I Want My Money Back

[circestale]

Wolfgang Petersen:

I never thought a director could be as stupid as you apparently are.

Comments

[luleh]

Aren't those columns Minoan? (Mycenaean? I can never keep them straight. One of them had the columns that tapered at the base.)

[circestale]

Yeah, definitely Minoan as the design basis, perched atop a sculptural frieze that looks either Assyrian or Neo-Babylonian in origin.

[luleh]

Those shields in the frieze look vaguely archaic. *squints*

Christ, did the art director throw pins at an art history book?

[circestale]

They do look vaguely archaic, although they could have also been aiming for the fiddle shape body style that is seen in several votive figures from bronze age Anatolian sites.

I'm fairly certain the art director on this movie played a drunken game of darts with a copy of Gardner's History of Art. The woman who worked at the British Museum who was hired as a technical adviser should be soundly flogged by her colleagues, and hopefully fired by the museum for general stupidity.

Okay, I must calm down now and simply meditate on Orlando's eyeliner...

[_elfy]

Eric is too hot in it for me to ask for my money back.

Yeah, I'm lame.

[circestale]

Well, I'd say Eric's hotness was definitely worth the matiness ticket I bought at the theatre. However, I really want a refund on the dvd. I simply can not get past the llamas.

[charmion]

Silly, silly man. Am, again, laughing my head off over Troy. Sad, really.

[circestale]

Someone really should investigate how Priam got llamas into Troy but couldn't save his city from destruction.

[tinanialilli]

I actually had a lecture ages ago on Troy because my lecturer was so pissed off about how historically, literary and artistically inaccurate it was. He missed the llama's though!

*looks at pic again*

Whoever was the historical advisor on this film had better have got their ass fired to Mars. And back.

[circestale]

Feel free to print out this screencap and take it into your lecturer. I assure you that steam will shoot out of his ears, just like a tea kettle.

You know what, the historical adviser on the film was a woman who works at the British Museum. I'm hoping they fired her ass and revoked her Ph.D. the moment this movie was released. Because... llamas? Dude, even worse than the gratuitous appearance of a 5c BCE red-figured amphora.

[elvses]

You see how fumes can warp one's mind?

[circestale]

True... but isn't this a case of fumes giving me true insight? Or where you referring to Wolfgang Petersen's mind? Because I believe there may not be anything there to warp.