 From the Silver Screen, Cinema Influences for Your SR Game |
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 Dec 12 2006, 08:03 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,468 Joined: 5-December 06 From: Somewhere in the Flooding, CalFree Member No.: 10,215  |
I just finished watching the movie Miami Vice and although I think it was a mediocre movie, I did see a lot of potential for Shadowrunning ideas and scenarios. The negotiation scene in the derillect cafe is something that I could very well see and have seen being played out in an SR game, along with the drug running, infiltration, gun fights, and the twists and turns in the plot that could give you whiplash. You prompted a mirade of ideas for campaigns and missions in my head while watching it. But I was also trying to think of other movies that have the same aspects of shadow possibility in them and if anyone else has seen a movie that has a lot of potentiality in it?
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Dec 12 2006, 11:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
Please, please, please use the search function. This has to be the most re-hashed thread there is.
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 Dec 12 2006, 11:31 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,222 Joined: 11-October 02 From: Netherlands and Belgium Member No.: 3,437 |
X-Men is the best shadowrun movie ever.
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Dec 12 2006, 11:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 30-November 04 Member No.: 6,858 |
Currently my UK campaign has a 'V for Vendetta' influence.
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Dec 12 2006, 01:06 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 7-December 02 Member No.: 3,698 |
The Unit (sans housewives)
The Usual Suspects House MD (don't ask) |
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Dec 12 2006, 01:58 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
nonsense! us old timers remember the CZ vampire ninja and the infamous 'silvergun.' plus new movies do come out. National Treasure and the Davinci Code certainly provide some ideas and although earlier films in the serries got a little cartoony- Cassino Royale shows a good way to get research as Bond gets clues from cell phones to track down the baddies. |
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Dec 12 2006, 02:23 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Casino Royale is a perfect Shadowrun movie. Especially the machine-gun bagpipes.
~J |
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Dec 12 2006, 02:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 30-November 04 Member No.: 6,858 |
Hmmm, now thinking of devious methods of introducing atom bomb pills.
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Dec 12 2006, 03:40 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: 26-November 06 Member No.: 10,024 |
The anime Black Lagoon.
It's about a small shipping company using an old torpedo boat to deliver legal or illegal cargo around Thailand. All the main characters are DEFINITELY runners. A gunslinger adept, a hacker, an ex-military huge guy driver with lots of contacts and a face with tons of knowledge and social skills. They're all outcasts from society as well. |
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Dec 12 2006, 03:46 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
The shoot-out in Heat.
The car chase in Ronin. |
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Dec 12 2006, 04:00 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Yeah yeah, this thread comes up like once a month. But new movies need new input. And yes, I agree with SF, the new bond movie is actually pretty damm good as far as SR-foo. Breaking into places to get acess codes, using cell phone chips, and getting blind sided by strange stuff.
And yes, some of us 'old timers' still remember the 'Can I have sex with my anthroform drone' thread too. Oh I so wish the old jive forums where up just to read that crap again. |
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Dec 12 2006, 04:14 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
"Can we beat the Horrors?" comes to my mind. :D
Only three weeks 'till New Year... |
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Dec 12 2006, 04:20 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
You missed a "t".
~J |
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Dec 12 2006, 04:28 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Huh? I don't get it, sorry. :(
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Dec 12 2006, 04:31 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
The thread was "Can we beatt the horrors?".
~J |
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Dec 12 2006, 04:36 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
So I was right, but also wrong? Weird. :D
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Dec 12 2006, 05:04 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Its about time someone wakes that monster again. Its like a yearly tradition.
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Dec 12 2006, 05:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Note Calonna Member No.: 241 |
I akways enjoy reading the Adept vs Street Sam threads and the SR firearm rules suck threads.
For movies, Sneakers has a decent representation of a Shadowrunning team. |
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Dec 12 2006, 05:43 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
yes, and proof you can have tension in a movie with out violence. i think there are maybe 2 shots fired in the whole thing.
There was the 'can I have sex with my dikoted spirit ally?' Memories, all alone in the sprawl site, defeated enemies, who can never return I remember the time we fought that vampire boss then had sex near, the silver gun. Cyberzombies, ninja Vamps They all depart at morning Double crosses, horrors coming For those past days I'm mourning Pay me! I did all you wanted I stole that data, and I didn't get caught If you pay me, I promise I won't tell anyone That your true name, is Wilbur |
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Dec 12 2006, 06:29 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,317 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
Since I can't have my dicoted ally spirit ...
I'll stick with my usual suspect for run adaption: The Wild Geese ... |
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Dec 12 2006, 10:26 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,950 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
An oldie (from before many of us were even born) that CBS has recently started releasing on dvd, Have Gun, Will Travel. Richard Boone is Paladin, the man in black.
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Dec 12 2006, 10:34 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Please, please, please leave moderating the boards to the moderators. While we encourage searching, sometimes searches don't pull things up, sometimes people aren't well versed in performing good searches, and sometimes a person just wants to visit (or re-visit) a topic. Remember, every topic is new to someone. If you have nothing to post other than "do a search", simply move on without posting. Thanks. |
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Dec 12 2006, 10:37 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
I can't beleive nobody here has mentioned The Matrix... But maybe it's just one of those things that goes without saying. :)
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Dec 12 2006, 10:41 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
It's not very Shadowrunny, though. All we get is a little physad combat.
~J |
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Dec 12 2006, 10:47 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
I think Strange Days is great for feel and setting (and maybe some other stuff, depending on what edition/time period your SR is).
For plot styles and NPC ideas, I like movies like Lucky Number Slevin. I now want to run an entire campaign centered around a war between two men that live in high-rise buildings across the street from one another, for example. |
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