Just finished Xenopohon's piece and I reckon you could make at least a movie trilogy out of it.
What do you think of the book ?
Anabasis
Just finished Xenopohon's piece and I reckon you could make at least a movie trilogy out of it.
What do you think of the book ?
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Wasn't Vin Diesel working on a movie project related to this? I read the news on this very forum in 2008.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272879/Originally Posted by Azathoth
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I've been meaning to read this. I've read a little bit about it (and listened to a lecture on it) and it sounds like some knock-out awesome stuff.
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Most of the book is simply amazing to imagine. As obvious I read a Turkish translation but the language is very fluent when the action is present and somewhat epic when speeches take their turn.
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I've read it a year ago, that was the first thing I thought: "Why isn't this a movie?". In the Dutch edition this question was asked in the prologue. It's just so atmospheric: The collective suicide, the Thracian expedition, the incidents at Byzantium, the internal politics of Greece at that time that are mentioned now and then, and most of all, the schemes and power structures after the assasination of the generals. A very good book.
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To my shame, I must confess I've not yet gotten around to reading it.It's on my to-do list, but it's a ways down still.
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We've been through sections of it during the classes the past year. The coming year I estimate most of the translation lessons' material to consist of watered down Anabasis extracts.
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There already is an Anabasis film, it's called The Warriors and it came out in 1979 and it's remake will be out in 2011. And it isawesome.
Luckily, Astérix discovered the Latin phrase and removed it before Obélix saw it - LVI
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It is an excellent story and I usually recommend it to my buddies who want to read more history but don't have the attention span for 'scholarly' works. It's one of the coolest tales of adventure and overcoming adversity that I know of. I'd never heard of 'the Warriors' and will have to go keep my eyes out for it, though it is a bit odd how it's been adapted, I'd certainly prefer a tale that's actually of the period, and hopefully not of the 300 variety of movie making.
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