Today, let's talk about the British drama "Taboo Season 1".
Title Taboo Season 1 (2017), alias Death Taboo, Taboo Game.
Tom Hardy, who is affectionately known as "Teacher Tang" by fans of the film drama, has starred in many popular works.
Since the emergence of "Company of Brothers", Teacher Tang has always been everyone's favorite actor. What I am most amazed by is his performance in "The Soprano House", where Mr. Tang created an extremely successful and complex soprano character in just 4 episodes of "The Soprano House".
In 2017, Mr. Tang once again starred in the British drama "Taboo", which tells the British past that happened in the early 19th century.
I kept "Forbidden Season 1" for a long time, and originally wanted to wait for Season 2 to come out and get fat to watch it together. But four years have passed, and until 2021, "Forbidden Season 2" has not landed. Watching the trailers of "Venom 2" one after another, about to be released, this "Forbidden" is afraid that it is not forgotten.
When it came to film selection, it was certainly right to choose to play tom Hardy's work. Waited for a long time and did not wait for "Forbidden Season 2", simply did not wait, then watch the first season first.
The Taboo takes place in England in 1812, with Mr. Tang playing the adventurer James Keziah Delaney.
James returned to London, ready to take over the legacy of his recently deceased father and reinvigorate the family's shipping business.
However, this process is full of difficulties and obstacles, and the forces that block James come from all sides, from the regent to the East India Company, and all kinds of forces are intricate and undercurrent. James needs to rush out of a way to survive in extreme danger. Of course, James is by no means a good stubble.
The idea for The Forbidden show comes from real historical events, created by Tom Hardy and his father, Chipps Hardy. The entire first quarter cost $35 million.
The "Nootka Bay" mentioned in the play is a small bay in the Pacific Ocean, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, 270 kilometers northwest of Victoria.
At first, the Nootka was fought over by the Spaniards and the British. Two meetings, in 1793 and 1794, defined Nootka as an "open port" where both the Spaniards and the British could do business with the natives, without interfering with each other or establishing permanent bases.
Later, after 1794 the Spaniards retreated, and the contending side became the British and Americans. Soon after the founding of the United States, there was a strong desire for land, and the British were also unwilling to give up their land on the American continent, so the two sides began to compete.
Papa James traded a pile of gunpowder and bought Nootka Bay with the locals. After Papa's death, James inherited the land.
Nootka Bay is a small place, but it is located in a necessary place for East-West transactions, and the commercial potential is unlimited.
Now the British royal family, the East India Company and the United States are vying for this land, and they all want to win James into their own camp.
James is naturally not stupid, he is a strange man, he wants to exchange this land for freedom and wealth. In order to achieve his goals, James needs to face various dangers to his life.
The play takes place shortly after the end of the American Revolutionary War, so the British and American sides will not fight for the land again, but more still have to solve the problem through "civilized" ways.
So the audience can see that in this play, the British seem to pay special attention to the law, have a strong sense of contract, and seem to have to do things with reason.
Teacher Tang also gave a wonderful performance this time. He expressed a desire to portray James as a mix of different characters, including Bill Sikes, Heathcliff, Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lecter, Oedipus, Marlow, Rodrigo Monto Za, Don Lope de Löder. Don Lope de Aguirre.
During the filming process, Teacher Tang had many fully nude frontal shots, but the film deleted these shots...
James speaks Tver in the play. The Tevi language originated in the West African country of Ghana and is a dialect of the Akan people. West Africa fits the character's upbringing.
Tom Hardy said: "I want James Delaney to be like a classical hero, a doer, and a great guy with the ability to say 'fuck off.'" ”
In addition to the 1814 era background, there is also an important background board in the play is the British East India Company.
The British East India Company, abbreviated as BEIC, appeared to be a commercial trading enterprise, but was actually a colonial institution that combined military, government, and economy. Originally, on December 31, 1600, Emperor Elizabeth I granted the company a royal charter granting it the privilege of trade in India. The East India Company also succeeded in establishing the British Indian colonies, and to this day indians still regard the British as masters.
The East India Company experienced expansion, monopoly, and armed forces of its own, which was finally disbanded on January 1, 1874.
In 1813, the East India Company successfully invaded and occupied most of India, and the princes of India became subordinate to the East India Company. But the high cost of the war dragged down the East India Company's economy, and to avoid collapse, the East India Company turned to the British Parliament for help.
The British Parliament passed the Permit Bill, which confirmed that the sovereignty of the Indian territory occupied by the East India Company belonged to the British monarch, and the East India Company's license was extended for 20 years, retaining the tea trade and Chinese trade, and depriving India of its monopoly on trade.
So viewers can feel the delicate relationship between the East India Company and the British crown in "Taboo". On the surface, it seems that the East India Company can exercise various rights independently, but sometimes it has to get the endorsement of the royal power, which cannot do many things because of its own strength, and relies on the strength of the East India Company. The two use each other and restrict each other, but at the same time look down on each other.
The discord between them became an important factor that James could exploit.
The most interesting thing about Taboo is its emphasis on the rule of law in a troubled world.
A group of rough masters who do not want to abide by the basic norms of human civilization, they fight and kill the masters at every turn, but they pay special attention to the normative rule of law in the play. Was it the british rule of law at that time that was excellent? No, it was the director's request.
The East India Company and the royal family obviously had so many opportunities to kill James directly, but they had to follow a set of rules that they didn't know where they came from. It's just a matter of taking off your pants and farting. Is it bad to kill people directly, and to complicate simple problems.
The most infuriating thing is that Teacher Tang, who was stripped naked, was deleted.
Lone wolf James, the British royal family, the East India Company, the new government of the United States, the four forces around The Gulf of Nootka snatched the head and blood, and the intestines flowed to the ground. James, who combines the temperament of multiple characters, can naturally laugh to the end.
In addition to dealing with the taboos at the level of national justice, James also has to interpret the taboos in the aspect of family affection. The solution is not complicated, either poke people or poke people.
By the end of the first season, the shallow pits left behind were almost complete.
Although there is no second season until now, there are still some plot holes that have not been filled, which does not affect the entire first season to become an independent story.
There are no taboos in the great chaos,
Adventurers do as they please.
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