Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-6747658-20150826194634/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150828175650

I found this in the comments over on reddit. This is from the leaked script:

"Knowing too much is bad for your health"

"Hey, you see 'em from a distance, it's hard to tell they're fakes"

"Hey, it's just a rumor."

"I mean, The Boss $hadn't found a way to stop the fake data transmission, they probably would have gone ahead with the launch."

"It's just the kind of ruse I'd expect from him."

"One day I'll know the truth.$[C=15]Just as soon as the Boss wakes up.$[C=15]And then we're coming after you."

"You're with the West, yes? There's something hidden"

"6I got nothing to say to you. They can't do this"

"But you see how rumors and ideas about people can get out of hand fast.$[C=16]Once you create a character and put it out there in the public mind, $it warps and twists with every baseless rumor.$[C=16]And before you know it, all people see are phantoms.$[C=16]In my case it works out just fine.$[C=16]I'm plenty used to working under aliases."

Basically what people are implying is that Kojima created a fake script, or inserted fact info into the script, and that he's breaking the 4th wall through this script and addressing those who've participated in spreading the leak. This might just be another wrong fan theory, but it's worth noting that other directors have famously used fake documents before. Two examples I can immediately recall are from the films Se7en and The Shining. Se7en contained thousands of pages worth of fake journals written only to appear in a few brief scenes. Stanley Kubrick had hundreds of pages written in various languages for foreign audiences, all for that one brief typewriter scene in The Shining. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Curiously, the leaker who provided the script for Phantom Pain is named Jack the Ripper, although that may just be a huge coincidence. Also curiously, the leaked script repeats bits of dialogue similar to how the line is repeated in The Shining.

If these leaks turn out to be fake, then I take back what I said about Kojima being George Lucas. Though my opinion on Ghost Babel and Portable Ops still stands.