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I’m not talking about the Legend of Zelda here or any other MMORPG, but about the much less dreamlike crisis in Darfur in a very specific ‘real life game genre’ I dub World Wide Role Playing Game – WWRPG. Last year I wrote an article titled: ‘Darfur: History, a never ending story’and I was wondering if we could learn from our past mistakes in a way not to let happen again things we already so badly experienced. And there is definitely no simple answer to that. Because things get more and more complicated as the number of protagonists increases. I am not a Darfur specialist or a member of a Darfur advocacy group, many very well aware and acknowledged people already talk about the situation and they give their point of view and explanations about the conflict in the Sudanese region. So I don’t pretend I understand things better than…⇒ READ MORE

I have already talk about gun scenes in movies (FromScarface to Smokin’ Aces: the art of the gun scene), now it is about car chases in movies; it is not a genre but some chases are classics. In my opinion, Bullitt (1968), with Franck Bullitt chasing the bad guys, up and down the steep hills of San Francisco for almost 8 minutes, features the greatest car chase put to film. Steve McQueen’s Mustang GT390 400 horse power was impressive and the final scene when the bad guys’ Dodge Charger in a crowning moment explodes into the gas station, made the perfect conclusion for the chase (although the final running chase onto the airport tarmac amidst the air planes taking off was also very good). But it is not the first chase I remember having seen on a movie. The first one was in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The Terminator…⇒ READ MORE