In questa rubrica vi segnaliamo articoli e video che abbiamo trovato interessanti, sfiziosi, gustosi o, insomma, degni di essere menzionati, e che sono più o meno legati ai temi che ci piace trattare su Outcast. Gli articoli e i video non sono necessariamente in italiano, anzi, è tristemente probabile che non lo siano. La periodicità dell’appuntamento potrebbe essere settimanale, ma vai a sapere.

A lost Maxis “Sim” game has been discovered by an Ars reader (leggi l’articolo su Ars Technica)
"Nobody held onto SimRefinery because it didn’t seem important," he wrote. "It was a one-off, somewhat unsuccessful training program for an oil refinery in California. In the grand scheme of Maxis, it was one of their least important titles, which has only now become an object of interest in the video game community because of its unavailability."

The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing (leggi l’articolo su The Atlantic)
Maybe I had it all wrong all those years ago. I had imagined Animal Crossing to be a game about the world, one that offered ingenious, if abstract, life lessons. But the players enjoying it in quarantine celebrate it for escapism, which any form of entertainment might provide.

Mad Max at 40: how the low-budget original remains a film-making feat (leggi l’articolo su The Guardian)
Miller has said he intended Mad Max to be like a silent movie with sound, and it does have that kind of lizard-brain simplicity, at least on the surface.

Cultural details you missed in “Parasite” (leggi l’articolo su ZenKimichi)

Language forms and body language add this whole rich layer to the class message. I’ve been reading articles about how “Parasite” could be made in any country. Yet I feel it works so well in Korea because of the many layers of hierarchy present in simple things like verb endings, head height, eye contact.

The Curious Case of ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip‘ (leggi l’articolo su Film School Rejects)
The legacy of Studio 60 is that of a failed competitor against 30 Rock, which is a shame as both shows could still have their unique qualities, despite their general conceptual similarities. This could have been the E.R. to 30 Rock’s Scrubs if audiences and the network were willing to watch both shows and stick with them.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma on her ravishing romantic masterpiece (leggi l’articolo su Vox)
Titanic is the hugest success, and it’s because it’s totally queer. Leonardo DiCaprio was totally androgynous at the time. DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were both not known — not stars — so there was no power dynamic between them. Like, if you look at the sex scene in Titanic, she’s on top. He’s the one who’s being totally fragile and insecure. I think it was a huge success because it’s a love story with equality and with emancipation.