(Fake) The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai movie trailer
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Channel: bloodrunsclear · 2011 · Entertainment
Based on the XBLA hack and slash platformer by James Silva. -- Music is the theme to Tetsuo the Bullet Man by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. -- The Dishwasher is principally known for its stylistic violence, but intriguing to me was the basic yet semi-iconic story behind it. In the game you play as The Dishwasher: a person who awakens from death to embark on a mission of revenge against the cyborgs who have conquered his world. Beyond that the inspiration for the game was James Silva himself who once worked as a dishwasher and was treated with less respect then he felt he deserved. In essence Dead Samurai and its sequel Vampire Smile are elaborate pieces of vent fiction, but the tell just enough about their worlds and characters throughout to me to be very compelling, even more so then games that overexplain their premise. So my crazy mind gets to thinking: why not combine both ideas? In one reality we follow a put-upon dishwasher who dreams of being the hero in his own story, fueled by rage. In another reality we see the dream play out: an undead samurai warrior (still named The Dishwasher) who strives to rescue his sister and slay a planet of cyborgs and their minions. Both of these worlds slowly but surely begin to collide perhaps.
