Attention Professors Wyke, Solomon, etc.
Sep. 12th, 2003 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetThe sword-and-sandals revival continues.
This has me both interested and worried. I'd like to think the movie will be less problematic than the write-up on the PBS website, although they seem mostly to follow Tacitus with admittedly necessary embellishments.
(But "Murdered ... by the madman Nero" my ass!)
Also, a Trojan war movie is coming out next spring with Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector, Sean Bean as Odysseus, and Orlando Bloom as that scamp, Paris. Oh, and Peter O'Toole as Priam! But one dares not hope that the cast will make it a good movie.
(After initial disdain, I've come to respect Mr. Pitt over the years. -- But, vaguely on this topic, I'm not ready to accept DiCaprio as Big Alex.)
In other news, it's time to face the fact that I probably can't credit myself for drinking half-caff. coffee if I make it double strength.
This has me both interested and worried. I'd like to think the movie will be less problematic than the write-up on the PBS website, although they seem mostly to follow Tacitus with admittedly necessary embellishments.
(But "Murdered ... by the madman Nero" my ass!)
Also, a Trojan war movie is coming out next spring with Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector, Sean Bean as Odysseus, and Orlando Bloom as that scamp, Paris. Oh, and Peter O'Toole as Priam! But one dares not hope that the cast will make it a good movie.
(After initial disdain, I've come to respect Mr. Pitt over the years. -- But, vaguely on this topic, I'm not ready to accept DiCaprio as Big Alex.)
In other news, it's time to face the fact that I probably can't credit myself for drinking half-caff. coffee if I make it double strength.
