I honestly really appreciate Masahiro Ito sharing insight on various Silent Hill things, it's all pretty interesting what he's shared over the years. Sometimes you can kinda' space on what inspired you artistically years ago until something triggers back the memory (speaking from personal experience, but also know this is hardly a rare sentiment that some things that inspired you on certain works can be lost from memory by time), and it seems that's what's happened with Ito as he's recalled that Madonna's "Nothing really matters" music video was one of the inspirations for him on Silent Hill 2. As he was both the art director and lead creature designer on Silent Hill 2, he had a lot to do with SH2's atmosphere, and honestly this is a sorta' thing that once he says it and you watch it within that context, you can see the inspiration.
I debated if this was thread worthy, but at the very least it's interesting, so I'm curious what Era thinks. I also am curious if people on Era know some other works that inspired Silent Hill 2 that is known in official capacity, such as David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"?
