The sixth season of the HBO project "The Game of Thrones" is moving to its end. TV viewers are ecstatic, - so entertaining a picture the producers pampered them for the first time.
One of the most exciting and memorable episodes was the penultimate episode "The Battle of the Bastards", in which the battle between the Guardian of the North and John Snow for Winterfell Castle is shown in the smallest details.
Logistics and numbers
Fans of the fantasy saga have already expressed themselves in social networks about their impressions of the film. In the posts flash the words "epic", "grandiose", "incredible." Spectators do not sin against the truth: for the filming of the 9th series of the 6th season, the directors needed as much as 25 days. Five hundred actors of extras, 65 stuntmen, 70 horses, 160 tons of gravel (for the preparation of the battle site) and about 700 members of the crew took part in the shooting. Impressive scales, is not it?
With all this, he had to manage director Miguel Sapochnik (by the way, he also took the final episode of this season, "Winds of Winter"). Mr. Sapocnik is known to filmmakers for the not very successful thriller "The Rippers", as well as work on the series "Doctor House", "The Real Detective" and "Banshee".
If you have not watched this series, we will try not to disclose the details of the story. Let's just note that the scene where John Snow is literally hit by an avalanche of enemy cavalry was filmed for real, without digital technologies and computer effects!
Producer of the series, David Benioff described this scene as follows:
"What you saw on the screen, this is really four dozen horses, which rush to China at full speed. And it was so, Camilla, a member of our film crew, who runs the scenes with horses, constantly asked us to compose a more difficult task for her. So they came up with a battle scene with a small herd. "
Revelations from the director
However, still in the shootings of the series, not the producer, but the director is the "first violin", is not it? Miguel Sapochnik happily shared with Entertainment Weekly his impressions of work on the penultimate season:
"If we talk about the" Battle of the Bastards ", then in my experience - this is the most difficult work in terms of organizing filming. We had a certain budget, beyond it I had no right to go out. In addition, scenes with horses caused a lot of difficulties. It is difficult for animals to stay in one place for a long time without moving - they start to get nervous, nature demands constant dynamics from them, and all this smell. Do you understand what I'm talking about!".Read also
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To make the fight look really frightening and dynamic, Sapochnik arranged the cameras in the thick of the crowd. This made it possible to get really exciting shots at the output.
Before starting to work on the series, the director watched many military films of his colleagues, in addition, the film crew studied historical works, which described the battles between the great armies. The strongest impression was made by the battle of Cannes and the battle of Agincourt.
It was not easy to invest in the allotted schedule:
"Producers told me that I have to catch everything in 12 days. But really I needed 42 days! Through the wild efforts of the whole team, we kept within 25 days. "
Trials on the set inspire non-standard director's moves.
"It rained for three days. And the earth so limp that the crowd in it literally drowned. We had a definite plan for the filming, but I could not go on. Producers gave me permission to act on the circumstances, and I took the final scene in a special way. "
It's about the frames where John Snow is actually littered with the bodies of the wild. It looks very impressive, and at the same time managed to get by with "little blood".
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