Dan Houser

And then I read the book and I read a lot about the editing of the movie and I understood why I didn't understand the movie.

And that's because the movie makes no sense.

It is beautifully shot and the music is one of the best film scores of all time, but they edited it.

two different battle scenes into one battle in a way that's spread apart by ages in the book to assemble I think they filmed the book pretty much verbatim that would have been like a six hour movie then edited this impressionistic thing that's incredibly beautiful but doesn't necessarily make narrative sense at the end of it but it's still very beautiful the film

I think for me, it's two films from, I think, pretty much the same year.

Butch Cassidy and The Wild Bunch.

I love Robert Redford in Rest in Peace.

That film, it's just, it's impossible to imagine any buddy film without Butch Cassidy.

I love Unforgiven, but the truth is with Red Dead, I'd seen a lot of Westerns as a kid.

My dad watched lots of Westerns.

They were always on TV.

You know, I, I knew, I felt I knew a lot, a bit of, quite a bit about Westerns.

And then, you know, then I had to start thinking about writing one for work and I deliberately did not binge on Westerns.

I tried to watch no more Westerns and just think about,

What I liked about them, what I didn't like about them, what would be a take that would work today and would work within the confines of a game.

And I think Red Dead 1 was a slightly more traditional Western.

And then having done that, tried to take Red Dead 2 in a different direction so that it felt like a worthy successor.

Didn't just feel like more of the same.

No, films.

Films.