Just watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) because it inspired the Dead Money add-on for Fallout: New Vegas.
The movie’s about some drifters who go prospecting for gold and encounter a host of trouble, leading up to the loss of their hard-earned fortune. The Fallout expansion takes place in a (mostly) abandoned Sierra Madre Casino full of secrets, gold and peril. It was designed to prevent the player from getting out alive with a massive fortune in gold bricks, but I managed to escape with the treasure back when I played the game on PS3 without console commands or mods.
This is what it felt like, trudging back to Novac while overencumbered.
And I discovered that Sierra Madre is where the “we don’t need no badges” line comes from! I know it’s been referenced a lot but I didn’t know where it orginated.
~ J.L. Hilton
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