That's so you can always find the umbilical cord you need, if you have to vanquish the Sorcerer of Silent Hill.
Isn't it funny, how no matter how weird it is, any item you need in an adventure game will eventually turn up?
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I'm still trying to figure out how anyone could write a musical sequel, or any kind of sequel, to Hamlet.
Everyone except Horatio and a couple of tertiary characters (so minor in fact that I once played both of them at the same time, with no difficulty) is dead! Only Macbeth has a higher mortality rate.
I suppose that you could make a play about Horatio singing and dancing about how his best friend killed off all his other friends, while on his quest to fulfill Hamlet's dying wish. I suppose some might call that "irreverent"; I'd just say "stupid" for the sake of honesty.
The quest, by the way, is to ensure that the world knows the truth about what happened that day, and it is indirectly implied that Horatio's story became the basis for the play.
This opens up an interesting recursion, wherein we have a play about a man who tells people a story that become a play that this play is a sequel to.
Still, I don't see it being long enough to constitute a play, without being padded with the writer's personal political vendettas, which will detract from, rather than add to, the overall quality of the piece.
There's just no way to make a real sequel to that. It's like the John Woo Mission:Impossible.
Spoiler to follow:
They killed off the IMS team in the beginning the first remake movie.
Mission: Impossible was a TV show about the IMS team. Yes the title is still Mission: Impossible, but they had to conjure an entire new team.
It's more like a spin-off than a real sequel, once you've reached that point. This isn't a continuation of the same story, it's a completely different story with the same title.
Of course, I always though Woo should have stuck with his strengths and make movies that consist entirely of people shooting other people. The guy can't direct dialog properly. He's always trying to make it more awesome with long pauses, and hair blowing in the wind, and huge panoramic backdrops. This only serves to emphasize the fact that they're just standing there, talking. --Half the time they aren't even talking, because of all the ellipses he's forced into the conversation.
Compare the train station conversation between Ethan and Jim in the first re-make, with any conversation between Ethan had his generic love interest in the second one. I bet the second one cost more to produce, and it still sucked.
Edit: Just for that scene, not the whole movie. Even with all the flashbacks, I bet they spent very little on that one compared to what Woo spent, just on a random background.
