"Next of Kin movie good gaming ideas" Topic
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piper909 | 18 Dec 2014 11:22 a.m. PST |
I have rediscovered the movie Next of Kin (made about 1990) and it has many good gaming scenarios for Gangsters, Pulp, or other periods. While the movie takes place in modern Chicago there is no reason why it couldn't be set in earlier years. The premise of a blood-feud developing between the local mob elements and mountain folk from Kentucky who'd moved to the big city lends itself to all sorts of clashes both in urban and rural settings. The movie's climax, a night battle in a cemetery between the Italian mobsters and hillbillies armed with guns, bows, knives, and snakes (!) is a great set piece -- I can see it translating into the Pulp Alley rules perfectly. better still, there are now plenty of gangster and hillbilly figures to draw from, although the mountain people in the film are not the stock, crude caricatures most miniatures depict them as. You could substitute various modern or zombie or post-apocalypse gaming period fighters for a more realistic look if you wanted to avoid the cartoon stereotypes. |
Jeff of SaxeBearstein | 18 Dec 2014 4:23 p.m. PST |
Hmmm, My wife has the DVD but I have never watched it . . . guess I will have to give it a view. -- Jeff
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piper909 | 18 Dec 2014 11:09 p.m. PST |
Over on the TMP Plus boards, I posted this under the Movies board and there's a poster who reports there that he's already played this game using Pulp and Blue Moon figures for gangsters and hillbillies. Interesting film. Not brilliant, but engaging. And not stupid, which it could have easily been. It's funny to see Helen Hunt and Ben Stiller so young and especially Liam Neeson before he became too big a star for a role like this. Not a bad job shifting to a rural Kentucky accent, must have been a challenge for him. |
cwlinsj | 12 Jan 2015 5:54 p.m. PST |
Ever see a movie called "Southern Comfort"? -Now that's a movie worthy of modern skirmishing ideas. Cajuns vs National Guard lost in the Bayou. |
Old Slow Trot | 15 Jan 2015 7:59 a.m. PST |
Not to mention Patrick Swayze and Michael J. Pollard,in the first one. |
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