[HoE] Movie Town Magic - specifically John Wayne

[Damnaged Goods <jason@tanet.net>]

I don't truely believe that foiling a bank robery would get someone into
sainthood, Templar or Jesuit...  The Templar saints are those sturdy
individuals who have dedicated their lives to fighting the Reconers.  

John Wayne was a patriot, and truely desired to fight for his country in
WWII, but, Hollywood needed a movie man back at home, and Mr. Wayne had
just started a family, had bills to pay, and the like.  In the end, he felt
he could do his country a better service by staying out of the service, so
to speak.  The Movie people portrayed him as the "all American Man."  He
was to become the embodiment of the American "do or die" spirit.  He had to
portray our willingness to fight the good fight against insurmountable
odds, but yet also reserve judgement and walk away when we have to.  They
made him out to be "More American than America."  Such was his life on Screen.

Off Screen, however, he was nothing so glamerous.  He took to drinking,
smoking, and playing cards with his friends, and that was about it.  The
Duke's life was rather uneventful, action wise.  

It is his many portrayals on screen that would do harm to the Reckoners,
however.  Pinnacle chose wisely to make the Man a saint.  It was not any
ONE of his characters that made the difference, but the Man himself, on
screen, that is.  America took heart from the knowledge that John Wayne
never played a bad guy, and that the Duke would always come out on top,
even if it killed him.  

His life off screen doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the land war
against the Reckoners, but his ON Screen life does.  There would be two
seperate John Wayne personas here, and I don't mean characters.  One would
be the rough and tumble bastard he portrayed in his films, and the other,
the soft and weak Movie Town actor.  It's a fine line, and I don't know if
I'm explaining it well enough, but oh well.


Also, the Martyrs were usually killed by deliberate plotting by the
Reckoners.  In this case, it would be their henchman, Baron LaCroix who
would poison the Duke, and inevitably killing him.  The Doctors of the day,
unversed in Occult matters, would of ruled the infection Cancerous, and
left it at that.

-DG





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