Before Orson Welles made Citizen Kane, he wrote a script for a film based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The film was greenlit by RKO, casting was in progress, and it seemed set to become Welles' debut film. The project fell through for a bunch of reasons, but I suspect a lot of it had to do with Welles' insistence that much of the movie should be shot in a first-person perspective, with the camera taking on the role of the narrator in Conrad's novel.
This is a crazy idea, and one that Welles never revisited, even in his more experimental later years. Placing the audience in the perspective of a character when they don't have any control of that character's motion is disorienting, and not immersive at all. Filmmakers since Welles have tried it, none to any great acclaim.
If games like Virginia were considered as attempts to make good on Orson Welles' thwarted ambition, rather than first-person shooters with the regrettable absence of a gun, we'd all be having a better time.
This is a crazy idea, and one that Welles never revisited, even in his more experimental later years. Placing the audience in the perspective of a character when they don't have any control of that character's motion is disorienting, and not immersive at all. Filmmakers since Welles have tried it, none to any great acclaim.
If games like Virginia were considered as attempts to make good on Orson Welles' thwarted ambition, rather than first-person shooters with the regrettable absence of a gun, we'd all be having a better time.