Starz, a pay cable TV station in the United States, in order to attract customers to subscribe, there are many American dramas that are biased towards adults and have a clear style.
For example, "Black Sail", "Leonardo da Vinci's Demon", "American Gods"...
I think everyone remembers the clip of the Queen of Sheba (the god of love and sex) sucking a man into his body when the first season of "American Gods" first aired.
The TV station that got the rights to adapt the show was Starz.
Old drama fans must know that their home usually has two major characteristics:
The scale is so large that HBO is ashamed, and the plasma spray to "The Walking Dead" is sighing!
The dramas produced by him, heavy bridge sections and restricted shots, the scale is so large that I dare not put it up.
The American drama I am talking about today is exactly the god among many drama fans.
Spartacus
Spartacus
Douban averaged 8.8.
The year 2010 was a year of adrenaline explosions.
AMC's next meal drama "The Walking Dead"; HBO's rather exquisite hard drama "Atlantic Empire" and "Pacific War"; and the toilet platform CW's beautiful and sassy cool drama "Nikita".
And today's Starz-produced Spartacus!
In order to restore the bloody legend of the gladiators, as well as the famous Roman indulgence in history, its shooting method is extremely explicit.
A large number of slow motion, extremely exaggerated plasma and oil painting texture of the color palette, as well as quite literary lines, outline a very personal visual feast for us.
In ancient Rome, there were insurmountable hierarchical differences between people.
Gladiators were basically slaves, and they were considered the lowest and most useless of the slaves.
The show kicks off the story with an arena gladiatorial performance.
The main character, Rayman Spartacus, is forced into slavery and becomes a gladiator and placed in a brutal arena.
What awaits him will be the absurd hobbies of the nobility, as well as the countless gladiatorial performances held.
Gladiators who had lost their freedom were driven to fight and kill each other, and their flesh and blood fell into a pool of blood, emitting piercing screams and convulsing in dying pain.
The Roman aristocracy and people in the stands enjoyed this game of killing like a musical.
The carnival of thousands of people, they applaud and laugh like crazy!
Opposite the main entrance of the grandstand, a triumphal arch was built, where the gladiator triumphalists who had survived entered the arena.
On its right side there is a door called the Death Gate, which is the servant of the arena, and the long scratching hook is used to tie the mutilated limbs of gladiators who have been killed or are about to die.
The tragedy of the arena clearly leaves the reader's mind with slaves and gladiators who are pressed at the bottom of society.
Yet they were not the kind of muddled slaves, but were brainwashed into gladiators of exalted glory.
The show focuses on how Spartacus went from an ordinary Thracian soldier to a god of gladiators!
And how he went from being a slave to a leader who shook the foundations of Roman rule!
In the arena where he was executed for the first time, he turned defeat into victory and killed 4 gladiators with one enemy and four enemies.
Ironically, Spartacus, the name that came to be known as a hero and legend, was not his own name.
It's a name given to bloodthirsty slave owners in order for crazy spectators to better call out a gladiator!
However, because of his beliefs and actions, this name has been infused with humanity and freedom in the arena of living like hell on earth, and in the rebirth of fire again and again.
He became the hero of all the oppressed and toiling people in history!
From the day he became a slave, his tragic fate began.
His wife was sold into slavery and murdered;
He lost his freedom, was slaughtered, accepted the call of the noblewoman, and participated in the more tragic underground gladiatorial arena, where every second was a battle of life and death.
Together with Kress, he killed shadow of death, earning himself the titles of "Messenger of rain" and "Hero of the Shadow", becoming the new champion of Kapua.
However, this so-called glory is of no use, because the slave himself has no rights.
In the face of extravagant and cruel slave owners, all gladiators are just commodities that make money for themselves, not people!
Even for the sake of a casual word from the second-generation children of the official, he killed his best friend in front of everyone, all for the fleeting visual stimulation of the powerful!
If this drama is only a sensory stimulation from beginning to end, it cannot be called a divine drama!
As a product of modern society, even if it is an ancient story, its background color will definitely have a modern shadow.
Spartacus's undertone is about the struggle for seeking, acknowledging.
He seeks your recognition that I am a man, like you Roman citizens!
The gladiators, with their muscles and short swords and shields, sold blood and flesh for the glory of the brainwashing of slave owners in a hierarchical environment;
Although there are various large-scale love scenes in the play, the love of each pair in it occupies a considerable weight.
Spartacus was loyal and unyielding from beginning to end, and all the humiliations he was willing to endure at the beginning were only for the sake of being with the Iraqis.
In the gladiatorial arena nourished by blood, in the class full of power desire, love is expressed from multiple angles and themes.
The love between the same sex in Barka is a solace for surviving the dark suffering;
The love of the boss Batiatas and his wife Lucia is complex and tenacious;
Illycia's love is lustful;
Eligang's love is fiery and straightforward.
However, it is precisely because of these background colors that the audience in front of the screen will experience a trace of the pain of people's heartache and burning inside the play in addition to the sensory stimulation of bloody indulgence.
After those plots of exhaustion, deceit, and ups and downs, I was deeply shocked!
The vivid character portrayal, skillful narrative, addictive erotic scenes and the visual feast of violent aesthetics will be unforgettable for anyone who sees it.