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'The Last of Us' Director Craig Mazin

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The Hospital Sequence

I love that you're sort of, especially for Ellie as a character looking for her listening and for people listening generally. That's super cool. Some of the best moments are just seeing reactions. I want to ask you about the hospital sequence because that is a sequence that does feel a little bit more presented to us. Yes. To an extent. We always intended that that would actually be presentational. But because what we wanted the audience to feel there was a dissociation from reality because Joel is dissociating. Those people aren't people to him anymore. Nothing is nothing matters. Whether it's a door or a human being, they need to be gotten throughBecause he's going to

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