miércoles, 3 de septiembre de 2014

DORNE IS COMING

Castilian and Latino characters, Italians and sometimes the Southern French, are all depicted in Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Germanic media as "without the ability to self-regulate, and in serious need of paternal supervision and cultural refinement [···] fast-talking, violence-prone, sexually predatory, and criminally inclined [···] who overestimate their own prowess in predictably dramatic fashion. [···] motivated entirely by passions and carnal desires, and thus incapable of self-restraint." 
The same applies to counterpart cultures in fictional universes, for instance the Dornish in Westeros.
Consider the following joke:
Q: How many Dornishmen does it take to start a war?
A: Only one.
There is also the folk song "The Dornishman's Wife":
The Dornishman's wife was as fair as the sun,

and her kisses were warmer than spring.
But the Dornishman's blade was made of black steel,
and its kiss was a terrible thing.
The Dornishman's wife would sing as she bathed,
in a voice that was sweet as a peach,
But the Dornishman's blade had a song of its own,
and a bite sharp and cold as a leech.
As he lay on the ground with the darkness around,
and the taste of his blood on his tongue,
His brothers knelt by him and prayed him a prayer,
and he smiled and he laughed and he sung,
"Brothers, oh brothers, my days here are done,
the Dornishman's taken my life,
But what does it matter, for all men must die,
and I've tasted the Dornishman's wife!"
In the latest season of Game of Thrones, Dornish Lover Oberyn Martell (played by Pedro Pascal) lived up to his reputation as a bisexual sexoholic, who cohabited with his partner and has had countless romances. His untimely death will lead, in the next season, to the entrance of hitherto neutral Dorne into the struggle for power.

Oberyn, we hardly knew you...
Rumour has it that Andalusia (southern Spain) will stand in for Dorne on screen. Let's hope this becomes real and the producers don't turn to Croatia once more...

1 comentario:

  1. Why do you not like Croatia? or is it just that you prefer Andalusia over Croatia?

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