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Old 01-05-2009, 01:14 AM   #2
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FEW LINKS TO INTERESTING INTERVIEWS, SITES AND VIDEOS:

1. http://jordanmechner.com/last-express/ - Jordan Mechner´s website is interesting
2. http://lastexpress.markmoran.net/ - a mirror of TLE Official Website
3. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...siting_an_.php - recent interview with Mark Moran and Mark Netter
4a. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20...rouse_01.shtml - interview with Jordan Mechner, part 1
4b. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20...rouse_02.shtml - interview with Jordan Mechner, part 2
5. http://personal.markmoran.net/Progra...stExpress.html - Mark Moran´s site on TLE
6. http://personal.markmoran.net/Progra...Interview.html - interview with Mark Moran
7. http://personal.markmoran.net/Archiv.../express1i.htm - interview with Mark Moran
For the great August Schmidt fans I include this:
8. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856604/resume - Teuber´s profile on IMDb
9. http://flickr.com/photos/27825147@N08/ - Teuber´s Flickr photostream

10. Computer Graphics in Games - 2004 lecture, three famous game designers, including Jordan Mechner, talk about interesting things - it has more than 2 hours, JM´s contribution starts at 55:40
11. GameTap trailer on YouTube
12. Making of... video
13. TLE trailer

LIST OF BOOKS AND FILMS WHICH INSPIRED CREATING ´THE LAST EXPRESS´:

Books:
Rebecca West - The Birds Fall Down
Graham Greene books
Russian fairy tales
Robert Graves - his autobiography: Goodbye to All That
William Butler Yeates - The Second Coming (its falcon turning in the widening gyre gave Tomi Pierce the idea for the Firebird)

Quote:
(...) There's a nice line from Barbara Tuchman in The Proud Tower. The
book is about Europe just before 1914, describing what life was like at the end
of that era. At one point, she says, "The Great War of 1914-18 lies like a band
of scorched earth dividing that time from ours." (...)
Quote:
(...) Also, we drew on the great 18th- and 19th-century interest in mechanical
objects, automata of natural forms in machines. E.T.A. Hoffmann, mechanical birds, the Faberge eggs and all that (...)
Films:
Jiri Menzel - Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Lars von Trier - Zentropa (1991, a.k.a Europa)
Alfred Hitchcock - The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca (1942)
Carol Reed - The Third Man (1949)

Quote:
The story was very much like a 1940s noir, like The Maltese Falcon, or Casablanca -- Casablanca in the mix of characters, and The Maltese Falcon in the mysterious object, which in this game is also a bird.

Sources:
Barba, Rick. The Last Express: The Official Strategy Guide. Prima Publishing, California 1997.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/featur...siting_an_.php

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