In 1936 Mussolini had built Cinecitta Studios, blatantly Roman in
style, complete with Roman-style mosaics with modern Italian
images. He was able to provide 32,000 extras and 40 actual
elephants, providing the only example of a charge of live
elephants in film.
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES: "Bread and Circuses" has a lot of
Roman tropes, but is ultimately a really bad episode. (This is my
opinion, not Aldrete's, as is much of what follows here.) The
premise is that there is a planet very similar that has a Roman
Empire, where people and concepts have Roman names, there is a
Roman political structure, and it is in fact Rome with a
technology level of 20th century earth (including internal
combustion engine cars that look just like out cars). And
everyone speaks English. This is a stupid idea, probably even
worse than having planets named Romulus and Vulcan. And they get
it wrong anyway: there is a new religion that the Enterprise crew
thinks worships the "sun", but it turns out it's really the "son"
[of God], and the crew thinks it with replace Imperial Rome just
as it did before. Except that Christianity did not replace Rome,
Rather, Imperial Rome absorbed Christianity and lasted until 1453.
The crew also claims there was no sun worship in Rome; this was
absolutely not true.
I haven't been posting much lately because my connection to Eternal
September is so glitchy. Hopefully this post will show up.
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