Re: hype for HBO Rome series

rick++ wrote: 
Were starting to see some advance press about the HBO
series on Rome starting Aug 28.  Details about gaudily
painted buildings (true, even the Parthenon was painted)
and unisex latrines.  I hope this "reality approach"
extends to dialog.  One of the things that turned me
off about the ABC Rome miniseries a couple months ago
was the stilted dialog- people talked like a Shakespeare
play, etc. Boring!  I much more apprecieted the earthiness
of the I-Claudius series.  HBO Rome could be a prequel
to I-Claudius.

It is worth giving a watch for a couple to see it they have something. I'll accept unauthentic if creative as with GB Shaw's Ceasar. It going to be entertainment whatever comes. I do not expect history lessons but authenticity absorbed in an interesting context would be good.

As for the ABC thing, the less the better. Bad plots, bad dialog (regardless of dialect) cliched modern plot gimmicks (and modern misconceptions of ancient ones) and I could only stand one episode. Perhaps I misjudged it.

--
As an American I suggest exhuming Churchill's body and desecrating it.
	-- The Iron Webmaster, 3479
 nizkor http://www.giwersworld.org/nizkook/nizkook.phtml
 book review http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/willing-executioners.phtml a7
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: hype for HBO Rome series
    ... Details about gaudily painted buildings and unisex latrines. ... I hope this "reality approach" extends to dialog. ... One of the things that turned me off about the ABC Rome miniseries a couple months ago was the stilted dialog- people talked like a Shakespeare play, ... I much more apprecieted the earthiness of the I-Claudius series. ...
    (soc.history.ancient)
  • hype for HBO Rome series
    ... Were starting to see some advance press about the HBO ... series on Rome starting Aug 28. ... painted buildings ... of the I-Claudius series. ...
    (soc.history.ancient)