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RE Dogscoff: Yeah Balisong is pretty cool looking I've seen it in person a few times, it uses a "butterfly" knife traditionally but it can adapt to a different knife style which is cool.

It's one of those "move fast or get stabbed" styles.

And I just don't get holywood with their Flouncy style, I mean personally I was MUCH more impressed with say Serenity's Martial Arts scenes then any others (quick precise and deadly). I would be FAR more impressed by both a Hero and a Villain who are capable of just ending a fight in a matter of seconds with a handful of techniques.

Or even if say you have two equal opponents it gets brutal and fast but I am more impressed by someone who can block and grab and break, then jump and flutter like a freakin bird lol.

I mean a real HtH fight is fast, and brutal, and is even faster and nastier if you WANT to kill someone (break their trachea or many other gruesome yet efficent methods) that take seconds to perform.


Re Baron: Yes but Camera effects http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif you Know in Firefly/Serenity Gina Tores is actually about a foot shorter then the guy who played her husband, but they made him look far shorter then her. So I could live with China Chow playing a tall woman and maybe Lucy Lu playing her mother http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif (Remember Prolong here people I am NOT saying Lucy looks old).

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How about an actual talented (non-"name") actress? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Okay but China is not exactly a big name and she's fairly talented.

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I remember reading a line in a Puzo novel. Someone had asked a charahter how he bribed cops and judges to let him deal drugs. He replied you just find out their annual salary and then offer them five times that plus bonuses.

And in the scheme of things a 'huge' cheque for DW isn't going to be alot of money compared to the sfx budget. Throw in a promise of a % of earnings (gross if he's naive, net if ne's not) and voila! You've brought yourself an author.

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"(gross if he's naive, net if ne's not)"
Backwards?

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Actually, if he's naive he'll accept a percentage of the profits like Stan Lee did for the Spiderman movies. It's amazing that anyone in the general public, let alone the publishing business, could be so clueless that he wouldn't know movies never make a 'profit'... but Stan Lee didn't and he had to go to court to make Sony share some of the money from the Spiderman movies when he realized his share of the 'profit' was useless.

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The difficulty is that you can ultimatly only bribe someone who's willing to be bribed.

I don't know if DW fits that catagory or not, though. However, he seems to pick up good friends.

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Remember that, via his writings, DW seems a bit skeptical of the media as a whole. I just love how Andrew LaFollet stares down a newsie in Fields of Dishonor http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'd hope they get up to Flag In Exile just to see if they have the balls to do the duel the way its done in the book. A nice lead in, a bit of standoff and..its over.