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[Shad0]

[META] More themes

[krystyn]

Dang, Shad0. Trust you to take the little glimmerings I felt when I read the text, and actually extrapolate it out all neat like that.

Nice work.

I swear, you all make my brains melt like microwaved gummi bears.

[SuperJerms]

Well, it's weak, but I think this time the subplots were more metaphors of the themes, since there obviously wasn't a literal hanging. Here's the possible things we could reconstrue as liberal theme adaptations (in no specific order after the first ones, which I see as most plausible)...

stick-up:
- Hearst intercepts Bierce to get the manuscript.
- Major Damon intercepts Pancho Villa to get W.R. Hearst.

lynching:
- When Patton hears that Abel has shot a priest, he hopes it will end with a firing squad -- a period specific lynching.
- Villa's men hold Hearst up by his arms, so he is "hung up" while Pancho squares off to shoot him.
- Michaels killed a lot of Boxers...not too far from lynching considering how little chance they stood in the rebellion
- Caldwell is always dragging Rosita around by her hair
- Caldwell kills Rosita's brother for treason
- Someone mentioned that Bierce's death scene is a retooling of an old Twilight Zone story where a fella fantisizes that he's escaped and made it back home to a loving family (just as his neck breaks while he's being lynched)
- Soapy said he ran with lots of folks that ended up lynched, such as Billie the Kid.

brawl:
- Bar fight between Villa/Hearst/Michaels.
- Bar fight between Hearst and Soapy (Bierce's story).
- Bar fight killed O'Grady's father.

showdown:
- Patton draws on Caldwell
- O'Grady draws on Caldwell
- Michaels draws on Villa
- Hearst draws on Bierce
- Hearst draws on Soapy

Hey, if the Matrix is an adaptation on the themes, then we know these themes aren't 100% literal.

[Shad0]

[Arana]

Anyone else notice this parallel?

Tough girl in trouble is called out of the blue by a yong technogeek who says that he can help her. She thinks he's a crank, but is then convinced to listen by his apparent inside knowledge. They team up and work together.

The description fits both Lucy and Matt in Last Call Poker AND Jan and Jersey in ILoveBees!

[krystyn]

And Laia and the Red King, too, in a pinch.

[sapagoo]

2005
Bill: William Shiner
Cross-dresser: Corazon
1945
Bill: Capt. William Reed
Cross-dresser: Martin/Maria Halder
1929
Cross-dresser: J. Edgar Hoover
1914
Bill: William R Hearst
1877?
Bill: William Bonney

[Dorkmaster]

I'm willing to bet it's actually Bill Hickok, not the kid. They've already mentioned Hickok previously, (or am I making that up? ) so I think that's your oldest-timey Bill. Anyway, nice catch

[missphinx]

It's not exactly a full-fledged, capital-T Theme, but I like the way Lucy's bath is mirrored by Jenny's bath in GUN (see http://www.gunthegame.com/ --> "The Game" --> "Screenshots" --> left side, fourth down)

[Astald]

[CoffeeJedi]