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• #Red dead redemption 2 time period movie#

Included are long tracking shots, hard cuts, and the widescreen bars… Again.

#Red dead redemption 2 time period movie#

For those not in the know, you can activate this mode by pressing the touchpad on PS4, or the view button on Xbox One. “Cinematic” mode only adds the most basic editing, camera movement, and framing found within the movie industry. However, there is an even more outrageous use of filmic method: the cinematic camera. They add nothing to the game in the same way that they do for the movies Rockstar wished to emulate. So the bars’ use here is utterly superficial. Normally, home devices can only show tinier aspect ratios than the ones movie theaters use. Take the previously mentioned widescreen bars: are in the game is to make it look like a movie - nothing more, according to Schreier’s sources.Įven then, letterboxing is only actually used in cinema to allow widescreen aspect ratios to be seen on smaller screens. The deliberateness with which film directors use cinematic technique, however, is absent in Red Dead Redemption 2. For example, in The Grand Budapest Hotel, differing aspect ratios are used to evoke certain time periods.

However, its skin-deep use of filmic method is also one of the most egregious.įilm deploys each of its methods to convey some kind of message, meaning, or mood. Since the medium’s earliest years, video games have leaned on cinematic technique in half-baked attempts to seem more like some subjective idea of high art Rockstar’s 2018 blockbuster is just one of the latest examples of this trend. So much time, effort, and reported labor exploitation went into the pursuit of this superficial idea of what “cinema” is. They were apparently added to make it “feel more cinematic, like an old-school cowboy film.” Late last year Jason Schreier at Kotaku reported that, deep in development, Red Dead Redemption 2 received, black widescreen bars (also known as letterbox bars).