drawings from films

[michiann]

I see that my drawings on helmets that i posted many years ago, do not appear anylonger here. I don't know the reason for this. It doesn't matter because I'm going to repeat my effort of posting drawings of different helmets used in various movies, that I never saw before amongst actual antiques and primitive art. As beautiful the helmets were that were used in the movies, how true is it that these particular helmets were used during ancient times of the Roman Empire ... or were these helmets originally imagined in the minds of film-makers and then subsequently constructed? The helmets used in "Fabiola" are believable because they look like very slight variations of actual antique helmets. The helmets used in "The Invincible Gladiator" are believable except for the one with the multi-plumes because of 3 reasons: the nose-area of the visor has a medallion-looking disk-shaped object adhered to it; also, it has complex openings on the mask-type visor; also, the skull protector had vertical depressions running up & down on it. The helmets used in "Son of Hercules vs. Messalina" were all the same type helmet but with various designed-openings on the visors. The visor with the long, vertical slits over the eye area, is only 50% believable because i think eye vision may have been partly-blocked here. The helmet used in "Two Gladiators" is very beautiful but erratic because part of the mask-type visor has a peculiar, uniform design of a very small, rounded-bumpy, metallic surface ... also, the mouth opening is unusual because I only saw this type mouth-opening on theater-masks used by old-Rome actors on stage. Finally, the helmets used in an american broadcasted television series named "Empire" are very interesting but are less than 50% believable .... these don't even remotely resemble anything i've ever seen before relating to gladiators. Anyway, as with all the helmets, please use your own judgement & experience in ascertaining whether these helmets were used in the ancient arenas.
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