Kojima picks 15 films that influenced Metal Gear Solid

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Jan 20th 2009 3:38PM

Though you could never tell from his numerous games, Hideo Kojima is quite fond of movies. In fact, the Metal Gear auteur considers 15 films in particular as inspirational components of his epic stealth series. According to Siliconera, Japanese media store Tsutaya is running a new promotion highlighting all 15 flicks (seen above), complete with trivia (Hal and David? Those names come from 2001: A Space Odyssey!) and easily clickable purchase links.

But ... wait a minute. Where's Escape from New York?

[Via Siliconera]

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Tags: Hideo-Kojima, Kojima-Productions, Metal-Gear-Solid, Metal-Gear-Solid-4-Guns-of-the-Patriots, MGS4

Reader Comments (67)

Says the person who's almost certainly never even played it.

Predator is better than the Deer Hunter, the Great Escape and 2001? You're really bad at having opinions. You should think about stopping.

full metal jacket and dawn of the dead are gonna kick your ass.

Its safe to assume you haven't seen every movie up there, let alone even played much of mgs.

Children of Men? Seriously? I really want Kojima's time machine. Children of Men came out in 2006. How does this movie influence a series of games that had all but one title out BEFORE the movie started filming? Children of Men was released in 2006, Metal Gear Solid 3 arrived in 2004. Amazing how this movie somehow influenced the series when it simply didn't exist. He just pulled this list out of his ass.

Same goes with the Daniel Craig version of Casino Royale, came out the same year (2006) as Children of Men.

Or, y'know, those ones influenced MGS4. These are movies that inspired the franchise, not just the first game, after all. ^_^

He has a good taste in movies.

Those movies must suck then because they 'influenced' a game on $ony's POStation 3. Can't wait for all of you holier than thou fanboys to tell me I'm wrong, because I'm clearly not wrong, or stupid. At all. durr

Just sarcasming folks

I'm suprised Titanic, Godzilla and King Kong aren't in there, as I seem to remeber him saying those three movies inspired MGS2.

(For those who don't know:

Titanic - Jack and Rose; ship sinking.

Godzilla - Snake is Godzilla; a genetically altered beast, created by man.

King Kong - Raiden is King Kong; a natural beast. Raiden also meets and falls in love with Rose because of the movie.)

And there's Escape from New York too, obviously, but other people have already pointed that one out.

While the King Kong and Godzilla statements contain similar themes, I don't think they are direct 1:1 inspirations there.

Godzilla influenced the design of Metal Gear Ray, though.

when i read the title and saw the picture, i asked myself the same question you guys did at the end of the post before scrolling down. great minds and all that.

I assume he omitted Escape From New York because he considered it a "given".

While this is a solid list, I expected a few curveballs in there. While 3/4ths of the titles listed are great and entertaining, they're also staples of every reasonably intelligent, 25-35 year old male's DVD collection (I at least expected him to list something like Judy Garland's "A Star Is Born", just to mess with everyone's head). For as convoluted and crazy as MGS often is/was, that list is surprisingly predictable.

"But ... wait a minute. Where's Escape from New York?"

He only selected movies available on Blu Ray. I thought he had some remarkably poor selections until I realized that.