10-02-2002, 09:43 AM
Thanks a lot Caius for reminding me the titles of those movies and for reminding me that Amazon existed... I just ordered the Teutonic Knights, and you're right about the lottery... 49 dollars.. Ouch.<br>
I didn't know about old Jack Palance being wounded in WWII. He definitely had the roughest face in the industry although Lee Marvin came close second.<br>
They don't have faces like that any more. They're all sort of smooth now.<br>
Absolutely right about Justinian and Theodora. That's why I wrote "brave attempts". Those city guards costumes were pretty accurate, with the padded armour and the funny hat-like helmets, but why turquoise green??E EM<br>
BTW: I am still trying to find the orginal source for the varangian guards' helmets. I've seen pictures of those somewhere else but it was never the original source. Help would be very welcome. They're impressive helmets.<br>
And yes, Bergman's Seventh Seal is magnificent but I don't put it in the "war movie" or "cloak and sandal" department.<br>
It's a movie about a game of chess pitting a man against Death, the all times winner.. It's also a movie about the plague, what it does to people and how it screws their minds. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showLocalUserPublicProfile?login=antoninuslucretius>Antoninus Lucretius</A> at: 10/2/02 11:48:11 am<br></i>
I didn't know about old Jack Palance being wounded in WWII. He definitely had the roughest face in the industry although Lee Marvin came close second.<br>
They don't have faces like that any more. They're all sort of smooth now.<br>
Absolutely right about Justinian and Theodora. That's why I wrote "brave attempts". Those city guards costumes were pretty accurate, with the padded armour and the funny hat-like helmets, but why turquoise green??E EM<br>
BTW: I am still trying to find the orginal source for the varangian guards' helmets. I've seen pictures of those somewhere else but it was never the original source. Help would be very welcome. They're impressive helmets.<br>
And yes, Bergman's Seventh Seal is magnificent but I don't put it in the "war movie" or "cloak and sandal" department.<br>
It's a movie about a game of chess pitting a man against Death, the all times winner.. It's also a movie about the plague, what it does to people and how it screws their minds. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showLocalUserPublicProfile?login=antoninuslucretius>Antoninus Lucretius</A> at: 10/2/02 11:48:11 am<br></i>
