EB movie brainstorm thread

**Hamata** · 06-05-2012, 14:26

well since brennus is writing a book based on EB i think the EB world would make a good movie too

Follows the first punic wars

General Hanibal barca launches his first invasion of the roomani heartland a young general named Qvntvs avtovnias from the genes Antonias marches with his legion to meet him with Cornilius scippiio when they arrive they set up camp and plan the attack are they enough to save Rome from utter destruction? the battle of cannae begins..

so this is what i got so far

**Brennus** · 06-05-2012, 16:54

Originally Posted by Pharaoh rameses II

book based on EB

Not quite, just a period which EB covers.

**Hamata** · 06-05-2012, 21:56

Originally Posted by Brennus

Not quite, just a period which EB covers.

oh ok

**Blxz** · 06-06-2012, 05:02

Movies don't do the time period justice. Everything is bastardised to make it appear flashy. I only watch movies when I feel like seeing something absurd. Men in Black, Zombie movies and other assorted crap. Things with any history to them don't tend to work very well.

**Vilkku92** · 06-06-2012, 15:37

Originally Posted by Blxz

Movies don't do the time period justice. Everything is bastardised to make it appear flashy. I only watch movies when I feel like seeing something absurd. Men in Black, Zombie movies and other assorted crap. Things with any history to them don't tend to work very well.

Yeah, it would be sooo much more fun to watch people standing still for two hours during battles, wait for days for action that will never happen, have years between actual battles, and watch ordinary, boring people talking about ordinary, boring things. Very entertaining...

**jirisys** · 06-07-2012, 02:07

Originally Posted by Vilkku92

Yeah, it would be sooo much more fun to watch people standing still for two hours during battles, wait for days for action that will never happen, have years between actual battles, and watch ordinary, boring people talking about ordinary, boring things. Very entertaining...

The theory of filmmaking (that I just invented) would obviously not show the 10000 people in a single shot, and just seeing them wait, and wait. You would build the shot with the soldiers moving into position, then show the general supervising the army, giving orders, or chatting with someone else, then cut to some tension building shots with the enemy army in front of the soldiers, their sweat dripping from their chins, officers looking around, the guy with the flute playing something, the high officers in the tents waiting for the start of the battle, someone going to check if it has started, calculating how much time has passed, then cut to a shot of the front lines and suddenly all the **** hits the fan and trumpets start sounding, and the psiloi move through the lines and the soldiers ready their weapons and you managed to convey the fact that they waited a long ******* time, and you only spent 3 minutes. Same can be said for a standoff that lasts days.

Also, you don't need to show every single step of their march from point A to point B. For instance, you could do a montage of them traversing through the different geography of the road, you could do some CGI stuff and zoom in on the a map and show that they have arrived. You could just cut to another shot of them arriving and write the date and place on the screen.

Wait, ordinary boring people? I'm sorry, but have you read or watched Pride and Prejudice? They are ordinary people, living a slightly non-ordinary life, and yet you think that murderous kings and traitorous generals are ordinary boring people?

That being said, you wouldn't put 272+ years in a single movie, and unless you do some great and short war (Pyrrhic war, 1st and 2nd Punic Wars, Samnite war, Caesarian Gallic wars, etc.) it's better to do a mini series, specially when you do dynastic wars (Syrian wars, non-Caesarean Gallic wars, Mithradatic wars, Parthian rise, Baktrian migration to the Hindu Kush, etc.), but you can't fit 272 years in a single movie, or even an entire mini-series.

~Jirisys ()

**fallen851** · 06-10-2012, 21:54

Originally Posted by Blxz

Movies don't do the time period justice. Everything is bastardised to make it appear flashy. I only watch movies when I feel like seeing something absurd. Men in Black, Zombie movies and other assorted crap. Things with any history to them don't tend to work very well.

Wait a minute here... you mean to say that 300 wasn't realistic and didn't do the time period justice?