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Blowing Up The Movies is a collection of essays by game designer Robin Laws, examining various action movies from both east and west, and how to apply the tropes therein to tabletop gaming. It was written as part of the Feng Shui 2 Kickstarter and, while it contains some discussion specific to that game, the overall examinations of action movie tropes can often be applied to tabletop gaming in general, and in many cases even to the action genre outside of gaming. Each of the essays focuses primarily on one aspect of the movie, as opposed to a more general overview.See also Hamlet's Hit Points. | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Covered in the Hero (2002) essay | |
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"Die Hard" on an X | |
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"Die Hard" on an X: Covered in... take a wild guess. | |
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Older Than They Think | |
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Older Than They Think (invoked): Laws points out that Big Trouble in Little China actually predates many of the titles audiences might think it's referencing: | |
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MST: Equilibrium was one of the movies that gained inclusion via a poll of Kickstarter backers (the other was The Raid), but Laws himself doesn't care for it, and the essay contains quite a bit of snark at its expense. | |
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The Chosen One: The Star Wars essay focuses on this. | |
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Fridge Logic (invoked): In the Equilibrium essay, Laws points out that sending armed mooks against a Gun Kata expert is doing your enemy a favor, and it would have been interesting to show Preston going up against bare-handed opponents. | |
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Cycle of Revenge: The Kung Fu Hustle essay talks about the common "feuding martial arts schools" trope. | |
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True Companions: Covered in the The Mission (1999) essay | |
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Insistent Terminology: "If, in 1977, when I am 13, you show me a movie called Star Wars, it's still called Star Wars now." | |
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Running Gag: One aspect of the "setup and callback" that forms the Hot Fuzz essay. | |
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