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- Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:07 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Another Alexander the Great Movie?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8979
As karen said before, the trailer and stills do seem cheesy. Let's hope the movie isn't the same. You ain't seen nuthin yet! Take a look at this old article from Egypt Today (can hardly believe I've had the url stored all this time). Scroll down for the photos of Cleopatra and Niobe and their ... a...
- Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:03 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: DVD: "Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 36349
Still love that movie
Quote: - the totally human, weak, flawed and needy Alexander compared to the god or hero. He cries, he's a mamma's boy, he reveres Homer's poetry... And then he conquers the world. Such a refreshing change from the modern western strong silent boring macho ideal. I saw nothing refreshing about yet ...
- Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:26 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: Another Alexander the Great Movie?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8979
- Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:45 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: DVD: "Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 36349
I'm curious... what is this Afghan legend about Roxane attacking Alexander with a knife on their wedding night? I figured Stone invented that to er, spice things up a bit. Dagger foreplay, that sort of thing :lol: Well Clio, I don't know if Stone was inspired by the legend. But according to Micheal...
- Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:29 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Split thread - How/why/when did War lose its lustre?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19263
Re: Sustaining War
Hi Sikander, Agreed. I guess this is why I'm cynical when it comes to the idea that in the modern day, people are better informed or less susceptible to propaganda. We seem to have just as many war enthusiasts as the past. How else, in the day and age of the vote, are wars of aggression being waged?...
- Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:05 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Split thread - How/why/when did War lose its lustre?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19263
Re: The Beat of Drums
War has not lost its glamour, only its sutainability. Sikander, Brillant posts. I agree with pretty much everything except the idea that war has lost its sustainability. What about those parts of the economy that are sustainable only through war, or at the very least, the threat of war? Not just th...
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:01 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: DVD: "Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 36349
Re: Those Women
Greetings, First a note on the emovie: "- the much maligned wedding night sex scene with Roxanne, which actually has some basis in Afghan legend about Roxanne trying to kill Alexander with a knife on their wedding night." I think most people would not have responded so negatively to this ...
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:46 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Hypocrisy
- Replies: 85
- Views: 33827
Those sites had an analysis on the phoinician alphabet and comparisons between the lettters, and findings. I'll find them and post them again later. Efstathios, I think I know the site you're talking about from another thread. Is it this one? http://originofphoenicianalphabet.pbwiki.com/ Unfortunat...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:41 am
- Forum: Alexander the Great in the Media
- Topic: DVD: "Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut"
- Replies: 84
- Views: 36349
I love the theatrical release of the Alexander movie so much . I even had to get the DVD and watch it again and again. Now I also own the DVD of the Final (Revisited) version. Didn't notice that the crying after Gaugamela was missing, Marcus! No!!! That was awesome! :cry: Did notice the added Bagoas...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:01 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Evolution In warfare
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1038
Well Kenny, Persian Army was a motley crew of ethnicities most of whom were themselves conquered by the Persian empire. Now they were having to do the fighting for the empire because Darius III had summoned them. Some of the places that fell the earliest to Alexander had been rebelling against the P...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:49 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Hypocrisy
- Replies: 85
- Views: 33827
Guys, Efstathios is making a simple but airtight argument. You are never going to knock it down, because it is circular. Greeks are awesome because they beat the Persians. Greek beat the Persians because the Persians suck. Persians may have beat other armies - Ionian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Sogdianan...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:32 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Split thread - How/why/when did War lose its lustre?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19263
Re the reputation of war: I am assuming, first off, that all along we've been talking about the reputation of war in the English-speaking western world. How good or bad a reputation it has in other parts of the world, I have no idea. (Anyone here who has?) But for the English-speaking western world...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:55 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Split thread - How/why/when did War lose its lustre?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19263
Karen and Marcus, I'm not sure if it's possible to figure out which is worse - being at the wrong end of an aerial assault or the sacking of a city. I wonder if this assumption that war was more 'popular' back in the anceint days than it is now, is true. Can it really be tested, as history is writte...
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:27 am
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Split thread - How/why/when did War lose its lustre?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19263
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:45 am
- Forum: Art and Culture
- Topic: Hypocrisy
- Replies: 85
- Views: 33827
Amyntoros, Agree with it all. Kenny, Even though I can't see myself viewing war (or much else) through a Manichean comic book lense, we do agree on another important point. People who have met with aggression do have the right to defend themselves, with arms if necessary. And I can see how the subtl...