Question about Bioshock reference material

[Bendezium]

Great game guys.
I'm playing through it now on the 360 and am hooked. I also work for a game developer and a bunch of my coworkers loved Bioshock. I'm here to see if you can help us with a small dispute. This is not directly related to the PS3 but for the overall art direction of the game.

A co-worker recently insisted I watch Rob Zombie's 'House of a Thousand Corpses'. After watching the movie I said I could see some similarities in art direction between this movie and Bioshock, also that I wouldn't be surprised if it was used as reference material. Can you guys comment on this at all? It would be nice if you could at least tell me I'm not crazy for thinking this, because most my co-workers think I am.

Thanks

[J4ck M]

I believe that some ideas of the story were taken from Ayn Rand's (similar to Andrew Ryan) book called Atlas Shrugged. I've never seen the movie, so I wouldn't be able to tell if I could back up what your thinking, but you never know where the team could have got their ideas from.

[Bendezium]

I believe that some ideas of the story were taken from Ayn Rand's (similar to Andrew Ryan) book called Atlas Shrugged. I've never seen the movie, so I wouldn't be able to tell if I could back up what your thinking, but you never know where the team could have got their ideas from.

Interesting I'll have to check that out. It's funny you say specifically Andrew Ryan's name may have be connected with Ayn Rand. I always imagined it evolved from A. Ryan. Aryan. Aryan because in many ways Ryan reminds me of Adolf Hitler, who of course also led a movement to his personal vision of a "perfect society", the nazi interpretation of Aryan race..

[F-Rott]

I'm not sure of the Rob Zombie thing, but BioShock immediately reminded me of Orson Welles the second the in-game movie started and Andrew Ryan went into his speech.