[UA] Train Wreck

[Epoch]

Spoilers for UNBREAKABLE below...

And they're pretty big ones.  I recommend not reading this message unless
you've seen the movie or know you have absolutely no interest in doing so.


On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Kevin Elmore wrote:

> > ObUA: Did this even relate to UA to begin with?
> > 
> 
> Okay, I'm the guilty one who brought this up.  I actually
> wanted to encourage people to go see it because it does a
> great job of portraying someone trying to maintain normalcy
> in the face of extraordinary events.  I could easily see a
> character like what Bruce Willis played (damn, forgot the
> character's name).

David Dunn.

> Even if the character isn't as
> fantastic as the one in the movie, it's still worthwhile to
> see someone try to live a normal life while dealing with
> the OU.  In retrospect, I should have based part of my UA
> campaign on the soccer mom's degeneration into an OU
> junkie.  Her ex-husband gets the kids.  Her fellow soccer
> mom friends abandon her.  She suffers Isolation checks as
> her normal, mundane life is stripped from her.

Yeah, and I say again, yeah!  Tell me you don't have serious Madness Meter
checks when your kid pulls a gun on you.  Or when you realize that your
wife, whom you madly love, can't live with you if you tell her what you
are.

The whole juxtaposition of fantasy onto gritty real-world just screams UA
at me.

> PS:  Regarding Unbreakable's lack of action.  I liked how
> the only action scene was pretty anticlimactic.  Compare
> the resolution of that subplot to a Stallone flick.  There
> would have been a lot of fighting and broken glass (trying
> to keep this ambiguous for the uninitiated).

Since I put the spoiler warning up, I don't feel it necessary to be
ambiguous.  I didn't feel that the fight scene was anticlimactic -- I
thought it was great.  Again, obUA, there was a sense of simultaneous
reality and fantasy to it.  A feeling that this was real violence, even if
the one guy couldn't be hurt as he was slammed repeatedly against the
wall.  I felt it was interesting without being overblown.

The movie was otherwise very low on action, certainly, but I liked that.

Also, the thing where he sees the kid who date-raped a girl, and prepares
to follow him, only to see him hugging his parents, was a great bit of
moral ambiguity which deserves to be taken (I won't say "stolen," as it's
not original to UNBREAKABLE) into UA.

Mike

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