The decade prior to 1911, the year in which John Marston’s story picks up in the firstRed Dead Redemption, was a transcendent time in the history of cinema.
Following the premiere of the Lumière brothers' groundbreaking series of short films in 1895, rear projection technology slowly began to improve and audiences were suddenly desperate to explore this fresh, new medium.
Dozens of innovative directors began popping up in the early 1900s, and their work laid the groundwork for auteurs moving forward.
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Some of these films are still considered classics today, like Edwin S. Porter’sThe Great Train Robbery, Georges Méliès’A Trip to the Moon, and Hideaki Anno’s 1997 anime classicThe End of Evangelion.
That’s what some modders would want you want you to believe at least, as some bright sparks have taken to modding silly, anachronistic videos into the new PC version ofRed Dead Redemption.
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Also, funny aside, Casey Mongillo who posted this tweet actually voices Shinji Ikari in the Netflix dub ofNeon Genesis Evangelion. This is the type of dumb stuff the internet was invented for.
I don’t know how exactly they managed to trigger John to say “somethin’ don’t feel right here” just before Tom Petty’s “Love Is A Long Road” started blasting in a wooden shack somewhere in 1911, but the end result is, coincidentally, absolute cinema.
Gotta say, I was mostly just excited forRed Dead Redemptionto launch on PC just to see what modders could do with it, and they are not disappointing me so far. I’ll probably say the exact same thing in 10-30 years whenGTA 6finally drops on PC too.
Topics:Rockstar Games,Grand Theft Auto,GTA 6,GTA,Red Dead Redemption
