Hideo Kojima
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| Kojima at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) |
Well, basically he is the reason why I'm studying Film and Television today. During my High School time I used to play a lot of videogames, not any of them but especially, the tactical espionage action games directed by Hideo Kojima.
He is a japanese creative director and very famous in the videogames world bacause of his most important game series: Metal Gear Solid. He started being a computer programmer working for Konami, a grand entertaining enterprise in Japan, and consequently he became into a success mind in that business when in the 80's he imagined the possibility to conceive a game just like a film, including cinematography storytelling but keeping the interactive soul from videogames.
I decided to choose Kojima because since my teenage times, when I knew and played his games, I didn't have any formal knowledge about cinema, but always I wondered why those games were so differents from others like Mario bros. Well, the main reason for that is because he has an awesome knowledge about cinema history. He even had said during interviews: "Just like the human body is 70% water, I'm 70% film". Hideo Kojima creativity can coming us along through the James Bond series, Hitchcock suspense, and even a cult film like Jodorowsky's El topo has been an influence in his artistic vision.
Now I'll share some of his works:
1) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the patriots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAwjl3Jgq1s
2) Death Stranding (his most recent project)
Reveal trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcaMw4aCz4c
Teaser trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Hy96sOnq8
David, how interesting what accounts you had no idea of this character, and that the games are related to the cinema seems spectacular.
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