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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.96 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 2003 DVD Release : 06 January, 2004 |
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| [[ASIN:B00009MEKC Warrior Queen]]
I very much enjoyed the movie. I had first seen it on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. This show that uses fictional works, rather than a documentary approach. Using the works of Tacitus and Cassius Dio to guide him, Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay for the movie, tells a story that is basically true but uses also uses speculation to fill in the gaps of knowledge left by the Roman historians accounts. Further, Davies occasionally does deviate from the Roman accounts of the battles, especially in the area of tactics. The celts, who did not write things down. So we lack their "take" on this time. So an understanding of accounts of what happened, which were left to us by history helps separate fact from fiction in this movie. I felt, as an biography, it was adequate but not exceptional. The brilliance of the movie is in the twist at the very last scene, which gives the story a whole new power. Do be ready for violence, sex, and what I like to refer to as "Fellini moments". I would give it an "R" rating, if it was up to me. Where this film does excel, in my opinion, is the "humanization" of the celts and of the romans. Fleshing them out into real people. It deals no only with the what but the why. The emotion with the intellect. This is where I feel other documentaries, that I have on the subject of Boudica, fail. I personally love this movie, you may very well also; but I can see where some may not. In general, I recommend it! |
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