This Gus Van Sant Film Was Inspired by the Tomb Raider Video Games

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The Big Picture What makes a "gamer" movie? Is it a film that has been directly adapted from a video game? Or one that is set in the world of gaming? Or perhaps it's just enough to have a quest-like story structure inspired by traditional video game narratives. Gus Van Sant'sGerry – the first film of what Van Sant calls his "Death Trilogy," three films each inspired loosely by real-life deaths – is none of those things.

The next two films Van Sant directed after Gerry were Elephant and Last Days. Both films were also loosely inspired by deaths that had received a lot of media coverage. Elephant is about a school shooting with parallels to the Columbine massacre, while Last Days narrates the moments leading up to the suicide of a rock star, who's a clear stand-in for KurtCobain.

How the 'Tomb Raider' Franchise Influenced 'Gerry' Tomb Raider might seem like an unlikely influence on an art film. The iconic franchise features Lara Croft, an archaeologist who hunts down lost treasure while dual-wielding pistols. The first entry was released in 1996, and at the time of Gerry's production, it was perhaps one of the best known video game franchises in the world, with a blockbuster film adaptation starring Angelina Jolie, and a sequel on the way.

'Gerry' Was a Creative Collaboration Between Van Sant and His Cast Though Gerry is, at points, a patience-testing art film, it also contains immediate pleasures in the dialogue between the two Gerrys. They speak in a shared language grounded in constant linguistic innovation.

 

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