HBO version of Another of us It is very good to keep loyalty to riotous dog games, especially when it comes to blocking the main scenes. But in some way, this accuracy exaggerates only the ways that the display deviates from games. While viewers expect changes – a good adaptation needs to justify the reason for its existence – some creative changes have been met with mixed reactions from the audience. As they tell them, these creative freedoms were not done without thinking.
In a modern press event for Another of usThe exhibitors Neal Drogman and Criging Mazin Dove deep in the second season as a whole for an hour. Discussions often return to the wider topic of what is possible in games against the movie, and how these strengths led their decisions about what the show will explore and how.
At the end of Cliffhanger
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By the time when the second season ends, the show is mysterious about what is happening to Elie. The last thing we see from it, it seems that it is dead by Abe – only until the show is then transferred to a completely different day, before this happens.
Apparently, another end of this season has been seen but nothing stuck. “This has always felt like the natural end of this season,” says Draxman.
Mazin went further, indicating that the changes in the story were chosen to that point.
“We have to bear the risks as a TV program, and HBO is our support for risks. But again, we just killed Pedo Pascal. They understand that this show will be a different offer every season, a kind of difficult thing that must be done when you are a successful offer. Then, we hope they go,” oh, well, you know what, we really love this really. “
On adding a generation as a character
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Druckmann has revealed that they have a “operating menu” of things that are easy to do in each medium, and changes in perspective are classified on the TV menu. Unlike games, TV does not close you in the perspective of the person you control; It may be natural for a width to jump in stories from one scene to another.
“It is clear in the game, perspective transformations in cutting scenes, but they are limited because of the design, they should be,” says Mazin. (TV) nothing but cutting the viewer. “
The ease that television provides to different views is the way the couple reached the Gail character, which is a therapist in the exhibition that gives Joel to ear. Joel faces difficulty opening up to a generation, as this means admitting that he has conquered the hospital to keep Eli alive. Gil emphasizes the importance of photographing difficult ideas, which she explains by telling Joel that she is in depths, hates him. As it turned out, Joel, the husband of Jill Eugene, was killed after his injury, and this is something that she could not get out completely.
“So, a generation in particular gave us a moment to know that, not only where Joel is now emotionally, but what story does he tell himself?” Says Mazin. “What is the most fearful thing about him? What is his opinion on his actions? All of this is created, in the end, a moment that he must, a) finally face the truth, and then B) You must pay the price.”
As the players know, the beginning Another of us Part 2 Focus on Abe, the daughter of a doctor killed by Joel in the first match. This was a surprise to the players. Naughty Dog went to such lengths to contain this information in an extended inspection of the game, made the trailer look like Joel was still alive during the Elley trip. Mayizin says that withdrawing something like that is more difficult on TV because “what we cannot do is to reproduce a shock to become another person.
“In the games, you are Joel, you are Elie, you are Abi, and when this shift happens, this is eager because you were a person
In the conclusion of the second season of ElephantElie arrives at the sink in search of Abe. In games, there is a dark moment when Elie kills a dog named Alice in the aquarium – but it does not happen in the width. In the interactive version, death is particularly brutal because you also spend some ABBY story with Alice next to you. The brave puppy provides a good and loved risk, and depicts at least one scene to play with Alice.
Why do you leave something like this? Well, Mazin wrote ChernobilAnd in this show, there is a slice in which the pets that were left in the nuclear disaster are executed in an attempt to prevent further radiation spread.
“I think you are getting one episode to kill one dog,” says Mazin. “There are two Cardinal bases in Hollywood, one, do not spend your money, two, do not kill a dog.”
This is the reason for Jokey, anyway. And it continues, “In addition, because it is a living work, the nature of violence becomes much more, well, it is more graphic because … not like having animation between you and them, (and) it is very annoying.”
Druckmann also notes that the events schedule during the show, the pelvis is moved between a series of heavy moments. Elie dies almost in one scene, a mile and Awwin were killed, and then, Jesse meets at its end. “In our conversation, we are like this (perhaps) more than that.”
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In games, the player does not discover that Elie spoke to Joel on the night before his death even in the story. The offer, on the other hand, displays this central moment immediately. With the exception of this version of the events, Joel Eli told that he killed all these people in the hospital because he loves her in a way that she could not understand.
“She also talks about the adaptation process, which is Joel than Pedro more clearly, and more at risk than Joel Troy Baker, and therefore there are these small differences that she felt appropriate,” says Drukmann. “It is difficult for me to imagine that this line comes out of the game, Joel.”
The book wanted to help the viewers link this exchange with the person we see Joel with his father earlier this season. In that episode, Joel faces his father about his tendency to overcome his children. Abi Joel collapses and says he is doing his best, and we hope that Joel can do a little better than he did when he has children on his own.
Heritage and what we inherit from our fathers is a more public topic in the presentation. Eli noticed that she would be a father in one scene that does not happen in games, and later, she showed a book for Dina’s Baby.
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The circumstances surrounding the death of Joel are a different boy in the source material. In the games, Tommy and Joel came across Abe during a patrol. On TV, Dina and Joel collides with the Abe group while Tommy was seen again in Jackson, defending the city from a wave of injured. In games, Tommy is the first to leave for Seattle in search of revenge after Elie failed to get Jackson’s grace. For some viewers, this change was frustrating because Tommy made the less active in the story.
As the contestants see it, Tommy is not reduced due to these changes. Mazin and Druckmann indicate that Tommy still sees many measures, as we see him defending Jackson and leading to a huge monster.
“We thought it would be interesting, instead of going to him,” I will just go there and kill from doing it, “especially without a lot of information, we will give Eli and Dina that agency.
“But we now know that Tommy is somewhere in Seattle, because he and Jesse went to save them. What Tommy now does, as soon as he is outside the borders of Jackson, remember, he is the old warrior. He was in war, and we also know that he knew that Joel was doing it at some time. To leave anything bad that happens to that child.”
For those who follow, this five -change menu can hardly cover all the difference between display and games. One of the most controversial changes in Fandom lies with ABBY. In games, Abby Sport A Buff, Framework. Kaitlyn Dever, which depicts Abby on the screen, has a more abundant silhouette. For some, this “Hollywood” casting option. We were told that Abe was obsessed with Joel since her father died, and that she was spending years preparing for that moment. This stimulates Abby to undergo intensive physical training – so viewers comment a lot of meaning on the specific character design.
If you are wondering why the show did not follow its example, this is a topic that Druckmann and Mazin explore a month ago, in the opening podcast that accompanies the offer. They said that Diver was initially running to be Elie when games were adapted with a movie.
Draxman said at that time: “It was very easy to close your eyes and see it as this character and see that- because this character, and return to what Craig was saying earlier, only this motivation, this emotion, this intensity, this severe pursuit of justice, and it should be, such as, very vulnerable at the same time.” “It has all the other aspects that we have not yet seen. It did not require much imagination to see it in this role.”
Here, too, Mazin emphasized the differences between television and films. During the podcast, Mazin said the reason that Abe is my muscle in the games is that designers should think about the experiences of the player. When the players change the perspective, they expect their actions to feel somehow. There is an effective way to get there by giving different personalities in physical.
Television, though, has no restriction. This allowed the participants to focus on the other aspects of Abe’s character.
“Therefore, for me, the key was to find a certain fierceness and insecurity. I think you will see some of that with the season continuing and certainly with our progress in the offer,” Mazin said.