In this 3rd installment, we look at four scenes linking death with the game of chess, one from a promotional video for season 6 of the popular series, Lost, and three from the John Wick franchise. We talk about the connection between chess and death, how it's pretty obvious from the chess pieces being warriors that the game is an allegory about 2 kingdoms in a war for survival. Did you know that, checkmate, means, "Your king is dead"?
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Two other notable media examples are Amazon's "Tales from the Loop", which has a chess-playing scene in the early part of the first episode; the mom character essentially "dies" by disappearing and is never seen for the rest of the series. The whole series deals with Time, slowing down time, freezing it, etc. - especially the last episode which was produced with Jodie Foster ("Contact" time movie).
ReplyDeleteThe other one is "I'll Follow You Down", where the opening scene is a chess game with the principal actors (dad and son). The dad goes missing and is assumed "dead". Time machine, alternate timelines, etc. Rufus Sewell is one of the main actors, from "Dark City" and Amazon's alternate history series, "The Man in the High Castle." A lot of cross-media anchors with this actor and Time.
Thanks for the references. I'll add them to the collection for potential viewing and consideration for our series.
ReplyDeleteSomething that crossed my mind, after I made the comment, is that "I'll Follow You Down" is that the entire movie is a chess game revolving around the two main characters. The opening game ends with an apparent 'win' and the dad tells the son that he has three days - not to reset the game (while dad is off on his trip) - and to come up with a winning strategy. The 'resetting' of that chess game comes up again in movie, parallel to resetting the timelines; while the son is essentially taking the entire movie to 'beat' his dad. The dad chess player dies in the movie. But, in the end, the son pulls the winning 'move' to essentially checkmate his dad (which also involves death), which results in the dad returning to the son (back in correct 'time'), realizing the son 'won'.
DeleteInteresting. That seems like a fairly complicated plot.
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