Any other suggestions on SCA-ish movies -or- are you smarter than the Outlands list?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 3:04:36 PM | Ben Baron
Re: Outlander Seeking Movie Suggestions
Here were my contributions. See the Outlands List for other details, if necessary.
Other suggestions (from Caer Galen movie night):
Dangerous Beauty : One Ms. deFranco conquers 16th c. Venice, one bed at a time. Great eye candy … but don't use it for costume documentation (unless you are documenting what you're wearing to the after revel). Mmm, Hot chicks with swords.
Kingdom of Heaven : Dateline: The Crusades. Orlando Bloom proves he isn't just another pretty Elf. Who knew crusaders were so buff? Deus Vult seeing thee on thy Bowflex.
Queen Margot : Marguerite de Valois, princess of France, tries to keep all sides satisfied in the War of the Three Henries (1580s France). See Dangerous Beauty on documentation.
Shakespeare in Love : A Tom Stoppard script that doesn't put you to sleep like Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead (with many inside jokes for Shakespeare nerds). A tale of writers block, which the movie never makes clear whether Shakespeare ever really got over (see the YouTube parody `George Lucas in Love '). More hot chicks with swords (Gwyneth Paltrow) …mmm, and she can act, too. Beware of the kid pulling the wings off flies – he will turn out to be utterly unimportant to the story, but will drag down many an English Lit class by being like Shakespeare only much, much gorier... For costume, see this one, avoid Elizabeth.
Stealing Heaven : The classic medieval love story of Abelard and Heloise – two lovers separated by an inconvenient belief system. They were pseudo-intellectual before pseudo-intellectual was hip, by about 700 years. (Who names their child Astrolabe?).
The Advocate : A personal favorite – A tale of jurisprudence in 15th Century France. A city lawyer has his eyes opened running a law practice in a small village. How's a lawyer to get any work done between pigs, cows, witches, evil Templars and random hot chicks in his bed. Curious yet?
The Other Boleyn Girl : Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) sharks her sister for the hottest guy in school. That guy just happens to be The Incredible Hulk aka King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Costuming ok, but who's watching? Taken from a bodice ripper novel, it features a distinct lack of actual ripped bodices. Filmschool 101, people, in film we take a book's complex implied narrative details and turn them into simple graphic statements in explicit color on the screen. Disappointing.
Slightly post period :
Restoration : An inspiring tale of loss and redemption after the Restoration of the English Monarchy. Gore Warning: Lots of the plague.
The Libertine : A depressing tale of loss and redemption after the Restoration of the English Monarchy. More loss, less redemption. Johnny Depp plays … Johnny Depp playing the Earl of Wilmot, a playwright who is as the title of the movie suggests, but forgets to wear a cap in the rain, if ya know what I mean. John Malkovich plays Charles II. Great costumes, if post-period. Love them coats. Gore Warning: lots of the clap.
