Intertextuality between red hot chilli peppers (californification) and video games

Red Hot Chilli Peppers-Californification

The whole of the californification music promo is a direct intertextual link to video games, throughout the whole video; there are many references to different games. For example, when there is the car on the bridge, it resembles one of the cars from GTA 3. This is a direct reference to the game as it is the same car, and same decal design. This is not the only part that references video games as there is a section where one of the characters is running through a street. During this run, there is a part on screen that shows points, this once again references video games where you get points.

 

There is also a tomb raider intertextual link as when one of the band members gets knocked into the air, he does a very similar pose to what Lara Croft does during the tomb raider games. The whole music promo is also animated to look like a video game where there is the live performance factor in the left hand top of screen. This shows us that it is also video game influenced whilst also having a live performance that is in a music promo.

  We can see the two images here are more or less the same, lara croft and the character in the promo are using the same pose or similar pose.

 

 

 

here, we can see the Banshee car from GTA 3 is used, another example of intertextuality

here, we can see anoterh intertextual reference. The characters in the promo are on a dragonfly, and in the Spyro the dragon games series, one of your friends is also a dragonfly.

In these shots, we can also see intertextuality, For example, there is a reference to running games similar to temple run (this promo was released before temple run), but this is a reference to a game that is not temple run but alos contains the same principle of running and jumping. We can also see they used a sterotypical loading screen, this is anotehr reference as it is often used in many video games, with a similar loading bar.