 Inside Man, The Fixer in Film |
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 Apr 3 2006, 05:13 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 7-December 05 Member No.: 8,054  |
I don't know if someone mentioned this is a post recently, but in the movie Inside Man Jodie Foster plays a character that is just about the perfect example of a high powerd fixer. There are some other cools Shadowrun elements in the movie, but, for the Shadowrun fan, Mrs. White is definitely worth checking out the movie.
Some time ago a new player in my group who had never played Shadowrun asked what a Fixer was, and we [me, the GM, and the rest of the players] were trying to think of movies with characters that were fixers. In that spirit, does anyone out there know of any other movies that also have very cool fixer characters in them? |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:26 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
Movies with fixers:
The Killer Heat Pulf Fiction (Wolfe?) Strange Days (Lenny) Get Shorty + Be Cool (Travolta's character) |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:39 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 134 Joined: 16-October 05 Member No.: 7,848 |
any prison movie. in 'the longest yard' chris rock's character was a fixer.
umm... there's lots out there, i just can't remember their names. oh, in 'the replacement killers' there's a low level fixer. what's his name... Jackie? |
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Apr 3 2006, 09:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
Indy Jones 1 and 3 has the arabian contact (played IIRC by Rhys-Davis) that is basically a fixer. IIRC Quatermain II has a Fixer in the "fitting out" scene
DS9 has Quark the space(ing) worthy Ferengi who is a classical Fixer Not a movie but Walter Jon Williams "Hardwired" has the classical fixer archetypes (The Middleman). And Efflinger "When Gravity Fails" has another one (The protagonists "sponsor") And who can forget the ultimate fixer. The one you should have payed respect before. The one you are now asking for a favor - The GodFather. |
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Apr 3 2006, 05:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 29-March 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,420 |
Danny Aiello (sp?) in The Professional.
Gabriel Byrne in The Point of No Return...although he's more of A Handler than anything. |
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Apr 3 2006, 05:08 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 21-July 05 Member No.: 7,510 |
The IRA guy in Boondock Saints was a good example of a fixer geared specifically towards weapons.
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Apr 3 2006, 05:10 PM
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Illuminate of the New Dawn Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 317 Joined: 9-June 03 From: Seattle 'Plex, UCAS Member No.: 4,700 |
A handler is sort of a company man fixer, really anyway.
Another thought - that cockney guy in Firefly. There are a few in Firefly, actually, but he's the recurring one. |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:19 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 10-August 02 Member No.: 3,083 |
In Snatch, the main character is a small-time fixer of sorts. And in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, I forget the guy's name....the one who was like "If you dont' want to be counting the fingers you haven't got, you will get those shotguns." He was a little aggressive as a fixer, but he was basically the go-between for a client and the people who would actually be doing the job.
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Apr 3 2006, 08:42 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 18-September 05 Member No.: 7,758 |
Jean Reno's character from Ronin
There were a couple in The Usual Suspects, Redfoot was one, I forget the other. |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 29-March 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,420 |
I was thinking about Ronin when I was at lunch. Great flick. |
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Apr 3 2006, 08:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 29-March 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,420 |
Sorry for Double Post. Snatch was Turkish Lock, Stock was Barry the Baptist. |
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Apr 4 2006, 03:01 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
I know we're all thinking it.
All bashing aside, Johnny Mnemonic has Ralfi, played by Udo Kier (who is just sweet), as a cyberpunk fixer. |
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Apr 4 2006, 03:26 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: 21-April 02 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 2,631 |
For recent films there is Nicholas Cage's character from Lord of War.
A specilist in the field definatly but still a fixer. BlacKat |
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Apr 4 2006, 03:33 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 |
I believe most people call them "arms dealers."
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Apr 4 2006, 05:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
Well, a Fixer is for me that thing in the corner getting himself high on Heroin or other injected drugs and a Dealer is the slimeball that sells him the stuff. So I doubt there will be "Fixers" and "Dealers" running around in SR, they'll go by other names. And don't get me started on the associations that "Decker" has... |
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Apr 4 2006, 07:20 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 |
Well, the thing is that there are RL fixers.
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Apr 4 2006, 09:08 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
They call themselves fixers?
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Apr 4 2006, 09:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 29-March 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,420 |
Headhunters for the most part....if they are independent. |
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Apr 5 2006, 03:00 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,590 Joined: 11-September 04 Member No.: 6,650 |
actually the term fixer was taken from RL, there are RL fixers... One over here keeps getting his face on the news as they constantly try to get him put away
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Apr 5 2006, 05:01 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
A good example I found as a fixer/Johnson type was the guy from Elektra, McNab or something like that.
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Apr 6 2006, 09:07 AM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,944 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
Just watched a video of Dirty Pretty Things. Mr. Juan might be seen as a Fixer. The video also showed SINless, organlegging and Street Docs, or at least ideas for those types.
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