Trigger Happy
was based on it. You couldn’t play the movie, so it was far inferior in terms of
Of course, films become works of art in their own right by involving the spectator emotionally. But there is precious little emotional material in an actionoriented videogame for the filmmaker to latch on to. A film based on a game, therefore, is likely to be utterly impoverished in two ways: not only by failing to provide the fundamental attraction of the videogame experience, but by failing to exploit what the medium of film itself is best at doing.
Videogames, in fact, have the better of this strange relationship, in that they are able to suck into themselves more aspects of the filmic art without compromising their raison d’Être. For one thing, more and more videogames now contain
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