Cage asked us to consider black-and-white silent films. Their images were indistinct, (Heavy Rain creator David) Cage noted, and the actors had to exaggerate their actions.
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On the big screen behind Cage, he illustrated his points with scenes from Edwin Porter’s 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery...
I kind of get what he's trying to say, but he almost couldn't have picked a worse film with which to make this point. Every time you've seen an action flick where the shot focuses in on a dude shooting a gun into the camera view, that's ripped off from this movie. The author picks up on this as well.
...it crystallized the deepest fallacy of the whole affair—the idea that creativity needs to be free of limitations
The dude who made Braid chimes in before Cage.