#craig mazin

[chronicowboy]

[calkestis]

We thought it was important to show that Joel missed her. That he’s mourning her. In his very simple way, just making a small cairn of rocks to say quietly ”I’m sorry, I blew it. I lost you”. It was important for us to show that he cared. (Craig Mazin)

HBO’s The Last of Us Podcast, Episode 3

[gay-mafia-stickball]

Can we spend a few minutes on the giraffe scene? Because right before this, ellie is completely checked out. She’s traumatized, she’s distant, and she’s so completely absent. But beneath all of this trauma, she’s still a kid, and now she’s a kid who just saw a weird, fucked up leopard camel llama thing, probably for the first time, and it’s eating out of her hand with a weird, fucked up blue tongue as long as her forearm. She may be traumatized out of her mind and living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, but that childlike wonder is still there, and Joel hasn’t looked more proud in the entire series.

[trashcora]

You tell me ‘look for the light’ ‘if it’s dark, look out’ I’ll break your jaw. +

[pedrohub]

All "zombie-adjacent" films and shows tend to begin the same way - with the outbreak, and The Last of Us was no exception, taking its time to take us through Sarah's (Nico Parker) last day with her father Joel (Pascal), before she is brutally shot by a soldier who panics under pressure. It's pivotal, because the incident informs Joel's character arc for the entire series. "As quickly as that moment happens in the first episode, we shot that scene all night," said Pascal. "It was physically and emotionally one of the hardest nights of shooting I've ever had."

"That was a rough night," says Craig Mazin, showrunner. "I think we did eight takes and the one we used was take eight! Pedro was beating himself up, saying, 'I haven't gotten there, I haven't gotten there.' Because he knew how important it was. And then he got there. And boy, did he ever." ( x )

[arcanejude]

craig mazin being the number one bella ramsey stan he’s so real

[earstwo]

“I think that letter underscores for him that no matter how hard he tries, and no matter how strong his instinct is to preserve and protect the people that he cares about, he can’t.” - Craig Mazin

[pedropascal24-7]

[hbothelastofus]

"I remember Craig [Mazin] came over to us as a last prompt, and he turned to me and he goes, 'This is the most pain that you've ever been in in your entire life. This is the most excruciatingly painful thing that's ever happened to you.' And then he said the same thing to Pedro." —Nico Parker.

[twilightronin]

Annihilation - Alex Garland 2018 The Last of Us - Craig Mazin 2023

[midnightmurdershow]

The Last of Us (2023 - ) Season 01 Episode 01 "When You're Lost in the Darkness" Directed by Craig Mazin

[azertyrobaz]

“Out of respect. It’s wonderful.”

[olympain]

This isn't the tragic suicide at the end of the play.

I’m old. I’m satisfied. And you were my purpose.

[pedrohub]

Pedro Pascal in ‘The Last of Us cast sit down with game and show creators | Creator to Creator’

[whisky-soul]

Pedro, Merle, and Craig behind the scenes of episode 9

[nepotismbabyy]

“There’s nothing more hopeless than having the solution and having no idea how to use it.”

This is a quote from Troy from the episode 8 podcast that hit me so hard. Ellie gets the solution to help Joel, she gets the penicillin, but she has no idea how to use it. This cure is right at her fingertips and she’s doing what she thinks is right, what she thinks might work, without actually knowing anything for certain. This is exactly what she did with Sam. The saving grace, the “cure” was quite literally entirely in her hands; she cuts her hand open and lets herself bleed directly into Sam’s bite, she fills the syringe and injects it right into Joel’s wound. Neither are the right ways to save these people, but she doesn’t know and she’s operating on instinct and urgency because she is still a kid and she doesn’t have enough experience to know what to do. She’s just doing what she thinks might work because the prospect of losing these people when the opportunity to try, even without any certainty is right in front of her is too much to handle.