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Author: publicschool

Sep 13th 2012 at 11:27:39 PM

As a quick rabbit trail, chicken is a thing people do, but it as also a thing people do in movies.  I know I have seen it.  A quick search yielded examples in CryBaby, RebelWithoutACause, StandByMe,  {{Footloose}}, and if you accept the political varieties, HuntForTheRedOctober, and ThirteenDays which is about the Cuban Missile Crisis.   Those are all from http://www.gametheory.net/popular/film.html which looks at the game in terms of the possible outcomes based on the players choices of penalties and payoffs.

Ok, let me invent examples based on the movie ''{{Apocalypto}}' to illustrate the difference...  A gang of Mayans chase the innocent indian man Jaguar Paw and he runs through some thick brush and sidesteps a pit and some of them plunge over the edge.  There is the WronskiFeint.  At another point, he gets an actual Jaguar to chase him and then he runs into the midst of the Mayan gang and it attacks them.

What is that?  The feint is only part of the maneuver.

The hero is outmatched by BigBad...  First, the hero acts as bait to draw the pursuit of a secondary enemy, usually a ChaoticNeutral (to justify its animosity two both hero and villain). Second, the hero draws it toward the real enemy.  Third, he hero pulls a WronskiFeint.  Fourth, he crosses his fingers that BigBad and ChaoticNeutral duke it out while he gets away, or while he watches two problems cancel themselves out.

Does that make more sense?  In one movie its a bear, in another a swarm of bees, in another a crazy neighbor, the police, dinosaurs...

The idea is to act as bait to draw one enemy (with no alignment or loyalties) into an enemy of the opposite faction.

What about Ill See Your BigBad And Raise You ChaoticNeutral? Or Mal's Gambit?  He was the first one to bring it to my attention on the finale to ''{{Firefly}}''.  Or, Dressing As Bait to something something...