Alicent Hightower is repeatedly shown against the background of the picture.

Pictures symbolically depict the thoughts and fantasies of the characters, including the true fantasies of Queen Alicent. Three films are considered - "House of the Dragon", "Magnificent Century", "Dreams" (1993), where this technique is vividly and clearly presented.

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The pictures in films are worth paying attention to. For example, with their help, the authors symbolically show the thoughts, dreams and fantasies of the characters. Let's look at three films where this technique is vividly and clearly presented:

"House of the Dragon",

"Magnificent Century",

"Dreams".

In "House of the Dragon" Alicent, a young girl, married King Viserys, an adult.

But Alicent likes young people: both Prince Daemon and Ser Christon Cole. Queen Alicent is faithful to her husband, she behaves and speaks decently, but she is not interested in her husband, in bed with him she thinks and dreams about something of her own, and what exactly the authors show with the help of a picture that hangs over the headboard of her bed. And while talking to her father, Alicent listens to him inattentively, staying in the thoughts shown by the picture against which she stands. Given the content of her fantasies, it is not surprising that at the end of the first season of “House of the Dragon”, Queen Alicent agrees to a kind of vicious relationship imposed by Larys.

Otto: “You’ve spent many hours with the queen of late”.

With this picture above the stairs on the wall of the palace, the authors show that similar thoughts and fantasies are inherent in other characters from bottom to top.

And in the Turkish TV series “Magnificent Century”, archduke Ferdinand and even the cardinal are shown against the background of a picture of frivolous content, contrasting the morality and culture of Europeans and Muslims in favor of the latter.

Also in the Russian film “Dreams” by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Borodyansky, Countess Prizorova is shown against the background of a picture depicting a mysterious fictional forest. This symbolizes the confusion in the head of the main character, because she, like in the forest, lives a second fictional life in Russia of the future in strange and confused dreams. The Countess's husband and the doctor are also shown in the background of this picture, as they are at a loss about the Countess's dreams.

In the same film, in a fragment where the tsar, not understanding and not accepting the truth about the future of Russia, refuses to reform, Count Prizorov is shown in front of the image of the tsar, whose head is not visible. By doing this, the authors want to convey to the viewer that if the king is without a head, this will lead to the fact that the people will be “without a king in their head.” Which is confirmed by the phrase:

Countess: “They have been living without a tsar for a long time.”

And about how the authors of the films use color, see the video “Alicent and the Green Dress.”