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The very fact that I can read that depresses me.
It took me a sec, but so can I…
Yes, same here. It is slightly depressing.
Pager code ftw. 411257
Totally
This is another case like the Contra one before this, isn’t it?
YES IT IS! GURGH!
THATS BECAUSE HE WAS!
damn! exact match!
This is, in fact, another intentional one. Metal Gear is notorious for lifting the appearances of their characters from real life celebs.
Pretty much, actually. Solid Snake was lifted off of Mad Max AND said character compared in this entry. Next thing i see, Shalashashka/Revolver Ocelot will be compared to Lee Van Cleef.
Old Snake was supposed to look like Lee Van Cleef too
except the picture of Snake doesn’t actually look like Snake, wrong face, wrong hair, no headband, no mullet, wrong clothes… what’s it from, some comic?
it’s from the box of the first metal gear game. you weren’t alive in the 80’s were you?
To paraphrase Eddie Izzard: NOBODY WAS ALIVE BACK THEN!!!
You’re amazing, Eddie Izzard is a god. XD
Is from the COVER!!!!! of the NES game METAL GEAR!!!!!!!
Note to self, Purchase: Metal Gear.
Yeah those were the days, back there in the 80’s
Yes, that’s Solid Snake from METAL GEAR, not METAL GEAR SOLID!
The Snake from metal gear solid looks a lot different. More ‘Japanese’ Style in my opinion. In the SOLID series, they make reference to Snake being Japanese, but the cover from the original metal gear, he looks quite ‘gaijin’ !
Note: the metal gear solid snake’s personality was based vaguly on Snake Pliskin from the ‘Escape from NY/LA’ movies. In MGS2, he even goes by the the code name Pliskin when talking to Raiden.
But, yeah, that looks like a total art copy.
Someone knows there stuff.
Kojima ftw <3
Wow, another comparison between things that were designed to look identical. Is this the blog for people with head trauma relearning pattern-recognition now?
FAIL.
Whatever….I think he looks more like Robert Redford!
That’s because they deliberately used this image of Reese for that cover.
I’ve heard that before as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Biehn
Look under “Career”
That was marketing. Just like Big Boss (Not sure on that one, the main villain from the first game) looks like Sean Connery.
Wow, that Kyle Reese guy looks like Haywire, from Prison Break, in that photo.
….wow, that isnt solid snake, and snakes image was taken from kurt russel, from escape from l.a…. they even use the same code name, snake plisken >.>
It’s because the promotional photo of kyle reese from the terminator was used as the box art for the original Metal Gear for the MSX snake was modeled after Kurt Russel’s Snake Plisskin. Sean Connery was used as big boss. Ocelot and Old snake were inspired by Lee Van Cleef directly. That’s why they’re compared, because the man inspired the legend… in just about every case. Hell if you want to see a good Matrix ripoff play twin snakes, and pay close attention to when Snake backflips off of a missile, to shoot the Hind D with a Stinger Missile… I kinda wish I was making that up. The only thing missing from that scene to make it much more AWESOME would be him eating a hot dog whilst saluting the American flag and humming the star spangled banner.
Archer, you seem to be well informed and you are correct about the box art and are obviously like me a MG fan but I do not agree with your movie analysis.
“The Matrix” pays tribute to Metal Gear Solid(PSX) (mainly Gray Fox moves) as well as scenes from Ghost in the shell and other sources. (If you didn’t read William Gibsons Sprawl series I very much recommend it, because they are great)
I do not think you are correct to use the word “ripoff” (I like “tribute” more).
Since “Twin Snakes” is a remake of the PSX version, I would not call the scene “a Matrix ripoff”
Acctually the Photo on the NES Metal Gear was modeled after Kyle Resse, Because at the time Terminator was very popular in the states. So Konami (Hideo Kajima had nothing to do with the NES version) used this photo to attract the american audience with something we can relate too hero wise.
This MG was concidered the worse in the series next to Snakes Revenge, Like all japanese imports that come to the states we always get the watered down versions.
And metal gear was replaced with a big computer in the NES version.
Ingenious!!!
Am I the only one stating that the picture on Metal Gear IS a picture of Michael Biehn?
They just photo edited it, it was meant to be Kyle Reese.
No. You’re not the only one. Which you’d know if you’d read the countless posts above of people saying exactly that.
Moron.
Yes, the American and Japanese entertainment industry draw from each other endlessly regardless of copyrights etc. All the way back to Kimba the White Lion and Disney’s Lion King and most recently Disney’s Little Mermaid and Miyazaki’s latest film… (oh gosh senior moment) it’s “somebody” Sitting on the Cliff… haven’t seen it yet. They all dip from the same well.
And I’ve talked with Japanese anime artists who admit they base characters on American stars, changing them barely enough to avoid legal conflict. Sometime this spring, though, you gamer guys and gals watch the anime con photos… because I’m getting my husband (age 65) into an Old Snake costume and he really looks like the game character! Can’t wait.
Umm thats because they modeled the box art for Metal Gear after Kyle Reese from The Terminator, Konami admitted this in an article.
Yes the Kyle Reese look alike was dóne intentionally. It changed in Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake, if you look at snakes codec image (note: I’m not talking about in the MGS3 subsistence version where they changed the image to match snakes current look) they designed him to look like Mel Gibson.