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After watching Mulholland Drive the other night, I was left feeling like I had just watched a giant 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle dumped on the floor. I was enthralled. I could not get this movie out of my mind. I began trying to figure out what it all meant. This led me to suggest that David Lynch needs to write a computer game. It would be an unbelievable thrill ride if it was anything like his movies. If you go to the site
Link: http://www.mullhollanddrive.com(http://www.mullhollanddrive.com)
you will notice a “Game” link that takes you through a series of simple puzzles until you finally arrive at a “clue”. Very simple concept, but I was sucked in .. finding myself struggling to wait for the answer. The “clue” did not offer much insight, which once again led to a list of questions. If his movie and website can capture this much interest, I can only imagine a computer game.Would any of you agree?
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(RE: Mulholland Drive and David Lynch.) I understand David Lynch was partially involved with a computer game project called Gadget, which was some sort of slide-show based adventure game, like Myst or Riven. I can’t find out very much about it, and I certainly haven’t been able to get my hands on it. I’d love to see it.
– Murray
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(re: Mulholland Drive and David Lynch.)
I have yet to see Mullholland Drive, but another film that would make a great adventure game is Paycheck. In it the main character *SPOILER* makes a machine to see the future, sends 20 items to himself that he’s going to need, destroys the machine because it will be used by the government as a weapon, get his memory erased, and every once in awhile gets in a situation where he uses one of the items. I kept wondering if it was based on a game.
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(Mulholland Drive and David Lynch (and Philip K. Dick)) Paycheck was based on a Philip K. Dick story.
In my opinion, Dick is the greatest sci-fi author of the 20th century. He’s the ideas man. You read his stories and can’t help but marvel at the ingenuity crammed into them.
His books are kind of rare nowadays (at least, where I live), and they aren’t all good, but I can heartily recommend them to any sci-fi afficianado.
His overarching theme seems to be the all-too-human struggle with identity. Couple this idea with thoughts of “what makes one human?”, “can a machine be human?”, “when our cognitive faculties are in some way impaired, physically or psychologically, are we still human?”, and so on. And yes, I have to agree, many of his books and short stories would make GREAT games.
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(re: Mulholland Drive and David Lynch.)
I think a really cool game idea would be if they made a game in the style of the movie Memento. Memento is a about a guy with short term memory who uses photos and tattoos to keep reminding himself that someone killed his wife and that he needs to get revenge. But the whole movie goes from the end and slowly works its way to the beginning. If they somehow did this with a game, I think it would be amazing (I mean the reverse thing, the tattoo and memory thing was sorta done in an awesome game called Planescape:Torment)
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