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666frames · 5 months

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Savage Streets (1984)

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mourningmaybells · 6 months

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homophobic movies will show punks and bikers randomly kissing their friends and other same-sex characters on the mouth as if that's not an ideal scenario

#the ninth configuration #savage streets

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movieposters1 · 2 years

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#savage streets

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creepyolddude1973 · 2 months

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#savage streets #caricature

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elcineblue · 10 months

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#80s vibes #drama #thriller #Linda Blair #Robert Dryer #1984 #Savage Streets

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mayamarvil · 1 year

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You can’t succumb to your inner goth when you have a homicidal tween to look after :(

Batman (2016-) #130

#batman #bruce wayne #dc #dc comics #dc robin #dick grayson #robin #batdad #batkids #batfam #bat family #i like to think that bruce is the one living in fear and holding dick back #every night he lies in fear of unleashing dick into the streets of gotham #instead he holds a savage ruthless beast back under the illusion of batman and robin

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jimintomystery · 2 years

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John Farnham - Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way

#john farnham #savage streets #kup! grimlock! slag! ...anybody!#music

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driveintheaterofthemind · 3 months

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Doc Savage (Jan1938)

Art by Emery Clarke

Street And Smith

#Pulp #Doc Savage #Pulp Heroes #Emery Clarke #Street And Smith #Vintage #Magazines #Art #Original Art #Before And After #Kenneth Robeson #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #1938 #1930s #30s

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cantsayidont · 4 months

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August 1984. This won't change anyone's feelings about cult movie perennial THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION one way or the other, but if you're wondering what the hell the deal is supposed to be with Buckaroo Banzai and his team, the answer is, "It's an obvious pastiche of the pulp hero Doc Savage."

Launched in 1933, Doc Savage was one of the leading adventure heroes of the pulp magazines. Doc (whose full name was Clark Savage Jr.) was scientifically trained from childhood to the peak of human perfection, singularly adept in everything from mechanical engineering to medicine to martial arts. He had a secret headquarters called the Fortress of Solitude and a whole array of specially designed vehicles and equipment, but he was also a public figure, with offices in the Empire State Building. Doc had a team of eccentric, highly specialized aides — Monk Mayfair, Ham Brooks, Renny Renwick, Long Tom Roberts, and Johnny Littlejohn — who each had a particular skill and a couple of distinctive personality traits (for instance, Monk was a skilled industrial chemist, but also an "ape-like" brute with a ferocious temper). They were sometimes aided by Doc's cousin, Pat Savage, who was almost as capable as Doc, although he tried to keep her out of the fray because she was (gasp) a girl.

This was a fairly common pattern for pulp heroes. For instance, the pulp version of the Shadow (who was distinctly different from the radio incarnation) relied on a whole network of agents, some appearing only once or twice, some recurring across many of his published adventures. From a narrative standpoint, the agents and assistants had two principal purposes: The first was to offset the rather overpowered heroes — pulp heroes didn't necessarily have superhuman powers, but even those who didn't tended to be preternaturally skilled at nearly everything, so it was convenient to limit their direct involvement in an adventure to crucial moments, and let the assistants (who could be much more fallible) do much of the legwork. The second object was to beef up the characterization. Doc Savage was morally irreproachable as well as absurdly multi-talented, so there wasn't a lot to be done with him character-wise, while maintaining the mystique of a character like the Shadow required him to remain a fairly closed book.

Although the pulp heroes were a huge influence on early comic book superheroes like Superman and Batman, some of these conventions didn't translate well to other media: In a 13-page comic book story or half-hour radio episode, having too many characters was cumbersome (and expensive, where it meant hiring extra actors), and comic book readers normally expected to follow their four-color heroes quite closely, even before the breathless internal monologue became a genre staple. So, Superman inherited Doc Savage's Fortress of Solitude, but not his "Fabulous Five" assistants, while heroes like Batman and Captain America generally stuck with a single sidekick rather than a team of aides. Even the late Doc Savage pulp adventures (which ended in 1949) de-emphasized the assistants to keep the focus more on Doc himself. Ultimately, the pulp heroes didn't really have the right narrative center of gravity for visual media, which is why they've become relatively obscure, despite repeated revival attempts. The 1975 Doc Savage movie with Ron Ely, for instance, was a notorious commercial flop, and elements like Doc's childishly bickering assistants seemed odd and dated, even taking into account the film's nostalgia-bait '30s period setting.

What BUCKAROO BANZAI tried to do was to bring that old pulp hero formula into the modern era with a big infusion of '80s style and humor. Like Doc Savage, Buckaroo is a wildly gifted polymath (in the opening scenes, he rushes from performing brain surgery to test-driving his Jet Car through a mountain), so famous and important a personage that he puts the president of the United States on hold, and he surrounds himself with an array of brilliant, eccentric aides with silly nicknames who play in his rock band when they're not fighting crime or doing advanced scientific experiments.

Alas, judging by the poor box office returns, general audiences were no more amenable to the '80s version of this formula than they had been to DOC SAVAGE: MAN OF BRONZE nine years earlier, even with the 1984 film's extraordinary cast and memorably witty dialogue. Granted, even many of the movie's most diehard fans are baffled by the convoluted plot — a crucial expository scene where the leader of the Black Lectroids (Rosalind Cash) explains much of what's going on is nigh-incomprehensible without subtitles or closed captioning — but beyond that, THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI is essentially an extended riff on a particular slice of pop culture that had long since dropped out of the public consciousness, which is both part of its charm and also its commercial undoing, at least as mainstream entertainment.

(Also, if you're wondering, yes, the TOM STRONG series by Alan Moore and Chris Sprouse is also an obvious Doc Savage pastiche, although at least some of its plot and character concepts were probably retoolings of unused ideas from Moore's earlier Maximum Press/Awesome Comics SUPREME series, which was an extended pastiche of the pre-Crisis Superman.)

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muppet-facts · 6 months

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Muppet Fact #887

Adam Savage voiced Heathcliff in his father Whitney Lee Savage's Sesame Street animated inserts "He, She and It."

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"Mythbusters’ Adam Savage remembers his father’s Sesame Street animations." Adam Savage. AV Club. November 11, 2014.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #sesame street #childrens tv #behind the scenes #Adam Savage #myth busters #av club

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table-cat-games · 23 days

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My first ttrpg (setting) Street Wolves is now getting a turbo upgrade on Kickstarter.

Street Wolves takes place in the late 1980s and it features investigators on the edge fighting hidden foes in the neon shadows.

I'm looking to get it printed with a layout upgrade, and stretch goals include more art, adventures, and a campaign! Plus there's tons of cool add-ons available.

Please check it out!

#indie ttrpg #savage worlds #street wolves #table top role playing game #swade #retrowave #synthwave

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mourningmaybells · 6 months

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Linda Blair's movie Savage Streets is free on youtube btw. Censored with a lot of sudden cuts, but i could still tell what was happening. Archive.org's version is uncensored but from what I've skimmed, the rape scene could be too triggering for people.

A cult classic exploitation film. has aged badly in terms of dialogue and plot, but watching her hunt down rapists with a crossbow and car in the last minutes of the film was kind of wild and fun. i realize this is probably because i dont watch a lot of exploitation films as much as I watch schlock horror (quality ranging from basket case to corruption 1968) but still