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Thanks Jasper
Looking at the very old version of Ben-Hur, which used full size ships not models, I was impressed by how they looked like WW1 era Dreadnoughts sailing in line. I guess that was the wrong impression?
I hope the pictures were of some use after all.
Graham.
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Hi Robert,
It's just the historical inaccuracies in the naval scenes, that's all. :wink:
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Jasper Jasper Jasper!!!
get a DVD player in your classroom insert the Hur DVD... go to menu, scene select,
select the scene with the naval battle..... and presto!
which reminds me how i had to install a dvd player once for an very well known professor in Leiden during a lecture........
:evil:
naughty naughty naughty!
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Oh, I would've Henk-Jan. That was just the problem, I didn't have the DVD.
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surely there has to be a rental shop which has it in Noviomagvs!
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hope you succeeded anyway... you say BH is cack, but i think the naval battle is one of the best scenes i have seen so far! as well as the legions massing on Spartacvs in that other movie... Spartacvs......
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I simply didn't think about renting it. Hmmm... :wink:
Disecting what is wrong with the naval scenes in BH could be a nice lecture subject sometime, I suppose. You landlubbers do it all the time for every movie battle anyways. :wink:
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Funny thing is that people actually got pretty hurt during the shoot of that scene!!!
PS do you, as Classis buff have any news of the diving on the site of the sea battle which won Octavianvs his Empire?
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Hi HJ,
No, I haven't heard anything more about Actium. Have you?
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last thing i heard the site was found by French divers and an expedition was mounted to do research.... however after that it grew silent........
HJ
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