Trivia
John Marston shares many similarities with the previous Red Dead character, Red Harlow, including the positioning of his facial scars and the notch in his cowboy hat. Both characters share the facial scar similarity with the lead character from the iconic spaghetti western The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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Red Dead Redemption is not the first sandbox game from Rockstar Games to span two states. It is, however, the first to span two states while also spilling into a separate country.
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Many references in this game nod to Clint Eastwood's cowboy roles when working with 'Sergio Leone', including a gravestone marked "Cowboy with No Name", an achievement named "More than a fistful" which can be granted to the player who makes more than $10,000 in game and the plot to the Nuevo Paraiso missions, in which the player works for both factions warring over the territory before the factions clash with each other.
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The oil drilling Plainview region in the game is a reference to the character Daniel Day-Lewis plays in There Will Be Blood. In fact, in the area there is a clerk's office with a man sitting outside who looks very much like Day-Lewis' character in the film.
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A weapon that John Marston receives in the game called the "High Powered Pistol" is modeled after the Colt M1903 or FN M1903 handgun.
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John Marston is the oldest playable protagonist in any Rockstar game, being 38 years old.
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John Marston says the word "fuck" less than any other playable protagonist in any mainstream and recent Rockstar game. He only says the word twice in the main story.
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