according to the authors
[quote]The text paraphrased and ocasionally parodied Dogme 95[/quote].
Thank god Dogme 95 really took off otherwise all movies ever made would look like the Blair Witch Project.
Would this be an indication that they’re taking the piss? Though ‘personal’ taste could sorta be considered different from ‘good’ taste.
I still can’t read either Dogma without thinking oh god, oh god…
[quote=“theamazingcatherine”]
Would this be an indication that they’re taking the piss? [/quote]
We can but hope and pray. The trouble is that some people are taking it seriously, like the book ‘Why Cats Paint’ by Burton Silver. There are now cat art galleries in America.
[quote=“Alista”][quote=“theamazingcatherine”]
Would this be an indication that they’re taking the piss? [/quote]
We can but hope and pray. The trouble is that some people are taking it seriously, like the book ‘Why Cats Paint’ by Burton Silver. There are now cat art galleries in America.[/quote]
Amen
[quote=“Andrew”]
I think you’re on to something here, but we need to switch it up a bit. No physreps, right? So a foam sword is foam sword and instead of playing a character in a LARP, you play a normal person who is playing a character in a LARP. So then we get a Dogma LARP about people playing in a non-Dogma LARP.[/quote]
I vote Andrew wins the best comment award for this thread.
I liked the Dogma. I found it exciting. However, I also found it over the top and extreem.
A Dogma99 style LARP would be fun, if it is for you. 4 or 5 years ago I would have hated this, not seen the reason in this what so ever. Now, after kinda getting over the whole ZOMG ELVES! thing and doing some acting, I would throughly enjoy a Dgoma LARP as long as, like every other style, it was well run. I couldn’t play only Dogma’s until the day I die, I do like variety.
I see the main point of this article as to show that the LARP world is not all pale geeks in badly made elf ears and foam swords running through the bush, we can be pale geeks sitting around a table pretending to be high class aristocrats… or POW’s… or what-have-you.
[quote=“Ian”][quote=“Andrew”]
I think you’re on to something here, but we need to switch it up a bit. No physreps, right? So a foam sword is foam sword and instead of playing a character in a LARP, you play a normal person who is playing a character in a LARP. So then we get a Dogma LARP about people playing in a non-Dogma LARP.[/quote]
I vote Andrew wins the best comment award for this thread.[/quote]
Thank you. I try.
I must admit I am looking at writing a Dogma 99 module. Not as a Live Role play but as an improvisational theatre piece for a birthday party. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’m still trying to get a handle on this. (The rule is: everything has a positive intention until proven otherwise.)
I’m trying out art analogies.
Truth is Beauty: So sometimes sculptors will say, “Oh, I take a block of stone and I see the elephant inside and I take away everything that isn’t the elephant, and there it is, all trunky.” I think perhaps the writers of Dogme99 are thinking that way - that they’re trying to reveal the natural beauty of a thing instead of layering sequins, paint, and feathers on top.
On the other hand, Beauty is Truth: A dancer from La Baton Rouge in Paris might be very, very beautiful naked, but the sequins, paint, and feathers also delight the eye and the mind. Also, the interplay of the dancer with a fan, say, has its own purpose, and its own beauty.
Conclusions: I don’t really have any. I’m leaning towards Beauty is Truth, I think. I believe that fiction is the art of lying to reveal truth. Jesus Christ* did not tell people philosophy, he spoke in fiction - stories - and let the images and characters in those stories catch at people’s minds. When Plato discussed his theories of ideal forms, he used stories and analogies to do it.
Discuss?
(* I mean, JC as represented in the New Testament, the fictional JC that is. See?)
The other classic Nordic larp manifesto is the Manifesto of the Turku School:
Somebodies been smoking something really good.
Very table-top focus to that one. All the hand-wringing in the manifesto tires me…
The vow of chastity is larp-specific, though:
users.utu.fi/mijupo/turku/vow.html
The big difference with this is that it’s player-focussed (who’d have thought?)
It makes for a micro approach where all the players just do their bit (“simulating” a character) and the GM is holy.
Ironically, despite being all about realistic character reactions etc, I found it highly un-personable. Not a fun read…