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Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:05:43 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Richard Parsons writes:
> "The man who would be King" - I haven't thought about that for many a year.
> Now I've got to go trolling the video store again :-)
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> In a similar vein, what about a contingent of Welsh Guards and a Rourke's
> rift (?) scene, a la Zulu? 40,000 Zulu warriors would be pretty hard (an I
> just don't think smiley faced islanders would have the same impact) but the
> Guards would be resplendent.
I think you are off by a factor of ten. I think it was more like 4,000 Zulus
at Roarke's Drift. Red Imperial soldiers with Pith helmets on them isn't so
hard. But 400, 4,000, 40,000, whatever Zulus, good luck!
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> Red coats, pith helmets, black pants, rifles..... mmmmm. Time to go
> building...
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> Oh and anyone who needs sailing ships (pirate and naval) to go frolicking
> after the Nautilus, just let me know. Always thought that bad boy was
> over-rated.
That's what they said to the Virginia (Merrimac), no doubt!
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> Speaking of adventurers style and vehicles, has anyone mentioned Casablanca?
> Hardly an action epic, but most of the key moments could be modelled with
> adventurer stuff....
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> Richard
> Still baldly going...
> Speak to the Governor at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/
> PI[so,ig+++ pi++ is,ia-]++ AD++ NI+ TO---- S+ LS- A+ LM- YB66m :-)
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) Zulus (...) Ok ok. A quick surf tells me it was 139 v 4,000. Maybe it just felt like 40,000 ;-) Has anyone modelled African warriors? Richard Still baldly going... Speak to the Governor at (URL) pi++ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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| "The man who would be King" - I haven't thought about that for many a year. Now I've got to go trolling the video store again :-) In a similar vein, what about a contingent of Welsh Guards and a Rourke's rift (?) scene, a la Zulu? 40,000 Zulu (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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