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This is my attempt to finally jot down a concept I have for a multi-player online game based in a 30's-40's era Southern California world. I've created a blog (possibly the worst way to codify an idea) because it's actually faster and easier than trying to find a piece of paper and pencil.
Quote of the Week:
He stopped, pretending interest in the shape the red puddle was taking. I knew pain had stopped him, but I knew he would go on talking as soon as he got himself in hand. He meant to die as he had lived, inside the same tough shell. Talking could be torture, but he wouldn't stop on that account, not while anybody was there to see him. He was Reno Starkey who could take anything the world had without batting an eye, and he would play it out that way to the end.
-Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
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acronym key
- CA - california
- GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto 4
- HP - Hit points
- LOL - laugh out loud
- LVL - level
- NPC - non-player character
- PvE - player vs. Environment
- PvP - player vs. player
- RPG - Role Playing Game
- WoW - World of Warcraft
- XP - Experience Points
Idea Archive
Musique Noir
2 comments:
So here's my thought:
"Film Noir" as we understand it today really comes out of the European directors and cinematographers and screenwriters who came into the Studio System and brought a different worldview and a different film style with them. So in a way it might be fair to say "Noir" and "Southern California" are really in opposition to some degree: while we've seen depictions of 1930s - 1940s SoCal in a "Noir" style, those who lived there in that period would likely have thought in other visual terms. (What comes to my mind is the American Regionalism / American Scene Painting style.)
So it could be interesting to use opposed styles -- one view that has the golden light Southern California really has, even if filtered through a lonely Hopperesque take, and another view that has the harsh and heavy dark nightworld we find in the best Noirs.
Heck, it seems that's often the Noir subtext: one wrong step and you leave the golden world and end up in the dark....
So true... The best stories/films in that style are always about "accidents"; mild mistakes that turn deadly, or a chance meeting with disastrous consequences...
Your best intentions become the means to your end.
That may be the best way to describe "Noir" style:
The confluence of light and dark, visually and thematically, and what lurks unseen taints the beauty of the visible.
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