[UA] Movies with the right vibe

[Daniel R. Lackey]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Turner" <limepcs at hotmail.com>
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:42:18 EDT
Subject: [UA] Movies with the right vibe
Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Does anyone else know any movies they can point to and say:  "Yeah, I want
> _that_ vibe in my UA game?"

for my upcoming campaign I'm telling my players to think of a cross between
"Reservoir Dogs" (actually the style borrows more from "Lock Stock & Two
Smoking Barrels" and "The Limey" but none of my players have seen them yet),
"Twin Peaks", "Hellraiser", "The Craft" and "Clerks".  the game is going to
be set at a fictional downstate Illinois college city and one of the major
organizations is going to be a group of disaffected Wiccan Gen-Xers who,
according to my notes "pay lip service to 'exploring mysical possibilities'
but are really more interested in wearing black, listening to Type O
Negative and bitching about Christianity and why it sucks" -- that's where
the Craft/Clerks vibe comes in, with a nice touch of SNL's "Goth Talk" as
well.  I don't really like the actual plot, characterization and acting in
"The Craft" (any movie where Neve Campbell spends the first half whining
about how ugly she is loses all credibility in my mind) but it's got a good
vibe and some good ideas as to how a clueless cabal might operate.  most of
my friends talk like they're characters in "Clerks" anyway, so that
influence is fairly obvious.

Mak Attax is convinced that the fictional city in the campaign is at the
intersection of a couple of powerful ley lines, which serves to attract
freaks and geeks of all stripes; that's where "Twin Peaks" comes into play,
even though the city doesn't have the sort of "everybody knows each other"
feel that Twin Peaks did.

I've always liked the idea of an organized crime cabal (I've used it in
several other games for other systems), so that's how I'm running TNI -- in
a very Tarentinoesque fashion.  (what do they call Pornomancy in Amsterdam?)

as far as "Hellraiser" is concerned, I've always had a yen for splatterpunk
horror -- very suited to the Epideromancers, I think.

Daniel R. Lackey (DRLackey at mindless.com)
http://home.earthlink.net/~jmdreyfuss
"Wow!  There must be a mystery brewing!"
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Cornhole!/Splatterpunk Records
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