Chapter 5 of The last of us can easily be considered the best the show has had to date, an episode that found the perfect balance of action, drama and story. However, some video game fans once again criticized, as they did with the third chapter, that Neil Druckman there Craig Mazin moving away from the source material to explore new chapters. Indeed, in this episode there was also a rather controversial change that affects the character of Sam, and indirectly, his brother Henry.
Sam’s change in The Last of Us series
Sat is also a character The last of usbut unlike the Sat that we know in the series of HBO Max, he’s not a deaf kid. However, his personality has not changedand a good example is the last conversation he has with Ellie in the video game:
- “I’m scared of those things out there. What if people are still inside? What if they’re trapped in there with no control over their bodies? I’m scared it will happen to me.”
If you have recently chapter 5 of the last of usthe young Sat also tell Elijah that he is afraid of infected people and the possibility that the people they have infected are still trapped within them. The only thing that changes is the way of communicating Sat: in the series of HBO Max, is a deaf young man who is in the care of his brother Henry.
He was Craig Mazin the one who proposed Neil Druckman this change: in the weekly report published by HBO Max About each chapter, we found that both came to the conclusion that this modification would improve the final result of the adaptation.
The curiosity of the actor who plays Sam in The Last of Us
However, what was overlooked by many viewers of The last of us are the very special particularity of the actor who plays Sam: Her name is Keivonn Woodard and is also deaf in real life. In this way, we are not talking about forced inclusion as some accuse. We refer to a change that allows us to discover a reality that affects many more people than we think.
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