Kojima's top picks: 15 movies that influenced Metal Gear Solid series |
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It's quite natrual how some media would borrow elements from other media these days. Books and stories take a lot from mythology, TV show borrow many elements in movies, and the like. As such, video games do so as well, and the Metal Gear Solid series is no exception.
In line with Japanese retailer Tsutaya, Hideo Kojima is doing poster boy to promote certain movies that he's advertising as those which he got influence from. Here's Kojima's top 15 picks:
- The Guns of Navarone
- The Great Escape
- Goldfinger
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Planet of the Apes
- The Deer Hunter
- Dawn of the Dead
- Full Metal Jacket
- Die Hard
- Heat
- Predator
- Black Hawk Down
- Children of Men
- The Bourne Identity
- Casino Royale
If you check these entries on Tsutaya's site, Hideo Kojima clues us in on why or how these movies played a role in influencing certain elements in Metal Gear Solid. Some of them are obvious, but for the record, here are some examples:
- The biggest influence for MGS is the James Bond series, most especially the ones which Sean Connery did. One instance of this is the Snake Eater song (man I love that song!), is a nod to the intro scenes in Bond movies.
- The Octocamo in Metal Gear Solid 4 is taken from Predator's camouflage suit.
- Contrary to popular belief, Snake's bandana isn't taken from Rambo. Actually, it's from Robert De Niro's character in The Deer Hunter.
- FOXHOUND's Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid (and as an Easter egg ghost in MGS4 - after Crying Wolf) was inspired by the Vietnamese sniper girl in Full Metal Jacket.
- MGS4's documentary feel for camera movement was taken from Children of Men.
- The stage setting (meaning the lighting, the mood, etc.) of Middle East conflict zone in MGS4 was taken from Black Hawk Down.
- And of course, my favorite - something I actually already figured out since the first game: the influence of 2001: A Space Odyssey. See the top image for a clue. *wink*
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Comments [refresh]
Escape from New York isn't on this list since Big Boss and Ocelot Revolver were modeled after characters in that movie. In fact the main character is called Snake Plissken, which was the name (Plissken) Snake used in MGS2 to hide his true identity.
that's waht I was wondering.
I don't get why you got rated down, it's true THAT'S the joke. I mean Snake looks like he has the same HAIRCUT at some points in the games.
Also I'm surprised Clint Eastwood isn't in there somewhere I always felt that kind of vibe from Snake.
agree with you all.
I'm surprised at how many bad movies made it to the list.
those movies are great...real classics...
especially children of men, that movie is awesome....
i agree with zero298...
snake doesnt have some traits that clint eastwood had in his cowboy movies(The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; For a Few dollars more; A Fistful of dollars...)
thos movies were awesome! +]
Who the hell is he kidding? Metal Gear 1 and MGS1 played out like Rambo - First Blood Part 2: The Videogame.
It had the bandana, the smooth-voiced colonel, the questionable "War-Torn Jungle" locale, the POWs, the torture sequence, the no-weapons infiltration and stealth attack philosophy, the HALO drop, the female companion who dies... the f'ing mullet!! Come on, if there had just been a helicopter-on-helicopter battle, Konami could have been brought down by the government for illegal cloning.
I felt the same way, Escape From New York should have been first on the list. Especially since Snake's alias is Iroquois Pliskin.
Unless it's because Escape From New York isn't one of the films that he's allowed to promote due to company restraints?