In Popular Culture
Russian roulette has been portrayed in many different works of modern culture.
- Russian roulette was made famous worldwide with the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which features three soldiers who are captured during the Vietnam War and forced to play Russian roulette as their captors gamble on the results. Their captors demand an especially brutal variation of the game: the game is played until all but one contestant is killed. The game takes place in a bamboo room above where the other prisoners are held, so that the losers' blood drips down on future contestants. Several teen deaths following the movie's release caused police and the media to blame the film's depiction of Russian roulette, saying that it inspired the youths.
- Russian Roulette is also a game show on GSN where players risk elimination for each wrong answer.
- In 2008, 10 Years released a song called "Russian Roulette" on their album "Division".
- In 2009, Rihanna released a song called "Russian Roulette".
- In 2009, Lady Gaga released a song called "Poker Face" which contained the lyrics "Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun."
- In 2010, the British hardcore band Bring Me The Horizon released a song called "Alligator Blood" which contained the lyrics "Let's play a game of Russian Roulette, I'll load the gun, you place the bets."
- In 2010 the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops featured characters playing Russian roulette.
- In 2012 South Korean group Spica released a song and an EP entitled Russian Roulette.
Read more about this topic: Russian Roulette In Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Vodka is our enemy, so let’s finish it off.”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“Why is it so difficult to see the lesbian—even when she is there, quite plainly, in front of us? In part because she has been “ghosted”Mor made to seem invisible—by culture itself.... Once the lesbian has been defined as ghostly—the better to drain her of any sensual or moral authority—she can then be exorcised.”
—Terry Castle, U.S. lesbian author. The Apparitional Lesbian, ch. 1 (1993)