KaosDevice
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Is it just me or is this movie just actually three really neat looking game sessions strung together?
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Sin City
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ConnorSB
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KaosDevice said:
Well the movie is based on a series of graphic novels that all take place in the same city, Basin City, and sometimes include the same characters and locations. There are, if I recall correctly, seven full length novels, and one shorts (like, three to ten pages) collectoion.
The movie is just three of the seven full length ones (not any particular ones, just the ones that struck the director as, uh, good to go tegether).
But yes, you could easily run a d20 modern game similar to the movie- a series of oneshots with coherent continuity but divergent characters (just because they worked together on one job doesnt mean they will again. Could be pretty interesting actually- and a nice way to build up a city with a lot of interesting history- have the players play specific individuals thru its history, etc.
Actually, that wouldn't be a bad way to introduce ppl to DND - give them a set of prewritten characters to play through a one to three session arc, then give them a different set of characters (like, let someone be a fighter, then a mage, etc) and continue the story but "five years later" or whatever, build a continutity around those two events, and show the players how to make up thier own perminent PCs , and have those PCs enter another five years later.
Doing it like this would be perfect- new players could learn how to play BEFORE they make important character decisions, and when their "real" characters start, the players are already hooked into the campaign - they have both a sense of the world as well as ties to its backstory (as they, well, created said backstory, at least in part).
Jerome Steelsides
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Actually, it's eerie synchronicity that this thread is on here just now. I just rewatched Sin City, and have a few questions that maybe someone who read the comics could clarify.
Is it just me, or was Lucille (Marv's parole officer) in the scene about Hartigan's hearing? It looked kind of like her -- or as much as the top of her head can.
Also, I got a definite feeling that the large black gold-eyed guy played by Michael Clarke Duncan had shown up before in another storyline or somesuch.
Is it just me, or was Lucille (Marv's parole officer) in the scene about Hartigan's hearing? It looked kind of like her -- or as much as the top of her head can.
Also, I got a definite feeling that the large black gold-eyed guy played by Michael Clarke Duncan had shown up before in another storyline or somesuch.
ConnorSB
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And yes, Manute (The big black guy with the gold eye) is central to a few of the other stories in the series (most notably "A Dame To Kill For", which was originally going to be included in Sin City, but was pushed back into the second movie)
Oh yah. they are almost definitly doing a second movie, as the first was quite successful, there are plenty more stories to do, and almost everyone who worked on the first one really, really enjoyed it, including Frank Miller himself. Arguably, a few of the stories that weren't in the first one are better than the ones that were, both in general goodness and in "this ports to live motion PERFECTLY"-ness.
The wikipedia article on Sin City has a very good timeline of when and where the stories take place, as well as fleshing out the chronology of events that happened between and outside the stories.
In fact, more than almost any comic book-y franchise out there, Sin City has done an amazing job of being flat out good in every circumstance. It was a good comic series, it was a great movie, the fanbase is great, and the comics are (thankfully) internally consistant, with well defined canon. This may be due to it being a recent comic (how many times has X-Men been "re-imagined"??) but it also betrays an incredible talent...
Oh yah. they are almost definitly doing a second movie, as the first was quite successful, there are plenty more stories to do, and almost everyone who worked on the first one really, really enjoyed it, including Frank Miller himself. Arguably, a few of the stories that weren't in the first one are better than the ones that were, both in general goodness and in "this ports to live motion PERFECTLY"-ness.
The wikipedia article on Sin City has a very good timeline of when and where the stories take place, as well as fleshing out the chronology of events that happened between and outside the stories.
In fact, more than almost any comic book-y franchise out there, Sin City has done an amazing job of being flat out good in every circumstance. It was a good comic series, it was a great movie, the fanbase is great, and the comics are (thankfully) internally consistant, with well defined canon. This may be due to it being a recent comic (how many times has X-Men been "re-imagined"??) but it also betrays an incredible talent...
mhacdebhandia
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Is he in it?
It was obvious to me which scene he directed, but I didn't see him on screen.
It was obvious to me which scene he directed, but I didn't see him on screen.
Shadowdancer
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Thanee said:Did anyone actually spot Tarantino in the movie (without checking the trivia database first or otherwise knowing where to look for him
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Thanee
I saw Rodriguez and Miller when I saw it in the theater. I'll have to watch for Tarantino when I watch the DVD.
