Tim Schafer stated that the true inspiration was drawn from films like Double Indemnity, in which a weak and undistinguished insurance salesman finds himself entangled in a murder plot.[22] The design and early plot are fashioned after films such as Chinatown and Glengarry Glen Ross.[1][5] Several scenes in Grim Fandango are directly inspired by the genre???s films such as The Maltese Falcon, The