Re: Gloranthan Movies

• In HeroWars_at_y..., "Mike Dawson" <mdawson_at_m...> wrote:
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  > still hoping for more responses to his poll, I am
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  > Another Mike D
  

FWIW....
- I can't imagine running disipated nobility anywhere (but especially in the lunar empire), without watching Dangerous Liasons.

• Speaking of wasted lives, (and stepping away from movies) I've always thought that much of Balzac's Paris would feel roughly correct in a number of old Gloranthan metropoli--especially as the immenent hero wars have resulted in various events shaking the social order. Try reading Pere Goriot (in some english editions I think it is called "Old Goriot")
• For a feel of how a lot of Lunars probably feel about service in Sartar, try finding "Black Robe" a canadian film about a french priest going inland to a mission. Probably hard to find in video even in Canada, and likely next to impossible elsewhere, but the sense of complete alienness between the priest and the natives is incredible. Awfully depressing movie, mind you.
• Robin Hood and his followers are the prototypical hero band resisting oppressive nobility (be it norman, lunar, or other). Sure it is a complete fable in almost all versions, but it's enduring popularity does suggest there are worst thing you could use as a model....besides which most film versions are chock full of ideas of how to run various contests as dramatic events. (although I admit the old disney animated version is my favorite there are probably other adaptations more suited inspiring HW ideas).