<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>Elle Archivi - Players</title> <atom:link href="https://www.playersmagazine.it/tag/elle/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.playersmagazine.it/tag/elle/</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:16:45 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>it-IT</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <image> <url>https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Icona.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1</url> <title>Elle Archivi - Players</title> <link>https://www.playersmagazine.it/tag/elle/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">24444452</site> <item> <title>Esclamazioni di deliziata sorpresa: di quando lessi “Oh…” e ringraziai Instagram e Isabelle Huppert</title> <link>https://www.playersmagazine.it/2017/08/03/esclamazioni-deliziata-sorpresa-lessi-oh-ringraziai-instagram-isabelle-huppert/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisa Giudici]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 03:53:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Altro]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Libri]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Isabelle Huppert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Verhoeven]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philippe Djan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robocop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Voland]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playersmagazine.it/?p=27093</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Ordinarie storie di lettura all’epoca dei social network. Pur avendo amato lo straordinario Elle di Paul Verhoeven, ero del tutto inconsapevole che … </p> <p>L'articolo <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2017/08/03/esclamazioni-deliziata-sorpresa-lessi-oh-ringraziai-instagram-isabelle-huppert/">Esclamazioni di deliziata sorpresa: di quando lessi “Oh…” e ringraziai Instagram e Isabelle Huppert</a> sembra essere il primo su <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it">Players</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div> <p>Ordinarie<b> storie di lettura all’epoca dei social network.</b> Pur avendo amato lo straordinario <em>Elle</em> di Paul Verhoeven, ero del tutto inconsapevole che fosse l’adattamento di <a href="https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8862431392/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3414&creative=21718&creativeASIN=8862431392&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21&linkId=16e82472dcf972b5d997e55bd3ce213e" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">un romanzo francese</a><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="//ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=am2&o=29&a=8862431392" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> e per giunta già tradotto in italiano. Sarà che un film così te lo aspetti da un regista come Verhoeven, spesso sottovalutato e irriso per i suoi eccessi eppure capace di entrare in <a href="https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/1559408898/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3414&creative=21718&creativeASIN=1559408898&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21&linkId=c36df98e90ce0b148d14ce42cf5d4c40" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Criterion Collection</a><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="//ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=am2&o=29&a=1559408898" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> con il suo <a href="http://www.playersmagazine.it/2015/09/18/20-film-degli-anni-80-che-farei-vedere-a-mio-figlio-se-ne-avessi-uno/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Robocop</em></a>, conquistando lo status symbol più desiderato dai registi partistoidi e menosi.</p> <p>Invece <b>Michèle Leblanc non è farina del sacco di Verhoeven</b>, non del tutto. L’ho scoperto un giorno, per caso, mentre ero intenta a scrollare distrattamente Instagram. Mi spiace non ricordare quale influencer, booktuber o conoscente sia stato a postare la foto di un volume di Voland a cui di mio mai sarei arrivata, non essendo un drago sulla letteratura contemporanea francese. Purtroppo <b>tocca anche ringraziare le moleste e odiatissime fascette</b> giallo fosforescente, dato che non l’avrei comunque notato senza quella che reclamava la paternità della storia di “un grande film” per il suddetto, agilissimo romanzo.</p> <p><b><em><a href="https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8862431392/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3414&creative=21718&creativeASIN=8862431392&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21&linkId=14e426ec97bd9c95971dbcadc8f022ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Oh…”</a><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="//ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=am2&o=29&a=8862431392" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></em> di Philippe Djan</b> è proprio la fonte a cui Verhoeven ha attinto per il suo progetto più ambizioso e pericoloso, tanto che presto si è dovuto rassegnare a non avere il sostegno di Hollywood: Sharon Stone coscia lunga e sguardo di ghiaccio sì, una donna che affronta uno stupro in maniera totalmente inaspettata giammai! A pensarla così sono state anche le tante attrici a cui il regista austriaco ha offerto la parte, tanto che <em>Elle</em> ha rischiato di non vedere mai la luce. Il resto è storia: per spaventare<b> Isabelle Huppert</b> ci vuole ben altro (già, chissà cosa servirà?), così lei e il regista si imbarcano in un film vicinissimo a territori pericolosi, frenato pure dal gap linguistico. Finirà con lui che tira fuori un nuovo punto chiave nella sua filmografia e con lei che strappa un <a href="http://variety.com/2017/film/awards/isabelle-huppert-wins-golden-globe-for-actress-in-a-drama-for-elle-1201955542/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Golden Globe</a> e quella <a href="https://www.mondofox.it/2017/01/24/nomination-agli-oscar-il-commento-chi-ce-l-ha-fatta-e-chi-no/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nomination agli Oscar</a> che le mancava da sempre.<br /> <span style="color: #ffffff;">x</span></p> </div> <div><a href="https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8862431392/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3414&creative=21718&creativeASIN=8862431392&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21&linkId=14e426ec97bd9c95971dbcadc8f022ff" rel="attachment wp-att-27095"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="27095" data-permalink="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2017/08/03/esclamazioni-deliziata-sorpresa-lessi-oh-ringraziai-instagram-isabelle-huppert/oh-cover/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oh-cover.jpg?fit=313%2C445&ssl=1" data-orig-size="313,445" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Oh cover" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oh-cover.jpg?fit=211%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oh-cover.jpg?fit=313%2C445&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-27095 size-full" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oh-cover.jpg?resize=313%2C445" alt="" width="313" height="445" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oh-cover.jpg?w=313&ssl=1 313w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oh-cover.jpg?resize=211%2C300&ssl=1 211w" sizes="(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px" /></a><br /> Di fronte ad ogni adattamento filmico bisogna fare una scelta di metodo: <b>prima il libro o prima il film? </b>In questo caso il destino ha scelto per me, ma mi piace baloccarmi con l’idea che, ci fossi arrivata prima della pellicola, la Michèle di Djian Philippe avrebbe avuto il tono di voce beffardo e sublime della Huppert, tanto è logico e naturale accostarlo alla sua galleria di ritratti femminili forti.Di fronte all’imbecillità e al pressapochismo di affermazioni quali “il libro è sempre meglio del film” <b>l’esclamazione di ambigua sorpresa di <em><a href="https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8862431392/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3414&creative=21718&creativeASIN=8862431392&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21&linkId=14e426ec97bd9c95971dbcadc8f022ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Oh…”</a><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="//ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=am2&o=29&a=8862431392" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> </em></b>è un efficace rimedio. Se Verhoeven ci cava delle punte di vero genio e supera Djan, è proprio perché ha per le mani<b><b> un romanzo eccezionale.</b></b> Il binomio formato da <b><em><a href="https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/8862431392/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3414&creative=21718&creativeASIN=8862431392&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21&linkId=14e426ec97bd9c95971dbcadc8f022ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“Oh…”</a><img decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="//ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=am2&o=29&a=8862431392" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /></em></b> e <em>Elle</em> è l’esempio perfetto di<b> cosa dovrebbe essere un adattamento cinematografico</b>: un’opera intrinsecamente identica all’originale, ma capace di incredibili tradimenti per mano di chi la dirige, spinto dalla voglia di dirci qualcosa di suo.La storia di Michèle è la medesima, con giusto qualche aggiustamento richiesto dal passaggio di medium<b>. Conosciamo intimamente una donna </b>più che adulta e men che anziana che subisce un’aggressione in casa sua e <b>reagisce in maniera inaspettata. </b>Nella settimana successiva soppeserà il matrimonio fallito, ma mai veramente chiuso, il valore di un figlio inetto ma caparbio, il potere esercitato su amiche e amanti, da rimettere al loro posto alla bisogna.</p> <p>Gli scopi dei due uomini che la raccontano, Djan e Verhoeven, non potrebbero essere più distanti, così come i toni dei due racconti. Lo scrittore francese parte da un<b> evento destabilizzante e violento</b> per spingere un<b> personaggio suo malgrado straordinario</b> a fare l’inventario della sua vita, delle sue frequentazioni e dei suoi desideri, in un romanzo brevissimo, ma<b> capace di punte di puro acume, verità e autoanalisi</b> che altrove si cercano inutilmente per capitoli interi.</p> </div> <div> <p><span style="color: #ffffff;">x</span></p> </div> <div><a href="http://www.playersmagazine.it/2017/08/03/esclamazioni-deliziata-sorpresa-lessi-oh-ringraziai-instagram-isabelle-huppert/ell-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-27098"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="27098" data-permalink="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2017/08/03/esclamazioni-deliziata-sorpresa-lessi-oh-ringraziai-instagram-isabelle-huppert/ell-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C993&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1500,993" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D4","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1427386093","copyright":"","focal_length":"85","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Ell 1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?fit=834%2C552&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-27098" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?resize=800%2C530" alt="" width="800" height="530" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?w=1500&ssl=1 1500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?resize=768%2C508&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ell-1.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1 360w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a></div> <div> <p><span style="color: #ffffff;">x</span><br /> Paul Verhoeven invece mantiene il tono da thriller voluto da Djan ma trasforma la ricerca dell’aggressore da parte della protagonista in qualcosa di <b>estremo e spiazzante,</b> quasi da B movie, affiancandoci quei toni da commedia nera e surreale in cui lo sguardo ironico della Huppert brilla più che mai. Il film ha preso alla sprovvista Cannes e il mondo per come<b> testi con la sua ambiguità</b> la nostra marmorea<b> convinzione che nessuno si meriti uno stupro </b>e che subirne uno ti metta irrimediabilmente nel ruolo della vittima.</p> <p>La Michèle del film si autodefinisce<b> una stronza</b>, non versa una lacrima ed è infallibile nel scegliere ogni volta<b> l’opzione che ci renderà meno empatici e solidali </b>nei suoi confronti. ll film sa essere volutamente inconsistente o appena abbozzato, perché il supposto realismo non ci distragga dal crescere di una sensazione insopprimibile e insopportabile, che è poi il traguardo che lo rende tanto memorabile.</p> <p>In fondo quel sentimento che la società instilla e che combattiamo selvaggiamente alberga anche in noi. In fondo per essere davvero una vittima, almeno un paio di caselle nella lista della povera donna aggredita le devi spuntare. In fondo in fondo <b>se non ci dimostri che stai soffrendo</b>, se anzi tiri fuori gli artigli e contrattacchi (e torni a scopare e godere), se sei interpretata da Isabelle Huppert e se sei nata dalla penna di Djan e svezzata dalla cinepresa di Verhoeven, non è poi vero che anche in noi emerge quel retrogusto da “te lo meritavi”?</p> </div> <br><br> <div class="su-note" style="border-color:#9fd6dc;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;"><div class="su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim" style="background-color:#b9f0f6;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;"><center><strong>Players</strong> è un progetto gratuito.<br><br>Se ti piace quello che facciamo, puoi supportarci (o offrirci una birra) comprando musica, giochi, libri e film tramite i link <a href="http://www.amazon.it/b?_encoding=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=23322&linkCode=ur2&node=412603031&site-redirect=&tag=playemagaz-21" target="_blank" class="lt_ns">Amazon</a> che trovi negli articoli, senza nessun costo aggiuntivo.<br><br>Grazie!</center></div></div><p>L'articolo <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2017/08/03/esclamazioni-deliziata-sorpresa-lessi-oh-ringraziai-instagram-isabelle-huppert/">Esclamazioni di deliziata sorpresa: di quando lessi “Oh…” e ringraziai Instagram e Isabelle Huppert</a> sembra essere il primo su <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it">Players</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">27093</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Last of Us: Joel VS the World</title> <link>https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/</link> <comments>https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Emilio Bellu]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:50:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Videogiochi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ending]]></category> <category><![CDATA[english]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Infected]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[naughty dog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Playstation 3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Last of Us]]></category> <category><![CDATA[videogiochi]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.playersmagazine.it/?p=10703</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>NOTA: Il pezzo che segue è stato scritto in inglese perché riteniamo possa essere di interesse generale anche al di … </p> <p>L'articolo <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/">The Last of Us: Joel VS the World</a> sembra essere il primo su <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it">Players</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NOTA: Il pezzo che segue è stato scritto in inglese perché riteniamo possa essere di interesse generale anche al di fuori dei confini italici. Attenzione agli spoiler, leggetelo solo se avete finito il gioco.</p> <p><em>WARNING: This article goes into detail of <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B007SN2KT6/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=23322&creativeASIN=B007SN2KT6&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21" target="_blank">The Last Of Us</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" alt="" src="http://ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=as2&o=29&a=B007SN2KT6" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> ending. Read only after you’re done playing it. </em></p> <p>Since the release of <a href="http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B007SN2KT6/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=23322&creativeASIN=B007SN2KT6&linkCode=as2&tag=playemagaz-21" target="_blank">The Last Of Us</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" alt="" src="http://ir-it.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=playemagaz-21&l=as2&o=29&a=B007SN2KT6" width="1" height="1" border="0" />, the video game community has been bursting with discussions about its story arc. A short recap: in a post apocalyptic future, humanity has mostly been swept away by a fungal disease. Joel, a man whose daughter has been killed by the army when the infection started, and has since worked as a smuggler, is tasked with escorting a young girl, Ellie, to a medical centre run by the Fireflies, a rebel organisation working to rebuild society. Ellie is important: she is immune to the disease. Her blood can be the key to create a vaccine to save humanity. Joel reluctantly starts the mission, looking forward to its end, and tries to keep emotional distance from Ellie: he’s still destroyed by his daughter’s death.<span id="more-10703"></span></p> <p>In his journey Joel kills dozens of people and just as many infected. He kills them with incredible brutality: this is a violent game. But unlike the games in Naughty Dog’s other franchise, <em>Uncharted</em>, the violence never feels gratuitous. Joel is a violent man in a violent world, not a murderous archeologist searching a treasure. The studio whose games have popularised the term “ludonarrative dissonance” is also the one that found a way around it, by making us play in a brutal world, as a ruthless man who becomes famous for his brutality. Because of this, <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/24/4548992/the-ending-of-the-last-of-us" target="_blank">some analysis</a> of the game see him as a psychopath in disguise, whose madness is never apparent until the very end of the game. It’s a good way to justify a bleak and brutal ending, but it’s not that simple.</p> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="10748" data-permalink="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/12-5/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?fit=832%2C468&ssl=1" data-orig-size="832,468" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="TLOUEllie" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?fit=832%2C468&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10748" alt="TLOUEllie" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?resize=832%2C468" width="832" height="468" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?w=832&ssl=1 832w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?resize=370%2C208&ssl=1 370w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?resize=570%2C321&ssl=1 570w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/12.jpg?resize=770%2C433&ssl=1 770w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px" /></a></p> <p>Joel is not a sociopath. We see him show empathy to others in many occasions, as when he team ups with Henry and Sam and offers to bring them along with him in his mission. He’s a broken man, though: the death of his daughter has left him hollow, and because of that he seems to have a great facility in killing people with incredible violence. But when we control him, we don’t see him ever approaching innocents (at least until the ending). We follow him in situations where he’s always in danger of being killed. Judging his killing streak with “normal life” parameters makes no sense. His is a violent world, one where he found out he can excel in.</p> <p>What really tips Joel, though, is another kind of violence: the one of mobs against the individual. In the beginning of the story, his daughter is killed in cold blood by a soldier for no reason. This sends him on a lone wolf path, where he’s comfortable to ally himself only with few people. When we meet him after 20 years he’s working with Tess, and only with her; after her death he would rather be alone than escort Elle, as he makes perfectly clear. He doesn’t want to be responsible for someone else again, and he doesn’t want to belong to a larger group. But during his journey with Ellie, he learns to open up again, he makes himself available to love again. Ellie saves him, he sees her grow, they form a bond he never experienced since his daughter died.</p> <p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="10705" data-permalink="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/last-of-us-thumbnail/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?fit=851%2C464&ssl=1" data-orig-size="851,464" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"Syanara","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Last-of-Us-thumbnail" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?fit=300%2C164&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?fit=834%2C455&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10705" alt="Last-of-Us-thumbnail" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?resize=834%2C455" width="834" height="455" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?w=851&ssl=1 851w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?resize=300%2C164&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?resize=768%2C419&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?resize=370%2C202&ssl=1 370w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?resize=570%2C311&ssl=1 570w, https://i0.wp.com/www.playersmagazine.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Last-of-Us-thumbnail.jpg?resize=770%2C420&ssl=1 770w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px" /></a></p> <p>Joel is suspicious of the Fireflies, and his brother seems to share his distrust of them, but he still believes in the mission. When he finally brings them Ellie he’s beaten, cuffed and held at gunpoint. He’s told that Ellie has to die so that the doctors can harvest her cells to synthesise the antidote for curing humanity. But he’s given no proof. He can’t even say goodbye to her. Trapped and blind, a larger group is again taking someone he loves, with violence. This time, he can do something. And he does. He snaps, killing everyone in his path, driven by blind rage; rescues Elle, and, fully conscious that she would have wanted to die for the cause, unable to process what he did, he lies to her (and probably to himself too), making up a story to cover his acts.</p> <p>This is not a story that indicts a violent man, making us “ashamed” of thinking we are like him. Rather, this is a tragedy in the classic sense, a story where two forces of great strength are pitted against each other and end out clashing in a fight that leaves both of them defeated and broken.</p> <p>Describing Joel as just a violent man is a disservice to an amazingly complex and deep story that seem to form a thematic trilogy of sorts with two other great games of this generation. Both <em>Bioshock Infinite</em> and <em>Red Dead Redemption</em> tell stories of men and their families fighting against deceiving and violent groups (be it governments, small rebel movements, or street mobs). Rooted in classic Americana and different shades of the western tradition, that’s a tale that seems tailor made for videogames, and for shooters in particular, where a person has to fight against the world; it’s a new game story archeotype, one of the first, and one that can really go deep.</p> <br><br> <div class="su-note" style="border-color:#9fd6dc;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;"><div class="su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim" style="background-color:#b9f0f6;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;"><center><strong>Players</strong> è un progetto gratuito.<br><br>Se ti piace quello che facciamo, puoi supportarci (o offrirci una birra) comprando musica, giochi, libri e film tramite i link <a href="http://www.amazon.it/b?_encoding=UTF8&camp=3370&creative=23322&linkCode=ur2&node=412603031&site-redirect=&tag=playemagaz-21" target="_blank" class="lt_ns">Amazon</a> che trovi negli articoli, senza nessun costo aggiuntivo.<br><br>Grazie!</center></div></div><p>L'articolo <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/">The Last of Us: Joel VS the World</a> sembra essere il primo su <a href="https://www.playersmagazine.it">Players</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.playersmagazine.it/2013/08/29/the-last-of-us-joel-vs-the-world-spoilers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">10703</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>