10-14-2010, 01:55 AM
Quote:Just saw the old Spartacus again... the best scene will forever remain seeing two legions march up the plains..... for real.
No CGI... nothing of the sort.
Not strictly true as the second Legion is simply a photographic copy of the first! A photo in the booklet of the film showing the real scene gives it all away. What is interesting is that for a brief moment when the music stops and before the troops come to a halt you can hear that "chink", "chink" of the equipment that we are all so familiar with.
Spanish soldiers took part in so many epics at that period that when Franco wanted to inspect some of his troops, he was told by his flustered Generals that he could not because they were making a movie for Samuel Bronston!
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.
