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| “ | Art is suffering! I don't expect a man of your limited education to understand! Without darkness there is no light! Don't you understand anything? She died so millions of others could experience truth through my art! To understand pain, it must be administered as well as felt. | „ |
| ~ Dreyfuss attempting to justify himself to Franklin Clinton after being exposed as the murderer. |
Peter Dreyfuss is a minor antagonist in the 2013 video game, Grand Theft Auto V.
He is a retired film director obsessed with committing his own various horrific forms of art including the murder of Leonora Johnson, leading to Franklin Clinton tracking him down in one of his missions, "A Starlet in Vinewood."
He was voiced by Richard Hughes.
History[]
Peter Dreyfuss was a director in the 1970s known for his controversial movies. In secret, his hobbies are sleeping with young girls, eating dogs, torturing hitchhikers, and hiring prostitutes to stab each other. In 1975, he slowly and painfully tortured, raped and murdered 22-year-old Leonora Johnson. After this he wrote a confession letter to David Richards, stating that he had to kill her for artistic purposes. Richards tore up the letter and scattered them across Los Santos and Blaine County.
After all fifty pieces of the confession letter for this crime have been collected, Franklin Clinton visits Dreyfuss' house to confront him about the murder. Dreyfuss attempts to run away, and Franklin can either kill Dreyfuss or let him go. However, the in-game gold requirement to complete the mission requires him to be killed, so his death is canonical.
Filmography[]
- 1975 - The Many Wives of Alfredo Smith
- 1977 - Bury Me
- 1983 - Butchery And Other Hobbies
- 1986 - Blue Blood
- 1989 - The Redeemer
- 1991 - Last Will and Testament
Trivia[]
- Due to Rockstar Games' penchant to parody real-life figures in Grand Theft Auto, Peter Dreyfuss is most likely based on Roman Polanski, a controversial Hollywood filmmaker infamous for sexual abuse cases against him. The murder itself meanwhile, is likely a parody of the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947, in which aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was mutilated and murdered by an unknown perpetrator who then taunted the authorities and the media with a series of letters and phone calls.
- Peter owns a black Landstalker SUV with the license plate DR3YFU55. If the player has Franklin kill him, the SUV can be taken and kept after the mission.
- Completion of the "Strangers & Freaks" mission involving him will unlock the Achievement/Trophy "A Mystery, Solved". It is worth fifteen Gamerscore points for the PC, XBOX 360, and XBOX ONE and a Bronze trophy grade for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. However, to get the gold medal, the player must have Franklin kill Peter Dreyfuss, suggesting this is the canon option.
- Further suggesting that the above gold objective is canon, Weazel News will confirm that he was killed regardless if he was spared by the player.
- Despite his minor involvement in the main story, Dreyfuss proves to be one of the most unpleasant characters in the entire game (possibly beating out Steve Haines and even Devin Weston) in terms of vileness, as he murdered Leonora Johnson and tormented her parents simply because he could and he shows no remorse for his actions whatsoever, making it all the more satisfying for Franklin (or the player) to kill him.
External Links[]
- Peter Dreyfuss on the Grand Theft Auto Wiki
- Peter Dreyfuss on the Pure Evil Wiki
