a book written by George R. R. Martin and later become an HBO cable TV series produce and partly write by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.The TV series is based on the book of “A song of ice and fire” and has been filmed in the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast and in several countries as Northern Ireland, Scotland (Winterfell), Malta, Medina etc.

We could talk about it as a social and cultural phenomenon since 17 April 2011 when it started till now, but in this blog we are going to focus on the process of adapting the book into a script. The TV series has won lot of awards including “Screen Actors Guild Awards”, due to the well and almost perfect adaption that their screenwriters have done.

The principal characters are the same that in the book and were selected after a huge and difficult process of cast, where the producers tried to select those who fits better to their characters and, personally speaking, they did a really good job. About the plot and the dialogues, they are really close to what George R.R. Martin wrote in the book.  The conversations fix really well with the ones in the book. The only thing that is a bit different from the book is the transition to one scene to another, sometimes they leave out characters that are not important in order not to extent too much the chapter and make it boring. The book gives a lot of descriptions about the physical aspect of the characters as well as of the emplacements; that fact has helped a lot in the process of transforming the book into a TV series.  

One of the reasons of the huge impact of Game of Thrones is that the TV series achieve to keep the same or even more intrigue and mystery of the books. The fact that this series has become an audiovisual phenomenon has produced a high increase of the sales of the books A song of ice and fire, what has been really good for George R.R. Martin. This TV series is one of the best nowadays, everyone should watch it or unless try it in order to now if you like it or not.

We have shared our point of view on this audiovisual and literary phenomenon, but you can leave a comment below the entry and tell us about what do you think.