The power of props

Play based magick is dead my friend. Sure Shakespeare can scare up more mojo than you can shake a stick at, but it just doesn’t reach enough people. Movies, now with movies you can stamp an imagine on a frightening number of mines. Printing out new masks is no problem. One thing that people forget, even people looking at films the right way, is that some of the things in them aren’t fake. Some of them are real objects playing a part, the only part they are ever going to play.

There is of course OU favorite Kill Bill. You’ve got more Masks in that movie than at a personomancer convention. What you’ve also got is a set of swords that the character and fans obsess over. Swords that are stamped into the mind of every person who saw that film. Those Hanzo sword props aren’t just props any more, they’re Hanzo swords for real. If one so much as nicks your skin you’ll be spraying out blood enough for ten men.

The real scary prop is the Ring. It was the star of three movies, an object built to be obsessed over, and made to corrupt the minds of those who’ve come in contact with it or who wear a lesser ring. Notice the high end merchandise from the Trilogy? When Peter Jackson starts wearing that thing around you’ll know trouble is coming.