Hollywood Inspiration, Movies that inspire alternate reality |
Hollywood Inspiration, Movies that inspire alternate reality |
Apr 22 2007, 03:51 AM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,148 Joined: 27-February 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,314 |
There are some movies that can just be called "Shadowrun movies," whether they inspire thoughts and feelings of Shadowrun or make you want to play Shadowrun. My group has a short list, but we're always on the look out for more, for those days when we don't feel like rolling dice.
Here's some to start us off:
Johnny Mnemonic Ocean's Eleven (either version) The Italian Job (either version) Kill Bill Pulp Fiction Way of the Gun Ghost Dog The Maltese Falcon Semi-Automatic Strange Days Anybody got more? |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:01 AM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,148 Joined: 27-February 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,314 |
And since I'm dumb, I checked my DVD collection to see what I forgot:
Ronin The Hire |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:13 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Is it that time again?
At the moment, I'm seriously considering running a suburban BTL dealer game based on Weeds, which follows a suburban |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:56 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,537 Joined: 27-August 06 From: Albuquerque NM Member No.: 9,234 |
I'm pretty much convinced that "Domio" is just about the perfect shadowrun movie, other then the lack of high tech. The sleazy Johnson whose up to much more than he claims, the simple job that goes totally wrong when all the lies catch up, the casual act of horrific violence from a minor miscommunication, etc.
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Apr 22 2007, 12:31 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 19-April 05 From: Amsterdam, UNL Member No.: 7,347 |
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Apr 22 2007, 03:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416 |
Collateral
The Four Brothers The Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood version) The Warriors Ghost in the Shell Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Deathwish series Clockwork Orange (Classic dystopian future) Akira (Good if you want way over the top, like a corp trying to gengineer a super mage or force bond a powerful spirit to a human. Tone the power level way down and insert corp experiment gone way wrong and it would work better. Maybe good for a metaplanar quest.) |
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Apr 22 2007, 03:25 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 17-April 07 Member No.: 11,471 |
The Movies Most Quoted During our Shadowrun Games:
Reservoir Dogs (Common Quote: Guys you aren't acting like professionals. Why aren't we acting like professionals?) Boondocks Saints (No quotes more of a we have to take the law into our hands because the real police have to sit around and do paper work kinda feel) Lucky Number Slevin (How the everything makes sense, then doesn't, then does again. Though shadowrunners never do that much legwork.) Smokin Aces (GM has us run into other shadowrunners on the same job all the time and we usually deal with it the same way they do in smokin aces which is to expend a lot of bullets.) |
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Apr 22 2007, 03:36 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
Banlieu 13
LA Confidential |
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Apr 22 2007, 03:54 PM
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CosaNostra Deliverator Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 346 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Philadelphia, PA Member No.: 7,034 |
Children of Men
Sin City |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:03 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,148 Joined: 27-February 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,314 |
Don't blame me. I did a searches on the entire site for "movies" and a few title I could think of, and it told me there was nothin'. I was rather surprised, myself. |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:17 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 12-August 06 Member No.: 9,092 |
A Scanner Darkly
and for the hooders out there Children Of Men Boondock Saints And if you're really feeling friskly you can take a look at some documentaries covering some real life Shadowruns (Black Ops). Loose Change (9/11 was the biggest of shadowruns- you've got riggers remote commandeering planes flying them into buildings, corporate security teams rigging the WTC buildings with explosives, the theft of the gold bullion from the bank vaults in the WTC basement, the destruction of evidence pertaining to hundreds of SEC investigations, the assasination of John Oneil- the foremost US intelligence expert in regards to the person chosen to be the patsy for the attacks Osama Bin Laden, creating a reason to attack Afghanistan so the UniCal can get their oil pipeline through Afghanistan, corporate media infiltration- Jerome Hauer- to paint a picture other than what people saw with their own eyes, evidence of government scripting of the news- BBC reports WTC 7 had already collapsed 26 minutes before it actually did collapse, and to top it all off the vice president issuing a NORAD stand down order and controlling all these actions through the cover of wargames from his bunker- with the help of PROMIS software) Terrorstorm (conducting bombings in Iran to blame on the democratically elected president Mohamed Mossadeq who made the mistake of nationalizing the oil fields because British Petroleum wasn't giving a big enough cut of the profits to Iran, PROJECT GLADIO- the P2 Lodge-secret NATO forces- staging terrorist attacks in Italy to blame on the Red Brigade to paint communists as a terrorists to scare the populace into supporting capitalsists in the cold war, the Gulf of Tonkin lie to capture civilian support for an invasion of Vietnam, the attack on the USS Liberty by Isreali forces in order to blame it on Egypt to create a pretext for the US to attack Egypt, the Reichstag fire carried out by Hitlers forces in order to blame his political opponents so he could crack down on civil liberties and seize total power, the London 7/7 bombings carried out by the British military to drum up support for the fake war on terror aka imperialist exspansionism) |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:24 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 3-October 06 Member No.: 9,529 |
I can see most of the linkages between movies and Shadowrun except a few.
Ronin is the definitive techno-thriller movie (best exemplified by Millennium's End RPG). Pulp Fiction just doesn't make the connection with me. Then again, it could be because I hated the movie (so did the friend I went with). I'd never really thought of Italian Job or Ocean's Eleven as Shadowrun inspiring movies but I can easily see it. Ah, Banlieu 13 - had to go look that one up on IMDB as I wasn't sure if it was District B-13 (US title) or not. Fun movie. Cyber City Oedo (anime) feels even more like Shadowrun than Ghost in the Shell does to me. Both are higher tech than Shadowrun but have the right feel. |
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Apr 22 2007, 08:56 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 3-April 07 Member No.: 11,370 |
Mission impossible 1 and 3
ROBOCOP, the entire universe (megacorp, private police, cybermancy and invoked memory stimulator, street gang and violance, mr. johnson (the number 2 guy at OCP), combat drone, AI (the serie), dystopian future, double cross..The best movie for inspiration and feeling. Advent children (boitechnologie and genetics, magic and summuning in a future setting, dystopian city, adept (tifa, rude and rufus) |
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Apr 23 2007, 02:14 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,251 Joined: 11-September 04 From: GA Member No.: 6,651 |
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Apr 23 2007, 02:22 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
I get hundreds of matches, far too many to sort through. By default, it only searches for posts in the past 30 days. You have to change it so that the search is a bit more date inclusive. "Any date" usually works best. Also, make sure that you are searching all forums. |
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Apr 23 2007, 02:36 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Chapel Hill, NC Member No.: 589 |
As gritty and depressing as it might be, the movie that I want all of my Shadowrunning sessions to aspire to is Heat.
Last session, I was so proud of us. Our physad had blown away a street doc's bodyguard, and the doc himself was cowering in a corner. He was a witness to this murder, as well as another committed earlier. Slaw, the physad, glanced over at my character, the mage, and I nodded at him. He geeked the doc without a moment's hesitation. We could've spared the guy's life. He was an innocent, more or less. But if we got caught, we'd already get a murder rap, so it wasn't worth keeping another guy alive who'd witnessed the whole thing. If you've ever seen Heat, then you'll know what I mean. If you want to know what it's really like being a criminal, watch this movie. |
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Apr 23 2007, 03:08 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
sometimes i want Heat, sometimes i want GitS:SAC. sometimes i want a De Niro / Kusanagi mash-up.
one thing about Heat--it's a fantastic movie, and it's definitely a good model for many games. but it's about professional criminals who act professionally, which doesn't necessarily describe all runners. crime is rampant enough in SR that you can actually get away with being less than professional, if only for a little while. my old main character (who's going into semi-retirement) would have fit in well with De Niro's crew in Heat. my current handful of main characters, not so much. |
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Apr 23 2007, 05:54 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 748 Joined: 22-April 07 From: Vermont Member No.: 11,507 |
In addition to the above (especially Ronin), I would add:
The Usual Suspects (1995) Keyser Söze is obviously a Great Dragon. |
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Apr 23 2007, 06:03 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: 9-March 07 Member No.: 11,195 |
Nah, Immortal Elf with bobbed ears. |
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Apr 23 2007, 06:08 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 19-April 07 Member No.: 11,486 |
I have to second the nod for Equilibrium.
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Apr 23 2007, 06:29 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 141 Joined: 12-August 05 From: Helsinki Member No.: 7,552 |
Twin Peaks. Leland Palmer becomes possessed by a powerful free spirit that goes by the name Bob. Agent Cooper is an adept. Evil spirits live in the woods. Renault handles drugs, prostitution and gambling. Then there's the native american deputy, Hawk.
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Apr 23 2007, 11:57 AM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,148 Joined: 27-February 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,314 |
That's what I got, too, when I searched on "movies". I also searched on "movies ronin", "movies mnemonic", "movies strange days", and "movies matrix" and got nada. Yes, I made sure it was Any Date and All Forums. |
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Apr 23 2007, 01:26 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Well, that's because the search function searches for exact phrases by default. I don't think that the phrase "movies ronin" appears anywhere on the site. If you want to search for two separate words you need to seperate them with the operator AND. A search for Movies AND Ronin. |
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Apr 23 2007, 05:10 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,148 Joined: 27-February 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 8,314 |
So ka. Arigato. ... stupid IPB ... |
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Apr 23 2007, 05:25 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Lucky Number Slevin
The Departed Snatch Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels Get Shorty |
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