It must have been cosmically connected in some way I don’t understand. I’m pretty sure that I saw the movie before. I remember even seeing that and going, “Wow, we should look at. Another thing that came out around then, by the way, although I’d have to check this, but the Buena Vista Social Club. GamesBeat: Was it difficult to combine those two sort of different styles, the Mexican folk style and the noir, jazzier style? Listening to that, probably around early 1997, and walking around humming melodies into my handheld tape recorder - we still used tape recorders in those days - that’s sort of how it started. And then Tim also loaned me some really interesting folk music from Mexico that was played on a scratchy violin. It informed the oceanic part of the game. It’s a really interesting sci-fi/fantasy French movie. So is this movie that doesn’t get mentioned much in articles, City of Lost Children. All of which figured into various parts of Grim. I had watched them a lot of times, in particular Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca, and The Maltese Falcon. He loaned me his collection of Bogie movies for a super long time. Getting back to your question, how it developed or came together, Tim came to me with his collection of Bogie movies. Really, even in some senses before I saw the art, I was already in that scene. They have a big Day of the Dead celebration there as well. Even the guy who played the ethnic flutes, who played on some of the folkier sections of music, lived in that same area, lived in the Mission. Or in the case of the mariachi band in the cantina around the corner. Really, all the players were from bands who played in those clubs. The orchestra would just be playing in your mind, I suppose. Or at least you could hear everything but the orchestra. Basically, the entire Grim score - you could hear it walking around the Mission. The Mission District of San Francisco is where a lot of the clubs are, and in particular, there are a bunch that play jazz, that would play acid jazz or new swing, maybe right around the corner from a cantina.
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