Hodor's arc, where his name, the only word he ever speaks in the series' present, turns out to prefigure the moment of his death, evokes the French film La Jetée.Tommen's benediction to the assembled Lannister/Tyrell forces after he has announced the merger of the church and the crown, that they can either be killers or go home to their families, is straight from the climax of Schindler's List.note Or, later on in the movies, the color orange. This is almost certainly a reference to The Godfather, where Francis Ford Coppola famously foreshadowed every character's death with a shot of an orange. "No One" features a lingering shot of a pile of oranges in the scene before the Waif's death after Arya accidentally knocks over a fruit vendor's cart while fleeing the Waif.Just to give you a hint of what could be written there. The letter from Ramsay to Jon Snow ends with the line "Come and See" from the Book of Apocalypse.
Now I rest." is almost exactly how Richard Harrow describes Jimmy's death in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire In "Oathbreaker," Alliser Thorne is at the gallows and is asked if he has any last words.The assassination of Jon Snow at the end of Season 5 bears a striking resemblance to the traditional portrayals of the assassination of Julius Caesar, with all of the conspirators gathered around him, the victim not resisting much, and the last one's blows met with a particularly prolonged stare of betrayal.Also like Agamemnon, that decision ultimately leads to his destruction after he meets his death at the hands of a vengeful woman.
Stannis, much like Agamemnon in the myth of Iphigenia, is a leader faced by unfavorable weather and a stalled military campaign who chooses to sacrifice his innocent daughter to appease the gods and ensure victory.At the scene's climax, Arya kills the Night King in a moment very reminiscent of Rey killing a Praetorian Guard from that film as well.During the Big Badass Battle Sequence of "The Long Night", Dany trains a protracted hail of dragon fire on the Night King only to leave him utterly unaffected and even smirking slightly, sort of like the way Luke note or, rather, his Force projection appears unscathed after Ren orders a similar hail of First Order fire on him in The Last Jedi, and then dusts his shoulder off.