Blowing Up the Movies [digital]
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TWENTY-FOUR ACTION MOVIES EXPLODE
Robin D. Laws¸ game designer by day¸ cinema super-enthusiast by night¸ sets his analytic laser sights on action and thrills in a collection of essays sure to supercharge your tabletop roleplaying experience.
As the countdown ticks and the bullets fly¸ Robin takes you inside the workings of 24 action movies¸ from the stone cold classic to the unjustifiably obscure. Each essay shows you how the film delivers¸ and the lessons you can extract from it to enhance your own efforts as GM or player. Explore:
• Star Wars as a model of storytelling economy.
• Crouching Tiger¸ Hidden Dragon to see how fights can express inner drama.
• Seven Samurai as a master class in theme.
• Die Hard as textbook cat-and-mouse.
• The Killer ¸ to learn the blood-soaked vocabulary of blood- soaked hyper-romanticism.
• Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame ¸ because deer fu.
Though honed as a companion volume to the exciting new reboot of his classic RPG Feng Shui¸ you can easily apply this book's insights to any game with swords or explosions in it.
With a special focus on high water marks of the Hong Kong action golden age¸ alongside the flicks that inspired it and were inspired by it¸ the book also serves up a crash course in that essential action canon.
So dig in¸ fire up one of these flicks for the first or five millionth time¸ and be ready to be blown up. Er¸ away. Blown away.
Purchase includes the Blowing Up the Movies ebook edition in PDF¸ ePub¸ and mobi (Kindle) formats.