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Chicago Survivor  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033  |
Heh...
The Heretic The Chamber Berkharts Bulldogs Club Sol (on Wednesdays, at least it used to be that way) The Santuary |
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Sep 10 2004, 09:44 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Hah!
I wasn't sure if you had mis-posted to this thread and not the "Whacky Bar Names" topic. :grinbig: -Siege |
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Sep 10 2004, 10:13 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Like Karl Kombatmage? Denver talks about movies that glorify T-Bird jammers, SR2 has a promotional still for a movie about Shadowrunners, SotA63 mentions not only Karl Kombatmage but also "Samurai Samba," Cyberpirates had another movie still, and several other quips here and there about various public opinions about them. Like all things, there is more than one side to the story, and how the corps portary them changes with the publics opinion. On the issue of Kid Stealth Legs, small manufacturers likely sell kits like this and like those for hand razors and spurs. |
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Sep 10 2004, 11:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 171 Joined: 9-September 04 Member No.: 6,641 |
Shadowrunners as modern-day Robin Hoods, Shadowrunners as despicable criminals, I bet both perceptions are common. I doubt the world's veiw of Shadowrunners is monolithic.
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Sep 10 2004, 11:55 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
As has been pointed out in other ways, modern society doesn't exactly give bank robbers the thumbs-up, but when you're watching Heat or Reservoir Dogs, I bet I know who the audience is rooting for.
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Sep 11 2004, 12:15 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
The Gotti Show.
Modern day: doesn't have broadcast bloodsports, the line between real and ficition isn't totally blurred by simsense yet, people have a general sense of improvment in life. Durning the Great Depression, criminals became heros, cheered when they escaped the DOI's clutches. I submit that the one's sense of worth in the world in Shadowrun is closer to the Depression than to a modern man's. |
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Sep 11 2004, 01:16 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 1-September 04 Member No.: 6,621 |
You don't even have to go that hardcore. Think about Ocean's Eleven (both versions). Or The Italian Job. Or The Sting. Or Diggstown. Or even the A-Team. Or, if you want to go hard core, look at High Plains Drifter or The Godfather. I mean, really. Modern society does romanticize criminals, especially the type of criminals who go after the big corps. And those same corps will then make movies and TV shows and products about those types because people like them and will watch and buy. We don't have an equivalent of the quasi-legitimate shadowrun community that exists in SR, but if we did, you'd see "Ryan Mercury" T-shirts and special Colt .44 "Shadorunner edition" pistols. |
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Sep 11 2004, 05:44 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 |
I would suspect that most shadow runner movies target unnamed or fictional mega corps (or juste ones other than the one making it) doing immoral things. Remember the old bond movies slid away from USSR that was the villain in the books written during to cold war to a fictional global crime syndicate. Ocean's Eleven had the protagonist piking on a nasty person that owned big casinos.
Watching who the villains in shadow runner movies are along with who the Johnson works for and who made the movie would be very interesting. Edward |
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