The sandman was someone who sprinkled sand in children's eyes so that they had beautiful dreams. For years you have heard or read little about this gnome 'Klaas Often'. But now there's a TV series The Sandman on Netflix and that sandman is definitely not a leprechaun anymore, and a lot scarier than he used to be.The Sandman is one of those series that streaming services dream of matching the success of Game of Thrones. Maybe this time it will work: there is at least a dragon in episode 2 of The Sandman. But without knights, horses, swords and bickering nobility it remains difficult.
The 75-part comic series The Sandman, on which the series is based, appeared at DC Comics from 1989 to 1996 and was created by British cult writer Neil Gaiman. The Sandman, also called Dream of Morpheus, wears black clothes, has long black hair and a pale face. With the help of a bag of sand, he makes people dream and he can move through their dream worlds. In the strip, he talks with white letters in whimsical black speech bubbles. In the live-action series, he, played wonderfully by actor Tom Sturridge, distinguishes himself from the other characters with a lingering-emphatic voice, befitting someone between dream and reality.
Dream has eight brothers and sisters, spanning gender and color gamut, who, like him, are infinite - such as Death, Desire, Despair, Fate. Among other things, they appear as human beings, but they are “anthropomorphic personifications,” as his sister Death explains. They are forces that each control an aspect of the lives of the people and animals of Earth. In addition, they own their own worlds. There is a power struggle among them, which is also checked by one of the Game of Thrones boxes.In addition to the eight Endless, there are other powers, such as Lucifer Morning Star, one of the three rulers of Hell. Lucifer is played in The Sandman by Gwendoline Christie, the great warrior Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. The first episode stars Charles Dance; he was Tywin Lannister in Thrones.
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Like much of Gaiman's work, The Sandman is essentially a gothic fantasy with horror moments (sometimes too scary). Gaiman loves stories that have been passed down through generations, such as Greek and Scandinavian myths about gods and heroes. He also uses African, Indian, Egyptian and Native American myths, fairy tales and stories in his novels, short stories and comics. That background gives his work a lot of strength and depth.
Magic fascinates Gaiman and he also uses it to push the boundaries of objective reality in his work. Gods walk the earth and interact with people. In his novel American Gods (also first a comic and then a TV series) everything that people admire or worship becomes a living god: including Mickey Mouse, the television, a popular highway attraction, and Jesus in hundreds of variants.What are dreams and what is a world without dreams? The first season of The Sandman begins with that last question when an English magician captures Dream in 1916 and no one on earth can dream anymore. Will Dream escape and regain his power? That's the story of the first episodes of The Sandman.
Derek Jacobi as Erasmus Fry.
Many series reach their peak in the first half hour of the first episode, assuming that they must pretend to be better than they are. With The Sandman it takes a while to get an idea of the atmosphere and the story, but if that is clear after episode three, then the series continues to develop into something that indeed deserves to be the new Game of Thrones. The camerawork is excellent, the dreamscapes are always surprising and, unusually in a fantasy series, even the smaller characters, including the necessary victims, are captivating and lovingly portrayed when they are good, and with at least as much love when they are bad. Gaiman himself was closely involved in the production and the stories and characters of the comics have been extensively adapted to the medium where necessary.
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A large part of the sets is real – you can see and feel it – and the computer simulations come across as convincingly real. The creative work of the comic artists was a rich source of inspiration. It can be seen that $15 million was reportedly available per episode.
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