{"id":1044,"date":"2005-09-28T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/09\/28\/hollywood-gaming\/"},"modified":"2005-09-28T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T16:24:00","slug":"hollywood-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/28\/hollywood-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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. » <\/p>\n

The vaguely self-parodying homophobia. The Zen-like calm of the violence. The casual profanity. You have to give director Judd Apatow props: He shot a pitch-perfect evocation of how gamers actually behave when they’re playing. And it makes me wonder — has Hollywood finally figured out how to realistically depict gaming culture?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Gamers Get a Hollywood Makeover<\/a>, by Clive Thompson in Wired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… Continue reading Hollywood gaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}