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“movies are going to become video games”
![Still from Casablanca (1942). Rick Blaine shooting Colonel Strasser at the airport. Superimposed video-game style instructional text says “Press [X] to shoot Colonel Strasser.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:olsyuoyrpcym43lajs2eawdw/bafkreie4dgsabja7crekcx4tfr3p7lkebao42v7noqdujktgvyoxsf33ua@jpeg)
![Still from All About Eve (1950). Addison Dewitt talking to Eve about why he is actually in New Haven. Superimposed video-game style instructional text says “Press [X] to talk, killer to killer.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:olsyuoyrpcym43lajs2eawdw/bafkreiec4dfzd65clnc5yuxaku3mgu6l77exwacueamwz4r2hlv4q3tx5m@jpeg)
![Still from Days of Heaven (1978). Sam Shepard in the foreground, looking up, the house in the background, as a swarm of locusts descends upon his field. Superimposed video-game style instructional text says “Press [X] to succumb to the relentless inevitability of nature.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:olsyuoyrpcym43lajs2eawdw/bafkreidaj5i7kjgiw42s2jgahtyljl65dkzutrtxtqtllxhh45estnstre@jpeg)
![Still from In The Mood for Love (2000). Tony Leung gazing at Maggie Cheung. Superimposed video-game style instructional text says “Press [X] to experience a lifelong yearning so secretly profound that in your twilight years you will travel to Angkor Wat and whisper it into a hole in a temple wall.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:olsyuoyrpcym43lajs2eawdw/bafkreigimoop7rw2fskqz2l2mrhvqzym2rjjxyijn4m6547gv5lesvt5k4@jpeg)
April 5, 2024 at 4:16 PM
“movies are going to become video games”