Mel Gibson of 'Mad Max'?

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Mel Gibson of 'Mad Max'?

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Who knew that Mel Gibson's character Mad Max inspired Gillian Seed's appearence in 'Snatcher'? I sure as hell didn't. I always figured it was an obvious homage to 'Blade Runner'.
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Missing wrote:Who knew that Mel Gibson's character Mad Max inspired Gillian Seed's appearence in 'Snatcher'? I sure as hell didn't. I always figured it was an obvious homage to 'Blade Runner'.
Ehrm... where was this at? Gillian kind of looks like what would've happened if Mel Gibson replaced Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, though.
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Are you sure you're not getting mixed up with Gillian Seed being based on Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) from Blade Runner and Jonathan Ingram being based on Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) from Lethal Weapon?
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Why would I be getting mixed up? I didn't come up with that information on my own. It was mentioned on 1up.com in their article about the history of Kojima's games. I don't know where they'd come up with that info if it wasn't true.
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Well, assuming that they've not taken that from something Kojima's said, it's a question of perception, isn't it?

I can see the similarity though:

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Yes, well, anyway, what's more likely is that 1up.com are just being wrong. That's a possibility, surely?
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I've seen Mad Max, but I don't see any similarities.
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perhaps, now just a guess, but perhaps they meant Random? maybe im wrong but it seems right to me
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I would have thought Random was taken from that character in Dune (Um..Sting from The Police played him) or the bad guy in Blade Runner..
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Randam wrote:I would have thought Random was taken from that character in Dune (Um..Sting from The Police played him) or the bad guy in Blade Runner..
Feyd Rautha...yes played by Sting, and of course Random is based on that character, even the suit is exactly the same.
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Though he looked like sting, he was the Sean Young of snatcher
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Post by Johnny Undaunted »

Gillian Seed was definitely more Mel Gibson than Harrison Ford. He definitely served as the basis for Gillian at least.

Also, many might not know this, but Jamie herself was also designed and named after another sci-fi character, Jamie Sommers (the Bionic Woman). She even has Lindsay Wagner's hairstyle.
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Modnar wrote:Though he looked like sting, he was the Sean Young of snatcher
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www.sdsnatcher.net has quite a nice section about SD Snatcher origins in general.
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I know the design is the same, im just talking about the roles in the stories. Unaware androids, exept Gillian isnt trying to sleep with Random....Deckard is such a pimp.
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I know I rag on American gaming journalism a whole lot (mainly because there's no journalism involved for the most part, it's mainly just a bunch of hype, for examples of real gamng journalism check out insertcredit.com or many of the gaming blogs that have been popping up in the last couple of years), but it sounds like this was just another ill-researched mistake on 1up.com's part.
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