Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann reveal that, for the fantastic prologues of ‘The Last of Us’, they kept Vince Gilligan’s writing style in mind.
We continue with our mouths open after the wonderful second chapter of the HBO Max series that is called to make history, especially because of the wonderful prologue that has taught us something more about the real danger of the Cordyceps fungus than, at least in terms of what the forms are concerned, has meant a unexpected connection between ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. Or so their creators defend.
“You made this prologue in Jakarta, why?Troy Baker asks Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann in the second episode of ‘The Last of Us Podcast’the program dedicated to investigating each chapter of the series together with its two main managers.
“One of the things we have on television that you can’t use in another medium that’s still going, like a movie or a video game that you can play all night if you want, is episodes. That means we have to start and stop,” says Mazin. “Y The good thing about stopping is that you have to start over. Each beginning is a new opportunity to reorient the public, or to mislead them“.
Directed by Neil Druckmann and written by Craig Mazin, the second chapter of what is already one of the best series on HBO Max, begins by taking us to Jakarta, Indonesia, at the beginning of the pandemic. There we meet an expert in mycology who, when he discovers the first signs of the cordyceps outbreak, he advises bombing the city, aware that he is facing a problem that is extremely difficult to solve..
“I am very much in favor of misleading,” he continues. “It’s something I’ve always seen Vince Gilligan do. You have these five or six minutes at the beginning of every television episode where the audience is more open and receptive than ever before.. They are willing to be confused, bewildered and misled as long as it is done on a solid basis.”
Vince Gilligan is, of course, the acclaimed creator of ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’two series that used their prologues to situate the viewer at a moment in the plot that they would not understand until well into the chapter.
Something similar happened in ‘The X Files’, Chris Carter’s gem in which Gilligan began signing scripts and where, before diving into the mythical head of the series, we met the monster of the week in the first minutes of each episode.
“I think we always knew that we wanted to give something more of the origin story, we wanted to see how all this would be in the beginning because in the present we already know everything that has happened,” he emphasizes. “And we wanted to show that it has been global, that It’s not just happening in America. This is all over the world“.
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