Facts about the creators

Screensaver is even more complicated than it seems

The incredible three-dimensional map in the screen saver "Games of the Thrones" was awarded the "Emmy". For Angus Wall, who directs the work to create a screen saver, this is an endless work. His company is forced in each season to update the animation, adding new lands to it and marking each city with the coat of arms of the one who rules it now. To create a splash screen for each new season, a team of 10 people works, which takes about three months.

George Martin prefers sex to violence

The author of the books that formed the basis of the series, finally answered why there are so many sexual scenes in his work. In an interview with Reuters Martin said: "I can describe in every detail how the blade of an ax crushes the skull and enters the head, but no one's eyes will blink. It is worthwhile for me to describe in detail as the penis enters the vagina - and the flow of angry letters falls upon me. In my opinion, this is insanity. In the history of man, the penises penetrating into the vagina gave many people a lot of pleasure, which you can not say about taxes. "

At the same time, Martin is enraged when his mail is stolen

In 2011 Martin complained to readers of his blog that the postal service employee had stolen some of the scenarios of "The Game of Thrones" sent to Martin by mail. The writer urged his fans to follow the appearance of manuscripts on eBay. However, the missing scenarios, which described the ninth and tenth episodes of the first season, so still not found.

Creators of dragons were inspired by geese and cats

In an interview with Wired, special effects specialist Sven Martin said that the creators of dragons wanted to do something similar to lying on the ground geese, flapping wings. The movements during the flight are watched from the bats, and in the scenes where the Daenerys is maternally petting its pets, their habits, according to the authors' idea, resemble feline ones.

Gray-haired is very similar to a real disease

Obviously, when he came up with a gray sickness, Martin was primarily thinking about leprosy. However, there is another disease, resembling a terrible ailment from the book - ossifying progressive fibrodysplasia. This rare incurable disease causes the degeneration of the affected soft tissues into bone tissue. As the disease progresses, the patient actually turns into stone.

Everyone says the word "Khalisi" incorrectly

Linguist David Peterson, the creator of the Dothraki and Valerian languages, claims that the word "Khalisi" correctly emphasizes the first syllable. The first erroneous variant with an accent on the second syllable was voiced by Ian Glen, known as Sir Jorah Mormont. Glen liked the producers more.

Facts about props

Based on the series, the locks for the doors "Hodor"

Everyone remembers the heartbreaking series in which Hodor, at the cost of his mind, holds the door and thereby gives friends the opportunity to escape from the White Walkers. Soon after it was published on the Internet, photos of homemade, and then professionally executed, locks for the doors of the self-sacrificed Hodor began to appear.

In 2013, HBO and Firebox released and sold full-size copies of the Iron Throne

The replica of fiberglass and polymer weighed 159 kilograms and was more than 2 meters in height, 1.8 meters in depth and 1.65 meters in width. Buy your own Iron throne could be for 20 000 pounds sterling. Unfortunately, now the thrones are no longer produced.

The iron throne was supposed to be much larger

In his blog, Martin describes it like this: "Ugly. Asymmetric. Made from a thousand swords, not from a few pieces. " In the series, this discrepancy is well beaten: in one of the episodes, Misinets states that one thousand swords is a myth. He says: "There are not more than two hundred of them, I counted them."

Valir steel has a real prototype

It seems that when describing the legendary weapons of his heroes George Martin was inspired by Damascus steel. This famous steel from India and the Middle East was famous for its durability, as well as the characteristic patterns on the blade. As in the case of Valerian steel, the secret of Damascus steel production was lost several centuries ago.

All swords in the series have blood stains

Each sword in the series has the size of a real weapon and is also equipped with grooves for blood drainage. It is believed that thanks to these depressions on the blade blood flowed out of the wound, and the sword could easily be pulled out of the opponent's body. Some historians offer a more plausible explanation: thanks to these grooves, weapons less weighed without compromising strength.

Madonna borrowed the cost Khalisi

In March 2014, Madonna decided to come to the masquerade in honor of Purim in the costume of Daenerys. But since Madonna is Madonna, and she did not have to dress up in a fake, she contacted the producers of the series and asked to lend her a real Khalisi suit. Those, of course, gladly agreed.

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