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kenzomatic on 09 March 2008
Linkzmax said:
kenzomatic said:
Linkzmax said:
Seeing as there's no actual quote of this supposed claim that Miyamoto was inspired by the film, I have to go with this from gannon-banned.com:

"I am not sure who started this great myth, but it is ending now. I e-mailed IMDB.com to remove that stupid trivia that says Miyamoto was influenced by the Ridley Scott film "Legend". Let's get the facts straight. Zeruda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy came out in Japan on the Famicom Disk System on February 21st, 1986. Legend came out in limited release in Europe in late 1985 due to an issue with the cut for the North American audience, which Ridley Scott discusses in the Ultimate Edition commentary and special features. Production of both masterpieces began at nearly the same time in 1983 at opposite ends of the globe. Quite frankly, there is a window of maybe two to three months in which Shigeru Miyamoto and company could have flown to Europe, seen Legend, and then flown back to make Zelda. In all honesty folks, Legend has very little in common with the original Legend of Zelda. Sure, Tom Cruise's character of "Jack" wears green clothes and he likes a princess and has to save her from an evil dude, but come on. Jack lives in a forest, has to save unicorns, drinks tea with forest folk, wears gold armor for most of the film, and fights some bull-demon form of Tim Curry. The film is more like Ocarina of Time, which came out in 1998, 12 years after The Legend of Zelda was released anywhere."

Metroid was influenced by Riddly Scotts "Alien" and I do believe you can find qoutes on that. So why is it so hard to believe he was influenced by "legend" as he clearly liked riddly's work. Off to find a quote.


 So a 1979 film that does indeed have strong similarites with a 1986 game(which Miyamoto had no part of), indicates that Miyamoto was inspired by a late 1985 film for his early 1986 game?


Bottom Line I have known about this for the last 20 years. So it is no surprises to me that you can't find the quote as it is old. What you have quoted is from a very bias site and offers no prove other then a long winded statement. Ridley Scott has always been a big name and when Legend came out the movie was supposed to be huge. I have no doubt the anyone of any standing the entertianment field knew about this movie, including those in Japan.



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reverie on 09 March 2008

?? It offers the proof that there was only a 3 month window for Miyamoto to fly to Europe and see the movie before Zelda was released. The movie was released in Europe in October 1985 and the game came out in Japan in February 1986. The film came out in the US in April 1986 and in Japan in August 1987. It's obvious that the film could impossibly have been the inspiration for the game.



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kenzomatic on 09 March 2008
reverie said:
?? It offers the proof that there was only a 3 month window for Miyamoto to fly to Europe and see the movie before Zelda was released. The movie was released in Europe in October 1985 and the game came out in Japan in February 1986. The film came out in the US in April 1986 and in Japan in August 1987. It's obvious that the film could impossibly have been the inspiration for the game.
 
 

I may have overstated with "big" influence but I know he has been quoted as saying it did have an influence. Maybe that was on a later project (to my knowledge not true) but I know he was quoted as saying it had an influence.



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kingofwale on 09 March 2008



Sorry I had to copy you, since this is also relevant here as well. lol

Damn, that thing applies to EVERYTHING. :), Good find

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kenzomatic on 09 March 2008
kingofwale said:



Sorry I had to copy you, since this is also relevant here as well. lol

Damn, that thing applies to EVERYTHING. :), Good find

hehe Thanks



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Copycon on 10 March 2008

YOU ARE ALL WRONG!!!


This must have been the inspiration!

 

It was made a long time BEFORE the production of LoZ

It was even made before WW2

 

 

 

He tributes Errol in Zelda II, but,. he is called Error in that game :D

 



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blink182 on 10 March 2008

tim curry was awesome as darkness, it's hard to believe he played frankfurter in rocky horror,damn thsat guys versatile, lol.



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stclam on 10 March 2008

Tom Cruise is not Link, but i know he like Pink



blaydcor on 10 March 2008

Oh god...legend.
My only experience with the movie involved eating a bag of shrooms with a friend beforehand.

I don't remember anything about the movie except that (a) it was incredible and (b) a unicorn killed, which was traumatizing for me and my friend.



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