Game of Thrones: President
George W. Bush
Yeah, that was in poor
taste. I am not a supporter of Bush,
but that it was a bit too far I think. You
can’t do something like that. When a
singer makes threatening remarks to Obama, we’re outraged, and this is no
different.
No one would have noticed it
if it wasn’t for the producers pointing it out though. Most people would have focused in on the old hand-maiden head.
From
LA Times, (( And the creators David
Benioff and D.B. Weiss pointed it out in the DVDcommentary on the episode.
"George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes," the duo revealed in their commentary. "It's not a choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever heads we had lying around."
"George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes," the duo revealed in their commentary. "It's not a choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever heads we had lying around."
We use a lot of
prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can't afford to have
these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them,
so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out
that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush.
"In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former president and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise." ))
"In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former president and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise." ))
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2 comments:
You know, I believe them when they say it was just them using the resources they had at their disposal and nothing more.
You're probably right, but they probably shouldn't have pointed it out during the commentary though.
I can see it that way because they pinched every penny for the show
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