HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” are being called “pretentious” after banning the word “zombie” on the television show’s set, reported the Motion Picture Association site The Credits. “We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,” said cinematographer Eben Bolter “It was like a banned word.
They were the Infected. We weren’t a zombie show.”Based on a video game of the same name, “The Last of Us” takes place in a post-apocalyptic 2023 where many humans have been reduced to “zombie-like” creatures after an outbreak of a mutated cordyceps fungus in 2003. “It’s not a cliché zombie movie, it’s not Hollywood backlit where everyone’s close-up is perfect,” Bolter explained. “It’s a world of organic cinematic naturalism, and that’s something I could just feel.”Several viewers of the show have called the creators “pretentious” and “dramatic.” “What’s up with zombie-related media and not saying the word ‘zombie’?
I don’t get it,” tweeted one viewer. “‘The Z word’ My gosh, this is so unnecessarily dramatic,” wrote another. “I love this show but everything ive heard about the production of it has been so pretentious lmao,” a third person chimed in.
In a bizarre turn of events, it was revealed last month that the fungus that triggers the events of the series actually exists.
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