11-01-2006, 07:01 AM
Wow.. ive just read the past few pages and the outrage that HBO ROME wasnt authentic in its depiction of the soldiers and the correct attire? It's a movie not a documentary. I know the uniforms and helmets were wrong, but do you stop there. he horses used look like modern day thoroughbreds and warmbloods....back then they were weedy little horses not 16HH ones. The horse's harnesses are all wrong, wow even the bits look modern day! If we're going to talk authenticity lets not stop there? I'd put a dollar on the fact that those actors weren't even italian. the average height of a Roman was 5ft, not the size of the main trooper standing out like a sore thumb in the second line! Wasnt it Caesar in his Gallic Wars accounts, that he mentions that the "germans laughed at our small size and how could such small men move such large siege towers"
I know we love our roman history, but writing to the movie consultant about how incredibly inaccurate it was, is probably adding to the poor man's stress too! He probably knows all too well its wrong!
I'm in that industry, unfortunately, what looks good, what makes the producer tingle in his bed at night, which outfit he thinks will look better and work easier (ie leather probably weighed a lot less than metal segmentata specially if actors and extras were going to stand around all day and I would imagine, & safety precautions so some poor actor doesnt keel over dead of exhaustion while on shoot, in my guess, is going to bear more than what is accurately and historically correct.
It is frustrating, but hey I enjoyed that series from start to finish. For once, even if I may say so, like Gladiator, if anyone didnt feel like they were there facing 100,000 strong barbarian horde in the first 15 minutes of both movies, I'd say thats bad luck, because I think though historcally inaccurate how good was it to see the Roman army in its all its might bear down on the enemy?
How good to see movies without the fake Hollywood polystyrene columned forums, the embarrasingly bad armour?
I salute a good roman movie!
I know we love our roman history, but writing to the movie consultant about how incredibly inaccurate it was, is probably adding to the poor man's stress too! He probably knows all too well its wrong!
I'm in that industry, unfortunately, what looks good, what makes the producer tingle in his bed at night, which outfit he thinks will look better and work easier (ie leather probably weighed a lot less than metal segmentata specially if actors and extras were going to stand around all day and I would imagine, & safety precautions so some poor actor doesnt keel over dead of exhaustion while on shoot, in my guess, is going to bear more than what is accurately and historically correct.
It is frustrating, but hey I enjoyed that series from start to finish. For once, even if I may say so, like Gladiator, if anyone didnt feel like they were there facing 100,000 strong barbarian horde in the first 15 minutes of both movies, I'd say thats bad luck, because I think though historcally inaccurate how good was it to see the Roman army in its all its might bear down on the enemy?
How good to see movies without the fake Hollywood polystyrene columned forums, the embarrasingly bad armour?
I salute a good roman movie!
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"let the die be cast "
(Stefano Rinaldo)
"let the die be cast "
(Stefano Rinaldo)
