I\'m missing my favurite topic as movie...

[Stefan the Berserker]

Can't there anybody make a movie about HERMAN THE LIBERATOR? He succsessfully protected the germans and the slavs from beeing colonised and destroyed by the romans, and aswell fought genius battles...

Without him all this would not existed: Colnisation of the North through romans = English, Germans, Poles, Czech, Danes and dutch died out! And with them the americans too...

Isn't a such important figure worth of a movie? http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/frown.gif

[ShadeFlanders]

you forgot the Flemish http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

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[Ktonos]

Did Spanish, Greeks, French etc died out?

[Rosacrux]

Quote[/b] (Stefan the Berserker @ Oct. 31 2002,16:28)]And with them the americans too...
Now, that's a good idea... too bad Herman wasn't killed early enough http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[PFJ_bejazuz]

Quote[/b] (Rosacrux @ Nov. 25 2002,09:04)]
Quote[/b] (Stefan the Berserker @ Oct. 31 2002,16:28)]And with them the americans too...
Now, that's a good idea... too bad Herman wasn't killed early enough http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

Americans didnn't soley come from Europe, so we don't have to take ALL the blame (most but not all).
Its his name.

I mean ... Herman.

I know it's out of it's relevant socio-political environment where people wouldn't fall about laughing but ... Herman the German who fkd up the Roman.

They'd have to do it as a musical. Possibly Gillbert & Sull stylee with Arnie being the proper model of a proper iron age general (but obviously slowed down to give the guy a hand yeah)

Actually ... it could be the MTV version of the Ring Cycle (even more relevant if you got G Norton to do the narration) http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Catiline]

Stefan, you might want to go here, Clades Variana (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/2385/varus.html)

It's a project to make a film about Varus and Arminius.

plenty of info on Herman there...

[PFJ_bejazuz]

or was it Herman?

~from above site~

5. Arminius' real name was 'Hermann'. Why does the script call him 'Erminameraz'?

Despite what generations of German school children have been taught, Arminius' name was not 'Hermann' or anything like it. Sometime in the Eighteenth Century German historians began 'germanicising' the name 'Arminius' as 'Hermann'. While 'Hermann' is a German name which began being used in the Middle Ages, there is no evidence that it was used in the First Century, and there's solid linguistic grounds for rejecting it as anything like Arminius' 'real' name.

There are two possibilities regarding the name 'Arminius'. Firsly, it could be an entirely Latin name adopted by Arminius when he served in the Roman army, much as his brother called himself 'Flavus'. Secondly, it could be a Latinisation of his original Germanic name. If the latter, his original name could have been something like '*Erminameraz' or simply '*Erminaz' - both of which are linguistic reconstructions of the Proto-North West Germanic used by the Cherusci and their neighbours. Whatever his name was, it definitely wasn't 'Hermann'.