Made it Ma! Top of the world! |
Made it Ma! Top of the world! |
Mar 31 2006, 09:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
One of the benefits of working the late shift is that you get to see all the old movies. This was Cagney in "Maschine gun Kelly" :) The movie is a gold-mine for SR despite not having any Punk into them
The movie has a beautiful car "chase" where three police cars follow Cagneys Mother, changing jobs and coordinating over the radio. Nice example how the good guys (aka NPC) might get at the job. Ma had a hunch in the end but wasn't totally sure. The prision part (Illinois State prison - Where's Elwood) was also mine-able for a "SR in Prison" game, as was Cagneys idea to get an alibi for murder. A perfect one, state approved 8) Another Useful Cagney Films: "Angels with dirty faces" with Spencer Tracy. Cagney plays the former urchin turned criminal that is idolised by the next generation, Tracy the priest. Interesting ending. nice character ideas Any other recommendations of old movies to mine? And I don't mean the "This is almost SR-style" movies like Ronin/Heat/etc that we hash over in similar threads. I am thinking of old style pieces that one normally won't think of like Rat's Nest |
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Mar 31 2006, 08:09 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
The "top of the world" scene was in, and inspired the end of Ricochet, which is an underrated Denzel Washington movie back when John Lithgow played villians.
Isn't Angels with Dirty Faces the movie Kevin watches in Home Alone? |
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Mar 31 2006, 08:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
And great villians he played. He was the "You must hate me guy". And Ricochet was the movie that brought Denzel Washington to me "sights". Would not have watched stuff like "The Siege" or "Crimson Tide" without that one. Now if only they had made the "Siege" a bit more open ended... Can't say about "Angels" and "Home Alone", can't stand the lead actor. |
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Mar 31 2006, 08:29 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 10-August 02 Member No.: 3,083 |
Yes it is.
I personally would recommend A Pickup on South Street as a good reference for more everyday interactions among "street" contacts...it's basically a Red Scare movie set in NY slums...a pickpocket happens to accidentally wind up with paydata (microfilm) that takes him in way over his head, and KGB comes after him with a vengeance. I could definitely see adapting that story for an SR adventure. Likewise, I think The Warriors (yeah yeah, it was as recent as 1979) is a great inspiration for SR gang culture. Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" is the classic "screwed by your Johnson" scenario, though perhaps a bit less adaptable. Still, it's a great film, and you should see it if you haven't already, just on GP. The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Dark Passage, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca are all relevant films to the subject, in my opinion. |
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Mar 31 2006, 09:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
Chuck Norris in "The Hitman." A cop undercover inside the seattle mob. Gets caught up in the mob war between Italians in Seattle and Quebecois in Vancouver.
No cyber but a good mob war setting. He has a gun that MUSt have been the inspiration for the Remington Streetsweeper. |
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Apr 1 2006, 09:43 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,283 Joined: 17-May 05 Member No.: 7,398 |
Movies for inspiration?
Home alone, for when your runners need to defend an area, and have time to prepare. Those theives would have been dead several times over by the end of the movie. |
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Apr 1 2006, 10:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 671 Joined: 9-March 06 Member No.: 8,353 |
You kidding? Half the traps required the thieves to fail to notice rather obvious tripwires or act in a very specific manner. Not to mention the times they fell for the same things several times. However I admit that some of the traps had potential. My inspitartional movie would be "The Eagle Has Landed". It shows most of the major points of a well plotted run. I don't want to spoiler it too much, but it is a fairly well planned "unwilling VIP extraction run". |
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Apr 1 2006, 02:38 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Pretty much anything with Bogart. Especially "The Malteze Falcon" and "The Big Sleep"
Both are cases of a runner- Boggart- trying to figure out what is going on while people try to kill him. Apparently on the set of "Big sleep" the actors were confused by the script and just trusted the writer and director. |
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Apr 1 2006, 06:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
SLJames:
The "top of the world" phrase was from 1949's "White Heat", in which James Cagney played "Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett", a FICTIONAL psychopathic criminal with a mother complex. "Machine Gun Kelly" (1948), starring Charles Bronson as "George R. 'Machine-Gun' Kelly", was based upon real life. Kelly, whose real name was George Kelley Barnes, was small-time bank robber and bootlegger who, among other things, orchestrated the kidnapping for ransom of Charles F. Urschel, a wealthy Oklahoma businessman. The kidnapping took place at 11:15 P.M. on Saturday, July 22, 1933, while Urschel and his wife were entertaining friends, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Jarrett. Both men were kidnapped, as the kidnappers did not know which one was Urschel. Mr. Jarrett was released, returning home at 1:00 A.M. the next day, July 23rd. Urschel was held for $200,000; the ransom was paid on July 30th, and Urschel was released the following day. Kelly's gang was eventually captured in August and September of 1933. Kelly is probably best remembered for inventing the term "G-Man" (short for "government man", which to him meant a revenue agent--that is, an operative of the BATF). Upon his capture, he raised his hands and shouted "Don't shoot, G-Men!". Popular culture uses the term as a euphemism for FBI agents, but technically, it could be used as a slang term for any Federal law-enforcement officer. Twenty-one people were convicted in the case, receiving the following sentences: 6 life sentences (including Kelly); the ones who did not receive life sentences received jail time totalling 58 years, 2 months, and 3 days. Kelly died in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 17, 1954, of a heart attack; his wife, Kathryn, was released from prison in Cincinnati in 1958. End history lesson. :) --Foreigner |
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Apr 1 2006, 08:42 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Ah... Good to know. Still, a fight to the death on the Watts Towers. Priceless. |
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Apr 2 2006, 05:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
That's what you get for translating titles. The german title for "White Heat" ist "Maschinenpistolen" - "Maschine Pistols/SMG's"
Another one "French Connection". Mean job on the cop, classical chase using Chicagos Elevated. |
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Apr 2 2006, 10:22 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
*bzzt* The Hatamoto. The roomsweeper is just a generic sawn off double barreled shotgun. |
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