Volpone
Zombie Hunter
Initially going to be a media thread, but I realized it is even bigger than that.
I was thinking about "Stargate"--both the movie and the TV show. In it O'Neil/O'Neill is the "reluctant warrior". He's retired, but his country needs him, so they send people to get him and he comes back because there's a job that needs to be done and he's the only one who can do it.
The first time I remember seeing this cliche in a movie is "Firefox"--no, not the web browser, the Cold War thriller that starred Clint Eastwood as a retired Air Force Major who, you guessed it is the only man for the job, so they send people to come get him and he accepts because his country needs him.
Like I said, I can't think of another cinematic example, but this is a part of American culture, quite literally since the birth of the nation.
George Washington was a reluctant warrior. He'd retired from the Continental Army to a life as a farmer. But if his country needed him, he was prepared to step into the role and do what needed to be done, before going back to his life as a gentleman farmer.
Of course given that he showed up at the Continental Congress in the July heat wearing his full military uniform--prior to being asked, it's possible he wasn't quite as reluctant as he made himself out to be.
hpup:
I was thinking about "Stargate"--both the movie and the TV show. In it O'Neil/O'Neill is the "reluctant warrior". He's retired, but his country needs him, so they send people to get him and he comes back because there's a job that needs to be done and he's the only one who can do it.
The first time I remember seeing this cliche in a movie is "Firefox"--no, not the web browser, the Cold War thriller that starred Clint Eastwood as a retired Air Force Major who, you guessed it is the only man for the job, so they send people to come get him and he accepts because his country needs him.
Like I said, I can't think of another cinematic example, but this is a part of American culture, quite literally since the birth of the nation.
George Washington was a reluctant warrior. He'd retired from the Continental Army to a life as a farmer. But if his country needed him, he was prepared to step into the role and do what needed to be done, before going back to his life as a gentleman farmer.
Of course given that he showed up at the Continental Congress in the July heat wearing his full military uniform--prior to being asked, it's possible he wasn't quite as reluctant as he made himself out to be.
hpup: