game of thrones analysis/conflict

Conflict is helpful to determine narrative. The use of conflict and obstacles in a screenplay is very important this is because basically everything along a storyline is based around some sort of conflict.

Conflict is defined as the meeting of a character's goal and the obstacle that gets in their way. To make a storyline interesting its important to put obstacles and conflict within the story. The more obstacles, the more the conflict. The more we see those obstacles, the better the cinematic conflict within scripts.

The opposing force created, the conflict within the story generally comes in four basic types: conflict with the self, conflict with others, conflict with the environment and conflict with the supernatural.

In game of thrones a lot of conflict is presented very quickly in the first few minutes of the production

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From the title I think that the film will be an action film as the word “game” suggests that there may be fighting and the word “thrones” suggests that the thing that they are fighting for is to possibly be higher status. In the action genre the audience would expect action like fighting or war and conflict between characters or someone or something. I think conflict can mean many things in films as characters in films can have conflicts with themselves or with another character or a place or a situation etc. In the opening scene of game of thrones the characters are riding horses and the pace of the horses is low and tense as they go into the snowy forest, as they enter he turns his head back as if he is unsure to separate from the other characters it could be said this is the first sign of conflict as he doesn’t feel its safe to continue alone. The Wolf howl adds to the already anxious atmosphere which may eventually cause further conflict.

At first sight of the smoke that appears in the distance of one of the characters eyesight, he steps off the horse, however stands still showing hesitancy and feels like something in his mind is telling him not to continue onwards. He eventually slowly advances toward the smoke the closer he gets the slower he starts to move. He then begins to crawl as he closes in to the smoke. Then he peers over the edge and his eyes quickly scan the body parts laying in the snow. His frantically looking around shows conflict as he is unsure what to think as he later confesses to the other character he has never seen anything like this before. He scrambles away in fear of what he has witnessed and rides back to the other characters. The character then tells his fellow characters and they all go to investigate after the characters have conflict with themselves as they hesitate to go back but one of the characters convinces them to go back. Once they have arrived to the location where the bodies were, the characters are shocked to see that the bodies are gone and they all become conflicted and confused as they don’t understand were they have disappeared to.

Once the characters have walked away one of the characters notices something on the floor in the snow and picks up some sort of body part and then his eyes get filled with terror when a creature appears behind another character. The conflict becomes more intense when the characters head gets cut off by the creature and the other character begins to run away. The separate character hears screaming and becomes confused as he sees the horses running away and a lot more frantically and different from when the audience firsts sees the horses and then the character sees another creature/doll and is hesitant and frozen at first then begins running away. The two characters meet in the middle and then the character becomes conflicted again with the scene because his other fellow character then gets approached by the creature then his head gets cut off then the character is left alone and confused with what happened after he sees the characters head land in front of him.

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