Les bribes de la mythologie scandinave dans le jeu vidéo Max Payne 1 : le scénario de l’écrivain Sami Antero Järvi

Abstract

This article focuses on how literary myths spread and persist despite time and the evolution of all fields. Nowadays, society is saturated by the different means of dissemination but this has not prevented the mythical aspect from encrusting itself in the depths of new technologies, creating a kind of digital literature. Through an analysis of the Max Payne 1 video game whose screenplay is written by writer and actor Sami Antero Järvi, who used his talent to imbue it with Scandinavian myths. We will try to identify the means that allowed the author to hide behind a video game to transmit the Nordic myths of his ancestors. To do this, and through a work of identification and analysis of the game, all the details that refer to the myths will be highlighted, starting from the decor to the elements and characters of the game.

Keywords

• writing
• Myths
• mediation
• video game
• screenplay