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The Dresden Files => DF Spoilers => Topic started by: Con on September 28, 2017, 04:20:09 AM
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Ok so I'm not going to make a poll yet as they're are too many to count, but personally I'm going to go with Rise of the Guardians.
Russian Warrior Santa with tattoos was brilliant.
Aussie Easter Bunny was good too, cause we do have a lot of rabbits. Though farmers hate them.
Sandman and tooth Faerie were Brilliant too.
Anyone else think Pitch Black would make for the perfect Outsider like Nemesis?
Jack Frost himself was great as a Canadian and counter point with the other northern figure of Russian Santa.
Santa's Yeti bodyguards and minion elves were great too. I want to apply it to the dresden verse and have Kringle have a Fae army of Yeti's and Svartalves in a toy factory fortress. He's the counter point to the Erlking and his Goblin army so it'd make sense.
Anyway what's your favourite modern adpation of myth and folklore. Other than Dresdenfiles. Special mention to Once Upon a Time.
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T.V. show Grimm Krampus was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lUEQjtNvjA
Death on Supernatural was imo a great modern adaptation to personifying Death as a person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK4T73n9GbU&t=32s
Raging rudolph showing the mobster side of Santa is hilarious if you have a sick sense of humor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1BUZg9LxrU
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I enjoy Grimm it just has the problem of a few supernatural tv shows of finding reasons not to kill off characters.
Death on Supernatural is... pretty pathetic in practicality as Death personifications go, so many characters keep being brought back to life. However he is intimidating. The scene where they entrap him in a circle reminds me of Harry in Dead Beat with the Erlking.
Raging Rudolph was amusing if slightly sickening
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Come back to this tomorrow.
*can it be elements adapted into the DF?
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Yeah sure Jonas I don't mind
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Myth and Folklore huh ...
Marvel's Agents of Shield
The Marvel Movies
Really all of the Super Hero Movies and tv shows.
I know this isn't what you intended, but they are myth-like.
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snorts* touche Rasins. To clarify I meant the ore traditional definition of myth and folklore. Of mythological and supernatural creatures stories that have become tradition in relation to their cultures.
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I have to admit that I enjoyed the 13th Warrior.
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I think the Underworld Werewolves were pretty cool. The first Blade movie was good for vampire stuff.
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Death on Supernatural is... pretty pathetic in practicality as Death personifications go, so many characters keep being brought back to life.
For my money, the best Death has to go to Pratchett's Discworld. Hands down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnaQXJmpwM4
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Dresden files as the archetype story, it makes connections to other stories by sheer accident of trying to fit all mythology into one, mythology is the basis of all story realms of course.
The courts combined with Mabs purpose makes a great mirror on Mortal Kombat, what with the war between realities, warriors of fire and ice that are mortal foes, Necromancer trying to gain power by absorbing a bunch of souls. The Merlin/Arthur angle, the TWC/antichrist second coming angle. Doing multiple renditions on apocalypse, ect.
Its... expansive, and not always intentional I think, but always by design lol.
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American Gods, anyone?
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I liked the idea of old gods vs. new gods.
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American Gods, anyone?
Yeah, though its Odin jars after too much Dresden Files ;)
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Some random stuff from the top of my head.
Anne Rice’s first couple vampire books plus the latter Blood and Gold. Her first book or two in The Witching Hour series.
Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light was a fun hindu and buddhist meets scifi story.
Ken Russel’s Films Gothic and Salome’s Last Dance films.
Aechylus’ The Oresteia (particulary the first play).
Homer’s Iliad.
Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.
Hieronymus Bosch‘s Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.
Illuminatus! trilogy
O Brother, Where Art Thou film.
Dead Can Dance’s album, Aion.
Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
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Fables comic. Gotta love Bigby.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou film.
Oh god, I hated that movie.
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Hated Clooney, the rest was good.
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Fables comic. Gotta love Bigby.
The Video game adaptation was pretty fun, as an interactive story. Got to end up seeing all 3 versions of the Big Bad Wolf.
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Oh yeah, another one:
The Dominions line of video games. The budget is low, but the fantasy kitchen sink approach works.
Where else can a Christian Roman Empire face off against the underworld Lizards, Deep Ones and Starchildren of Lovecraftian fame, the Nephilim of Judaic lore, the Phoenicians, Greek heroes riding the occasional Pegasus, the Allfather, Heart-ripping Aztecs, Satyrs and Panii, Steel-casting Germanic tribes, Druidic armies, Man-eating Amazons, Chinese from the Spring and Autumn period, African Witch doctors, fire elementals, semi-Zoroastrian winged Persians, Cavedwelling giants, Sidhe (with some pre-Sidhe thrown in the mix), Fomorians, Nordic Frost Giants, Rakshasas, Buddhist Apes, Enkidu and his kin, Japanese wild demons, Mermen (and their near-humanoid amphibian kin)... and since a short while, some undead Greek-ish ghosts?
Well, I suppose Harry nearly can ;)
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Oh yeah, another one:
The Dominions line of video games. The budget is low, but the fantasy kitchen sink approach works.
Where else can a Christian Roman Empire face off against the underworld Lizards, Deep Ones and Starchildren of Lovecraftian fame, the Nephilim of Judaic lore, the Phoenicians, Greek heroes riding the occasional Pegasus, the Allfather, Heart-ripping Aztecs, Satyrs and Panii, Steel-casting Germanic tribes, Druidic armies, Man-eating Amazons, Chinese from the Spring and Autumn period, African Witch doctors, fire elementals, semi-Zoroastrian winged Persians, Cavedwelling giants, Sidhe (with some pre-Sidhe thrown in the mix), Fomorians, Nordic Frost Giants, Rakshasas, Buddhist Apes, Enkidu and his kin, Japanese wild demons, Mermen (and their near-humanoid amphibian kin)... and since a short while, some undead Greek-ish ghosts?
Well, I suppose Harry nearly can ;)
*leans forward in chair* excuse me? never caught on to this one...
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*leans forward in chair* excuse me? never caught on to this one...
Oh R'lyeh?