Oscars 2022

As I mostly use the Oscars as title lists for plot hooks, with a few ideas related to the event itself, here we are again. (Not what the ceremony will be remembered for this year, but never mind.)

Best Picture titles, in both referencing the plot and trying to ignore what I actually know about the names style:

Belfast

The title very much suggests the memoir, doesn’t it?

But the city has history going back millennia, including the time Robert the Bruce sent his brother Edward to attack English forces in Ireland and he tried to take the crown.

CODA

Growing up in an unusual subculture.

Or a winding-down session, maybe dealing with a problem called up by the end of the previous adventure. (Also a sisterhood of assassins in WildStorm Comics.)

Don’t Look Up

Getting people in authority to listen.

A horror plot about a stellar conjunction? Possibly blinding people like Day Of The Triffids. As well as metaphorically blinding them to a threat.

Drive My Car

A big conflicted interpersonal drama.

An escort mission, across a great distance, possibly involving a very fancy car and/or a Beatles song.

Dune

Okay, this one has its own RPGs.

But putting that to one side, dune buggy chase!

King Richard

A sports drama with family conflict.

A fair historical look at Richard the Lionheart and the various issues he raised.

Licorice Pizza

The title means a vinyl record, so a hymn to record stores and indie music.

But it sounds like a really gross food experiment in a lighthearted kids’ adventure story.

Nightmare Alley

The PCs as part of a travelling fair, with or without real powers presented as trickery.

A slice of life Film Noir about one night in a bad part of town, starting with a murder and going downhill from there.

The Power Of The Dog

A moody Western.

Dogboy! With the hearing and smell of a dog!

West Side Story

Having seen both films of this, hmm. Romeo and Juliet converted to your current milieu.

An urban travelogue, getting through unfamiliar territory in One Crazy Night.