Sophie Turner and Kit Harington are seen together in "Game of Thrones" Season 6 episode 9. (Photo : YouTube/GoT)
The wait is finally over. In the "Game of Thrones" Season 6 episode 9 "Battle of the Bastards," the fans finally gets to see the epic showdown between Jon Snow and Ramsay Bolton - the one that they had been waiting to witness since times immemorial.
Recently, the "Battle of the Bastards" director Miguel Sapochnik answered certain questions about the epic fight between the two leading characters in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. Sapochnik revealed how the team spent the entire day of the shoot in filming the emotionally satisfying bloodlust moment in which Jon Snow finally beats Ramsay Bolton.
According to Sapochnik, filming the entire episode was a little surreal, but mostly it was fun as fun was the major things required to bring the nastiness out of the scene. The director further described the episode as an opportunity for Jon Snow to rediscover his desire to live once again and find his journey back to life.
Sapochnik revealed having discussed the storyline with Kit Harington prior to the filming of the scene. Harington, who plays the role of Jon Snow, told the director that he would punch Ramsay Bolton like how bread is kneaded and that was the point when Sapochnik knew that the battle is going to be both horrible and poignant.
"Ramsay needs to die, and horribly," Sapochnik told the publication. "This is what the audience has been waiting to see."
That is what Harington and Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) achieved at the end of the day. While Rheon had to bear Harington's punch on his chin for a few times, both of the actors did a brilliant job in making the entire episode look like a real battle scene.
While fans may think that the scene where Rheon stops scrunching up his face to receive the final blows may be just digital effects that the "Game of Thrones" team used, the director cleared that the face change was all real. There were no effects used and that made the entire scene really disturbing and disconcerting.
Another discomforting, yet the most satisfying scenes in the history of "Game of Thrones" is when Sansa Stark watches the dogs eat Ramsay Bolton. The close-up scene demonstrates how she leaves at first, but decided to stay back for a moment longer. Sapochnik describes it as his favorite shot of the year.
The action depicted on screen in the "Battle of the Bastards" is probably the best one so far seen on small screen, according to The Telegraph. At the end of the day, Sansa Stark proved to be a better leader than her brother, Jon Snow.
The following video provides a glimpse of the episode:
