Who’da thunk it? The first trailer for the much anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto 4′ video game has hit the web and much to my suprise, contained a direct reference to director Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi’s cityscape moment. The soundtrack even provides a ‘sound-a-like’ version of Philip Glass’ score! I guess we can thank the March of the Penguins Nintendo DS game for trailblazing this mixture of documentary and video game. Thanks to them, we will now be able to kill hookers and score cocaine whilst appreciating obscure references to minimalist documentaries with underlying social commentaries! Check out the GTA4 trailer below and then have a look at the very scene it’s referencing below that!
Bonus Video: Koyaanisqatsi (fragmento)
But is it a reference or just plain theft???
Surely they can’t expect most gamers to have seen this movie. That said, I think it was a pretty cool trailer for a video game.
i think it was a nice touch. I immediately sat up in my chair with a look of amazement on my face when i saw it. Its such an important film. Rockstar doing a spinoff of it impressed me.