The Gamechangers Page #3

Synopsis: In the late 1990s middle class British brothers Sam and Dan Houser and two friends, all video game enthusiasts, devise a violent new game Grand Theft Auto, set in a fictionalized America and appearing to reward a car thief for murdering anybody who gets in the way of his crimes. In Britain the Police Federation brands it as sick and contemptible whilst politician Hillary Clinton accuses it of "stealing the innocence of our children." Most vocal of its critics is crusading Florida lawyer Jack Thompson who, in the wake of an Alabama teen-ager going on a killing spree and blaming the game, attempts to get it banned, bringing a court action against the Housers and their company Rockstar Games, now based in San Diego. However Thompson's public denunciation of the game is instrumental in determining the outcome of the court case.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Owen Harris
Production: BBC Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Year:
2015
90 min
1,679 Views


Dan, you want to have sex,

via Carl, finally, you can.

If you make Carl attractive enough,

somebody should have sex with him.

This is beyond what film can do.

Guys, we're going

to create the first

truly adaptable hero

across any art-form.

Devin, my name is Jack Thompson. I am

an attorney at law based in Miami.

I am very sorry about

the situation you are in.

I'd like to understand how it

happened. Why it happened.

When they arrested you

in Mississippi, apparently you said,

"Life is like a video game,

you have got to die sometime."

Is that what you said?

Who are you?

He doesn't know why he did it.

He said it was like a flashback,

like he was playing the game.

He is just a sweet, stupid lost kid.

He got arrested and he panicked.

I just don't believe

he would have killed those men

if he had not spent hours a day

practising doing exactly

the same thing in that

cop killer game.

You don't know it was the game

that made him act that way.

But it WAS the game.

He is still guilty of murder.

Yes, he is,

and nothing will change that.

Come on, you're a lawyer.

I think the people that make these

games are partly responsible.

I mean, think about it.

They're drenching our children

in depravity and violence,

training our kids to be killers

and making money out of it.

They... They make an entertainment

that normalises horrendous violence.

It makes me sick.

You're going to fight them.

You don't think I should?

I feel compelled to.

We're raising a generation of kids

steeped in sex and violence

and no-one's doing anything about it.

I think this is what's

required of me.

This is vibe.

Very cheery.

Yeah,

this is what I'm talking about.

Get video of every

street around here, Jamie.

Is it safe?

Yeah, get filming, it's fine.

Hiya.

Lookin' real good.

We should get the

programmers down here too

so they can see it for themselves,

iterate on it.

The streets speak to you. Whoo!

I feel very English.

You don't look it.

You look like a bad... sh*t mother!

You know what I'm saying?

Are we... hoping to see a drive-by?

Do you mind if I don't film that?

We should get the programmers

firing some guns too,

so they know how they

sound and feel.

Who are you?

Hey, my man, don't sweat it.

These are English fellas

I'm showing around.

Why you got that rip

in your jeans, boy?

Is that a Crip thing?

Is it?

I'm not a Crip, I promise you.

By cool, these are...

Do not tell me to be cool, nigga!

I'll decide when I'mma be cool.

Who are you?

I'm DJ Dog from South Park, man.

These fellas are just here

doing research on a game.

They make Grand Theft Auto.

Y'all make GTA?

Y'all some Rockstars.

Yo, I love that game!

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