Every time Jean manages to kill an animal, his “score” is briefly tracked on-screen.
Later in the movie, there are very distinct references to Super Mario.
When movies take on elements of games, it’s almost always in a big, referential way.
Movies like Scott Pilgrim vs.
He’s communicating with his body.
“That journey of becoming better is not told in a truncated montage.
“And I don’t know other movies that have done that.
When Jean climbs a tree, he shimmies up the trunk with Nintendo Entertainment System Mario-like moves.
Game visual gags are everywhere in Hundreds of Beavers.
Later, Jean uses the fans to create channels of flowing air to trap even more beavers.
That stuff’s just in there.”
So I’ve always felt that the Looney Tunes logic and Nintendo logic were the same.”
It was its own unique art form for 15 years.
And I hate to see games settle into a pattern of just iterating on what’s worked.
“Early on, we were talking about indie games a lot,” he explained.
That’s what we tried to do with Hundreds of Beavers.
“I hope that instead of imitating Hollywood movies, I hope that indie film picks different aesthetics.
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