THE REAL ROMAN ARMY vrs. the renactments

[tlclark]

but Sophia Loren in a lime green body huggin stola! Or how about that red outfit she's wearing in commodus' triumph! Holy cow! She looks good, but totally inaccurate. The rest, not so bad.

That's why I wrote not TOTALLY authentic ;-) )

On no, in that outfit I could tell. Sophia Loren is 100% authentic. They don't make women like that anymore.

Actually not true. FOTRE was not shot in Cinecitta, but in Spain (about 20 miles from Madrid. On a Spain trip, I once drove by there in the mid 90s to see if anything was left of the set, sadly, nothing had remained). The whole set was built for this one movie and then fell into neglect. The only other movie which was shot in some of the remnants was "A Funny Thing happened on the Way to the Forum", I think.

No way! I thought for sure that was cinecitta. Oh well. The decision to put the arch of augustus in the HBO Rome set is simply inexplicable. It's one thing to have to work around an existing set, entirely another to put in inaccuracies intentionally.

Oy vey!.

Thanks for the info.

Travis