What connection can there be between “The Color of Money” by Martin Scorsese, and the world of video games? A priori none. And yet…
A late follow-up to Robert Rossen’s 1961 classic The Con man, in which Paul Newman played a brilliant pool player and small-time crook, Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money features the former king of pool and his now new protege, Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). Just like his mentor, the latter is a gifted billiard player.
Now, what connection could there be between Scorsese’s film and the world of video games? A priori absolutely none. Except that…
To know it, you have to immerse yourself in a scene from the film. A player approaches the character of Tom Cruise. He nods to the case resting on his lap, and lets out a “What you got in there?” (“What do you got in there?”)
“In here?” Cruise replies, gently fingering the case before opening it to reveal an intricately decorated pool cue. “Doom”. The destruction. And with it, he inflicts a stinging billiard lesson on the person concerned.
Here is the little sequence of the “Doom of destruction”…
This punchline directly inspired the co-founder of the development studio ID Software, John Carmack, to give the title of one of the most famous games in history, born in 1993. “That was how I imagined us to overwhelm the industry” he said in an interview in 1999.
Particularly lucrative, the video game franchise of games Doom has also been enriched in 2020 by a very solid episode, Doom Eternalof which we tell you here all the good that we think of it.