Last week, Amazon removed all eight episodes fall out, a new television show based on the long-running video game series of the same name. Everything people remember from the game is here. Apocalyptic landscapes, gallows humour, 1940s aesthetics, mutated man-eating cockroaches…showrunner Jonathan his Nolan has done a great job of translating the game to the small screen in some ways. He pleases enthusiasts while remaining approachable enough for beginners to enjoy. We love this show and can't wait for season 2 (hint, Amazon).
The last time people enjoyed a video game adaptation this much is since the first season of . the last of us, aired on HBO in early 2023.Again, this show did a great job of translating its tone the last of us A dark, thoughtful and down-to-earth game brought to the small screen to everyone's praise. (Actually, the atmosphere is quite different, but the last of us and fall out Both are apocalyptic epics, so they have some things in common. Why do we love stories set after the end of the world so much? A question for another time. )
Anyway, soon after that fall out appears and the comparison begins.Incorporate this work esquirewriter Henry Wong reasons: fall out “beat the last of us With its own game.” fall outUnlike the last of us, accepts the inherent intangibility of the video game medium, “generally…the story is secondary to the gameplay.”Wong writes: The Last of Us”“It fooled a lot of people into thinking it was some kind of high-end television,” and the video game-based show, which is essentially a direct adaptation of less serious media than the book, actually bears that label. This suggests that it cannot be made honestly.
I also agree with Wong's opinion. fall out more self-conscious than the last of us — more ridiculous and less serious — but as Wong writes, I disagree that this is the next reason. fall out treats its source material “as a symbol of pride, not anxiety.”I think so fall out This is what TV shows look like: fall out I think this is the video game series. the last of us Because the TV show is terrifyingly dark and deadly serious. the last of us game is. Video game adaptations have come a long way since 1993, when Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo confounded audiences around the world as Mario and Luigi. Super mario bros. Obviously, there's still the idea that no video game adaptation can match the best movies and TV shows in terms of depth and complexity.
I consider this position arrogant and self-fulfilling. When a program like fall out “'' is silly and fun, but Wong sees it as embracing its frivolous roots. When a program like the last of us It's trying to tell serious human stories, but all it does is “trick” people into thinking it's authoritative. I don't think there's any room for a good, faithful video game adaptation in this framework.
To be fair, this elitist position hides important evidence. The history of video game adaptations is well known, and it's full of crap.That 1993 Mario This movie set the tone for decades of grim cinema. alone in the dark to doom to prince of persia to assassin's creed. But I think it was inevitable that adaptation would eventually start to improve. First, a new generation of Hollywood professionals who actually grew up playing and enjoying video games came to power. It's much easier to make good movies and shows when you treat the source material as something worthy of adaptation, rather than a name brand to be purely exploited. But also, video games make huge profits, and the amount is increasing every year. Even Hollywood executives who don't take them seriously can't afford to leave that money on the table. If a better product means better box office, they'll make it.
Finally, as the medium of video games themselves expanded, developers began to create increasingly challenging games that were more appealing to filmmakers. While Wong is correct in pointing out that video games are generally a medium where story is important “second only to gameplay,” that's not the case in all cases, and even if the story is similar to a movie or TV show. This does not mean that it cannot be persuasive or powerful. It is designed to be played as a game. Translating a book to the screen requires major changes in format, but book adaptations are treated as inherently less serious than movies built from the ground up for the screen. I think it's because it's been done for so long that everyone understands it. I'm used to them.
I think movies and TV shows based on games will eventually do that too, and we'll see more of them in the coming years.From big names like legend of zelda To the lesser-known popular figures of the indie world dredging, the video game has been adapted by Score. I expect most of them to be commercial, aimed first and foremost at achieving worthy goals. But I also know how deep the video game medium is. And I'm sure that some of the upcoming movies and shows will become modern classics that will stay in people's hearts. Over time, I think the perception that games are inherently flimsy source material will dissipate. And they'll start making movies based on Holo TikTok and what we'll get in the future, and this whole cycle will start all over again.
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