The film takes massive swings at religious themes and is basically ripping the piss out of biblical epics like The Ten Commandments. Why was it banned in Ireland, you ask? Blasphemy. Yes, the Irish Film Censorship Board banned The Life of Brian for EIGHT years, only allowing it to be shown in 1987. Out of that off-hand witty remark came Life of Brian. Idle laughed and replied, “Jesus Christ: Lust For Glory”. Trivia time! The Life of Brian originally came about when Eric Idle was asked by a journalist at the premiere of their first film, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, what their next film would be. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who also did other seafaring adventure flick Das Boot, Master & Commander: Far Side Of The World has some of the best battle sequences we've ever seen. Playing a swashbuckling sea captain during the Napoleonic Wars, Crowe looks like he was born with a ponytail and a sense of colonialism. He's done it in Gladiator, Robin Hood, here in this film and he did it in Noah as well. Russell Crowe really knows how to throw a sword around and bark orders at underlings in a truly convincing manner. MASTER & COMMANDER: FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003) Still, as of 2016 and adjusted for inflation, Doctor Zhivago is the 8th-highest grossing film ever made.ħ. A lot of critics disliked the mawkishness, the overtly romantic plot and the running time. If it sounds like a soap opera, you're not far wrong. The two are split up by the events and reunite years later during the height of Soviet oppression, but things have inevitably changed like the world around them. All well and good until the 1913 Revolution happens and Russia is thrown into chaos. Doctor Zhivago is about a young idealistic doctor, who secretly longs to be a poet, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman, although he himself is married to another. Like all good historical epics, the film has set to be against a backdrop in history but focus it on one story. Bale's performance at such a young age really shows he had talent all that time ago. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by JG Ballard, Empire of the Sun gives a child's eye view of World War II and the conditions that civilians lived in during it. Christian Bale plays a precocious and slightly annoying young English boy who is separated from his parents during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai during World War II. It's wedged rather unfortunately between two of his best films – namely The Colour Purple and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There may be a reason why Empire of the Sun is overlooked in Steven Spielberg's back catalogue. Makes Christian Bale's wild rant during Terminator: Salvation sound like a kitten mewing. The star, Klaus Kinski, was a couple of steps back from a raving lunatic and apparently shot an extra's finger off when he made a noise during a scene. The production of Aguirre: The Wrath of God is perhaps even more famous than the film itself. In fact, Francis Ford Coppolla liberally borrowed from this film when making his Vietnam War epic. Telling the story of an ill-fated journey by Spanish mercenaries to find the lost city of gold, El Dorado, Aguirre: The Wrath of God is almost like Apocalypse Now if it had swords and armour. Aguirre: The Wrath of God is a German film about Spanish conquistadors made by an arthouse director for a little under half a million. There's nothing to say that historical epics have to enormous budgets or even big-name casts. Here's ten of the best historical epics ever made. Provided, of course, you've got a few hours to spare. Although Christmas is the preferred time to sit down and watch a three-hour epic about swords and sandals, you can enjoy any of these historical epics at any time.
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