Lord Spoochyspoochy on 16/3/2013 at 08:35

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I did a search but I didn't find a similar thread. Are there any movies that remind of thief?
If not, any good medieval movies, that someone who likes thief would like them too?

Lord Spoochyspoochy on 16/3/2013 at 09:27

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Thanks jtr7!

Petike the Taffer on 23/3/2013 at 20:02

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This is more loosely related, but several years ago, I found some interesting parallels between some of the environments and events of the second and third Thief game and The Name of the Rose. Both the original novel and the film adaptation. (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127152) You can read about it here.

Since LGS did confirm some degree of inspiration in Eco's probably most famous work, I think I might be onto something. However, I might be wrong with my assumptions and the parallels might have been wholly coincidental. :angel: :erg:

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[video=youtube;w6ntMbUEjf0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ntMbUEjf0[/video]

There is also this. A stop-motion animated short film that's essentially a music video set to (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQo57KBtSM) Colin Rudd's adaptation of the poem (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Mewlips) The Mewlips by J. R. R. Tolkien.

You might ask "Huh ? What does professor Tolkien have to do with Thief, aside from genre ?". This is meant to be an in-universe poem, or nursery rhyme or folk song of the hobbits, and it's a spooky cautionary tale against being too adventurous and running into orcs. "Mewlips" means "Graylips", so a Mewlip is some sort of hobbit folk term for an orc. Though hobbits weren't threatened directly by orcs in the era The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings is set in, the hobbits still had recollections of orcs and goblins living in the Misty Mountains and other wilderness outside of The Shire, and these fictional folk songs reflect that.

This short film reinforces these themes, with a cloak-wearing (https://www.deviantart.com/jonhodgson/art/Hobbit-Scholar-253382810) hobbit (https://www.deviantart.com/jonhodgson/art/Trotter-253462252) adventurer wandering towards a haunted-looking ruin in an unpleasant valley, and the orc and goblin bandits living there wait for him to fall for their trap.

Replace the orcs and goblins with undead or other monsters, and that music video adapting the hobbit song looks remarkably like a stop-motion animation of some Thief mission. Wandering towards a ridiculously spooky ruin, wearing a cloak and hood, sword in hand, and I could go on.

Plus, thanks to Tolkien's Bilbo, his own hobbits (and their various halfling clones by other fantasy authors) have become synonymic with a "skillful and stealthy burglar, less experienced warrior" character archetype. Supposedly, hobbits are also decent archers, according to Tolkien. That's also reminescent of Garrett, funnily enough. Experienced stealthy thief, but not much of a swordfighter (he can just about get by), and an okay archer (for his needs).

AngelWolf on 30/11/2013 at 07:44

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At the other end of the spectrum are 2 movies I've seen recently that involve a thief-like point of view.

Curse of Chucky:
There's a scene where we find out that someone hid a nannycam in Chucky, and when the footage is played back it shows Chucky's POV as he sneaks from shadow to shadow, leaning around corners, and basically acting thief-like.

Maniac (2013):
This entire movie is filmed from the POV of a serial killer played by Elijah Wood. There are a few stalking sequences where I almost expected to see a light gem at the bottom of the screen.

Tomi on 30/11/2013 at 16:23

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Were you trying to edit your signature but accidentally posted here instead? :p