Said this legend is "patch together" because the content of the legend is mixed with the historical facts of the last emperor Romulus, the legend of the Ninth Army, Hadrian's Great Wall, the legend of the sword in the stone, and other historical stories that are not in the same background. element. First of all, let’s talk about the part where the barbarian leader Odoac attacked Rome at the beginning of the film. Aside from the easter eggs at the end, this opening part should be regarded as the most historical part of the story. Odoac, Romulus and their father Ole Stestus is indeed a person in history, and the young Romulus was indeed abducted by the barbarian army that attacked Rome after the coronation ceremony, and then he did not know where he ended up. However, what is not mentioned in the film is that this blonde little Zhengtai and his father are not orthodox Romans, and it can even be said that there is no trace of Roman blood, and his father Orestes is also a member. A barbarian general of Germanic descent, he deposed the former Roman emperor Julius Nipos through the same military coup in 475 AD, so he refused to admit it when Odoac slayed in Rome. The former emperor of the Orestes regime is still entrenched in the Dalmatia region of the Balkans, and can be recognized by the Roman military chiefs of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Gaul region. It was not until 480 AD that Julius Nipos died at the hands of his own soldiers. The claim that Romulus was identified as the last emperor of Rome and the year AD 476 was the year of the demise of the Western Roman Empire came from the view in the works of the great Roman historian Yoshimoto in the eighteenth century, because Romulus Si still belonged to the emperor who was crowned in Rome, but Odoac gave up his throne after rebelling and turned to surrender to the Eastern Roman Empire in name. In and out).
Compared with the passage in the legend of the last emperor, the part in the second half of the film where a group of people go to Great Britain to find the Ninth Legion does seem a bit frantic. The legend of the Ninth Legion can occur in Scotland more than 350 years ago. The outstanding Roman Ninth Legion disappeared in the historical record after traveling to northern Great Britain to suppress the Pitke rebellion. Some historians believe that it was suffered by Pete. The Croats were completely annihilated in an ambush, and some believed that they were ordered to disband because they lost the Golden Eagle emblem of the regiment during the battle. This vague record has long been photographed as "The Centurion" and "The Lost Ninth". "Legion" is performed in two costume action films, which are not shown here. In addition to the chronological crossing, there are many places worth complaining about. For example, the badge statue of the Ninth Army in the film is actually a dragon head with a carp streamer, and Hadrian’s Wall composed of low walls is actually quite good in the film. The sections of the Great Wall built in the north by the Ming Dynasty are really helpless.
At the end of the film, the legend of the so-called Roman Revival Sword was successfully transferred to the King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone among the old storytellers, so that the original "Escape of the Last Roman Emperor" was washed into the legend of "Young King Arthur" , Seemingly nonchalant but with a certain degree of rationality, after all, this is just an old man telling a platter story to a child.
After talking about the historical background involved, let's talk about some common sense in the film. First of all, this is a low-cost film and there is not enough funding. Therefore, the battle of Rome at the beginning and the battle of Hadrian’s Castle at the end are both parts that can be translated into a large-scale war scene, but in the film it becomes After the chaotic scene of a thousand people fighting, the siege and other parts can't be described in detail. This is also the reason why the film is only 104 minutes long although it has a tight rhythm and many scenes. Many parts that could have been played have been omitted. For example, the group of people in the middle looked through the Alps and passed through the Gaul region to the southern part of England. Although it is really not a bad idea that ordinary people can think of to leave Rome to such a remote place from the map, let alone how to travel on the southern coast of the Apennine Peninsula. It was not easy to land and pass through the blockade of Odoac's control zone. In other respects, in the ending battle, the remnants of the 9th Army actually used a large number of crossbowmen instead of javelin throwers to participate in the battle. Could it be that they learned from the battle with the local Pitke? Ha ha.
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