"Yield to the power of Rome, or you will die",
"First we seal the fate of the Falklands, and wage war on Argentina, moving quickly through South America, seizing Mexcio, vital ports in Cabo are needed, moving swiftly into southern California setting up fortresses and structured education, eradicating all who come in our path" !
"All those in favor say I!
The year is June 2013, a call into whitehall reveals that 50 Roman Ships have appeared in Port Stanley all full of Roman Legions, the rest is the most devisiting ancient movie of the modern day !
No one was quite sure how and, where they came from, although some evidence of their footsteps in the America's had been suspected for some time. Scientists theorized the recent phasing in the upper atmosphere, a temporal time shift, or even the Bermuda triangle!
Whatever the reason they where the there and Whitehall had not received another call since the previous night. Recent stirrings with Argentine government had seen an end to pleasantries and, besides who would believe them!
Unknowing of modern technologies, protected by galvanized body armor, helmets and seemingly very quick to adapt, the worst now had to be feared, for as they approached the shores of Buenos Aries thousands where about hear their cry:
"Yield To The Power Of Rome, Or You Will Die" !
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It's a teen flick - shit loads of teenagers are gonna get killed man !
When they had started on their mission as far as they where aware they had now arrived, Their orders take all in your path, "For Rome".
Adapt & Overcome
Gladiator Meets King Kong !
We see them leaving the Azores, in the year AD 65.
They are speaking Latin which moulds into English. They are never once understanding of the other language spoken and swiftly take control 80,000 killed in one entire afternoon, women, children weeping in the arms of their fallen men!
DAY ONE (The Arrival)
"This city is strange general"...."Centurion, gather intel now, within count of Rome"
Quick to act, centurion gathers intel to confirm to our 16,000 general, we are out numbered in tally of the street, 200 to 1. "twice as many as Rome, this place is indeed very strange"!
Quickly they are approached by on lookers who clap in appreciation of their costumes, they are unresting and form rank.
Disoriented they march finding good ground near to a shore. Their Immediate impulse is not to fight as onlookers believe they are involved in some kind of festival
It is quickly noted how this strange looking race with statues high in the sky do not intervene or pose any immediate threat, marching in formation they find themselves on low flat ground, scouts have already been sent and returned, some to the ships, some further a field, by night fall they have settled in camp, in a place locals know as Reserva Ecologica Costenera, no loss of life an none yet taken.
Footnote:
As I stood in the bar tonight I observed how distant the room of around 100 where from the realities of invasion. They would have been as strange by the arrival of 16,000 warriors as too where the 16,000 themselves.
Questions at this point have already been asked. 120 scouts to each legion, are unaware of life other than they know it, so naturally remain as stealth as they can, having only knowledge of countering a major gale and surviving. Then reaching the shores of an island, the land mass was detailed with execution of a number of souls. Unable to find the Pole star to obtain a reading, strong gut feeling provides fortune as the unknown skies or the night had provided no ability to navigate, so the rise and fall of the sun in the west is taken and the ships head due north and west toward their original destination, with favorable winds and currents, they have arrived at place unlike they have ever seen before:
"Gentlemen, we are not lost, we have the sun to guide us, we have our rations, we have arms, we have come to seek out new life and Rome will make it's claim.
To point, through years of training and lack of modern day survival, the legions have found land mass, no interception and have already begun to observe the night sky:
This is not a drill, these men are here to claim on behalf of their orders and claim the lands for themselves. Upon any unwanted interception the legions have already dug in finding suitable ground, in knowledge they are outnumbered by mass, they have decisions to make and during their first night in the world of previous campaign, they have no reason to interact with any form of lesser people's regardless of potential failure. If must, they will die or perish only certain of years of campaigns won by shear tactile progression.
SUN RISE (DAY DAY).
120 Scouts have spent all night moving in 360 degrees of the chosen camp. Each reporting.
Road systems not of Roman construction, strange looking wooden guard posts, excess to the ocean, food providing game and currently no evidence of counter forces. The forested area provides adequate shelter and protection. "Then we wait, for they know we are here".
Working in teams a basic camp site has been marked out, they are currently Sparta and during the night all necessary provisions have been brought in from the ships. The area is extremely quiet and like in many other campaigns is rich with the sound of birds and hum of the undergrowth. The huge statues they see in the near distance, gave gasp throughout the legions, lighting up with fire at night.
HQ Buenos Aires.
Early reports of a large mass of men gathered and ships anchored of the beaches of the nearby nature reserve, first passed over have now given into local bewilderment.
The area frequented by joggers, people on bike's have reported extremely strange activity and scouts have reported by a growing amount of people gathered around the wooden barricades that wind around some the roads.
Cell phone footage of 50 old fashioned sailing ships has been placed on YouTube, and through word of mouth the world of the teenage internet has also triggered concern of the port authorities, who confirm the in private the findings are correct. People gathered on the beaches include a local news crew, officers of the law and members of the public, they are indeed as bewildered and un-nerved by the sight of the wooden ships as the Roman legions who are now dug in the forested area are of the land they have encountered.
Sightings of men by passers-by have also been reported. In general mainstream coverage, the matter has been watered down by the press, although reached the higher realms of authority, international phone calls of the incident have travelled much farther than Argentina and, once again, as bewildered as they are, Whitehall have reported in confidence the findings of The Falklands to the Argentine counter parts and, within those political circles, fears of some kind British counter strike has been considered, or possible action of refugee's. Either way, time is ticking and due to the vast spread of the country, some do not believe, some do not care, some have not see and soon some may even die!
*NOTES TO READER*
We clearly have the strangest incident ever recorded in man kind. Ancient and modern thinking, both placed in a moment of time, passive and aggressive, unyielding in their approach, the outcome is open to debate, for it is now in existence beyond that which we can control. What is a wildlife reserve to locals of Buenos Aries is merely a protected temporary fortress to the Roman Legions. The are better suited to this moment, have fear of placement which is being channelled into pure drive to survive, no surrender, this word does not even exist in their mind!
The downside of the modern world, wishing more an invasion of little green men and talk of how they ever got there, regardless of the outcome, will last the test of time and seal their fate forever.
"We don't want to go war" the youth have already started to talk, the politicians already in side lined conversations of argument, "We must not harm the nature reserve", "Lack of confidence and movement of ultimate power has already been felt by the Roman general, he can sense these people are weak of mind"
The ancient shots of the film are shot as they would be, the modern shots of this film are shot as WE would be.
If we take reference point of mind, Gladiator, fight scene's (Are you not entertained), District 19, and the recent adaptation of Planet of the Ape's, then we are somewhere.
This is not a Hollywood hills gang banging movie, this is thought provoking, life changing for all concerned. One can not wish away what has come to be. The young buck may say, "We'd send in the troops, well we've got guns, bombs, helicopters, planes, infrared. They would not last 5 minutes. Historians would be as astonished as the laymen, as too they where upon stumbling of Jurassic Park. The exploiter of life would wish to bargain, cut a deal, defile their way of life for profit.
But the Roman legions remain steadfast, are there and only have what they only know, all artisans, all skilled to elite status in combat, all with a engineers mind and all in knowledge, that most likely" They are already dead".
Meanwhile, the chat rooms, courts, side laws, by-laws, state laws, and federal laws are keeping them alive.
"Yield To The Power Of Rome, Or You Will Die"!
Me, I'm kinda bored right now, Its not quite 5pm in the UK and I've completed every task I set out to do this week, so maybe a beer later, who knows, alway something on my mind, music however is not right now, but I did have a great conversation with my dad about: Marty Robbins, The Highwaymen, The Beatles, and The Travelling Willburys.
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And thats the rest of my thoughts below.
But just in case you never dd, or ne'er do again.
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good Night.
Rock On !
MDC
I've finished my film idea now, its way to good to be a movie.
SUETONIUS PAULLINUS
But it was lacking that Titanic love twist, so I've come with a triangle. Boudicca has eye's for Suetonius, but she's still with her husband and then finds out just after his death, he slept with both her daughters. It's got everything, she goes nuts. And then it's just heart stopping to the end !
He can't help it of course, it was just the time, lust and power.
Proper film for the men with emotional detachment for the women, and most of the audience won't have a clue and think he's gonna get killed, none of this over the top "Alright govnor I'm heading up Watling Street, this shits in Latin! Alright we can haggle on the Latin, but definatley not any stupid pouting, can't mention no names, you know, does it in all her movie's, maybe English with Latin subtitles.
Done !
Also my dad tells me, the weather was milder then, so not so much of this cold stuff, you get proper intel on how it was, this is the Romans when Eric Cantona was playing for Man Utd, and Schmichael, would run from the back and score, as exact as it could have been, Rome and it's most bravado !
Also I watched King Arthur and the fortress in that is how Earlswood would have looked and Lunt, but without the stone, it was all wooden. None of this Merlin crap real names of real people.
Thats not to say she can't be in it, just need to bring her out of that shakespearian stuff, nasty, no, more nasty, any chance of knocking some of your teeth out !
Every Roman has to be lean, method acting, Oscar type stuff, not necessarily muscles but just lean, there's plenty of extra's round here like that !!
Boudiccas a fucking nut case, and her major roll is when she sacks London, so there's room for growth in the roll, around 35 -45 the woman and Suetonius well, he's gotta be a mans man, and look like he's looks it to.
Shrewd, Mindful and devestingly lethal.
Battles scene shot with close up cams, on the Javelins and swords. you stuff like that, so we'll need a few cybershots.
The should do that at the Olympics too, brilliant in a movie, straight through a geezer head and out the other side, all you see, is the figure getting closer.
During the last battle you run camera's up the main battle field like the do in the soccer an above on those wires like in the Super Bowl !
Oddly enough using digital you could use a soccer stadium or football stadium as the grass is green, drops some green sheets around the main seating and run a load of scene's then add what you need after.
You capture a great natural reverb in a stadium, shoot on location in Anglesey, and in Earlswood Wood, there's some great shots in there, do the basic fortress in a studio, along with Stonehenge, and then in door scenes at PineWood, few million, visual masterpiece, and thats as far as I got!
What you got then, I ain't casting it, cause I like everyone !
"Whatever it takes kid, monies not an option"!
"I'll stay here while you put the kettle on"
"So they deicde in lighty of the evidence its best to take down the statue of Boudicca and replace it with one of Paullinus".
"Well Maggie Thatcher goes mad, steals a car and heads toward Earlswood"!
"Here about the guy who had a flashback at the job center, next thing he knew he was 9 to 5"
"Goes to the doctors, complaining of some temporal loop"
"What you worried the doctor says"
"This is the Enterprise"!
"Cleaning up outside yeah, I found a an old lock like, you know, rusty and all that, couldn't find the key though, not funny that is it, you know, knowing there's something in there you can't get to, I wonder where it is"!
"I knocked a wall down earlier aswell, spent all morning doing it, phycological in it doing stuff like that, leaves you with a feeling of breaking down barriers".
"I can't imagine the council's gonna be happy though"!
"Like I mentioned to the doctor today, I think thats what the matter with me, you know, I just need to spread out more and find new space, is it wrong to want more than the man next door"
"Broke straight through and found another room, fully furnished an all"
"Its odd cause, from outside yeah, his house looks the same size, I love secrets like that"
"I've seen em' do that on Location, location, first thing you look for in it, potential, Oh yes, if we knock through there, we can really open it up"
"probably some old woman, who's husband died and just left it all the way it was, then you know, just sealed it up I guess"