The Gamechangers Page #5

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


This lawsuit will put the video game

industry on trial.

Strickland versus Sony, the makers

of PlayStation and Rockstar Games,

the makers of Grand Theft Auto

is a lawsuit designed to make every

police officer in America safer.

How much are you seeking in damages?

600 million for the families.

Isn't that excessive?

I don't think so.

We're going to destroy Rockstar

Games, you can count on that.

Listen, there's some born-again

Christian nutbag lawyer in Florida

bringing a civil case against us

for that supposed copycat

killing in Alabama.

For what Devin Moore did?

Are Take-Two worried about?

No. It's America -

it's ligation-crazy.

They've put their lawyers on it,

you don't have to do anything,

but you should be aware of it,

that's all.

OK.

I'm aware.

OK, good.

Coming to play ping pong? Sure.

What's this lawyer's name?

How long have you been playing

that game? Jesus, Patty!

I didn't pick you up, I'm sorry.

Oh, that's OK.

It's not what it looks like.

I just thought I'd better

exactly understand

what it is I'm objecting to.

It's unbelievable.

From the moment you start playing,

it encourages you to hurt people

and you start doing it.

It's disturbing.

I mean, how dare these people

make this depraved garbage

and force it on our children.

Yes, Jack.

A disgusting picture of America

made by some Brits.

I really wish ill on the people

who make this filth.

Who are you?

Perfect. Cheers, man.

What's that? A T-shirt I bought.

It's a list of all

the pharmaceutical drugs

found in Dom Simpson's blood

system when he died.

He's not the greatest film producer

ever - that's James Cameron.

Cameron's a director,

not a producer.

Simpson produced Top Gun, Bad Boys

and Beverly Hills Cop.

End of.

Don't forget Flashdance.

It's not even just what he produced,

it's how he produced it.

Unashamed to be populist

and entertaining.

Never compromised and basically

invented the action comedy.

Hey, Sam, the guys...

Ah, Jamie, have you spoken to JP

about our new game engine yet?

Well, no,

I haven't been to San Diego yet.

Well, can you get on that, please?

I don't want to have to lease

a game engine any more -

I want us to have our own one.

And not just for GTA -

for all our games. OK.

When you start dressing

in Armani and cowboy boots

and start taking hard drugs

like Don there,

you'll know what's been going on.

So we've created a new game engine

to replace RenderWare.

We're calling it

the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine -

RAGE.

OK, so... how are we going

to show Sam what it can do?

He wants to see something soon.

We were thinking we could take

some GTA scenes and show how

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