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Full Metal Cuirass!<br>
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'This is my gladius ...'<br>
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Ahem... The problem with Full Metal Jacket is that it was shot in the suburbs of London and it shows..<br>
The boot camp part was ok, though.<br>
But I like Kubrick very much, besides that one and a few others..<br>
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Oh Kubrick! He was so great, a giant, or THE giant.<br>
I remember that my father was invited at the Italy first presentation of "2001, a space odissey" party (1968, I was 11). The day after he gave me his invitation card (graphically fantastic! An updated 60/70s minimalist graphic design that impressed me forever). That card had on the semi-transparent cover the famous image of the shuttle approaching to the orbital station (did you remember the furniture design in the station and the hostess? I loved them with the grip shoes). I put immediately it on the wall of my room: it remained there till I married and left my home, 30 years after!<br>
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Valete,<br>
Tituts Sabatinus Aquilius<br>
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius,
Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
I LOVE the idea of a "This is my Weapon, This is my Gun..." chant on FMJ made into Latin. Good luck!<br>
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Oh, yes, yes!<br>
Please, post it when ready (and with musical notation, if possible )<br>
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I found an old article on the Oliver Stone movie that might still be of some relevance: [url:maye7e0p]http://www.livius.org/opinion/opinion0001.html[/url].
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Greetings,
interesting...I will be checking out some of that information....
I just finished Valerio M. Manfredi's Alexander Trilogy and according to the footnotes he carried out a lot of research and field work to try to give a fair portrayal.
Although the stories are written from the Macedonian point of view, the Persians and allied forces are treated with respect and Alexander comes over as being a b....... at times.
He does have the 365 concubines in there however.... lol:
It's a pity the Dino de Laurentis film based on this trilogy is on ice right now.
Actually, I love the Alexander film and was hoping for the Directors Cut as an Xmas gift, but my daughter found them sold out when looking......
so am online right now instead of watching Gaugamela ..... lol
regards
Arthes
Cristina
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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Greetings,
I just looked at the rather impressive Official Website [url:2jbkhsws]http://alexanderthemovie.warnerbros.com/[/url] for the first time in a while, and downloaded the rather nice 'Xtreme desktop'.....which is running on 'low mode' of course
2jbkhsws]http://alexanderthemovie.warnerbros.com/xtremedesktop/index.html[/url]
Interactive with background sound and changeable map/wallpaper...including the Phalanx.
regards
Arthes
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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