Agora

zaozzie said:
You should watch Black Death.

Much better balanced Christianity vs Pagans argument compared to one-sided Agora.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181791/
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Yours is set during a period much later. When the church was in control of most of Europe. Yours is 14th century, this is more 4th century. It includes the Christians sacking the great library of Alexandria.

Yours is a horror story, mine is a historical drama.

What the do and how they behave is very much like how the Taliban in Afghanistan worked when they had power. Destroying the libraries, destroying the art and statues and burning the library. Its so sad knowing all the information died for such a terrible reason. Im so glad modern christianity has evolved.
 
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w1z4rd said:
Yours is set during a period much later. When the church was in control of most of Europe. Yours is 14th century, this is more 4th century. It includes the Christians sacking the great library of Alexandria.

Yours is a horror story, mine is a historical drama.
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Horror story? Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Have you even watched the movie? I have watched both.
Black death was a real disease that killed 30% – 60% of Europe's population. This sort of outweighs what happened in Alexandria with the sacking of a library.
Anyway people have sacked and killed whatever century they are in.

If you want historical watch a documentary. If you want something though provoking/with a twist then watch a good movie.
;)
 
zaozzie said:
Horror story? Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Have you even watched the movie? I have watched both. People have sacked and killed whatever century they are in.
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"Black Death is a 2010 horror film directed by Christopher Smith and from an original screenplay by Dario Poloni"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_(film)

"Agora is a 2009 Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(film)

If you want historical watch a documentary. If you want something though provoking/with a twist then watch a good movie.
;)
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I watch a lot of documentaries, so I know a lot of the general story line already. Its pretty accurate based on the information I know. Could you tell me which bit in Agora in accurate? Which specific bit? :) I enjoy historical time period pieces. I see you enjoy your fantasy, I like it sometimes but prefer the more real stuff.
 
Historical accuracy

Before its release, the distribution company insisted on screening the film at the Vatican. No objections were reported and Vatican officials assisted in some of the religious depictions. According to Amenábar, "There’s one scene in which Cyril reads from St. Paul and [the Vatican] tried to look for the softest version. In the English version, it’s taken from the King James version of the Bible."[8] The line is excerpted from 1 Timothy 2 in the King James version of the Bible. This scene between Cyril and Orestes was criticized for its involvement of Hypatia as its subject. Socrates Scholasticus, a contemporary of these events, describes an encounter in his Historia Ecclesiastica between Cyril and Orestes, where Cyril tried to reconcile with Orestes. "When Orestes refused to listen to friendly advances, Cyril extended toward him the book of gospels, believing that respect for religion would induce him to lay aside his resentment."[28] As in the film, Orestes refused this religious appeal, however Socrates' record is unclear whether Hypatia was the subject of this particular incident. Socrates' record does indicate that "a rumour was calumniously spread that Orestes's unwillingness to reconcile himself with the bishop was [Hypatia's] doing."[29] This rumor directly resulted in a multitude of men killing Hypatia.[30] Damascius implicates Cyril as having a more direct involvement in Hypatia's murder,[31] however modern scholars disagree about his role in her death.[29]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(film)

British writer and film critic Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised Alejandro Amenábar and his film, describing Agora as "an ambitious, cerebral and complex movie
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Christians will never sack wikipedia. Yanks can't even sack wikileaks. :D
 
zaozzie said:
Black death was a real disease that killed 30% – 60% of Europe's population. This sort of outweighs what happened in Alexandria with the sacking of a library.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think you realise just how much human knowledge we lost during the sacking of the Library of Alexandria... It basically threw the entire human race into the dark ages. People die, and it is sad, but more people are born. Knowledge is lost forever.

I consider the sacking of the Library of Alexandria to be the largest crime against humanity ever committed.
 
Madman88 said:
Hollywood? This is a new low for you.
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Its not a Hollywood production. I see you are as bright as the Christians of that time period. People like you remind me of a lot of the Christians in that movie actually. You behave like them.
Shake&Bake said:
Into what?
A great money maker?
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Theyre less blood thirsty. They basically were the Taliban of their time. To get an idea of how devestating the Christian mob was, think about what would happen if today the Taliban took control. What would happen to all books and movies that they dont agree with. Thats exactly what happened with the Christian mob in this movie. It was one of Western Cultures most terrible moments.

As for Agora - I enjoyed the movie, but it won't register as one of my all time favourites though.
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It made me so sad to see all that knowledge be destroyed by that blood thirsty mob.
 
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