Results 1 to 30 of 51

Thread: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    EB Pointless Extras Botherer Member VandalCarthage's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Posts
    1,813

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Not so sure about that Shiga, I'd rather have a good actor who is the wrong skin color than an idiot.
    If Vin Diesel is passionate about Hannibal, then he might not be as stupid as he's previously seemed.
    "It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive_alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, atc. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment." - Yevgeny Zamyatin

  2. #2
    Praefectus Fabrum Senior Member Anime BlackJack Champion, Flash Poker Champion, Word Up Champion, Shape Game Champion, Snake Shooter Champion, Fishwater Challenge Champion, Rocket Racer MX Champion, Jukebox Hero Champion, My House Is Bigger Than Your House Champion, Funky Pong Champion, Cutie Quake Champion, Fling The Cow Champion, Tiger Punch Champion, Virus Champion, Solitaire Champion, Worm Race Champion, Rope Walker Champion, Penguin Pass Champion, Skate Park Champion, Watch Out Champion, Lawn Pac Champion, Weapons Of Mass Destruction Champion, Skate Boarder Champion, Lane Bowling Champion, Bugz Champion, Makai Grand Prix 2 Champion, White Van Man Champion, Parachute Panic Champion, BlackJack Champion, Stans Ski Jumping Champion, Smaugs Treasure Champion, Sofa Longjump Champion Seamus Fermanagh's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Latibulm mali regis in muris.
    Posts
    11,454

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    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.
    "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman

    "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken

  3. #3
    graduated non-expert Member jerby's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Location
    ..your not my mother..
    Posts
    1,414

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
    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.
    I find phyrros more dramatic than, say, alexander..

    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

  4. #4
    Come to daddy Member Geoffrey S's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Shell Beach
    Posts
    4,028

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by VandalCarthage
    If Vin Diesel is passionate about Hannibal, then he might not be as stupid as he's previously seemed.
    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.
    "The facts of history cannot be purely objective, since they become facts of history only in virtue of the significance attached to them by the historian." E.H. Carr

  5. #5
    VOXIFEX MAXIMVS Member Shigawire's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Norway, Br?nn?ysund
    Posts
    2,059

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    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.
    Last edited by Shigawire; 01-08-2006 at 19:38.


    "To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will its true nature be seen." -The Amtal Rule, DUNE

  6. #6

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by Shigawire
    But Mel Gibson set a new standard with Passion of Christ, even if the Latin pronunciations were off by half a century.
    Don't you mean half a millenium?

  7. #7
    VOXIFEX MAXIMVS Member Shigawire's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Norway, Br?nn?ysund
    Posts
    2,059

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Uh yes lol. I meant 500 years.


    "To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will its true nature be seen." -The Amtal Rule, DUNE

  8. #8
    EB Traiter Member Malrubius's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2005
    Location
    On a tree-covered mountain in Anniston, Alabama, USA
    Posts
    2,633

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by Shigawire
    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.
    What about Pitch Black?

    Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much (especially if they're Languorous)!
    -- Aristophanes, if he played EB

  9. #9
    VOXIFEX MAXIMVS Member Shigawire's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Norway, Br?nn?ysund
    Posts
    2,059

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Never saw it..


    "To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will its true nature be seen." -The Amtal Rule, DUNE

  10. #10

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    yet you saw chronicles of riddick? chronicles of riddick was the sequel to pitch black..

  11. #11
    VOXIFEX MAXIMVS Member Shigawire's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Norway, Br?nn?ysund
    Posts
    2,059

    Default Re: I think EB spelled Pyrrhus' name wrong

    Quote Originally Posted by Demiurge
    yet you saw chronicles of riddick? chronicles of riddick was the sequel to pitch black..
    I guess..


    "To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will its true nature be seen." -The Amtal Rule, DUNE

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO