#historical epics

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Alfred the Great movie poster artwork by Ted Coconis (1969)

#ted coconis #alfred the great #movie poster art #60s movies #historical epics #clive donner #david hemmings #michael york #ian mckellen #sixties #1969

[streets-in-paradise]

Funny people whine Dastan was whitewashed when Prince Caspian from Chronicles of Narnia was too. I mean he wasn't

Not to sound like an annoying grandma but, back in the day, EVERYONE in that movie subgenre was:

Hello? Imhotep from " The Mummy", anyone?

Let's be realists, people only complain when it is about one of the old movies they don't like themselves or particularly care about. Internet loved classics don't face the same harsh criticism and, when those do, people suddenly remember to put the film in context.

Same happens with all the criticism regarding Troy in comparison to 300. Nobody complains about 300 because it is a beloved classic of the decade, but everyone is quick to throw Troy under the bus.

Prince of Persia suffers from the same problem. People ignore the context because they don't care enough or dislike the movie itself, not just its potential problematic elements.

That being said, you can only understand Jake Gyllenhall's Dastan if you put him in the context of the decade. Back then, if you look close at all the other movies of the time, it made perfect sense. It was great casting for the standards of that period in film history.

It may be wrong to most today, but it made sense in the 2000's. All movies were like that, even the ones people nowadays still praise online.

#asks #messages #tw: whitewashing #prince of persia:the sands of time #the chronicles of narnia: prince caspian #the mummy 1999 #troy 2004 #300 #2000's #fantasy adventure #historical epics #dastan #prince caspian #imhotep #achilles #jake gyllenhaal #ben barnes #arnold vosloo #brad pitt

[v-yunok]

Get ready with me to build a giant wooden horse

Did I just spend 3 days drawing that eyeliner meme? Yes. Yes, I did.

I'm very late to this year's inktober but nevertheless I'm here))) I decided to combine the official prompt list with the classicstober here, specifically prompt 15 - dagger and prompt 20 - Odysseus. I don't know, if I will draw any other prompts, but this one was fun and I hope you like it :)

The dagger was based on Mycenaean daggers in the national archeological museum in Athens and some Mycenaean dagger reproductions I saw, the scene depicted is Odysseus hunting Athena' boar. I hc this dagger was either a gift from Athena herself or from Autolycus, I haven't decided yet.

#I'm not sure how historically accurate is that background. but it is what it is ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #odysseus #“my man's not letting this war keep him from feeling gorgeous” (quote by @dannymotta) #“felt cute. might burn a city later” #“grwm for a stealth mission with my best buddy - the king of Argos” #tagamemnon #the iliad #epic the musical #epic the musical fanart #greek mythology #inktober #classicstober #inktober 2023 #classicstober23 #my art tag

[dadaonice]

Audrey Hepburn and Anita Ekberg on set of War and Peace, 1956

#war and peace #audrey hepburn #anita ekberg #backstage #celebs #celebrity #actresses #1956 #epic #drama #historical #leo tolstoy #King Vidor #beautiful #photography #Natasha Rostova #helene kuragina

[cozylittleartblog]

top hat, white tie, and tails ~

commission for @superfan44 , who wanted to see James redrawn in another famous Fred Astaire photo :)c it was fun doing this style again

#art #artists on tumblr #vintage #1930s #illustration #character illustration #hollywoods finest #oc #commission #original character #ocs #historical oc #james hall #comms are closed atm as im prepping for anime central but i can never say no to commissions of my own ocs. i love those guys #there's a regular version and this fake autographed version but im just uploading this one cuz i think its neat ! #i want to use this style to make fake movie screenshots with them later #it would go so hard. it would be so cool #epic and so cool; as the robots say #.... haha. today's april 18th. lol. lmao

[junotter]

Legitimately can't explain what caused me to get just get really into this hetaliaAU that exists solely in my brain but I couldn't stop

At first it was just imagining like a Japanese woman in kimono in like 19th century New York and then I started thinking about how amazing fem japan is and like then ameripan came in and now I'm like losing it

#amepan #ameripan #nyo japan #hws japan #hws america #hetalia #hetalia fanart #historical hetalia #my art #no one gets nyo japan like me (i hate “canon” nyo japan and will rebuild her to be a complex character) #i did start thinking about how epic nyo japan would be when learning that like super pre history japan #like women were religious and social leaders #theres also that one chinese record of the kingdom of wei #which to be clear historical accuracy of thst is unclear but it does seem to link to modern day japan #and in the record its like “the people here saw male rulers were causing problems so now only women rule” and theres princess himiko #ANYWAY i could talk about my decisions on why i think japan depicted as a woman is best but i wont here #also its embarrassing posting hetalia on my main #it ferls like i need a secret account #suggestive cw

[fitgoosefortress]

Kingdom of Heaven

#digital art #fanart #sketch #procreate #art #digital fanart #digital portrait #anime #clip studio art #my art #kingdom of heaven #baldwin iv #balian of ibelin #salahuddin ayub #ridley scott #historical epic #artists on tumblr #original art #character art

[oldfarmhouse]

Mayhurst Estate༻❁༺

𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉s://instagram.com/mayhurstestate

#historical estates #epic scenery #event venue

[gurumog]

The Sign of the Cross (1932) Paramount Pictures Cecil B. DeMille

Sally Rand as the Crocodiles' Victim

#sign of the cross #sally rand #cecil b. demille #historical epic

[daguerreotyping]

WWI real photo postcard depicting a French and a British soldier getting very cordial indeed

#oh to be a WWI soldier swooning on the steadfast shoulder of your sexy comrade #...wait #oh to be safely seated in the 21st century watching the epic gay romance/drama/war film someone ought to make about these two #early 20th century #1910s #WWI #historical fashion #men's fashion #fashion history #military fashion #military history #uniforms #entente cordiale #vintage photography #rppc #real photo postcard

[llflorence]

Dream of the Endless and Pegasus @murkycrush painted with my intention to write the hell out of it.

The Blood of Bucephalus 

Dreamling, Historical AU (Alexander the Great/Hephaestion), Horses, King!Dream, General!Hob, Epic Love

Rated: Explicit, Graphic depictions of violence

The colossal animal behind the King swayed back and forth, throwing its head in the air and snorting its dominance. It remained close, however; didn’t fight against its collar. Wild and ill-mannered, untamed and uncouth, it was the absolute opposite of the man Hob most often called ‘Sire,’ but also called something else.

“She’ll live, you stubborn fool, you,” the King scolded. One knee fell between Hob’s legs to rest on the ground. That warm hand returned to the side of Hob’s face.

It was a gentler, softer man who looked into Hob’s eyes, cupped his cheek and thumbed the divot in his bearded chin. He’d never looked lovelier, not even in Hob’s dreams.

“Hello, Morpheus,” Hob said, voice shaking.

The King smiled. Leaned so very close. Exhaled. Whispered.

“Hello, dearest Hob.”

Read on AO3

#dreamling #hob gadling #dream of the endless #historical au #greek myth retellings #Llflorence #murkycrush #epic love #the sandman

[streets-in-paradise]

I always got called racist for enjoying Prince of Persia 😭

Really? I think that saying that is a huge stretch. Like I said before, I never played the videogame but i can speak about this from a movie history perspective.

In my experience, arround 85% of old historical dramas, epical, sword and sandals or fantasy-adventure settled in the past genres are full with real ( sometimes blatant) cases of whitewashing and/ or historical innacuracy. To escape it completely, you would have to avoid like... the entire genre. I acknowledge the flaws and many problematic choices that the majority of, let's say, 60's to 2010's movies in the genre have, but i can still enjoy those while being critical.

Let's put another example, away from Prince of Persia and the whitewashing issue: Mel Gibson starring Braveheart.

I love that movie, i have rewatched it tons of times and i cry like a fool everytime i watch it. Is Gibson problematic as fuck? Hell yeah, dude is an asshole and many people know that. Should the main actor have been scottish? Sure, i agree on that. Is the movie full of awfull stereotypes, like that prima nocte bullshit added just for shock value? Yes, innacurate and harmfull because it includes sexual assault on women just for the " It was tradition, old times were like that."

But here is the thing

I don't see media consumption as a purity issue or a statement of my personal beliefs. I am aware Braveheart is problematic, but that doesn't mean that rewatching it makes me a xenophobic hater of scottish people. I wouldn't go to a real scottish person acting like all the stereotypes about their history in Braveheart are true because, and here is the main point:

I know it's not accurate and i enjoy it as fiction

Enjoying Prince of Persia doesn't make you a racist because, again, movies can't make you racist. That is like the " videogames make you violent" 90's controversy all over again, only with an updated target.

If you have the critical thinking skills to acknowledge that what you are watching is not accurate, then nobody should bother you about it. I can't speak much about if the casting choices were good or bad because i never played the videgame, but i like jake Gyllenhaal's Dastan in the movie's perspective.

That is how allmost all historical fantasy-adventure heroes looked at the time, Prince of Persia didn't do different from a thousand other movies back them

Should we cancel an entire film genre then? All the people who ever enjoyed a fantasy adventure epic shall be punished? Because no movie from back then is safe, not even popular ones that many people love.

In fact, Disney did WAY WORSE with an animated film settled in middle eastern tradition: Alladin. Have you ever listened the full version of " Arabian Nights"? The version of the film that Disney Channel transmited when i was a kid had a horrible verse about arabs being barbaric. When my little sister got the dvd for Christmas, I discovered they fortunately changed the song to eliminate that part.

The point with this is that, Hollywood ( and Disney, of course) is racist as fuck, but pointing at each others fingers with a " my media consumption is purer than yours" approach is not the solution. Watching one or other thing doesn't make you a better or worse human being, you can't commodify ethics and morals.

Movies are products, like anything in this system. If a movie or its advertisement ( direct or indirect, coming from the online fanbases) promises to make you a better person, that's just marketing. Logically, haters react under the same logic but for negative marketing, promising the movie is going to make you a worse person.

It's marketing operating for the anti-marketing people in the age of emotional capitalism. Movies can't give or take virtue from you, that's something you can't get in the market.

Keep enoying Prince of Persia and don't feel guilty about it. I don't know you, anon, but I bet you are a great person who just happens to like a movie and that is perfectly fine.

#asks #messages #prince of persia #braveheart #historical epics #fantasy #whitewashing and historical innacuracies #i personally dont believe in cancelling #i believe on keeping your critical eye trained

[downfalldestiny]

ROMA 🇮🇹 !.

#Roma #Italy #history #historical buildings #magical world #magic destinations #magic moments #Beautiful #scenery #downfalldestiny #downfall #epic scenery #epic video #Drone

[chaos0pikachu]

saw a post that called word of honor and the untamed "historical fiction" and damn I'm not expert on Chinese history but I didn't realize there was a time when people were fighting over a piece of jewelry to access the cave of martial arts wonders whilst also summoning zombies for kicks

#word of honor #the untamed #chaos pikachu speaks #i've decided if word of honor falls under historical fiction so does lord of the rings #aragorn the only british king we fuck with #the historical epic known as The Witcher #high key begging ppl to like watch a youtube video on the media they're engaging with #like wuxia & xianxia are their own thing lmao

[firebird04]

I'm reading the Odyssey for the first time, so here are my designs for Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Circe and Calypso.

I'll post the coloured version soon.

#I know they're not historically accurate #but I don't care #because it was fun to draw them like this #the odyssey #odysseus #homer #epic poetry #greek mythology #penelope #telemachus #circe #calypso #art #tagamemnon

[onyx-collective]

We're swept away by the epic scale and visual grandeur of Shōgun – a true masterpiece that sets a new standard for historical dramas on the small screen 🎥💫

#Shogun #Grandeur #Historical Drama #Anna Sawai #Hiroyuki Sanada #Fumi Nikaido #Hulu #Masterpiece #Epic Scale