Shutter Island
When I was back in New Jersey a few weeks ago, I mentioned to my parents that I’d helped a little bit with the spinoff game for Shutter Island. (I didn’t add that my particular brand of helping had a lot to do with asking the producer about a thousand times to please please warn me if was going to be gross. Sorry about that!) They seemed pleased, perhaps because I’ve worn them down by telling them over and over that I’ve written about a game they haven’t heard about in a publication they haven’t heard about. Besides, if you can’t tell your parents about minor successes and have them be impressed, really, what are parents for?
“Does that mean you’re in the credits with Martin Scorsese?” my dad asked.
“I’m not entirely sure who that is.” (Every day with me is like an adventure in pop culture.)
“The director of The Godfather!” my dad said. “Perhaps you’ve heard of it?”
“I saw that!” I said, “It was kind of gross.”
Edit: My old roommate Chris just pointed out that Scorsese is not actually the director of The Godfather, which just proves that nobody reads the credits anyway.
PS: If you would like to play the game, you can download the free trial or buy the game here.
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1Christopher Ian Bell
wrote on 13 March 2010 at 3:36
The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
2Meg
wrote on 13 March 2010 at 8:18
That’s awesome! That makes the mocking of me for not knowing who it is even funnier!
3Abigail
wrote on 13 March 2010 at 19:36
Weirdly, I can’t think of much that Scorsese has done. But it’s a lot.
At any rate, there isn’t much gross that I can remember in Shutter Island the movie. It was… I won’t say enjoyable, but it was a great movie to watch. As I watched it the phrase “desperate beauty” came to mind. Because the gorgeous scenes tend to be filled with a sense of loneliness and angst. But the scenes are also kind of a wonder to behold. Although at least one of the twists was pretty apparent to me early on.
4Meg
wrote on 13 March 2010 at 20:01
Figuring out a plot twist can go either way. Did you figure it out in a good I’m-so-smart way (we’ll call this The Sixth Sense), or in a bad why-are-they-leading-me-down-this-stupid-path way (we’ll call this The Village)?