02-28-2009, 03:27 AM
Quote:Yours truly has just agreed with a small movie theater to introduce four "ancient history" movies. They will (probably) show Spartacus, Alexander, or Gladiator (Antiquity as excuse to show violence), The 300 Spartans or 300 (Antiquity as politics), The Last Temptation of Christ or Ben Hur (Antiquity used for a religious message), and Passolini's Medea (I still have to invent a reason).
You could just show the 1958 Ben-Hur Jona, it covers all your topics by itself!
Violence = Real amputees used in the naval battle! The chariot race.
Politics = "Look to the west"; an Arab with the Star of David " win for your people and mine"; Messala asking Judah Ben Hur to "name names." very 50's America!
Religion = conversions to Christianity.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
