08-28-2006, 06:20 PM
Narukami,
the Romans in Spartacus actually don't wear segmented armor, but muscle armor (even the legionaries). I wonder whether that decision was made because by then they know segmented armor would have been totally wrong, I doubt it, though (the helmets etc. are strictly 1st to 2nd century A.D., though).
I also think that more often than not the decisions about costuming/armor etc. are also dictated by what is there, i.e. what the studio already has in stock. I am absolutely positive that the shields used in "Rome", for example, have been in Cinecitta stocks ever since "Cleopatra" and have been reused over and over again.
One amusing piece of armor that keeps on reemerging in movies is the armor worn by Marcus Aurelius in the Gladiator battle scene (sort of a . It is exactly the same armor worn by Peter O' Toole in the Masada miniseries and by one of the Monty Pythoners in Life of Brian (and also was used in some Italian peplum movies of the sixties, whence it probably originated).
See here:
[url:2zz3p88u]http://www.kinoweb.de/film2000/Gladiator/film04.php3[/url]
Here:
[url:2zz3p88u]http://www.wunderlin-online.de/pictures/film_main/0021_2.jpg[/url]
and here:
[url:2zz3p88u]http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00004RNHU/302-5749759-8070445?v=glance&n=301050[/url]
(click on the smaller pics to show larger pics)
The odyssey of an armor, sort of amusing, if you ask me.
the Romans in Spartacus actually don't wear segmented armor, but muscle armor (even the legionaries). I wonder whether that decision was made because by then they know segmented armor would have been totally wrong, I doubt it, though (the helmets etc. are strictly 1st to 2nd century A.D., though).
I also think that more often than not the decisions about costuming/armor etc. are also dictated by what is there, i.e. what the studio already has in stock. I am absolutely positive that the shields used in "Rome", for example, have been in Cinecitta stocks ever since "Cleopatra" and have been reused over and over again.
One amusing piece of armor that keeps on reemerging in movies is the armor worn by Marcus Aurelius in the Gladiator battle scene (sort of a . It is exactly the same armor worn by Peter O' Toole in the Masada miniseries and by one of the Monty Pythoners in Life of Brian (and also was used in some Italian peplum movies of the sixties, whence it probably originated).
See here:
[url:2zz3p88u]http://www.kinoweb.de/film2000/Gladiator/film04.php3[/url]
Here:
[url:2zz3p88u]http://www.wunderlin-online.de/pictures/film_main/0021_2.jpg[/url]
and here:
[url:2zz3p88u]http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00004RNHU/302-5749759-8070445?v=glance&n=301050[/url]
(click on the smaller pics to show larger pics)
The odyssey of an armor, sort of amusing, if you ask me.
Aka
Christoph
Christoph
