medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
This raises an interesting question, and one I know nothing about. If
torches mounted on walls are ahistorical, what did they do instead?
Candles? Just carry their own light?
Andrew
On Oct 18, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Groenteboer wrote:
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> Wow, George. I thought nothing could be worse than TSM, but this
> beats the
> crap out of Mel G.
> At the same time it's real typical example of Italian 'middlevil'
> movies,
> with afew aspects of Hollywood added. The torches are burning
> merrily on the
> walls, swords are drawn with a DZZZZZINGGG from their scabbards,
> fake stone
> walls and crenallations, leather armour, steel crossbows,
> anachronistic
> weapons, knitted mail, plastic helmets, etc. etc.
> BTW: is that Rutger Hauer as Barbarossa? Yes it is! Did not know he
> could be
> roped in by the Lega di Nord. Must have been the money.
>
>> It must rank (or, as Python's Pontius Pilate in 'Life of Brian' would
> say, 'wank') very high as the worst in propaganda in 'historical'
> films. This movie is blatantly in support of the mythology of the
> racist Northern League, an important member of Berlusconi's governing
> coalition. In a nutshell, the film purports to tell of an unshakeable
> longing for liberty on the part of the good people of Milan and of
> Padania (= the Po Valley, imbued by the Northern League as with the
> spirit of an ancestral homeland) against foreign (= non-Padanian)
> forces.
>
> Yeah, it looks very 'intense' and very patriottic. But so do half of
> the US
> movies and they are payed for by Coca or Pepsi Cola and probably the
> military establishment.
>
>> At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm1qo-aArms you can see a brief
> comparison between 'Barbarossa' and 'Braveheart' (featuring William
> Wallace speaking perfect Italian).
>
> But he was not lip-sync. I had to laugh, though.
>
> Henk
>
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