The postmodern and handsome British

[mihaitzateo]

imo this viking stuff and also the romans sell because the main target group in america and europe, mainly america, like these groups since they are part of the old romanticized european history. and because they are the most popular people in america. why not make a movie about some celts, or germanics fighting romans? because in america they are unciviliced barbarian loosers compared to rome. or cowards compared to the vikings. slavs? those filthy communists. the reason why they only show romans in britain with anglo actors is because they want to make them as "european" as possible in the eyes of their audience or as similar as possible to their audience so anglos. this picture would not look so good if the romans were not europeans but just romans with people from many different regions including people from regions that do not have a good reputation anymore in the west.
its the same with the ancient greeks. these people have to be "europeans" simply because of how strong their influence on modern europe is. maybe i'm just making things up and they just try to take the most popular actors that are available and just do not really care about historical accuracy in this regard.
but it's everywhere the same. in china the movies about chinese history are more popular than those about romans or vikings.

Russia was founded by some Swedish Vikings. Search about Rurik, to see the real history, not what Hollywood knows .
Slavs were allied to the Vikings, fighting Frankish Empire/Holy Roman Empire. About 800-900 AD.
Some Vikings were fighting as elite guards for the king of the Eastern Roman Empire, "the Varangian Guard".
First king of the Central Europe Slavs was Samo, a Frankish warrior and merchant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samo
Celts were a group of ethnicities, with British Celts as a separate group. They were 2nd civilized, after Roman Empire and Greeks, in Europe.
Had soap, were having strong agriculture, cattle and sheep raising, making beer, had fine blacksmiths, jewelry, were shaving etc.
You cannot call the Celts just some "uncivilized barbarians", when they actually had razors and very fine drinking recipients.
Just check the archaeological discoveries related to the Celts.

Vikings were actually most uncivilized, from Europe, in those times, together with the Baltic nations.
Vikings were actually living mostly from fishing, did not practiced too much agriculture or raising animals.
Irish had also pirates (they raided to the cities of other British Celts, not so much unity between them), before the Viking Age.
Etc.

 

[paul333]

I think the Film 'Mongol' (2007 )about Genghis Khan was one of the best historical movies I had seen. It was made by Russia, Germany and Kazakhstan, and filmed in Chinese 'Inner Mongolia', and Kazakhstan, even though it was subtitled it was very good.

 

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[ToBeOrNotToBe]

Don’t know why, but I did a lot of research online (not studies but more physical anthropological writings from early 20th century) and this handsome British ideal seems to be epitomised by upper class Edinburghers - Edinburgh also happens to be the redhead hotspot of the world