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| − | '''Alex Graves''' is an American producer and director for film and television. He is best known for his work on the ''[[wikipedia:The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]]'', which he worked on as a director, producer and eventually an executive producer |
+ | '''Alex Graves''' is an American Emmy-winning producer and director for film and television. He is best known for his work on the ''[[wikipedia:The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing]]'', which he worked on as a director, producer and eventually an executive producer, winning two [[wikipedia:Primetime Emmy Award|Emmy Awards]] for his work on that series. He has also worked on ''[[wikipedia:Ally MacBeal|Ally MacBeal]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Fringe (TV series)|Fringe]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Terra Nova (TV series)|Terra Nova]]''. |
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| + | For ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Graves works as a director starting in the [[Season 3|third season]].<ref>[http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/Season_3_Directors/ Westeros.org]</ref> |
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| − | + | Graves directed four episodes in [[Season 4]], more than any other director. His daily routine for the 100 days of Season 4 shooting season was to wake up at 5 a.m. to get to the set, return to his hotel at 7 p.m., then work there on planning until 2 a.m., catch three hours of sleep, then wake up again at 5 a.m.<ref>[http://www.denofgeek.us/tv/game-of-thrones/243771/67-things-you-didnt-know-about-game-of-thrones-season-4 ]</ref> |
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| + | On filming [[Brienne of Tarth]] and [[Jaime Lannister]]'s bath scene in "[[Kissed by Fire]]", Graves said, "...the scene with Jaime and Brienne in the bathtub is like you’re shooting a film with a lesbian and a knight, she’s a knight, he’s a knight, they’re in love and don’t know they’re in love; where else would you get to film a scene like that?"<ref>[http://m.staging.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/game-of-thrones-director-alex-graves-on-filming-joffreys-wedding HitFix Alex Graves interview]</ref> Brienne of Tarth, however, is categorically not "a lesbian" in the novels or in the TV series - she is a very large and muscular female warrior and not effeminate, but she has never shown attraction to other women; it is unknown why Graves said this. |
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| − | In Season 4's "[[Breaker of Chains]]", [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] have sex in front of their dead son Joffrey's corpse. In the novels, this is the first time Cersei sees Jaime after he returns to King's Landing, and they are both consumed by grief over the loss of their child and having sex to feel better/mourn. In the TV episode's version, which Graves directed, ''unanimously'' every major professional television review outlet and film critic thought that Jaime was outright raping Cersei. The writers and actors have in various interviews stated that this was not their intention - Jaime and Cersei have always had violent, rough sex (back in Season 1). Speaking at the FanX panel in Salt Lake City (January 2015), both [[Lena Headey]] (Cersei) and [[Nikolaj Coster-Waldau]] (Jaime) said that as they ''performed'' the scene, they both thought that Jaime and Cersei were having consensual sex. |
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| + | Graves also made factually inaccurate statements in his DVD commentary track for episode 4.10 "[[The Children]]". In particular, he revealed that he actually lobbied against the TV show including the revelation about [[Tysha]] as the main reason that [[Tyrion Lannister]] kills his father [[Tywin Lannister|Tywin]] (Tysha was in fact not a prostitute, truly was a farmer's daughter who fell in love with Tyrion, and Tywin just tricked him into thinking she was a prostitute so he wouldn't even get to enjoy the memory of their love as real - and it meant that Tywin's guards indeed raped Tyrion's lawful wife). Graves said he felt it was better for Tyrion and Jaime to just part with a hug, rather than Jaime revealing the truth about Tysha as he did in the books. Graves also commented that he thought Tysha was dead ("Tyrion's first wife, who died") even though nothing ever indicated that. Among Graves's other comments, he assumed Tyrion knew his way around the tunnels in the Red Keep "because he grew up there" - when he grew up at Casterly Rock, didn't live in the capital city, and apparently knew the tunnels from a map Varys gave him. He also said he thought that [[Tormund]] "loved" [[Ygritte]] and [[Sandor Clegane]] "loved" [[Arya Stark]] - from the context he said it, apparently in the sense of ''romantic'' love, not ''paternal'' love.<ref>[http://winteriscoming.net/2015/02/27/my-problem-with-alex-graves-commentary-on-the-children/ ]</ref> |
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| + | [[Season 5]] introduced a major change from the novels, so that [[Sansa Stark]] marries and is raped by [[Ramsay Bolton]], a character she never even meets in the novels. Actress [[Sophie Turner]] (Sansa) was herself first "informed" of the change from the books, which involved her character now being raped, as part of a joke that director Alex Graves made ''at her expense'' during filming of Season 4 - taunting Turner by leading her to believe she was getting her romantic love interest from the books, when he privately knew the showrunners intended for her character to be raped in the next season. As Turner explained in an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly'' a day after this wedding night scene aired: "Last season [Thrones director] Alex Graves decided to give me hints. He was saying, 'You get a love interest next season.' And I was all, 'I actually get a love interest!' " -- Apparently Turner assumed they meant they were going to cast Harrold Hardyng for Sansa's Vale storyarc in Season 5, to be her handsome and noble love interest as he was in the novels. Instead, Turner said, "So I get the scripts and I was so excited and I was flicking through and then I was like, "Aw, are you kidding me!?'"<ref>[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/17/game-thrones-sansa-wedding ]</ref> Apparently this means that the showrunners didn't set up a meeting with Turner to over the change with her or to gently explain that her character was going to be raped: she first learned about it from reading the Season 5 scripts themselves as she read through them on her own. |
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| + | Alex Graves was heavily criticized for how he filmed the [[Breaker of Chains/Jaime-Cersei sex scene|Jaime/Cersei sex scene]] in episode 4.3 "[[Breaker of Chains]]": virtually all major reviewers and critics believed it portrayed that Jaime was raping Cersei. As comments from the cast members and footage analysis confirm, it was filmed as a consensual sex scene - but simply filmed and edited so poorly by Graves that it ''accidentally'' looked like Jaime was raping Cersei. Graves had final cut on the scene's editing. When asked about it in interviews, he often used blunt or poor choices of words which were also criticized, such as that the sex scene was "consensual by the end" - which many critics felt was a very insensitive phrasing to use relative to the subject matter. In more thorough interviews he simply said that it was never intended to portray rape.<ref>[http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/game-of-thrones-director-on-the-rape-sex-scene.html ]</ref> |
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| − | Graves made several disconcerting remarks in the Blu-ray commentary for the Season 4 finale, "[[The Children]]", particularly stemming from the removal of any mention of [[Tysha]], Tyrion's first wife. In the novels, Jaime is wracked by guilt when he frees Tyrion from the dungeon and confesses that Tysha ''was not'' a whore but really a girl who fell in love with him, and their father had her gang-raped to punish him for marrying a commoner - then forced Jaime to lie about it to Tyrion, tricking him into thinking Tysha was just a whore who never loved him and it was all a ploy. On learning this, Tyrion is furious, and when he meets [[Varys]] he demands that he show him the secret tunnel back into the [[Tower of the Hand]] to confront his father. Tyrion demands to know where Tysha is, and Tywin confirms that he never harmed her, but doesn't know where she went. When Tyrion firmly asks again where she is, Tywin flippantly responds "Wherever whores go" - and Tyrion shoots him dead in response. |
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| + | Alex Graves did not return as a director after Season 4, though no official reason was given for his departure.<ref>[http://collider.com/game-of-thrones-season-4-alex-graves-interview/#wejOujGM56sdxS51.99 Interview with Alex Graves]</ref><ref>[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/23/game-thrones-season-6-directors ]</ref> |
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| − | Graves's handling of the Season 4 finale omitted any mention of Tysha. He also introduced several plot holes: Tyrion seemingly wanders back to the Tower of the Hand for no reason other than plot elements falling into place, and with no explanation of how he knew which tunnel to take (though arguably, Varys did show him a map of the tunnels back in Season 2). |
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| − | Graves's Blu-ray commentary track for the Season 4 finale included remarks such as: |
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| − | *Graves addresses the accusations of a plot hole about how Tyrion would know which tunnel to take by claiming that Tyrion knew his way through the secret tunnels of the [[Red Keep]] because he "grew up there" -- when in fact, as a member of [[House Lannister]], Tyrion grew up at [[Casterly Rock]] in [[The Westerlands|the Westerlands]]. The TV series itself has also repeatedly mentioned that Tyrion grew up in Casterly Rock. |
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| − | *Graves refers to Tysha as "Tyrion's first wife that died" -- when Tysha is in fact alive and well in the novels, though neither Tyrion nor Tywin know where she is. Tywin explicitly said he made no attempt to harm the girl, and there was never any indication even in the TV series that she was dead. |
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| − | *'''It was actually Alex Graves himself who actively pushed to remove any mention of Tysha in the Season 4 finale, and he was the driving force behind removing any mention of Tysha as the main reason why Tyrion kills his father.''' He felt it would be too confusing and that viewers wouldn't remember Tyrion's explanation about Tysha from Season 1 (a pivotal scene that arguably helped earn Peter Dinklage's Emmy Award that season), and that they wouldn't remember subsequent points when Tysha was mentioned at least once in every subsequent season. He didn't want to have the final confrontation between Tyrion and Jaime from the books (after learning the truth Tyrion angrily stalks away and promises revenge, then goes to find Tywin). Graves just wanted the two to kiss goodbye<ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/2xcjk1/spoilers_all_roundup_of_weird_comments_by_alex/</ref> |
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Revision as of 14:35, 2 November 2019
Alex Graves is an American Emmy-winning producer and director for film and television. He is best known for his work on the The West Wing, which he worked on as a director, producer and eventually an executive producer, winning two Emmy Awards for his work on that series. He has also worked on Ally MacBeal, Fringe and Terra Nova.
On Game of Thrones
For Game of Thrones, Graves works as a director starting in the third season.[1]
Graves directed four episodes in Season 4, more than any other director. His daily routine for the 100 days of Season 4 shooting season was to wake up at 5 a.m. to get to the set, return to his hotel at 7 p.m., then work there on planning until 2 a.m., catch three hours of sleep, then wake up again at 5 a.m.[2]
On filming Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister's bath scene in "Kissed by Fire", Graves said, "...the scene with Jaime and Brienne in the bathtub is like you’re shooting a film with a lesbian and a knight, she’s a knight, he’s a knight, they’re in love and don’t know they’re in love; where else would you get to film a scene like that?"[3] Brienne of Tarth, however, is categorically not "a lesbian" in the novels or in the TV series - she is a very large and muscular female warrior and not effeminate, but she has never shown attraction to other women; it is unknown why Graves said this.
Graves also made factually inaccurate statements in his DVD commentary track for episode 4.10 "The Children". In particular, he revealed that he actually lobbied against the TV show including the revelation about Tysha as the main reason that Tyrion Lannister kills his father Tywin (Tysha was in fact not a prostitute, truly was a farmer's daughter who fell in love with Tyrion, and Tywin just tricked him into thinking she was a prostitute so he wouldn't even get to enjoy the memory of their love as real - and it meant that Tywin's guards indeed raped Tyrion's lawful wife). Graves said he felt it was better for Tyrion and Jaime to just part with a hug, rather than Jaime revealing the truth about Tysha as he did in the books. Graves also commented that he thought Tysha was dead ("Tyrion's first wife, who died") even though nothing ever indicated that. Among Graves's other comments, he assumed Tyrion knew his way around the tunnels in the Red Keep "because he grew up there" - when he grew up at Casterly Rock, didn't live in the capital city, and apparently knew the tunnels from a map Varys gave him. He also said he thought that Tormund "loved" Ygritte and Sandor Clegane "loved" Arya Stark - from the context he said it, apparently in the sense of romantic love, not paternal love.[4]
Season 5 introduced a major change from the novels, so that Sansa Stark marries and is raped by Ramsay Bolton, a character she never even meets in the novels. Actress Sophie Turner (Sansa) was herself first "informed" of the change from the books, which involved her character now being raped, as part of a joke that director Alex Graves made at her expense during filming of Season 4 - taunting Turner by leading her to believe she was getting her romantic love interest from the books, when he privately knew the showrunners intended for her character to be raped in the next season. As Turner explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly a day after this wedding night scene aired: "Last season [Thrones director] Alex Graves decided to give me hints. He was saying, 'You get a love interest next season.' And I was all, 'I actually get a love interest!' " -- Apparently Turner assumed they meant they were going to cast Harrold Hardyng for Sansa's Vale storyarc in Season 5, to be her handsome and noble love interest as he was in the novels. Instead, Turner said, "So I get the scripts and I was so excited and I was flicking through and then I was like, "Aw, are you kidding me!?'"[5] Apparently this means that the showrunners didn't set up a meeting with Turner to over the change with her or to gently explain that her character was going to be raped: she first learned about it from reading the Season 5 scripts themselves as she read through them on her own.
Alex Graves was heavily criticized for how he filmed the Jaime/Cersei sex scene in episode 4.3 "Breaker of Chains": virtually all major reviewers and critics believed it portrayed that Jaime was raping Cersei. As comments from the cast members and footage analysis confirm, it was filmed as a consensual sex scene - but simply filmed and edited so poorly by Graves that it accidentally looked like Jaime was raping Cersei. Graves had final cut on the scene's editing. When asked about it in interviews, he often used blunt or poor choices of words which were also criticized, such as that the sex scene was "consensual by the end" - which many critics felt was a very insensitive phrasing to use relative to the subject matter. In more thorough interviews he simply said that it was never intended to portray rape.[6]
Alex Graves did not return as a director after Season 4, though no official reason was given for his departure.[7][8]
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