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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.44,0:00:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Passagem Secreta and Cosmic Effect Present
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.55,0:00:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Rafael Fernandes: The first Sonic for the Mega Drive, besides being considered a classic for a long time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.86,0:00:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has many secrets, rumors and hidden references that were revealed as the 20 years since the release of the game passed by.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.18,0:00:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of these, let's say, "secrets", and that somehow is little discussed in the Web,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.93,0:00:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in the similarity between the science fiction film Blade Runner, from 1982,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.68,0:00:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some elements of Scrap Brain Zone, the last stage of the game.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.36,0:00:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the observations found during the game, the background scenery of the first act closely resembles this panoramic take of the film,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.39,0:00:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what makes us speculate that Yuji Naka was inspired, or at least tried to pay homage to the work of Ridley Scott.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.26,0:00:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, it seems he was not the only one who let himself be influenced by the science fiction classic…
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.74,0:01:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow, the theme song for the stage, composed by Masato Nakamura,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.76,0:01:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a very interesting resemblance to the one that plays in the end credits of Blade Runner,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.17,0:01:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called End Titles and produced by Vangelis, one of the most renowned composers of cinema history.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.54,0:01:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The article that dealt with the subject was published in Passagem Secreta in November 2010,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.05,0:01:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what blew the minds of some people and… generated some controversy by others.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.70,0:01:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why we invited Eric Fraga, musician, retrogamer and collaborator of the partner blog Cosmic Effect,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.92,0:01:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bring the definitive proof that the songs are actually quite similar.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.19,0:02:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Eric Fraga: Well, friends of Passagem Secreta, I'm Eric Fraga, the Cosmonal, and invited by Rafael "00 agent", uh,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.18,0:02:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to add a bit more of fuel to the fire in a discussion that is out there on an artistic similarity between Sonic 1,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Mega Drive, right, and Blade Runner, the film Blade Runner of Ridley Scott.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.76,0:02:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Rafael Fernandes: And so, Cosmonal, how will you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.52,0:02:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Eric Fraga: I'll play a few pieces here of… of… o… only this small piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.49,0:02:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remembering that this similarity with the song of Scrap Brain Zone is only in the initial section right after the… the intro, and only there, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.70,0:02:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll show you here, uh, at least I'll play a few pieces and you draw your own conclusions, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.52,0:02:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Man: C'mon guys, let's go (Hurry up, Eric!).
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.96,0:02:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Eric Fraga: Well, I'll show here to… I'll quickly play the Blade Runner theme and the song of Sonic, the Scrap Brain Zone, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.18,0:02:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The small piece of Blade Runner…
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.60,0:03:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Memorize this bass.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.45,0:03:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Memorize this timpani.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.90,0:03:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,O.k., it ends there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.90,0:03:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The song of Sonic; an important detail: uh… the song of Sonic is in a different tone from the song of Blade Runner, right, so uh…
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.52,0:04:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you put a song next to each other, it means, I'll now play the other, there is a difference uh…
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.93,0:04:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so, we notice, the listener notice, right, but from the musical point of view this is irrelevant, uh…
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.52,0:04:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the musicians out there that's the tone, you know, the music of Blade Runner is in C minor and the song of Sonic is in A minor,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.41,0:04:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that is irrelevant musically; you can play uh… the song in any tone and this wouldn't… wouldn't affect there the judgement of any similarity, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.97,0:04:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is so true that when I do the demonstration here, I'll use the same tone, the tone of Blade Runner, right, randomly chosen.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.49,0:04:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the song of Sonic…
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.100,0:04:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it. It's just this passage and that's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.76,0:05:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, now I'll show here to you, I'll start by the bass, only the bass; I'll play the bass of… of the Blade Runner song first, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.12,0:05:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be… I'll play it slowly, these songs are fast, both Sonic and Blade Runner, these songs are…
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.04,0:05:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,electronic, you know, then usually the musician plays more slowly and then accelerates, right, here I'll just perform, you know, so, the bass of the song from Blade Runner.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.52,0:05:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? I'll do the rest, eh…
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.19,0:05:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK. I'll mix, I'll do the Sonic first in fact, after I'll mix.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.78,0:05:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the bass from the Sonic song.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.90,0:06:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then it loops.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.80,0:06:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll do both: a little bit of Blade Runner, a little bit of Sonic. So, Blade Runner.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.56,0:06:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just to show, is not the same arrangement, right, but it looks like who made the song of Sonic, which came later, Mister Nakamura, right,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.03,0:06:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the credit is his, uh… he at least… the style… the… the style, the rhythmic way of the bass, you know, it has something… it has something, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.05,0:06:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He must have heard the song from Blade Runner, it can't be, because of this here…
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.94,0:07:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He fills, you know, the time with the notes, of… of course.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.57,0:07:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, until then it can be a coincidence, but it still arise comments because of the little smoke, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.01,0:07:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Rafael Fernandes: Then, as the similarity in the base of both songs was not enough, the tune also has some similarities, as Eric explains.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.31,0:07:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Eric Fraga: Well, now I'm going to play, uh, the two songs for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.24,0:07:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll start with Blade Runner, right, and you will… will make the comparison.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.27,0:07:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh… I'll not play the bass, right, uh… they're electronic music, then perform these basses is… is really difficult, in fact it's sometimes even impossible, because they're too fast,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.12,0:07:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but uh… I'll… I'll… make an arrangement naturally here, simple, to compose and… well, there you go, Blade Runner first, huh.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.02,0:07:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here is the bass, just to remember.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.00,0:08:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Sonic.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.96,0:09:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if I make the melody here, uh… separated, only the melody, you… you can, you'll be able to notice with… with a little more calm.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.83,0:09:23.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, look, Blade Runner.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.16,0:09:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this notes progress is very similar to the song of Nakamura.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.33,0:09:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you want to see? Let… let's go… Sonic.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.00,0:10:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then he repeats the same phrase only changing the chord, right, uh… just like… like… Vangelis did in Blade Runner, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.17,0:10:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, joining with the bass, with that rhythmic similarity, you know, that we commented, I think we have an inspired coincidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.34,0:10:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>Rafael Fernandes: And right now you wonder: why I never noticed it before?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.50,0:10:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, maybe it is because this is the last stage and is kind of hard to notice these similarities before so many obstacles in the game, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.52,0:10:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as Cosmonal himself said, in fact there is at least some inspiration, since it is quite difficult to say that all this is a mere coincidence.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.38,0:10:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you? What do you think?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.70,0:11:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Writing, editing and etc.\NRafael "00" Fernandes
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.100,0:11:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,http://passagemsecreta.com
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.43,0:11:25.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Special appearance\NEric "Cosmonal" Fraga
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.56,0:11:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,http://cosmiceffect.com.br
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.20,0:11:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Special thanks *\NMasato Nakamura
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.63,0:11:51.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Special thanks *\NVangelis
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.80,0:12:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,*we know that they care very little, but we thank them anyway