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lesbiassparrowIt's funny that I don't really care about history in these things - you can trample all over it and as long as it's entertaining I don't care. BUT AUGUSTUS WOULD NOT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE FORUM ADDRESSING THE PEOPLE IN A ROUGH CLOAK AND TUNIC. I know he had a fetish for wearing homespun stuff tht he said his wife and daughter had made, but even he would not have dragged that out on public business.
ETA; Agrippa is dead! And Peter O'Toole did a wailing thing that he should be ashamed of. Also, I am guessing Julia's voice is dubbed. It has that horrible dubbed quality to it.
ETA 2: Now we are in flashback mode and Augustus (well, Octavian) who apparently lives in a peasant cottage with only 1 slave HAS BEEN SUMMONED. They (according to voiceover) were all just country boys! Called by Caesar! The idea of Octavian as a country boy fills me with hilarity. He also looks 30, which is a little problematic for thinking of him as a ocuntry boy.
ETA 3: OCTAVIAN GIVES TO THE POOR. HE'S ONLY GOING TO TAKE OVER ROME FOR ITS OWN GOOD YOU KNOW.
ETA 4: HE ALSO SAVES ARISTOCRATIC LADIES FROM BEING RAPED. LIKE LIVIA. Who, for some unaccountable reason, is wandering Rome alone at night.
ETA 5: God lord, this thing is like a fascist's fantasy. CAESAR IS ONLY FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND THE COMMON PEOPLE. THEY FORCED HIM TO BECOME A DICTATOR.
ETA 6: You all know the crap I watch on a regular basis. This might actually defeat me.
ETA 7: HOLY FUCK THEY HAVE A GUY POP OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF VESTA. AND JULIA IS WANDERING AROUND THE FORUM ON HER OWN.
ETA 8: THAT JULIUS CAESAR WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS FAR TOO NICE A GUY. NEVER HAD AN AMIBTIOUS THOUGHT IN HIS LIFE. IT WAS ALL FORCED UPON HIM. ALL OF IT. HE SAVES FARMERS FROM EVIL ORATORS LIKE CICERO WHO TRY AND THEIR LAND.
ETA 9: There is only so much fascist propaganda dressed up as the story of Caesar and Augustus I can watch. THEY ONLY TOOK OVER THE REPUBLIC TO SAVE THE LITTLE MAN. ALL ROME NEEDED WAS A STRONG LEADER WHO CARED FOR THE WORKING FOLK. So now I shall watch Empire and hope it is hilariously cheesy in the way that I need.
ETA; Agrippa is dead! And Peter O'Toole did a wailing thing that he should be ashamed of. Also, I am guessing Julia's voice is dubbed. It has that horrible dubbed quality to it.
ETA 2: Now we are in flashback mode and Augustus (well, Octavian) who apparently lives in a peasant cottage with only 1 slave HAS BEEN SUMMONED. They (according to voiceover) were all just country boys! Called by Caesar! The idea of Octavian as a country boy fills me with hilarity. He also looks 30, which is a little problematic for thinking of him as a ocuntry boy.
ETA 3: OCTAVIAN GIVES TO THE POOR. HE'S ONLY GOING TO TAKE OVER ROME FOR ITS OWN GOOD YOU KNOW.
ETA 4: HE ALSO SAVES ARISTOCRATIC LADIES FROM BEING RAPED. LIKE LIVIA. Who, for some unaccountable reason, is wandering Rome alone at night.
ETA 5: God lord, this thing is like a fascist's fantasy. CAESAR IS ONLY FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND THE COMMON PEOPLE. THEY FORCED HIM TO BECOME A DICTATOR.
ETA 6: You all know the crap I watch on a regular basis. This might actually defeat me.
ETA 7: HOLY FUCK THEY HAVE A GUY POP OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF VESTA. AND JULIA IS WANDERING AROUND THE FORUM ON HER OWN.
ETA 8: THAT JULIUS CAESAR WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS FAR TOO NICE A GUY. NEVER HAD AN AMIBTIOUS THOUGHT IN HIS LIFE. IT WAS ALL FORCED UPON HIM. ALL OF IT. HE SAVES FARMERS FROM EVIL ORATORS LIKE CICERO WHO TRY AND THEIR LAND.
ETA 9: There is only so much fascist propaganda dressed up as the story of Caesar and Augustus I can watch. THEY ONLY TOOK OVER THE REPUBLIC TO SAVE THE LITTLE MAN. ALL ROME NEEDED WAS A STRONG LEADER WHO CARED FOR THE WORKING FOLK. So now I shall watch Empire and hope it is hilariously cheesy in the way that I need.
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Date: 2011-04-05 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-04-05 03:05 am (UTC)I figure he must have had an alimony payment or school fees.
But they did have some good interiors.
A Knight's Tale - let's not go there in terms of historical accuracy. I can tolerate some lack but not a complete and total blotch of the 14th century.
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Date: 2011-04-05 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-05 03:56 am (UTC)I know! (But at least it doesn't pretend that it's serious and historically accurate, like, say Braveheart or Elizabeth, so I can take it as all in good fun. Plus it has Heath Ledger in shiny, shiny armor!) I just can't figure out why I fixate on the ladies with uncovered heads in church when there's all that other stuff going on.