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PEDRO PASCAL as Harry Castillo MATERIALISTS dir. Celine Song

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THE LAST OF US | 2x03, "The Path"

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It shouldn't, but it often does. THE LAST OF US 2x03 | Season 1

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The difference between the "I saved her" shots is so interesting to me. Through part 1, game Joel is very in control of his feelings, we see glimpses of grief but it's brief, the trauma he went through hardend him. Even through the torture scene he has that calm rage, you can feel the anger seething through him but he is in control and you can feel how he's calculating through it, knowing exactly what he's doing

But show Joel, his trauma broke him down. He is unhinged, through the torture scene you can feel wires in his brain come lose. His anger is unpredictable, the opposite of game Joel, his emotions bleed continuosly.

Where game Joel is in control of his anger in the hospital, show Joel is unhinged and unpredictable. They are two sides of the same coin and I love how different they're responses are.

You can just see game Joels hardend anger, knowing he saved her, and show Joels broken sadness, knowing he almost lost another daughter.

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"joel took away ellie's choice"- damn it's almost like he knew they were both gonna just end up killed.. it's almost like he had no choice either and the fireflies were always gonna kill her with or without her knowledge. it's almost like ellie is a child who does not deserve the weight of the world on her shoulders like this. it's almost like her survivors guilt and unresolved trauma is what drives her to feel as if her entire life needs to end to compensate for those she's lost; it's almost like joel enabling ellie's martyrdom is a far worse thing than saving her on the chance she doesn't want to die. it's almost like she genuinely was never in the right conditions to consent to begin with and was never going to have the chance to regardless. idk

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the last of us + memes 6/?

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i’ll follow you anywhere you go

pedro pascal as joel miller | 1.09

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I recently saw a post saying that Henry Cavill apparently didn't read the Witcher books before playing Geralt because he didn't know they existed and (while that's not why the Netflix adaptation is bad) it inspired me to let y'all in on a piece of Polish lore.

Polish people fully believe there's a curse placed on the books that make it impossible to adapt successfully onto a screen.

The first attempt happened in 2001 in the form of a movie. It portrayed the events of "Matter of Price" from the first Witcher book. You have to understand that this was only ten years after the USSR fell apart and freed Poland from its grasp. The country was still majorly struggling financially, so despite the fact that Matrix came out two years prior, and despite a nearly five million dollar budget, the visual effects were... painful to watch. Old Polish productions also had a specific type of pacing to them, characteristic for the region at the time (think black and white movies), so the movie has not managed to stand the test of time. The music is beautiful, though, and the production got a few awards based on that.

The following year, a single season of a TV show was filmed and released. It was a continuation of the events of the movie, following the plot of the books, and, while it has better ratings than the movie did, the result still wasn't great. I remember watching a few episodes with my friend when I was a kid. There was a scene where the characters were chasing a baby dragon around, which, as my friend quite accurately described, looked like it was made of an umbrella someone was pulling around on a string. And, while that's understandable knowing the technology the production team was working with at the time, the Poles felt the effect simply didn't do the Witcher, a de-facto fantasy monster hunter, justice.

The show did not get picked back up after the final episode of season one hit the Polish tv screens.

Then there were the games.

I have to say that I am fully biased and love them to death, but I recognise they weren't without flaws and aren't everyone's cup of tea. The first game, despite an amazing storyline, is currently virtually unplayable or, at best, incredibly annoying to play. The REDs were only just starting out back then. It was also a long time ago, and technology limited what they could do. The second game improved majorly upon what the first one didn't manage to accomplish and remains a very pleasant experience story and gameplay-wise. The third is a masterpiece, of which I have to convince exactly no-one, because everyone knows it.

None of it apparently matters, however, because the author of the books absolutely fucking hates them.

He said it countless times in interviews. He doesn't believe that videogames are a good storytelling medium, and he doesn't like the Witcher games. He sold the rights for the REDs to use his work on a whim for practically pennies, convinced the resulting game would flop. Seeing how well CDPR did was a bit of a shock to him, and following their success, he promptly lawyered up to demand more money for them. (It was a whole thing. He was technically within his rights, his claims were protected by the Polish law, but the way he went about it was very unpleasant. The REDs wanted to settle out of court and were happy to give him the sum he requested, but he decided to take the matter to court anyway. Google if you're interested, the drama was real.)

On top of all of that, the games aren't an adaptation per se. They follow an original narrative set loosely after the events of the books.

And then finally, along came 2019 and Netflix decided to take a crack at the show.

Surface level, everything looked hopeful. Sapkowski announced he'd be working on it with the showrunners, we even got a Polish actor in the cast, everything seemed in order.

And then... Netflix delivered... that.

(Compulsory note, before the Netflix Witcher fans bite my head off: like what you like. I'm describing the perspectives of many Polish people, including my own. If you have a different perspective, good for you.)

Nothing made sense. The characters were flattened, the plot was thrown out the window, the complex personal storylines narrowed down to single desire points. The Yennefer magic school arc was weird and unnecessarily sexualised, Queen Calanthe seemed to have displaced her entire cunning intellect, and the Witcher didn't even have cat eyes. I could go on. For the sake of brevity, I won't.

And if it were a fantasy show loosely inspired by the world of the Witcher, it would have been very pleasant to watch. To be The Witcher, though, the national treasure, the single thing the international culture recognises us for outside of maybe stereotyping alcoholism, the bar was much higher and the show failed to meet it by a large margin. The longer it went on, the less in common it had with the source material. I've not watched it following season 2, but even then, the events were drifting further and further away from what can be found in the books.

So, here it is. The Witcher curse. A beloved series of Polish books that has yet to find a loyal adaptation onto a movie or tv screen. The first person who accomplishes it will surely ascend into godhood, carried into the heavens by a flock of wyverns.

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its so easy to pander to me in fiction media. show me a guy that for some reason doesnt feel himself to be as human as most others are and i will sit with him for hours

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“you should be at the club” i should be by the sea. i should be in the mountains. i should be awestruck and rendered speechless by the majesty of the natural world. if you even care

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simon riley is a hater through and through. always moaning about something or someone

when someone sits next to him on the bus or train, even though there were plenty of other seats available, he can’t stop his shoulders slumping. a heavy sigh leaving his mouth with a hefty roll of his eyes,

‘for fucks sake’ he mumbles under his breath whilst the person who had the misfortune of taking that seat side-eyes him, clearly uncomfortable

absolutely despises slow walkers and people who stop directly in front of him. has absolutely no shame in shoulder checking people or overtaking them with a quick glare and disapproving shake of his head

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A moonlit hotel room, just him and the devil 🩸🦇

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the woman dies.

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the girls are fightinggggg (and making out after)!!!!🗣️

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His lack of charm and horrendous vibes have bewitched me

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ahem