Amazon Prime Video has bet heavily on ‘Red Queen’, the thriller with which it begins to adapt the books by Juan Gómez-Jurado. The series revolves around Anthony Scott and his partner, the detective Jon Gutierrezwho work for the Red Queen Project, an organization that investigates the most gruesome and complicated crimes.
With its first advances, ‘Red Queen’ It already promised intrigue and suspense for a while. But what has left many viewers in disbelief has not been the main case of the series, it has been… the monkeys?
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From the first trailers, ‘Red Queen’ made it clear to us that The monkey thing was going to be a recurring theme. And they are actually very related to what happens inside the head of the protagonist, Antonia Scott.
In the trailer you could see some very aggressive monkeys that appear in several of the scenes, and in fact in the original book by Gómez-Jurado they also appear quite often. Although, obviously, the series and the book use different languages and in the book the monkeys are more of a rhetorical figure.
“We would say that her mind has a lot of horsepower under the hood, but Antonia’s head is not like the engine of a sports car. We would say that it is capable of many processing cycles, but Antonia’s mind is not like a computer,” he explains. in the book, about how Antonia’s character works. “Antonia Scott’s mind is more like a jungle, a jungle full of monkeys jumping at full speed from vine to vine carrying things. Many monkeys and many things, crossing each other in the air and showing their fangs.”
Antonia Scott has an IQ of 242 and has become an extremely efficient machine when it comes to decoding data and solving investigations. So to explain the frenetic way your mind worksthe series used aggressive monkeys as a visual metaphor in moments when information is already spilling through your brain.
