The many deaths of Sean Bean

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Boromir or Ned Stark, Danny Bryant or or Dave Toombs, John Ryder or Alec Trevelyan... Sean Bean sure knows how to play dead, heh! ;)

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Poor thing, he can't even complete a full movie without being shot, drowned, stabbed, hanged, impaled or beheaded...

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[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Boromir!

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

George R.R. Martin's Open Letter About the Deaths in Game of Thrones
http://www.dorkly.com/post/63864/george-rr-martins-open-letter-about-the-deaths-in-game-of-thrones

Plus, we cast Sean Bean in the role [of Ned Stark]. If you thought his head was remaining attached to his neck for the rest of the show, you haven't been paying attention.

;-)

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

And another hilarious fake:

http://happyplace.someecards.com/happy-place-original/an-open-letter-from-george-rr-martin-addressing-game-of-thrones-fans-deepest-fear/

These GRRM "open letters" are becoming something like a fad :)

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/words-are-wind-george-r-r-martin-might-stretch-the-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-series-to-eight-books/

WTF...

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Words are wind, my friend.

Now repeat that fast 14 times in succession.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I really sympathize with the guy. Once he sits, he doesn't seem to stop writing. The problem is, he rarely sits lately (seeing from his LJ blog anyway).

But ultimately, doesn't matter how many books he splits VI and VII into. He did a similar thing with IV and V which were initially supposed to be one book. What matters is that he writes the damn text.

Hell, even myself is having a similar issue. The 1st of a series of books (http://teatarnamechtite.blog.bg/zabavlenie/2013/01/05/vekyt-na-lyva-sydyrjanie.1038701) that I've been working on for some time, swelled way over 900 pages, so I had to split it in two, with their respective prologues, epilogues and all that.

[froan.livejournal.com]

The highest level of professionalism, without a doubt.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I think the only movie Sean Bean's character doesn't seem to die is Troy (2004, the screenplay interestingly written by David Benioff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benioff) (Game of Thrones writer series creator and producer and director). Sean Bean played King Odysseus, and in the movie, just when it seemed the Greek forces were going to have to abandon their siege, it was Odysseus who noticed someone playing with a toy horse and gets the idea of tricking the Trojans.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Yep, Odysseus is a refreshingly cunning contrast from the naive Ned Stark who's probably the most incompetent player in the game of thrones.

I remember a few years ago, at a traditional clan gathering back in Iceland where one of the 6 days of the family festival is supposed to include a competition in drama performance, I participated with some pals of mine in an amateur theatrical adaptation of the Iliad. The role of Odysseus was played by yours-truly :)

[telemann.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lot of fun.

And the irony of Odysseus in the way David Benioff wrote that role: it was Odysseus' cunning that ultimately won the victory, and it wasn't Achilles' fighting abilities or brute force that netted them Troy.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Homer who wrote it that way :)

[telemann.livejournal.com]

You knew what I meant.