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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1254831" data-attributes="member: 12744">That *is* funny. I'm actually a big fan of Othello, and liked the 1995 movie adaptation with Laurence Fishburne. I'm touched that Willie was able to invade someone's subconscious <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />  Actually, when I came up with Willie, I basically created him as an amalgamation inspired by of a lot of my favorite african-american actors and/or characters that they have played that I liked in particular and a bunch of quirks of my own. There is a big piece of Willie that is inspired by Laurence Fishburne as Othello (especially the "angry" parts) and Sheriff Tanny Brown (from Just Cause), which is why I thought your comment was a little ironic. If you hear a voice in your head that is part Laurence Fishburne, part Samuel Jackson, and part Shaft, with an angry southern accent; yep, that's your Willie voice. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />   As a side note; when we first came up with the medallions idea OldDrewId had us email him 2-4 different character ideas and we would sort through 1 or 2 to possibly use, just to see what we would come up with. I had a completely different idea for a PI as my secondary choice, but a week or so later I saw The Long Kiss Goodnight on cable for the first time in a few years and, inspired, went more of a Shaft/Mitch Henessey route, and kind of sorted through a lot of my favorite characters that would fit in. So toss in a few more Sam Jackson roles (Lt. Danny Roman, Jules Winnfield, Trevor Garfield, Ordell Robbie, Elmo McElroy, Doyle Gipson), some Laurence Fishburne parts, every darn Shaft movie, and even a little Denzel Washington (Easy Rawlins, 'Hub' Hubbard, Alonzo Harris) and then my own twist on it with various things we picked up just because of stuff that happened to us in game, and we ended up with Willie. EDIT: Oh, and dont forget a few Ving Rhames roles, jeez I love the way that guy can throw down a threat. Willie is also a bit of a movie buff (though he wont admit it) and he occasionally will spout lines and take inspiration from certain movies when doing things ("right one... or the left one?"); we may see more of that in the story hour in the future.</blockquote>

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