In 1930’s Britain, the average lifespan of an Englishman was 60. Hobbits had an average lifespan of 100. So a 51 year old Bilbo was the same as a 30 year old Englishman.
The original ‘suicide squad’ concept movie. 12 Allied prisoners, condemned to hanging or long term imprisonment are put under the command of a maverick officer. He has to train them and then lead them into enemy territory to attack and destroy a Nazi stronghold.
I do love Dirty Dozen, but Seven Samurai is the oft imitated, never beaten, in the desperate last stand for a hastily put together team film that has my number one pick.
I know it’s heresy, but I’ll got with “The Magnificent Seven” with McQueen, Coburn, and Bronson over Seven Samurai.
Which reminds me of anther comment I made in this thread.
‘Yojimbo’ stole its plot from a book called “Red Harvest.” A middle-aged fat man who drinks too much gets hire to investigate corruption in a mining town. He decides that the only way to clean out the town is to blow it wide open.
You could swap the main character from how a realist hero saved a kingdom to a 55 year old bureaucrat and nothing in the story would change. The marriage to the princess would be creepy though.
Exactly. Nothing wrong with a hero being at least middle-aged. Maybe they even have a spouse and kids they’re leaving behind, or the kids are coming with them on the quest.
Would read a book about a 40-50 year old that has to leave his job to slay the dragon and save the world.
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In 1930’s Britain, the average lifespan of an Englishman was 60. Hobbits had an average lifespan of 100. So a 51 year old Bilbo was the same as a 30 year old Englishman.
Sounds like Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian, all right.
Ah ha ha gotta reread those gems!
Have you tried Kings of the Wyld?
Its about an older band of adventures getting back together.
I can’t be the only one that immediately thought of The Blues Brothers, right?
Yeah I think thats a good match up, if ever there was a film that caught the DnD party vibe without being a DnD film
“The Dirty Dozen” has entered the chat…
The original ‘suicide squad’ concept movie. 12 Allied prisoners, condemned to hanging or long term imprisonment are put under the command of a maverick officer. He has to train them and then lead them into enemy territory to attack and destroy a Nazi stronghold.
Seriously, you need to see this movie…
https://youtu.be/wjx6alZZkmI
I do love Dirty Dozen, but Seven Samurai is the oft imitated, never beaten, in the desperate last stand for a hastily put together team film that has my number one pick.
I know it’s heresy, but I’ll got with “The Magnificent Seven” with McQueen, Coburn, and Bronson over Seven Samurai.
Which reminds me of anther comment I made in this thread.
‘Yojimbo’ stole its plot from a book called “Red Harvest.” A middle-aged fat man who drinks too much gets hire to investigate corruption in a mining town. He decides that the only way to clean out the town is to blow it wide open.
Such a fun book.
Bilbo was 50
You could swap the main character from how a realist hero saved a kingdom to a 55 year old bureaucrat and nothing in the story would change. The marriage to the princess would be creepy though.
Exactly. Nothing wrong with a hero being at least middle-aged. Maybe they even have a spouse and kids they’re leaving behind, or the kids are coming with them on the quest.
The classic hero arc is that the “to be hero” don’t want to go, but is more or less forced, so that fits perfectly with a family!
Also, 40-50 year olds discovering magic would be a rare or never seen in a film/book.
And a few years later his nephew is saved by an 80yo geezer.
Not a book, but it’s thematically similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrX_u2no6OA
Ignore the Amazon Prime garbage. It was a Mondo Media production, which was the main reason I ended up watching it.