There's also the difference between getting in the mindset of a character and understanding the *actual* reasons for a character's behavior, since a lot of us also lack that self-awareness.
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Like I have seen a *ton* of actors who play villains who end up arguing their characters aren't evil just misunderstood when they're clearly pretty bad people.
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Replying to @nivenus @scarygirlone
Weirdly if anything I feel like Baker is the opposite direction. Like I think he was Team Abby Hole in One All the Way tbh
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Maybe he’s of the opinion that Joel crosses the moral line by his decision at the end of the first game.
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Quite possibly. Like I said my view that he doesn't quite get the character has more to do with stuff before that, in the first game
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Maybe he just has a very dark interpretation of what Joel’s offscreen past means for the character. His performance did portray Joel as being incredibly world weary at the beginning of the first game.
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Yeah I hear that's how he got the role - most other auditioners didn't get that Joel was just done at the start
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It was a thing about how dudes who want to play video game heroes tend to all try to macho it up as much as possible and the way to stand out is to do something different from that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Like, obviously Joel is an angry guy who kills people, but if that's all he is that's not interesting Honestly Joel may have been the beginning of "sad dad" becoming the new stereotype of video game protagonists
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Wasn't that Watch Dogs and Heavy Rain?
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Watch Dogs came after TLoU 1 Heavy Rain came before but I'm not sure it had the same degree of mainstream success
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Bioshock: Infinite came slightly before but I'm not sure there's a point in trying to distinguish them in this particular case
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I do wonder how much Baker was sometimes lapsing into Booker while playing Joel, which might explain his darker take. I can't imagine it was easy to distinguish the two mindsets (as opposed to voices, which are quite different)
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