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Last night's movie was Caligula, the historic/pornographic film credited to "Penthouse Films International." (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje wondered how many films they actually put out.) There were a lot of sex scenes, and a lot of bare asses. Some of it came off as a bit gratuitous, like this one girl-on-girl scene that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything else. For the most part, though, I think it set the mood more than anything else. I mean, you can't make a movie about a crazy, perverted emperor without at least implying some crazy and perverted stuff, right? I was wondering how much of what was shown was historically accurate, and a look at the wikipedia article shows that sources describing Caligula's reign are somewhat questionable, which is to say that the filmmakers didn't make up most of the stuff he does in the movie, but it's possible that critical Roman historians did, or at least exaggerated true stories. Anyway, I didn't love it, but I wouldn't agree with Roger Ebert's zero-star assessment, either. One weird thing that I noticed in the movie is that there was one sign (the one declaring a period of public mourning after the death of Drusilla) written entirely in English. Every other piece of writing at least appeared to be in Latin, so what was the deal here? Was the Latin consultant out of town for the day, and they had to rush that scene into production?
Here is a short article on Eric Shanower's comic book work. I've been meaning to check out his Age of Bronze, a series of graphic novels about the Trojan War. And I'm definitely getting Adventures in Oz, since I seem to have misplaced my copies of Eric's Oz graphic novels. I'm not sure whether I'll want the limited edition. I usually steer clear of things like that, since they're often just the same thing with an extra illustration and a numbered plate, but I understand that there's going to be a fair amount of extra material in this one. Perhaps some of that material will also be in the regular edition, though. I'll have to find out the details closer to the publication date.
And here's a survey that I got from3x1minus1:
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bethje wondered how many films they actually put out.) There were a lot of sex scenes, and a lot of bare asses. Some of it came off as a bit gratuitous, like this one girl-on-girl scene that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything else. For the most part, though, I think it set the mood more than anything else. I mean, you can't make a movie about a crazy, perverted emperor without at least implying some crazy and perverted stuff, right? I was wondering how much of what was shown was historically accurate, and a look at the wikipedia article shows that sources describing Caligula's reign are somewhat questionable, which is to say that the filmmakers didn't make up most of the stuff he does in the movie, but it's possible that critical Roman historians did, or at least exaggerated true stories. Anyway, I didn't love it, but I wouldn't agree with Roger Ebert's zero-star assessment, either. One weird thing that I noticed in the movie is that there was one sign (the one declaring a period of public mourning after the death of Drusilla) written entirely in English. Every other piece of writing at least appeared to be in Latin, so what was the deal here? Was the Latin consultant out of town for the day, and they had to rush that scene into production?Here is a short article on Eric Shanower's comic book work. I've been meaning to check out his Age of Bronze, a series of graphic novels about the Trojan War. And I'm definitely getting Adventures in Oz, since I seem to have misplaced my copies of Eric's Oz graphic novels. I'm not sure whether I'll want the limited edition. I usually steer clear of things like that, since they're often just the same thing with an extra illustration and a numbered plate, but I understand that there's going to be a fair amount of extra material in this one. Perhaps some of that material will also be in the regular edition, though. I'll have to find out the details closer to the publication date.
And here's a survey that I got from
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