Which battle would suit the silver-screen?

**ShadesPanther** · 01-03-2005, 23:20

Originally Posted by Spino

Uh, care to explain Braveheart, Gladiator, Alexander and Kingdom of Heaven? Technically all those pics, despite their wildly varying degrees of quality, did not feature aspects of American history and/or culture. However I do agree with your use of the term 'decent'.

Braveheart was basically just kill the English.

Gladiator I don't know, But every so often some hollywood exec takes a chance with a new genre which is then susequently beaten to death. (Ie. The two hannibal films, Alexander (Although it was going to be made for quite a while), Troy and Gladiator 2 (Which is pointless because maximus died and te story ended happily)

**Krusader** · 01-04-2005, 01:17

@DemonArchangel:

In case you haven't seen it, there is a german movie named Stalingrad, which I recall was very good.

IMDB: Stalingrad

The Japanese invasion of Korea in 1598 was when Toyotomi Hideyoshi died. There was a Korean Admiral, who's name I dont remember, who used many Turtle Ships against the Japanese warships. Would be cool ship-to-ship fighting scenes.

I think most historical movies could be made in Hollywood. Just have to find that angle which fascinates Americans, and relates to aspects they have in high regard like freedom, winning, struggle for freedom, wars etc. and will get them to the movies.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 01-04-2005, 02:02

Stupid Americans!

Wait a second...

Yeah, I don't much like Hollywood anyways - anything remotely related to history gets butchered, nine times out of ten.

**discovery1** · 01-04-2005, 02:19

There was a Korean Admiral, who's name I dont remember

Yi Sun Shi was his name

How bout the last stand of the Byzantines?

**Gregoshi** · 01-04-2005, 05:20

How about Caesar and the Battle/Siege of Alesia? It has Caesar, who even we Americans know about, and it is an against-all-odds victory of a siege within a siege. They can market it to Hollywood execs as the Alamo x100 in which the Texans (Romans) win...

...and Julia Roberts can play the tragic Gallic woman torn between her husband Vercingetorix and Julius Caesar, the man who raised her as a child in Rome...

...eh, sorry about that. Got carried away.

**SwordsMaster** · 01-04-2005, 11:17

...and Julia Roberts can play the tragic Gallic woman torn between her husband Vercingetorix and Julius Caesar, the man who raised her as a child in Rome...

Yeah! and Arnie could be Julius Caesar and have a big hand-ballistae that would shoot 200 rounds a minute, and a big sword, and surround, besiege and take Alesia all by himself...

Ok, sorry. Just watched the "End of the Days" (or something similar).

**lonewolf371** · 01-05-2005, 02:55

Stalingrad has already been done by Americn movie companies, check out "Enemy at the Gates".

Also, they've done another recent Civil War movie (which I despised and almost died watching) called "Cold Mountain". Actually, there are tons of Americn Civil War movies, in addition to "Cold Mountain" there are "Gods and Generals" and "Gone with the Wind".