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Elling Polden
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Also;
After the Iranians complained about the anti-persian attitudes in "300", we figured that they ought to get even.
A Ridley Scott epic would do nicely. Or Steven Spielberg...
However, all these faded when we arrived at the ultimate answer.
"Ali, the first Imam", directed by Mel Gibson.
...And there where blood and gore everywhere...
"this [fight] looks curious, almost like a game. See, they are looking around them before they fall, to find a dry spot to fall on, or they are falling on their shields. Can you see blood on their cloths and weapons? No. This must be trickery."
-Reidar Sendeman, from King Sverre's Saga, 1201
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Bruno Giordan
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| Elling Polden wrote: | Also;
After the Iranians complained about the anti-persian attitudes in "300", we figured that they ought to get even.
A Ridley Scott epic would do nicely. Or Steven Spielberg...
However, all these faded when we arrived at the ultimate answer.
"Ali, the first Imam", directed by Mel Gibson.
...And there where blood and gore everywhere... |
Mel Gibson would be more at ease directing the life of Charles the Great or his father, Charles Martel ....
There would be enough gore filming the "conversion" of the pagan Saxons to Christianism.
Anyway my idea was to evaluate a serious setting, not an Hollywood one.
A good plot couldn't go astray from historical facts, even if there is no common version for history of any period, a good level of authenticity based on serious research would be fundamental.
I'm reading Baudolino for the first time, i have had the book for many years but I hadn't read it because of a bad review.
Never trust a review ... it is a nice book that entirely revolves around the religious and philosophical values of the era.
However there is no pathos, it sounds like a well written faculty lesson just dramatized, sort of a dialog between a medievalist and the men that are the object of his studies.
Warm but devoid of any action.
It is the point of view of a politician, not of a soldier.
I don't think that an analog book would prompt many common people to read it, not to mention the sword community.
It is a book for bookworms.
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Anders Backlund
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| David Black Mastro wrote: | Interesting story ideas, folks.
Does anyone here actually write? |
*raises hand*
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Edward Hitchens
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| Anders Backlund wrote: | | David Black Mastro wrote: | Interesting story ideas, folks.
Does anyone here actually write? |
*raises hand* |
*raised my hand too* 
I've always thought of a book/movie about the battle of Hastings. Start off with the turmoil that let to the exile of the Duke of Northumberland (what was his name? Tostig, or something like that...). Then on to the Duke's alliance with the King Harald of Norway which would lead up to the battle at Stamford Bridge. While that's going on, shift to William's landing at Pevency and climax the story with the battle of Hastings. That's the historical sequence of events in a nutshell.
"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Thomas Jefferson
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Robin Smith
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| Edward Hitchens wrote: | | Anders Backlund wrote: | | David Black Mastro wrote: | Interesting story ideas, folks.
Does anyone here actually write? |
*raises hand* |
*raised my hand too*
I've always thought of a book/movie about the battle of Hastings. Start off with the turmoil that let to the exile of the Duke of Northumberland (what was his name? Tostig, or something like that...). Then on to the Duke's alliance with the King Harald of Norway which would lead up to the battle at Stamford Bridge. While that's going on, shift to William's landing at Pevency and climax the story with the battle of Hastings. That's the historical sequence of events in a nutshell. |
There is a website of a producer trying to get one in the pipline. However, I am not holding my breath that it will ever be finished. Sadly it seems to be totally Saxon biased.  I'd like to see a FAIR treatment of Hastings, with the Saxons and Normans both treated fairly.
Of course we all know who won... 
A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine
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Lafayette C Curtis
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| David Black Mastro wrote: | | Does anyone here actually write? |
I think I've mentioned somewhere above that I do. More precisely, I'm in the detailed revision/rewrite stage for my first novel and am expecting to finish it by the end of this year. It's probably still going to need a couple more revision passes before it becomes anywhere near publishable, though.
| Bruno Giordan wrote: | | It is a book for bookworms. |
So you should probably have figured out by now that I'm a bookworm, since I enjoyed the book thoroughly. ;P
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Bruno Giordan
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| Lafayette C Curtis wrote: |
| Bruno Giordan wrote: | | It is a book for bookworms. |
So you should probably have figured out by now that I'm a bookworm, since I enjoyed the book thoroughly. ;P |
If it is for that I just listen to classical music ... my focus was however on the kind of novel that would attract average public.
Eco has written a masterwork but his foray into the realm of the medieval theological disputes and bestiary is not for everybody.
Baudolino's party of men exploring the flat world that leads to the Presbyter Johannes fabulous kingdom is a party of intellectuals with a few rude lombards as helpers.
He is a bit like Paganini doing his virtuoso executions .... surely I'm having a pretty fine time reading it.
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