[UA] Vaguely UA-able movie: Brick

[Jonathan]

I found "the Pin" to be a UA sort of character.  For
that matter, he kind of fit into the idea of the True
King (or just the King) in a Tim Powers kind of way. 
Crippled, stylized clothing, scepter, etc.

I got the recommendation for Brick from this list and
also watched it recently.  Enjoyed it quite a bit.  If
nothing else, one could use it for inspiration for a
character navigating between a number of cabals in
order to investigate/get what he wants.

Jonathan

--- Peter Kisner <kisnerp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally when a movie strikes me as at least
> moderately impressive in
> some way my brain immediately starts trying to
> figure out which of my
> favorite RPGs it would best fit either as a
> scenario, or just
> ambiance-wise.  In general it goes:
> 
> * Changeling:  the Dreaming - If the movie deals
> heavily with a shared
> delusion, themes of creativity overwhelmed by the
> mundane, magic
> empowered by belief (or lack of scrutiny),
> dream-like states or
> nightmarish beings.
> 
> * Mage:  the Ascension - If the movie in any way
> endorses alternate
> paradigms, alternate worlds, or humans bending the
> normal rules or
> reality in some way.  Even better if there's a
> powerful "status quo"
> faction that has to be contended with regularly.
> 
> *  Call of Cthulhu - If the movie deals in any way
> with things that
> Should Not Be.  Especially things that take human
> assumption about
> what is "normal" and stand those assumptions on
> their head with
> unsettling results.
> 
> * Unknown Armies - Anything else that has a vaguely
> occult theme, or
> just some really weird crap in it, generally sets
> off my UA alarms.
> But not just para-normal stuff.  Anything with a
> certain level of
> incongruity will do it as will anything that shows
> the seedy
> underbelly of a sub-culture in an intriguing enough
> light.
> 
> For this last reason I mention the movie "Brick"
> which I finally got
> around to watching yesterday from netflix.
> 
> The storyline in Brick surrounds a high school kid
> investigating the
> drug-related death of his ex-girlfriend.  The whole
> thing is
> intentionally stylized to have strong elements from
> the noir and "hard
> boiled detective" genres.  This is generally done
> with sufficient
> subtlety that the story still feels semi-plausible
> in a modern
> context, and doesn't just end up as a another
> vaguely comedic
> retro-ization of a modern story.  Though in a few
> scenes they do lay
> on the lingo a bit heavily.
> 
> The seedy underbelly dealt with in Brick alternates
> between the sort
> of back-lot grime you'd almost expect in real life,
> and the more
> cultivated incongruity found in a David Lynch film.
> 
> Now it'd be pretty difficult to peg any of the
> events in Brick as
> having occult significance (unless you count one of
> the (thankfully)
> deleted scenes) or even really approaching a typical
> Lynchian level of
> bizarreness.  But the tone of the movie and the way
> it unfolds, the
> grit and the consequences for getting what you want,
> these all strike
> me as ideally fitting the ambiance for a UA
> scenario.  Hence the
> reason I mentioned it here.
> 
> I got nothing else.
> 
> 
> - Peter K.
> 
> 
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