If Vin Diesel is passionate about Hannibal, then he might not be as stupid as he's previously seemed.Not so sure about that Shiga, I'd rather have a good actor who is the wrong skin color than an idiot.
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If Vin Diesel is passionate about Hannibal, then he might not be as stupid as he's previously seemed.Not so sure about that Shiga, I'd rather have a good actor who is the wrong skin color than an idiot.
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Actually, there is a great theme for a story there, greatness unfilfilled.
Hannibal was the best tactical leader - but could never make the politics or strategy lead to a win.
Scipio was the conqueror who fell from favor.
Peer-ose [not stepping into the spelling debate, this is a phonic] was unable to win despite victory -- and dies during yet another win.
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I find phyrros more dramatic than, say, alexander..Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
dear Alex had it all. but had a personal meltdown, and got himself killed ina mysteriosu way.
Phyrros won it all, one coudl say. he didn't lose a battle...but sadly enough fate wasn't kidn on him.
I find teh tortured hero a lot better than teh heroic mighty-mouse like character Alexander
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He's rarely seemed stupid to me, particularly in being so personally involved in the making of the Riddick game. I think he's probably got the charisma to carry a film about Hannibal; the most important thing to me is having an actor who can show why so many different types of people followed him from Spain to the southern tip of Italy.
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I admit he hasn't exactly gotten to play in a lot of good movies. He hasn't played a career-making movie yet. Only good movie I can think of is Saving Private Ryan - short role as Sgt. Caparzo. Fast & The Furious is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.. XXX was entertaining though, just average mindless action. Riddick was so so. But he could have hitherto untapped potentials we haven't seen yet.
About his passion for Hannibal, in an interview he stated having ambitions of using contemporaneous languages (Latin, Punic etc).. he wanted to portray Hannibal's mastery of 8 languages. So I think he's passionate.
But I don't know how well that passion of his will go. Publishers will decide in the end. But Mel Gibson set a new standard with Passion of Christ, even if the Latin pronunciations were off by half a century.
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Don't you mean half a millenium?
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Uh yes lol. I meant 500 years.
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Never saw it..
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yet you saw chronicles of riddick?chronicles of riddick was the sequel to pitch black..
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I guess..yet you saw chronicles of riddick?
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