Pulp German

[KeyanSark]

PeteMurray you quite often surprise and move me with your words...

I completely agree in this.

Pete, regarding the German-as-villains thing, we spanish usually feel the same in Swashbuckling stories  :mrgreen:

[Florin]

Pete, regarding the German-as-villains thing, we spanish usually feel the same in Swashbuckling stories  :mrgreen:

well, and just think about all the fbi/ cia "bad guys" you see in american movies. in the end, everybody gets his share of villains.

[meninobesta]

ah! we Portuguese are never the bad guys...

we are always depicted as poor fishermen!  

[MadMö]

I've always wondered how you guys feel about being constantly cast as the villians in Pulp style games and stories.

Well, in my gamers club no one ever wants to play US-americans.
All that WWII games take place in Russia or in north africa because no one ever wants to be an US-american.
That´s the reason we never played a pacific scenario. Only japanese at the table.::
Positive: As a german/villain you don`t need an excuse to bomb a village full of innocents or develop a doomsday weapon.  
Everyone is invited to make fun of the 1000 years reich. D*mn idiots.

[Plynkes]

well, and just think about all the fbi/ cia "bad guys" you see in american movies. in the end, everybody gets his share of villains.

That isn't quite the same, as the protagonists in such stories are usually American too. There are very few films where the Americans are cast wholly as the baddies (can't think of any that I've seen) in the way members of other nationalities get lumped together and cast as 'bad.'

It's totally understandable though, as most of the films in question are made by Americans and largely for Americans, too.

[Ironworker]

It's totally understandable though, as most of the films in question are made by Americans and largely for Americans, too.

That is changing though and I for one think it's pretty cool that it is.  There just isn't much comming out of Hollywood that is all that origional or interesting.  Pretty to look at sure but that only goes so far.  

American villians are pleanty common even government and military villians but your right the heros are usually still Americans.  I can't think of a single Viet Nam movie where some American isn't the main villian.

[Howard Whitehouse]

We've gone two pages and several days into this thread without anyone saying, "Achtung! Schnell! For you ze var is over!"

Or, indeed, "Donner und Blitzen! Gott in Himmel!"

I just wanted to rectify that  ::

Carry on as before!

[KeyanSark]

Don't forget another classic: "Schnell, schnell!!!" 

[Poliorketes]

Anyone remember the uproar when the patriot hit the theatres? The british weren't used to be the villains, too! (Except in french films, but I guess that doesn't count)

[Grimm]

Ironworker says
I've always wondered how you guys feel about being constantly cast as the villians in Pulp style games and stories.

Hey I am happy with that !! wich one is cooler Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker ?

and what I have to say to the Topic is ``SCHÄFERUND" Pulp german is a must have !!

I love it

But the best Pulpy language is Indian/English for me

Grimm

[Eisenfaust]

Regarding the British being cast as villains, I have to say, all credit to Eddie Izzard, who depicts it beautifully, that "Star Wars" is the best example of this ever. The Death Star is chockablock full of British actors running around being Imperial, oppressing rebels, and being blown up, all with very stiff-upper-lip accents. Cool!

[The Hooded Claw]

I have to admit in the pilot adventure for my new pulp RPG game, I had a german mad doctor bent on world domination and his German led mercenary flunkies as the villain. The player characters got the mad doctor monologuing and I found myself slipping into quite the cheezy German accent for him.

I think part of the appeal of Germans as the baddies is they are just so badass. They are generally not protrayed as stupid villains, but a sort of classy, crafty, competant villain who is bested by only the best the world has to throw at him.

-Eli

[KeyanSark]

and what I have to say to the Topic is ``SCHÄFERUND" Pulp german is a must have !!

Someone should explain someday for we non-germans what does Schaferhund mean! 

[P_Clapham]

I've always said the only things I still have from my german classes is the ability to do a good and cheesy accent with a few German words thrown in. 

I've always wondered how you guys feel about being constantly cast as the villians in Pulp style games and stories.  One of these days I'd like to run a short either Victorian or WWI pulp adventure serial with German protaganist and the traditionally "good guy" British, French, and Americans as the antagonist.

Hawkmoon perhaps?  Where the world is threatened by the forces of Granbretan. 

[MadMö]

and what I have to say to the Topic is ``SCHÄFERUND" Pulp german is a must have !!

Someone should explain someday for we non-germans what does Schaferhund mean! 

Well, Grimm is the leading miss-speller.
Schäferhund: German shepherd dog.
World famous for whipping insolent allied POWs into shape