The Malaga actor, recent signing of the Uncharted movie, is the protagonist of a meme linked to the console
The signing of Antonio Banderas for the Uncharted movie has brought back many fun memories from a few years ago, when the face of the actor from Malaga was a constant in videogame forums around the world. Like so many things today, it all started in Reddit, when a fragment of the movie "Assassins" starring Sylvester Stallone and Banderas himself was used, who had already gained some previous notoriety as "reaction meme". In that fragment, the murderer who embodied the Spanish actor received on his computer his next victim, who turned out to be his most wanted rival and objective to become the number one of his profession, so that he made a gesture of exaggerated satisfaction, flesh of gif.
It was in NeoGaf during 2013, then in full swing as a reference forum for the global videogame community, where the gif found fortune among fans of Sony fans. Microsoft did not stop accumulating media trips in the months of presentation of Xbox One, while the Japanese company seemed to be in a state of media grace with everything related to PS4, so the flags of Banderas began to be used both to boast of the blunders of the American company to praise any positive detail about the future PS4. It would end up exploding in E3 2013, when Sony Computer went to the jugular to attack Microsoft's faltering policies around a mandatory permanent connection to the new console and the inability to sell or lend games.
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– Antonio Banderas (@antoniobanderas) October 1, 2019
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From that moment, the meme and a multitude of mounts related to it would reach an unstoppable popularity until the fever of November 2013, the month of launch of PS4 and peak of searches of "antonio flags gif". People had their brand new console and nothing better to celebrate than the actor's ecstasy in hundreds of forums and social networks around the world.
To such an extent it came, that from Naughty Dog they did not resist paying tribute to the phenomenon, encouraging Joel in a similar way to that of the character of Banderas at the Gala of the Game Awards and thus closing the cycle of maximum popularity of the phenomenon, although never It has been discontinued. It is fun to think about how things work, so that years later of all that it turns out that the actor from Malaga will participate in a film based on the saga created by the Santa Monica team. A fun coincidence to remember a whole media phenomenon.
