It's incredible how a game could take such a realistic picture of a city, without being extremely devoted to how it really is. I played the game before visiting the city (now I live here), and the first time I came here I was constantly reminded of GTA IV everywhere. Not only because of the buildings, it was more about the feeling, the growing smokes, the crazies, the halal carts, the constant sound, the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn feeling of elevated railways with people driving reckelessly under them, and the many many languages.
Still, something else that did represent well about NYC, and that no other media has done well before, is how stupidly latino this place is, including the whole tri-state area. I mean I can easily speak only spanish here and live a normal life lol. Sitcom, series and movies usually represent NYC kinda like a monocultural white and black city.
Anyway happy birthday GTA IV! Still waiting for a remaster.
That's the problem with trying to adapt a videogame. With all due respect to our fellow gamers, but a lot of them are toxic, way too ignorant about other media that are not videogames, and they practically expect a live action reenactment of the game with people that look similar. No creativity, no good actors, no art at all. It's by far the most toxic nerdy community, because this doesn't happen with Marvel's MCU.
The funny thing is that we all gamers then whine about the awful videogame adaptations and again lose hope. But what can we expect? If the whole community is toxic and has zero ambitions in any kind of creative work based on a videogame.
I don't think that they don't want to act in a superhero movie because they're not prestigious, they just kill your career. After 3-5 or damn even 7 movies playing the same character people will not stop identifying you with him/her. Typecasting is the name for that.
Beyond Bezos and the richest company in the world, there is a lesson here: with enough help and money to get up after a failure nearly everyone could succeed at one point. That's why easy credit and state incentives should be given to starting companies.
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