“I got kicked out of my house because of my gaming career,” says Clinton Loomis in a documentary on gaming called ‘Free to Play’.
His mother was against his playing video games the whole day. However, her attitude changed when he took home 25,000 dollars for getting the seventh place in an international video game championship.
This year, the total prizes in this championship add up to 10 million dollars. A staggering amount of money, don't you think?
Millions of people buy lottery tickets lured by the possibility of the elusive million-dollar prize. Big money fascinates all. It has been fodder for writers and filmmakers who have explored the fascination of playing for high stakes.
Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House is a true story of six MIT students who fool the casinos to win millions of dollars in Las Vegas. It was adapted into a film titled 21.
Money is one of the themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby portraying the contrasting lives of the rich and the working class. Daisy doesn't marry Gatsby as he is poor. He works hard and becomes fabulously rich just to be worthy of her.
Invented around 1500 B.C., money rapidly became a crucial part of daily life. It is one of the prime motives for murder.
The willingness to kill for money is an effective plot device used in many stories, especially in the mystery genre.
In Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder , the protagonist is willing to kill his wife to inherit all her money. Does he succeed?
It's all about money in the end, in real life or fiction.s
