Red Dead Redemption 2 Short Film Shows Arthur Morgan’s Story In A Different Light

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Captain Punch condensed Red Dead Redemption 2 into a 38-minute cinematic movie, “Red Zeppelin,” using scenes from the game and Led Zeppelin’s music.
The creator spent hundreds of hours editing, adding new camera angles and montages, and using a 1970s-inspired aesthetic.
The fan-made movie has been praised as one of the greatest fan-made short movies, showcasing the game’s narrative and iconic songs.

Anyone who has played Red Dead Redemption 2 will know, it’s one long yet thoroughly enjoyable journey, especially since Rockstar included one of the best voice casts imaginable. Taking players on a trail of excitement, fear, and heartbreak as the rough but lovable Arthur Morgan, it’s of little wonder why the West Wild game won so many awards.

If 50 hours of playtime seems a bit too much of an ask for some interested gamers who haven’t experienced Morgan’s incredible narrative yet, how about if it was condensed into a 38-minute cinematic movie that covers the entire game with a few twists thrown in too? Well, creator Captain Punch has done just that in what fans have called “the best Red Dead 2 video ever”.

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Red Dead fan Captain Punch is a YouTube creator, and a pretty great one at that. In their latest endeavor, Punch has stitched together hundreds of scenes from the Rockstar game and titled it Red Zeppelin, which combines RDR2’s entire narrative nestled within the incredible tunes of the 1960s band, Led Zeppelin. Punch didn’t just throw in a bunch of half-assed stills from the game, oh no. Sinking hundreds of hours over months of editing, Punch painstakingly needled in sweeping montages and brand-new cinematic camera angles that even hardcore Dead fans would never have seen before.

As shared by RockstarINTEL, Punch got the idea to produce this epic, one-of-a-kind short movie two years ago while they were “listening to tracks by Led Zeppelin on car journeys. The visuals and story of Arthur in Red Dead 2 seemed to fit with the music”.

Naturally, due to the absolute scale of something like this to craft from beginning to end, the idea was almost shelved because Punch deemed it “too ambitious/daunting”. By using a free camera tool, a ReShade setup to allow a “1970’s-inspired aesthetic” to coat the movie, and a weather-changing mod to manipulate the time, day, and weather, Punch created an almost new feel and understanding of Arthur’s story.

Of course, by adding in some of Led Zepplin’s most iconic songs that almost seemed to be made just for Red Dead 2, Punch created a tribute to the Rockstar game that will, without a doubt, withstand the ages of time as one of the greatest fan-made short movies ever. If Red Dead Redemption isn’t your bag, Punch’s YouTube channel has a host of other fan-made trailers and games from the likes of GTA V, Spider-Man, Max Payne 3, and Assassin’s Creed.