It‘s good for the soul to watch a Roman Empire movie now and then. This one even had the plume on the Roman helmets aligned properly, like the mane on a proud stallion.
I did notice, however, a couple of soldiers wearing the modern (gay!) version, aligned perpendicular — i.e. parallel to the soldier’s shoulders.
(Ah, yes, the old adage that the victors write the history….)
I suppose this is Hollywood’s vane attempt to denigrate all things Roman. Personally, I think it makes Hollywood out to be a bunch of immoral thugs trying to pimp out history in their own effeminate image.
The film takes place in Olde England. There is fantastic scenery throughout. It’s a bloody shame human beings had to show up and screw it all up. As usual, those who live close to nature are witches, demons, and thus evil.
Corporations (SPONSORS!) the world around make good money destroying nature. Nature is ours to rape and pillage. We were made in the image of God Himself. It’s our divine right, to destroy all that is beautiful and wonderful on this green Earth.
Like most Empires, the Roman soldiers and their field generals were far more decent and honorable than their petty, gay leaders with their wigs, powdered makeup, and dainty, delicate attire.
All a Roman soldier wanted was to live a decent life, to build roads and aqueducts and baths to cleanse the unwashed heathens; to serve out their enlistment, and then retire with honor to a quiet farm in Tuscany. As it turns out, the Roman soldiers conquered far more with their engineering expertise than with their military conquests.
Alas, their petticoat rulers used the soldier’s hard-earned conquests for personal ends, to aggrandize their fey personas.
These days, as usual, everything is backwards. Invading armies obliterate infrastructure or “command and control facilities.” We’ve spent $3 trillion rebuilding Iraq, and it will be another whole generation before the Iraqi people have as dependable utilities and infrastructure as before we invaded. Nor does the army even do any of the rebuilding.
It’s all contracted out (with 50% of the cost going as graft to the contractors).
Even then, only one in ten U.S. soldiers over there even carries weapons in harm’s way. The other 90% are “support.” Tell me again, why soldiers aren’t even soldiers any more???
You can always depend on Romans to be good men and to find themselves good women. Sure, as HBO loves to tell us ad nauseum, Rome may have been thick with homosexuals, but Roman soldiers out in the field had no such predilections.
While Rome itself collapsed from moral decay rooted in gay culture (as countless other cultures collapsed before and after them), the sturdy old Roman soldiers fought on, building things in their spare time — forts, roads, walls, aqueducts. Good, hard, honest, back-breaking work keeps the gay beast at bay in the ranks, even as sloth and gluttony destroyed Rome herself from the gay insides out.
Today armies don’t fight to forge democracies, to spread the Pax Americana.
They fight to spread the pox of American imperialist capitalism and our perverted Hollywood-inspired values. There are no Roman soldiers any more, not even in the U.S. military.
They’re all barbarians and purveyors of homosexual perversions and disease all the world wide.
