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But isn't there a danger of alienating or scaring off your audience by making them think they're to be fed a history lesson, rather than watch a good drama? The opening Star Wars caption is quite different, in that it merely gives a summary of prior events and back story so the audience can understand why the good guys are being chased by the bad guys, etc.

Could something like this below scaring off the audience or firstly reassuring it a little bit about the cost-benefit ratio of the movie?
Of course the movie has to be an overall fine movie for any other reasons we know.


[size=150:137hann5] Beyond an incredible story,
this movie is also the best cinematographic reconstruction ever
of the civil and military roman world in the IV century AD,
strictly according to the present state of archeological knowledge.[/size]

Vale,

P.S. Barry Lindon reconstruction of the period was bought sight unseen by the public for the very Kubricks' good records in his previous movies, even where flops, their quality of reconstructions/atmospheres was almost (and repeat "almost") matchless... :wink: