Where Nintendo Might Have Got the Mask Idea.

[Kaynil]

When I saw The Mask again, I was reminded of the game, heheh.

Personally I just think both, used the same idea of a painful-real-transformation. Besides the put on the mask scene I don't remember what else could be similar from the plot. For is more, like people say, take the idea of the OoT mask expansion.

 

[Master Kokiri 9]

I was watching the 1994 movie "The Mask" with Jim Carrey today. I was thinking that it was interesting how similar the idea in the film of becoming someone eles by putting a mask on, is to that in MM. Then I thought about how this film came out a good five years before MM. Five years seems just long enough to develop the idea and insert it into the game.

Is it possible Nintendo got the basic idea for MM from a Jim Carrey movie?

Dude it's defenitely possible. But instead of becoming 'someone else' like the guy in the movie link just changed forms and people recognized him as that person.