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[Anonymous]

saw the film yesterday.<br>
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If i am not wrong i detected a distinct Chinese martial arts element in the dueling & training scenes .... does anyone know who the fight coordinator was ?<br>
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Conal <p></p><i></i>

[Frank Miranda]

Quote:</em></strong><hr>If i am not wrong i detected a distinct Chinese martial arts element in the dueling & training scenes .... does anyone know who the fight coordinator was ?<br>
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Steven Ho was Brad Pitt's sword trainer according to the [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332452/fullcredits" target="top]Internet Movie Database[/url]. Curiously, no specific fight coordinator is listed, but the swordmasters were Richard Ryan and Bret Yount. The stunt coordinators may also have had a hand in training.<br>
<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=frankmiranda>Frank Miranda</A> at: 5/24/04 9:35 pm<br></i>

[Catiline]

I thought overall it was pretty good actually. i wasn't aware the trojans were so big on tie dye, but i suppose that's not entirely impossible. Overall for Hollywood it wasn't bad. The costumes could have been considerably better, if only through picking a consistent period to draw influence from rather than everything from Babylon to Spartacus, but the general feel wasn't too bad. i'd have liked them to have gone for a Mycenaean feel and gone to the library for a copy of Peter Conolly's Odyssey book <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

I think that would have been interesting, too. I read somewhere (I think a Time Magazine article) that the director had, at first, thought of trying to accurately reconstruct Troy (for the kind of money they spent, they certainly could have) but that his research team told him the real Troy was "kind of a dump." Maybe something similar happened with the constumes; Hollywood's idea of the grandiosity appropriate for an "epic" film is often just not compatible w/ accuracy. I guess I'm usually somewhat tolerant of this tendency; I mainly get annoyed when I'm convinced that accuracy would have been relatively easy to accomplish and looked <strong>better</strong> than the typical cheesy Hollywood "swords and sandals" look.<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>

[Catiline]

plus the girls costumes would've been much more interesting <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Did the Myceneans do the same... shall we say "low necklines" as the Minoans? That would be one way to make a movie controversial...<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

'Low neckline'<br>
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animal! <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

There are both pictorial examples of women wearing 'normal necklines' and 'low necklines'....<br>
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Pijus Magnificus <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=aitoririarte>Aitor Iriarte</A> at: 5/28/04 7:47 am<br></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Hey Aitor, since in your icon you look like the Robert's grandfather, give him the good example or that poor child will begin to do strange dreams in the night... <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Do you mean wet dreams...<br>
Thanks to the Gods this is OT! <br>
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Pijus Magnificus <p></p><i></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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I'm sure the little Robby already takes some frequent looks to the Postalmarket catalogue - lingerie section... He does'nt know that he will become blind if does so? <p></p><i></i>

[aitor iriarte]

Oh yes, I realized that it was true after they had to put me glasses when I was fourteen and, since that, I've given up that nasty habit, lest I shall become totally blind!<br>
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Pijus Magnificus <p></p><i></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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[Robert Vermaat]

OI! You animals! T'was not I who started this Mycene-obscene subject!<br>
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[Anonymous]

Hey, I was trying to be indirect and understated...<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>