ThirdMan wrote: ↑April 5th, 2018, 12:18 pm
Whippledip wrote: ↑April 5th, 2018, 5:19 amI'm echoing KSub for some elaboration and specific examples because I just don't see it otherwise.
Just to clarify, you "don't see" the influence of The Last of Us in two films that you've never watched? Um, okay.
Fair enough.
Let me clarify a bit then. I was more referring to how TLoU's story themes, ideas and general visual style and design is so universal, baseline and generic to the overall realm of post apocalypse/zombie media that it feels weird to see people constantly refer to it as an inspiration or influence on current media.
To use an example from a movie that I
have seen, people are constantly comparing
Maggie to TLoU, either saying it ripped TLoU off or talking about how it clearly draws inspiration from it, a google search for "Maggie Last of Us" brings up a lot of results from a lot of sources.
Aside from the very general themes of "bearded man loves his daughter" and "zombie-like aggressors", they're very, very different. Maggie is a quiet and contemplative vignette and character study about humanity and family and grief. TLoU, you smash them in the face with a brick. It leans more in to zombie killing action adventure with some nice pathos to give the characters
some depth compared to the usual video game. The similarities are completely superficial and have very different aims, and very different ways of exploring them. The movie was also written before TLoU was even announced. Although the director happened to be a chyron/title designer for TLoU, that's such a small role in the grand scheme of the game that I don't think there is much to be taken from that connection.
Once again I'm painting with a very broad brush but I think it's a product of people who's main hobby is video games might not necessarily have a good grasp of the "language", history and literary critique standards of film and TV. Which isn't a bad thing at all, people should enjoy what they want without having to justify it, but it reveals a very limited frame of reference for their consumption that leads to pointing at TLoU as a major influencer while completely ignoring everything that helped make TLoU what it was. Not saying that was you by the way, but as an explanation of why I jumped to my initial conclusion/skepticism.