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26
The Colossus and the Comedian
Apparently this is a really old article, but as it pertains to one of my absolute favorite games of all time... I just have to link it. Has anyone seen Reign Over Me (Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle)? Apparently it has segments of (Sony and designer Fumito Ueta-approved) Shadow of the Colossus footage... and not just in a meager cameo.
The plot of the film apparently called for Sandler's character to be more or less obsessed with a video game as a coping mechanism for dealing with his family's deaths... and Shadow of the Colossus was chosen for its particular gameplay and story, over some other more generic video game footage or MMO!
"You could see where someone who was dealing with 9/11 would be engrossed by a giant that keeps collapsing over and over again," he says. Charlie's therapy was Shadow of the Colossus ... As the game was demoed, the filmmaker saw how it worked thematically. And when Adam Sandler finally came on board, the script was changed so that it specifically mentioned the game's title and sent to Sony Computer Entertainment to get the game's lead designer, Fumito Ueda, to approve of Shadow's inclusion. Weeks later, his reply came through: Greenlight.
Full article here: The Colossus and the Comedian.
Just saw it. The game is mistakenly called "SHADOWS of the Colossus" every time its mentioned. Yikes.
ian | Sep 11, 2008 at 12:00 PM