Greek-themed movies you would like Hollywood to make?

[madviking]

The inevitable Greek bankruptcy.

 

[kochman]

the conquest/fall of constantinople has been made by turks already. pretty big production.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783232/



Link to video.

I can't find anywhere to DL it...

 

[gangleri2001]

Onassis' biography

 

[Gustave5436]

I would like a movie version of the Odyssey, it's a very interesting story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(TV_miniseries)

I saw something based on the Odyssey on TV before, think it was this but I don't recall for sure.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Any movie where the Turks or Persians pwn Greece

Would it be called History?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

A film about a cloistered Greek man who is so obsessed with fear of all the world that he spends his years making Civ 3 city sets and writing Kafkaesque short stories.

It have to be shot from one angle

For some reason, I can't stop laughing

(sorry Kyriakos, I hope you can take the high road or if it really hurts you .. take with you a lesson? I don't know.)

But that Turkish movie looks really trashy. Those picturesque skies.... Watching such a trailer, I feel to have done injustice to Hollywood.

 

[cav scout]

300 with some better historical accuracy could have been very interesting; I did very much enjoy the film, but only on the understanding that it's from an incredibly biased perspective (that of the veteran encouraging the Spartans at Plataia at the end)

This... Except the part about 300 being enjoyable

A good template would be the novel "Gates of Fire" by Pressfield.

 

[BvBPL]

Hollywood really needs to get out there and make "Gyro: The Musical" featuring the hit song "Spanakopita, Spanakopita."

 

[Zelig]

I would really like another sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the greatest cultural export from Greece in the last 100 years.

I concur.

 

[Skwink]

Always been a big Macedonia fan.

Speaking of the Odyssey, we finished it in class a few days back, and watched O Brother Where Art Thou. It sorta based off the Odyssey.

 

[Kyriakos]

The mini series with that spanish actor as Odysseus was ok, but a 3 hour epic with current special effects and a host of good actors could top it easily

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

The Battle of Marathon. Make it, Hollywood.

 

[christos200]

A movie about the lives of some Greeks during the finacial crisis. Or a movie focused on the Greek Civil War.

 

[Arakhor]

A dramatisation of The Alexiad might be interesting as a political drama. HBO seem to be doing well with their sweary historical dramas of late.

 

[Ajidica]

A dramatisation of The Alexiad might be interesting as a political drama. HBO seem to be doing well with their sweary historical dramas of late.

Anna Comnenus making snide comments about Normans could be fun to watch.

 

[Arakhor]

Anna Comnenus making snide comments about Normans could be fun to watch.

Period dress would make pictures for Byzantine AARs so much easier!

 

[aronnax]

That Turkish Fall of Constantinople movie makes me sad. Even in the trailer you can see how it is just heavy-handed Turkish Nationalism and bad Hollywood History smashed together.

I really am looking forward to a Fall of Constantinople/Conquest of Istanbul that can balance the two sides, Greek and Turkish without given either a heroic history upgrade or evil villainous caricature to either side.

 

[_random_]

I really am looking forward to a Fall of Constantinople/Conquest of Istanbul that can balance the two sides, Greek and Turkish without given either a heroic history upgrade or evil villainous caricature to either side.

Definitely. With all the fighting in tunnels and ships dragged through the streets and moon-related omens, it just screams "cinema."

Titanomachia could be really cool too. Not sure why the post is single-choice.

 

[innonimatu]

The problem with a greek asking for war movies involving greece is that all end up being about greek defeats! I mean, fall of Constantinople, check. The fourth Crusade, check. Rise of Macedonia, check... oh, ok, that last one was kind of mixed.

I mean, even the (in)famous 300 was about a greek defeat. For some reason no one bother doing one about Plataea. Greeks should really get their own cinema industry going if they want some good propaganda...

 

[Birdjaguar]

I would like a movie version of the Odyssey, it's a very interesting story.

You mean this: Ulysses I was awestruck when I saw it as a kid.

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