05-10-2006, 12:25 PM
first of all i want to apologize to basically all the renactors, i hope your not offended but what i said. actually i would love to be in one of those renactments, i couldnt tell u how much i would want to do that that would be really awesome just to wear that armor. so anyway im sorry
i hope making this thread topic hasnt already destroyed my reputation on this site because i really like this site, and this is my first thread so.
let me just let u all know that i am quite inforemed about ancient rome.
one more thing thanx alot for all the time all of you put to reply to my post.
back to the topic
your right holly wood is not history and im aware of that, and u made me understand that alittle more.
so having said that
few more questions
i understand obviously and the one thing i dont like about gladiator is hw they didnt throw their pila.
but i thought catapults (onagers) could have been used on field battles
didnt the romans use flaming ammunition, like those terracotta bombs?
what exactly do u mean that the romans horses are to big?
some one said that some roman soldiers used pants and war paint is this true/?
what make up was used on the soldiers in gladiator besides fake blood?
i am now convineced and wont argue any longer on the shiny armor part, but what about the shileds, didnt the ones in gladiator look more realistic? i mean the renactors shields looked so red, like paint red, and it gladiator it looks like leather and wood, what did u make ur shields out of ?
ok so take one roman soldier from the gladiator movie, and tell me what is wrong, and not histrorically accurate with him? why is it not possible that the actual rome could have those kinds of soldiers.
do any of u have any reccomendations for movies that display a historcially accurate rome>?
Do u film those renactments?
ok this is what i think about ur renactment soldiers, they have the right equpiment (gladius pugio) but it well once again hard to explain, it doesn`t look like your helmets could have actully protected u , what i mean is in the gladiator, they put some clothe on the helmet so there head wont be touchiing bare metal, and they did this for comfort, and REAL protection, because this could have made a difference (there helemt) if they lived or dided in a battle, and ur rencaters just did it for show. what i mean is your people dont look like they could be dead in a few hours in a battle. its hard to explaIN i guess i just mean that u dont look like a true disciplined roman, and well of course i wouldnt either , i would put on that armor and laugh, and smile and totally not act like a roman, etc. etc. etc. and its just that in the movies they kind of do act roman and serious.
i would like to see like a clip of ur renacters marching or something
do u ever do fake battles?
so once again whats wrong with gladiator, did they display the city of rome right?
one other thing wrong about the movie though, how did cassius make his voice project so loud over the colloseum?
i have to say though honestly i am greatly disapointed, in just seems now that when i read about a roman battle, now the pic is gonna be in my head of a 100 smiling roman renactors.
instead of thousands and thousands
thanx for reading, u probably think this whole topic is stupid, but dont let this post, judge me right away.
sorry this is so long
i hope making this thread topic hasnt already destroyed my reputation on this site because i really like this site, and this is my first thread so.
let me just let u all know that i am quite inforemed about ancient rome.
one more thing thanx alot for all the time all of you put to reply to my post.
back to the topic
your right holly wood is not history and im aware of that, and u made me understand that alittle more.
so having said that
few more questions
i understand obviously and the one thing i dont like about gladiator is hw they didnt throw their pila.
but i thought catapults (onagers) could have been used on field battles
didnt the romans use flaming ammunition, like those terracotta bombs?
what exactly do u mean that the romans horses are to big?
some one said that some roman soldiers used pants and war paint is this true/?
what make up was used on the soldiers in gladiator besides fake blood?
i am now convineced and wont argue any longer on the shiny armor part, but what about the shileds, didnt the ones in gladiator look more realistic? i mean the renactors shields looked so red, like paint red, and it gladiator it looks like leather and wood, what did u make ur shields out of ?
ok so take one roman soldier from the gladiator movie, and tell me what is wrong, and not histrorically accurate with him? why is it not possible that the actual rome could have those kinds of soldiers.
do any of u have any reccomendations for movies that display a historcially accurate rome>?
Do u film those renactments?
ok this is what i think about ur renactment soldiers, they have the right equpiment (gladius pugio) but it well once again hard to explain, it doesn`t look like your helmets could have actully protected u , what i mean is in the gladiator, they put some clothe on the helmet so there head wont be touchiing bare metal, and they did this for comfort, and REAL protection, because this could have made a difference (there helemt) if they lived or dided in a battle, and ur rencaters just did it for show. what i mean is your people dont look like they could be dead in a few hours in a battle. its hard to explaIN i guess i just mean that u dont look like a true disciplined roman, and well of course i wouldnt either , i would put on that armor and laugh, and smile and totally not act like a roman, etc. etc. etc. and its just that in the movies they kind of do act roman and serious.
i would like to see like a clip of ur renacters marching or something
do u ever do fake battles?
so once again whats wrong with gladiator, did they display the city of rome right?
one other thing wrong about the movie though, how did cassius make his voice project so loud over the colloseum?
i have to say though honestly i am greatly disapointed, in just seems now that when i read about a roman battle, now the pic is gonna be in my head of a 100 smiling roman renactors.
instead of thousands and thousands
thanx for reading, u probably think this whole topic is stupid, but dont let this post, judge me right away.
sorry this is so long
