(GOT) CERSEI & SANSA | A TRICK OF THE MIND

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Here's the trilogy I've been working for since last winter. It took me more than a year to finish it but I really like the result and I hope you will appreciate it as well. This is my biggest project by far where I put almost all the parallels between Cersei and Sansa that I could found. I tried to show their troublesome relationships while they lived together in KL and similarity of their stories when they were apart but still really close in their life paths.

[PART 1] shows a bit of communication between Cersei and Sansa and their bond. Sansa stays imprisoned in the Red Keep and suffers torments from Joffrey, Cersei succeeds in affecting on her and getting what she needs. When Joffrey/Sansa engagement is annulled, Varys and Olenna Tyrell plan to marry Sansa to Loras, Tywin finds out and decides instead to wed Cersei to Loras and Sansa to Tyrion. All four participants aren’t happy with that decision at all but are forced to do so. Things start falling down at the moment Joffrey drinks poisoned wine on his own wedding and takes the last breath in his mother’s arms. Sansa flees the capital with Littlefinger’s help, Cersei blames her for Joffrey’s death and wants her revenge. While Sansa travels to the Vale and then marries Ramsay Bolton in Winterfell, Cersei now is free to refuse to marry Loras as Tywin passed away. She captives and later blows up the Tyrells in the sept, then becomes the ruling queen and sends for Jon as King in the North to bend the knee to her. It seems like the story repeats itself: we saw the same picture when Ned Stark was accused of treason and Cersei sent for Robb to swear fealty to Joffrey. All those events lead our characters to the realization that they want to come back and change things that cause them so much pain in present.

[PART 2] is about Cersei’s and Sansa’s paths from little girls who were overwhelmed by their romantic dreams of being queen to hard-headed grown women who have faced many losses and learned how to handle it. They both thought that their marriage to handsome prince will be full of love and wonders but in reality they not only haven’t got their princes as husbands (Rhaegar married first Elia Martell then Lyanna Stark instead of Cersei and Joffrey first cut Sansa’s father’s head off then was married to Margaery Tyrell) but also had to marry someone they’d never marry if they could choose by theirselves. And if Tyrion turns to be really caring for Sansa during their not long-lasting marriage than Robert and Ramsay were true assholes with their wives and didn’t give a shit about their happiness or, at least, well-being. A big place of this part is given to the trials on Tyrion and Arya (Petyr Baelish as a real goal). I put together all Baelish’s crimes concerning Cersei and Sansa: first he faked the reason of Jon Arryn’s death and started the Lannister/Stark conflict, then betrayed Ned and sided with Lannisters, after that he orchestrated the Purple Wedding with Joffrey’s death and later, in Winterfell, tried to turn Sansa against Arya but was caught and murdered by them. At the end of this emotional part you can see Cersei’s and Sansa’s revenge to all their enemies and coronations as the confirmation of their power.

[PART 3] is dedicated to confrontation between Cersei&Margaery, Sansa&Daenerys. Both Cersei and Sansa didn’t recognize their opponents and didn’t trust them, also there were some moments of jealous because of Tommen (earlier Joffrey) and Jon. Cersei and Sansa are the most valuable women in their men’s lives, they not only take care of them but also influence and rule through them and don’t want to lose this opportunity because of new women. They both are overprotective and power-hungry because they saw what happened to their loved ones: Cersei’s children and her father, Sansa’s parents and two brothers. They both know there isn’t a safe space on the map of GoT, and they both are all in this game, so all they can do is to continue fighting and holding on the rest of their families cutting off ‘everyone who isn’t us’. You can see how similar are those situations where Margaery pretends to be Cersei’s friend and Daenerys tries to make friendship with Sansa. Tommen and Jon hope that they could live together but there’s no chance for that so all ends up by elimination of two queens.


Music 1: Really Slow Motion — End of the Journey
Music 2: Audiomachine — A Trick of the Mind
Music 3: Secession Studios — The Untold
TV show: Game of Thrones
Characters: Cersei Lannister, Sansa Stark
Coloring: mine
Software: Final Cut Pro X

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