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40 year old hero (retro-pizza.s3.de.io.cloud.ovh.net)
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[–] 58 points 5 months ago (17 children)

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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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Have you tried Kings of the Wyld?

    Its about an older band of adventures getting back together.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I can't be the only one that immediately thought of The Blues Brothers, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    "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

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    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.

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