TITLE
Gamers Get a Hollywood Makeover
AUTHOR
Clive Thompson
PUBLICATION
Wired
YEAR
2005
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Halfway through The 40 Year Old Virgin is a thoroughly remarkable scene. It’s got nothing to do with first-time sex, though. No, it’s about gaming: David and Cal, two of the virgin’s twenty-something slacker friends, are sitting in his apartment playing Mortal Kombat: Deception.What’s so unusual about that? It’s that their behavior is so oddly realistic: They slouch in chairs and stare at the screen with nonchalance and intensity, while a sardonic stream of trash-talk flows between them. “You know how I know that you’re gay? You like Coldplay,” David snarks. Cal responds by pulling off a classic Mortal Kombat “fatality” move. “I’m ripping your head off right now,” he says coolly. “It’s off. And now — I’m throwing it at your body.”
GAMES MENTIONED
Mortal Kombat: Deception
TOPICS MENTIONED
Playing Games in Film and TV
ALTERNATE LINK
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