How little this man knows about video games is appalling especially when he gets the job of directing a film based on a game. Anyone who has sat and played a quality game with a story knows games can do drama and do it even better than movies at times because you're interacting within that drama, you feel it even more than you do within a movie sometimes. Even the fact that games can do cutscenes or even live action as part of it proves him completely wrong.
Here is what Mike Newell said:
"Well, here we are, talking about the God damn games again. The answer is yes, of course they can become a threat to Hollywood. But [they cannot] do so with drama in any real sense.
When people watch 24, they're watching for the surprise, you know - when is the great big bad surprise going to step out from behind the palm tree. When they watch The Wire, they're watching the human drama of it. You can't do it without the human drama.
And the video game cannot do that. The video game can do all sorts of face-pulling, all sorts of: 'I am a bad man, I have a mean jagged sword,' but it can't do any more than that."
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Here is what Mike Newell said:
"Well, here we are, talking about the God damn games again. The answer is yes, of course they can become a threat to Hollywood. But [they cannot] do so with drama in any real sense.
When people watch 24, they're watching for the surprise, you know - when is the great big bad surprise going to step out from behind the palm tree. When they watch The Wire, they're watching the human drama of it. You can't do it without the human drama.
And the video game cannot do that. The video game can do all sorts of face-pulling, all sorts of: 'I am a bad man, I have a mean jagged sword,' but it can't do any more than that."
Read more: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/706594/Director-Mike-Newell-Games-Cant-Do-Drama.html#ixzz0vF5ZUW1N