The 13th Warrior?
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Viking Bastard
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It's supposed to be a scientific "How it Really Happened Before Being Mythified" kinda thing.
I mean, Vladimir Kulich's character's name should be a clue.
It's supposed to be a scientific "How it Really Happened Before Being Mythified" kinda thing.
I mean, Vladimir Kulich's character's name should be a clue.
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The movie, "The 13th Warrior" is based upon Michael Chriton's novel Eaters of the Dead:
"On the very outside, EotD is a retelling of the Epic Poem of Beowulf, the only early Germanic epic left, conceived and written by Crichton on a dare that he couldn't make so-called boring history texts interesting. It took him quite a while to find the correct context for the story, not an amazing fantasy epic, but events that could have been real, that over centuries of embellishment became a tale of great heroic deeds. This context is based in part on actual fragments of a document, written by Ibn-Fadlan, an ambassador of the Caliph of Bagdad in the 10th century. In fact, the first three chapters of the book are a slightly modified rewriting of the Ibn-Fadlan fragments. Crichton then continues the story in the same style. It is told from Ibn-Fadlan's perspective, along with the footnotes one would expect from a scholarly examination of an ancient document."
"On the very outside, EotD is a retelling of the Epic Poem of Beowulf, the only early Germanic epic left, conceived and written by Crichton on a dare that he couldn't make so-called boring history texts interesting. It took him quite a while to find the correct context for the story, not an amazing fantasy epic, but events that could have been real, that over centuries of embellishment became a tale of great heroic deeds. This context is based in part on actual fragments of a document, written by Ibn-Fadlan, an ambassador of the Caliph of Bagdad in the 10th century. In fact, the first three chapters of the book are a slightly modified rewriting of the Ibn-Fadlan fragments. Crichton then continues the story in the same style. It is told from Ibn-Fadlan's perspective, along with the footnotes one would expect from a scholarly examination of an ancient document."
Eosin the Red
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Yup, it is based on the Bigwulf guy. A personal favorite of mine also.
Ranger REG
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You mean "Buliwyf"?
Gotta upgrade my 13th Warrior video (the second Antonio Banderas film I collected, the other being Disney's The Mask of Zorro starring Catherine "Hottie" Zeta-Jones) to DVD.
Good film. Great book (EOTD).
Gotta upgrade my 13th Warrior video (the second Antonio Banderas film I collected, the other being Disney's The Mask of Zorro starring Catherine "Hottie" Zeta-Jones) to DVD.
Good film. Great book (EOTD).
mattcolville
Adventurer
Mark said:
I love this. I mean, seriously, the 13th Warrior is not a fantasy movie. It's fictional, but not fantasy. No spells, no dragons ("It's cavalry." "I rather prefered a dragon!") But EVERYONE WHO PLAYS D&D throws it into the Fantasy genre.
Which I love. I mean, I do it too. But it's not a fantasy movie. It's EXACTLY what so many of us wish our campaigns could be like. It's an adventuring company, defending the town, hordes of invading barbarians. Great stuff.
It's like we've adopted it. Made it ours.
Mark
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mattcolville said:
Not really. Fantasy doesn't have to include spells or dragons. Depends on how broad your description of fiction and fantasy are. My description of fantasy includes mythic works. To me fiction is simply something invented by the imagination, which includes fantasy. Fantasy, IMO, takes things a step further into the grotesque, inexplicable or mythic. I think The 13th Warrior does that...and seriously does it tremendously.
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