clarasimone

Beautifully done. Love it!

Am I the only one who feels that the cathartic discharge of kick-ass-titude on the part of Jorah in this scene is literally on-par with the intensity of his desire for Daenerys ? I can’t breathe.

Oh man that summersault was straight out of a Dark Souls game.

Forever 😳-ing @ Jorah throwing that spear bc uff

@clarasimone Aww, you’re too kind. I agree with @toas-tea too…especially after he stabs that kneeling man in the chest and then slowly looks up at her. He’s almost saying, “See what you’ve driven me to do? I’ll kill for you…isn’t that enough? What more do you need from me?”

YES indeed @toas-tea and @houseofthebear… I’ll just add one subtlety. I’ll phrase this better down the road but to get back to my initial idea, the sexual catharsis ? I don’t mean it to coming literally from Jorah’s subconscious, so am not trying to make him into a deviant @houseofthebear but from a film aesthetics standpoint, if you ALSO effect an extra-diegetic reading of the scene, the equation is there. This character who’s been denied romantic fruition and sexual climax gets a form of release here and turns it into a dolorous spectacle for the one he loves and was never able to passionately bound with. This, to me, is why the scene is so rich: because, in the diegesis, your reading comes thru shining loud and clear (it’s Jorah suggesting: see what I’m driven to ? you could stop this… just take me back) and then the filmmakers add or underlay the extra-diegesis with metaphor: this gladiatorial killing, THIS SCENE in all its angsty over-the-board violence and spectacle and excess is the “weight of one man’s heart” (to quote Ripper Street ;-). The filmmaker are SHOWING us the degree of passion Jorah could demonstrate if Daenerys would simply let him. Transfer what he does to these bodies, the showmanship with which he slays them, the flourishes, the despair, the know-how, the passion, the utter sense of abandonment and self-less-ness unto loving Daenerys and the scene screams: DAENERYS WAKE UP and chain this man to your bed and heart ;-) It is SUCH a brilliant piece of writing, directing and acting. I’m so glad to know that it was one of IG’s favorite scenes, along with the banishment and his death scene.

I don’t think I’ve read this analysis but bravo @clarasimone @houseofthebear because this is AMAZING. I have never even looked at this scene through that particular lense and I 100% agree and I love it. Years later I am still discovering different aspects about scenes from this show.

Very cool to go back on all this 😁