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Mel Gibson of 'Mad Max'?

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:39 am
by Missing
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'.

Re: Mel Gibson of 'Mad Max'?

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:30 am
by OtakupunkX
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.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:15 am
by 87th
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?

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:10 pm
by Missing
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.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:53 pm
by Rick Deckard
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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EDIT: Oh, well, look at me, I'm FortuneCity, and despite being presumably a large area of Internet land built on unneccessarily plenitudinous wealth (of which I am unashamedly boastful about, going so far as to define myself by it), I'm not going to allow anyone to hotlink any images hosted on my probably stupidly, needlessly tremendous establishment, preferring them to be metaphorically sodomised by my vast system of pointless adverts, lest they use up a bunch of kilobytes that I'm probably not going to bother with anyway. Basically what I'm saying is that I'm a prick, and very much an expansive, substantial prick. Hello.


Yes, well, anyway, what's more likely is that 1up.com are just being wrong. That's a possibility, surely?

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:54 pm
by Missing
I've seen Mad Max, but I don't see any similarities.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:45 pm
by randomwab
perhaps, now just a guess, but perhaps they meant Random? maybe im wrong but it seems right to me

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:21 pm
by Randam
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..

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:34 pm
by MrRudi
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.

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:48 pm
by Modnar
Though he looked like sting, he was the Sean Young of snatcher

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:38 am
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.

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:53 am
by MrRudi
Modnar wrote:Though he looked like sting, he was the Sean Young of snatcher
see:

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www.sdsnatcher.net has quite a nice section about SD Snatcher origins in general.

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:58 am
by Modnar
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.

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:28 pm
by OtakupunkX
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.