Are there any movies set in Byzantine Empire? I'm

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>>2546979
>I'm a catholic atheist btw.

some russian movies, Viking is the one I can remember now

>>2546979
>I'm a catholic atheist btw

explain

>>2547082

He's a Catholic who is an atheist.

>>2547097
>I'm a man who is a tree

>>2547082
Its like you do not attend church nor do you really believe in god but other than that you life a healthy catholic lifestyle. Like being noisy all the time and have drunken fights. Or having 12 siblings and 80 cousins.

>>2547181
can't you just call yourself Irish then?

>>2547181
>I'm a devout Catholic except when it's hard, annoying, or inconvenient

>>2547163

How do you manage to be a tree and a man at the same time? Trees don't have brains.

>>2547200
Exactly, thats the spirit! This is what makes being catholic so great!

>>2547207
Neither do atheists.

>>2547200

Like when you have to kiss feet and shit?

>>2547207
t. someone who hasn't read Dante

>>2547217

Their arms and legs wouldn't work if that was the case.

>>2547181
So a cultural catholic, but don't actually believe any of it. I get it.

>>2547222

I'm not into Hip Hop.

>>2546979
I don't know about movies but there are comic books partially set in Constantinople, check out Northlanders.

>>2546979
>I'm a catholic atheist
Francis get off of 4chan you silly old man.

>>2547082
You're raised a catholic and go atheist, but you've still got your catholic upbringing exerting influence. Y'know, apart from religious beliefs but you still act like a catholic.

>>2546979
Agora. Arguably.

>>2546979
>I'm a catholic atheist btw.
You don't have to say that you are one, attention whore.

>>2547430

There's no need to be rude on the internet, we're not on plebbit where you are going to get le ebic upboats for your post.

>>2546979
Catholic Bro i feel u.
I myself was baptized a Catholic and my brother and sis as Orthodox. There are minor cult differences between us but all three of us are Atheists.

>>2546979
The Conquest 1453

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>>2547082
OP here.
A lot of people explained that for me, but those were the closest:
>>2547227
>>2547333
I was born a human and raised as a catholic. At about 7 I stopped believing in santa and that sort and got back to being human again. I slill am connected to catholic culture tho. When I'm angry, I say "Mother Mary, what a moron" in my native language and I give presents in december. So ye, I've picked some parts of my legacy or burden (however you perceive it). Not because they are convenient, but because they fit my humanist point of view.

Don't you think it's strange Holywood makes no Byzantium movies? It's such an unexplored subject.

>>2547005
Doesn't sound very byzantine. Is it any good?

>>2547366
Egypt? Well... I'll check it out.

>>2547430
There would be only two comments in this thread without this.

>>2547678
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJxlnL7BHg

Scenes from a 70's greek series

>>2547661
Oh lord. I've looked at the trailer.
>We wuz kangs
>Our agressions were rightful
>Let's make a movie about it using the worst Holywood techniques.

>>2547678
Another one.
It's called Purple and blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peYuIGzGdc4

>>2547736
Watched it, don't bother. It's Kevin Sorbo VS the Byzantine empire of Darkness in "Hercules, Ottoman Hero-The movie".

>>2547678
>Don't you think it's strange Holywood makes no Byzantium movies? It's such an unexplored subject.
It's simple - nobody cares about Byzantium. Outside of Turkey and the Balkans most people don't even know such a thing existed. Hollywood is in the business of making money, not wet fantasies of history nerds.

>>2547731
>>2547743
Thanks man. Those are from your childhood?
Can't understand shit, unfortunately.

>>2547760
Ok.

>>2547775
naaah...i was looking once for a series for Byzantium. Unfortunatelly both series do not exist anymore due to some accident or fuckup with the tapes...
Man, Byzantine history is large and deep.
Most stories would be cool as fuck!

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>catholic atheist

>>2547775
put subs man...

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Bulgaria made some movies about its history, some of them revolving around the Byzantines, obviously. Most are shit tho.

One of them was 5+ hours epic about the establishment of Danube Bulgaria. It's about a Byzantine ambassador's son who is given to the Bulgarian khan and spend years there and later takes part in the war against the Byzantines.

There is an English version of it, but it's only hour and a half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWFOPkZL958

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>catholic athiest

>>2547774
I've never considered myself as a history nerd. There was a boom for Rome. Maybe the boom for Byzantium is just one movie away? A good script and some brave capitalists. Same with all of ancient Mesopotamia. Or is there a conflict of interest with jewish Holywood?

>>2547803
>Tries that. Subs automatically generated in french. WTF?

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>>2546979

>>2547810
There's no conspiracy. Most of the movies about Rome revolve around Caesar, Cleopatra or Spartacus. Nobody will invest hundreds of millions to make a movie about a subject the masses know nothing about.

>>2547807
Thanks, this one seems interesing.

> about the establishment of Danube Bulgaria
Is there something about the bronze age Danube culture?

>>2547844
>Is there something about the bronze age Danube culture?
Nope.

>>2547828
"Either I take Istanbul, or Istanbul takes me!"

That looks like 300 tier shit

>>2547836
>Nobody will invest hundreds of millions to make a movie about a subject the masses know nothing about.
I disagree, but I agree it's less and less frequent.
Let's see...
Apocalypto
300
Gangs of New York
The 13th warrior
To name a few with less popular setting at the time.

>>2547891
300 is kino compared to that shitflick

>>2547891
See
>>2547760
>>2547736
If you wanna see a cheesy drama about how fate led the Ottomans to victory, complete with slow mo melee on the wall between soldiers and muscled underwear models with long hair and sleeveless leather jackets then it's the flick for you.

>>2547896
>Apocalypto
Didn't mel fund this one himself? He's always willing to do weird projects, but I'm looking forward to the Norse film he is working on.
>300
Based upon a popular comic book, and perfectly timed after 9/11 for that anti dunecoon propaganda. Not to mention the memes
>Gangs of New York
Immigrants are always good money, look at Godfather 2. Plus it's Scorsese doing a historical piece, what could go wrong.
>The 13th warrior
Based upon a novel by a guy who's novel adaptations were making hundreds of millions of dollars in the 90's, but this one bombed at the box office.

>>2547965
> Norse film he is working on.
That sounds promising. Name? Trailer?

>Based upon
I'm sure there are good books about Byzantium to follow this line.

Maybe it's because Turkey is a member of NATO?

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Make a Romeo & Juliet-like movie about a Venetian patrician who falls in love with a Byzantine princess around the time of the Fourth Crusade.

>>2548015
The norse film has been in the works for several years now, but was put on hold after Mel was put into exile by Hollywood for his anti-jew comments. However, the success of Hacksaw Ridge has recently made him say that he was still working on it. Heres from a recent Q&A:

>DEADLINE: What about that Viking epic?

>GIBSON: That’s still lying around. Randall Wallace and I wrote that one. It’ll probably surface one of these days.


I think the only way Byzantium would get a proper screen treatment in the west is to do a TV series a la Rome or The Last Kingdom about the Crusades (but I imagine execs wouldn't want to touch that with a 15 foot stick in this current climate)

>>2548129
catholics cant marry jews

>>2548196
Tell that to Henry Hill. One of my good pals is also half wop and half jew.

>>2547279
Kek

>>2548129
>Venetian patrician who falls in love with a Byzantine princess
>Somehow the Jews are involved

>>2548129
Greek from before.
There actually is an enormous Byzantine poem written about a similar subject.
Google VITZENZOS KORNAROS - EROTOKRITOS.

>>2548302
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitsentzos_Kornaros

Here u go.

>>2547366
Delete this post. I don't want people watching that, then lowering the quality of discussion on this board.

>>2547828

This was made in Turkey btw, id recommend staying away

What about comic books?

I would say Basil II and Nikephoros Phokas lives earn them a comic