It is not to be from hand: Outwardly Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie do not meet their nail on their heads. Accordingly, after the announcement of the cast, it has not wondered that some fans of the Last of US games disturbed particularly strongly and sounded according to their displeasure. And I was also disappointed first when HBO has announced the two as lead roles for the TV series, since I had wanted more similarity.
However, I quickly remembered a similar situation with the Netflix series The Witcher. In it Henry Cavill surprised me as a straight ice cold and changing my opinion fundamentally. According to this experience, it even seems more than useful if the actors are not 1 to 1 copy to video games in series and films, but out of their role models.
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Changes are usually uncomfortable and wrong at first sight. This also felt Annika for a while when it comes to the presentation of loved characters in games, which look very different in the TV. The Witcher series then let them rethink, which is why they are now very happy that they do not get a decals of Joel and Ellie in the Last of US series.
The charm of inequality
Pascal has too few muscles, Ramsey does not have Ellies facial features and actors in the inside like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Kaitlyn Dever would fit much better - so the reactions of the community usually looked at shortly after the announcement.
But but community opinions , I am very glad that I did not recognize Joel and Ellie immediately in Pascal and Ramsey. Because they would look exactly like the characters in the game, my subconscious would also expect the same story. But since that will not be the case, it is all the better that I get it with a new Joel and a new Ellie. Otherwise, that would somehow feel wrong for me if you give yourself a little different in the series when I am used to it from the games.
Ultimately, I do not want to re-warm up the same spectacle as 1 to 1-series slake. Rather, I want to go to Ellie and Joel on a new journey, which hopefully becomes just as beautiful emotional, but other buttons pushes.
The death of every happiness is the comparison
So that the Last of US series works for me, she must offer me something new. And what it looks like, we will get exactly that as some changes are already known. So the focus should be less on action and instead more on drama. In addition, parts of the story are to be expanded. This makes the series another path that should also reflect in the appearance of Joel and Ellie to clearly distinguish themselves from the games.
Although Pascal also has dark hair, but with his character face and less smoky-dark voice, which introduces me to a new Joel, which I do not constantly see the Joel from the games. It also happens at Ramsey too. When I look into her face, there is already a completely different Ellie in front of me, which will miss the role in her way a new paint that could repeat me emotionally. Regardless of what the makeup artists make for a job.
One of his own identity must be: It is of course a narrow degree between well-preserved and new, but HBO lays the foundation for changing the main characters, which will also be important for its own identity of the series. And that, too, helps to consider the games and series for itself as a stand-alone product instead of comparing them too much.
A comparison does not work at the end anyway, as movies, series and games are working differently on us. I actively controlled in the games Joel and Ellie, calls a completely different connection than the end of the series does where I will only be a passive viewer.
The Witcher series was my turning point
What we have mentioned in my initially mentioned example that belongs to me has washed my head. In the case of The Witcher series, I had strong prejudices against Henry Cavill as a straight. I was the rocky conviction that Henry Cavill would not give good a good straight. Alone the fact that he travels less and travels without beard by Nilfgaard, a no-go was for me. For that I just had too much to the familiar representation of the Geralt from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Accordingly, I did not even have to mind that Henry Cavill's interpretation, which is more likely to lean the books with her appearance, may even fallen. Rather: that in the end I could even prefer the witcher from the series from the game!
In December 2019, however, I was thoroughly taught. While I have supported the series in a slip, my Witcher world was followed by ahead of the head. In the end, I liked Henry Cavill even better than that in the game.
It depends on the interpretation
That I suddenly was such a fan of Cavills, was mainly because a much more important point as the appearance comes to wear: namely the character of the figure itself, which is defined in this case especially by the spectacle of Cavill. He shows as a straight more emotions, which is underlined by the missing beard and less conspicuous scars again.
Here you could now argue that the logical is , after all, this is a real person who can better transport emotions. That's true, but in the case, his personality made his personality just better to his appearance. The rougher Geralty in the game also has its emotional moments, but of which much less. And if, then they look at me through his stronger exterior something attached. On the one hand, I would also want more emotionality here, on the other hand, the game-based gave rise to the harder edition of his self, the other needs satisfied.
a straight for every situation: I can ultimately experience the "softer" witcher in the series, while in the game in the game in the role of a huge slippers, with which I can drain proper steam. And so, for both of me, both riches work on their very own way. A necessary demarcation, which is triggered by the optics, but at the end is rounded off by the spectacle.
And if the straight comparison is insufficient: In the past, other examples already proved that the initial criticism was unjustified and the performers in the end played many viewers in the heart. So also at Heath Ledger as a joker in The Dark Knight and Robert Downey Jr., which initially did not push a lot of reclamation in the new comic films. It is not a game conversion, but the principle remains the same.
(k) a question of taste
The intention to not want to reproduce a (game) character, therefore, for me and other people did not turn out for the first time as unexpected blessing. Ultimately, many adaptations only developed their own identity through striking differences, which we can grant them. Starting with appearance, rounded off by the actors * in themselves.
Although this is not a panacea, after all, we are human habitual animals that if only unconsciously compare comparisons. And art, in whatever form is, is and remains in the end taste matter. But I'm pretty sure that Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey will miss their personal stamp despite or just because of their optical differences to Joel and Ellie, which will give the Last of US series their own stimulus.
This article is part of our hero * Indoor ThemsWoche , which is still running until August 13, 2021 and presented you daily new articles around the topic of video game characters. All items of our hero * Inner theme weeks can be found here in the overview.
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