Neil Marshall On Centurion

The director on swords, sandals and Scottish weather

Centurion was first imagined by Neil Marshall on schoolboy visits to Hadrian's Wall, making it cinema's first shorts-and-sandals epic. The director talked to us about the influences and inspirations behind his action-packed take on the fate on Rome's vaunted Ninth Legion.

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[audrasupernova]

Neil Marshall is an amazing writer/director; there should be more directors like him instead of like douche-turd Michael Bay.

[GentlemanGhost1]

@infidel94 300 is "resist".. that is very true, I don't like it at all, I just used it because they are both (Centurion and 300)from similar genres :) and I think of Gladiator as one of the best movies ever(I totally love it ,I can still remember watching it as a kid, great times they were ) ,but I love Centurion a little bit more because it show how leaders exploit their peeps, and that there are good peeps in this world regardless of race and nationality

[infidel94]

@GentlemanGhost1 first of all 300 is the worst movie ever made by the racist zionists and second no movie can beat gladiator.

[AdognamedOp]

How can he claim to hate "PC" when he casted a 90lb model, with toothpicks for arms, as the main villian in a movie about Roman soldiers? I mean..come on..are u fuking kidding me! You're good Neil,.. but you could be great!

[GentlemanGhost1]

This movie is better than both  "300" and "Gladiator",philosophical ,creative and underrated.

[jimsim3]

@phr34kyy Neil Oliver is archaeologist not a historian. and Professor Allan Macinnes of the University of Strathclyde and Professor Tom Devine from the University of Edinburgh both turn down the advisory board board for the programme because of this fact. and a row has insued over it.

As to scotand history. it writen the same as vary one elses. but you could try oliver neil new site he launched call ask scotland.

y gwir yn crbyn y byd..

[phr34kyy]

@jimsim3

Think I'll take my Oppinion from what history is taught in Scotland and also from a very well informed and well received Scottish historian/researcher like Neil Oliver on this one, fact is there history go's so far back it makes no difference and no one can say completely where celts merged from in certain regions, mainly only the Gual who migrated and created the Basque/Celtberians so on etc etc.

So we can agree to dissagree then.

[jimsim3]

@phr34kyy

Good try but alas no. sorry! Goidelic languages come from southh Ireland and manx in 3rd and 6th centuries . where as Brythonic languages were Welsh, Cornish, Breton, and Cumbric which per date. this is fact. they would of spoken in dialect in old welsh. just google Goidelic and Brythonic there are even some nice maps. try t old name to Din Eidyn and, Dùn Breatainn, Gododdin.

also pictish or Pritennic are classed as p- celtic languge as opposed to q-celtic.

[phr34kyy]

@jimsim3

No he said similar to Welsh, as in not welsh, but a close enough language, seeing as both are celts its not surprisig that influences came from all sides in living culture and language.

He also speaks about the Brythons and Gaels disproving what you said hence the clip.

[jimsim3]

@phr34kyy

ok.....watch it again at around 4.20 were Neil Oliver talks about Calgacus .He go on to say, and I quite "even if some one like Calgacus existed he WOULD of spoken a language similar to WELSH." then he go on, he also would,n of spoken latin, and he should of said neither gaelic or Gàidhlig.

So this inplys the Caledonians spoke welsh well cummeric a welsh dialect.