Oh those wacky Romans!
Jan. 30th, 2007 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieSo, all the squee about Rome on my flist made me go digging for other movie/TV productions dealing with the time period.
So I turned to my trusted friend, wikipedia.
In addition to reminding me of my historical crush on Germanicus and of my glee at the nasty barbs historians loved even back then (sample quote from Tacitus on Agrippa Postumus, the last child of the Agrippa we see in Rome: Though devoid of every good quality, he had been involved in no scandal.), I have also found that there has been, a few years previously, a British/Italian co-production Imperium: Augustus (warning, plot spoilers at the link) which I simply must find as it sounds deliciously melodramatic (Julia as angsty, noble heroine wronged by Tiberius and Augustus! Heh) and no more historically inaccurate than Rome.
Perhaps most importantly, my interest was whetted when I saw the picture of the actor who portrayed Iullus Antonius, son of Marc Antony and Fulvia, and Julia's most prominent lover (in this version he is her angsty star-crossed OTP).
(Not, it suffices to say, in his period get-up):
HELLLLLO.
Where do I get the DVD? :D
So I turned to my trusted friend, wikipedia.
In addition to reminding me of my historical crush on Germanicus and of my glee at the nasty barbs historians loved even back then (sample quote from Tacitus on Agrippa Postumus, the last child of the Agrippa we see in Rome: Though devoid of every good quality, he had been involved in no scandal.), I have also found that there has been, a few years previously, a British/Italian co-production Imperium: Augustus (warning, plot spoilers at the link) which I simply must find as it sounds deliciously melodramatic (Julia as angsty, noble heroine wronged by Tiberius and Augustus! Heh) and no more historically inaccurate than Rome.
Perhaps most importantly, my interest was whetted when I saw the picture of the actor who portrayed Iullus Antonius, son of Marc Antony and Fulvia, and Julia's most prominent lover (in this version he is her angsty star-crossed OTP).
(Not, it suffices to say, in his period get-up):
HELLLLLO.
Where do I get the DVD? :D
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Date: 2007-01-30 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-30 07:43 pm (UTC)The Caesar one was good though...
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Date: 2007-01-30 07:46 pm (UTC)I was hypnotized by the pretty! I'm not responsible for my actions!
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Date: 2007-01-30 07:48 pm (UTC)The pretty was excellent but he'd have to have been naked and oiled the whole time for me to overlook the horridness.
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Date: 2007-01-30 07:58 pm (UTC)The pretty was excellent but he'd have to have been naked and oiled the whole time for me to overlook the horridness.
Heh :)
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Date: 2007-01-30 10:30 pm (UTC)Here more: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B0006D3HDI/ref=dp_olp_2/202-0020142-6805432
It is region 1 and all dispatched from US, so it shoud be fine for you
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Date: 2007-01-30 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-30 10:48 pm (UTC)Just watch Rome 2x02 right now. I 'm in bloody love with your icon right now *-*!
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Date: 2007-01-30 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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