But he knew, as the self-proclaimed king of the dealmakers, that saying you're going to do something is bupkus -- DOING it is what makes the bastards sit up and pay attention.
He hoped these deliberately oppressive canvases (now in Tate Modern) would make the "rich bastards" who ate there feel terrible about themselves.
No Soviet general would have dared utter the kind of statement that's attributed to General George S. Patton: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his".
"We decided, hell, we'll get that book, we can make these bastards eat crow," Mr. Cameron said in an interview in an oral history by Griffin Fariello, "Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition" (Norton, 1995).
We're going to make that bastard look at Ground Zero right out the window of the courtroom every day -- we're going to stick his nose in it like a dog who's made a mess on the rug: 'Look what you did! Bad dog! Bad!!'"?
She was right that what makes The Battle of the Bastards both so terrifying and so humane is its understanding that war is chaotic, that having right on your side doesn't always mean you will win and that even if you do struggle to victory, thousands of other human beings will have died for your cause.
"It's brutal," Peter Dinklage, ever the eloquent GoT hype man, told EW. "It makes the Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park".
It's not enough to make this bastard gold-plated – they added flowers!
So, how did Sapochnik make Battle of the Bastards, with its sweeping vistas and monumental battles, and Winds of Winter, with its precise closeups and globe-trotting plot mechanics, seem like they were part of the same season?
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country".
