In recent days, game fans and American drama fans are very happy.
Because, another set of game adaptation dramas is officially here.
That's the horror adventure series The Last of Us that just aired on HBO max
After the show was broadcast, it set off a wave of discussion.
On the one hand, because its original game evaluation is very high, it is definitely phenomenal, and the game fans are also very large, so that the attention of the show has always been particularly high.
On the other hand, this set of big dramas from HBO has also put blood money into production, and it is definitely a doomsday survival American drama with a big investment (the money is very in place). Moreover, this is also HBO's first game adaptation, which is also very meaningful.
After the filmization, the evaluation of this drama turned out to be very good, with a freshness of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The scores of Douban and IMDb have also passed 9 points (Douban 9.3 points, IMDb 9.5 points), which is also very against the sky.
At the same time, the show received 4.7 million North American views when it started, making it HBO's second hit in the past 13 years, second only to the previous "Dragon Family".
In the face of such high ratings and high popularity, every friend who pays attention to American dramas will be a little curious.
However, we can all take note of it as well. The first batch of viewers to sneak at this drama are actually mostly game fans, and the topics they discuss for the series are also character restoration, scene restoration, and plot restoration...
So, if you have never played this game and want to experience this new show, what will it look like?
Then, there's the gorgeous dividing line:
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First of all, the next content must not be suitable for fans of the original game, because this article will not make any comparison between the series and the game, nor will it discuss the degree of reduction. Even, there will be some content that game fans find very layman.
No way, because I'm the one who hasn't played the series at all. Even, before I watched this show, all I knew about this show was only focused on the title.
As you can probably guess from the title of the show, this is a doomsday survival drama, and as for other content, basically nothing is known.
However, since people have already made American dramas, and the investment is so large. The audience in front of them naturally can't just be game fans, non-game fans like me also have the opportunity to join in and close their eyes to the pit.
Therefore, I can also talk to some other friends who don't know this drama at all, but want to find a new drama to pass the time, to talk about this new drama.
"The Last of the Survivors"
"The Last of Us" is a more typical doomsday survival drama, or can be classified as a horror adventure series.
The story is set in the United States, 20 years after being infected by fungi, we have entered the post-apocalyptic era, the world order is completely destroyed, monsters are rampant outside, and survivors are struggling to survive in quarantine.
The male protagonist Joel and the little girl Ellie have to escape the quarantine area and embark on a long journey to complete their ultimate mission.
First of all, from the production level, "The Last of Us" is definitely the opening drama. The series was produced and launched by HBO, and the single collection exceeded 10 million US dollars. The New Yorker even claimed that the production cost of the show was higher than the average cost of previous seasons of Game of Thrones.
Therefore, I will say earlier that the money for this show is definitely in place.
And from the first episode of the broadcast, everyone can also feel that this show is really thoughtful in terms of production.
At the same time, the lineup of this drama is also very good.
The show is mainly produced by two people, one is game producer Neil Dracroman, and the other is Craig McSin, his last representative series was the award-winning "Chernobyl", and he was also the director of the first episode of "The Last of the Survivors".
Such a behind-the-scenes lineup also gives this drama basic quality assurance.
And the two protagonists of this film are also very familiar actors, especially friends who like Game of Thrones, and they must be no strangers to these two.
Because, they are "Red Viper" Pedro Pascal, and Bella Ramsay from Bear Island.
Also reunited as the power game.
After reading the introduction, this play revolves around how two people adventure together, and gradually become familiar with the story of entanglement.
So, while taking risks, I also went to the heart. It seems that this is also one of the reasons why this drama was very popular in the first place.
In order to maintain this bond, this play tells another story of the male protagonist in the opening part. Or called, the origin of the end (it seems that there is also this in the game).
Go back in time to 20 years ago, the year the cataclysm occurred, 2003.
The male protagonist and his brother and daughter originally lived happily together. Then disaster came, and all good was destroyed ...
This part mainly tells how everyone went from normal life to chaotic period when the disaster was about to break out.
And the story of the male protagonist Joel and his daughter, who intends to join, is also very obvious, on the one hand, to introduce the origin of the disaster, on the other hand, to let his emotions with his daughter promote the emotional projection of the relationship with Ellie later.
Therefore, at the beginning of the story, time will be taken out to tell the small details of father and daughter fighting and joking together, as well as the daughter helping her father repair her watch and celebrate her birthday.
It is to use these daily lives to strengthen the identification with the audience of the relationship between the father and daughter of the two.
In this way, we will receive more emotional impact in the subsequent plot.
Or, for personal reasons, it is always difficult for me to carry this kind of father-daughter love plot, and it is easy to be instigated. Therefore, this scene is also very painful and sad to watch.
From the perspective of role analysis, this incident also had a very big impact on the psychological condition of the male protagonist after that.
So, after 20 years, he became a cold-blooded, egoistic, fierce man. Or maybe it's this kind of personality that makes him stronger and the last survivor.
Of course, this cold-bloodedness will not last forever.
The little girl Ellie he met later will also become a way to dissolve his frozen heart.
In fact, judging from the plot of the first episode, my favorite one is actually the scene in the last part of this episode, when the male protagonist suddenly ran away.
At that time, the director deliberately made a montage, crossing the scene of his daughter's murder and the scene of the little girl Ellie's distress.
In this way, it is also very convenient to make the two protagonists emotionally related. And the male protagonist's anger also makes us find that he is not only saving Ellie, but more like avenging the incident 20 years ago.
With such treatment, the audience immediately understood how painful this matter was for him. So much so that 20 years later, it's still hard for him to come out.
That's why we think this scene is good, because we start trying to get into the hearts of the characters.
In short, such a plot is still a plus.
In fact, the first episode is quite long, almost 80 minutes long, almost the length of a movie.
But functionally, this episode is actually more of a background introduction to the entire story.
Let's understand what the apocalyptic outbreak is all about. What does the new order look like after the apocalypse, including how people make a living, and all kinds of new rules, official armies and various forces that resist the Arms Firefly...
And, it begins to formally introduce the male and female protagonists to each other, allowing them to start their adventurous journey.
Overall, this is still an episode that is foreshadowed.
Especially friends like me, who have never played the game at all, basically understand the various settings in the plot of the first episode, and also began to guess how the plot will unfold after that.
Looking at it for the time being, the production is good, the actors are also available, the setting of doomsday survival is always very curious, and some flashing horror elements are also very careful.
Watching it all the way, I think that friends who like doomsday dramas can still try to chase it down.
And you can pay attention to how the next plot will advance.
And if you have watched "The Walking Dead" before, or other friends who have survived in various doomsday survival dramas, they basically understand that in this kind of doomsday drama, the real danger is never a zombie, zombie, or monster...
There is only one creature that is really dangerous, and that is humans.
All doomsday survival dramas are ultimately a battle between people. The apocalyptic context is just a reason for human warfare, an environment without any legal or moral restrictions.
Only in this environment will a more real humanity come to the fore.
Therefore, in the context of the end times, how to write this part of human nature is the reason why this type of drama can be more popular.
The other visual parts are actually just gimmicks, the icing on the cake.
There are a total of nine episodes in this show, and now the first episode has just aired, everything is just the beginning, and there is still a lot of content, it depends on how it develops after that.
However, just from the performance of the first episode, especially the handling of the last few scenes of the first episode, I still have the desire to chase down.
9.3 points, it's still difficult to rely on fans alone.
So, go ahead and take a look.