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The queen's chess game

Abandoning Soldiers in the Rear Wing, also called The Queen's Chess, is a female drama adapted from Walter Tevis's novel of the same name.

The original novel has been discussed by many people.

Michael Ondaatje, the original author of The English Patient, praised: "This book is full of pure fun and skills, and I will reread it every few years."

As early as 2007, Heath Ledger was eyeing the film adaptation of this novel.

At that time, the screenwriter alan scott had just obtained the right to adapt the novel and decided to cooperate with Heath Ledger to put it on the screen, with Heath Ledger as the director and ellen page as the heroine.

Unfortunately, with the untimely death of Heath Ledger, the project finally came to an abrupt end and was shelved.

It was not until many years later that Netflix restarted it and met the audience in the form of seven mini-plays.

Many viewers were a little discouraged when they first saw the play.

After all, this drama is mainly about the competitive theme of chess, and the complicated professional knowledge is very easy to cause the threshold of watching the drama, which makes people flinch.

Fortunately, the play didn't make things difficult for the audience professionally. Even if you don't know the rules of chess, you can enjoy it in the chase.

In the plot of the whole drama, a very typical cool drama mode is applied, which tells how the heroine Beth has been fighting and upgrading in the male-dominated chess world.

Some scenes in the play are similar to those in The Great Lady Mercer:

The stories in the play are all set in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. The women in the play are all expanding their territory in a male-dominated field; In the role configuration, mutual support between women is highlighted.

But the script of "The Great Lady Mercer" is based on several archetypal characters, while the characters in "Abandoning Soldiers in the Rear Wing" are completely fictional.

The title of the play "Abandoning Soldiers in the Rear Wing" is a pun.

This is a common closed opening in chess. It is necessary to give up the rear wing soldiers and open the attack route of elephant, horse and queen, so as to gain the central control of the chess game.

The director used this opening tactic to compare Beth's introverted personality.

Beth's growth path in the play is actually a process from closed to open.

Beth's mother is a math professor.

At the age of 9, she lost her mother forever because of a car accident.

After that, she was silent, moved to an orphanage and began to grow up in a strange environment.

In the basement of the orphanage, she met Sabie, a school worker, and was deeply attracted by the chess she was studying.

Beth hoped Sabie could teach herself, but the other party refused her on the grounds that she could not teach strangers.

After that, Beth learned the rules and moves of each chess piece with a genius-like mind without the knowledge of the teacher, which made Sabie sit up and take notice and had further exchanges and discussions.

Thus, this talented chess player who became attached to chess began his legendary life in the basement of the orphanage.

Beth shows amazing talent and creativity in chess. She not only defeated Sabie, but also defeated all the members of the nearby high school chess club.

At that time, orphanages would provide children with a sedative in green capsules.

This sedative can help Beth improve her concentration and concentrate on calculating chess.

Obsessed with chess, she fell into a serious drug dependence and even made a big mistake and got a sedative.

In order to punish Beth, the hospital deprived her of the right to play chess.

It was not until she 15 was adopted by her adoptive parents that she became attached to chess again. ...

In addition to Beth's main line of growth, her emotional context with her adoptive mother is also quite noticeable.

Like Beth, the foster mother is a closed-minded person. She is not good at expressing her feelings to Beth. Many times, she needs to use foreign objects to express her feelings. For example, carve "Mom loves you" on the gift.

When two people are most intimate, they just sit hand in hand. Because for both of them, this is already a very warm move.

My foster mother loved music and played the piano when she was young, but in the end she lost her dream.

Therefore, by helping Beth realize her dream of chess, the foster mother also realized her dream when she was young to some extent.

However, beside her adoptive mother, Beth got into the bad habit of drinking.

Alcohol abuse and drug addiction together constitute the biggest stumbling block on her road to success.

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Although Abandoning Soldiers in the Rear Wing wraps the shell of a cool drama, its spiritual core is not only superficial.

A lot of space is used in the play to describe gender discrimination and the awakening of female consciousness.

After becoming famous, Beth was interviewed.

Beth smiled contemptuously at this question, and then answered frankly: the king is the king and the queen is the queen.

For Beth, chess is just something she loves and is good at, and it has nothing to do with her growing experience.

But the outside world will always look at her with colored glasses because she is an orphan and a girl.

It is worthy of recognition that although Abandoning Soldiers in the Rear Wing discusses the gender discrimination faced by female chess players in the 1950s and 1960s, it does not deliberately discredit men like the great Mrs. Mercer.

The male characters in the play are not love rat in the traditional sense, but "comrades in arms" who help each other with Beth.

After watching the whole drama, you will find that Beth has never been in a serious relationship from beginning to end, but devoted herself to her career, which makes her career fans feel gratified!

This therapy has both advantages and disadvantages.

The disadvantage is that it is too vulgar and too idealistic.

Along the way, the hostess met almost all the good people who helped her, which made the plot seem unrealistic.

The advantage is that it jumps out of the routine contradictions in life, concentrates most of the contradictions in the play on the female host's chess career, abandons a lot of unnecessary scraps, and seems to have a clear priority and climax.

Anya Taylor-Joey, who plays Beth, made an extraordinary contribution in the play.

A pair of sparkling big eyes, as smart as deer, make people unforgettable.

Beth's shyness, dullness and concentration in the early stage, and her maturity, self-confidence and endless charm in the later stage are all vividly interpreted by her.

It is definitely a strong contender for the best female host of the Emmy Award next year!

Not long ago, director george miller just announced that Anya will play the leading role in Mad Max 5: The Waste Land, replacing Oscar-winning Charlize Theron as the younger version of Frossard.

It can be said that Anya has been the darling of Hollywood since her debut.

20 15 showed amazing acting skills with the horror film "The Witch".

Then, on 20 16, in the movie "Split", she and "Yimei" James McAvoy contributed a very worrying opposite play.

This year alone, she has presented three leading works: Emma, New Mutant and Abandoned Soldiers in the Rear Wing.

Moreover, this is still under the condition that the cinema has not fully resumed work.

At present, she still has two films to meet the audience: Young People Here directed by her fiance eoin macken and Vicky Bart.

At the age of 24, she was like a rising star from Ran Ran in Hollywood.

It is worth cheering and looking forward to!