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La Jetee (must read)

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:31 am
by Henry Spencer
According to this article, a recent, excellent review of Snatcher; the game was not only based upon Blade Runner, but also La Jetee: http://www.armchairempire.com/classic_g ... atcher.htm

La Jetee:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/

According to the review, even the final image of the plane taking off into the sunset from Snatcher matches the final image of Le Jetee

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am definitely going to watch this movie now. Twelve Monkeys also is supposed to be a remake of it as well, and is supposedly inferior! Owch, sounds like a great movie, we'll see anyway.

Did anybody else know about this or even has seen the film already?

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:44 am
by Artemio
I've seen the film, but I didn't see as close a relationship. I must watch the dvd again (it is included in a series called "Short").

Of course I watched it since it wa sthe film in which 12 Monkeys was based.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:49 am
by 87th
Snatcher had a lot of different influences, other than Blade Runner (the most obvious being Terminator, considering the Snatchers' design). If you were going to watch every film that Kojima made direct references to in his games, you'd end up spending quite a lot of money. Sorry if that sounds cynical, dismissive or generally negative, but it's true.

I am a little interested in seeing a 'better version of Twelve Monkeys' though, as I really enjoyed that film.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:19 pm
by Henry Spencer
Well, in that review, he said that Blade Runner is the biggest influence obviously, alongside La Jetee and a lot of the scenes matched up. I don't know.

Re: La Jetee (must read)

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:33 pm
by Spike
Henry Spencer wrote:Did anybody else know about this or even has seen the film already?
No, I didn't know about it, but this analysis sometimes looks a bit far-fetched for my tastes.

I've already seen La Jetée once, and I must admit I'm one of the rare human beings in the world who didn't like it so much and prefers Twelve Monkeys. :???:

While Chris Marker's "film" exhibits that "nostalgic feeling" I usually love, it doesn't work on me this time. I don't know why. Maybe is it so because of still photographs... Or the fact that the story is basically the same that Terry Gilliam's "remake"...

You'll probably notice the big reference to Vertigo (another "classic" movie I didn't like) in it.

P.S. I hope I didn't sound too much like ratperson in my message.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:05 pm
by Arkley
I found out about La Jetee after I watched Twelve Monkeys, I have always meant to watch but it just fell of my radar. And having not played Snatcher...

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:50 pm
by Henry Spencer
Play Snatcher and watch La Jetee, best advice of the day. :smile:

I'm going to do the latter myself, anyway.

Re: La Jetee (must read)

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:11 pm
by Snatcher42
Spike wrote:and prefers Twelve Monkeys. :???:
Same here (Terry Gilliam is one of my favorite directors), though despite the influences they really are very different films and so hard to compare.

I'd never drawn a connection between Snatcher and La Jetee before. The image of a plane flying off into the sunset, for example, is pretty common.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:49 am
by Skycladiana
La Jetee doesn't really end with a plane taking off. The ending takes place at an air-port, for sure, but that's not the focus of the final scene. Same thing with Twelve Monkeys.