Cinema and video games have been doing a good cleaning for several years, without anyone really knowing which one takes more. With recent adaptations in cinema or series (The last of us, Fallout, Resident Evil, Super Mario, etc.), those to come (Sims, the death of deathetc.) or the works inspired by him (Player one ready), video games have become a new tank for ideas for the seventh art, in substance and form. But the opposite, which was for a long time the essence of many narrative games, again becomes relevant, with games that take the principles, far beyond the simple adaptations.
Difficult when playing The last of us Not to see the love of its creator Neil Druckmann for cinema through his script, the emotional strength of the narrative and the characters, as well as his staging. The trunk in the series seemed obvious somewhere. More than a cowboys game, Red Dead Redemption 2 Take the visual codes and narrative slowness of the Westerns of yesteryear and their long contemplative walks through the plains and deserts. Another specialist in narrative games, Quantic Dream produced with Detroit: Becoming a human A film work near an interactive film with actors in the capture performance (body, voice and face) and a solid scenario.
When Tsushima’s ghost offers a “Kurosawa” frame to pay tribute to the Japanese film teacher with filters inspired by his style, which Hellblade 2: The Senua saga – And even the first game, encourages Ninja theory to multiply the narrows of your heroine to understand the monologue and inner demons, or that remedy alternates the scenes ofAlan Wake 2 In the non -linear way of a David Lynch, each study will seek strong film markers to give personality to their game and work.
Bottled creativity in the cinema
Hideo Kojima is one of these creative directors bottled to the Great and on the small screen. And he feels in his games. Death Stranding 2: On the beach Who launched this Thursday is a perfect example. The Japanese continue to scream their love for cinema, their actors and directors. Continuation of the first episode launched at the end of 2019, Death Stranding 2 Go once again to split the players. We like or hate the post-apocalyptic narrative trip of Kojima, but we cannot remain insensitive to him. As in front of a genre film.
Because the man behind the saga Metal gear (Konami) put all his soul, all his technical, visual and narrative knowledge. Kojima is a man-orchestra and an interested technology. For his new game, he used and customized the Dentima engine designed by Guerrillas Games for its franchise Horizon (Zero dawn AND West prohibited). Without a doubt, the most effective graphic engine to create open worlds worthy of reality and cinema.
The landscapes of DS2 are impressive, larger, deeper and more detailed than for the first work already sublime in PS4. Enough to continue perfectly with the spiritual search and loneliness of the hero Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus), a cast once again connecting different areas and now several countries with the “Quiral” network, which leaves the world of isolation. Once again, he will be helped by a fragile (Léa Seydoux), who also came to support him to administer to Lou, his former BB that he transported in an artificial placenta and that could help him detect the deceived, these lost ghosts.
The 5 -star cast is the other registered brand of Kojima. Death party He had already hung some big names on his hunting board. In addition to Reedus and Seydoux, there was also Mads Mikkelsen, director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Lindsay Wagner in a young version (former Jaimie of the 1970s). In this second part, we find directors Guillermo del Toro (The form of water) and George Miller (Mad Max)Troy Baker, She Fanning, Luca Marinelli or Turkish director Fatih Akin, who lends his features on the Dollman wrist. Everyone joined the capture of performance to lend their bodies and their gestures to their characters (not always their voice and Kojima does not forget to indicate the name of the benders on the screen).
Music, actors and great plans
The border between the Hollywood of the big screen and the realism of the video game remains more and more. Because in addition to seeing more actors, accepting “playing in video games”, the creative director offers them “camera plans” to sublim them. In Death Stranding 2, Kojima makes his love for the management of the actors speak.
Like these directors who admire so much, multiply the adjusted plans to better capture the expressions of the facial and the moments of tension, the heavy silences of their characters, the great plans to make them very small in the midst of the immensity of the landscapes. He likes the staging, the trips that make the excellent playlist disinflans even more in timely times. Music was one of the strengths of the first game, strengthens the loneliness of the second with pieces of Wookid, under roar and a myriad of musical findings that put the atmosphere.
Death Stranding 2 It also offers its lot of long monologues scripts for Sam or strong dialogues between Fragile and him. The game sometimes has the songs of Nolan or Tarkovski in its stylistic effects, its interiority that changes in sudden eccentricity and its taste for long sequences. Kojima likes the cinematics of 10 minutes or even more that they are such real short films in a long film to play.
It is probably not without reason that the Japanese development study is called Kojima Productions and no Kojima Interactive or Entertainment, so often in the industry. As a call to this cinema that he loves and had the red carpet during the last Cannes Film Festival. We are waiting for him, he has already announced that he thought about it, but without hurrying. He has already made the video game a field of new possibilities to express all his artistic and narrative talent. In its unique way.
Source: BFM TV
