Providing a trailer with little to no context leads to more questions about how this trailer came to be. If the trailer had spent 30 more seconds explaining what had led to this repugnant moment, the violence may have been explicable. To repeat previous points - because it’s important - it’s not the situation the women were in that’s jarring and inexcusable, but how that scene and those characters were introduced. These women exist in a violent world, set up by Naughty Dog in the original Last of Us. The trailer hints at larger roles for both women involved. Naughty Dog did put forth extra effort to put women in more leading roles. We will probably get to know the characters and learn why this violence was necessary. In context with the rest of the game, the scene may have an emotional hook beyond disgust. The trailer is violent, but it’s justified none of that justification exists in The Last of Us Part 2’s trailer, where violence simply exists. In The Last of Us, Joel may be gunning down hunters, but we understand why he’s doing it, and those he’s attacking aren’t women or marginalized people. There’s a difference in how Naughty Dog handled the trailers for The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part 2. The reason why we're going for such realistic violence is because we want you to believe that the stakes are high for Ellie and Joel.” Everything has to feel grounded in reality. It's setting a reality that Joel and Ellie are having to deal with. “The violence you see inside this world isn't gratuitous and over-the-top just for the sake of being violent,” Druckmann said. Neil Druckmann, creative director at Naughty Dog, told Shack News then that the violence players would encounter in The Last of Us wasn’t perfunctory, but served a purpose. With a game like The Last of Us Part 2, in which presumably there are dozens of other scenes to showcase, why pick the scene where women are being sadistically brutalized? When Naughty Dog played a gameplay trailer during E3 in 2012, people called the five minutes Joel spent tracking down hunters and annihilating them gratuitous with its violence. The fact that their antagonist is a woman herself does little to undercut what this trailer is on its most blunt level: an extended sequence of brutal and unexplained violence against women being used to thrill the viewer, and ultimately, sell a video game. 35 percent of women have experienced violence at the hands of another person in their lifetime, according to 2017 report from the United Nations. We’ve seen this play out in other TV shows or movies before, and in real life. The volatile imagery used in the trailer to underline the heinous acts being committed are familiar scenes to us. The Killing Joke saw the Joker torture Barbara Gordon in a statement that reinforced the notion that gender influences violence. Violent attacks on women, many times for perfunctory purposes, isn’t new. The violence is particularly upsetting as it features the assault of women. Without any context, the trailer fails to introduce (or even really tease) the story players will embark on. There's an argument to be made that the trailer raises an enticing question - Why are these women being attacked? - but that mystery is both too familiar and too broad. But here, the promise is almost exclusively gore. In the past, Naughty Dog’s trailers have captured a particular mood or suggested a compelling relationship. That information never comes, however, and all we’re left with is residual nausea.Ī trailer is a pitch to its audience of what to expect from the full game. It’s not clear why we’re watching two people be tortured, but we’re asked to take in the extreme violence under the assumption that we’ll be rewarded with more information for doing so. The victims of the vicious assault, two women, are unnamed. The gruesome imagery Naughty Dog manages to cram into a five-minute trailer for The Last of Us Part 2 is physically uncomfortable to sit through. The blade of a knife pressed into a vulnerable stomach. A noose wrapped tightly around a struggling woman’s neck.
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