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Dan Houser

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And almost like an open world game in some ways, in that it's this slice of life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

You see, you know, I think that probably changed...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

cinema at the sort of tail end of the 80s early 90s more than any other film and it's it's so iconic in some ways i prefer casino but the invention is really in goodfellas i love the end of casino you know the use of voice over the way you saw them being criminals and being normal people you know it changed everything i mean the sopranos obviously is completely inspired by goodfellas

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

The look, the clothes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Dig another hole.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

I think the great Vegas film, the bits that I always, that I love at the end when everything's wrapping up.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And on the one hand, you see the Robert De Niro character.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

He's still good at making money.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

So they let him return to normal life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

But then you get that brilliant scene when all of the, the mob bosses from back home, they're discussing all these people who, who, who may or may not be able to implicate them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And then there's that incredibly cold line.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And one of them, they're thinking about the, the old, you know, I think it's a casino manager.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And one of them just goes,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

I think you did for that, didn't you?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

I love the book so much.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

I was obsessed by it when I was about 17, 18.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And I enjoyed the film, but I preferred the book.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 – Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

No, but one of the things we're working on now, there's sort of an English version of Hunter S. Thompson if he was also a market gardener.