12-01-2017, 10:22 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
I'm looking to equip a "movie star" type character ["Rita 'Hayworth' Dayton]; she has $6,000 to spend - at TL 3. "Fantasy" type millieu.
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12-01-2017, 11:02 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
I am having trouble picturing the media infrastructure necessary for a TL3 "movie star" even in a fantasy world. How are "movies" made? Distributed? Marketed? What are the tabloid equivalent? The gossip columns?
In the real world there were a few rich and famous TL2 professional athletes. But performing artists.... |
12-01-2017, 11:49 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
Also, equipment for what? Nothing stated so far points to any needs beyond clothing befitting their (unspecified) status and basic personal items.
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12-01-2017, 02:34 PM | #4 | |
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
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12-01-2017, 02:38 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
Court Dress-whatever design and material is suitable for attending a palace.
For work, she would have the clothes appropriate to her character role. She could be given fencing, by the way. Not because it is needed but because having her be a dualist as well as an entertainer is an interesting twist.
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12-01-2017, 07:49 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
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I can think of very few performers of any sort that became really famous before motion pictures. Perhaps Mozart, Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin. |
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12-01-2017, 08:01 PM | #7 | |
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
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Don't forget the guy who invented The Turk, what was his name?
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12-01-2017, 09:04 PM | #8 |
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Location: Ventura CA
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12-01-2017, 10:48 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Meifumado
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
Mata Hari and Houdini were famous without being movie stars. I'm sure there were famous vaudeville stars too. Opera and ballet would've been the equivalent to movies in earlier times.
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12-02-2017, 07:51 AM | #10 | |
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Re: Equipping fantasy "Movie Star"
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The medium seems less important to "fame" than mass communications and travel technology. There were quite a lot of troubadours famous in the Middle Ages. Not household names today, no doubt -- but then, I doubt anyone's going to remember Tom Cruise or Scarlett Johansson six hundred years from now, either. Culture also matters. If performing arts aren't respected and valued, then performers aren't likely to be famous enough to survive in written records, much less oral traditions of their legend. Then there's our modern bias when looking back. It's a lot easier to display works of medieval and Renaissance visual artists in a museum than it is to "display" a performing art from when there was no recording technology, or even a way to write down music or dance. |
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