{"id":241,"date":"2011-02-10T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=241"},"modified":"2011-07-06T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T17:54:53","slug":"two-fisted-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Two-Fisted Boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also in my quest for inspirational pulp adventure, I checked out <em>Lost Horizon<\/em>, not realizing until it was in the DVD player that it was a Frank Capra movie.  Yerk.  Couldn&#8217;t even sit through the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>This was not two-fisted adventure; it was one-fisted, and that for about half a second, in a performance that rates somewhere below the Three Stooges for realistic brawling.  Promises that this was a darker turn from Capra&#8217;s usual work are only true in comparison to Capra&#8217;s usual work, not to any absolute scale, which is to say the movie doesn&#8217;t end with everyone wildly celebrating small-town American values.  There&#8217;s still plenty of heavy-handed preaching; it&#8217;s just that this morality play ends by showing us what happens to greedy little boys and girls, rather than rewarding the good ones who live by simple faith.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s bits and pieces of pulp adventure here: a lost world, a natural aristocracy of whites over the darkies, airplanes still treated as something exotic.  But you can&#8217;t call it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pulp adventure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when there&#8217;s no adventure.  I can&#8217;t build an RPG campaign around this.  The gravest danger the PCs would face is the possibility of the High Lama (a transplanted European, naturally) talking my players to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also in my quest for inspirational pulp adventure, I checked out Lost Horizon, not realizing until it was in the DVD player that it was a Frank Capra movie. Yerk. Couldn&#8217;t even sit through the whole thing. This was not two-fisted adventure; it was one-fisted, and that for about half a second, in a performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}