Westeros Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Since our last report, more images have been pouring in from Essaouira, Morocco where some more filming has taken place. No real spoilers, but there’s some excellent photos of actors and extras alike at Mohamed Amine Lakaab’s photo set and a few new images courtesty of the Spanish-language Juego de Tronos fan site. Here’s a very brief video from the latter, showing Iain Glen (Ser Jorah Mormont) escorting Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) through the streets of Morocco. Some comments below on some of the images.read on >>> Visit the Site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Notch Balanter Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Who is the black haired actor they focuses on around the middle of the first page of photos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 those guards seem to wield longaxes, or something similar. We know that the axemen trained by the bearded priests of Norvos serve as guards in many places. I really hope they are not the Unsullied.Also, it seems they are not going with the wizard-like look (i.e. long beard) for Barristan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost23 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Who is the black haired actor they focuses on around the middle of the first page of photos?If i'm not mistaken, thats the new Unsullied armour. Maybe Grey Worm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 If i'm not mistaken, thats the new Unsullied armour. Maybe Grey Worm?Yes you are probably right. One picture shows an Unsullied helmet. It does have some sort of spike, but protruding from a face mask, and not the top of the helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow_of_Asshai Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Nah Grey Worm has been casted he's Jacob Anderson and he's a black dude so that black haired actor Isn't him http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/ed-skrein-game-of-thrones_n_1817024.html also I think those guys with axes were Unsullied their helmets gave me that impression Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayard Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I'm a little disappointed with what I see, they don't look like Unsullied, a little to well armed, where are the big spiked helmets?? Why not use the tokars? And especially the elaborate hair :) .... Slaver's Bay should have looked completely different then Westeros, another world. They did it last year with Qarth, they will do it this year with Astapor and Mereen. Basically, they are all just like King's Landing, only with some slaves, and some shots with the desert and the piramids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickStormborn Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I'm a little disappointed with what I see, they don't look like Unsullied, a little to well armed, where are the big spiked helmets?? Why not use the tokars? And especially the elaborate hair :) .... Slaver's Bay should have looked completely different then Westeros, another world. They did it last year with Qarth, they will do it this year with Astapor and Mereen. Basically, they are all just like King's Landing, only with some slaves, and some shots with the desert and the piramids.Slaver's Bay is an absolute mess in the books. Any changes made are most definitely welcome to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Cygne Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Agreed, Bayard. King's Landing was never the way I imagined it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boojam Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I'm a little disappointed with what I see, they don't look like Unsullied, a little to well armed, where are the big spiked helmets?? Why not use the tokars? And especially the elaborate hair :) .... Slaver's Bay should have looked completely different then Westeros, another world. They did it last year with Qarth, they will do it this year with Astapor and Mereen. Basically, they are all just like King's Landing, only with some slaves, and some shots with the desert and the piramids.Across medieval Europe, North Africa and the middle east , there was a general architectural tone to walled cities , so using existing ancient structures be it Croatia or Morocco are gonna look similar. It then is up to the the art directors how much to 'dress' it using CGI so it looks like Ghiscari cities, which seemed to have a sort of mesopotamian architecture.Qarth looked quite different from KL to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob with one B Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Only one thing I care about: Barristan is Back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 The black-armored guys who carry shields and spears and have helmets with a tall curving spike are certainly the Unsullied. The guys with axes are probably slaver guards or soldiers.The hairstyles would have been very difficult to realize on a TV show budget. I mean, the trouble The Hobbit film has gone to to get 13 different dwarves distinct hairstyles (and beards) is something else, and I know that even "regular" wigs are very expensive. So that's all right.I do wish they had the tokars, though. If they're good enough for the Romans (and HBO's Rome)... But that said, it looks all right, what they've come up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighm89 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 So exciting!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Olenna Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Are tokars and togas the same? I keep picturing a tokar being tight and non-moving with all the tassels and pearls. I probably have this incorrectly embedded in my minds eye. In the pics it looks like they are wearing tan overcoats or something. Is that to keep their costumes from getting damaged?ETA: Thank you for posting the pics - I love getting glimpses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 The description of tokars with the way they're long lengths of cloth wound about the body and leading to your having to hold them in place with the left arm is pretty much exactly what a togai s. The only real difference is that the tokars have a fringe.Martin draws certain things about Slaver's Bay from ancient Rome, in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Olenna Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 That's very interesting. I never realized it was based on ancient Rome. I always assumed togas were pretty comfy. They look roomy to me. But then I think of Dany complaining about donning her floppy ears, and how she hated being in her tokar, lol. Maybe they just aren't as comfy as her Dothraki gear? It would be so expensive to have wigs for all of the wild hair of slavers bay. I like the bald look. And the unsullied look like I pictured them. I do wonder what Darrio will look like on screen. Can't wait to see that gleaming gold tooth!Edited for clarity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boojam Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 In the pics it looks like they are wearing tan overcoats or something. Is that to keep their costumes from getting damaged?Yes because it looks windy to me and both Emilia and Nathalie are wearing them (I suppose most women's costumes need to be kept composed, so to speak), they look like sort heavy wind breakers and I know Emilia has complained about being cold before. Tho, the climate looks on the warm side to me and most crew members are dressed very lightly.By the by I notice that for Danny they still keep a shaded towards , or rather a nod towards, a hint of Dothraki influence in costume. In Dany's world , one wonders, just who makes Dany's clothes? She can , of course, hire any seamstress she wants , but the implication seems that , like her last costume, last season, she suggests the design. (No handmaidens left you know!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Yeah, the description of putting it on is basically the same as wearing a toga -- around the body, one half draped over the shoulder, then the other. Dany refers to it having to be neither too tight (you'll trip) or too loose (it'll fall off), so I'd guess that's similar to a toga, too. And she has to actively keep it in place at times, like a toga.The main difference is that fringe, which can trail on the ground and which Dany indicates means you have to be careful when walking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boojam Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Yeah, the description of putting it on is basically the same as wearing a toga -- around the body, one half draped over the shoulder, then the other. Dany refers to it having to be neither too tight (you'll trip) or too loose (it'll fall off), so I'd guess that's similar to a toga, too. And she has to actively keep it in place at times, like a toga.The main difference is that fringe, which can trail on the ground and which Dany indicates means you have to be careful when walking.I had in mind that in the East Dany and women wore something more like a modified stola without as much 'drapery'.Still a tokar could be an elaborated stola and quite colorful.By the by Dany's hair style (or the wig) looks much like a very very simplified Roman woman's hair , in a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dragon has three heads Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Having just read the sack of asatpor chapter gain I really hope they manage to make the whole what graznak says bs what missendei translates thing work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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